LYRICS   MECHNICAL ANIMALS

 

GREAT BIG WHITE WORLD

 

In space the stars are no nearer they

just glitter like a morgue and I

dreamed I was a spaceman

burned like a moth in a flame and our

world was so fucking gone but I'm not

attached to your world

nothing heals and nothing grows

because it's a great big white world and

we are drained of our colors we used to

love ourselves, we

used to love one another all my stitches

itch my prescription's low, I wish you were

queen just for today in a world so white what else could I

say? and hell was so cold all the vases

are so broken and the roses tear our hands all

open mother mary miscarry but we pray just like insects

the world is so ugly now because it's

a great big white world and we are drained of

our colors we used to love ourselves, we used to love

one another all my stitches itch my

prescription's low, I wish you were queen just

for today in a world so white what else could I say?

 

ROCK IS DEAD

 

All simple monkeys with alien babies

amphetamines for boys crucifixes for ladies

sampled and soulless worldwide

and real webbed you sell all the living

for more safer dead anything to belong rock is

deader than dead

shock is all in your head your sex and

your dope is all that we're fed so fuck all

your protests and put them to bed god is in the tv 1,000

mothers are praying for it we're so full of

hope and so full of shit build a new god to

medicate and to ape sell us ersatz dressed up and real fake

anything to belong rock is deader than

dead shock is all in your head your sex and your

dope is all that we're fed so fuck all your protests and

put them to bed god is in the tv

 

 

USER FRIENDLY

 

Use me when you want to come I've

bled just to have your touch when I'm in you I

want to die user friendly

fucking dopestar obscene will you die when you're

high you'd never die just for me she says, "I'm not

in love, but I'm gonna fuck you 'til

somebody better comes along." use me like I was

a whore relationships are such a bore delete the

ones that you've fucked user friendly

fucking dopestar obscene will you die when you're

high you'd never die just for me she says, "I'm not

in love, but I'm gonna fuck you 'til

somebody better comes along."

 

 

 

FUNDAMENTALLY LOATHSOME

 

I want to wake up in your white, white sun

I want to wake up in

your world with no pain

but I'll just suffer in a hope to die someday

while you are numb all of the way when you hate it you

know you can feel but when you love it

you know it's not real no and I am resigned

to this wicked fucking world on its way to hell the living

are dead and I hope to join them too I

know what to do and I do it well... when you hate

it you know you can feel but when you love it you

know it's not real no shoot myself to

love you if I loved myself I'd be shooting you

 

COMA WHITE There's something cold and blank behind

her smile she's standing on an overpass in

her miracle mile (coma): "you

were from a perfect world a world that threw me

away today today to run away" a pill to make you

numb a pill to make you dumb a pill to

make you anybody else but all the drugs in this

world won't save her from herself her mouth was an

empty cut and she was waiting to fall

just bleeding like a polaroid that lost all her

dolls (coma): "you were from a perfect world a world that

threw me away today today to run

away" a pill to make you numb a pill to make you

dumb a pill to make you anybody else but all the

drugs in this world won't save her from

herself

 

 

THE SPEED OF PAIN

 

They slit our throats like we were flowers

and our milk has been devoured

when you want it it goes away

too fast when you hate it it always seems

to last but just remember when you think you're free the

crack inside your fucking heart is me

(thought, not spoken): I wanna outrace the speed

of pain for another day I wish I could sleep but I can't

lay on my back because there's a

knife for everyday that I've known you when you

want it it goes away too fast when you hate it it

always seems to last but just remember

when you think you're free the crack inside your

fucking heart is me (thought, not spoken): I wanna

outrace the speed of pain for another

day lie to me, cry to me, give to me I would

lie with me, die with me, give to me I would keep all your

secrets wrapped in dead hair I hope at

least we die holding hands for always.

 

 

NEW MODEL No. 15

 

I'm as fake as a wedding cake and I'm

Vague and I know that I'm Homopolitan

pitifully predictable correctly

political I'm the new, I'm the new, new

model I've got nothing inside better in

the head and in bed at the

office I can suck and I smile new new

new model I can choke and diet on coke

I'm Spun and I know that I'm Stoned and

Rolling lifelike and

poseable hopeless and disposable I'm

the new, I'm the new, new model I've got

nothing inside better in the head and in

bed at the office I can

suck and I smile new new new model

don't let them know how far you go or that

you use your "lovers" oh look, you're like a vcr stick

something in to know just who you are you

new new new model

 

 

 

I WANT TO DISAPPEAR

 

