[Verse 1] Wake up in the dark The aftertaste of anger in the back of my mouth Spit it on the wall And cough some more and scrape my skin with razor blades
[Pre-Chorus 1] And make up in the new blood And try to look so good, follow me Make up in the new blood And follow me to where the real fun is, ha ho ho
[Verse 2] As stale and selfish as a sick dog That's spurning sex like an animal of god I'll tear your red hair by the roots and hold you blazing Hold you cherished in the dead electric light
[Pre-Chorus 2] Your face I'll never see you this way again I captured it so perfectly As if I knew you'd disappear away
[Bridge] You hit me again, you howl and hit me again The same sharp pain Wakes me in the dark, cuts me from my throat to my pounding heart My heart, my shaking
[Verse 3] But we slept all night in the virgin's bed And dreamed of death and breathed like sick dogs We slept all night in the virgin's bed And breathed like death and dreamed of sick dogs
[Refrain] Oh, shake, shake Oh, shake, shake Shake, shake Shake dog, shake Wake up, wake up, wake up Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake dog shake Wake up, wake up, wake up Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake dog, shake
[Outro] Wake up in the new blood Make up in the new blood Shake up in the new blood And follow me to where the real fun is Shake dog, shake Shake dog, shake Shake dog...
2.
The Birdmad Girl
[Verse 1] This girl has got a smile That can make me cry This girl just burns with love She's burning, burning deep outside
[Pre-Chorus 1] Night time, night time sets my house on fire Oh, I'll turn into the melting man I'll lose my life to feel I feel desire
[Chorus] Oh, I should feel Like a polar bear Like a polar bear It's impossible
[Verse 2] She flies outside this cage Singing girl-mad words I keep her dark thoughts deep inside As black as stone and mad as birds
[Pre-Chorus 2] Burn wild, wild, wild, and never turn away Oh, sends me all her love, she sends me everything She sends me everywhere
[Chorus 2] Oh, I could be A polar bear Oh, I could be A polar bear It's impossible
[Verse 3] Try to talk, the sky goes red I forget, so fill my head With some of this, some of that Some of every word she says
[Pre-Chorus 1] Oh, night time, night time sets my house on fire I'll turn into the melting man I'll lose my life to feel I feel desire
[Chorus] Oh, I should be A polar bear Oh, I should be A polar bear But it's impossible
3.
Wailing Wall
[Verse 1] The holy city breathed Like a dying man It moved with hopeful tears With the tears of the blind
[Chorus] And on and on as the night drew in Through broken streets that sucked me in My feet were bare and cut with stones With walking to the promised land
[Verse 2] I pushed through crowds, through seas of prayer Through twisting hands and choking air A vulture at the wailing wall I circled, waiting
[Chorus] And on and on as the night drew in Through broken streets that sucked me in My feet were bare and cut with stones With walking to the promised land
4.
Give Me It
[Verse 1] Get away from me Get your fingers out of my face This room's so hot This room's so hot I'll break the walls
[Verse 2] Get away from me Leave me alone Oh, like the pig on the stairs Hanging in a groovy purple shirt
[Bridge 1] Gasping for air I'm gasping for air, I'm gasping for love I'm gasping for air
[Verse 3] Slit the cats like cheese Then eat the sweet sticky things Suck harder, suck harder Suck your insides, insides out Blood thick swimming round your feet As you're choking, choking Choking on the fleshy words
[Chorus] Give me it, give me it, give me it, deaden my glassy mind Give me it, give me it, make me blind One step back and one step down And slip the needles in my side
[Bridge 2] My head is cold, my hands are cold My heart is cold, my heart is black And stops every fucking night, every night I wait until it stops, but it's... Sing birds, sing birds, sing birds, sing Get away, get away Get away, get away
[Outro] Give me it, give me it Give me it, give me it Give me it, give me it, give me it Give me it, give me it
5.
Dressing Up
[Verse 1] Going under slowly It never seems too late Going under so slow, oh so slow Dressing up to kiss I'm dressing up to touch all this
[Chorus 1] Dressing up, dressing up Oh, I'm dressing up to dance all week Dressing up, dressing up I'm dressing up to sleep
[Verse 2] Dressing up to kiss Dressing up to be all this I could eat your face I could eat all of you
[Chorus 2] Dressing up, dressing up, dressing up, dressing up Oh, this night will never let me go Dressing up, dressing up, dressing up, dressing up This night will never, never let me
[Verse 3] Going under slowly Ah, never seems too late Going under slow, oh You'll pick me up again
6.
