Mechanical Animals Lyrics

Mechanical Animals-Released September 15th 1998
  • Great Big White World
  • The Dope Show
  • Mechanical Animals
  • Rock Is Dead
  • Disassocative
  • The Speed Of Pain
  • Posthuman
  • I Want To Disappear
  • I Don't Like The Drugs(But The Drugs Like Me)
  • New Model No.15
  • User Friendly
  • Fundamentally Loathsome
  • The Last Day On Earth
  • Coma White
  • Great Big White World

    In space the stars are no nearer
    They just glitter like a morgue
    And I dreamed I was a spaceman
    Burned like a moth in a flame
    And our world was so fucking gone
    
    But I'm not attached to you now
    Nothing heals and nothing grows
    
    Because it's a great big white world and we are drained of our colors
    We used to love ourselves, we used to love another
    All my stiches itch
    My prescription's low, I wish you were queen just for today
    In a world so white what else could I say?
    
    And hell was so cold
    All the vases are so broken
    And the roses tear our hands all open
    Mother marry miscarry
    And we pray just like insects
    The world is so ugly now
    
    Because it's a great big white world and we are drained of our colors
    (chorus repeat)

    The Dope Show

    The drugs they say make us feel so hollow
    We love in vain narcissistic and so shallow
    The cops and queers to swim you have to swallow
    Hate today, no love for tomorrow
    
    We're all stars now in the dope show
    We're all stars now in the dope show
    
    There's a lot of pretty, pretty ones
    That want to get you high
    But all the pretty, pretty ones
    Will leave you low and blow your mind
    
    We're all stars now in the dope show
    We're all stars now in the dope show
    
    They love you when you're on all the covers
    When you're not then they love another
    
    The drugs they say are made in California
    We love your face
    We'd really like to sell you
    The cops and queers make good-looking models
    I hate today
    Who will I wake up with tomorrow?
    
    There's a lot of pretty, pretty ones
    That want to get you high
    But all the pretty, pretty ones
    Will leave you low and blow your mind
    
    They love you when you're on all the covers
    When you're not then they love another
    
    There's a lot of pretty, pretty ones
    That want to get you high
    But all the pretty, pretty ones
    Will leave you low and blow your mind, blow your mind
    
    We're all stars now in the dope show
    We're all stars now in the dope show
    

    Mechnical Animals

    We were neurophobic and perfect
    the day that we lost our souls
    machines that wished they were human
    If they cry they will rust
    And I was a hand grenade
    That never stopped exploding
    You were automatic and as hollow as the "o" in god
    
    I am never gonna be the one for you
    I am never gonna save the world from you
    But they'll never be good for you
    Or bad to you
    They'll never be anything
    Anything at all
    
    You were my mechanical bride
    You were phenobarbidoll
    A manniqueen of depression
    With the face of a dead star
    And I was a hand grenade
    That never stopped exploding
    You were automatic and as hollow as the "o" in god
    
    I am never gonna be the one for you (chorus repeat)
    
    This isn't me I'm not mechanical
    I'm just a boy playing the suicide king
    

    Rock Is Dead

    All simple monkeys with alien babies
    Amphetamines for boys
    Crucifixes for ladies
    Sampled and soulless
    Worldwide and real webbed
    You sell all the living
    For more safer dead
    
    Anything to be loved
    
    Rock is deader than dead
    Shock is all in your head
    Your sex and your dope is all that were fed
    So fuck all your protests and put them to bed
    
    God is on the T.V.
    
    1,000 mothers are praying for it
    We're so full of hope
    And so full of shit
    Build a new god to medicate and to ape
    Sell us ersatz dressed up and real fake
    
    Anything to be loved
    
    Rock is deader than dead (chorus repeat)
    
    God is on the T.V.

    Disassocative

    I can tell you what they say in space
    That our earth is too grey
    But when the spirit is so digital
    The body acts this way
    That world aws killing me
    That world was killing me
    Disassociative
    
    The nervous systems down, the nervous systems down
    
    I know
    
    I can never get out of here
    I don't want to just float in fear
    A dead astronaut in space
    
    Sometimes we walk like we were shot through our heads, my love
    We write our song in space like we are already dead and gone
    Your world was killing me
    Your world was killing me
    Disassociative
    Your world was killing me
    Your world was killing me
    Disassociative
    
    I can never get out of here
    I don't want to just float in fear
    A dead astronaut in space
    The nervous systems down, the nervous systems down
    I know

    The Speed Of Pain

    They slit our throats
    Like we were flowers
    And our milk has been devoured
    
    When you want it
    It goes away too fast
    When you hate it
    It always seems to last
    But just remember when you think you're free
    The crack inside you fucking heart is me
    
    (thought, not spoken): I wanna outrace the speed of pain for another day
    
    I wish I could sleep
    But I can't lay on my back
    Because ther's a knife
    For everyday that I've known you
    
    When you want it
    it goes away yoo fast
    When you hate it
    It always seems to last
    But just remember when you think you're free
    The crack inside your fucking heart is me
    
    (thought, not spoken): I wanna outrace the speed of pain for another day
    
    Lie to me, cry to me, give to me
    I would
    Lie with me, die with me, give to me
    I would
    Keep all your secrets wrapped in dead hair
    I hope at least we die holding hands for always

    Posthuman

    She's got eyes like Zapruder
    And a mouth like heroin
    She wants me to be perfect like Kennedy
    This isn't god, this isn't god
    God is just a statistic
    God is just a statistic
    Say "show me the dead stars
    All of them sing."
    This is a riot
    Religious and clean
    
    God is a number you cannot count to
    You are posthuman and hardwired
    
    She's pilgrim and pagan
    Softworn and so-cial
    In all of her dreams
    She's a saint like Jackie O
    
    This isn't god, this isn't god
    God is just a statistic
    (chorus repeat)
    
    Coma white:
    "All that glitters is cold, all that glitters is cold."

