|  SEEDS
Little darling
On the factory floor
The sirens are wailing
They're calling like lovers
They always want more
Department 27
Deep down below
You are piecing together
The seeds of the world
Ashen roses
Growing darkness
Starving children
Someday you stand up and dance
Glittering sunlight
Keep on shining
And put them together
The seeds of the world
Blinding all the flowers of the world
Start bursting into millions of colours
Unfold all the flags of the nations
Kiss me again, let the battle start
Little darling
What have you done
Hearts are breaking
Life without ending, numberless men
Never relaxing
I have to see it all
Fire, desert, cold and arid
And all in a flash
Blinding all the flowers of the world
Start bursting into millions of colours
Unfold all the flags of the nations
Kiss me again, let the battle start
ELEVATOR
Time is fleeting
You can't stop time
Hearts are beating
'cause there ain't no time
Dial that number
Stories fly
See their faces, empty places
Uh, elevator
Time goes by
Uh, generator
Love flies by
Good-bye, good-bye
Time is hurting
But it ain't a crime
Someone's bleeding all the time
Too much tension in a second
Just repeat it
'cause I need it
Uh, elevator
Indicator
Accelerator
Uh, generator
Turning on,
Turning elevator on
WELCOME TO THE SUN
It's the start of the season
The dawning is near
The Age of the Fish
Announcing the news of the year
The tiger returns to the jungle
The wolf comes home to his yard
When you say it feels good to be back
Then it's just one step further on
To the heart
Getting over, getting over
It's the start of the season
Creep out of the ark
Leave the sticky asylum behind
And step out of the dark
There's an open horizon before us
There's a rainbow under her eyes
The detector reads low radiation
And you are fearless to rise
Til you're high
Getting over, getting over
It's the start of the season
Over the land
A mocking-bird is singing a song
Near the Tide's Restaurant
As you undress your movie-blue diving suit
Your innocent skin shines so white
We shall be one under the sun
Right here in the power of the light
Come to the summer
Welcome to the sun
Come to the summer
Welcome to the sun
THE OTHER SIDE OF U
This is a national anthem from the flip-side of the Empire
Hand on my heart, heart on the sleeve of the constitution
Sinking right into a mirror leaving reflections on its surface
Caught in a kind of radio beacon that's sending out signals
Transmitting them backwards
Hey, tell me it's true, is this the other side of U?
Worlds gonna change with the move in your face,
Do I still walk on the same structure?
Hey, what do we know? Re(a)leasing arrows over cosmic meadows
Nothing is real, even iron or steel melting gently in the cold structure
Watching your face through a peephole as I lean against the door
Can't understand what you say but I think that you're calling my name
Leaving the ones I loved is like leaving the one they want me to be
Making decisions in real-time-precision
As millions of sailors in parallel worlds
Hey, tell me it's true, is this the other side of U?
Worlds gonna change with the move in your face,
Do I still walk on the same structure?
Hey, what do we know? Re(a)leasing arrows over cosmic meadows
Nothing is real, even iron or steel melting gently in the cold structure
Everybody walks this side of the runway
Everybody hopes to get off the trap
All we really like is to groove with emotion
Waiting for the airline to lift us up
NEXT GENERATION
Now you're playing around with money and fear
And a power you can't control
And the Zimmermen grin their perjured grins
Saying: "There's no risk at all"
Look into the eyes of the next generation
Know you would never dare
You're laying the tracks of the ultimate sin
Like Himmler and you don't care
It only takes a few words, it only takes a few
To cut a long story short
It only takes a few words
Oh my, how it hurts
Look into the eyes of the next generation
Look into the eyes of the next generation
Your orders filtered through the ranks
Intentions you can't hide
With tightened lips you're sinking ships
In the shadows of the night
You presidents of Genocide
You ministers of Crime
You're laughing at your firemen
From miles behind (from miles behind) the lines
It only takes a few words, it only takes a few
To cut a long story short
It only takes a few words
Oh my, how it hurts
Look into the eyes of the next generation
Look into the eyes of the next generation
20.000 LIEUES SOUS LES MERS
Down in the garage, drifting in her embrace
He's on an island of serenity
Outside the gateway they're coming closer
Rain settles gently on their uniforms
Comme Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers
Comme Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers
Down in the garage after the race
For only a moment the earth stood still
While they are kissing, exposed by the searchlights
Into the cameras she fires her gun
Comme Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers
Comme Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers
GOLDEN FEELING
The streets are open wide for a brand new adventure
The asphalt flashes in the light
And the black-leathered knights are crawling out of their basements
And handing the tickets for the night
Gonna stay for a while 'cause there's no chance to hide
Your money runs out for the film
Though this place is so crowded
You feel so alone 'cause you're eye to eye with him
And you know he will take you
He's got nothing to lose and there's no way for you to win
Desperadoes in love won't kill this sweet dove
For a nugget of fleeting bliss
C'mon, c'mon, you can't escape
The fleeting bullet of a kiss
Here comes that golden feeling
It's shining in your eyes
We're always going on and on
Right from that day they start to shine
It's a new situation
The start of a game, you've already won the prize
He's a lunatic dancer
Who's not aware that he's skating on thin ice
There's no turning back
No time for regrets, you should've known better, though
Another chance to fall in love
Another chance to turn you on
Another chance - to turn you on
Here comes that golden feeling
It's shining in your eyes
We're always going on and on
Right from that day they start to shine
HEADLINES
We call the crown of this "The Creation"
I wonder what does it mean?
