Intravenous

[Verse 1]

I looked across the North Sea

And the sea looked so dead

I wondered what this place would look like

In the next twenty years

But where I'm living

All the shop shelves are full

Goods to help me shut out

Scenes of this dying world

[Chorus]

And every time I tried to hide

The churning of my guts inside

Everybody failed to heed the warning

Mother, mother I just stand by

They push the needle deep inside

Pump poison in your veins

Intravenous

[Verse 2]

Holidays were different

All the things that I learnt

All the boys were sunning

While the skin cancer burnt

Just for one split second

I saw the great work of man

As he turned the forests

Into deserts of sand

[Chorus]

Every time I tried to hide

The churning of my guts inside

Everybody failed to heed the warning

Mother, mother I just stand by

They push the needle deep inside

Pump poison in your veins

Intravenous

[Bridge]

We watch the world change before our very eyes

[Chorus]

Every time I tried to hide

The churning of my guts inside

Everybody failed to heed the warning

Mother, mother I just stand by

They push the needle deep inside

Pump poison in your veins

Intravenous

Every time I tried to hide

The churning of my guts inside

Everybody failed to heed the warning

[Instrumental Outro]