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| Once started up I’ve got an Indian name it’s the one who's got no brake I have to reach my aim don't care how long it takes I heard my mama say I'd beg he’d loose one leg that he won’t climb that high he’s a gonna break his neck The day I got my first mobile was a hot day in July I had to ride that bicycle ‘till I thought I must die from places where I used to play with my friends by my side I had to walk back all alone I played there until night older I drank beer in bars when a fighter crossed my way I broke his nose, tore off one ear then I heard me say : Once started up I can’t slow down like a pick-up truck with a heavy load from a hill into town once started up I can't slow down better get off my way ‘cause I won’t brake yes, I keep rollin’ on I went to dancing-balls where sweet girls shake a leg first I didn’t like it there they talked behind my back they urged me for a dance I could not find the beat but then I came into it ‘till they all had bleedin’ feet one girl took me to her home she tore me in her bed next evening she asked for a break and this is what I said : once started up One for the heart Heart knows where we should walk to Heart knows every way Don’t be afraid, if heart talks to you It won’t do you any harm Carry on, go on beating My head’s just telling me bad lies And brain might leave long before I go You still beat in time Heart’s fine and you are smiling Heart’s sad and you may cry Don’t be afraid, if heart talks to you It just makes sure, you’re still alive Carry on, go on beating My head’s just telling me bad lies And brain might leave long before I go You still beat in time Heart knows the meaning of music Heart knows every tune Don’t be afraid, if heart talks to you Hear angels sing and feel groovy Carry on, go on beating My head’s just telling me bad lies And brain might leave long before I go You still beat in time One of these nights So, here’s again a night I wished I’d never had again Tears fall like rain And everything’s just pain Just one of these nights The curtain falls A look behind the walls I’ve been hiding there For such a long, long time Thought your love was mine I’ve been hurting you You feel lonely, left alone Forgive me babe, Sometimes I’m a stone In one of these nights My head explodes Setting all thoughts free I’ve been hiding there For such a long, long time Now come and take me Hold me, won’t you, please Babe, don’t urge me to get down On my knees Maybe I have to learn I should never be to sure That my doing’s right But I don’t need a cure Like on of these nights You better hold me tight And take me to the light Now come and take me Hold me, won’t you, please Babe, don’t urge me to get down On my knees You may say that I am just a dreamer Maybe right that I have made mistakes But like everyone I grew a little older So please, don’t say this is the end for you and me Don’t say it is the end for you and me Over the mountain You've got to carry that weight the long stony way over the mountain you’ve got to carry it straight you just got a day over the mountain I will be your guide when you can't find your wav over the mountain I will be the light by the end of the day over the mountain looking for a new home you sail the long way over the ocean there are crowns of foam and you just got a day over the ocean you can feel so safe I’ll share your way over the ocean I will be the wave Carry you in a day over the ocean You've got to pull that load the long hot way through the desert got to keep on the road you just got a day through the desert I will be the breeze I’ll be cooling your way through the desert I will give you peace at the end of your day through the desert Bridge: Do what you want to nobody stops you but if you need some helping hand I’ll be our friend Paradise on working-day Sitting in the sun Watching the waves roll on the sand Watching big fountains Dynamite-fishing every day And all my thoughts explode While I watch dead fishes flow Flow in the sea Victims of human energy Feed the kids DDT Destroy them with TNT Play with death like with a toy Throw another little boy Peggy there was no rain since weeks the air was burnin' dry everybody was nearly dancin' seein' big clouds in the sky until they got it's her comin' to cross their town it was too late to flee so she blew them down it was announced she's comin' on tv and radio but nobody knew where to meet her in LA or Ohio impossible not to see her she was big and she was tall wearin' cloth made of clouds rollin' like a cannonball six men where tryin' to keep the door in place while the whole store was blown from the earths surface she took the car she took the house she did all she knew Peggy blew farmer Jack Hick had a little farm and drinkin' was his fate his only joy in life was to dream and masturbate pin-up magazines were his bible five against willy was his game he dreamt of the big blow suddenly Peggy came - and Peggy blew two days later he was found dead in his chair with a broken neck seems like he had been smilin' when the roof felt in his back little willy in his hand pin-up on his knees worst jokes a played by nature there's no grace or please six men were tryin' to keep the door in place while the whole store was blown from the earths surface she took the car she took the house she did all she knew Peggy blew Perfect love Postman brings a letter suddenly you're back in my life good reason for writin' to tell me you become someones wife nice to hear you're allright you were my girlfriend since our schooldays I remember the first kiss a tree by the river -our