B-SIDES (A-L)

a reminder\if i get old i will not give in/ if i do, remind me to pray/ remind me that once i was free/once i was cool/ once i was me/ and if i sit down and cross my arms/ hold me into this song/ knock me out smash out my brains/ if i take the chair and start to talk shit/ if i get old remind me of this/ that night we kissed and I really meant it/ whatever happens if we're still speaking/ pick up the phone/ play me this song

banana co.\oh banana co./ we really love you and we need you/and oh , banana co./we'd really love to believe you/ but everything's burning down/ we've got to put it out somehow/oh, she said no go/she said she'd like to/she's seen you/but no, no go/she says if you die then we all do/and everything's underground/ we gotta dig it up somehow

big boots(man o war)\drift all you want/from ocean to ocean/ search the whole world/but drunken confessions/and hijacks affairs will just make you more alone/ if you come home i'll bake you a cake/made of all their eyes/i wish you could see me/dressed for the kill/what a nasty surprise/you're my man-o-war/you're my man-o-war/and the worms will eat you whole/you whole/unplug the phone/stop all the taps/it all comes flooding back/from poison clouds to poisoned dwarf/what a nasty surprise/you're my man-o-war/you're my man-o-war/and the worms will eat your heart my love/and the worms will eat your home/you whole my love

big ideas(nude)\don't get any big ideas/they're not gonna happen/you'll paint your smile and ?????/they'll take something with them/just when you find it, it's gone/just when you feel it, you don't/i'm not afraid/she stands stark naked and she beckons you, to go/don't go you'll only want to come back again/so don't get any big ideas/they're not gonna happen/you'll close it off for what you need, she can't escape you/and now that you found it, it's gone/and now that you feel it, you don't/i'm not afraid

bishop's robes\dressed in bishop's robes/terrifies me still/ in bishop's robes/bastard headmaster/i'm not going back/i'm not going back/i'm not going back/children taught to kill/to tear themselves to bits/on playing fields/dressed in bishop's robes/i'm not going back/i 'm not going back/i'm not going back

coke babies\ easy living, easy hold/easy teething, easy fold/easy listening, easy love/easy answers, to easy questions/easy tumble, easy doll/easy rumble, easy fall/i get up on easy love/i get up on easy questions

faithless, the wonder boy\ i've had these jeans since i was born/and now they're ripped/and now they're torn/and all my friends have skateboards/i want the toys of other boys/i want a knife and a gun and things/but mum and dad will not give in/but i can't put the needle in/can't put the needle in/can't put the needle in/can't put the needle in/no, i can't put the needle in/can't put the needle in/can't put the needle in/and now i know just what it is/it's got disease and it's got my head/it always runs where i hide/too scared to talk, too scared to try/too scared to know the reasons why/and all my friends say bye bye/and i can't put the needle in/can't put the needle in/can't put the needle in/no , i can't put the needle in/can't put the needle in/can't put the needle in/can't put the needle in

how can you be sure?\ seen all the good things and bad/running down the hill/all so battered and brought to the ground/i am hungry again/i am drunk again/with all the money i owe to my friends/and when i'm like this/how can you be smiling and singing/how can you be sure?/how can you be sure?/if you walk out the door/will I see you again?/if so much of me lies in your eyes/i am hungry again/i am drunk again/with all the money i owe to my friends/when i'm like this/how can you be smiling and singing/how can you be sure?/i don't want you anymore/i don't want you/i don't want you/i don't want you anymore

How I made my millions\ i was stronger/i was better/picked you out/now don't say a word/no don't yell out/never mind/let you out/led you back/stay on/sit down/let it fall/ let it fall/let it fall/let it fall

I promise\ i won't run away from home/i promise/even when I get bored/i promise/even when you lock me out/i promise/i say my prayers every night/i promise/i don't wish that I'm strict/i promise/the tantrums and a shitty job/i promise/even when the ship is wrecked/i promise/tie me to the rotten deck/i promise/i won't run away no more/i promise/even when I get bored/i promise/even when you lock me out/i promise/i say my prayers every night/i promise/i won't run away no more/i promise

India Rubber\did it all for you to see/you never wanted me that way/now the dogs have had their meat/i think i'll go plug in the mains/i tumble like a cloud/before you burn in hell/i'll suffocate myself into your hell/will the sparrow make her smile/i'm instantly your biggest fan/how was i to know that you practiced it beforehand/i tumble like a cloud/before you burn in hell/i'll suffocate myself into your hell

inside my head\ what do you want from me now you got me/now my fingers bleed now they're staring at me/i'm a coward now/i hold my peace/now you tie me up to your feather bed/and i twist and turn in a chinese burn/you wanna go/you wanna go/you're inside my head/inside my head/what do you want from me now you got me/now my energy you suck from me/and i'm holding on for dear life/quit smothering me, quit laughing at me/i've got a disease, an english disease/it will not go/ it will not go/you're inside my head/inside my head/whatever you put in that syringe/whatever you really said to him/he's sitting there inside of me/and you bother me, you possess me/you're there again, ahead of me/i wanna go/i wanna go/you're inside my head/inside my head/inside my head/inside my head

killer cars\ too hard on the brakes again/what if these brakes just give in?/what if they don't get out of the way?/what if there's someone overtaking?/I'm going out for a little drive/and it could be the last time to see me alive/there could be an idiot on the road/the only kick in life is pumping his steel/wrap me up in the back of the trunk/packed with foam and blind drunk/they won't ever take me alive/cause they all drive/don't die on the motorway/the moon would freeze/the plants would die/i couldn't cope if you crashed today/all the things i forgot to say/i'm going out for a little drive/could be the last time to see me alive/there could be an idiot on the road/the only kick in life is pumping his steel/wrap me up in the back of the trunk/packed with foam and blind drunk/they won't ever take me alive/cause they all drive killer cars/wrap me up in the back of the trunk/packed with foam and blind drunk/they won't ever take me alive/cause they all drive/they all drive killer kars/they all drive killer cars

lewis (mistreated)\ bummed out again by your only business friend/the smell of failure is thicker than you think/don't do it/don't do/changed shape to fit/in the end you just feel sick/a million lovesongs under anaesthetic/hey don't do it/don't do/lewis, save yourself the pain/you will never get there/lewis, save yourself the pain/it never really mattered/we never noticed, we never understood/he just got crushed to fit/he never even smelt like the best/it's the best it's the best day of your life/lewis, save yourself the pain/you will never get there/lewis, save yourself the pain/it never really mattered/oh, mistreated a low corporate/oh, mistreated a low corporate

lift\ this is the place/sit down, your safe now/you've been stuck in a lift/we've been trying to reach you, thom/this is the place/it won't hurt, it will not hurt/a scent of recognition/a face you barely loved/empty all your pockets/'cause it's time to go home/this is the place/remembering all the things you always see/you've been stuck in a lift/in the belly of a whale at the bottom of the ocean/a scent of recognition/a face you barely loved/empty all your pockets/it's time to come home/a scent of recognition/a face you barely loved/barely loved/today is the first day/of the rest of your days/so lighten up, squirt

lozenge of love\ i am gone/everybody's raging/and these fruits/they still taste of poison/i won't be around/when you really need me/i can't sleep/why can't someone hold me?/i need warm/my restless body cracks and moans/i won't have the strength/when you really need me