Failure - Fantastic Planet (1996)

This one's like a big, hour long space movie that's also partially about heroin. Cinematic, noisy, detailed, and it gets better with every listen. I heard the band recorded this one all themselves. It sucks that this is probably gonna be the last Failure record we get, now that they've broken up.

The Segue tracks are instrumental, so I didn't include them.

"Saturday Savior"

I'm never gonna say the words
That you want
I'm never gonna feel the shame
Like you do

I'm never gonna stretch my shape
To be with you
I only need you for a day
'Cause I only wanna be your

Saturday savior
I can be that
Saturday savior
I will be your

Saturday savior
I can be that
Impostor in your plan

I'm never gonna make you feel
That you're satisfied
I'm never gonna feel your pain
Like you wish I would

I'm never gonna open up
More than this
I just wanna be your
I just wanna be your

Saturday savior
I can be that
Saturday savior
I will be your

Saturday savior
I can be that
Impostor in your bed
Wake him up, please

I'm never gonna break it down
Quite like you
I'm never gonna long for life
The way you do

I'm never gonna push you out
'Cause you're not in
This will only take a while
'Cause I only wanna be your

Saturday savior
I can be that
Saturday savior
I will be your

Saturday savior
I can be that
Impostor in your bed
Let him out, please

"Sergeant Politeness"

They won't ever find out
Just where I hid them
One hundred stones that
Sparkle in darkness

They caught me downtown
Changing the bus lines
An easy target
Midday, no disguise

Sergeant Politeness
Searching for weak points
Caress my ego
Trick me so softly

I only took them
To find my way out
The self-infixed freeze
That comes from boredom

You see, I let them
I let them find me
One hundred stones that
Mean nothing to me

Sergeant Politeness
Searching for weak points
Caress my ego
Trick me so softly

I'm so innocent, sir
That I can't reveal a thing
I'm blind and happy, sir
To be tortured in this way

Sergeant Politeness
Searching for weak points
He'll caress my ego
And trick me so softly

Sergeant Politeness
I'm so enlightened
Go on, molest me
I won't confess now

Sergeant Politeness
Sergeant Politeness
Sergeant Politeness
Caress my ego

"Smoking Umbrellas"

Woke in my warm bed
Just in time for all the brilliant red lights
They were streaming through my half-shuttered window
Christmas lights in time with my stuttered brain waves

The door knob was glowing
All my photographs were rippled and melting
Through the walls, I could hear panicked voices
They seemed to say, "Go back to bed, there's no choices
And nowhere not burned yet"

The fireman calls out
We've got another
Smoking umbrella left
In the hallway and

The fireman calls out
We've got another
Smoking umbrella left
Here

I gave no answer
To all their shouted questions, just lay back choking
Didn't want to stay, but my bed was on fire
Instead of screaming, I fell back into dreamland
Blinking and sighing

The fireman calls out
We've got another
Smoking umbrella left
In the hallway and

The fireman calls out
We've got another
Smoking umbrella left
Here

I don't wanna leave
The comfort of my bed
I'd never believed it would
Happen this way

The fireman calls out
We've got another
Smoking umbrella left
In the hallway and

The fireman calls out
We've got another
Smoking umbrella left
Here

"Pillowhead"

I sprained my will
Lying in bed
Counting the pores
Across my skin

I'm so ashamed
To love no one
My ego's bent and my
Pride's undone

I'll spend the night
With my pillowhead girl
We never fight or say
A word

I'll spend my life
With my pillowhead girl
She is my lovely
Faceless queen

I gave up hope
In finding you
I've got a friend
I've grown used to

I'm so ashamed
To love no one
My ego's bent and my
Pride's undone

I'll spend the night
With my pillowhead girl
We never fight or say
A word

I'll spend my life
With my pillowhead girl
She is my lovely
Faceless queen

I'll spend the night
Wasting away

"Blank"

No conviction in your numb mind
A hidden cell of chemicals
Keep your soul on my projection
Never turn on the camera
Because

I kinda like
The blank way
I fill up my life

I don't
Care for nothing
That gets me too high

I want
Some dampened spirits
And black and bitter spoons

I'm not
Looking for affection
I'm living on the moon

No conviction in your voice box
It's buried low beneath the guilt
It all seems real as you whisper
She lies warm and the smell is you
But she knows

