Selling by number.
Hi-tech illusion.
Look to a future, and keep it clean.
2000 and One.
End of the century.
Figuring out the advertising schemes for toilet machinery, paper dispensers, kitchen appliances, razor blades, serial comics without the humor.
Buy now, pay l

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

Several million years ago
They planted human beings on a planet called earth
And Sent a few biologists to mak

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 will melt and we'll feel the freeze
Of freshwater currents in the northern seas
Then the population expands to sq

Ritual containment scenes
Traffic stuck on TV screens
Signs instructions and machines
Gettin' used to empty dreams

The screamin' of an empty face
Alienation

So open it up and let it go
Talk to people you never know
It's how ideas originate
Acceptance nulli

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, hang it up on your wall
I hope you get over it, do a bit more
Cos playing the game is the game itself
W

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 and nothing gets done
Back to square one

Strength in numbers and help to believe
Conviction gives and hope

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 cracked
And he was out there, but somehow he always came back
Back to zero
Then he got put away up to the hospital

I just ate and I heard the change rattle in your tin
I point my eyes on distant blurred horizon me for charity or coffee make the day go faster
forty days forty nights
forty currency exchanges

this is my corner said the bag lady
this is my bed said the bag lady
this is

Think back to a bar surrounded by craziness
Unthinking drunken punk excess
Lives exploding from the stress
Of thoughts restrained by soberness
Misconception misdirection
Shredding lifelong friend connection
Contorted faces barbed wire words
Fighting talk that goes - h

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 house in the country side
Souvenir shops don't close till nine
Postcards do when the sun don't shine
Please

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 I I hate this society it made me learn
How to hate so much, now it's hard to turn
This attitude it produce in m

They're shifting the blame for the problems away from the people who made them. Pointing the figures and fingers at those who have already found the solutions. The squatters who took themselves in, reducing the homeless and using the homes. The travelers who said 'goodbye' to it all, and 'hello'

[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
The lifeless boring routine block of all things neither good nor bad
To break that rock and destabilise is risky but I'll

Queuing up for leaflets 'How to Get Ahead.' Well, one man grumbles next to me, "That's the one I never read, but no one tells me what I need so it doesn't really bother me." Outside someone sweeps the road, I ask, "Is it good pay?" "Throw that leaflet in the bin and ask some other day. I do my j

In a state of mutual desperation we declared our level of alienation. Any silent crowded situation it felt so full of concentration. Never looking in that direction. Sat on the end of a private section of wood, the waiting room conversation still waiting to break the speculation. And the same th

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 it all:
"For once all my pride was illusion
A false self exclusion
From pleasures so vast they can hardly b

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 contradiction cos your feeling can't belong
To this given situation that no-one can take away
A smile, a nervous glan

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 instead of food
And charity begins at home
So get out on the streets
And help the refugees

And the manager of E

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 brain
Through chemical sparks that quickly drain
Into the arteries and veins

And throat! The sca

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 to fit them in
But you adjust and the fiction wins, again

The pictures from the T.V. screen
Contain a lot m