Bush

The Science Of Things - 1999

1. Warm Machine
2. Jesus Online
3. The Chemicals Between Us
4. English Fire
5. Space Travel
6. 40 Miles From The Sun
7. Prizefighter
8. The Disease Of Dancing Cats
9. Altered States
10. Dead Meat
11. Letting The Cables Sleep
12. Mindchanger



1. Warm Machine


I memorize the basics

Making strange faces

Tread slowly for I know

There´s a thousand miles to go

Without blinking



I gravitate spacewards

Find a home for the head

From my basement

No darkness ever left



This is the night

This is the sound

Here comes the warm machine

Such a warm machine

Feel warm



Some days are playful

Making play faces

But we will not let it through

The darkness and the sense

Or being born to lose



This is the night

This is the sound

Here comes the warm machine

Such a warm machine

This is the life

This is the ground

Here comes a warm machine

Such a warm machine



If I never know we can only feel

I´ll take the help

I´ll take a slice

Warm alright now

Cos I feel alright



I memorize the basics, the basics, the basics



This is the night

This is the sound

Here comes the warm machine

Such a warm machine

Such a warm machine

Such a warm machine, machine, machine



2. Jesus Online


Whatever she wants from me

Whatever device

Whether in kindness

Whether in spite

What can I say

What can I do I can´t help myself

I let the monster through



Wherever she sends me

Wherever the plane

Perfect black dress

Perfect grave

What can I say

What can I do

I did it to myself

I did it all confused



Jesus online

Wires around the world

Feel invincible

Computer car and girl

Jesus online

Wires around the world

Feel invincible

To be perfect just like you

To be perfect just like you



Whenever she comes with me

Whenever we break

Dress up my apathy

Pretend we´re great, great, great



Jesus online

Wires around the world

Feel invincible

Computer carbon girl



Jesus online, Jesus online

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus



Jesus online

Arms around the world

Feel invincible

To be perfect just like you

To be perfect just like you

Jesus online, Jesus

To be perfect just like you

To be perfect just like you

To be perfect just like you

To be perfect just like you



3. The Chemicals Between Us


I want you to remember

A love so full it could send us all ways

I want you to surrender

All my feelings rose today

And I want you to remain

The power of children can amaze

I´ll try not to complain

I know that´s a pisser baby



The chemicals between us

The walls that lie between us

Lying in this bed

The chemicals displaced

There is no lonelier state

Than lying in this bed



I want you to remember

Everything you said

Every driven word

Like a hammer, hell, to my head



The chemicals between us

The walls that lie between us

Lying in this bed

The chemicals displaced

There is no lonely face

Than lying in this bed



The chemicals between us

The chemicals between us

Lying in this bed



We´re of the hollow men

We are the naked ones

We never meant you harm

Never meant you wrong

I´d like to thank

All of my lovers, lovers, lovers



The chemicals between us

The army of achievers

Lying in this bed

The chemicals displaced

There is no lonelier state

Than lying in this bed



The chemicals between us

The chemicals between us

The chemicals



The chemicals between us



4. English Fire


World news, world news

Well you said let´s be free

Well you said I´ll be me

Death row hearts are hard to mend

Why shoot myself for your sins



All my love, all my love

All my love, all my love



Well you said retribute

Well you said substitute

Burn myself on your bed

Your crown of thorns my crown of lead

I´ll wake up before I drown

I´ll wake up before I drown



All my love, all my love let´s me free

All my love, all my love let´s me free

All my love, all my love

All my love, all my love



We´ll hang ourselves by the English fire

We´ll hang ourselves



All my love, all my love

All my love, all my love let´s me free

All my love, all my love let´s me free

All my love, all my love



I´ll wake up before I drown

All my love, let´s me free

All my love

All my love let´s me free



5. Space Travel


They´re polishing the government

Resembles a last waltz

We are the playthings

We are the form

Soon it may come

Since we can rise

Too long since I´ve seen you

We move like satellites



My future lies

In space travel

She´s coming over me



They´re burning the tenements

Topless progressive thinking

Political holes

Got six but pray for seven



My future lies

In space travel

She´s coming over me

I employ spies

To stroll the gravel

They never want to leave

The future lies

The future lies



One, two, three

Scared of the government, scared of the government

Scared of the government, scared of the government



The future lies

In space travel

There´s someone after me

I employ spies

In silver tassels

They never seem that pleased



My future lies

My future lies

Space

I employ spies

I employ spies

Space



My future lies

My future lies

Spacetravel

My future lies

Spacetravel



6. 40 Miles From The Sun


There is nowhere left to hide

There is nothing to be done

No people to be saved

No pets we´ve never named

40 miles from the sun



As darkness craves the mind

We come undone without our pride

No time on the earth to come

All the pleasures just begun

40 miles from the sun



In our coats beneath the layers

Wash my skin of all the hate

We should sleep late

Everything just kind of grates

40 miles from the sun

40 miles from the sun

40 miles from the sun



I need to lose to make it right

I´ll confront the stars tonight

I will babble I will bite

You will never know how much you shine

40 miles from the sun

40 miles from the sun

40 miles from the sun

40 miles from the sun

From the sun

40 miles from the sun

40 miles from the sun

40 miles from the sun

40 miles from the sun

40 miles from the sun



7. Prizefighter


There are days

When I fear for my life

Think that´s strange

Well that´s the waste of you



Sun up time now for you to run

I will always know you, you´re a special one

Now I´m up on this climb, up on this climb

I won´t fade away



The best is yet to come

Sad you´re not around

The best is yet to come

Better get your feet back on the ground



Prisoner or passenger

A free man or scavenger

I´m a prizefighter

I´m a prizefighter



Who will be there

