Capo 2nd fret
Standard (EADGBE)
Intro
Verse 1
you can force it but it will not come
you can taste it but it will not form
Verse 2
you can crush it but it's always here
you can crush it but it's always here
chasing me home, saying
COURUS 1: everything is broken
everyone is broken
Verse 2
you can force it but it will stay stung
you can crush it as dry as a bone
Verse 4
you can walk it home straight from school
you can kiss it you can break all the rules
all of the rules, but still
COURUS 2: everything is broken
everyone is broken
everyone is, everyone is broken
everyone is, everything is broken
Outro
Why can't you forget
why can't we forget
why can't you forget
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2. THE BENDS
Intro
Oh____
Oh____
Verse 1
where do we go from here? the words are coming out all weird
where are you now when I need you?
alone on an aeroplane, falling asleep against the window pane
my blood will thick - en
Link
Verse 2
I need to watch myself again to hide all the dirt and pain
'Cos I'd be scared that there's nothing underneath
and who are my real friends? Have they all got the bends?
Am I really sinking this low
COURUS 1: my baby's got the bends, oh no
We don't have any real friends, no, no, no
I'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
I wish it was the sixties I wish I could be happy
I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen
Verse 3
where do i go from here? The planet is again numb
In a sea of fear and where are you?
They bought in the CIA, the tanks and the whole marines
To blow me away, to blow me sky high
COURUS 2: my baby's got the be________________nds
We don't have any real frie__________nds
I'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
I wish it was the sixties I wish I could be happy
I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen
Solo
Outro
I wanna live and breathe
I wanna be part of the human race
I wanna live and breathe
I wanna be part of the human race, race, race, race
where do we go from here? the words are coming out all weird
where are you now when I need you?
3. HIGH AND DRY
Intro
Verse 1
two jumps in a week a bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy?
Flying on your motorcycle, watching all the ground beneath you drop
You'd kill yourself for recognition, kill yourself to never ever stop
You broke another mirror, you're turning into something you are not
COURUS 1: So don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry____
Don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry
Link
Verse 2
drying up in conversation you will be the one who cannot talk
All your insides fall to pieces
you just sit there wishing you could still make love
they're the ones who'll hate you
when you think you got the world all sussed out
they're the one's who'll spit at you, you will be the one screaming out
COURUS 2: don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry____
Don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry____
Solo
Middle
oh, it's the best thing that you ever had
The best thing that you ever, ever had
It's the best thing that you ever had
The best thing you have had has gone away
COURUS 3: so don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry____
Don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry____
Don't leave me high____
Don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry
4. FAKE PLASTIC TREES
Verse 1
Her green plastic watering can, for her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man, in a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself
COURUS 1: It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out
Verse 2
She lives with a broken man, a cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery, for girls in the eigh - ties
But gravity always wins
COURUS 2: And it wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears____
Verse 3
She looks like the real thing, she tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling, I could blow through the cei - ling
If I just turn and run
COURUS 3: And it wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out
Outro
And if I could be who you wanted, if I could be who you wanted
All the time, all the time
5. BONES
[G/f#] (2x0033)
Intro
| | | [G/f#] | | | | |
| | | [G/f#] | | | | |
[G/f#]
Verse 1
I Don't wanna be crippled cracked
[G/f#]
Shoulders, wrists, knees and back
[G/f#]
Ground to dust and ash
[G/f#]
Crawling on all fours
[G/f#]
COURUS 1: when you've got to feel it in your bones
[G/f#]
when you've got to feel it in your bones
[G/f#]
Verse 2
Now I can't climb the stairs
[G/f#]
Pieces missing everywhere
[G/f#]
Prozak painkillers
[G/f#]
COURUS 2: when you've got to feel it in your bones
[G/f#]
when you've got to feel it in your bones
[G/f#]
Bridge
I used to fly like peter pan____
[G/f#]
All the children flew when I touched their hands____
[G/f#]
COURUS 3: They say you've got to feel it in your bones
[G/f#]
They say you've got to feel it in your bones
Outro
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| | | [G/f#] | | | | |
| | | [G/f#] | | | | |
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6. (NICE DREAM)
(8(10)(10)988)
Intro
Verse 1
They love me like I was a brother, they protect me, listen to me
They dug me my very own garden, gave me sunshine, made me happy
COURUS 1: Nice dream, nice dream, nice dream
Verse 2
I called up my friend the good angel
but she's out with, her answer phone
She says that she'd love to come help but
The sea would electrocute us all
COURUS 2: Nice dream, nice dream
Nice dream, nice dream, nice dream, nice dream
Nice dream (if you think that you're strong enough)
Nice dream (if you think you belong enough)
Nice dream (if you think that you're strong enough)
(*)
Nice dream____
Solo
| (*) | * | * | * |
Outro
Nice dream, nice dream, nice dream, nice dream
7. JUST
(x8(10)(10)(10)x)
* ((11)(13)(13)(12)(11)(11))
Intro
Verse 1
