- "4st 7lb"
- I eat too much to die / And not enough to stay alive / I'm sitting in the middle waiting
- Days since I last pissed / Cheeks sunken and despaired / So gorgeous sunk to six stone / Lose my only remaining home
- See my third rib appear / A week later all my flesh disappears / Stretching taut, cling-film on bone / I'm getting better
- Karen says I've reached my target weight / Kate and Emma and Kristin know it's fake / Problem is diet's not a big enough word / I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view
- I want to walk in the snow / And not leave a footprint / I want to walk in the snow / And not soil its purity
- Stomach collapsed at five / Lift up my skirt my sex is gone / Naked and lovely and 5st. 2 / May I bud and never flower
- My vision's getting blurred / But I can see my ribs and I feel fine / My hands are trembling stalks / And I can feel my breasts are sinking
- Mother trys to choke me with roast beef / And sits savouring her sole Ryvita / That's the way you're built my father said / But I can change, my cocoon shedding
- Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat / All things I like looking at / Too weak to fuss, too weak to die / Choice is skeletal in everybody's life
- I choose my choice, I starve to frenzy / Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires / Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy / And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me
- Self-worth scatters, self-esteem's a bore / I long since moved to a higher plateau / This discipline's so rare so please applaud / Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so
- Yeah 4st. 7, an epilogue of youth / Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse / I've finally come to understand life / Through staring blankly at my navel
- "A Day in the Life"
- I read the news today, oh boy / About a lucky man who made the grade / And though the news was rather sad / Well, I just had to laugh / I saw the photograph
- He blew his mind out in a car / He didn't notice that the lights had changed / A crowd of people stood and stared / They'd seen his face before / Nobody was really sure / If he was from the House of Lords
- Woke up, fell out of bed / Dragged a comb across my head / Found my way downstairs and drank a cup / And looking up I noticed I was late / Found my coat and grabbed my hat / Made the bus in second splat / Found my way upstairs and had a smoke / And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
- "A Design For Life"
- Libraries gave us power / Then work came and made us free / What price now for a shallow piece of dignity
- "Black Gives Way to Blue"
- I don't want to feel no more / It's easier to keep falling / Imitations are pale / Emptiness all / Tommorow's haunted by your ghost
- "Ashes to Ashes"
- "I'm happy, hope you're happy too / I've loved / All I've needed to love / Sordid details following"
- Ashes to ashes, funk to funky / We know Major Tom's a junkie / Strung out in heaven's high / Hitting an all-time low
- "Doll Parts"
- I am doll eyes / Doll mouth, doll legs / I am doll arms / Big veins / Dog bait
- I want to be the girl with the most cake / I love him so much it just turns to hate / I fake it so real, I am beyond fake / And someday, you will ache like I ache
- I am doll parts / Bad skin, doll heart / It stands for knife / For the rest of my life
- He only loves those things because he loves to see them break
- "Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier"
- Overweight and out of date
- "Faster"
- I am an architect, they call me a butcher / I am a pioneer, they call me primitive / I am purity, they call me perverted / Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave
- I am idiot drug hive, the virgin, the tattered and the torn / Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards / Self-disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please / A morality obedient, only to the cleansed repented
- I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer / I spat out Plath and Pinter / I am all the things that you regret / A truth that washes that learnt how to spell
- The first time you see yourself naked you cry / Soft skin now acne, foul breath, so broken / He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining / I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing
- Sleep can't hide the thoughts splitting through my mind / Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake / If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down / I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else
- So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
- "Heroin"
- I don't know just where I'm going / But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can / 'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man / When I put a spike into my vein / And I tell you things aren't quite the same
- I have made the big decision / I'm gonna try to nullify my life / 'Cause when the blood begins to flow / When it shoots up the dropper's neck / When I'm closing in on death
- I wish that I was born a thousand years ago / I wish that I'd sailed the darkened seas / On a great big clipper ship / Going from this land here to that / In a sailor's suit and cap / Away from the big city / Where a man cannot be free / Of all the evils of this town / And of himself and those around / Oh, and I guess that I just don't know / Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
- Heroin, be the death of me / Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life / Because a mainline in my vein leads / To a center in my head / And then I'm better off than dead / Because when the smack begins to flow / I really don't care anymore / About all the Jim-Jims in this town / And all the politicians making crazy sounds / And everybody putting everybody else down / And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds
