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«In Love»

it's a shame
bitches
the left turn
weak ends, shattered days
rain comes falling down
blue mail box
walk, don't walk
it gets me down (etter)
fatal threestep
as the wind blows (krohn/etter)
total recall
the most important part (fischer)

WEAK ENDS, SHATTERED DAYS

 

metal cries, bites shreds out of the night

craterlike, a chainsaw burns the sky

it tears your living room to pieces

paints your carpet black

 

temptation grows to ecstasy

inside your head strange faces stare

as ice cubes melt to glowing butter

persian rugs begin to sway

 

sweet colours render

power shoots into your fist

your arms turn into wings

up, up you fall, fall and fall

 

and nothing will be, now is never, no one ever was

no, nothing will be, now is never, no one ever was

 

your soul hangs on to saturdays

to sundays and to better days

but all you get are shattered days

that make you pay for yesterday's

unnecessary, unawary, temporary, sucking fairy

surrealistic rhyming

but go ahead and ball!

 

and nothing will be, now is never, no one ever was

no, nothing will be, now is never, no one ever was

 

(change to nice mood)

 

late sunday morning

sunny slices on the floor

old jazz floats in the air

what made your evenings sad

gives peace to you the next day

 

soft smoke and golden copper

guiding lights or candles

smiling chalk your ceiling

heavy solitude on velvet cushions

swaying to and fro

(change to mean mood)

 

metal cries, bites shreds out of the night

craterlike, a chainsaw burns the sky

it tears your living room to pieces

paints your carpet black

 

and nothing will be, now is never, no one ever was

no, nothing will be, now is never, no one ever was

 

 

WALK, DON'T WALK

 

yes or no?

high or low?

you don't know

stay or go

 

day or night?

grey or white?

wrong or right

it's alright

 

they teach you to stand

for what you want and what you don't

they tell you to fight

and they hate it if you won't

if you can't make up your mind

then you won't go far

so work out your answers

be a guiding star

 

but if you walk out of that door

just dare to walk out of that door

there's no way back in anymore

no, no more

 

but if you stay

if you stay

it's to the end of day

 

outside there is frenzy

there is fog and there's no frame

inside there is fashion

there is fortune, there is fame

so stay where you belong

and pretend, that you care

slave away your time

to buy a first class fare

 

don't try to walk out of that door

for if you walk out of that door

there's no way back in anymore

no, no more

 

 

TOTAL RECALL

 

looking down from seventh floor

on cars and buses floating to

the rhythm of the slowly rocking

colour-changing traffic lights

your mind blows bubbling soapy words

that glimmer glistening in your brain

 

recalling faces, words and music

you wait for calls or signs to change

your life, that lost it´s taste and slipped

some years ago out of your hand

pushed by strange blues you choose

to think it over, where the sun sets late

 

(refrain:)

don't you ask yourself, boy

how hard you'd hit the floor?

don't you wish you could fall

into another world?

 

if newfound loneliness just makes

you shiver, hide inside and still

you cannot see the light of dawn

by staring back into the night

the cemitery's cubic death

lies less then half a mile away

 

 

THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MY DREAM

 

I had a dream last night

you came walking across that bridge

your hair was a flag in the wind

and I knew, that I would love you

but then something made me wake up

 

(refrain:)

I always miss the most important

part of my dream

and no matter how I concentrate

I can't dream my dreams until the end

 

I had a dream last night

you were sitting there with some guys

your eyes gave me a strange look

then you asked for a kiss

and I think I said yes

but then something made me wake up

 

(refrain)

 

I had a dream last night

we were walking side by side

I took all my courage

put my arms 'round you

but when I told you, that I love you

yes, then something made me wake up

 

(refrain)

 

 

THE LEFT TURN

 

I was standing at the window

as an airmailman flew by

I hit him with my fist

and leaned out far to watch him die

 

he fell onto a trampoline

jumped back into the air

as I tried to knock him down again

myself fell off the chair

 

the moral of this story

is the same as in the next

where I spied the fairest Adam

and was suddenly hot for sex

 

he was strutting down the lane

as I was whistling at his walk

when he turned into a pig

and said: "hey, babe..."

but I said: "fuck you!"

 

the worst is yet to come:

when I was just a little gal

my teacher called me sissy

till I cried out: "what the hell!"

 

so I stole my daddy's rifle

doing what had to be done

when I aimed at the professor

I forgot to load my gun

 

(refrain:)

nothing turns out right

I never get just what I want

I was born a born beginner

I'll die a debutante

nothing turns out right

nothing turns out right

nothing, nothing turns out right

 

when they lower me into the ground

I know it must be so

I'll wake up at their laughter's sound

with no place left to go

 

my grave will be a Mecca

for the losers and the clowns

they'll pay 5 quid to see my bones

but I won't get a pound

 

well, people, you can laugh at me

and spit into my face

the bible says a camel

is the winner of the race

 

(refrain)

 

 

RAIN COMES FALLING DOWN

 

every day the sky was blue

birds were singing, so were you

only lately, things have changed

heaven's clouded, you act strange

 

you are chilly, you are cool

there is ice inside your pool

how the hell can I break through

when even starfish get the flu

 

(refrain:)

and where the sun was shining

rain comes falling down

 

when I look at you, I know

that your heart is full of snow

you will soon leave me behind

to change the weather in your mind

 

(refrain)

 

 

IT´S A SHAME

 