We're not the owners of the sun and the Earth
It's like a roundabout, and it goes round and round for free
We've made some gruesome inventions
Yet we're mastered by these systems
We're endangered danger, we're running out of fashion
And we don't care for responsibility
We've got children in our gardens
We've got children in our gardens
We're the top of the world, we've got the ultimate answer under our hats
If we would only notice that
Jonah says that we're a lonely species
That's why he's playing the fool
Until he's left in the Elysium fields
Sometimes I roller-coast inside his swimming pool
If we turn on to our highlights
We'd feel like Jesus on the waters
'cause we're sailors not soldiers, so much more for the show
Than a guest appearance in the universe
We've got children in our gardens
We've got children in our gardens
We're the top of the world, we've got the ultimate answer under our hats
If we would only notice that
BIG YELLO SUN
On a round-about I'm turning on to you
Don't you love the way we're turning, yes you do
Little schools of Hummingbirds are streaming by
While we're merging with the colour of the sky
Big yellow Sun
You're the One
Here's our souls
Heal them, Heal them
Beautiful Girl
You're the World
I'm in you
Breathing, Breathing
Love-me-do
Near the Entrance of the Airport as you see
There's an Ice Cream man who's selling sweets for free (L S D)
You might watch descending Rockets from the Moon
While we're taking off with 99 balloons
(Bless our souls)
Big yellow Sun
You're the One
Here's our souls
Heal them, Heal them
Beautiful Girl
You're the World
I'm in you
Breathing, Breathing
Love-me-do
SISTER SUN
Tell me is it really true
There's something goin' on
Outside
I just can feel it
I heard it on the radio
I'm not allowed to go
Outside
I can't believe it
There's a big hole in the sky
Where the radiation's breaking through
And we just sit and stare
Like the rabbit at the snake
There's so much we could do
But we gotta do it now
'cause it's gettin' pretty late
Better hurry now
We all need the sun
We need love and light for everyone
We need our atmosphere
To live in here
We could be so strong
We overthrow the government and stop
What's goin' wrong
We're fighting for the sun
It's really hard to understand
The change of sister sun
As if your sunny smile
Would turn into a deadly one
It's not a quality of life
To love inside a mighty trap
To have that ice-cold coke beyond the radiation gap
There should be more resistance
Against industrial trusts
And if there's no solution, there should be revolution
I wonder if we start in time, we're racing with the seconds
I wonder if we've got enough to talk to stupid politicians
We all need the sun...
Hold on to revolution... We're fighting for the sun.
FOOLS
We waste our time with big illusions, talking to the walls
But Jericho will never fall, we sold our trumpets long ago
Exchanging all the best we had, into Atomic Master Plans
We reads the books, we had our chance
We spend the world for just one dance
So keep on dancing, all you fools
The cups of fury have been filled
So keep on dancing, all you clowns
Let's have a sip before we're killed
So keep on dancing!
These politicians make me sigh, democracy is just a lie
As long as we are rich enough, each government will do for us
We feed like vampires on the world
We are the first, they are the third
Ain't no hope, we had our chance
We spend the world for one last dance
So keep on dancing, all you fools
The cups of fury have been filled
So keep on dancing, all you clowns
Let's have a sip before we're killed
So keep on dancing!
