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

  | | | | / | repeat to fade

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

 | | | [G/f#] | | | | |

  | | | [G/f#] | | | | |

  | | | [G/f#] | | | | |

  | | | [G/f#] | (1) |

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

  | | | (G/ )|

  (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!!