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Jesus Online Album: The Science of Things (1999)
by Bush

The Science of Things is the third studio released on 26 October 1999, through Trauma Records. It is the last Bush album released through Trauma and features many electronic music influences. The album peaked at number eleven on the US Billboard 200 and has been certified platinum by the RIAA.

In 1998, Gavin Rossdale retreated to a countryside house in Ireland to write demos for a new Bush album. The album was recorded over a span of 4 weeks, at a variety of locations including lead guitarist Nigel Pulsford's home and Mayfair Studios in London. The album's musical direction of integrating electronic elements into a rock sound was, according to drummer Robin Goodridge, was influenced by Deconstructed, a 1997 remix album of Bush's music.

Rossdale stated in 1999 that The Science of Things was so-named because the phrase was "a mixture of the specific, science, and the non-specific, things", a combination that Rossdale felt was "personal, and somehow intimate".

Following completion towards the end of 1998, the release of The Science of Things was delayed after the band were met with a US$40 million lawsuit from their label Trauma Records, claiming "breach of contract and nondelivery of the album". A settlement between Bush and Trauma was agreed in June 1999.

Gil Kaufman of MTV News commented in October 1999 that The Science of Things was forged around "a vaguely science-fiction" narrative, as well as reflecting what he proclaimed to be Rossdale's "lyrical fascination with doomed relationships and the decay of modern society". "Spacetravel" was written reflecting Rossdale's feeling of detachment from being in Ireland during Tony Blair's earliest months as Prime Minister of The UK, while "Dead Meat" related to the abusive death of Canadian model Dorothy Stratten in 1980. "Disease of the Dancing Cats" was environmentally-themed; Rossdale stated in 1999 that the song was written about Minamata disease from mercury poisoning.

Whatever she wants from me
Whatever device
Whether in kindness
Whether in spite
What can I say
What can I do
I can't help myself
I let the monster through

Wherever she sends me
Wherever the plane
Perfect black dress
Perfect grave
What can I say
What can I do
I did it to myself
I did it all confused

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Wires around the world
Feel invincible
Computer car and girl
Jesus online
Wires around the world
Feel invincible
To be perfect just like you
To be perfect just like you

Whenever she comes with me
Whenever we break
Dress up my apathy
Pretend we're great, great, great

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Wires around the world
Feel invincible
Computer car and girl
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Jesus, Jesus
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Arms around the world
Feel invincible
To be perfect just like you
To be perfect just like you
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To be perfect just like you
To be perfect just like you
To be perfect just like you
To be perfect just like you
To be perfect just like you
To be perfect just like you
To be perfect just like you