Placebo - This Picture

I hold an image of the ashtray girl
Of cigarette burns on my chest
I wrote a poem that described her world
And put our friendship to the test
And late at night
Whilst on all fours
She used to watch me kiss the floor
What's wrong with this picture?
What's wrong with this picture?

Farewell the ashtray girl
Forbidden snowflake
Beware this troubled world
Watch out for earthquakes
Goodbye to open sores
To broken semaphore
You know we miss her
We miss her picture

Sometimes it's fated
Disintegrated
For fear of growing old
Sometimes it's fated
Assassinated
For fear of growing old

Farewell the ashtray girl
Angelic fruitcake
Beware this troubled world
Control your intake
Goodbye to open sores
Goodbye and furthermore
You know we miss her
We miss her picture

Sometimes it's fated
Disintegrated
For fear of growing old
Sometimes it's fated
Assassinated
For fear of growing old

Hang on
Though we try
It's gone
Hang on
Though we try
It's gone

Sometimes it's fated
Disintegrated
For fear of growing old
Sometimes it's fated
Assassinated
For fear of growing old

Can’t stop growing old
Can’t stop growing old
Can’t stop growing old
Can’t stop growing old
Can’t stop growing old

Placebo - B3 [Radio Edit]

I refuse to remain in regrets
To pander like a slave to your wants
No contrition from me will you get
No submission to dilettantes (NO)

I've existed too long in secrets
I have lived like a man confined
Epicene and elaborate
Fatalistic and resigned (NO)

Passionflower
Catherine wheel
Higher power
Help me start to heal

Now I vein in the scene of sunsets
And the rain washes clean my mind
Every one of my needs will be met
Every planet will be aligned

Passionflower
Catherine wheel
Higher power
Help me start to heal

Over power all my fear
From now to hour
Guide me through the realm

I refuse to remain in regret
I refuse to be left behind (NO)

Passionflower
Catherine wheel
Higher power
Help me start to heal

Placebo - A Million Little Pieces

There wasn't much I used to need
A smile would blow a summer breeze through my heart
Now my mistakes are haunting me
Like winter came and put a freeze on my heart

I've lost the power to understand
What it takes to be a man with my heart
I saw you wanted this to end
You tried your best to be a friend to my heart

But I'm leaving this worry town
Please no grieving, my love, understand?

Whenever I was feeling wrong
I used to go and write a song from my heart
But now I feel I've lost my spark
No more glowing in the dark for my heart

So I'm leaving this worry town
Please no grieving, my love, understand?

Understand?
Understand?
Understand?
Understand?

Understand? (Can't you see I'm sick of fighting?)
Understand? (Can't you tell I've lost my way?)
Understand? (Look at me theirs no denying)
Understand? (I wont last another day)

So I'm leaving this worry town
Please no grieving, my love, understand?

Then I'm leaving this worry town
Please no grieving, my love, understand?

All my dreaming torn in pieces
All my dreaming torn in pieces
All my dreaming torn in pieces
All my dreaming torn in pieces now

Placebo - Song To Say Goodbye

You are one of God's mistakes

You crying, tragic waste of skin

I'm well aware of how it aches

And you still won't let me in

Now, I'm breaking down your door

To try and save your swollen face

Though I don't like you anymore

You lying, trying waste of space

Before our innocence was lost

You were always one of those

Blessed with lucky sevens

And the voice that made me cry

My, oh, my

You were mother nature's son

Someone to whom I could relate

Your needle and your damage done

Remains a sordid twist of fate

Now, I'm trying to wake you up

To pull you from the liquid sky

'Cause if I don't, we'll both end up

With just your song to say goodbye

My, oh, my

A song to say goodbye

A song to say goodbye

A song to say

Before our innocence was lost

You were always one of those

Blessed with lucky sevens

And the voice that made me cry

It's a song to say goodbye

It's a song to say goodbye

It's a song to say goodbye

It's a song to say goodbye

It's a song to say goodbye

It's a song to say goodbye

It's a song to say goodbye

It's a song to say goodbye

Placebo - Breathe Underwater (Slow)