Look at me now got no religion look at me

now I'm so vacant look at me

now I was a virgin Look at me

now grew up to be a whore and I want it

I believe it I'm a million different things

and not one you know

Hey and our mommies are lost now

hey, daddy's someone else Hey, we love

the abuse because it makes us feel like we are needed now

but I know I wanna disappear I wanna

die young and sell my soul use up all

your drugs and make me come yesterday man,

I was a nihilist and

now today i'm just too fucking bored

by the time I'm old enough I won't know anything

at all Hey and our mommies are lost now hey,

daddy's someone else Hey, we love the

abuse because it makes us feel like we are

needed now but I know I wanna disappear

 

 

 

THE DOPE SHOW

 

The drugs they say make us feel so hollow

we love in vain narcissistic and so

shallow the cops and queers to

swim you have to swallow hate today there's

no love for tomorrow we're all stars now in the dope

show there's lots of pretty, pretty ones

that want to get you high but all the pretty,

pretty ones will leave you low and blow your mind we're all

stars now in the dope show they

love you when you're on all the covers when

you're not then they love another the drugs they say are

made in California we love your face

we'd really like to sell you the cops and

queers make good-looking models I hate today who will I

wake up with tomorrow? there's lots of

pretty, pretty ones that want to get you high

but all the pretty, pretty ones will leave you low and blow

your mind they love you when you're

on all the covers when you're not then they

love another we're all stars now in the dope show

 

 

 

POSTHUMAN

 

She's got eyes like Zapruder and

a mouth like heroin she wants me to be perfect like

Kennedy this isn't god, this isn't

god god is just a statistic, god is just a

statistic say, "show me the dead stars, all

of them sing." this is a

riot religious and clean god is a

number you cannot count to you are posthuman

and hardwired she's pilgrim and pagan softworn and

so-cial in all of her dreams she's a

saint like Jackie-O this isn't god, this isn't

god god is just a statistic, god is just a statistic say, "show

me the dead stars, all of them sing."

this is a riot religious and clean coma white:

"all that glitters is cold, all that glitters is cold"

 

 

DISASSOCIATIVE

 

I can tell you what they say in

space that our earth is too grey but when the spirit is

so digital the body acts this

way that world was killing me that world was

killing me disassociative the nervous systems down, the

nervous systems down I know I can

never get out of here I don't want to just

float in fear a dead astronaut in space

sometimes we walk like

we were shot through our heads, my

love we write our song in space like we are

 already dead and gone your world was killing me your

world was killing me disassociative your

world was killing me your world was killing

me disassociative

 

 

THE LAST DAY ON EARTH

 

Yesterday was a million

years ago in all my past lives I played an asshole

now I found you, it's

almost too late and this earth seems obliviating

we are trembling in our crutches high and dead our

skin is glass I'm so empty here without I

crack and split my xerox hands I know its the

last day on earth we'll be together while the planet dies I

know it's the last day on earth we'll

never say goodbye the dogs slaughter each other

softly love burns its casualties we are damaged

provider modules spill the seeds at our

children's feet I'm so empty here without you

I know they want me dead I know its the last day on earth

we'll be together while the planet

dies I know it's the last day on earth we'll

never say goodbye

 

 

 

MECHANICAL ANIMALS

 

We were neurophobic and

perfect the day that we lost our souls maybe we

weren't so human if we

cry we will rust and I was a hand grenade that

never stopped exploding you were automatic and as

hollow as the 'o' in god I am never gonna

be the one for you I am never gonna save the

world from you but they'll never be good to you or bad to

you they'll never be anything

anything at all you were my mechanical bride

you were phenobarbidoll a manniqueen of depression

with the face of a dead star and I was a

hand grenade that never stopped exploding you

were automatic and as hollow as the 'o' in god I am

never gonna be the one for you I am

never gonna save the world from you but they'll

 never be good to you or bad to you they'll never be

anything anything at all

 

 

 

I DON'T LIKE THE DRUGS (BUT THE DRUGS LIKE ME)

 

 Norm life baby "we're white and oh so

hetero and our

sex is missionary." Norm life baby "we're

quitters and we're sober our confessions will be televised."

you and I are underdosed and we're

ready to fall raised to be stupid, taught

 to be nothing at all. I don't like the drugs

but the drugs like me I

don't like the drugs, the drugs the

drugs Norm life baby "our god is white and

unforgiving we're piss tested and we're praying."

Norm life

baby I'm just a sample of a soul made

to look just like a human being. Norm life baby

"we're rehabbed and we're ready for our 15 minutes of

shame." Norm life baby "we're

talkshown and we're pointing just like christians

at a suicide." you and I are underdosed and we're

ready to fall raised to be stupid, taught to

be nothing at all. I don't like the drugs but the

 drugs like me I don't like the drugs, the drugs

the drugs

"There's a hole in our soul that we fill

with dope and we're feeling fine." I don't like

the drugs but the drugs like me I don't like the drugs, the

drugs the drugs