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ANAESTHETIC

I'm burning out the TV tubes
It's three o'clock & I'm confused
Cause commitment is so complete
It's burning little holes in me
I know that I might look a mess
And she's so perfect in that Oxfam dress
She looks just like a beauty queen
Shinning out in velveteen
I'm delirious
You make it better
You make the weather seem OK
You're my anaesthetic
You just take the pain away
I love it when she comes around
She's a firework that never ends
A micro chip inside my brain
I'm crawling on my knees again
It scares me the way I am
I'm buried in a sea of sand
Lying on a hand grenade
Waiting for the world to shake
I'm delirious
You make it better
You make the weather seem OK
You're my anaesthetic
You just take the pain away
You make it better
You just take the pain away
Delirious, I'm so delirious, delirious
I'm so delirious, Delirious
You make it better
You make the weather seem OK
You're my anaesthetic
You just take the pain away
You make it better
You make the weather seem OK
You're my anaesthetic
You just take the pain away
Anaesthetic
She's my anaesthetic
Anaesthetic
She's my anaesthetic

INSOMNIA

Reading magazines and counting sheep to pass the time away
Hoping that tomorrow's gonna bring a smile home again
Images of palm tree's swaying in the wind on South beach
Takes me back to better days
Summer days the everglades in June
My brain, my poor brain
My brain, my poor brain
I'm drinking myself to sleep again
Nightnurse pills to keep me sane
Drinking myself to sleep again, Insomnia
Flying high in golden skies, I'm flicking channels in my mind
Finding my utopia a different chapter in a book
Thinking back to younger days as I escape in Cooper's Break
It takes me back to 84 the future's knocking at my door
My brain, my poor brain
My brain, my poor brain
I'm drinking myself to sleep again
Nightnurse pills to keep me sane
Drinking myself to sleep again, Insomnia
I'm drinking myself to sleep again
Nightnurse pills to keep me sane
Drinking myself to sleep again, Insomnia
Turning off a switch inside me
Leaving all the stress behind me Flying over streams and houses
Passing over the Wye valley
It takes me back to 84 the future's knocking at my door
My brain, my poor brain
I'm drinking myself to sleep again
Nightnurse pills to keep me sane
Drinking myself to sleep again, Insomnia
I'm drinking myself to sleep again
Nightnurse pills to keep me sane
Drinking myself to sleep again, Insomnia
I'm drinking myself to sleep again
Nightnurse pills to keep me sane
Drinking myself to sleep again, Insomnia

PICTURE OF PERFECT YOUTH

Left out in the sun to dry again
Washed up on a shore line south of Spain
Gazing up with telescopic eyes
Planetary life above the skies
Oh my God, she's my obsession
my obsession (my obsession)
Here she comes, she's a picture of perfect youth
Here she comes, lifting me up to the moon
Drifting on a boat in emerald seas
Pulling on the strings inside of me
Tasting salt as waves dive over me
Twisting on a rope of memories
Oh my God, she's my obsession, my obsession
Here she comes, she's a picture of perfect youth
Here she comes, lifting me up to the moon
Here she comes, she's a picture of perfect youth
Here she comes
If you could only see
That I'm sinking like a stone
The sea is getting colder
Every second as I go
It's like breathing underwater
But I just can't let you go
My obsession, she's my obsession, my obsession
Oh my God, she's my obsession, my obsession (my obsession)
Here she comes, she's a picture of perfect youth
Here she comes, lifting me up to the moon
Oh my God, she's my obsession, my obsession (my obsession)
Here she comes, she's a picture of perfect youth
Here she comes, lifting me up to the moon
Here she comes

YESTERDAY WENT TOO SOON

Sitting in today, watching traffic buzzing by, and faces closing in
A victim of regret, it glitters and it fades away, like silver turning grey
Washed it all away, waiting for this dream to end, before it sucks me in
I'm climbing high, up above the streets and rows of neon lights
I'm holding out my hand but I'm alone
Wish I could show you
Wish you could see through my eyes
Tomorrow shines through
But I'm missing yesterday
Crashing on the ground, the silence seems to suffocate, and bury me again
Waiting for a taste, of happiness to lift me free, and carry me away
I'm climbing high, up above the streets and rows of neon lights
I know it's just a dream but I'm alive
Wish I could show you
Wish you could see through my eyes
Tomorrow shines through
But I'm missing yesterday
I'm still missing yesterday
I'll wait, I'll wait for you tonight.
Lost another week, feeling like a leper in, a world of vanity
It's killing me today, addiction pulls you down, you know
And she's the drug I need
I'm climbing high, up above the streets and rows of neon lights
I'm holding out my hand but I'm alone
Wish I could show you
Wish you could see through my eyes
Tomorrow shines through
But I'm missing yesterdayI'm climbing high
up above the streets and rows of neon lightsI'm holding out my hand but I'm alone
Wish I could show you
Wish you could see through my eyes
Tomorrow shines through
But I'm missing yesterday

