Альбом Amplifier

I sleep deeply every night
in a world that's better than real life
i found a hiding place
beneath a dirty blanket of distorted bass
there's music in my head
i heard a gasoline voiced mixed with marlboro reds singing:
"pick up your head again...
if you want to be king
then nobody must keep you down..."
and yes now i'm back from the dead
i'm gonna turn it up loud inside your head
with the sound of many days
when we could feel the cheap drugs
squeezing through our veins
like a million girls and boys
i'm just another grainy brick in a wall of noise
i really missed you yesterday
and just for a moment
something was reeling me in
someone was breathing me in

but i lived in the slip of your frown
and this place has been getting me down

you hung out for my suicide
you were pushing it down the airsupply
but you never did try to find the time
to let us be together in your cage or mine
and since you never noticed me
well how about you open up your eyes and see me now
Music fills my empty bones
And some times it seems it's the only place I've left to go
Hey hey hey
Happy Birthday anyway

I'd call it a drastic measure but I'll open up one eye
I'm all evolved and fully grown, with three dimensions of my own
But hey Mr. Dog - Well I'm just an animal just like you
In a laser beam and a human being
With more fire than the belly of the sun


And inside this business of the gun, well I heard the aero-engines whine
Of a lucky soul and an afterlife and another chance for a darker life
And I pray, cause it don't take god long
to bless those feet that you're standing on
on a one way ride, a heaven vibe, upon wishes or demands
It's time to fly


And I'm suffering the absolute of black-handed days
Been serving with the boys and girls, all the secret rulers of the world
And dark day alive, well once again evil on the throne
Much blacker than the setting sun
I'm hung upon dark feathers
It's time to fly
But I'm hanging in there with intentions so high
That they're purer than air and what I've got on my mind
Is to be cruising on you -
to be full-on on you
to be swooping on you
to be airborne on you
To be carried along
On a current so strong
I'd be glowing from you


So go on and prove me wrong

Slip coma deep inside an industrialist's mind
Pour yourself into the creased appeal of a financeman's suit
You keep on exchanging handshakes and smiles
With chat show hosts like butterflies
Fly down and hide in the zeros and the ones

And let's all sing

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
The missile can fly
Decode the cypher
The cryptic message within a government health warning
And it's the same, it's the same
Same song everytime
Oh no! Your big mushroom cloud
It's gone and it's fucked up my view

Don't matter which way we're facing
So long as we're rolling forward
It don't matter which way we're facing
So long as we're rolling forward

Here we go

Well we could seek a world of jackpots
And corportate value, yeah
And learn to leave our ugly selves behind
You've got to feel the power as it flows
From businessmen and mother lodes
Become a soul of pure caffeine
Live life like a coke machine, yeah

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Praise god for hollywood teeth
Crash your karma into little bits of happiness
Now it's okay, it's okay
I know a quick and easy way
We ain't divine, we've all got our faults
Seismic minds think seismic sized thoughts

Don't matter which way we're facing
You'd better look out below
Relentless without ever tiring
We're gonna keep rolling forward

Here we go

Mister executive man
Pick your way through the debris
Lubricate your gun
Between the devil and the sea
Sleeping solvent and sound
And ethically free
Right upon my back
A panzer running over me
When I had my hands in the air
Invoice me
And then your mother

Don't matter which way we're facing
You'd better look out below
Relentless without ever tiring
We're gonna keep rolling forward

Here we go

Watching through the dust
I'm trapped in a theatre of velvet and rust
With lonely shafts of light
And other ghosts drinking refreshments that's served up by skeletons
It's the spaces in the dark
Where shadows of dead souls dance on the wall
Where not only were you the star
But you were the bleak soundtrack to my film noire
Yeah that was you


And it's my job to be
embittered and constantly proving a mystery
But we're dismal in the roles
I'm scratchy and mono as Bogart
And you are a sepia Monroe -
Who's beneath the cobwebs and the chandeliers
With others who've been dead for years
Like heroes brought to life again
Like picture shows and Rocket-men
And the light that fills the room
Well it's the flicker from a paper moon
And when the film is run and through
Well that's when the darkness must win

Drugged a million words
Just like ourselves
Formed a straight line
Plucking at sound-waves
And oh,
For no-one ever
Darkest singing
The days of tripping upon snakes
Are over now


Do you feel empty now
Inside the fascist city?


