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No tomorrow
No rules to follow
A bunch of kids in the store
A super market
Let yourself go
And the bottle brings out
The core of what we are
No tomorrow
Life’s what we’ve borrowed
A barge miles from the shore
Lost at sea
Let yourself go
And how the bottle brings out
The core of what we are
This forgotten place
It meant everything
Our own time and space
Anything was no disgrace
This all rotten place
It was hell and meant the world to us
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Stephanie Said
03:17
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Stephanie said
Do you remember
The first cigarette
It went straight to my head
Stephanie said
Your kisses wer wet she said
An odor of sweat
And cheap eau de toilette
Hey hey hey
What are we up to
I don’t know
Life is leading astray
Hey hey hey
Stephanie said
There’s something you said
Before I grow old
I’d rather be dead
When we were young
Your hair was long
Now that it’s gone
You look like Right Said Fred
Hey hey hey
What are we up to
I don’t know
Life is leading astray
Hey hey hey
Though nothing has changed in a way
Everything has changed in a way
In retrospect
Those were the best days we had
Hey hey hey
What are we up to
I don’t know
Life is leading astray
Hey hey hey
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The Snake Wife
03:29
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The side of the pitch
The slide in the park
The gate after school
The bench at the pub
Empty spaces
Left out traces
Passed by for brighter days ahead
And the snake wife
The price you pay is the turn away
A silence that keeps the dogs at bay
This friendly avoidance
That carries us through space and time
Until it’s all gone
Time out in the woods
Tuesday night friends
Your head in the files with the tv on
All missed chances
Pointless dances
A life spent in a dream of brighter days With the snake wife
The price you pay is the slow decay
Indifference that keeps the dogs at bay
The price you pay for the snake wife
The price you pay for those bright lights
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Margarine
07:37
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There is a house in East Berlin
It feels and smells like margarine
There lives this boy of seventeen
His favourite toy a drum machine
There is this girl named Desiree
Her diet nose and asthma spray
She sells her books, records, TV
And asks why don‘t you
sleep with me
All these people, all these sounds
All these little turnarounds
And there was something going on
In a world that’s of it‘s own
There is this group so wild at heart
In south Franconia‘s wealthiest part
They feed you weed and valium pills
Put you to sleep hand you the bill
All these people all these sounds
All this common ground we found
There was something going on
In a world that’s of it‘s own
So close your eyes and count to three
So you can see what we did see
All these people all these sounds
All this common ground we found
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Oh the jackpot went to Jim
And his girlfriend Evelyn
They bought a terraced house
At the backside of the station
Why do I always fail to win
When I touched her
She screeched ”sin“
She said she’d leave for West-Berlin
To sign herself in at a school
For a catholic education
Why do I always fail to win
Why do I always fail to win
And she said
”You do believe in true love, do you?”
”Well” I said ”no“
She said ”wrong answer”
And promptly left the room
So I went down to the bus stop
waiting for her
She didn’t come and the bus was
long gone
I took my car to the next gas station
The man at the counter said:
”No gasoline”
So I went back home and watched TV to forget the mess I’m in
Why do I always fail to win
Why do I always fail to win
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The Good Good
03:34
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I wanted to be good
But my good wasn’t good anymore
No shadow where I stood
No trace where I wandered before
I was aiming for a laugh
But the joke wasn’t funny no more
It echoed down the hall
Swallowed by the carpet and walls
I lost my license to be
You better forget about me
No license to be
Just look and you’ll see
I have no license to be
The muses forgot about me
While I’m waiting for a chance
To overcome the trouble in me
I tried to write a song
But the songs were all written before
All the same words
The old reassembly of chords
I wanted to believe
But the truth was too easy to bear
Still in the driver seat
I said why the fuck should I care
I lost my license to be
You better forget about me
No license to be
Just look and you’ll see
I have no license to be
The muses forgot about me
While I’m waiting for a chance
A moment so intense
I’m waiting for a chance
To overcome the trouble in me
Don’t say that
Just play
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There Is A Light
04:16
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Out in the darkness there’s a light
There is a car waiting outside
The motor‘s running get inside