WAITING FOR CHANGES

Office blocks, corner shops, traffic jams on every street
The same old rush around
Obsolete, I'm a freak, In a show on Brighton beach
As the snow comes down
Reality's kicking me, Knocking me right off my feet
As the sky spins round
We're waiting for changes
Rejected and dented
We're waiting for changes
The lights green but today's red
Laundry stops, by the lock
On a Sunday afternoon, With all that fuss
Cantelowes skateboard shows, tennants Extra by a row of recycle bins
We're waiting for changes
Different perspectives
We're waiting for changes
The lights green but today's red
Take a ride to Charing Cross
Join the masses as they shop, Their lives away
29's the northern line, Heading back to lose our minds
To break the chain
We're waiting for changes
Rejected and dented
We're waiting for changes
The lights green but today's red
We're waiting for changes
Different perspectives
We're waiting for changes
The lights green but today's red
I'm waiting for changes
I'm waiting for changes
I'm waiting for changes

RADIOMAN

Waking each day, No money no pay
Living in a box alone with his pain
Kissing the rain that's pouring again
Blaming the system from where we came
Trapped inside a fish eye lens
Trying to get out cause it won't change
Money doesn't mean that much to him.
But maybe another bottle of gin.
Here comes that radio man
He smiles but no one sees him yeah, yeah
Here comes that Radioman
Tune in you might hear him
Radioman
Living in the same old shoes
With every step the world comes through
Like a river that flows on down
Dragging him under to the sand
He rises up to another day
The people laugh, but they don't stay
They try to hide their guilt away
With a smile that says that its okay.
Here comes the radio man
He smiles but no one sees him yeah, yeah
Here comes the Radioman
Tune in you might hear him
Radioman, the radioman
Somebody, somebody hear me
Lift off and take me away
Here comes the radioman he smiles but no one sees him
Here comes that radioman
Tune in you might hear him
Radioman, the radioman, radioman
the radioman, radioman

DAY IN DAY OUT

We queuing up the tills
Wishing for our lives to change
Just a piece of something new
A taste would keep us sane
Hypocrisy in every day
Drills a hole deep in our brains
Searching for a little hope
A rainbow when it rains
Sitting on an empty bench
Got these nails dug in my skin
Like a leopard with his kill
We're going under, slipping in
Under the Water, Don't think we'll recover
Twisted and broken, 10,000 leagues choking
Sinking deep under, don't think we'll recover
Day in Day Out
Stepping on a treadmill wheel
You must know how that can feel
Blows a fuse inside our minds
Watch the data as it wipes
Taste the bullshit on a plate
We just piss our lives away
Get the hell out while you can
We going under, sinking in
We're going under, slipping in
Under the Water, Don't think we'll recover
Twisted and broken, 10,000 leagues choking
Sinking deep under, don't think we'll recover
Day in Day Out
We're going down, yes we're going down, we're going down..
Taste a new amphetamine
Alcohol has sucked us in
Introverted in our ways
Trapped inside this plastic skin
Now its rears it's ugly self
Feeds us full of selfish doubt
We've got to keep ourselves afloat
Going under, get me out
We're going under, slipping in
Under the Water, Don't think we'll recover
Twisted and broken, 10,000 leagues choking
Sinking deep under, don't think we'll recover
Day in Day Out
We're going under, slipping in
Under the Water, Don't think we'll recover
Twisted and broken, 10,000 leagues choking
Sinking deep under, don't think we'll recover
Day in Day Out

TINSEL TOWN

Falling down, reaching out
For someone to come down
Oblivious to all of us
The child that grows inside
Seventeen without a care
She's taking another ride
A sense of peace she's waving back
To faces carved in stone
Tinsel town, here in tinsel town, It's pulled you down
Life in tinsel town, Overthrown, Relinquished all
Life breeds all around, A fun fair trip a carousel
She's trying to hang on, Here in Tinsel town
Life in tinsel town, It's pulled you down
Stuck in tinsel town, I think she might make it
She has the will to go on
She's turning back pages as the world steps on
Here in tinsel town, Life in tinsel town
Its pulled you down, Stuck in tinsel town
Alone, Alone, Alone, So Alone, Here in Tinsel town
Life in tinsel town

YOU'RE MY EVERGREEN

The words we say, Old flowers fade away
Remember yesterday
Wish it would bloom again
Apathy and pain, Here comes the Autumn rain
Old apologies scattered in the wings of fate
Cause today it all looks black and white
Wish it would change
We can't keep painting colours when its
Don't hesitate, cause you will bleed
A thousand tears won't wash it clean
Don't hesitate cause you can free yourself
Evergreen, Evergreen
Down on my knees
Crawling though the streets again
Surrendered to my needs
So I can breathe the air
You're my evergreen
Regents Park in spring
It takes me to a place
Where I can dream again
Cause today it all looks black and white
Wish it would change
We can't keep painting colours when it rains
I just want some place where I can breathe without this bitter taste
Cause today it all looks black and white
Wish it would change
We can't keep painting colours when it's grey
It all looks black and white today
You're my evergreen
Regents Park in spring
It takes me to a place
Where I can dream again
Cause today it all looks black and white
Wish it would change
We can't keep painting colours when it rains
Evergreen, Evergreen, Evergreen

