Radiohead:
The Bends (lyrics)
(1995)

You can force it but it will not come.  
You can taste it but it will not form.  
You can crush it but it's always here.  
You can crush it but it's always near chasing  
You home saying everything is broken everyone is broken  
You can force it but it will stay stung.  
You can crush it as dry as a bone.  
You can walk it home straight from school.  
You can kiss it  
You can break all the rules but still everything is broken,  
Everyone is broken.  
Why can't you forget?  

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 beside the window pane  
My blood will thicken.  

I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain  
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 the low?  

My baby's got the bends  
We don't have any real friends  
I'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on  
Talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen  
And I wish it was the sixties  
I wish I could be happy i wish  
I wish I wish that something would happen.  

Where do we go from here?  
The words are coming out all weird  
Where are you now when i need you?  
They brought in the CIA the tanks and the whole marines  
To blow me away  
To blow me sky high.  

My baby's got the bends  
We don't have any real friends
I'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on  
Talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen  
And I wish it was the sixties  
I wish I could be happy I wish  
I wish I wish that something would happen.  

I want to live and breath  
I want to be part of the human race.  

Two jumps in a week 
I 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.  

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've got the world  
All sussed out.  
They're the ones who'll spit at you.  
You will be the one  
Screaming out.  

It's the best thing that you ever had.  

Her green plastic watering can  
For her fake Chinese rubberplant in the fake plastic earth,  
That she bought from a rubber man  
In a town full of rubber   
Plans to get rid of itself,- it wears her out.  
She lives with a broken man,  
A cracked polystyreneman who just crumbles and burns.  

He used to do surgery for girls in the eighties  
But gravity always wins and it wears him out.  

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 Ceiling.  
If I Just Turn And Run.  
And it wears me out.  

If i could be who you wanted all the time...  

I don't want to be krippled kracked  
Shoulders wrists knees and back  
Ground to dust and ash  
Crawling on all fours.  

When you've got to feel it in your bones.  
Now i can't climb the stairs  
Pieces missing everywhere  
Prozac painkillers.  

When you've got to feel it in your bones.  
And i used to fly like Peter Pan  
All the children flew when i touched their hands.  

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. Nice dream.  

I call up my friend the good angel  
But she's out with  
Her ansaphone  
She says she would love to come help but  
The sea would  
Electrocute us all. Nice dream.  

If you think that you're strong enough  
If you think you belong enough.  

Nice dream.  

Can't get the stink off,  
He's been hanging round for days.  
Comes like a comet,  
Suckered you but not your friends.  
One day he'll get to you,  
Teach you how to be a holy cow.  

Don't get my sympathy  
Hanging out the 15th floor.  
You've changed the lock 3 times,  
He still comes reeling through the door.  
And soon he'll get to you,  
Teach you how to get to purest hell.  

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.  

Faith your driving me away  
You do it everyday  
You don't mean it but it hurts like hell  
My brain says im receiving pain  
A lack of oxygen from my life support  
My iron lung.  

Were too young to fall asleep  
Too 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.  

Suck suck your teenage thumb  
Toilet trained and dumb  
(When the powrr runs out we'll just humm)  
This this is our new song  
Just like the last one  
A total W.A.S.T.E. of time.  
My  
Iron lung.  

The headshrinkers  
They want EVERYTHING  
My uncle Bill  
My Belisha Beacon  

Limb by limb and tooth by tooth  
Tearing up inside of me  
Everyday everyhour wish that i was bullet proof.  
Wax me  
Mould me heat the pins  
And stab them in  
You have turned me into this  
Just wish that it was bullet proof.  

So pay me money and take a shot  
Lead-fill  
The hole in me  
I could burst a million bubbles  
All  
Surrogate  
& bullet proof.  

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?  

Blame it on the black star  
Blame it on the falling sky  
Blame it on the satellite that beams me home.  
                 
The troubled words of a troubled mind i try to understand  
What is eating you.  
I try to stay awake but its 58hrs since that I last slept with you.  
What are we coming to?  
I just don't know anymore.  

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.  

You bite through  
Te big wall  
The big wall  
Bites back  
You sit there and sulk  
Sit there and bawl  
You are so pretty  
When you're on your knees  
Disinfected   
Eager to please  

Sometimes you sulk  
Sometimes you burn  
God rest your soul  
When the loving comes  
And we've already gone  
Just like your dad  
You'll never change  

Each time it comes  
It eats me alive  
I try to behave  
But it eats me alive  
So i declare a holiday  
Fall asleep drift away.  

Rows of houses all bearing down on me  
I can feel their blue hands touching me  
All these things will one day take control  
And fade out again and fade out  

This machine will not communicate  
These thoughts  
And the strain I am under  
Be a world child form a circle before we all  
Go under  
And fade out again and fade out again  

Cracked eggs dead birds  
Scream as they fight for life  
I can feel death can see it's beady eyes  
All these things into frution  
All these things we'll one day swallow whole  
And fade out again and fade out again  

Immerse your souL in LOVE.