III. OK COMPUTER
1. Airbag
In the next world war
in a jack knifed juggernaut
I am born again
In the neon sign
scrolling up and down
I am born again
In an interstellar burst I am back
to save the universe
In a deep deep sleep of the innocent
I am born again
In a fast german car I'm amazed that
I survived
An airbag saved my life
In an interstellar burst I am back
to save the universe
In an interstellar burst I am back
to save the universe
2. Paranoid Android
Please could you stop the noise? - I'm trying to get s o m e r e s t
from all the unborn chicken voices in my head
What's that?
what's that?
I may be paranoid, but not an android
When I am king you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What's that?
what's that?
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking squealing gucci little piggy
You don't remember, you don't remember,
why don't you remember my name
Off with his head man, off with his head man
Why don't you remember my name?- I guess he DOES
Rain down, rain down, come on rain down on me
From a great height, from a great height, height
Rain down, rain down, come on rain down on me
From a great height, from a great height, height
(repeats 3rd time, underneath vocals are:)
That's it sir, you're leaving,
the crackle of pig skin,
the dust and the screaming
T h e y u p p i e s n e t w o r k i n g
the panic, the vomit,
the panic, the vomit
God loves his children, yeah
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien
The breath of the morning I keep
forgetting the smell of the warm
summer air
I live in a town where you can't
smell a thing
You watch your feet for cracks in
the pavement
Up above aliens hover making home
movies for the folks back home
Of all these weird creatures who
lock up their spirits
Drill holes in themselves and live
for their secrets
They're all uptight, uptight,
uptight, uptight
I wish that they'd swoop down in the
country lane late at night when I'm
driving
Take me onboard their beautiful ship
show me the weird world as I'd love
to see it
I'd tell all my friends but they'd
never believe me
They'd think that I'd finally lost
it completely
I'd show them the stars and the
meaning of life they'd shut me away
But I'll be all right, all right
I'm all right, all right
I'm just uptight, uptight, uptight,
uptight
4. Exit Music (For A Film)
Wake from your sleep
The drying of your tears,
today
we escape,
we escape
Pack and get dressed,
before your father hears us,
before, all hell breaks loose
Breathe, keep breathing,
don't lose your nerve,
breathe, keep breathing
I can't do this
alone
Sing us a song,
a song to keep us warm,
there's such a chill,
such a chill
You can laugh a spineless laugh
We hope your rules and wisdom
choke you
now we are one in
everlasting peace
We hope that you choke, that you
choke
We hope that you choke, that you
choke
We hope that you choke, t h a t
y o u c h o k e
5. Let Down
Transport, motorways and tram lines
Starting and then stopping, taking
off and landing
The emptiest of feelings
disappointed people clinging onto
bottles and
When it comes its so so
disappointing
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
Shell smashed, juices flowing wings
twitch, legs are going
Don't get sentimental, it always
ends up drivel
One day I'm going to grow wings
A chemical reaction, hysterical and
useless hysterical and
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
let down again
You know,
you know where you are with
you, know where you are
With floor collapses floating,
bouncing back and
one day
I am gonna grow wings
A chemical reaction,
hysterical and useless
hysterical and
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
6. Karma Police
Karma Police, arrest this man,
he talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a
detuned radio
Karma Police, arrest this girl,
her hitler hairdo, is making me feel ill
And we have crashed her party
This is what you get, this is
what you get
This is what you get, when you
mess with us
Karma Police, I've given all I can,
it's not enough
I've given all I can, but we're
still on the payroll
This is what you get, this is
what you get
This is what you get, when you
mess with us
And for a minute there, I lost
myself, I lost myself
And for a minute there, I lost
myself, I lost myself
For a minute there, I lost myself, I
lost myself
7. Fitter Happier
? fitter, happier
? more productive
? comfortable
? n o t d r i n k i n g t o o m u c h
? regular exercise at the gym (3days a week)
