I'm just a tick in a box on a questionnaire 

another moment that flashes into nowhere 

a brand name on a pill that get's you there, ah ah ah ah 

I'm getting nothing and expecting oblivion 

the past aint even worth livin in 

its just a nail that keeps being driven in ah ah ah ah 

I'm cold blooded and completely relaxed 

I'm breaking legs and avoiding the facts 

on the up escalator going down all the cracks, yeah ah ah ah 

 

You are the dummies of another frightened nation 

I am a candidate for elevation 

but when i woke up this morning I'd lost all sensation 

all sensation 

 

So get them, get him, but don't get me 

ah uh ah ah can't hear your cries 

so don't get me to fill up your empty lives 

i i i i ives Empty lives 



Your empty lives Empty lives 

Be obedient, there is no escape 

Forms to fill, time to kill love death and rape 

Sleep baby sleep, don't let nothing awaken you ahhhhhhhh 

Don't look for tomorrow, it's given you the slip 

that's all contained on a silicon chip 

I'm losing shape for the eighties feeling everybody's grip slip 

everybody's grip slip 

 

So get them, get him, but don't get me 

ah uh ah ah can't hear your cries 

so don't get me to fill up your empty lives 

i i i i ives Empty lives 

 

Just there waiting to be filled 

with someone else's stronger will 

Just can't reason to survive with empty empty 

you got the empty empty, You got the empty empty, 

empty lives!Yeah! 

 

(solo) 

 

Bring me water, bring me cocaine 

Bring me something lethal, something that leaves a stain 

But please don't make me feel that emptiness again 

Feel the emptyness again 

 

So get them, get him, but don't get me 

ah uh ah ah get fat it's your size but 

don't get me to fill up your empty 

don't get me to fill up your empty 

don't get me to fill up your empty lives 

i i i i i i i ives Your empty lives 

Your empty lives 

 

(repeat and fade with ad libbing on 

"don't get me" to end on chorus).