secret place Refr. : we were young we were running and hiding our bodies -never the soul we were older my skin laid upon yours just the body - never the soul you know I'm not jealous but once I dreamt to be the one we had such a good time but someday the feeling had gone Refr. : Bridge.: I hope someday I'll see you again I still love you, my long lost friend my feelings for you - still so strong how could something so good go so wrong It could have been perfect could have been a perfect love Perhaps The Sand aII around a movie we're all actors in a play we all need roses some applause to feel okay so sew new vestures the old ones turned too grey give us new poems forget those of yesterday what have you done father? perhaps it's just been a flop but now I'm standing here and can't give you my life back lookin' at all these flunkies to which the play became a dream a dream they're livin' but on a different screen what have you done mother? and where will it end? you tried to shape me I became sand in your hand the wind caught me I tried to fly in so many eyes of so many many scolds to make them see their vice perhaps someday the wind will turn and blow sand in my own eyes perhaps the sand will be the judge in the play of life the wind is the author the boss in this cinema until the rain comes and turns the sand to mud Poker-chess all night long I’ve been running like a bishop the straightest way would lead to hell tried to find my way through the chaos movin' like a knight in a heavy game pokermen use to fool their own grandma chessmen know all the rules but I ever thought I was just a young boy thought it was love, not a game now I know, it could have been beautiful and I know, it could have been nice, paradise poker, poker, poker-chess you call it love I call it poker-chess all those nights we wasted by talkin' talkin' 'bout things gone wrong in these nights I started thinking like a chessman tried to get a way out of that now I know, they could have been beutiful and I know, they could have been nice, but i paid their price poker, poker, poker-chess you call it love I call it poker-chess now I think that all I missed was an open-hearted mind I think I couldn't stand the way I tried to hide some dirty lies sometimes life's a game with two ladies two pure angels -queens of love in a chessmans' head two hours conversation if you say this - I'll say that if you haven't five aces, you better don't poker you better stand like a rook queens stay queens, they are movin' faster you're nearly tied, like a pawn now I know, it could have been beautiful and I know, it could have been nice, paradise poker poker poker-chess Poor Busker’s Song This is the story of a simple young man who was playing guitar on the streets down in Spain buskin' for money and for his life for his two young kids his home and his wife one day he was playin' on the streets of Madrid where some sell sunglasses some are sellin' shit dealers were runnin' policemen did chase the busker was caught they found "H" in his case Refr. and it all could just have begun all of a sudden and everything's gone rinsing away memories with his tears as they became truth his deepest fears Well, he could never prove it wasn't his stuff and the judge said "I think, two years are enough" "Enough", thought the busker “to destroy my life, to take what I've got, my kids, home and wife” Refr. The busker went crazy behind all that walls like all desperate people he made his last fault a self-made knife a guard as hostage then shot dead on the run by a young man his age Refr. Promises I said, I’d need time To find what I’m looking for I found out one thing Promises were made in vain With everything I ever get I’m looking for some more With everything I ever got I miss the one I had before Please, slow down my friend Take you time to talk real words Like you’ve done before All the times we were hurt With every piece of truth I find I want to find some more With every new friend I love I want to love you all Rockin’ dwarfs I walked over mountains I had crossed a field when I met a fairy standing by the trees she asked where you going? I said I search for truth I guess that I have lost it the days I call my youth she took me to the cave of rocking dwarfs rocking dwarfs I couldn’t trust my eyes but sound was in my ears I saw a one-foot band dwarfs rockin’ hand in hand I thought I must be dreamin’ with open mouth I stared but the fairy’s hand in mine was as real a the bench we shared she took me to the cave of rockin’ dwarfs rockin’ dwarfs I said I got experience said I’ve seen a lot but this show can’t be true it is magic made by you she answered stop your talkin’ just see and hear ‘em sing and you’ll find what you look for in everything you’re believin’ find your way to the cave of rockin’ dwarfs rockin’ dwarfs Her words have been so simple but the meaning is so deep now, whenever something’s dread a dwarf sings in my head I spread my ears like sails and open up my eyes and I try to see the truth then and I try to see true lies I’ve been down to the cave of rockin’ dwarfs rockin’ dwarfs Sometime love’s aint enough You came late at night with a bag in your hand askin' through tears is there some room for rent? I said “certainly, sir, come be my guest you look like someone who needs a rest” We sat in the kitchen talkin' no word coffee-water was boilin' we heard the first bird you tried to talk to me tears mute your voice so I told you my story about girls and boys It seemed so easy now you start to discuss no need to tell me I've been on the same bus how could something so fine go so tough sometimes love