2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.) Are you such a dreamer? To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two & two always makes up five I'll lay down the tracks Sandbag & hide January has April's showers And two & two always makes up five IT'S THE DEVIL'S WAY NOW THERE IS NO WAY OUT YOU CAN SCREAM & YOU CAN SHOUT IT IS TOO LATE NOW BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION I try to sing along I get it all wrong Eezeepeezeeeezeepeeezee NOT I swat em like flies but Like flies the buggers Keep coming back NOT Maybe not "All hail to the thief" "But I'm not!" "Don't question my authority or put me in the dock" /Cozimnot! Go & tell the king that The sky is falling in When it's not Maybe not. (ahh diddums.) - - - - - - - - - - - - Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.) Sit down. Stand up. Walk into The jaws of hell. Walk into The jaws of hell. Anytime. Anytime. Sit down. Stand up. Sit down. WE CAN WIPE YOU OUT ANYTIME. WE CAN WIPE YOU OUT Anytime. Anytime. Stand up. Sit down. 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I was dropped from Moonbeams And sailed On shooting stars Maybe you'll Be president But know Right from wrong Or in the flood You'll build an Ark And sail us to The moon And sail us to The moon And sail us ... - - - - - - - - - - - - Backdrifts. (Honeymoon is Over.) We're rotten fruit We're damaged goods What the hell We got nothing more to lose One gust & we Will probably crumble We're backdrifters. This far but no further I'm hanging off a branch I'm teetering on the brink Oh Honeysweet So full of sleep I'm backsliding. You fell into our arms We tried But there was nothing We could do All evidence has been buried. All tapes have been erased. But your footprints give you away so You're backtracking --- Where I End & you begin (The Sky is Falling in.) There's a gap in between There's a gap where we meet Where I end & you begin And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green Where I end & you begin I am up in the clouds I am up in the clouds And I can't & I can't come down I can watch but Not take part Where I end & where you start where you you left me alone You left me alone. X will the mark the place Like parting the waves Like a house falling into the sea I will eat you all alive And there'll be no more lies --- Go to sleep. (Little Man being Erased.) Something for the rag & bone man Over my dead body Something big is gonna happen Over my dead body Someone's son or someone's daughter Over my dead body This is how I end up getting sucked in Over my dead body I'm gonna go to sleep let this wash all over me We don't wanna wake the monster Tiptoe round tie him down We don't want the loonies taking over Tiptoe round tie them down May pretty horses Come to you As you sleep I'm gonna go to sleep Let this wash All over me --- We suck Young Blood (Your Time is up.) Are you hungry? Are you sick? Are you begging for a break? Are you sweet? Are you fresh? Are you strung up by the wrists? (Fois-gras style) We want the young blood. Are you fracturing? Are you torn at the seams? Would you do anything? Flea-bitten? Motheaten? We suck young blood. Won't let the creeping ivy Won't let the nervous bury me Our veins are thin Our rivers poisoned We want the sweet meats. We want the young blood. We suck young blood. We want the young blood. --- The Gloaming (Softly Open our Mouths in the Cold.) Genie let out the bottle It is now the witching hour Murderers you're murderers We are not the same as you Funny haha funny how When the walls bend With your breathing They will suck you down To the otherside To the shadows blue & red Your alarm bells Should be ringing This is the gloaming --- There there (The Boney King of Nowhere.) In pitch dark I go walking in Your landscape Broken branches Trip me as I speak Just because you feel it Doesn't mean its there Just because you feel it Doesn't mean it's there There's always a siren Singing you to shipwreck Steer away from these rocks We'd be a walking disaster Just because you feel it Doesn't mean it's there /...? sitting on your shoulder Just because you feel it Doesn't mean it's there /...? sitting on your shoulder There there Why so green & lonely? & lonely? & lonely? Heaven sent you to me, to me, to me ... We are accidents Waiting Waiting to happen We are accidents Waiting Waiting to happen --- I will (No man's Land.) I will Lay me down In a bunker Underground. I won't let this happen to my children. Meet the real world coming out of your shell With white elephants Sitting ducks. I will Rise up. Little babies' eyes. --- A Punchuup at a Wedding. (No no no no no no no no.) I don't know why you bother Nothing's ever good enough for you I was there And it wasn't like that You came here Just to start a fight You had to piss on our parade You had to shred our big day You had to ruin it for all concerned In a drunken punchup at a wedding Hypocrite opportunist Don't infect me with your poison A bully in a china shop When I turn round You stay Frozen to the spot The pointless snide remarks Of hammerheaded sharks The pot will call the kettle black It's a drunken punch up at a wedding --- Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury & Executioner.) The mongrel cat came home Holding half a head Proceeded to show it off To all his new found friends He said I been where I liked I slept with who I liked she ate me up for breakfast she screwed me in a vice And now I don't know why I feel so tongue tied I sat in the cupboard And wrote it down in neat They were cheering & waving cheering & waving twitching & salivating like with myxomatosis But it got edited, fucked up Strangled, beaten up Used as a photo in Time magazine