B-SIDES

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...
Everything's burning down
We've got to put it out somehow

Oh, she said no go
She said she'd like to
She's seen you but no, no go
She says if you die then we all do
And everything's underground
We gotta dig it up somehow

bishop's robes

Dressed in bishop's robes
Terrifies me still
In bishop's robes
Bastard headmaster

I'm not going back
I'm not going back
I'm not going back

Children taught to kill
To tear themselves to bits
On playing fields
Dressed in bishop's robes

I'm not going back
I'm not going back
I'm not going back

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

faithless, the wonderboy

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 to talk too scared to try
Too scared to know the reasons why
And all my friends say bye bye

[repeat chorus]

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

What have you put
In that syringe
What have you really
Said 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

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 the 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
'Cause they all drive.....(killer cars)

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 the last time you see me alive
What if the car loses control?
What if there's someone overtaking?

[repeat chorus]

lewis [mistreated]

bummed out again by your
only business friend the smell
of failure is thicker than you
think don't do it
don't......jump.

changed shape to fit in the
end you just feel sick a million
lovesongs under anaesthetic
hey don't do it don't......jump.

lewis save yourself the pain
you will never get there, lewis
save yourself the pain it never#
really mattered.

we never noticed we never
understood he just got
crushed to fit he never even
smelt out the best it's the
best it's the best day of your life.

lewis save your self the pain
you will never get there,lewis

save yourself the pain it never
really mattered.
ohhh mistreated a low
corporate
hummmmmmistreated a low
corporate hum.

lozenge of love

i am gone
everybody's raging
and these fruits
they still taste of poison.

i won't be around
when you really need me
i can't sleep
why can't someone hold me?
i need warm
my restless body cracks and moans.

i won't have the strength
when you really need me.

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

(chorus)
pull me out of the aircrash
pull me out of the lake
cause i'm your superhero
when you're standing on the edge

the head of state has called for me by name
but i don't have time for him
it's gonna be a glorious day
i feel my luck could change
(repeat chorus)

we are standing on the edge....

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

million $ 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 listing 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
And if it`s alright
I`ll tell you `cos you`ll understand
And if it`s alright
I`ll beg you, because I`m begging man

Today I wrote a bad cheque
Packed a bag and took a jet
But no`one`s looking anyway
I hope they miss me
(Sometimes I think maybe I`m making a big mistake)

permanent daylight

the easiest way to sleep at night is to
carry on believing that i don't exist the
easiest way to sell your soul is to

carry on believing that we don't exist
- it must be hard with your
head on backward.

pop is dead

And now 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.
And now pop is dead, it just gave up,
We raise the dead but they won't stand up.
An' really lewis ain't an outlaw.
And now you now you're gonna die.
So what pop is dead, it's no great loss.
So many facelifts, his face flew off.
The emperor really has no clothes on,
And his skin is peeling off.
And now pop is dead, long live pop.
One final outcome to jerk him off.
He left this message for us.
He's dead he's dead he's dead!
He left this message for us.......

punchdrunk lovesick singalong

i wrapped you inside my coat when they came to
firebomb the house. i didn't feel pain kos no-one can
touch me whenever i'm held in your spell;
a beautiful girl a beautiful girl can turn your world
into
DUST

sell me a car that goes sell me a house that stands up
i never cared before i never cared before i never
cared before, before, before.
a beautiful girl a beautiful girl can turn your world
into
DUST

i stood in front of your face when the first bullet
was shot.

stupid car

It's funny how
To drive your stupid car
It's funny how
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)

the trickster

rust in the mountains
rust in the brain
the air is sacred here
in spite of your claim
up on the rooftops
out of reach
trickster is meaningless
trickster is weak.
he's talking out the world
talking out the world
hey! hey! hey!
this is only halfway.
i wanted you so bad
i couldn't say
all things fall apart
we wanted out so bad
and we couldn't say
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
(escaped from the zoo)
the perfect child facsimile is
talking out the world
talking out the world
hey! this is only halfway

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

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
The 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 plates
You never wash up after yourself

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