- 'Cause when the smack begins to flow / And I really don't care anymore / Ah, when that heroin is in my blood / And the blood is in my head / Then I thank God that I'm as good as dead / And thank your God that I'm not aware / And thank God that I just don't care / And I guess that I just don't know / Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
- "I Think That I Would Die"
- She lost all her innocence / Gave it to an abscess / She lost all her innocence / She said, "I am not a feminist"
- "Little Baby Nothing"
- No one likes looking at you / Your lack of ego offends male mentality / They need your innocence / To steal vacant love and to destroy / Your beauty and virginity used like toys
- My mind is dead, everybody loves me
- So hold me in your arms / I wanna be your only possession
- Your pretty face offends / Because it's something real that I can't touch / Eyes, skin, bone, contour, language as a flower
- Used, used, used by men
- All the world does not exist for me
- Little baby nothing / Loveless slavery, lips kissing empty / Dress your life in loathing / Breaking your mind with Barbie Doll futility
- Little baby nothing / Sexually free, made-up to breakup / Assassinated beauty / Moths broken up, quenched at last / The vermin allowed a thought to pass them by
- You are pure, you are snow / We are the useless sluts that they mould / Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany / Culture, alienation, boredom and despair
- "Lost in the Supermarket"
- I wasn't born so much as I fell out / Nobody seemed to notice me
- "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
- Picture yourself in a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies / Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly / A girl with kaleidoscope eyes
- Cellophane flowers of yellow and green / Towering over your head / Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes / And she's gone
- Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain / Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies / Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers / That grow so incredibly high
- Newspaper taxies appear on the shore / Waiting to take you away / Climb in the back with your head in the clouds / And you're gone
- Picture yourself in a train in a station / With plasticine porters with looking glass ties / Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile / The girl with kaleidoscope eyes
- "Miss World"
- I am the girl you know, can't look you in the eye / I am the girl you know, so sick I cannot try / I am the one you want, can't look you in the eye / I am the girl you know, I lie and lie and lie
- I'm Miss World / Somebody kill me / Kill me pills / No one cares, my friends
- Now I made my bed, I'll lie in it / I made my bed, I'll die in it
- He sucked me under / Maybe forever, my friends
- "Moon River"
- Moon river, wider than a mile / I'm crossing you in style some day / Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker / Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way
- Two drifters, off to see the world / There's such a lot of world to see / We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend / My huckleberry friend, moon river, and me
- "Moonchild"
- Call her moonchild / Dancing in the shallows of a river / Lonely moonchild / Dreaming in the shadow / Of the willow
- Talking to the trees of the cobweb strange / Sleeping on the steps of a fountain / Waving silver wands to the might-birds song / Waiting for the sun on the mountain
- She's a moonchild / Gathering the flowers in a garden / Lovely moonchild / Drifting on the echoes of the hours
- Sailing on the wind / In a milk white gown / Dropping circle stones on a sun dial / Playing hide and seek / With the ghosts of dawn / Waiting for a smile from a sunchild
- "Motorcycle Emptiness"
- Culture sucks down words / Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles / Organise your safe tribal war / Hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto
- Each day living out a lie / Life sold cheaply forever, ever, ever
- Life lies a slow suicide / Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths / From feudal serf to spender / This wonderful world of purchase power
- Under neon loneliness, motorcycle emptiness / Under neon loneliness, everlasting nothingness
- "My My, Hey Hey"
- It's better to burn out than to fade away
- Out of the blue and into the black / They give you this, but you pay for that / And once you're gone, you can never come back / When you're out of the blue and into the black
- The king is gone but he's not forgotten / This is the story of a Johnny Rotten / It's better to burn out than it is to rust / The king is gone but he's not forgotten
- Hey hey, my my / Rock and roll can never die / There's more to the picture / Than meets the eye
- "No Expectations"
- Take me to the station / And put me on a train / I've got no expectations / To pass through here again
- "Old Age"
- And I will await your highness / I'm so high I cannot walk / And I will await / You cripple / You take away my pride / My peace, my empathy / No babies sleep on atrophy / Your unborn love and fetal stress / Hard bitter candy, legless caress
- What was she for Halloween? / The ugliest girl you've ever seen / Someday she will die alone
- What was she for Valentine's? / An old forgotten concubine / Someday she will die for no one
- It's okay to kill your idols / Just pretend you have no rivals / We all know that she is friendless
- Spits at mirrors; it's not an issue / Just remove the hateful tissues / We all know her rage is endless
- And then she begs and she says "Pretty please?" / "I'll make her pure again; I'll make her clean"
- Someday she won't have to fake it / Living will itself seem sacred / Someday she will just refuse
- "Pacific Coast Highway"
- I knew a boy who came from the sea / He was the only boy who ever / Knew the truth about me
- What I want I will never have
- "Romeo's Distress"
- Conversation about the holes in your hands / Walk through the garden of men's desires
- What's that moving in the basement? / What's that moving in the attic? / Who's that walking in the shadow? / Who's that walking in the streets?