Cover when you fall

We´re all chasing something

How come you never call



The best is yet to come

Sad you´re not around

The best has just begun

Better get your feet back on the ground

Better get your feet back on the ground



Prisoner or passenger

A free man or scavenger

I´m a prizefighter

I´m a prizefighter



Prisoner or passenger

A free man or scavenger

I´m a prizefighter

I´m a prizefighter

I´m a prizefighter



I thought you all were beautiful

It doesn´t make sense, sense, sense

I´m a prizefighter

I´m a prizefighter

I´m a prizefighte



8. The Disease Of Dancing Cats


Infested, polluted

80 tons of mercury dumped in a bay

It´s bleeding there´s no proof

That´s no way to treat a good friend

Your whiskey talks louder

Than most things I´ve read you said

In situ, in place now

Sit back unwind and relax



Big cheese is, all greed is

It´s all relative what you need

Happy birthday

Happy birthday

Happy birthday here´s your nerve gas



All the fishermen and their families

All sickly crumbling cerebellum

It´s all over for urang-a-tangs

Looks like they´re back on the street again



Mistrusted, disruptive

Rape land and kill good habitat

World weary, world broken

Well spent and money, money, money, money

Injected, transmitted

80 tons of mercury dumped in a bay

It´s breathing, it puts the dog back in the basket



All the fishermen and their families

All sickly growing sentimental

It´s all over for urang-a-tangs

Looks like their back on the street again

All the fishermen and their families

It´s all over for urang-a-tangs

Looks like they´re back on the street again

It´s all over for urang-a-tangs

Looks like, looks like, looks like



Invaded, downgraded

Your bile lands right on my head

Uncalled for, unwanted

My sinking zero tolerance



All the fishermen and their families

All sickly crumbling cerebellum

It´s all over for the urang-a-tangs

Looks like they´re back on the street again

All the fishermen and their families

It´s all over for the urang-a-tangs

Looks like they´re back on the street again

It´s all over for the urang-a-tangs

Looks like it´s the street again



9. Altered States


Living in a cage

Washing in a birdbath

Sinking in a fish bowl

On a broken farm

I try to never lie

I really do

I wonder if my friends

Will get me through

Conscious of the way as best we can

17 ways to kill a man

States we´ve been through



Killing nostalgia

For future swims

Trash all your bridges

Kill the rock and roll thing

I want to move on

With no complaints

Building our walls with yesterday

Might as well shine before you slide

Might as well you live before you die

States we´ve been through

Talk about states we´ve been through

Talk about states, states

Talking about



A whole lot of emptiness



Living in a state of constant changing

A river of flux for our tasting

I try to never lie, I really do

I wonder if my friends will get me through

It always seems to rain when you leave

I try to stem the flow as we bleed



States we´ve been through

Talk about states, states

Talk about states, states



10. Dead Meat


Your dead meat, your dead meat, your dead meat, your

It´s your dead meat from former days

I am your crisis

Blue asbestos in your veins

I´m your broken fingers

I´ve killed you twice, I will again

Revenge is eager

See first you´ll crash and then you´ll burn



Dorothy died for your pleasure

It´s hard to get along in this car crash weather, weather

Your dead meat, your dead meat, your dead meat, your



Your dead meat formaldehyde

Didn´t phase me

I soon returned to track you down

For your confession

I´ll be your poison and your pain

I´ll be your struggle to be sane

Exploited lament and the places you never went



Dorothy died for your pleasure

It´s hard to get along in this car crash weather

Car crash weather

Dorothy died for your pleasure

It´s hard to get along in this car crash weather

Car crash weather

Car crash weather, weather



I´m doing you in tomorrow

That´s why I´m dressed in all this sorrow

I´m doing you in tomorrow

I´ll burn before I mellow



Dorothy died for your pleasure

It´s hard to get along, it´s hard to get along

It´s your dead meat from former days

It´s your dead meat from former days

It´s your dead meat from former days

It´s your dead meat from former days



11. Letting The Cables Sleep


You in the dark, you in the pain, you on the run

Living a hell, living your ghost, living your end

Never seem to get in the place that I belong

Don´t wanna lose the time

Lose the time to come



Whatever you say it´s alright

Whatever you do it´s all good

Whatever you say it´s alright

Silence is not the way

We need to talk about it

If heaven is on the way

If heaven is on the way



You in the sea on a decline

Breaking the waves

Watching the lights go down

Letting the cables sleep



Whatever you say it´s alright

Whatever you do it´s all good

Whatever you say it´s alright

Silence is not the way

We need to talk about it

If heaven is on the way

We´ll wrap the world around it

If heaven is on the way

If heaven is on the way



I´m a stranger in this town

I´m a stranger in this town

I´m a stranger in this town



If heaven is on the way

If heaven is on the way

I´m a stranger in this town

I´m a stranger in this town



12. Mindchanger


Help me sometimes, I need that much

Don´t you think it´s strange

How we can turn to dust



Think it´s strange, like really strained

We´ll never run when we´ve got all these broken bones



It´s so hard to let you go

It´s so hard to let you go

But I will make you change your mind

But I will make you change your mind



I think of me sometimes, I´d never tell

Do you recognize me, think that you know me well

I think you´re changing, configurating

Destroyed the lines that fed the goods to your heart



It´s so hard to let you go

It´s so hard to let you go

Run with the hunted as you come

Run with the hunted as you come

Run with the hunted as you come

Run with the wanted I was one

Run with the wanted I was one

But I will make you change your mind

But I will make you change your mind



It´s so hard to let you go

It´s so hard to let you go



Run with the hunted as you come

Run with the wanted I was one

Run with the hunted as you come

Run with the wanted I was one

Run with the wanted I was one

But I will make you change your mind

But I will make you change your mind





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