And I'm thinking of euphoria
Spiked on golden splinters
With the church of relativity
All under my fingers
Head up into the bluest skies
Stuck in the glue with the dying flies
Inside the vapour you were grown
In the LSD of the speaker cone
Been given the cobwebs to blow away
Been celebrating each wasted day
In unconditional luxury
Comatose, living life in a sugar cube


Do you feel pleasure now
Inside the fascist body?


Dumb and hooked on fossil fuels
A gorged generation
Speckled and smackey
Singing Prozac is golden
Escaped the prison they called the head
And glittered the bones of the young and dead
On big Imperial chemistry
Elastic, dumb and vulnerable
But somewhere down south -
Where the birds are singing
You'll hear the barbed wire doves
Of a million mothers


Is there fulfilment now
Inside the fascist psyche?

My spider sense is tingling
From the boys and the girls and the vortex singing
Just a second to hang upon my ears
Just a second to taste the salty tears

Judge not least you may be judged
Judge not least you may be judged
Judged by me, judged by me
Least you may be destroyed by me

Trouble come down on shoulders quick
And put a hymn of neon upon my lips
Now I'm spiralling into the void
My atoms split as love's reward
For the ten percent that I can't afford
Well maybe I'd fly free as a bird

Judge not least you may be judged
Judge not least you may be judged
Judged by me, judged by me
Least you may be destroyed by me

And without sleep, without remorse
While we're stuck on head-collision course
But my plate's already full
Of selfish people with selfish desires
And don't climb so high
That you can't come down
To tumble now is to surely die

Judge not least you may be judged
Least you may be judged
By me, judged by me
Least you may be loved by me

Judge not least you may be judged
Least you may be judged
Least you may be judged
Least you may be loved

Flicker television
Like something that is breathing
I'm dead in bubblegum
And wishing you were here
You're where the rain never pours
It just floods down
In the places where the insects die
In the blinking of an eye
we'll be switching on/off


Watching all the ash fall
Well it's just like cigarette snow
And when I'm stoned
I'm missing you my dear
And the light is telling me that I'm alive
And you know that we'll be
Switching on/off

me and monster man come crashing on down
like an avalanche caused by a tiny sound
we've been stuck in here for what seems an age
that's too many rhinos for just one cage
wash me away - i feel a ride coming on like a carcrash
a consultancy with me here and i'll listen to what they recommend
taken away on a holiday where everyday is like a weekend
there's a means to whatever the situation
a bullet to trigger my imagination
in concentration
or toxification
a mountain of juggernaut
would come tumbling down
me and my friends been singing this song
we're all gonna burn when the devil gets home
if you lift up your head well what would you see?
maybe the glint of the sun in an approaching tsunami
in elevation
or consultation
a mountain of juggernaut
would come tumbling down

Drained again by you and the summer
I'm shadows of monsters
I'm showrooms of glistening glass
With amphetamine comedowns
I'm spinning and turning
Alone on saint valentines
But i think that i hear celestial angels
They riccochet
Sounds of moments of glory that passed
Now my pipe dreams are calling
They sing to me sweetly of soul and sincerity
Let's reset our instrument dials
Somewhere the moment will come
When we crash through the heart of the sun
- we are unstoppable now -
Somewhere the night will explode
On the back of this wave that we rode
- we are unbreakable now -
Just how well do you know me?
I'm countless calamities
A maleable creature who speaks with a laudanum toungue
And i promise you deeply
The righteous will triumph over all adversity
Because sometimes the melodies come
Leaving trails like stars as they fall
And sometimes i have to hold on
Or be overwhelmed by this all
So reset your instrument dials
Because somewhere our spirits will soar
As the audience started to roar
- we are unswayable now -
Can you feel the air under your wings
As a thousand throats started to sing
- we are unbeatable now -
Well my head is a box whose secrets are open
We're candyfloss children who live in a city of clouds
With the ghosts of dead robots
Where fiction and fantasy roll like a cannonball
On moments when planets collide
Emerald city doors swing open wide
Hold your breath and the music will play
And we'll puff and just blow em away
Somewhere the moment will finally land
As i pick the crowd up in my hand
To hear their roar echo away

