The Scream lyrics

I'm sorry that I hit you
But my string snapped
I'm sorry I disturbed your cat-nap
But whilst finishing a chore
I asked myself "what for"
Then something snapped,
I had a relapse... A Suburban relapse

I was washing up the dishes
Minding my own business
When my string snapped
I had a relapse... A Suburban relapse

(Should I?)
Throw things at the neighbors

Dedicated to John Heartfield

Reunion begins

with a glass of mercury

whilst television flickers
for (with) another news bulletin

flints light up the eyes

of the seated family

Chorus:

"Metal is tough, metal will sheen

Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned

Metal is tough, metal will sheen

Metal will rule in my masterscheme"

With a clockwork jerk

Different lives
In different places
Familiar problems
Same old faces

Shuffle lives
Into wrong categories
Cross the wires
And fuse humanities

Watch the muscles twitch
For a brand new switch...

Scientist G.P.'s
With patient guinea pigs
Curing their headaches
With drastic side-effects

Watch the muscles twich
For a brand new switch…

Doctor rectorates

It's just a habit
When I reach to the packet
For my last cigarette
Until the day breaks
And then my hand shakes
But it it's just driving me insane
When the smoke gets in my brain
I can't resist it

Wallow in that ash bath
Soaking up the fumes
And see the nicotine stain
Start to spread

I'm so congested
Cos north, south, east and west
Catarrh rests on my chest
Congealed and twisted

Someone's in cold storage
Seeking heinz main-courses
Craving for a raw love
He'll hide you from the cleaver
He'll hang with you forever
Longing for a fresh meat

By hook or by crook
You'll be 1st in his book
For an impaled affair
By hook or by crook
You'll be last in his book
Of flesh oh so rare

Be a carcass -- be a dead pork
Be limblessly in love
Be a carcass -- be a dead pork

Got to give up life in this netherworld
Got to go up to where the air is stale
And live a life of pleasantries
Mingle in the modern families

Overground--from abnormality
Overboard--for identity
Overground--for normality
Overboard--for identity

This limbo is no place
To be a digit in another space
In another crowd
I'm nameless bound

Overground--from abnormality

n midnight guise
These cobalt eyes pierce the indigo skies
Filtering through, a Prussian army paints a royal hue
Forget-me-nots and violet flames weave titanium chains Of sapphire days and turquoise dreams in floating ultramarine
Something blue
Something sparkling through
Out of the blue,
I'm reminded of you

Harmful elements in the air
Cymbals crashing everywhere
Reap the fields of rice and reeds
While the population swells

Junk floats on polluted water
An old custom to sell your daughter
Would you like number 23
Leave your yens on the counter please
Hong Kong garden

Tourists swarm to see your face
Confucius has a puzzling grace
Disoriented you enter in
Unleashing scent of wild jasmine

The head is the best part
My headcut my woodcut
I saw you in the gallery
With your torso and family
A huge smiling central face
With eyes and lips cut out
But smiling and eating
Lots of other lips...
A beautiful mask in plastercast
Such a beautiful mask in plastercast
Can I take it back with me
Back to the flat with me
Oh severed head
I'll feed your head with bread