PORCUPINE TREE

Sunlight cowing through the haze
No gaps in the blind
To let it inside
The bed is unmade
Some music still plays 8

TV, yeah it's always on
The flieker of the screen
A movie actress screaks
I'm baskihg in the shit flowing

I'm stoned in the mall again
Terminally bored
Shuffling round the stores
And shoplifting is getting so last year's thing

X-box is a god to me
A finger on the switch
My mother is a bitch
My father gave up ever trying to talk to me

Don't try engaging me
The vaguest of shrugs
The prescription drugs
You'11 never find
A person inside

My faсе is mogadon
Curiosity
Has given up on me
I'm tuning out desires
The pills are on the rise

How can be sure I'm here ?
The pills that I've been taking confuse me
I need to know that someone sees that
There's nothing left I simply am not here

I'm through with pornography
The acting is lame
The action is tame
Explicity dull
Arousal annuled

Your mouth should be board
Talking all day
With nothing to say
Your shallow proclamations
All misinformation

My friend says he warts to die
He's in a band
They sound like Pearl Jam
The clothes are аll black
The music is crap

In school I don't concertrate
And sex is kinda fun
But just another one
Of all the empty ways
Of using up a day

How can be sure I'm here ?
The pills that I've been taking confuse me
I need to know that someone sees that
There's nothing left I simply am not here

Bipolar disorder
Can't deal with the boredom

You don't try to be liked
You don't mind
You feel no sun
You steal a gun
To kill time

You're somewhere, You're nowhere
You dоп't care
You catch the breeze
You still the leaves
So now where ?

2. My Ashes

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All the things that I needed
And wasted my chances
I have found myself wanting
When my mother and father gave me their prcolems
I accepted them al1
Nothing ever expected
I was rejected
But I came back for more

And my ashes drift beneath the silver sky
Where a boy rides on a bike but never smiles
And my ashes fall on all the things we said
On a box of a photographs under the bed

I will stay in my own world
Under the covers
I will feel safe inside
A kiss that will burn me
And cure me of dreaming
I was always returning

And my ashes find a way beyond the fog
And return to save the child that I forgot
And my ashes fade among the things unseen
And a dream plays in reverse on piano keys
And my ashes drop upon a park in Wales
Never ending clouds of rain and distant sails

3. Anesthetize

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A good impression of myself
Not much to conceal
I'm saying nothing
But I'm saying nothing with feel

I simply am not here no way I...
Shut up be happy stop whining please

And because of who we are
Wе react in mock surprise
The curse of "there must be more"
So don't breathe here, don't leave your
bags

I simply am not here no way I ...
Shut up be happy stop whining please

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The dust in my soul makes me feel the weight in my legs
My head in the clouds and I'm zoning out
I'm watching TV but I find it hard to stay conscious
I'm totally bored but I can't switch off

Only apathy from the pills in me
It's all in me, all in you
Electricity
It's all ih me, all in you
Only MTV and cod philosophy

We're lost in the mall, shuffling through the stores like zombies
Well what is the point ? What can money buy ?
My hands on a gun and I find the range, God tempt me

Well what did you say ?
Think I'm passing out

Only apathy from the pills in me
It's all in me, all in you
Electricity
It's all in me, all in you
Only P1TV and cod philosophy

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Water so waVm that day
I counted out the waves
As they broke into surf
I smiled into the sun

The water so warm that day
I was counting out the waves
And I followed their short life
As they broke on the shoreline
I could see you
But I couldn't hear you
You were holding your hat in the breeze
Turning away from me
In this moment you were stolen
There's black across the sun

4. Sentimental

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I never wanna be old
And I don't want dependents
It's not fun to be told
That you can't blame your parents anymore
I'm finding it hard to hang from a star
Don't wanna be
I don't wanna be old

Sullen and bored the kids stay
And in this way they wish away each day
Stoned in the mall the kids play
And in this way they wish away each day

I don't really know
If I care what is normal
And I'm not really sure
If the pills I've been taking are helping
I'm wasting my 1ife
Hurting inside
I don't really know
And I'm not really sure ...

Sullen and bored the kids stay
And in this way they wish away each day
Stoned in the mall the kids play
And in this way they wish away each day

5. Way Out Of Here

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Out at the train tracks I dream of escape
But a song самеs onto my ipod
And I realise it's getting late

I can't tаке the staring and the sympathy
And I don;':t-v like the questions
"How do you feel ?"
"How's it going in school ?"
"Do you wanna talk about it ?"

Way out
Way out of here
Fade out
Fade out, vanish

I' 11 try to forget you
And I know that I will
In a thousand years
Or maybe a week
I'll burn all your pictures
Cut out your face

And I know that I will down and curtains are closed
And I've covered my tracks
Disposed of the car
And I'll try to forget even your name
And the way that you look when you'r sleeping
And dreaming of this ...

Way out
Way out of here
Fade out
Fade out, vanish

6. Sleep Together

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This means out
This is your way out
Do or drown
Do or drown in torpor

Leave no trace
All my files erased
Burn my clothes
Burn my Prada trainers

Let's sleep together right now
Relieve the pressure somehow
Switch off the future right now
Let's leave forever

This is fate
This is your escape
Leave here now
Leave here like it's over

Let's sleep together right now
Relieve the pressure somehow
Switch off the future right now

Let's leave forever

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