Omnipop

Look at how they've washed your brain
Down the info t.v. drain
You're back before you ever came
To find out what you need

You try too hard, you try too soft
You're afraid of getting lost
As impostor number one
You left your record out in the sun
All the signs of life aren't clear and straight and always right

Our ideas of perfect are so imperfect

Love doesn't pay attention to
The metal teeth of ugly rules
He was everybody's fool
For squandering his love on her

Thomas when you told the truth
They electrocuted you
I'll pick up my zero and follow through
The perfect power world

I woke up with no place to sleep
Didn't see the trap, fell in deep
You caught me, you were waiting there
I laid down on the table
You pulled up a chair

You're going to help yourself
To me

I give up
You watch my lips
Like a pair of wrists that have never been slit
I give in
You use my need
All you want is whatever you see

Painted smile but i don't feel the part
In dream i hold your kinfe over my heart
The edge is higher the closer i get
When i jump you move the net

I keep falling for this slapstick heart

Hanging on your words
I thought i'd known
The rope is cut and i'm falling on my own
The comedy in the tragic disbelief
Of only human

To make you laugh is there nothing i won't do
Any pain i won't go through
Lost my balance fell like rain
I half expected you to do the same
But you cried an ocean and broke my fall
That's when i knew i couldn't swim at all

Big numbers go by
I close my eyes
I never count a large amount
My lucky number is below one
You never know when you might need a zero

The zero in my hand
Is nothing to lose
It's hard to confuse power with love
Love with power
Everything that i'm not is all that i've got

She married a gold mine with a time bomb
He went off to be legend
Now her love's a corporation
And she's just post humorous

Entertainmen
Watch me
Let me be your t.v.

He asked her to spread her magazines
All across his floor
He finally found his bathing beauty
And she was a girl worth wading for

My father loved to watch the blondes
Burning down our street
So i learned to sing and to dance on water
At my mother's feet

Lucky you were weak
Giving in was your escape
We only had one chance to say no
But it's too late

Take me out the back
Alley blind and struck by a star
We've lost where we are
Betwen us there's no near or far

Where are you taking me
As you slide
Where are you taking me
Down inside

I've always wanted more
Like the whore who poured perfume on his feet
Diamonds in the street are just like glass
When they cut your feet
Where are you taking me where love escapes
Your movie screen
The same scene you always run
With a different woman and the same son