1. Fizz

Tickles to the touch of gold
Fickle as a two year old
With the attention span of a schizophrenic man

Everybody wants to speak
The competition's very steep
Annihilation of the weak
Is necessary to hang with
The clique

Tickles to the touch of gold fickle as a two year old
Crawling around the underground scene
But digging out before it goes mainstream

Well we're not quite sure what we want and we're not quite
Sure what to do and we're not quite sure what it is but
When it pops... We love the fizz


2. Beautiful

If I was beautiful like you
Oh the things I would do
Those not so blessed would be crying out murder
And I'd just laugh and get away with it too
Like you do

If I was beautiful like you
I would never be at fault
I'd walk in the rain between the rain drops
Bringing traffic to a halt

If I was beautiful like you
I'd be quick to assume
They'd do anything to please me why not
I see their reaction when you walk into the room

If I was beautiful like you I'd have so many friends
All fighting for my time to be next in line
So if I hurt one I wouldn't have to make amends

But that would never be
That would never never be
‘Cause I'm not beautiful like you

I'm beautiful like me


3. Breakdown

And I don't hear you anymore
And I can't see you on the floor
It's like a nightmare come to life
But don't be frightened of the light

You know I want you too much
You know it kills me the thought
I want to scream I want to cry
Just to save myself just one last time

And all the days you pushed around
And all the times you lied to yourself
And all the dreams we had just might

Breakdown and I wonder who you love really love...


4. Strawberry Marigold

Cover me in fire
Drop me down to the deepest darkest ocean
So I never have to feel that way again

Colour on the carpet seven eyes on the ceiling
There's a feeling that comes over you
When you know that
Something has changed forever

Don't lose your wings ‘til you learn
How to sing yourself to sleep
I know it seems funny but
Maybe we just said goodbye

I feel strange enough to cry
Strawberry marigold smile

Please don't bring me down
With that look on your face
Because I almost didn't make it and one day
You just might know how that feels

I heard the mermaids singing once
When I was very small
But now the sound of the traffic and human voices
Wake us ‘til we drown

Seven angels seven plagues
And the trumpet and the saved
I tell you man if it was me on that beast
I would not let you fuck with me like that

It's dangerous to see beyond
The visions that we breathe
But I can hold it in my hand and know
That there is something to this that will never die


5. Spiders

When love was fresh like a web we'd mesh
Nothing felt better than your flesh against my flesh
One fatal slip one rip a tear
Touch me now and every single hair on my body stands on end

In the darkest corners of my mind they creep
Underneath my pillow at night when I sleep
Those hands I once longed to feel
I wanna squash them under my heel

I never thought it would end this way
I never thought I'd see the day
I never thought I'd hear myself say

So don't touch me anymore
‘Cause it feels like spiders
Like spiders all over me
Like spiders
Like spiders all over me


6. Dream Today

Guys in rides with their future brides
Stopping for a light in a child's line of sight
On the hubcap TV set overhead a pan am jet
Engine level heat waves
Caught up in this summer daze

In the offices and tower blocks
Pure flamenco when they walk
Corridors polished floors
Spanish palace matadors
The sound of the bell rings
To the king they must bring
The latest report on where the dollar's sitting

Dream today
Dream today
You are flying
High above all
That you love
Knowing it'll
Be okay today's
Getting better
Dream today

Chained waiting short on thanks
Love is money in the bank
Watch the little darlings grow
Scared for them rightly so
Wish upon a falling star scraped knees
Pink scars hopes and dreams two for one
In the land of legal handguns legal handguns


7. Cocoon

If I should choose to live in my cocoon
Wrap myself in me and cry myself to sleep
If I should choose to protect my tender
Heart build a shell from you
Steal myself from you

If I decide I can't do it anymore try to
Be so hard I'm trying to be so fucking
Hard if I should choose to keep lying to
Myself pretend my mind is telling truths
Well I've got my own so who are you
I know
I know

If I should choose to fall apart don't you think you should let me
If I should choose to die alone you should forgive and forget me
I know


8. Over + Under

Tumbling down from a cartoon sky
Screamin' all the way but we never die
Climbing to the top just as fast as we can
To do it again
It's time to move on so I say farewell
But they're pulling me down
Like crabs in a barrel in a barrel

It's no big surprise
But I still can't believe my eyes

I'm doubling over
I'm bubbling under
I'm doubling over
I'm bubbling under
I'm doubling over
I'm bubbling under and sometimes I wonder...