Buried in a burning black hole in Devon I don't know why I feel so tongue tied don't know why I feel so skinned alive. My thoughts are misguided & A little naive I twitch & salivate like with myxomatosis You should put me in a home or you should put me down I got myxomatosis I got myxomatosis Now no one likes a smart arse But we all like stars That wasn't my intention I did it for a reason He shook hands with the cripples & He gave them all milk He did a few card tricks For his mafia geeks But now I don't know why I feel so tongue tied --- Scatterbrain (As Dead as Leaves.) I'm walking out In a force ten gale Birds thrown around Bullets for hail The roof is pulling off By its fingernails Your voice is rapping On my window sill Yesterday's headlines Blown by the wind Yesterday's people End up SCATTERBRAIN Then any fool can Easy pick a hole (I only wish I could fall in) A moving target In a firing range Somewhere I'm not Scatterbrain Somewhere I'm not Scatterbrain Lightning fuse Powercut SCATTERBRAIN --- A Wolf at the Door (It Girl. Rag Doll.) Drag him out the window Dragging out your dead Singing I miss you Snakes & ladders flip the lid out pops the cracker smacks you in the head knifes you in the neck kicks you in the teeth steel toe caps takes all your credit cards step up get the gunge Get the eggs get the flan in the face the flan in the face the flan in the face Dance you fucker dance you fucker don't you dare Don't you dare don't you Flan in the face Take it with the love its given take it with a pinch of salt take it to the taxman Let me back let me back I promise to be good don't look in the mirror at the face you don't recognize Help me, call the doctor, put me inside put me inside put me inside put me inside put me inside I keep the wolf from the door but he calls me up calls me on the phone tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up Steal all my children if I don't pay the ransom & I'll never see them again if I squeal to the cops... Walking like a giant cranes & with my X ray eyes I strip you naked in a Tight little world & are you on the list? Stepford wives who are we to complain? Investments & dealers. Investments & dealers Cold wives & mistresses. Cold wives & Sunday papers city boys in First Class don't know we're born just know Someone else is gonna come & clean it up Born & raised for the job Someone always does I wish you'd get up go over get up go over & turn this tape off ---- i have a paper here that entitles me to fast track status. whats in the briefcase? iam staying at holiday inn, room 320. i have fast track status. dont anyone stop? anyone stop to let me out? congratuulashuns! everybody stops and gawp. you crossed the line too many colours too many eyes little birds on the trees all lining up lynch mob we fix your dollars limitless scenarios well see who was right and who was wrong technically speaking, you will be frozen to the touch and sit back down again and press play llike nothing has happened cut your tails with a carving knife eyes popped out like cigarette machine we are hypnotised by your eyes please remember that past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance and we are faceless you cannot attack us take the money and then run sing me a lullaby no pulse stuck on face alastair campbell ICE AGE IS COMING numbers plummeting woods where no birds sing forget why youre there when you get there whats so wrong with that? just a bumpy ride. these are just high tides. Everything In Its Right Place Kid A, Kid A Kid A, Kid A Everything Everything Everything Everything in its right place In its right place In its right place In its right place Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon Everything Everything Everything Everything in its right place In its right place In its right place Right place There are two colours in my head There are two colours in my head What, what is that you tried to say? What, what was that you tried to say? Tried to say Tried to say Tried to say Tried to say Everything in its right place... (to end) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Kid A I slip away I slipped on a little white lie We've got heads on sticks You've got ventriloquists We've got heads on sticks You've got ventriloquists Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed The rats and children follow me out of town The rats and children follow me out of their homes Come on Kids -------------------------------------------------- The National Anthem Everyone Everyone around here Everyone is so near It's holding on It's holding on Everyone Everyone is so near Everyone has got the fear It's holding on It's holding on //saxes// It's holding on It's holding on It's holding on ------------------------------------------------------------------- How To Disappear Completely That there That's not me I go Where I please I walk through walls I float down the Liffey I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here I'm not here In a little while I'll be gone The moment's already passed Yeah it's gone And I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here I'm not here Strobe lights and blown speakers Fireworks and hurricanes I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here I'm not here ------------------------------------------------------------------- Optimistic Flies are buzzing round my head Vultures circling the dead Picking up every last crumb The big fish eat the little ones The big fish eat the little ones Not my problem, give me some You can try the best you can If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough If you try the best you can If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough This one's optimistic This one