Have you heard the news from outer space?
It seems that somewhere in the ancient dunes
of silver moons, like giant spoons lie dusty tombs
of Martian men in U-boat pens...
and they will come to kill us all.

'Cause our plastic factories
and our catastrophic theories
are all we have / we live our lives from paper bags, and
I know better than you know -
I'll kill you 'cause you drive too slow!
Aggressive instincts will do us in, yeah...
just give us the chance for us to prove it ourselves.

(Don't you know that all machines sink?
Do you know they sing as they think?
Although their bodies are electric...
Don't you know that all machines think?)

So we laid back and we watched space revolve
the bodies of astronauts long cold
blinking like lonely satellites...
Where we left vapour trails through cotton skies -
come on, let's scratch the heavens one last time!
'Cause we're all sinking in the sunshine
and though you'd love to stay,
well, you said you must be on your way
to where the rainbows and UFOs
fall ten at a time
in a shower of glitter and gold...
… we'll all be waiting for you here.

Boomtime coming
Man the monkey
In the craddle
In the graveyard
Sky is soaring
Lungs are burning
Rollercoaster
Rolls forever

A hightime rolling
Like the ocean
With hands more loving
Than a plastic surgeon
Young and scrawney
In the funhouse
And lord almighty
The Devil knows just what I've been doing

And there's a chance that it could all come down
And leave me reaching for the sun
When this could be the perfect one

When tenderness is far away
Keep me safe for another day

I've been under
Heavy weather
But I'll be armed and ready
In the future
Boomtime coming
Now I'm up and running
No-one's gonna
Live forever

Woke up
With a hard-on
Head full of distortion
Condition returning
Verdict never learning
Is it late in the evening?
Or early in the morning?

Disorientation
Like the sound of a gunshot
New modifications
To the buzzing of a chainsaw
Sleeping through the daytime
Working through the night time

Laces tied
Wings pumped up with blood
But who keeps bleeding me dry?
Each and everyday
Face the world
Or take the asp
Been living upon a dirty guitar
Can't you taste my incoherence?
Today is not the same as yesterday -
And I've been on the trail
Been on that trail
For months and months now

Each moment a crossroads
You'd better be careful
To the left is Jesus
To the right The Devil singing:
Half a life to enjoy it
Half a life to regret it

Disposable - A users guide
Easy pre packed suicide
Read the sign above the noose
Please dispose of after using
Throw me away

All you young and pretty things
Kings and queens of packaging
Time will steal your souls away
Disposable
You'll be replace again

Beneath the electrically powered sun
Well I've been rolling down the assembly line
And I've been stuck in flesh for far too long
And flowing free's been on my mind
Just like an electric shock

Become a rainbow one hundred foot tall
Just flick a switch to turn it on
Be my metallic and conductive girl
And we'd be like colours that the heavens spun
As we sang along

Glory! Glory!

And you're so uplifting
This feeling that you're giving me
Is pure acceleration
Some kind of chemistry
Whatever's washing over me
Is pure intoxication
And you're pure acceleration
So let's raise hands and rejoice
Like electricity
You are my remedy

Now that I'm polarised - 240 Volts
Yes I'm black and white on a cinema screen
I'm so energised I'm gonna burst
But you've gotta charge me first
And glory electricity the way you power me
Well glory electricity the way you shower me

Glory! Glory!