V. B-SIDES

1. A Reminder

if i get old i will not give in
and if i do, remind me to pray
remind me that once i was free
once i was cool once i was me
but if i sit down and cross my arms
haunt me with truth then shut up (?)
lock me out smash out my brains
if i take the chair and start to talk shit
if i get old remind me of this
when i'm weakest well i really meant it
whatever happens if we're still speaking
pick up the phone play me this song


2. Banana Co.

oh, banana co.
we really love you and we need you
and oh, banana co.
we'd really love to believe you but...
and everything's underground
we gotta dig it up somehow
oh, she said no go
she said she'd like to
she's seen you
but no, banana co.
she says if you die then we all do
everything's burning down
we've got to put it out somehow
and everything's underground
we gotta dig it up somehow
everything's burning down
we've got to put it out somehow


3. Bishop's Robes

Dressed in bishop's robes terrifies me still
Dressed in bishop's robes
bastard(?) headmaster
I am not going back, I am not going back, I am not going back
children taught to kill, to tear themselves to bits
On playing fields
Dressed in bishop's robes
I am not going back, I am not going back, I am not going back


4. Coke Babies

easy living
easy hold
easy teething
easy fold
easy listening
easy love
easy answers
to easy questions
easy tumble
easy doll
easy rumble
easy fall
i get up on
easy love
i get up on
easy questions


5. Faithless, The Wonder Boy

i've had these jeans since i was born
and now they're ripped and now they're torn
and all my friends have skateboards
i want the toys of other boys
i want a knife and a gun and things
but mum and dad will not give in
and i can't put the needle in
can't put the needle in
i can't put the needle in
and now i know just what it is
it's called disease and it's got my head
it always runs where i hide
too scared too talk too scared to try
too scared to know the reasons why
and all my friends say bye bye
and i can't put the needle in
can't put the needle in
i can't put the needle in


6. How Can You Be Sure?

seen all good things and bad
running down the hill
all so
battered and
brought to the ground
i am hungry again
i am drunk again
with all the money i owe to my friends
when i'm like this how can you be smiling
saying
how can you be sure?
if you walk out the door
will i see you again
if so much of me lies in your eyes?
i am hungry again
i am drunk again
with all the money i owe to my friends
when i'm like this how can you be smiling
saying
how can you be sure?
i don't want you anymore


7. India Rubber

Did it all for you to say
You never wanted me that way
Now the dogs have had their meat
I think i will go plug in the mains
I tumble like a cloud
Before you burn in hell
I suffocate myself into your hair
Will the sparrow make her smile
I'm instantly your biggest fan
How was i to know
That you practised it before hand
I tumble like a cloud
Before you burn in hell
I suffocate myself into your hair


8. Inside My Head

What do you want from me now you got me
Now my fingers bleed now they're staring at me
I'm a coward now I hold my peace
Now you tie me up to your feather bed
And I twist and turn in a chinese burn
You wanna go you wanna go
You're inside my head
Inside my head
What do you want from me now you got me
Now my energy you suck from me
And I'm holding on for dear life
Quit smothering me
Quit laughing at me
I've got a disease
An english disease
It will not go
It will not go
You're inside my head
Inside my head
Whatever you put in that syringe
Whatever you really fed to him
He's sitting there inside of me
And you bother me
You possess me
You're there again
Ahead of me
And I wanna go
I wanna go
You're inside my head
Inside my head
Inside my head
Inside my head


9. Killer Cars

too hard on the brakes again
what if these brakes just give in?
what if they don't get out of the way?
what if there's someone round the corner?
i'm going out for a little drive
it might be last time you see me alive
there could be an idiot on the road
the only kick in life is pumping his steel
wrap me up in the back of the trunk
packed with foam and blind drunk
they won't ever take me alive
thay all drive
don't die on the motorway
the moon would freeze
the plants would die
i couldn't cope if you crashed today
all the things i forgot to say
i'm going out for a little drive could be
it could be the last time you see me alive
what if the car loses control
what if there's someone overtaking
wrap me up in the back of the trunk
packed with foam and blind drunk
they won't ever take me alive
cuz they all drive killer cars


10. Lewis [Mistreated]

Bummed out again
Buy early business friend
The smell of fear is bigger than you think
Hey don't do it
Do it
Change seem to fit
In the end you just feel sick
And then you choke on an anesthetic
Hey don't do it
Lewis
Lewis ... save yourself the pain
You'll never get there
Lewis ... save yourself the pain
It never really matters here
We never noticed
We never understood
You just get crushed to fit
You never even smile
At the best, it's the best,
It's the best day I know
Lewis ... mistreated
I call you blue
I don't wanna talk about Lewis !


11. Lozenge Of Love

I am gone
everybody's waiting
and these fruit
just a twist of poison
i won't be alone
when you're running in me
I can't stay
like i'm somewhere always
i need more
a restless body cracks and rolls
i won't have the strength
when you're running in me


12. Maquiladora

Here it comes, Here it comes,
I can feel the hills exploding,
Exploding gracefully,
Burning up the freeway
Here it comes
Grass is green at the edge of the bubble.
Beautiful gets into beautiful trouble
And it seems to fall out of the sky and come down on you.
Oh baby burn.....
Fast die younger
Burns rubber
Useless rockers
From England
Good times,
Hide behind.
Just swallow your guilt and your crutches.....
Blue and white birds stop and hide on the pedal
Interstate fire walk staright down the middle,
And it seems to fall out of the sky etc


13. Melatonin

Don't forget that you are our ...
Now go back to bed
We just know that you are our ...
You won't cry too hard
Death to all who stand in your way
my [?] ... ...