ain't enough sometimes love ain't enough He said “you got it man that ' s why I'm here I sensed it would happen it's been my deepest fear now that it's over it seems to be fate there's nothin' to save it is too late The way back to presence is so hard to climb I've been away for such a long time 'cause love is no feeling love is a land and she was just a lover but never a friend It seemed so easy. ... It isn't magic -there is a rule and if you don't follow -you'll be the fool if it should last forever not just one night of grace she's gotta have more than a pretty face Song to the night hey Mr.Sandman, you brought some trouble to my eyes so tell me nice stories but please tell me no lies I don't know if tomorrow will come so stay near I'm full of fear there's nobody else in here hey Mr.Moonshine, your light stabbed into my brain oooh I'm afraid, try to wake up but in vain I don't know if I'll wake up again so let it be Can’t you see? I don't want you to play your jokes on me oh hey, Mr.Sunshine wake up, make me live again I think I have to die oh hey, Mr.Death stay away I hate this magic I think I'm gonna cry oh dawn, oh dawn, oh dawn bring me back home 'till dawn, 'till dawn, 'till dawn I'll be alone oh dawn, oh dawn, oh dawn bring me back home 'till dawn, 'till dawn, 'till dawn I'm on my own oh dawn, oh dawn, oh dawn bring me back home Talkin’ too much I've told stories but this is the truth saw her standin' in a telephone-booth legs up to my shoulders like made out of chrome I was a stammerin' xy-chromosome and she laughed and her dark eyes shone like stars from above she said : you're talkin' too much instead of givin' me love she said you're talkin'too much instead of startin' to touch I said sorry, mam but you might have got me wrong it's just that I've been alone far too long but I don't want you to think that I think what you think I was stackin' words I was losin' the link and she laughed … her legs made me weak I got weak in the legs when some hours later we still lay on her bed said I never met such a woman like you I just can't believe this story is true and she laughed… |
Tame bird
When I was young I dreamt I could fly like an eagle high in the sky when I was older I went to worlds' end 'till the winter morning came then I ran back home again sister adventure and brother surprise the best companions I had in my life we travelled together we walked hand in hand 'till the winter morning came then I ran back home again Refr. : Thought it was all right now longing for the moonlight wanna see a star bright but I'm here in my cage wanna hear the sea shore I don't need more don't know what I'm here for I just forgot to fly away, I’m a tame bird - I stay I got what I need it's more than I can afford sold my dreams for plastic my freedom for gold my cage is of silver my image so bold when the winter morning came I felt I'm gettin' old Refr. Bridge.: Well, you have to make decisions you have to find a way but the times I wanna go I fall on my knees and pray not to lose my mind the night the geese fly away and I remain the same bird how will stay The Change now it's no more as hard as you used to think it won't tear you apart, your ship won't sink Spring has opened your heart now you'd like to sing you step out of the dark and spread you wings and as they all shout "you're flyin' too high" you are just laughin' wondering why Spring has opened your heart now you'd like to sing you step out of the dark and spread you wings forgotten all the days you died no thoughts to the nights you cried no mirrors with tear-stained eyes no selfcompassion no lies you come home from work, your wife's dressed for the ball she says weather was fine, you say there was more light in the hall a ringing tears apart your ears, she's running to the phone eight hours hidden words in your throat turn to stone and you are lookin' for an answer looking for lost love you can't find the answer why things turn rough easy to say "let things go their way" if you got nothing to lose but how many aches will it take when love urges you to choose - me or you Lookin' at old scars you’re laughing, dancing down the street you quit your job but you're still standin' on your feet Spring has opened your heart now you'd like to sing you step out of the dark and spread you wings The cold times something more became cold something more is known and old more & more feelings die as a child I used to cry now I beat against the wall I break bottles in the hall and as I smash another bone as I'm dying' on the phone I wish we could stay together through the cold weather how I love your crazy way love the things you say and when he laughs and when she smiles I can run another hundred miles not another blind rhetoric talk written down with bloomy colour chalk no dead conversation between cousins it's just another step into the coffin I need you to stay together through the cold weather sharing the cold stormy weather sharing a heart walk through the weather sharing the cold once I had a crazy dream funny to describe the scene I ran naked through the snow pretty cold but warm at a blow you were dancing' on the lake perfect skating' without mistake you all were as light as flies I approach and you crack into the ice oooh why can't we stay together through the cold weather? The Geese Fly South So cold now like everything's ice so dark now as if there never was again light that I can see the same way everyday too well-known the places to notice a change too close the eyes too numb the brain too used to the torture to feel any pain be aware -drive away your fears feel easy in a different