I loved you in the song before

now you don´t love me anymore

the thrill is gone

the dishes done

I´m off to new horizons

 

what could it be

when will it end

where does it start

when is it spent

am I to blame

we're not the same

which way to treasure island

 

(refrain:)

he´s a monkey, I´m a dog

he´s a donkey, I´m a hog

he used to be my lover boy

my precious toy

my only joy

now when he sees me on the streets

he runs and I am hiding

 

baby, what a way to go

a way to show

we just don´t know

what happens in our hearts

when love is striking

 

don´t you miss me

don´t you cry

the way you kissed

and made me sigh

I´m feeling low

you´re running high

a single tear from you

would see me smiling

 

(refrain)

 

 

IT GETS ME DOWN

 

I don't know how to say good-bye

I even don't know how to catch a fly

and more and more it turns into

a bad dissatisfaction

oh, it gets me down

it gets me down &endash; onto the ground

it gets me down

 

I'm not able to drive a car

I'm not able to open a jar

and I screw up everything

I'm touching with may hands

oh, it gets me down

it gets me down &endash; onto the ground

it gets me down

 

well, I don't have the courage to die

I've never read 'The Catcher in the Rye'

and every single word I say

sounds like it means nothing

oh, it gets me down

it gets me down &endash; onto the ground

it gets me down

 

 

FATAL THREESTEP

 

just another story

just another song

just another sample

of things gone wrong

 

Johnny was a mailman

Mary was his pie

Johnny said:

"we stay together

till we die"

 

kids and a dog

and a house and two cars

dreams of the future

they reach for the stars

 

just another story

just another song

just another sample

of things gone wrong

 

Johnny was a mailman

Mary was his maid

one day, Johnny found her

with his best friend

in a bed

 

oh my, why did they do

what they have done

Johnny got angry

and pulled out his gun

 

(refrain:)

when love is in the air

and sunshine in her hair

then watch out and beware

with whom the bed you share

for if you don't play fair

soon in a gun you stare

there's corpses everywhere

bisexual, queer or square

beggar or millionaire

ugly, plain or fair

 

why is love so painful

when it goes astray

why can't lovers be more careful

whom they lay?

 

everything is rotten

when it comes to lust

girls get hot 'n men get shot

nobody can be trust

 

Johnny 's a jailbird now

Mary is sad

no children no fam'ly

and poor Bill is dead

 

(refrain)

 

 

BLUE MAIL BOX

 

Dear Antonia

I´m stuck in a camper, forty miles outside Italy

just out of reach of a decent cup of coffee

 

heaven´s revenge is pouring down on us

there´s no chance to drive on tonight

and only distant lovers on tv

 

I´ve just finished working at the airport

unloading planes at night

I´m really worn out now, and like the weather

I feel rather wet and cold and sort of lonely

 

I got your letter, but I still wonder how you´re doing

as for me, I moved back to the outskirts

I'm sharing a flat down in the Jewish quarter

it´s alright

though not exactly cheap for what you get

 

these people, they are into esoterics

they´re reading all kind of semi-religious books

and lay cards to get a grip on their future

 

my brother, he passed his exam, so I heard

he´ll start studying the law, for all it´s worth

my sister´s working in some bar

she seems to make good money

 

I´m trying to get calmer now

maybe quit drinking, maybe smoking, maybe both

 

I want to meet new people

´cause I´m tired of acquaintances

that like to be called friends

 

say, if I should ever get to Mexico

is there a chance for me to find a job?

 

ah, well, those are nothing but dreams

but I really want to see the world

those rocks are squaring me up

 

maybe the States, Brazil or Argentina

though I might not even make it to Italy

 

my friend here has an offer

to buy a ranch in Massachusetts

and he might actually leave

that´s when he´s paid back his debts, he says

 

I´m only hoping for the rain to stop

and more than that, to see you soon

where in the world is Puerto Cruz?

 

lots of love to you in a letter

and a hundred thousand kisses by mail

they will arrive before I do

a long, long time before I ever will

 

 

BITCHES

 

we get up, when you're yawning

go to sleep at dawn

roam the city, haunt your dreams

have parties on your lawn

if you try to catch a glimpse

of our wicked souls

before you reach the window

we have slipped into our holes

 

we ride the sky on laser

we wear laces on our thighs

we lick your private aces

whip your dog until it cries

get stoned on gasoline

get high on petrol set on fire

if you aim your guns at us

my friend, we just get higher

 

(refrain:)

we are bitches

catch us if you dare

we got itches

confetti in our hair

 

your terrace is an airport

your futon is a plane

we take off from your kitchen

and we land on penny lane

what are jewels, what are rings

what's your riches or your minks

how low are presidents and kings

we got wings!

 

(refrain)

 

join us in the fiesta, sister

throw away your past

tell your lover: "listen, mister,

you ain't gonna last"

turn up the gas, turn down his pleas

ask him for a light

strike his match, count down to one

get ready for the flight

 

(refrain)

 

 

AS THE WIND BLOWS

 

you see the leaves fall from the trees as the wind blows

you hear it howling like a child outside your window

and you cover your naked friend with a sheet and you stay close

 

he dreams of victims bowing their heads as the wind blows

falling angels in the air, only god knows - why

and your lover is crying in his sleep as the blood flows

 

lying side by side, in a deep, troubling way

you feel that you're worlds apart

and you pray, yes you pray for something to soothe his heart

 

you see the leaves fall from the trees as the wind blows

your mouth is howling like a child as his pain grows

and you wish relief would come tonight - only god knows

Lyrics geschrieben von Jan Krohn