    I Want To Disappear

    Look at me now I've got no religion
    Look at me now I'm so vacant
    Look at me now I was a virgin
    Look at me now grew up to be a whore
    And I want it
    I believe it
    I'm a million different things
    And not one you know
    
    Hey and our mommies are lost now
    Hey, daddy's someone else
    Hey, we love the abuse
    Because it makes us feel like we are needed now
    But I know
    I wanna disappear
    
    I wanna die young and sell my soul
    Use up all your drugs and make me come
    Yesterday man, I was a nihilist and now today
    I'm too fucking bored by the time I'm old enough
    I won't know anything at all
    
    Hay, and our mommies are lost now
    (chorus repeat)

    I Don't Like The Drugs(But The Drugs Like Me)

    Norm life baby "we're white and oh so hetero and our sex is missionary."
    Norm life baby "we're quitters and we're sober our confessions will be televised."
    
    You and I are underdosed and we're ready to fall
    Raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all
    
    I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me
    I don't like the drugs, the drugs, the drugs
    
    Norm life baby "our god is white and unforgiving we're piss tested and we're praying."
    Norm life baby "I'm just a sample of a soul made to look just like a human being."
    
    Norm life baby "we're rehabbed and we're ready dor our 15 minutes of shame."
    Norm life baby "we're talkshown and we're poiting just like christians at a suicide."
    
    You and I are underdosed and we're ready to fall
    Raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all
    I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me
    I don't like the drugs, the drugs, the drugs

    New Model No. 15

    I'm as fake as e wedding cake
    And I'm Vague and I know that I'm homopolitan
    Pitifully predictable
    Correctly political
    
    I'm the new, I'm the new, new model
    I've got nothing inside
    Better in the head and in bed
    At the office
    I can suck and I smile
    New, new, new model
    
    I can choke and diet on coke
    I'm Spun and I know
    That I'm Stoned and Rolling
    
    Lifelike and poseable
    Hopeless and disposable
    
    I'm the new, I'm the new, new model
    I've got nothing inside
    Better in the head and in bed
    At the office
    I can suck and I smile
    New, new, new model
    
    Don't let them know how far you go
    Or that you use you "lovers"
    Oh look, you're like a VCR
    Stick something in to know
    Just who you are you
    
    New, new, new model

    User Friendly

    Use me when you want to come
    I've bled just to have your touch
    When I'm in you I want to die
    
    User friendly fucking dopestar obscene
    Will you die when you're high
    You'd never die just for me
    She says,
    "I'm not in love, but I'm gonna fuck you
    'til somebody better comes along."
    
    Use me like I was a whore
    Relationships are such a bore
    Deleted the ones that you've fucked
    
    User friendly fucking dopestar obscene
    Will you die when you're high
    You'd never die just for me
    She says,
    "I'm not in love, but I'm gonna fuck you
    'til somebody better comes along."

    Fundamentally Loathsome

    I want to wake up in your white, white sun
    I want to wake up in your world with no pain
    But I'll just suffer in a hope to die someday
    While you are numb all of the way
    
    When you hate it you know you can feel but
    When you love it you know it's not real
    No
    And I am resigned to this wicked fucking world
    On its way to hell
    The living are dead and
    I hope to join them too
    I know what to do and I di it well...
    
    When you hate it you know you can feel but
    When you love it you know it's not real
    No
    
    Shoot myself to love you
    If I loved myself I'd be shooting you

    The Last Day On Earth

    Yesterday was a million years ago
    In all my past lives I played an asshole
    Now I found you, it's almost too late
    And this earth seems obliviating
    We are trembling in our crutches
    High and dead our skin is glass
    I'm so empty here without
    I crack and split my xerox hands
    
    I know it's the last day on earth
    We'll be together while the planet dies
    I know it's the last day on earth
    We'll never say goodbye
    
    The dogs slaughter each other softly
    Love burns it's casualties
    We are damaged provider modules
    Spill the seeds at our children's feet
    I'm so empty here without you
    I know they want me dead
    
    I know it's the last day on earth (chorus repeat)

    Coma White

    Something is cold and blank behind her smile
    She's standing on an overpass
    In her miracle mile
    (coma):
    "You were from a perfect world
    A world that threw me away today
    Today to run away"
    
    A pill to make you numb
    A pill to make you dumb
    A pill to make you anybody else
    But all the drugs in this world
    Won't save her from herself
    
    Her mouth was an empty cut
    And she was waiting to fall
    Just bleeding like a polaroid that
    Lost all her dolls
    (coma):
    "You were from a perfect world
    A world that threw me away today
    Today to run away"
    
    A pill to make you numb
    A pill to make you dumb
    (chorus repeat)