went to market This one just came out of the swamp This one dropped a payload Fodder for the animals Living on animal farm If you try the best you can If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough If you try the best you can If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough I'd really like to help you, man I'd really like to help you, man And now this messed up millionaire Floating around on a prison ship If you try the best you can If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough If you can try the best you can If you try the best you can Dinosaurs roaming the Earth Dinosaurs roaming the Earth Dinosaurs roaming the Earth ------------------------------------------------------------------- In Limbo Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea I got a message I can't read Another message I can't read Being the first in the Irish Sea I got a message I can't read Another message I can't read I'm on your side Nowhere to hide Trapdoors that open I spiral down You're living in a fantasy You're living in a fantasy I'm lost at sea Don't bother me I've lost my way I've lost my way You're living in a fantasy You're living in a fantasy You're living in a fantasy This beautiful world Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea I got a message I can't read Another message I can't read ------------------------------------------------------------------- Idioteque Who's in a bunker? Who's in a bunker? Women and children first And the children first And the children I'll laugh until my head comes off I'll swallow till I burst Until I burst Until I Who's in a bunker? Who's in a bunker? I have seen too much I haven't seen enough You haven't seen it I'll laugh until my head comes off Women and children first And children first And children Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Ice age coming Ice age coming Let me hear both sides Let me hear both sides Let me hear both Ice age coming Ice age coming Throw it in the fire Throw it in the fire Throw it on the We're not scaremongering This is really happening Happening We're not scaremongering This is really happening Happening Mobiles skwrking Mobiles chirping Take the money run Take the money run Take the money Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Here I'm alive Everything all of the time The first of the children ------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Bell The morning bell The morning bell Had a null encounter Release me Release me You can keep the furniture A bump on the head Howling down the chimney Release me Release me Please Release me Release me Where'd you park the car Where'd you park the car Clothes are all alone with the furniture Now I might as well I might as well Sleepy jack the fire drill Running around around around... Cut the kids in half Cut the kids in half Cut the kids in half I wanted to tell you but you never listened You never understand I wanted to tell you but you never listened You never understand Cos I'm walking walking walking... The lights are on but nobody's home Everybody wants to be a The lights are on but nobody's home Everybody wants to be a singer Walking walking walking... The lights are on but nobody's at home Everybody wants to be a Everyone wants to be a friend Nobody wants to be a singer Walking walking walking... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Motion Picture Soundtrack Red wine and sleeping pills Help me get back to your arms Cheap sex and sad films Help me get back where I belong I think you're crazy, maybe I think you're crazy, maybe Stop sending letters Letters always get burned It's not like the movies They fed us on little white lies I think you're crazy, maybe I think you're crazy, maybe I will see you in the next life ------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Optimistic Flies are buzzing round my head / Vultures circling the dead / Picking up every last crumb / The big fish eat the little ones / The big fish eat the little ones / Not my problem, give me some // (ref:) If you can try the best you can / If you try the best you can / The best you can is good enough / If you try the best you can / If you try the best you can / The best you can is good enough // This one's optimistic / This one went to market / This one just came out of the swamp / This one dropped a payload / Fodder for the animals / Living on animal farm // (ref) I'd really like to help you, man / I'd really like to help you, man / And now this messed up millionaire / Floating around on a prison ship // (ref)Dinosaurs roaming the Earth / Dinosaurs roaming the Earth / Dinosaurs roaming the Earth // Optimistic: Flies are buzzing round my head /Vultures circling the dead /Picking up every last crumb /The big fish eat the little ones (2x) /Not my problem, give me some //You can try the best you can /If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough /(ref:) If you can try the best you can (2x) /The best you can is good enough // This one's optimistic This one went to market This one just came out of the swamp This one dropped a payload Fodder for the animals Living on animal farm ref ref (uhuh) I'd really like to help you, man (2x) And now this messed up millionaire Floating around on a prison ship ref If you can try the best you can If you try the best you can Dinosaurs roaming the Earth (3x) (uhuh) (...) ("funky" groove) Here's my quickest description of Kid A: Bjork laying down the beats to the free ramblings of Samuel Beckett at an electric piano bar. A haunting tone pervades every song on the album, allowing the tracks to follow the listener around long after the disc stops spinning. By the same token, lead singer Yorke's lyrics echo the ghost of Beckett by means of their sheer precision and eerie desolation. Airbag In The Next World War In a Jacknifed Juggernaut I am born again In the neon sign scrolling up and down I am born again In an intastella 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 intastella burst I am back to save the universe In an intastella burst I am back to save the universe In an intastella burst I am back to save the universe ------------------------------------------------------------------- Paranoid Android Please could you stop the noise I'm tryin to get some rest From all the unborn chicken voices in my head What's that? What's that? When I am king you will be first against the wall With your opinions which are of no consequence at all What's that? What's that? Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking screaming 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! Why won't he remember my name? I guess he does Raindown raindown come and raindown on me From a great height, from a great haaaeeeeeiii. haaaaeeeeeiiii Raindown rain down come and rain down on me From a great height, from a great aaaaaeeeeee [(previous verse continues into this)] That's it sir you're leaving The crackle of pig skin The dust and the screaming The yuppies networking The panic The vomit The panic The vomit God loves his children God loves his children, yeah ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 High up above aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all of these weird creatures who lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets. They're all uptight, uptight Uptight, uptight Uptight, uptight I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane Late at night when I'm driving Take me onboard their beautiful ship Show me the 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've finally lost it completely I'd show them the stars and the meaning of life They'd shut me away But I'd be alright Alright I'm alright Alright I'm just uptight, uptight Uptight, uptight Uptight, uptight Uptight, uptight ------------------------------------------------------------------- Exit Music ( For A Film ) Wake from your sleep And dry all 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 loose 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 That you choke ------------------------------------------------------------------- Let Down Transport Motorways and tramlines Starting and then stopping Taking off and landing The emptiest of feelings Disappointed people Clinging onto bottles When it comes it's so so disappointing Let down and hanging on 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 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 You know You know where you are with You know where you are with Floor collapses floating bouncing back And one day you'll know where you are 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 makin 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 For a minute there I lost myself I lost myself For a minute there I lost myself I lost myself For a minute there I lost myself I lost myself For a minute there I lost myself I lost myself ------------------------------------------------------------------- Fitter, Happier Fitter happier More productive Comfortable Not drinking too much Regular excersise at the gym (3 days 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 the wall) Favours for favours Fond but not in love Charity standing orders On Sunday 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 ridiculously teenage and desperate Nothing so childish At a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of escape Now self-employed Concerned (but powerless) An empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism) Will not cry in public Less chance of illness Tyres that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat) 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Electioneering I will stop I will stop for 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 just buisiness 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 And somewhere we will meet ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 I am your face when she sleeps tonight I am the pick in the ice Do not cry or hit the alarm We are 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 not on It's always better on the outside 15 blows to the back of the head So lock the kids up safe tonight And shut the eyes in the cupboard, Do 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 Climbing up the walls Climbing up the walls ------------------------------------------------------------------- No Surprises A heart that's full up like a landfill A job that slowly kills you Bruises that won't heal You look so tired and happy Bring down the government They don't They don't speak for us I'll take a quiet life A handshake Some 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 and such a pretty garden No alarms and no surprises No alarms and no surprises No alarms and no surprises please ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 lake Cause I'm your superhero We are 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 glorius day I feel my luck could change Pull me out of the aircrash Pull me out of the lake Cause I'm your superhero We are standing on the edge We are standing on the edge ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Tourist It barks at no-one else but me Like its seen a ghost I guess it's seen the sparks a-flowin No-one else would know Hey man, slow down Slow down Idiot, slow down Slow down Sometimes I get over charged That's when you see sparks They ask me where the Hell I'm going A 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------