Can't get the stink off, he's been hanging round for days
Comes like a comet, suckered you but not your friends
Bridge 1
One day he'll get to you and teach you how to be a ho - ly cow
COURUS 1: You do it to yourself you do and that's what really hurts
Is you do it to yourself just you, you and no-one else
You do it to yourself____ you do it to yourself____
Verse 2
Don't get much sympathy hanging out the fifteenth floor
Changed the locks three times
He still comes reeling through the door
Bridge 2
And soon he'll get to you and teach you how to get to pur - ist hell
COURUS 2: You do it to yourself you do and that's what really hurts
Is you do it to yourself just you, you and no-one else
You do it to yourself____ you do it to yourself____
Solo
COURUS 3: You do it to yourself you do and that's what really hurts
Is you do it to yourself just you, you and no-one else
You do it to yourself____ you do it to yourself____
Outro
8. MY IRON LUNG
(8(10)(10)888)
(8(10)(10)988
Intro
Verse 1
Faith, you're driving me away, you do it every day
You don't mean it but it hurts like hell
My brain, says I'm receiving pain, a lack of oxygen
From my life support, my iron lung____
Link 1
Verse 2
We're too young to fall asleep, to cynical to speak
We are losing it, can't you tell
We scratch our eternal itch, our twentieth century bitch
And we are grateful for our iron lung____
Link 2
Solo
The head - shrinkers, they want everything
My un - cle bill, my be - li - sha be - can
The head - shrinkers, they want everything
My un - cle bill, my be - li - sha be - can
Verse 3
Suck, suck your teenage thumb, toilet trained and dumb
When the power runs out we'll just hum
This, this is our new song, just like the last one
A total waste of time, my iron lung____
Solo
The head - shrinkers, they want everything
My un - cle bill, my be - li - sha be - can
The head - shrinkers, they want everything
My un - cle bill, my be - li - sha be - can
Middle
And if you're frightened, you can be frightened
You can be it's okay
And if you're frightened, you can be frightened
You can be it's okay
Solo
Outro
The head - shrinkers, they want everything
My un - cle bill, my be - li - sha be - can
The head - shrinkers, they want everything
My un - cle bill, my be - li - sha be - can
9. BULET PROOF..I WISH I WAS
Intro
Verse 1
Limb by limb and tooth by tooth, stirring up inside of me
Everyday, every hour, wish that I was bullet proof
Verse 2
Wax me, mould me, heat the pins and stab them in
You have turned me into this, just wish that it was bullet
Proof
Was bullet proof
Verse 3
So pay money and take a shot, lead-fill the whole in me
I could burst a million bubbles, all surrogate and bullet
Proof
And bullet proof
Bullet proof
Bullet proof
10. BLACK STAR
Intro
Verse 1
I get home from work and you're still standing in your dressing gown
Well what am I to do?
I know all the things around your head and what they do to you
What are we coming to? What are we gonna do?
COURUS 1: Blame it on the black star, blame it on the falling sky
Blame it on the satellite that beams me home
Verse 2
Troubled words of a troubled mind, I try to understand
What is eating you
I try to stay awake but it's fifty-eight hours
Since that I last slept with you
What are we coming to? I just don't know anymore
COURUS 2: Blame it on the black star, blame it on the falling sky
Blame it on the satellite that beams me home
Link
Verse 3
I get on the train and I just stand about now that I don't think of you
I keep falling over, I keep passing out when I see a face like you
What am I coming to? I'm gonna melt down
COURUS 3: Blame it on the black star, blame it on the falling sky
Blame it on the satellite that beams me home
Link
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(G/ )
Outro
why?____ This is killing me____
Why?____ This is killing me____
11. SULK
Intro
Verse 1
You bite through the big wall
The big wall bites back
You sit there and sulk, sit there and bawl
Verse 2
You are so pretty
When you're on your knees
Disin - fected and eager to please
COURUS 1: Sometimes you su - ulk, sometimes you burn
God rest your so - oul when the loving comes and we've already gone
Just like your dad, you'll never change
Link 1
Verse 3
Each time you come
It eats me alive
I try to behave, but it eats me alive
Verse 4
So I declare
A holi - day
Fall asleep, drift away
COURUS 2: Sometimes you su - ulk, sometimes you burn
God rest your so - oul when the loving comes and we've already gone
Just like your dad, you'll never change
Solo
COURUS 3: Sometimes you su - ulk, sometimes you burn
God rest your so - oul when the loving comes and we've already gone
Just like your dad, you'll never change
12. STREET SPIRIT (FADE OUT)
Intro
Verse 1
Rows of houses
All bearing down on me
I can feel there
Blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things will one day swallow whole
And fade__________________________________________
Out_______________________________________________
And fade__________________________________________
Out_______________________________________________
Verse 2
This machine will
Will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am
Under
Be a world child form a circle
Before we all go
Under
Out_______________________________________________
And fade__________________________________________
Out_______________________________________________
(
Solo
Verse 3
Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death
Can see it's beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things will one day swallow whole
And fade__________________________________________
Out_______________________________________________
And fade__________________________________________
Out_______________________________________________
(
Solo 2
(
Outro
Immerse your
Soul_____ in
Love_____________________________________________
Immerse your
Soul in
Love
And that as they say, is that! Enjoy!!