You feel the comfort it provides
And it will take you home
Fly you home
And it will take you home
Drive you home
A blaze of blinking traffic lights
Outshines the darkness of the night
Soak in the suburbs passing by
This thing you did fades in your mind
And it will take you home
Fly you home
And it will take you home
Drive you home
And it will take you home
Fly you home
And it will take you home
Drive you home
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8. |
What I Have To
03:19
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To the girl in the swing
If she allows me to sing again
To the boy in the shirt
Of my least favorite band
To the girl from the dance
Her unsought hands on my knee
The strongest boy on the team
Who tells me where it‘s at
If I have to
I don‘t have to
If I don‘t need to
I still feel a need to
Here I never grow up
Like others do
Boys have feelings too
To the girl in the swing
Once she allows me to sing again
The strongest boy on the team
Telling me where it‘s at
If I have to
I don‘t have to
If I don‘t need to
I still feel a need to
Here I never grow up
Like others do
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781
03:58
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The 781 is always late
Oh 781
Won’t you ever come
Won’t you come
Look at this boy
Tomato hair
Surrounded by
Three pensioners
He played hide and seek until last year
Then he changed his beat
And now he is leaning window to cheek
Right behind the bus driver‘s seat
Waiting for the city lights to greet
And the 781 to reach the streets
And the 781 brings me to my love
And the 781 ties the both of us together
And the 781 it drives on and on
And the 781 from the suburbs into town
Take me to a place that I havent seen
Take me to a place where I havent been
Where the music is loud and the grass is only half as green
Where the girls are pretty and the toilets shitty
Take me to the freaks
Take me somewhere neither nice nor clean
Oh please get me to the place
Where lanes turn into streets
And the 781 brings me to my love
And the 781 ties the both of us together
And the 781 it drives on and on
And the 781 from the suburbs into town
The 781 is always late
Oh 781
Won’t you ever come
Won’t you come
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Vacant Lots
06:48
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Some broken glass
And uncut grass
A dead end street
A hidden path
An unlit spot
A vacant lot
A certain kind of poetry
Surrounds this place
Which no one sees
A greyed-out blot
This vacant lot
Melting cars
Where once grew grass
A shopping palace
Made of glass
They all forgot
The vacant lot
Peculiar scents
The poetry
Have left this place
The busy bees
They all forgot
The vacant lot
Do you remember when it all began
And what was that point where it all went wrong
Lot by lot we‘re gonna lose this town
It‘s plain to see do you agree
What if I said let’s tear this city down
To stop the madness that is going on
Brick by brick we‘ll reclaim
everything they own
Will you follow me
Will you follow me
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Four Slice Toaster
03:56
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Come on over
Zoom in closer
A statement for your kitchen counter
While supply lasts
This October
Time to get your four slice toaster now
Enter postal code
And here
Leave a personal note
I’ve had enough of this
More than enough of it
Mystic Splash and Ocean Kiss
Adventures you don’t want to miss
Just today
A click away
It’s time you get your mermaid swimtail now
Like your second skin
And here
With a mono fin
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Little I Know
06:12
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Failed with the talking
I went for a walk
It took me down to the old well
The brass hope of thousands
Reflecting the streetlights
Each one a story to tell
I couldn‘t believe
Luck was so cheap
Such a ridiculous act
Disregarding the facts
I couldn‘t believe
That‘s all it takes
Pay your dues
Go home
Shut the blinds and wait
But little I know
Of the way the things go
What forces react
From a thought to a fact
All that I know right now
What you lose is hard to get back
Noise from the street
Wakes me up in the dark
It almost sounds
Like waves on the shore
Tires on tarmac
Good people in cars
On their way to open the store
How come you don’t call
This can‘t go wrong
Sure it‘s the thought that counts
Much more than the amount
Still you don’t call
This is the time
Now that I‘ve done my part
And paid for both of our fates
But little I know
Of the way the things go
What forces react
When a thought becomes fact
Boulders roll up the hill
The sea runs dry
Little I know
Of where all logic ends
Stopped by will of the stars
All that I know right now
Love you’ve lost is not coming back
You’re counting your friends
You got what you gave
No point getting back
To where you don’t belong
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Subterfuge Düsseldorf, Germany
Finest guitar pop from Düsseldorf since '91. New album "Dots." out now
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