The Caterpillar
[Verse 1] Flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker Here you are Cata-cata-cata-cata-cata-cata-cata-cata Caterpillar girl Flowing in and filling up my hopeless heart Oh, never, never go
[Chorus] Oh, I'll dust my lemon lies With powder, pink and sweet The day I stop is the day you change And fly away from me
[Verse 2] You flicker and you're beautiful You glow inside my head You hold me hypnotized, I'm mesmerized Your flames, the flames that kiss me dead
[Chorus] I'll dust my lemon lies With powder, pink and sweet The day I stop's the day you change And fly away from me
[Verse 1] Flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker Here you are Cata-cata-cata-cata-cata-cata-cata-cata Caterpillar girl Flowing in and filling up my hopeless heart Oh, never, never go
[Chorus] Oh, I'll dust my lemon lies With powder, pink and sweet The day I stop's the day you change And fly away, away from me
[Verse 1] Shapes in the drink like Christ Cracks in the pale blue wall I'm walking slowly and quickly but always away I'm twisting, twisting to the floor
[Chorus 1] Flowers in your mouth and the same dry song The routine from laughter land Sixteen white legs and a row of teeth I watch you in secrecy
[Verse 2] You're dying, for the hope is gone From here we go nowhere again Oh, I'm trapped in my face and I'm changing too much I can't climb out the way I fell in
[Chorus 2] Jump with me, for that old forgotten dance The midnight sun will burn you up Your life is cold, your life is hot Your life is too much for words
[Chorus 3] These occasions are such a relief Another point, another view to send We start to talk and it's, and it's all so safe Oh, I feed you in my dreams
[Verse 3] Footsteps on a wire, high above my head The stain reveals my real intention I'm the waiting beast, I'm the twisted nerve As I dance, dance back to the body in my bed As I dance, dance back to the body in my bed To the body in my bed, oh
[Outro] Look at the piggy, piggy in the mirror At the piggy, piggy in the mirror At the piggy, the piggy in the mirror At the piggy, piggy in the mirror Oh, look at the piggy in the... At the piggy, piggy in the mirror Oh, look at the piggy in the mirror Oh, look at the piggy in the mirror Oh, look at the piggy in the mirror Oh, ho
8.
The Empty World
[Verse] As stiff as toys and tall as men And swaying like the wind torn trees She talked about the empty world With eyes like poison birds
[Chorus] She talked about the armies that marched inside her head How they made her dreams go bad But oh, how happy she was, how proud she was To be fighting in the war in the empty world
[Verse] Stiff as toys and tall as men Swaying like the wind torn trees She talked about the empty world With eyes like poison birds
9.
Bananafishbones
[Verse 1] Curl into a ball like you have more fun Oh, that would make it faster Why do you do it, do you do it, do you act like you Why do you do it, do you act like you
[Verse 2] Don't fight, go red and blue and black and white And sell this, sell this or leave it senseless like a suck on a gun Put a piece of metal in your head, you said And make you dead, make you hippa, hippa, hippa, hippa
[Verse 3] A palace of stones of your bananafish bones I'll buy you a hundred years old To celebrate our difference, theorise and talk yourself Until you're tired and old
[Verse 4] Disappear everywhere and watch me Pull my lips apart Exploit, inspire, encourage Be responsible for this, ha ha
[Chorus] I don't think, I don't think I make use of all this time Oh, kill me, kiss me once, and then we'll throw it away And then we'll throw it away
[Verse 1] Curl into a ball like you have more fun Oh, that would make it faster Why do you do it, do you do it, do you act like you Why do you do it, do you act like you
[Verse 2] Don't fight, go red and blue and black and white And sell this, sell this or leave it senseless like a suck on a gun Put a piece of metal in your head, you said And make you dead, make you hippa, hippa, hippa, hippa
[Chorus] I don't think, I don't think I make use of all this time Oh, kill me, kiss me once, and then we'll throw it away And then we'll throw it away
[Outro] And tell me about the games you play Oh, turn off the lights And tell me about the games you play
10.
The Top
[Verse 1] I don't care If only I could say that and not feel so sick and scared I don't care If only I could say that, if only my eyes would close
[Chorus] Jesus brilliant, you used to laugh Walking these gorgeous blocks This top is the place where nobody goes You just imagine, you just imagine it all
[Verse 2] Every day I lie here and know that it's true All I really want is you Please come back, please come back Like all the other ones do
[Chorus] Jesus brilliant, you used to laugh Walking these gorgeous blocks This top is the place where nobody goes You just imagine, oh, you just imagine it all
[Outro] Please come back Please come back, all of you Please come back Please come back, all of you
