Sneaker Pimps album ‘Splinter’
lyrics / music
album released in 1999
Half Life
Half life wastes before it goes
It’s funny how your bee sting touch never leaves me whole
It’s not enough to stay here almost trying
You keep your last laugh watch this dying
It’s just your half time vertigo
And if you want an answer, I don’t know
If you had completed me
Don’t think I’d be pleased with you
Don’t think I’d compete with you
With half of me to take
Half life nothing I’d call home
It’s lucky how these phantom limb bee stings never show
It’s not enough to leave this falling kindly
You burn my star down twice as brightly
It’s just your half light undertow
But if you need forgiveness, I don’t know
Half light breaks with nothing wrong
Just a corner of my bed where you don’t belong
It’s kind of you to notice no-one’s dying
You had your last laugh, almost crying
It’s just your half life, long to know
And if you need a reason, so it goes
—–
Low Five
It takes too much to please me
Attached with no real feeling
High fives and corporate anthems
Nothing comes to mind
Kitemarked for true low standards
Where more wants all and no less
Just change with no real progress
Nothing comes to mind
I want higher
Still nothing comes to mind
Give me a low five
Cause i can’t help myself
I’m a low five, downsize no-one else
Do you love yourself?
These altered states and egos
Potential less than zero
Found god in san diego
Nothing comes to mind
I half expect to find myself
In full control of nothing else
Lost hope but learned to hope less
Nothing comes to mind
I want higher
Still nothing comes to mind
—–
Lightning Field
Strike me down
Give me everything you’ve got
Strike me down;I’ll be everything i’m not
Count the questions on one hand you don’t ask me what i planned
Strike me down
Should have asked me what went wrong
Strike me down
Should have stayed away too long
Strike me down
Give it everything you’ve got
Chance me now
I’ll be everything i’m not
Hope’s the child of what luck brings
Points the faith in higher things
Ask me now
fire off everything at once
Strike me down
Take it anyway you want
Strike me down
Better left it all unknown
Strike me down
Should have left it all alone
Wash the questions off my hands;I’m the fate in no-one plans
Strike me down
Give it everything you’ve got
Strike me down
I’ll be everything i’m not
—–
Curl
Now your future’s got me told
Stopped breathing on my own
I curl to break consent
To print the facts in stone
Suppose for seconds you forget your past
Neglect to turn in, think straight, stand out last
I just curl now to help me find you out
We’re keeping devils down and sleeping sound
Now your newspeak’s ageing thin
A pale and hanging faith
A devil sick on sin
Will curl against its place
I just curl now to help me find you out
We’re keeping devils down and sleeping sound
Itch to scratch
To strike my past from all it’s owed
It’s sold
—–
Destroying Angel
I know you know my head’s not in this now
Nothing you can keep so keep me down
Like the stones beneath the water that you walk on to be taller
And the hands you stuck together cause you prayed you’d wait forever
Just another fragile angel heart
Falling down on lead wings torn apart
And the words beneath my skin
The ink that you put in
Destroying all the things you left around
Cause I’m earthbound coming down
Come down
Come down
Come round…
So what you have the nerve to call a friend
Is starved of all the sense to make amends
Cause I’m the glass you break to touch
But you never want me much
Like the view across the water from your shoes and two feet smaller
I know it doesn’t pay to be this hurt
Falling off the morning getting worse
And the words beneath my skin
The ink that you put in
Destroying all the things you’ve left around
Cause I’m earthbound coming down
Come down
Come down
Come round…
—–
Empathy
Her innocence above me
Today is dead, she’s around my head
Between my history, between my headphones
This is her home, forever her home
But i can’t be her brother
To empower her, to become her
To trawl through this forgiveness
My memory’s so
Empathy low
This attitude beneath her
It’s evident it denies us
Proves herself to be closer
But not me, forever not me
This sickness avoids all cure
Imperfection my downfall
Learn myself through symptoms
My memory’s so
Empathy low
—–
Superbug
I aim to bug you on your vacancy
Never complicate but you talk it cheap
You sense but you don’t know
Too lame to catch a cold
Slowly the signs will read you dumb
Surely the times will feel you numb
I know the pains you took to show me
And i’m nothing but your superbug for asking
I hate to bug you on your certainty
Never compromise – you’re just always weak
You care but you don’t show
Too proud to catch the flow
Under all the truth and facts there’s faith enough
If you can’t live on love alone it isn’t love
Slowly the signs will read you dumb
Surely the times will feel you numb
I know the depths you sunk to show me
I want the life the world still owes me
And i’m nothing but your superbug for asking
Answer – stamp me out
And i’d love to break your fall but no-ones asking me
Answer – stamp me out
Slowly the signs will read you dumb
Surely the times will feel you numb
I know the pains you took to show me
You said it hurts your head to know me
And i’m nothing but your superbug for asking
Answer – stamp me out
—–
Flowers and Silence
We’re always, too always in doubt
Works on me
She’s nowhere, she mainlines, helps me out
Now I can speak
Was heard, not seen, wasted, nothing’s free
Was black, was bruised, fucked up, twenty two
Was fucked up, twenty two
And I’m amazed, you eat, you sleep, you function at all
‘Cause my aim’s so weak that I’d fail to get into my arm
Was made the first to laugh
Tried but the tribute shortchanged kindness
Flowers and silence
Was made the first to laugh
Charmed but the weather broke me sober
I’ve never been colder
Seen braver, seemed braver since then
But never been
No favours, no saviours, no sense
It’s not in me
So nothing’s free, ghostdrunk, out of reach
So action this, cared less, never missed
And you preach, you teach, did I learn you nothing at all?