DRY

Trying hard to face another day
No more left to give, nothing left to bring
Melting in the sun, breathing in the day
Falling into love, and climbing out again
There's nowhere left to run
No more tears to cry
The river's running dry
There's no more left to give
Love has left me dry
Reaching out beneath the sea of pain
Riding high on waves of hope again
Chipping as the storm face cracks away
Crying out again as my bones break
Yeah...
Oooh... (Love has left me dry)
What if every minute like a year?
What if we could save ourselves from this?
Life is such a bitch and it gets worse
Fading like a rope around your neck
Oooh... (Love has left me dry)
Love has left me dry
Oooh...
The river's running dry again...

HOLE IN MY HEAD

Remember yesterday
Driving down the M4
The sun lit up your face
Playing all the tunes
Feeling like a child again
The dream has been erased
I feel much better anyhow
Until I see that black cloud

I got a hole in my head
And it's making me sad
Got a hole and the world keeps looking in
Got a hole in my head
And it's making me sad
Got a hole and the world keeps crashing in

Stop looking in

Hiding out away
Keeping your mind inside a box
Where knowone else can take
Smiling all the way
Holding back a thousand lies
But that was yesterday

I love it when she comes around
Until I see that black cloud

I got a hole in my head
And it's making me sad
Got a hole and the world keeps looking in
Got a hole in my head
And it's making me sad
Got a hole and the world keeps crashing in

Got a hole in my head
Got this hole in my head

Waiting for the sun to come around (2x)

Take another smoke
I thought you said you'd given up
And does you're mother know
Take another rest
Holding out my hand again
I hope that we're still friends

(I gotta, I gotta, I gotta...)

I got a hole in my head
And it's making me sad
Got a hole and the world keeps looking in
Got a hole in my head
And it's making me sad
Got a hole and the world keeps crashing in
I got a hole in my head
And it's making me sad
Got a hole and the world keeps looking in
Got a hole in my head
And it's making me sad
Got a hole and the world keeps crashing in

(hole in my head, hole in my head...)

SO WELL

20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 still alive
It's dragging me under, Don't think I'll recover
A stone in the water, A nail in my shoulder
Just put it together, You think you're so clever
Can we make it better
Climb the mountain together
It's gonna break, gonna crack
Gonna fall down and smash
Paralyse, oxidise, feel us drifting apart
It's gonna break, gonna crack
Gonna fall down and smash
Paralyse, oxidise, feel us drifting apart
(don't take me down and watch me fall)
Twenty years older, The city gets colder
Still reaching for cover, We live and we suffer
Just put it together, If you think you're so clever
Can you make it better
Pull the pieces together
It's gonna break, gonna crack
Gonna fall down and smash
Paralyse, oxidise, feel us drifting apart
It's gonna break, gonna crack
Gonna fall down and smash
Paralyse, oxidise, feel us drifting apart
40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, still alive
It's dragging me under, Don't think I'll recover
But we'll make it better
Climb the mountain together
It's gonna break, gonna crack
Gonna fall down and smash
Paralyse, oxidise, feel us drifting apart
It's gonna break, gonna crack
Gonna fall down and smash
Paralyse, oxidise, feel us drifting apart
It's gonna break, gonna crack
Gonna fall down and smash
Paralyse, oxidise, feel us drifting apart
It's gonna break, gonna crack
Gonna fall down and smash
Paralyse, oxidise, feel us drifting apart
(don't take me down and watch me fall
don't break my bones and watch me crawl)
Paralyse, oxidise, feel us drifting apart
Paralyse, oxidise, feel us drifting apart

PAPERFACES

Staring at Paper faces
Expressions like empty pages, Day after day
Waiting for the lights to change now
Reaching for a cloud to come down
And cover me
Can't shut you out
Can't get you out
Can't take you down
Can't watch you drown
Waiting for the world to change
Dissolution takes a bit off, And swallows me
Looking for a way to get out
Wishing that the rush would come down
And smother me
Can't shut you out
Can't get you out
Can't take you down
Can't watch you drown
If you can learn to be yourself, Then that's okay
If you can find a reason now, Don't drift away
Walking down streets to nowhere
Stepping on feet with no cares
Losing my self
Can't shut you out
Can't get you out
Can't take you down
Can't watch you drown
Can't shut you out
Can't get you out
Can't take you down
Can't watch you drown
Slide away, slide away