14. Million Dollar Question

Was always waiting for the crush
the car to drive right through the shops
to call in sick and late at work
and take a holiday
was always tangled up in knots
to keep myself from speaking up
but no one's listening anyway
just trying to bribe me
and if it's alright
then what are we doing here?
and if it's alright
this place is gasses by fear
I'll tell you cos you nerver understand
and if it's alright I'll beg you, cos I'm a begging kind of man
Today I wrote a bad cheque
Packed a bag and took a jet
And no one's looking anyway
I hope you miss me
(Sometimes I think maybe I'm making a big mistake)


15. Molasses

Shake hands, Genocide, Molasses.
Jet-powered caravans, Molasses.
I'm too good, You're stuck on
Rent free earthquake zone, Molasses.
I need someone else's glasses.
Starving waitresses in plasters,
Fat houseflies, Genocide,
We've been stitched up, Molasses.


16. Pearly*

How'd you
get your
teeth so
pearly*

dewdrop
dentures
whitewaashed
fences

she runs from
the third world
pearly*

vanilla
milkshakes
from hardrock
cafes

thats where
she gat her
sweet tooth
fur whiteboys

she runs from
the third world
pearly*

use me
darlin'use me
darlin'use me
darlin'use me


17. Permanent Daylight

Loose ropes still tied knots
it's just i can't believe that i returned
loose threads still they sew
it's just i can't believe that we returned
let's get out - out
will you come out with me?


Polyethylene [Parts 1 and 2]
Tears of joy and carousels and all that you wannu be
just got payed and now your going out on saturday
if i get scared i'll just call you
leathecallestirrunsellur%&sowtont%&hlowestrailon the lower streel

so sell your suit and tie and come and live with me
decaffinate unleaded polyethalyne
there is no significant risk to your health,
there is no significance see for your self

plastic bag middle class polyethelyne
decaffinate-unleaeded keep all surfaces clean

there is no significant risk to your health,
there is no significance see for your self


18. Pop Is Dead

Oh no, pop is dead
Long live pop
It died an ugly death
By back catalogue
And now you know
It gets you nowhere
And now you know
You realise
Oh no pop is dead
It just gave up
We'll raise the dead
But they won't stand up
I realise I'm a lowlife
And now you know
You're going to die
He left this message for us
So what pop is dead
It's no great loss
So many facelifts
His face flew off
The empirer has no clothes on
And now his skin is peeling off
Oh no pop is dead
Long live pop
We'll find a lot of coke
To jerk him up
Jerk him up
He left this message for us


19. Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong

I wrapped you inside my coat
When they came to fire upon the house
I didn't feel pain
Cause no-one can touch me
Now that i'm held in your smile
Beautiful girl
Beautiful girl
Can turn your world into doubt
Sell me a car that goes
Sell me a house that stands oh
I never cared before
I never cared before
I never cared before
Before
Before
Before
Beatiful girl
Beatiful girl
Can turn your world into doubt
Beatiful girl
Beatiful girl
Can turn you world into doubt
Yeah
I stood in front of her face ???
When the first bullet
Was shot


20. Stupid Cars

I find it hard
To drive your stupid car
I find it hard
cause I never get that far
And you put my brain in overload
and I can't change gears
I cannot see the road
you got concrete eyes
and I cannot see your face
and I failed in life
cause you crushed me with your hands
and you put my brain in overload
I can't change gears
I cannot see the road (road)


21. Talk Show Host

I want to
I want to be someone else or I'll explode
Floating upon this surface for the birds
the birds the birds
You want me? Fucking well come and find me
I'll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches
and nothing nothing nothing...nothing
You want me? Well come and break the door down
You want me? Fucking come and break the door down
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready...I'm ready


22. The Trickster

rust in the mountains
rust in the brain
the air is sacred here
in spite of your claim
up on the roof tops
out of reach
trickster is meaningless
trickster is weak
he's talking out the world
hey, this is only halfway
I wanted you so bad
and I couldn't say
all things fall apart
we wanted out so bad
these things fall apart
we're talking out the world
hey, this is only halfway
truant kids- a can of brick dust worms
who do not want to climb down from
their chestnut tree
long white gloves
police tread carefully
espaced from the zoo
the perfect child facsimile
talking out the world
talking out the world
hey, this is only halfway.


23. Yes I Am

I resent you calling
I resent your voice
I resent that I
Don't have a choice
Anywhere I go
You are always there
Outside the car
Or in my hair
I think I've been here before
Yes I've been here before
The last time you locked
All the doors
And I resent you calling
I resent your voice
I resent that I
Don't have a choice
And yes I am
Yes I am
I think I've told you once
I think I needed advice
You were such a help
That's very nice
I think I've been here before
Yes I've been here before
But this time I kick
Down your door
Yes I am
Yes I am


24. You Never Wash Up After Yourself

I must get out once in a while
everything is starting to die
the dust settles, the worms dig
spiders crawl over the bed
I must get out once in a while
i eat all day and now i'm fat
yesterday's meal is hugging the plate
you never wash up after yourself