Placebo - BLACK MARKET MUSIC (2000) TRACKLIST: Taste In Men Days Before You Came Special K Spite & Malice Passive Aggressive Black Eyed Blue American Slave To The Wage Commercial For Levi Haemoglobin Narcoleptic Peeping Tom Black Market Blood TASTE IN MEN Come back to me awhile Change your style again Come back to me awhile Change your taste in men It's been this way since Christmas Day Dazzled, doused in gin Change your taste in men Come back to me awhile Change your style again Come back to me awhile Change your taste in men I'm killing time on Valentine's Waiting for the day to end Change your taste in men Come back to me awhile Change your style again Come back to me awhile Change your taste in men It's been this way since Christmas Day Dazzled, doused in gin Change your taste in men x10 DAYS BEFORE YOU CAME Days before you came Freezing cold and empty Towns that change their name And a horn of plenty Days before you came Counting breaths inside me Even crack cocaine Couldn't start to hide me Won't you join me now Baby's looking torn and frayed Join the masquerade Join the masquerade Won't you join me now Baby's looking to get laid Join the masquerade Join the masquerade Days before you came It always seemed enticing to be naked and profane there is no denying Days before you came Thunderbolts and lightning Each day a brand new vein Each tourniquet colliding Didn't what you anyway x 4 Won't you join me now Baby's looking torn and frayed Join the masquerade Join the masquerade Won't you join me now Baby's looking to get laid Join the masquerade Join the masquerade Days before you came (repeat) SPECIAL K Coming up beyond belief On this coronary thief More than just a leitmotif More chaotic, no relief I'll describe the way I feel Weeping wounds that never heal Can the savior be for real Or are you just my seventh seal? No hesitation, no delay You come on just like special K Just like I swallowed half my stash I never ever want to crash No hesitation, no delay You come on just like special K Now you're back with dope demand I'm on sinking sand Gravity No escaping gravity Gravity No escaping... not for free I fall down... hit the ground Make a heavy sound Every time you seem to come around I'll describe the way I feel You're my new Achilles heel Can this savior be for real Or are you just my seventh seal? No hesitation, no delay You come on just like special K Just like I swallowed half my stash I never ever want to crash No hesitation, no delay You come on just like special K Now you're back with dope demand I'm on sinking sand Gravity No escaping gravity Gravity No escaping... not for free I fall down... hit the ground Make a heavy sound Every time you seem to come around No escaping gravity No escaping gravity No escaping gravity No escaping gravity Gravity (x4) SPITE & MALICE Revolution, dope, guns, fucking in the streets (x2) Aces take your time Queens are left for dead Jacks can stand in line And touch themselves instead Aces take your pity And keep it warm in bed Aces take your time Cut the deck The queens left for dead Soft and wet, scarf tied to the bed Jack is all tragic when he stands alone Feeling demonic harmonic in a no go zone You look well suited like you came to win Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin Cruising for pity and looking pretty as fuck Ace take your chances Queen wish you luck Aces take your time Draw your final breath Jacks are feeling fine They've clubbed themselves to death Aces take your pity You sleep with it instead Aces take your time You can play your card, I'll hold onto mine Tied up in the reasons, Ace take your time Looks turn to lovers, flames into fires Jack loves his tragedy, Queen her desires You look well suited like you came to win Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin Wrap me in your trauma and I may just give you mine Queen take your chances Ace take your time Dope, guns, fucking in the streets (Revolution) Everything will blow tonight Either friend or foe, tonight Cut the deck The queens left for dead Soft and wet, scarf tied to the bed Jack is all tragic when he stands alone Feeling demonic harmonic in a no go zone You look well suited like you came to win Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin Cruising for pity and looking pretty as fuck Ace take your chances Queen wish you luck Dope, guns, fucking in the streets (Revolution) Everything will blow tonight Either friend or foe, tonight PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE It's in your reach Concentrate It's in your reach Concentrate If you deny this Then it's your fault That God's in crisis He's over It's in your reach Concentrate It's in your reach Concentrate If you deny this Then it's your fault That God's in Crisis He's over Every time I rise I see you falling Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart Every time I rise I see you falling Can you find me space, find me space It's in your reach Concentrate It's in your reach Concentrate If you deny this Then it's your fault That God's in Crisis He's over Every time I rise I see you falling Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart Every time I rise I see you falling Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart It falls apart It falls apart Falls apart Every time I rise I see you falling Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart Every time I rise I see you falling Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart It falls apart It falls apart Falls apart BLACK EYED I was never faithful And I was never one to trust Borderlining schizo And guaranteed to cause a fuss I was never loyal Except to my own pleasure zone I'm forever black-eyed A product of a broken home I was never faithful And I was never one to trust Borderline bipolar Forever biting on your nuts I was never grateful That's why I spend my days alone I'm forever black-eyed A product of a broken home (Broken home) Black-eyed (repeat) I was never faithful And I was never one to trust Borderlining