I kinda like
The blank way
You fill up my mind

I don't
Care for nothing
That gets me too high

I want
Some dampened spirits
And black and bitter spoons

I'm not
Looking for reflection
I'm living on the moon

Here I am
Right at home
In my crater

Here I am
Feeling old

Here I am
Wishing for
A miracle
I need you to know

That I like the blank way
I fill up the sky
And I care for nothing
You put in my mind

I like the blank way
You fill up my mind
I like the blank way
You fill up my mind

I like the blank way
You fill up my mind

"Dirty Blue Balloons"

I got high
On scrapings from my nails
Now I'm back down
My eyes are growing dark

My burnt spoon
Has dried beneath the bed
And I'm dreaming of
Dirty blue balloons

I've waited so long without you
I've waited too long for you

He came in
He didn't speak my language
I paid him
With everything I had

And promised next time
He opened up his mouth
And then they floated out
Dirty blue balloons

I've waited so long without you
I've waited too long for you
I've waited so long without you
I've waited too long for you

Nothing helps
And no one else
Can make it feel okay
Float me through the day

Nothing helps
And no one else
Can make it feel alright
Float me through the night

I cannot let them go
Dirty blue balloons

"Solaris"

I've been freezing my time
I've been slowing my breath
I've been saving my soul
I want you to freeze too

Are you haunting me again?
Are you thawing out my head?
I want you to get out

I'm on an ocean
That has a brain and makes us dream
I'm on a mission
To wipe imagination clean

You grew inside me
Dying time and time again
I'm on a mission
To escape from what my life has been

I've been hiding in snow
I've been treading on ghosts
Are you haunting me again?
Are you burning up my head?

I will never solve
Algebra of need
Any thought just might
Turn to flesh and drag me back to life

I'm on an ocean
That has a brain and makes us dream
I'm on a mission
To wipe imagination clean

You grew inside me
Dying time and time again
I'm on a mission
To escape from what my life has been

Without you
To escape my life without you
To escape my life without

I'm on an ocean
That has a brain and makes us dream
I'm on a mission
To wipe imagination clean

You grew inside me
Dying time and time again
I'm on a mission
To escape from what my life has been

"Pitiful"

Down by the railroad tracks
I will enjoy you
Can't feel a single thing
That won't fade away

We'll laugh like we always do
When we hear the whistle
So high and satisfied
Let's sleep for a spell

Pitiful, laughable
Once again silent
You're pitiful, laughable
Once again silent

You're pitiful, laughable
Once again silent
You're pitiful, laughable
Once again silent

Down at the carpet shop
You wanna cut me
The patterns are laughing out
I know it's not fair

Go ahead, roll me up
In your detachment
I'm here to decorate
Your fear for awhile

Pitiful, laughable
Once again silent
You're pitiful, laughable
Once again silent

You're pitiful, laughable
Once again silent
You're pitiful, laughable
Once again silent

You wanna hold on to me
I wanna hold out on you
That's what you'll tell yourself
As I fade away into your isolation

Pitiful, laughable
Once again silent
You're pitiful, laughable
Once again silent

You're pitiful, laughable
Once again silent
You're pitiful, laughable
Once again silent

"Leo"

Leo woke up in his bed again
Startled by all his familiar friends
Burnt out stubs, confectionary
Wrappers, bottles spent and empty
Leo felt a terror in the world

He sighs, "it's not so bad"
And goes about his day
As if
Nothing changed

He finds it so hard to explain
The way he can't communicate
The feeling's there but he can't say
Why it's so hard to remain
To anyone

Leo quickened his step toward his car
He broke into a sprint at twenty yards
As he guessed, the dogs had come
Ripping into his arm for fun
Leo got away in his blue car

He sighs, "it's not so bad"
And goes about his day
As if
Nothing changed

He finds it so hard to explain
The way he can't communicate
The feeling's there but he can't say
Why it's so hard to relate
To you, or anyone

He finds it so hard to explain
The way he can't communicate
The feeling's there but he can't say
Why it's so hard to relate

He finds it so hard to explain
The way he can't communicate
The feeling's there but he can't say
Why it's so hard to relate
To you, or anyone

"The Nurse Who Loved Me"

Say hello
To the rug's topography
It holds quite a lot of interest
With your face down on it