A thousand smiles from a thousand miles away
But when you look in their eyes
They've got nothing to say
Artificially made like orange cheese
And pink lemonade

I've got nothing to prove
‘Cause I'm so far removed

There's ways and means
There's wheels inside of wheels
Stop shutting me out and then closing your deals
‘Cause you have no idea how that feels
How that feels


9. If I forget

Curly hair thin red eyes
And a smile as wide as the sky
Green and gold were the colours of your day
You said today was a good day to die

And I remember these things about you
I remember these things about you
I remember these things about you
So if I forget your name
If I forget your name
If I forget your name forgive me...
But they all sound the same

DJ spins and they all jump in
But they can't seem to make up their minds
You hang back with your Bob Marley T-shirt on
You said a few stand the test of time

Curly hair thin red eyes
Gold and green and the test of time


10. All Too Well

Down in the valley where the veins don't go and the tied up tigers smoke the dope and dream of rope fuck with everything with a face and the straight disgrace of a mission on a mountain of blood tracks to the queen in a tower of money money money

Talking to the train tracks working for the wrong man dreaming of the perfect tan and the beautiful voices telling you what you are and the death of poetry on the pages of a magazine strung out on the perfect set of genes

And I don't want to be there
When it all comes crashing down
Somehow there's gonna be tomorrow
Somehow there's gonna be tomorrow
I know... I know... I know...
All too well

Funny how the days slip by without a thought in the mind or a moment of time with your feet on the ground I know that this will come round such a beautiful thing that one day all of this will be gone nothing is sacred nothing is true nothing is blue and I don't mind what you do ‘cause my mind is my mind in spite of you

Standing on a spaceship looking for life or a God or a gun or a matchbook telephone number to the one who might love you or maybe...

Maybe... Maybe... Maybe... Maybe... Maybe...
Maybe it's time to close the line and step outside and look for the great disaster it just might be faster to close this book myself

Isn't it strange that we've come this far and still don't know who we are...


11. No One

So distinct and beautiful
I remember every single word said to me
I realize the meaning of love
Is a place away and above
The limitations of my being

I'll wait for you come to me again
There is no one for me after you
No one who took the time
To understand my stone cold point of view
The self destruct shadow
And how pain turns to truth

Wait for it wait for the drop
Feel the size the weight
And the distance from eye to cheek
I know too well that I depend on
Sensory memory cravings for time
Timeless stood in our white heat


12. Dog Star Radio

Dog star radio in my mind
Wish I hadn't been born with sight
Then become blind
Dog star radio loud and clear
Never tune out because of pain or of fear

Slowly burning
The slow burn of this planet's turning
Here we are praying to the dog star
In gods we've trusted
All the meanings of our lives
Yet all our lies

Are seen through mushroom clouds
Telepathic screams and all our dreams
All our dreams...

On the dog star radio love still heals
On the dog star radio hate still kills
On the dog star radio no one for a minute believes in man-made reality

Never tune out because of pain or of fear

Dog star radio


13. The Line

Up into an endless state of time
With nothing good or bad just one
We have been strangers for a very long time

It doesn't take much to break
A life beyond the things you live for
Into a place where you have all that it takes

We have watched and we have tried
And now I need this
Know this taste this want this...
You will reap just what you sow
So well the black sails with wind
And let me reap my rewards and start again
This is the line that will fall
Now that there's nothing left
That can shut you down


14. Until

Half the time I wake at night
Wondering how the miracles got it right

I wish on every falling star and whisper your name
I'm hoping that you and I will always remain

Until the joy drops again it won't be long...
Until the joy drops again stay strong remain
Until the joy drops again it won't be long...

Times change so do we
Lovers become strangers building separate dreams

I've wished on every falling star
And whispered your name
Hoping that you and I would always... remain

Every waking hour every moment you're not here
Every forgotten promise reminds me

I won't forget your broken wings on that rainy day
I'd rather see you fly again than always remain