schizo And guaranteed to cause a fuss I was never loyal Except to my own pleasure zone I'm forever black-eyed A product of a broken home (Broken home) Black-eyed (repeat) BLUE AMERICAN I wrote this novel just for you It sounds pretentious but it's true I wrote this novel just for you That's why it's vulgar That's why it's blue And I say, thank you And I say, thank you I wrote this novel just for Mom For all the mommy things she's done For all the times she showed me wrong For all the time she sang god's song And I say thank you Mom Hello Mom Thank you Mom Hi Mom I read a book about Uncle Tom Where a whitey bastard made a bomb But now Ebonics rule our song Those motherfuckers got it wrong And I ask Who is uncle Tom? Who is uncle Tom? Who is uncle Tom? You are I read a book about the self Said I should get expensive help Go fix my head Create some wealth Put my neurosis on the shelf But I don't care for myself I don't care for myself I don't care for myself I don't care I wrote this novel just for you I'm so pretentious, yes it's true I wrote this novel just for you Just for you Just for you 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 x2 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 x2 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 x3 Burn away Run away (repeat) COMMERCIAL FOR LEVI You're the one who's always choking Trojan You're the one who's always bruised and broken Sleep may be the enemy But so's another line It's a remedy You should take more time You're the one who's always choking trojan You're the one who's showers always golden Spunk & bestiality well it's an Assisi lie It's ahead of me You should close your fly I understand the fascination The dream that comes alive at night But if you don't change your situation Then you'll die, you'll die, don't die, don't die Please don't die You're the one who's always choking trojan You're the one who's always bruised and broken Drunk on immorality Valium and cherry wine Coke and ecstasy You're gonna blow your mind I understand the fascination I've even been there once or twice or more But if you don't change your situation Then you'll die, you'll die, don't die, don't die Please don't die x 4 HAEMOGLOBIN I was hanging from a tree Unaccustomed to such violence Jesus looking down on me I'm prepared for one big silence How'd I ever end up here Must be through some lack of kindness And it seemed to dawn on me Haemoglobin is the key Haemoglobin is the key To a healthy heart beat Haemoglobin is the key To a healthy heart beat At the time they cut me free I was brimming with defiance Doctors looking down on me Breaking every law of science How'd I ever end up here? A latent strain of color blindness Then it seemed to dawn on me Haemoglobin is the key Haemoglobin is the key To a healthy heart beat x4 Now my feet don't touch the ground Now my feet don't touch the ground Now my feet don't touch the ground Now my feet don't touch the ground As they drag me to my feet I was filled with incoherence Theories of conspiracy The whole world wants my disappearance I'll go fighting nail and teeth You've never seen such perseverance Gonna make you scared of me Cause haemoglobin is the key Haemoglobin is the key To a healthy heart beat x4 Now my feet don't touch the ground X8 NARCOLEPTIC Slip and stumble at my first offences It's not treason, it's no lie You talk in paragraphs I write my sentence It's not treason, it's no lie It seemed a place for us to dream x 2 Crush and crumble under your defenses It's not treason, it's no lie You frame the photograph I sit on fences Change of season, love can die It seemed a place for us to dream x 4 If we tear out the tumor It's later, never sooner If we tear out the tumor It's later, never sooner It seemed a place for us to dream x 2 You'd better keep it in check Or you'll end up a wreck And you'll never wake up You'd better keep it in check Or you'll end up a wreck And you'll never wake up Wake up x3 It seemed a place for us to dream x 2 You'd better keep it in check Or you'll end up a wreck And you'll never wake up x 4 Wake up PEEPING TOM I'm careful not to fall I have to climb your wall 'Cause you're the one Who makes me feel much taller than you are I'm just a peeping tom On my own for far too long Problems with the booze Nothing left to lose I'm weightless... I'm bare I'm faithless... I'm scared The face that fills the hole That stole my broken soul The one that makes me seem to feel much taller than you are I'm just a peeping tom On my own for far too long Troubles with the gear Nothing left to fear I'm weightless... I'm bare I'm faithless... I'm scared I'm weightless... I'm bare I'm faithless... I'm scared With every bet I lost And every trick I tossed You're still the one who makes me feel much taller than you are I'm just a peeping tom On my own for far too long Problems with the booze Nothing left to lose I'm weightless... I'm bare I'm faithless... I'm scared I'm weightless... I'm bare I'm faithless... I'm scared I'm weightless... I'm bare I'm faithless... I'm scared I'm scared I'm scared I'm scared I'm scared BLACK MARKET BLOOD Wasted face that swallowed time With Armageddon crawling She's insane, this friend of mine And she's always bawling Hear her calling Hear her calling you Hear her calling Hear her calling you There's a place within her mind With rains already falling She's insane, this friend of mine And she's always bawling Hear her calling Hear her calling you Hear her calling Hear her calling you She's preparing for the flood The deluge and the sliding mud She's preparing for the flood Running on black market blood Black market blood Wasted face that swallowed time With Armageddon crawling She's insane, this friend of mine And she's always bawling Hear her calling Hear her calling you Hear her calling Hear her calling you She's preparing for the flood The deluge and the sliding mud She's preparing for the flood Running on black market blood Black market blood Black market blood Black market blood Black market