The will to respond when the chase is on Sends people up trees cos when they're gone The carbon dioxide in the air Will put a sweat on the polar bears The ice w...

Ritual containment scenes Traffic stuck on TV screens Signs instructions and machines Gettin' used to empty dreams The screamin' of an empty face Alienation S...

After the gig and keen to share The end result of feeling aware But it's autographs that you want me to sign I write my name but it's not even mine It's yours,...

A sense of wasted chance and time Goes deeper than we can accept On an everyday level so down it goes Moments of clarity under our nose But the words get stuck ...

Had a friend he would spend all his time going mad You never heard more absurd, his new versions of 'crazy horses' Finger to the head, everybody said he was cra...

I just ate and I heard the change rattle in your tin/I point my eyes on dis- tant blurred horizon me for charity/or coffee make the day go faster/forty days for...

Think back to a bar surrounded by craziness Unthinking drunken punk excess Lives exploding from the stress Of thoughts restrained by soberness Misconception mis...

Picture a scene and pull it apart Who owns this field? Who drives that car? Who put up the sign saying this is mine Keep of the grass and keep in line Big big ...

I been hating so much for far too long I can't think of anything happy for a song It's all been covered in critical spit Dredged out and analysed bit by bit I ...

[Break Into A Run] Why life appears to be a series of ups and downs? I'll never know And I've a feeling that if I find out then everything will turn to stone T...

The voice at the box had finally lost Years of frustration in a drunk night of passion And declared in confession To the nearest professional Guilt control know...

Comfort? Sofa chair pacifying words A touch on the shoulder to tell me that you'd heard Understanding to attention just in case you heard it wrong A fear of co...

As the Charity Department at the Treasury Dispenses licenses so you can do one too The Ethiopians are running out of weaponry So their leaders stock it up inste...

Chili Pain! The heat is hot like desert rain Floods of fire as I perspire All sensation feeds the flame "Did it before Do it again!" Something transmits to my...

Your poison is my antidote What keeps you down keeps me afloat Perceiving, as you believe in it That media shapes were never meant to fit The holes you create t...

Please don't let me see/so many problems and disharmony/without knowing the reason/without knowing th facts/and knwoing that knowing can be hard to desire/when ...

I see the rubble alongside the river and shout "It's time we started looking again!" We seen it before, except then it was standing Seen the demolition, hand in...

[Originally by Leftover Crack] The sovereign insincerity the monopoly of greed Nickelback and POD and Brittany and creed The beaurocrats they're leaching on to...

Silence Considering musical violence As the airwaves break those anytime pauses Quiet reflection on the nature of noises Disturbing suburban platitudes Heard a...

Here in the criminal justice act It says it's illegal to even react By marching against the sudden new lack Of freedom of movement, assembly, and that Goes for ...

I love it when you get neurotic! All the underside erotic thoughts The nightmare spikes But I'm grinning, it's exactly like Mirror talking in contempt Now I kno...

Settle back and take a viewpoint Heard before in wooden rooms Hatred of authority begins with Doing what you're told to do When advice replaces orders Hatred sl...

So busy picking holes in our skin/that stretches tight to keep us all in/that when what we thought were eternal friends/have dissappeared from the scene/or chan...

A zillion miles into the space Is a very very very big telescopic lens Someone labelled 'alien' is looking at this place Checking out experimental women and men...

[Face Off] Lots of them You know there's lots of them There's reasons Everyday changes my mind like the seasons I'm asking for answers I'm looking in mirrors R...

We're feeding on facts, we're feeding on fiction Feeding cos we need to eat Supplying our minds with information But half of it is incomplete They used to wrap...

Do you know what you are eating? Oh! fill me up with food The stomach's ringing hunger bells Sometimes anything will do Beware the wind that coke can bring It d...

Closed off he took her by the hand and coughed/to cover an understanding loss/ perhaps this stake could be put across/without saying whether it was good or not/...

If animals are animals And animals have brains We are no more than cannibals Who refuse to feel the pain The meat you eat is wrapped up neat You didn't see it ...

It's a fine line with drops on either side/instant reactions : being undecided /would lose a balance unrecognised/don't leave me alone! don't rouch me!/could ju...

Someone phoned and said "hello?" And for about, well hum, I dunno A few split seconds I thought "Oh no" "I know that voice" so I said real slow "Uh yes?" Who co...

Who is us and who is them? Everyone looks just like their friends Are we part of the company? Reflections of identity Each to his own is a relative thing All of...

Give me Beethoven or give me death! Give me Beethoven or give me death! Give me Beethoven, give me some air Give me Beethoven Give me Beethoven or give me deat...

I wake up every morning and think 'today's the day That takes this repetition and throws it all away' I stumble to the toilet then the kitchen for some food I c...

I had writer's block I was put in the dock By critics of lyrics said it had to stop The time to whine had gone tick-tock Too much too long and over the top Too...

Granny is starting to look pretty costly At anywhere up to f500 a year So even though she is capable, happy and lovely Its out of the house cos it won't be so d...

You have to use your imagination To get across the situation You can simplify or overstate To make it easier to relate You can go right over the top With a list...

Sat round a table, "What do you do?" I put my neuroses on public view Everyone sat round something to say But contracting it all into "Have a nice day?" Oh! -- ...

Invisible people with invisible hands/holding very obvious collection cans/ anonymous people with anonymous jobs/hurry past for fear of being late for the boss/...

In the silence of next door Lives a man fought in the war Wary eyes through parted curtains Seems Ok but can't be certain Uneasy feeling uninformed, or Out of ...

Piles of bodies on the nightclub floor The drugs that arrive from a distant shore Poppies in fields get torched in a war On everything we ever knew before Didn...