- Kiss on my hand / After dark / Hand for a kiss / A dark inside my hand / Kiss on my hand / After dark / Kiss on my hand
- Romance in sequence / Harmful to the blind / Burning hearts through the top of your skull / Dance in your white sheet glory / Dance in your passion / Your days are numbered with creations in your pocket / Your days are numbered with the love in your eyes / Love?
- What's that moving in the basement? / What's that moving in the attic? / Who's that lying on the altar? / Who's that lying in the streets?
- "See Emily Play"
- Emily tries but misunderstands / She's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams 'til tomorrow
- There is no other day / Let's try it another way / You'll lose your mind and play
- "Sister Morphine"
- Here I lie in my hospital bed / Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming round again / Oh, and I don't think I can wait that long / Oh, you see that my pain is so strong
- All the other patients say they've never seen a man with such pain / Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming round again? / Oh, I don't think I can wait that long / Oh, you see that I'm not that strong
- The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ear / Tell me, Sister Morphine, how long have I been lying here? / What am I doing in this place? / Why does the doctor have no face? / Oh, I can't crawl across the floor / Can't you see, Sister Morphine, just trying to score
- Well, it just goes to show things are not what they seem / Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmare into dreams / Oh, can't you see I'm fading fast / And that this shot will be the last
- Please, Cousin Cocaine, lay your cool hands on my head / Hey, Sister Morphine, you'd better make up the lyin' bed / 'Cause you know and I know in the morning I'll be dead / And you can sit around and watch all the clean white sheets stain red
- "Stay Beautiful"
- Find your faith in your security / All broken up at seventeen / Jam your brain with broken heroes / Love your masks and adore your failure
- We're a mess of eyeliner and spraypaint / D.I.Y. destruction on chanel chic / Deny your culture of consumption / This is a culture of destruction
- "Suicide Is Painless"
- Through early morning fog I see / Visions of the things to be / The pains that are withheld for me / I realise and I can see / That suicide is painless / It brings on many changes / I can take or leave it if I please
- That game of life is hard to play / I'm gonna lose it anyway / The losing card I'll some day lay / So this is all I have to say
- The sword of time will pierce our skin / It doesn't hurt when it begins / But as it works its way on in / The pain grows stronger, watch it grin
- "The End"
- This is the end / Beautiful friend / This is the end / My only friend, the end / Of our elaborate plans, the end / Of everything that stands, the end / No safety or surprise, the end / I'll never look into your eyes...again
- "This is Yesterday"
- Do not listen to a word I say / Just listen to what I can keep silent / The only way to gain approval / Is by exploiting the very thing that cheapens me
- And I stare at the sky / And it leaves me blind / I close my eyes / And this is yesterday
- Someone somewhere soon will take care of you / I repent, I'm sorry, everything is falling apart / Houses as ruins and gardens as weeds / Why do anything when you can forget everything
- "Unwritten Law"
- We stab at our faith / To keep it alive / We draw the blood / But the law draws the line
- A hand is a hand / A knife is a knife / Blood is blood / And life is life
- We could go anywhere / It would still be the same / A change of climate, a change of air / All the pressure would remain
- "Yes"
- You can buy her, you can buy her / This one's here, this one's here, this one's here and this one's here / Ev'rything's for sale
- For sale? Dumb cunts same dumb questions / Oh virgins? Listen, all virgins are liars honey / And I don't know what I'm scared of or what I even enjoy / Dulling, get money, but nothing turns out like you want it to
- And in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything / For $200 anyone can conceive a God on video / He's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock / Tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want
- I eat and I dress and I wash and I still can say thank you / Puking - shaking - sinking / I still stand for old ladies / Can't shout, can't scream, hurt myself to get pain out
- The only certain thing that is left about me / There is no part of my body that has not been used / Pity or pain, to show displeasure's shame / Everyone I've loved or hated always seems to leave
- These sunless afternoons I can't find myself
- "Yesterday"
- Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away / Now it looks as though they're here to stay / Oh, I believe in yesterday
- Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be / There's a shadow hanging over me / Oh, yesterday came suddenly
- Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play / Now I need a place to hide away / Oh, I believe in yesterday
dec 5 2011 ∞
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