Here comes another fall from grace

I'm always falling on my face

This attitude that I embrace

For the love I'm trying to replace

I try to kill the song

'Cause the melody's all wrong

And there's a fever coming on

It's hard to reconcile

What I've become

With the wounded child

Hiding deep inside

Breathe underwater

I'm coming up for air

I wanna see another dawn

Coming up for air

Sick of the slaughter

I'm coming up for air

'Cause I've been floating here too long

Take my ego for a ride

'Cause there's nobody by my side

It's getting hard to justify

And it won't be long 'til I collide

My weakness is laid bare

As people stop and stare

But it's the last time I swear

It's hard to reconcile

What I've become

With the wounded child

Hiding deep inside

Breathe underwater

I'm coming up for air

I wanna see another dawn

Coming up for air

Sick of the slaughter

I'm coming up for air

'Cause I've been floating here too long

Start breathing

Start breathing

Start breathing

Start breathing

Breathe underwater

I'm coming up for air

I wanna see another dawn

Coming up for air

Sick of the slaughter

I'm coming up for air

'Cause I've been floating here too long

I'm coming

I'm coming

I'm coming, coming up for air

Coming up for air

Coming up for air

Placebo - Slave To The Wage

Run away from all your boredom

Run away from all your whoredom

And wave your worries and cares goodbye

All it takes is one decision

A lot of guts, a little vision

To wave your worries and cares goodbye

It's a maze for rats to try

It's a maze for rats to try

It's a race, a race for rats

A race for rats to die

It's a race, a race for rats

A race for rats to die

Sick and tired of Maggie's farm

She's a bitch with broken arms

To wave your worries and cares goodbye

It's a maze for rats to try

It's a maze for rats to try

It's a race, a race for rats

A race for rats to die

It's a race, a race for rats

A race for rats to die

It's a race, a race for rats

A race for rats to die

It's a race, a race for rats

A race for rats to die

Run away, run away

Run away, run away

Run away, run away

Placebo - Lazarus

It's horrid to see you again
Now that you're back from the dead
It's horrid to see you again
So bored of being you

It's horrid to see you again
Now that you're back from the dead
It's horrid to see you again
So bored of being
Alive
Alive
Alive

It's horrid to see you again
Acting like you're on some kind of cross
It's horrid to see you again
An emotional retard

It's horrid to see you again
Unaware that all may not be lost
It's horrid to see you again
So bored of being
Alive
Alive
Alive
Alive
Alive
Alive
Alive

It's horrid to see you again
Walking around with that egg on your face
It's horrid to see you again
So full of apathy

It's horrid to see you again
Caught in a trap you cannot escape
It's horrid to see you again
So bored of being
Alive
Alive
Alive
Alive
Alive
Alive
Alive

Placebo - Loud Like Love

Love on an atom, love on a cloud
To see the birth of all that isn't now
Can you imagine a love that is so proud?
It never has to question why or how
Total abandon the love in my dreams
When I wake up I'm soaking in my sheets

Breathe, breathe
Believe, believe, believe, believe

For all of our youth
We have craved them
Their beauty and their truth

Breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe
Believe, believe, believe, believe
Breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe
Believe, believe
That we are loud like

Love on an atom, love on a cloud
To see the birth of all that isn't now
Can you imagine a love that is so proud?
It never has to question why or how

For all of our youth
We have craved them
Their beauty and their truth

So we name them
And somehow they pull us through
We have craved them
For all of our youth

Breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe
Believe, believe, believe, believe
We are loud like love
We are loud like love
We are loud like love
We are loud like love
We are loud like love
We are loud like love
We are loud like love
We are loud like love
We are loud like love

Placebo - 36 Degrees

We were tight
But it falls apart
As silver turns to blue
Waxing with the candlelight
And burning just for you
Allocate your sentiment
And stick it in a box
I've never been an extrovert
But I'm still breathing

Someone tried to do me ache
Someone tried to do me ache
Someone tried to do me ache
(It's what I'm afraid of)
Someone tried to do me ache
(It's what I'm afraid of)

With hindsight
I was more than blind
Lost without a clue
Thought I was getting carat gold
And what I got was you
Stuck inside the circumstances
Lonely at the top
I've always been an introvert
Happily bleeding

Someone tried to do me ache
Someone tried to do me ache
Someone tried to do me ache
(It's what I'm afraid of)
Someone tried to do me ache
(It's what I'm afraid of)

4 7 2 3 9 8 5
I gotta breathe to stay alive
And 1 4 2 9 7 8
Feels like I'm gonna suffocate
Fourteen, sixteen, twenty-two
This skin that turns to blister blue
Shoulders toes and knees
I'm 36 degrees

Placebo - Come Home

Stuck between the do or die, I feel emaciated.
Hard to breathe I try and try, I'll get asphyxiated.
Swinging from the tallest height, with nothing left to hold on to.

Every sky is blue, but not for me and you.

Come home, come home, come home, come home.

Glass and petrol vodka gin, it feels like breathing methane.
Throw yourself from skin to skin, and still it doesn't dull the pain.
Vanish like a lipstick trace, it always blows me away.

Every cloud is grey, with dreams of yesterday.

Come home, come home, come home, come home,
come home, come home, come home, come home.

Always goes against the grain, and I can try and deny it
Give a monkey half a brain, and still he's bound to fry it.
Now the happening scene is dead, I used to want to be there too.

Every sky is blue, but not for me and you.