? getting on better with your associate employee
contemporaries
? at ease
? eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated
fats)
? a patient better driver
? a safer car (baby smiling in back seat)
? sleeping well (no bad dreams)
? no paranoia
? careful to all animals (never washing spiders down
the plughole)
? keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now
and then)
? will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in
wall)
? favours for favours
? fond but not in love (girlfriends and wives)
? charity stanbding orders
? on sundays ring road supermarket
? (no killing moths or putting boiling water on the
ants)
? car wash (also on sundays)
? no longer afraid of the dark
? or midday shadows
? nothing so ridiculoiusly teenage and desperate
? nothing so childish
? at a better pace
? slower and more calculated
? no chance of escape
? now self-employed (his own man is_)
? concerned (but powerless)
? an empowered & informed member of society (pragmatism
not idealism)
? will not cry in public
? girlfriends and wives
? less chance of illness
? tyres that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in
back seat)
? clean shaven
? a good memory
? still cries at a good film
? still kisses with saliva
? no longer empty and frantic
? like a cat
? tied to a stick
? that's driven into
? frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)
? calm
? fitter, healthier and more productive
? a pig
? in a cage
? on antibiotics
8. Electioneering
I will stop, I will stop at nothing
Say the right things, when
electioneering I trust I can rely on
your vote
When I go forwards, you go
backwards, somewhere we will meet
When I go forwards, you go
backwards, and somewhere we will
meet
Riot shields, voodoo economics,
it's, it's just business
Cattle prods and the IMF, I trust I
can rely on your vote.
When I go forwards, you go
backwards, somewhere we will meet
When I go forwards, you go
backwards, somewhere we will meet
9. Climbing up the Walls
I am the key to the lock in your
house, that keeps your toys in the
basement
And if you get too far inside,
you'll only see my reflection
It's always best when the light is
off, I am the pick in the ice
Do not cry out or hit the alarm,
we're friends till we die
And either way you turn, I'll be
there, open up your skull
I'll be there, climbing up the walls
It's always best when the light is
off, it's always better on the
outside
Fifteen blows to the back of my
head, fifteen blows to your mind
So tuck the kids in safe tonight,
shut the eyes in the cupboard
So not cry out or hit the alarm,
you'll get the loneliest feeling
That either way you turn, I'll be
there, open up your skull
I'll be there, climbing up the walls
Climb up the walls. climb up the
walls
10. No Surprises
A heart that's full up like a
landfill,
a job that slowly kills you,
bruises that won't heal
You were so tired, happy,
bring down the government,
they don't, they don't speak for us
I'll take the quiet life, a
handshake of carbon monoxide
No alarms and no surprises, no
alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Silent, silent
This is my final fit, my final
bellyache with
No alarms and no surprises, no
alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises, please
Such a pretty house, such a pretty
garden
No alarms and no surprises,
get me outta here
no alarms and no surprises
get me outta here
No alarms and no surprises,
PLEASE
11. Lucky
I'm on a roll, I'm on a roll, this
time,
I feel my luck could change
Kill me Sarah,
kill me again
with love,
it's gonna be a glorious day
Pull me out of the aircrash,
pull me out of the wreck, cause I'm
your superhero
We are standing on the edge
The head of state is calling my name
but I,
I don't have time for you
It's gonna be a glorius day,
I feel my luck could change
Pull me out of the aircrash,
pull me out of the wreck, cause I'm
your superhero
We are standing on the edge,
we are standing on the edge
We are standing on the edge
12. The Tourist
It barks at no-one else but me like
it's seen a ghost
I guess it seen the sparks, a
flowing no one else would know
Hey man slow down, slow down, idiot
slow down, slow down
Sometimes I get overcharged that's
when you see sparks
You ask me where the hell I'm going
at thousand feet per second?
Hey man, slow down, slow down, idiot
slow down, slow down
Hey man, slow down, slow down, idiot
slow down, slow down
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