I’m too dumb to see but you stooped for someone this small
Was made the first to laugh
Tried but the tribute shortchanged kindness
Flowers and silence
Was made the first to laugh
Charmed but the weather broke me sober
I’ve never been colder
You’ll always be closing me down
Works on me
Denied me, remind me
I’m sold out
Just skin and teeth
Left black and bruised, fucked up, nothing new
Was heard not seen, wasted, nothing’s free
—–
Cute Sushi Lunches
Pretty raw with this
Cute sushi lunches
Nineteen steps from out under your feet
Can’t eat, won’t eat
Have, have not me
Can’t eat ,won’t eat
Cute sushi lunches
Pretty down on this
Cold feet excuses
One lame talk where art and life don’t meet
Can’t see, won’t see
Have, have not me
Hate like a child hates his hair cut
Can’t eat, won’t eat
Cute sushi lunches
—–
Ten to Twenty
Different ways of counting
Fingers running through your hair
Ten to twenty lifelines
If you doubt how this compares
There’s fear enough to share
A fear of loathing
So easy how you bare
The trace of me without you there
So fall like the snow
Too much, too slow
So fragile to say
Hanging over everyday
A breeze with contempt
To shame the others
A story’s so thin
To cover all your lovers
Count me out your standards
Shallow trade in competence
Ten to twenty answers
Shouting down on confidence
Too easy not to share
Too vain for secrets
There’s fear enough in there
A taste of need in someone’s care
—–
Splinter
I see you couldn’t catch your breath
Believe me it’s all that it must be
You see I never said my piece
If only you left it that easy
Fractured we have been since sometime sixteen
Failure was on me cause your ideals bore me
Does it take the fireworks to make you look in wonder?
Would you give reaction to the cause I’m under?
So coloured by you but your monkey messed it up
Surrendered by you,
Your monkey’s long-while had enough
You’re like scissors in my coat
You’re like splinters in my cup
I know you couldn’t care me less
Keep hoping it’s all only token
You know I never had my say
If only you’d kept it that open
Loser, I have been, but it’s so lost on me
Splintered I will be when your peace breaks cheap
Does it take the fireworks to make you look in wonder?
Would you give reaction to the cause I’m under?
Three colour blind you but your monkey messed it up
Surrendered by you,
Your monkey’s long-while had enough
You’re like scissors in my coat
You’re like splinters in my cup
—–
Wife by Two thousand
Never so complete, just failing on its feet
Choking out these last few days here
Never ever lied, all confidence at all times
Trying hard to love myself
I think that I need some working on so work on me
I think that nothing’s getting through so get to me
Just another no show, waste of passing go
Christ knows how we get to be here
No one’s broken no one’s beaten
I can see a rainbow near them
I can see a rainbow
Never so confused, just laughed out cost abused
Aiming loosely your direction
Always too extreme, all case and cause to plead
Striving hard to spite yourself
I think that I need some working on so work on me
I think that nothing’s getting through so get to me
Just another no name taken passing blame
Christ knows what we get to be here
Always coming clean all case and cause to bleed
Trying hard to like yourself
Never so complete, just falling on its feet
Choking out its last few breaths here
I think that I need some working on so work on me
I think that nothing’s getting through so get to me
Just another no show scissors paper stone
Christ knows what we get to be here