atmosphere do like we do the geese fly south we too, we too just another shock in the night just one more time black or white some takin' a knife some don't stay alive just another spot on the city floor someone findin' the door be aware -drive away your fears feel easy in a different atmosphere do like we do the geese fly south we too, we too The last to know Train is ridin' through the night lot's of tons behind two bright headlights on their way to cross the land just a simple step between the tracks the smell of sweat there's no way back what a way to lose a friend we had been mates since school we both had to learn the rule that life is not a joke but you tried to check out if it's true you walked so far I could not help you when the thin ice broke you're not the only fool I felt just the same here I'm on my feet again so if you're down and out and got no place to go don't let me be the last to know Here's a song to all my friends too far away to grab my hand when they need a little hope and if you come I hope I'm strong no black no white no right no wrong don't wanna talk like a fuckin' pope you're not the only fool….. don't get me wrong it's just that I can't stand to be a helpless witness losin' my friends but I have to know so don't let me be the last to know The Last Miles hope this will be my last stop on the way back home I remember Athens, it was just two days ago hitch-hiked all the way up to here, now it's late at night please don't leave me standing here, come give me a ride Babe, see me roam I've been away too long open up your arms babe I’m comin' home think of nights in Italy, lyin’ on the beach with bullets flyin' in the air, what a lovely place on Crete it had been the same, when I crashed on a roof and always just one thought, "is my guitar bullet-proof?” Babe, see me roam I've been away too long open up your arms babe I’m comin' home just in Belgrade they wanted my guitar and not my life but I had same good arguments, a thirteen inch long knife so I ran back to the road, through cold wind and rain thought when I had stopped a truck, „I'll never come here again” Babe, see me roam I've been away too long open up your arms babe I’m comin' home now I’m gettin' pretty tired, lay my head on my rucksack dreamin' of all the lovely places, and good guys I met dreams were pullin’ me back south when suddenly I feIt a kick a truck-driver smiles at me and says: “boy, can I give you a lift?" Babe, see me roam I've been away too long open up your arms babe I’m comin' home The new day close your eyes and leave the world behind feel alright this darkness is of another kind sometimes as dark as dead sleeping deep in your head your soul suddenly slips away sometimes as bright as a day the sun shines everything is okay so good it leaves a tear in your eye fall asleep but not too deep, not like dying you might grow cold nobody cares, nobody's crying a moment you don't notice and it's late too late to get afraid death just means pain to those who live on a broken body that reminds of a time you left behind and some love you wanted to give Time’s gettin’ fine I've heard stories how sweet love can be but I had no luck, always shakin' the wrong tree I've been down ways, I heard every man must walk and while I did I just heard the same old talk I've been a sinner, and a sinner I will stay and I grew older, but wisdom stays away thought I'd grew an old man, of that bitter kind without any future but just memories on my mind times were so hard and bad days I've been though tongues razor-sharp, but then baby I found you and time's gettin'fine everything will be allright time's gettin' fine the sun did never shine that bright love's not easy, with you it isn't too but the blame was on me, it had never been on you I'm no rich man I've to work hard for my life but others have one job, I've chosen five still I've not made it, perhaps I never will but I am still singin' and I still get the thrill so please stop cryin' and don't be that hard with me that I'm still the same I've been when you married me times were so hard and bad days we've been through tongues razor-shape, but babe I still love you and time's gettin' fine everything will be allright time's gettin' fine the sun did never shine that bright To my crazy friends to you and everyone, I call my friends yes, to the crazy ones, I'd like to reach my hands because of you I live, perhaps 'cause of you I'll die and just to you I give and just to you I smile once there was a lady, she was standing on the throne the night sky was the ceiling, she'd like to call her own and she was a prophet, saying' the earth will die I said "I wonder why", she said "there are no stars in the sky" Refr. : ooooh, and it makes me wonder if you're still sleepin' deep with your sweet, sweet dreams and ooooh, I don't wanna know where you are going at the end of the show and there were the Steelers, playing' another game in another stadium or a schoolyard, well, it's all the same and they are just crazy, and no one’s made of steel and they are not cold, as everyone can feel (Refr.) and there was a band, playing' strange music working' hard and hand-in-hand, I think I didn't miss one gig and they're all hoping' secretly to become the stars and I wish them all the best, and hope they will get far (Refr.) well, I knew a lot of dreamers and I knew a lot of freaks knew some harmless junkies, somehow strong and somehow weak but I'll never tell a name, there are too many spies people bored by a life that consists of rumours and lies End-Refrain : ooooh, and it makes me wonder if you are still sleeping' deep with your