Say hello
To the shrinking in your head
You can see it, but you know it's there
So don't neglect it

I'm taking her home with me
All dressed in white
She's got everything I need
Pharmacy keys

She's falling hard for me
I can see it in her eyes
She acts just like a nurse
With all the other guys

Say hello
To all the apples on the ground
They were once in your eyes
But you sneezed them out while sleeping

Say hello
To everything you've left behind
It's even more a part of your life now that
You can't touch it

I'm taking her home with me
All dressed in white
She's got everything I need
Some pills in a little cup

She's falling hard for me
I can see it in her eyes
She acts just like a nurse
With all the other guys

She's got everything I need
Pharmacy keys
She acts just like a nurse
With all the other guys

Say hello
To the rug's topography

"Another Space Song"

The solar panel's shining face
Is smiling back on me
Twisting off into the sun
It's okay to be lonely

All my missions float away
I never trained too hard
I'm so caught up in the tree of stars
Falling in my backyard

She'll always be
What I can't find
She'll always be
Where I break down

She'll always hide
Behind a star
I'll always dream
She can't be far

I've got no Houston to whine down to
I've got no protocol
Gravity's so far away
Wrapped on that shrinking ball

I eclipsed my memories
Sleeping inside this pod
Patient time will carry me
On her back without a sigh

And I won't let her down
Her soul is celestial-bound
And if I'm never found
She'll always be

She'll always be
What I can't find
She'll always be
Where I break down

She'll always hide
Behind a star
I'll always dream
She can't be far

She'll always be
What I can't find
She'll always be
Where I break down

She'll always hide
Behind a star
I'll always dream
She can't be far

She'll always be
What I can't find
She'll always be
Where I break down

She'll always hide
Behind a star
I'll always dream
She can't be far

She'll always be
What I can't find
She'll always be
Where I break down

She'll always hide
Behind a star
I'll always dream
She can't be far

She'll always be
What I can't find
She'll always be
Where I break down

She'll always hide
Behind a star
I'll always dream
She can't be far

"Stuck on You"

I heard you driving in my car
Then in a frozen bar
I claimed I didn't care for you

But your verse got trapped inside my head
Over and over again
You played yourself to death in me

I thought I'd drop you easily
But that was not to be
You burrowed like a summer tick

So you invade my sleep
And confuse my dreams
Turn my nights to sleepless itch

Stuck on you
Til' the end of time
I'm too tired to fight your rhyme

Stuck on you
Til' the end of time
You've got me paralyzed

Holding on the telephone
I hear your midrange moan
You're everywhere inside my room

Even when I'm all alone
I hear your mellow drone
You're everywhere inside of me

Stuck on you
Til' the end of time
I'm too tired to fight your rhyme

Stuck on you
Til' the end of time
You've got me trapped

I can't escape
Your incessant whine
When you beam it out
All across the sky

No, I can't escape
Your insipid rhyme
When you shoot it deep
Straight into my mind

"Heliotropic"

Right now
We're sick of everything
Tonight
We'll bind up our brains again

With eyes pinned
I'll fly around on your bed
We'll grow close
While our hearts disconnect

Morning
Is limping into the room
Pleading
That we blind ourselves again

Rip out
That heliotropic rose
Back off
Please let the lost get lost

I know my faith has meaning
But I've forgotten why
It's so important to me
I can't remember why

Living
A phantasm of the nerves
Girlfriend's
Chemicals in your head

Good days
Eventually oxidize
Put them
With thoughts that escape your mind's eye

I know my faith has meaning
But I've forgotten why
It's so important to me
I can't remember why

Seems like I'm fucked forever
Feels like, at least, right now
I forgot why
I need to fill this space

"Daylight"

I've got a catacomb
With fur covered styrofoam
So come over now
And sleep

Time isn't here again
Wasted thoughts that could've been
Now we can devise
Our plan

Daylight
Daylight
Daylight won't find
Us here

I've got a catacomb
With flags that flew fifty years ago
Let sleep overcome
Your mind

God isn't safe again
Molests trees and chopped down men
So we must revise
Our plan

Daylight
Daylight
Daylight won't find
Us here

Daylight
Daylight
Daylight won't find
Us here

Daylight
Daylight
Daylight won't find
Us here