Come home, come home, come home, come home,
come home, come home, come home, come home.

Placebo - Because I Want You [Redux]

Fall into you is all I seem to do
When I hit the bottle 'cos I'm afraid to be alone
Tear us in two is all it seems to do
As the anger fades, this house is no longer a home

Don't give up on the dream
Don't give up on the wanting and everything that's true
Don't give up on the dream
Don't give up on the wanting, because I want you to

Because I want you too
Because I want you too
Because I want you
Because I want you

Stumble into you is all I ever do
My memory's hazy and I'm afraid to be alone
And tear us in two is all it's gonna do
As the headache fades this house is no longer a home

Don't give up on the dream
Don't give up on the wanting and everything that's true
Don't give up on the dream
Don't give up on the wanting, because I want you too

Because I want you to
Because I want you to
Because I want you
Because I want you

Because I want you to
Because I want you to
Because I want you
Because I want you

Fall into you is all I ever do
When I hit the bottle 'cos I'm afraid to be alone
Tear us in two, tear us in two
Tear us in two, don't tear us in two

Just because I want you to
Because I want you to
'cos I want you
'cos I want you

Because I want you to
Because I want you to
Because I want you
Because I want you

Placebo - Pure Morning

A friend in needs a friend indeed,
A friend with weed is better,
A friend with breasts and all the rest,
A friend who's dressed in leather

A friend in needs a friend indeed,
A friend who'll tease is better ,
Our thoughts compressed,
Which makes us blessed,
And makes for stormy weather

A friend in needs a friend indeed,
My Japanese is better,
And when she's pressed she will undress,
And then she's boxing clever

A friend in needs a friend indeed,
A friend who bleeds is better,
My friend confessed she passed the test,
And we will never sever

Day's dawning, skins crawling
Day's dawning, skins crawling
Day's dawning, skins crawling
Day's dawning, skins crawling
Pure morning
Pure morning
Pure morning
Pure morning

A friend in needs a friend indeed,
A friend who'll tease is better,
Our thoughts compressed,
Which makes us blessed,
And makes for stormy weather

A friend in needs a friend indeed,
A friend who bleeds is better,
My friend confessed she passed the test,
And we will never sever

Day's dawning, skins crawling
Day's dawning, skins crawling
Day's dawning, skins crawling
Day's dawning, skins crawling
Pure morning
Pure morning
Pure morning
Pure morning

A friend in needs a friend indeed,
My Japanese is better,
And when she's pressed she will undress,
And then she's boxing clever

A friend in needs a friend indeed,
A friend with weed is better,
A friend with breasts and all the rest,
A friend who's dressed in leather

Placebo feat. Michael Stipe - Broken Promise

They rise above this,
They cry about this,
As we live and learn.

A broken promise,
I was not honest,
Now I watch as tables turn,
And you're singing

I'll wait my turn,
To tear inside you,
Watch you burn,
I'll wait my turn,
I'll wait my turn.

I'll cry about this,
And hide my cuckold eyes,
As you come off all concerned,
And I'll find no solace,
In your poor apology,
In your regret that sounds absurd,
And keep singing

I'll wait my turn,
To tear inside you,
Watch you burn..
And I'll wait my turn,
To terrorize you,
Watch you burn..
And I'll wait my turn,
I'll wait my turn.

And this is a promise
Promise is a promise,
Promise is a promise,
Promise is a promise.

And I'll wait my turn,
To tear inside you,
Watch you burn,
I'll wait my turn,
I'll wait my turn.

A broken promise,
You were not honest!
I'll bide my time
I'll wait my, turn.

Placebo - Nancy Boy

Alcoholic kind of mood
Lose my clothes
Lose my lube
Cruising for a piece of fun
Looking out for number one
Different partner every night
So narcotic outta sight
What a gas
what a beautiful ass

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me
And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me

Kind of buzz that lasts for days
Had some help from insect ways
Comes across all shy and coy
Just another nancy boy
Woman man or modern monkey
Just another happy junkie
Fifty pounds
Press my button
Going down

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me
And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me

does his makeup in his room
Douse himself with cheap perfume
Eyeholes in a paper bag
Greatest lay I ever had
Kind of guy who mates for life
Gotta help him find a wife
We're a couple
When our bodies double

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me
And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me
And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me

Placebo - The Bitter End

Since we're feeling so anaesthetised
In our comfort zone
Reminds me of the second time
That I followed you home

We're running out of alibis
From the second of May
Reminds me of the summer time
On this winter's day

See you at the bitter end
See you at the bitter end

Every step we take that's synchronized
Every broken bone
Reminds me of the second time
That I followed you home

You shower me with lullabies
As you're walking away
Reminds me that it's killing time
On this fateful day