sweet, sweet dreams and ooooh, sometimes I'd like to know where we're all going at the end of the show Turn out the light You once were just like the sun your light shone bright one big head full of ideas and sweet dreams held tight changer of the world you knew what's wrong what's right keeper of the only truth said you are against all might The last time I saw you with that funny girl you said you are in love and she fits to you she gave you everything you gave her nothing but a smile when love had gone she wanted to stay alone a while Refr.: I heard you callin' out her name when it was time to walk away again there were voices at night when you started to fight you turned out the light Telephone rings in the night and a knockin' on her door you were seen climbin' round her house and sleepin' on the floor hey you fat drunk freak better stay away you never knew style but don't you know that’s not okay? 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Victims The natural smile of a two year old child stabs into my mind did you ever wonder 'bout children’s laughter the reasons are easy to find what we've done to them till today tomorrow will have fade and what they have to go through they'll notice only when it's too late Refrain: victims of hate a teenage love will be your fate when your parents' love affair will turn grey with their hair victims of love if you will get old enough think about these days the child’s laughing face you're not just a child on earth society’s new member we'll show you life's more than a smile and you always will remember mother beats you 'cause she's full at love and you're daddy’s pride be happy if you're all they ever wanted no result of a careless night Refrain the first time you ran away you weren't free you were afraid and as they brought you back home, mama’s eyes were full of hate papa drank a beer and watched TV, and mama did cry neighbours were talking and rumours walking the first time you tried to die you lie in the arms that feign love arms that could break your neck they are afraid it you go away and they beat you when you're back suspicious eyes drill holes in your head if you come home with a friend the words about your feet under their table seem to have no end Refrain they want you to became their mirror, a badge to show everywhere the fine behaviour in discount clothes, a hand touches your dressed hair wave a last goodbye, they send you to war, into the field or into life 'till you sit in the metro, people talking to themselves, and you see the smiling child, ooh this child, ooh child - smile on Refrain What a joke I still remember when I was a teen small and thin and full of dreams three boys came it started with tips as I protested a fist on my lips oh what a joke can't you hear me laughin'? scared to the bones I was shakin' fast oh what a joke when tears are comin' hurt my pride hurt my soul when I was older feelin' safe and strong thought that noone could do me wrong but soon I learned there was more than beats also lies, injustice drive the heat oh what a joke can't you hear me laughin'? scared to the bones I was shakin' fast oh what a joke when tears are comin' hurt my pride hurt my soul why is everybody hurting each other? it's a livin' in a third-world land people are afraid to trust each other kids are livin' on quicksand oh what a joke can't you hear me laughin'? scared to the bones I am shakin' fast oh what a joke when tears are comin' hurt my pride hurt my soul Wrecks Sitting drunk on a chair And life is floating by Looks as if you just don’t care And forgot the reason why But you still keep it in your head And try to leave it there Because the ball of pain’s too big The throat too narrow Hard to get air Why do they all try To make a fool out of me Laugh about me “hey, the misunderstood” When they’re unable to tell me Why they’re laughing and why they’re lieing Why they’re killing and still smile Why they’re ruling and why they’re fooling And drink wine while freedom dies From the moment you find out their reasons You don’t talk to them no more ‘cause you know there’s no sense They won’t listen to you Now you found out they’re just living wrecks Ships that can’t sail stormy seas Chickens that have to stay in their eggs Cause they threw away the key On and on you’re just another bloody bustard No grace to mom and dad And that while they were already happy To be affected with another nervous wreck For years you had to hang on their teats Now time has come to cut life’s chord And with your fantasy still unwinded Your new faith will be your sword I know some of your kind So no fear, we’re not alone We’re the candidates of suicide But our doubts will be our throne Chickens have to stay in their eggs Cause they threw away their doubts Ships can’t sail stormy seas Eagles afraid of clouds… You’ve got the power hangin' round all day I'm just wastin' my time everybody is on holiday I have always known I can't live alone but why does it have to be that way? I need a little animation need some gas to make my motor run everybody else seems to have a good time I'm standing in the rain when you're not there I'm aware you've got the power you are full of energy you can make things runnin' make things funny a satisfaction guarantee after fourteen days I can't stand it no more and I start to move a lot of things repair all their stuff takin' care of plants just to forget that I don't have wings I have to be a workaholic or I'll lose my mind from being alone and when they come back home and see what I’ve done they fall into my arms I hear 'em pray and they say: you've got the power.. Home |
