#1 I'm Pulling Out All My Tubes

Polished teeth and perfect hair
and a great big head that's full of air
call it fake or call it real
keep me numb so I can't feel

fill my screen with a thousand cuts
laugh at me when I can't keep up
look in my eyes and flirt with me
show me what I want to see.

No-one's asking questions
we'll just sing along
it's an I.V. full of dreams and lies 
fed directly to my arm
bring on the easy targets 
get the losers in your sights
keep a finger on the ratings
you'll be sleeping well tonight.

I'm pulling out all my tubes.

lie to me when it's late at night
make believe that the future's bright
jack me up and knock me down
then set me up for another round

No-one's asking questions
we'll just sing along
it's an I.V. full of dreams and lies 
fed directly to my arm
bring on the easy targets 
get the losers in your sights
keep a finger on the ratings
you'll be sleeping well tonight.

#2 American Dream

I've got a little shack on top of the hill
I cut down the trees that obstruct my view
lonely and bitter, I tinker with bombs
my list of complaints is ten pages long

everybody stay away from me

I've cut the bridge down to the town
I've torn the electric cables down
no-one knows me and I don't know them
maybe I don't need any more friends

everybody stay away from me
 
don't want to see anyone
don't want to see anything
don't want to hear anything
I don't want to know anything

I'm living the american dream
I don't want to know anything

#3 Facism is Sexy

You're young and tan
you look good and man
you've got your health
you've got your wealth 
you'd never want to bring it down
worrying about everyone else
it's boobs and guns and number one
as in for who we're looking out.

fascism is sexy
fascism is young
it's glamorous and edgy
a party with some guns

you and you and you and you
you can't deny 
or tell me why we shouldn't run this land
old and sick?  take a trip
to where the sad folks stay
weak and tired? why not expire?
it's our party anyway

fascism is sexy
fascism is young
it's glamorous and edgy
a party with some guns

march in lines up and down
I've got a hip new suit
march in lines, turn around
you look so good in brown

we're hip we're cool we're better than you
can't we just take over please?
we don't need cooperation
all we need is syndication
and secret machinations
to send the losers on vacation
cause fascism is sexy
and we'll always be strong and young.

#4 Insulation

insulated from my arms to my finger tips
I'm feeling nothing, living in the dark
I'd breath in air but the padding's too thick
starting something, living in the dark

you can run, you can run
or feel nothing at all
and the end yeah the end
seems like nothing at all

I've got a blind spot with a notion to itch
my fingers catching, hoping for some luck
I've got a mind set on the problems I've fixed
my lip is trembling, hoping for some luck

you can run, you can run
or feel nothing at all
at the end yeah the end
won't be the end at all
seems like nothing at all

when my neighbor's noise is impossibly grand
my ears are straining, nothing's left to catch
I won't feel the ripples as he falls from his stand
no more complaining, nothing's left to catch

you can run, you can run
till you're up to the wall
and the end, yeah the end
seems like nothing at all

#5 Murderers

it's never been easy 
to take the enemy
with a smile and a pat on the back
to walk with murderers
who boast like conquerers
is your heart so truly pitch black?

there's a man who I grew up with now we've grown apart
it's not like we were brothers but we had a level start
now he's sneaking past me and he's making some excuse
he says it's for my safety but he loves a subtle ruse

someone used to say that the freeze up was coming  soon
now we're living in this cheap facade and they're locking up the room 
If I'm not the one being gassed or shot it's not for lack of trying
but there's plenty of that going round no dignity just dying

for once the teenagers are right
to see the world in black and white
fuck you I've had enough of this
I will resist, I will resist

It wasn't your finger
that pulled the trigger
but you might have changed its path
so we'll carry on talking
and carry on shopping
as if nothing could be that bad.

#6 One Thousand

I am the man with a thousand friends
I've got a lightning smile, my face on pins
I am the man with a thousand votes
I count them all when I'm feeling low

I'm a self made man never mind the seams
my one thousand friends live outside our means
put the pieces together and call them one
bottle the water and sell the sun
	and all the cell phones call around
	the commerce is flowing through this town
	but you can't seem to remember who to thank

now they're throwing eggs at my car
no-one told me it had come so far
and I'm knocking on everybody's door
they were every one my friend before

#7 One Two

I'm one, you're two, look around that's all we need

I use this thread to pull the world apart
Can I help it if you were born without a heart?
all sheets to the wind and I haven't even had a drop
your creepy crawly face tattoos will probably get you shot

I'm one, you're two, look around that's all we need

I've got a good impression of the diet from a dumpster
I've been shopping for a drug that will make me feel less unsure
when you check your moral compass does it ever make you wonder?
let's start a private army for the dancing and the plunder

all they get is rules
and they make you feel like you've been bad
it's only human if
fitting in makes you feel had

I'm one, you're two, look around that's all we need

when we ride our bikes to the bridges and the box cars
and the city lights seem more distant than the bright stars
and the interstate feels afflicted with too many cars
we'll stake a claim on the world and then we'll make it ours

all they get is rules
and they make you feel like you've been bad
it's only human if
fitting in makes you feel had

#8 Quackocracy

Let's say for laughs you were good at maths
solved your problems in front of class
but the teacher said it was just opinion
or that time your appendix burst
they'd like to operate but first
we've got a witch doctor for you to see.

  look at the crazy man
  he flaps his mouth and waves his hands
  look at the crazy man
  now he's talking on tv

did god salt the earth with fossil bones
believe that and we've found your home
we just have to clean the bugs from your beard
do you think Hitler used laughing gas?
are there mental midgets in your past?
someone, quick, get this man a phd.

  look at the crazy man
  he flaps his mouth and waves his hands
  look at the crazy man
  tell me who do you believe

is global warming in god's plan?
do you thank him as you're getting tan?
you're overqualified to write this book!
Get all the freaks and miscreants
snake oil salesmen and sycophants
clean them up and stuff them in a suit.

  look at the crazy man
  he flaps his mouth and waves his hands
  look at the crazy man
  someone's lying to you and me


#9 A Casting Call for Ugly Children

I ain't gonna win no nobel prize
and the way I look don't please the eyes
I'm no expert and I might be wrong
but I'm clever enough to never let them put a camera on me

take me and torture me and break me with apathy
give me a new disease turn me into the police
just never make me go on the tv
thank god I've never been on the tv

The clothes I wear are so last year
my car is rusted in poor repair
I suck at sports my eyesight's bad
but I won't be rushing to return after these brief ads

take me and torture me and break me with apathy
give me a new disease turn me into the police
just never make me go on the tv
thank god I've never been on the tv

I've never been the queen of prom
really no good at singing songs
and if you know, I'm kind of shy
I never see the shiny pixels when I close my eyes.

take me and torture me and break me with apathy
give me a new disease turn me into the police
just never make me go on the tv
thank god I've never been on the tv