You know nothing will ever get solved If you feel you shouldn't get involved Claiming ignorance of what to say Or how to say it the 'proper' way Well you're nod...

Get mad as loud as possible! Lose the instructions, lose control Everyone does it when they're on their own Nobody hears so no image gets blown Every intention ...

With detailed precision nothing omitted/made the incision cut to what ahed/ none of the trends/none of the friends of the packiaging crew/who seels of the image...

Once upon a time - this is almost true When the sun came out for a day or two It would beat the war to the top of the news - This'll make no sense in 2102 When ...

I've got a mind bomb disposal unit knocking on my head Checking out the rumour that I meant just what I said They've drawn so many chalk lines that I may as wel...

[Originally by Choking Victim] I am sick and tired and my money's always spent And though their jobs are killing me their money pays the rent The fuel of world...

Blind people must fall in love with a sense of mind a sense of touch/but when you insist on finding shadows in which to kiss/and down the lights to cover the si...

[Not For Sale] Why are you leaving? Something to believe in Just left the building here comes nothing Seen the revolution go full circle And now it's so much m...

Grabbed by the shoulders he shook his head in desperation knowing whatever was said in this situation would only lead, like it had already led, to having his sh...

Welcome to Norway Well shake it up and fizzle it out, call it what you will There's nothing quite like getting out of your face to stop you felling ill But th...

I used to smile at the camera But now it's on every corner And everyone is staring Ignorant or tired or caring Or just completely used to feeling Watched all th...

Can't stop this constant nod Just met two peas from the next-door pod Seems like making a brand new friend But all this shaking never ends Invitations to join ...

I heard the notes all fade away Leaving memorial stones Yesterday's thoughts have come to stay Until they decompose A picture paints a thousand words With nothi...

Well they said it couldn't be done But they always had it in mind A picture machine! Like a radio But a three-dimensional kind Seeing what words could only say ...

I was taking all the pills to stop me feeling I'll again Supermarket shelves collapsing at the till again Doctor couldn't help patients running out again Where...

Swindon town going down Another division today With the introduction of 'Mondex' cards Personality on display Out with those tiresome coins and notes It's a cre...

You'll never make the charts - charts - if you sing about repression Cos pretending to be in control - in control - is a national obsession Even when the self-c...

How much do you want? How much do you need? How wide is the gap between possession and greed? Anyone in particular thinks in terms of how much more he needs to...

When 'the people's revolution Is the stuff of science fiction Then the sense of evolution is deranged Into thinking your solution Is the easy contradiction To t...

Headlines all went mad cow disease sensation Bseized by panic in a big meat-eating nation They told us beef was safe then told us not to eat it Got banned from...

There's a lot of people There's a lot of food There's a lot of money All being misused You feed the starving millions with donations of a quid (a pound sterlin...

How now the rose in red and pink and white Its petals soft as blades of metal Melting in the noontime rays And frosted cold again at night How now the rose in ...

If we're gonna say OK To submission at the border Who if anyone will say "I don't believe in law & order"? All the thoughts of alienation Feeling guilt through ...

Let's go down to the beaches And run from the edge of the sea See what the movement teaches A frail sense of autonomy Cold toes in the water Two steps from fre...

Everything we do on a personal scale Taking 'we' to mean everyone who ever existed Is the basis for everything wrong in this world And of course everything are ...

Vacancy- room to let/any dumb ideas in to this empty head/"gospel, man!"- don't quote me please/it was the first thing I thought/but now it's been said/ and you...

You can't see the moon above the city The sky is always full of clouds Even when the sun's gone down It's like living on the underground Black and white in shad...

Growling as I stare at smiles from the other side of the street/is it the speed I'm walking at or the shoes upon my feet?/I couldn't afford the baseball boots t...

I hear the sound of bells & sirens Wired alarmed & face to face Intruded in exclusion zone Looking for a sleeping place Locks & clocks & iron bars Barking dogs,...

In the shops and supermarket chains The checkouts play that song again The notes ring in, ring out the change Laughing all the way to the stock exchange The mu...

Wind blows strongly in it's rush to arrive In your face for as long as you like or hate it We place ourselves either for or against And then later on we replica...

Talk is cheap and it's easy to shout If we spent all our time working things out Would it change anything? Words are cheap and anyone can sing So let's sing a s...

If all the things you say to me Were steps towards some unity I wouldn't keep on staring In semi disbelief Because as you say you'd do one thing You behave so c...

Bob goes bouncing down the road to Bremen 24 hours goes to fast Drinks in elbows - crowded bars Mixing becks and kummerling 6 am and where are we? In Bremen In ...

I don't know who invented the clock/but it began a process that will never stop/at the age of six or seven or so/it was a decoration that went tick tock/ then b...

When the traffic lights turned red And a car kept going, well, nothing was said It was quietly understood That if he could do it, anyone could I can do that, I ...

Acclimatized slowly to image distortion/selling the wares and wearing so thin/ Which is worse? to be in or out of proportion?/documentality always stays in/ Squ...

Up in the morning, out of the block Into the office it's down to the boss Up, down and sideways, straight across Who sets the motion? Who gets the job? Who gets...

We went up to the buliding site/saw the building and the concrete piles/and watched them all working/building muscles and no-one smiled/we stood there and watch...

Be as honest as you can be Question orders, accept ideas Make a meal of what you're eating Don't be scared of social fears Oh that's what Charlie said Pass th...

If I want a bargain, I avoid the high street shops I check the local papers to see who needs what I've got And who has what I can't afford when I can't afford a...

Sometimes Something good Needs understating to be understood Needs towing back from the cliché status That empties meaning from the phrases Used so often - once...

How to change the world? what a question Too many answers bend and snap Those who say that working on the inside Really works - they get the sack Cos you can't ...