See you at the bitter end
See you at the bitter end
See you at the bitter end
See you at the bitter end

From the time we intercepted
Feels a lot like suicide
Slow and sad, grown inside us
Arouse and see you're mine
(See you at the bitter end)

Love has seen your run-around
Who wanna seek you now?
I want a peace
I'd whine out
(See you at the bitter end)

Love's reached his side
Grab this gentleness inside
Heard a cry
Six feet down
In six weeks' time
The mess you left
Will end
See you at the bitter end

Placebo - Bruise Pristine

The means are right for taking
Fade to gray
Trying to be ruthless
In the face of beauty
In this matrix
It's plain to see
It's either you or me

Bruise
Pristine
Serene
We were born to lose

Cause 'n' lie with a velvet glove
Reading like an open book
In the hands of love
In this matrix
It's plain to see
It's either you or me

Bruise
Pristine
Serene
We were born to lose

Means are right for taking
Fade to gray
Trying to be ruthless
In the face of beauty
In this matrix
It's plain to see
It's either you or me
Bruise
Pristine
Serene
We were born to lose

Placebo - Running Up That Hill

It doesn't hurt me.
You wanna feel how it feels?
You wanna know, know that it doesn't hurt me?
You wanna hear about the deal I'm making?
You be running up that hill
You and me be running up that hill

And if I only could,
Make a deal with God,
And get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building.
If I only could, oh...

You don't want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet lies.
Unaware that I'm tearing you asunder.
There is thunder in our hearts, baby.
So much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me, we both matter, don't we?

You, be running up that hill
You and me, be running up that hill
You and me won't be unhappy.

And if I only could,
Make a deal with God,
And get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building,
If I only could, oh...

'C'mon, baby, c'mon, c'mon, darling,
Let me steal this moment from you now.
C'mon, angel, c'mon, c'mon, darling,
Let's exchange the experience, oh...'

And if I only could,
Make a deal with God,
And get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems

'If I only could, be running up that hill.'
'If I only could, be running up that hill.'
'If I only could, be running up that hill.'
'If I only could, be running up that hill.'
'If I only could, be running up that hill.'
'If I only could, be running up that hill.'
'If I only could, be running up that hill.'

(originally recorded by Kate Bush)

Placebo feat. David Bowie - Without You I'm Nothing

Strange infatuation seems to grace the evening tide
I'll take it by your side
Such imagination seems to help the feeling slide
I'll take it by your side
Instant correlation sucks and breeds a pack of lies
I'll take it by your side
Over saturation curls the skin and tans the hide
I'll take it by your side

Tick - tock
Tick - tock
Tick - tock
Tick - tick
Tick - tick
Tick - tock

I'm unclean, a libertine
And every time you vent your spleen
I seem to lose the power of speech
You're slipping slowly from my reach
You grow me like an evergreen
You've never seen the lonely me at all

I
Take the plan, spin it sideways
I
Fall

Without you, I'm nothing
Without you, I'm nothing
Without you, I'm nothing
(Take the plan, spin it sideways)
Without you, I'm nothing at all

Placebo - Bright lights

Cast your mind back to the days,
When I pretend' I was OK.
I had so very much to say,
About my crazy livin'.
Now that I've stared into the void,
So many people, I've annoyed.
I have to find a middle way,
A better way of givin'.

So I haven't given up,
That all my choices, my good luck...
Appear to go and get me stuck,
In an open prison.
Now I am tryin' to break free,
In a state of empathy.
Find the true and inner me,
Eradicate this schism.

No-one can take it away from me,
And no-one can tear it apart.
'Cause a heart that hurts,
Is a heart that works.
A heart that hurts,
Is a heart that works.

A heart that hurts,
Is a heart that works.
No-one can take it away from me,
No-one can tear it apart.
It may be elaborate fantasy,
But it's the perfect place to start.

'Cause a heart that hurts,
Is a heart that works.
A heart that hurts,
Is a heart that... works.

Placebo feat. Alison Mosshart - Meds

I was alone, falling free,
Trying my best not to forget
What happened to us,
What happened to me,
What happened as I let it slip.

I was confused by the powers that be,
Forgetting names and faces.
Passersby were looking at me
As if they could erase it

Baby did you forget to take your meds?
Baby did you forget to take your meds?

I was alone,
Staring over the ledge,
Trying my best not to forget
All manner of joy
All manner of glee
And our one heroic pledge

How it mattered to us,
How it mattered to me,
And the consequences

I was confused,
By the birds and the bees
Forgetting if I meant it

Baby did you forget to take your meds?
Baby did you forget to take your meds?

And the sex and the drugs and the complications
And the sex and the drugs and the complications

Baby did you forget to take your meds?
Baby did you forget to take your meds?

I was alone, falling free,
Trying my best not to forget.