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                  "BANANAFISHBONES"
                  

      Curl into a ball like you have more fun
      That would make it faster
      Why do you do it do you act like you?...

      Don't fight
      Go red and blue and black and white
      Sell this sell this
      Or leave it senseless like a suck on a gun?
      Put a piece of metal in your head you said
      Make you dead
      Make you hippa hippa hippa hippa

      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

      Disappear everywhere and watch me
      Pull my lips apart
      Exploit inspire encourage
      Be responsible for this
      Ha ha

      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

      Turn off the lights
      And tell me about the games you play



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                   "BIRD MAD GIRL"
                   

      This girl has got a smile
      That can make me cry
      This girl just burns with love
      She's burning burning deep outside

      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

      Oh I should feel
      Like a polar bear
      Like a polar bear
      It's impossible

      She flies outside this cage
      Singing girl-mad words
      I keep her dark thoughts deep inside
      As black as stone
      As mad as birds

      Wild wild wild
      And never turn away
      Sends me all her love
      She sends me everything
      She sends me everywhere

      Oh I could be
      A polar bear
      Oh I could be
      A polar bear
      But it's impossible

      I 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 said

      Oh I should be
      A polar bear
      But it's imposible



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                  "THE CATERPILLAR"
                  

      Flicka flicka flicka
      Here you are
      Cata cata cata
      Caterpillar girl
      Flowing in
      And filling up my hopeless heart
      Oh never never go
      Dust my lemon lies
      With powder pink and sweet
      The day I stop
      Is the day you change
      And fly away from me

      You flicker
      And you're beautiful
      You glow inside my head
      You hold me hynotized
      I'm mesmerized
      Your flames
      The flames that kiss me dead

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                    "DRESSING UP"
                    

      Going under slowly
      It never seems too late
      Going under so slow

      Dressing up to kiss
      Dressing up to touch all this

      I'm dressing up to dance all week
      I'm dressing up to sleep

      Dressing up to kiss
      Dressing up to be all this

      I could eat your face
      I could eat all of you
      Oh this night will never let me go...

      Going under slowly
      Never seems too late
      Going under slow
      You'll pick me up again



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                  "THE EMPTY WORLD"
                  

      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

      She talked about the armies
      That marched inside her head
      And 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



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                    "GIVE ME IT"
                    

      Get away from me
      Get your fingers out of my face
      This room's so hot
      This room's so hot

      I break the walls

      Get away from me
      Leave me alone
      Like the pig on the stairs
      Hanging
      In a groovy purple shirt

      Gasping for air
      I'm gasping for air
      I'm gasping for love
      I'm gasping for air

      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

      Give me it give me it give me it
      Deaden my glassy mind
      Give me it give me it give me it
      Make me blind
      One step back and one step down
      And slip the needles in my side

      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

      Sing birds sing birds sing birds sing
      Get away



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                "PIGGY IN THE MIRROR"
                

      Shapes in the drink like christ
      Cracks in the pale blue wall
      I'm walking slowly and quickly but
      Always away
      Twisting twisting to the floor

      Flowers in your mouth and the same dry
      Song the routine from laughter land
      16 white legs and a row of teeth
      I watch you in secrecy

      Your dying for the hope is gone
      >From here we go nowhere again
      I'm trapped in my face and I'm changing
      Too much
      I can't climb out the way I fell in

      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's too much for words

      These occasions are such a relief
      Another point another view to send

      We start to talk
      And it's all so safe
      I feed you in my dreams

      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

      Look at the piggy
      Piggy in the mirror



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                  "SHAKE DOG SHAKE"
                  

      Ha ha ha
      Wake up in the dark
      The after-taste of anger in the back of my mouth
      Spit it on the wall
      And cough some more
      And scrape my skin with razor blades

      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 ha ha

      As stale and selfish as a sick dog
      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

      Your face
      I'll never see you this way again
      I captured it so perfectly
      As if I knew you'd disappear away

      Shake shake shake shake
      Shake shake shake shake
      Shake dog shake
      Shake shake shake shake
      Shake shake shake shake
      Shake dog shake


      You hit me again
      You howl and hit me again
      The same sharp pain
      Wakes me in the dark
      And cuts me from my throat to my pounding heart
      My heart
      My shaking heart
      My howl my shake dog

      Oh shake dog shake
      Shake shake
      Shake dog shake

      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

      Shake shake
      Shake dog shake

      Wake up wake up wake up
      Shake dog shake
      Wake up wake up wake up
      Shake dog shake
      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



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                      "THE TOP"
                      

      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

      It's 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

      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

      Please come back
      All of you



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                   "WAILING WALL"
                   

      The holy city breathed
      Like a dying man
      It moved with hopeful tears
      With the tears of the blind

      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

      I pushed through crowds
      Through seas of prayer
      Through twisting hands and choking air
      A vulture at the wailing wall
      I circled
      Waiting