Seven seals, seven trumpets
Seven cups, seven plagues
Seven angels, the Scarlet Beast
Mother of Harlots, faithful and true
LEGEND
Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin
He is sitting on a hill
A vapid night is crawling through the vale
The trees are fangs of transiency
The demons forge hammers and nails
He will travel all the ways
That lead to the unknown lands
Time has distorted his view
An amen is his due
The spring is in the air
The sirens in the skies
The wind is in his hair
The moon is in his eyes
The rain turns on
But he will be gone
Before the world has left the night
He is gazing at the skies
Without yearning in his eyes
And he will follow the invisible trace
When the sirens sing again
The spring is in the air
The sirens in the skies
The wind is in his hair
The moon is in his eyes
The rain turns on
But he will be gone
Before the world has left the night
The spring is in the air
The sirens in the skies
The wind is in his hair
The moon is in his eyes
The rain turns on
And he will be gone
Before the morning spreads its light
LIKE THUNDER
If I was a flag I'd have no nation
Just the colours and the wind
And if I was a church I'd have no treasure
Except the prayers and the hymns
And if I was a seagull I'd just rise up, rise up
And carry my soul 'cross the sea
Drifting beyond the horizon
Lost on a cloud, to be free
If I was a lifeboat I'd be waiting all my life
For another stormy day
And if I was a dolphin I'd be playing all my time
Just playing my life away
And if I was a kite I'd just be laughing, laughing
And dragging you up to the sky
Setting you down on a white cloud
White seagulls floating by
And the silence roars like thunder
And the silence roars like thunder
And the silence roars like thunder
Like thunder
Like thunder...
LIFE IS KING
Life is a garden
Life is king
Life is all and everything
Life is golden
Life is fair
Like a rainbow in your hair
Life's a once fantastic light
Life is shining in the night
Life's a fire from above
Life is you and
Life is love
Life is golden
Life is king
Life is all and everything
Nothing to believe in
It's just there
Without a care
And no religion
Than the enigma of love
Life is king
Life's a poison
Much too strong
Makes you running on and on
Life's a drug and not your friend
Life will kill you in the end
Life is smooth and
Life is friction
Life is such a contradiction
Life is God and
God needs lives
Life's a billion battlecries
Life is golden...
|  NEVER GET OUT OF THE BOAT
Instrumental
SOUNDS LIKE A MELODY
It's a trick of my mind
Two faces bathing in the screenlight
She's so soft and warm in my arms
I tune it into the scene
My hands are resting on her shoulders
When were dancing away for a while
Oh we're moving, we're falling,
We step into the fire
By the hour of the wolf in a midnight dream
There's no reason to hurry
Just start that brand new story
Set it alight, we're head over heels in love
Head over heels...
The ringing of your laughter
It sounds like a melody
To once forbidden places
We'll go for a while
It's the definite show
Our shadows resting in the moonlight
It's so clear and bright in your eyes
It's the touch of your sighs
My lips are resting on your shoulder
When we're moving so soft and slow
We need the ecstasy, the jealousy,
The comedy of love
Like the Cary Grants and Kellys once before
Give me more tragedy, more harmony
And phantasy, my dear
And set it alight, just starting that satellite
Set it alight...
The ringing of your laughter
It sounds like a melody
To once forbidden places
We'll go for a while
ASCENSION DAY
These are the days of evil perfection
This is the world of torture and fame
This is the age of most vicious infection
These are the times of terror and pain
Let them inside and they build you a nightmare
Show them, you fool, it'll not be in vain
Here is your costume of deepest surrender
These are the times of terror and pain
I wanna ride on the crest of sensation
I wanna scream in the whirlpools of love
I wanna drown in a climax of thunder
I wanna be with the fools in the storm
Do what you want and then die when you want to
We're gonna walk on the blood of the meek
We're gonna sail through the oceans of wonder
We're gonna live in the dreams that we seek
Send in the parasite clowns on their horses
Send in the idiots and let them advance
Send in the monsters of your own creation
Send them all in and give them a chance
We're gonna dance to the sweetest of music
We're gonna play with the whores in the rain
We'll dissipate the Lord's last temptations
All in the crossfire of torture and fame
I wanna ride on the crest of sensation...
We're gonna live in the dreams that we seek...
EUPORIA
Kind of thunder from my heart
Flooding my eyes
Flooding my eyes
Kind of armies marching through my head
Sombre soldiers from nowhere
Kind of someone's moving out of me
Have no fear
Have no fear
Kind of someone's moving out of me
Goin' somewhere
Goin' somewhere
Ship is leaving right on time
Empty harbour, wave goodbye
Evacuation of the isle
Caveman's paintings drowning
Famous last words on the air
I stay here and you are there
While our city softly sinks
Caveman's paintings drowning
JERUSALEM
Waiting on this empty street,
Watching the rivers waves go by
Feeling mellow, lighting a cigarette,
Silver moon floats through the night
Eris, Princess of the Isles
Disperse your sparkling traces
Lead him on to the house of love
Where the Gods may turn his eyes
To Jerusalem, we pray - It's time to meet you there
Let's take love to Jerusalem - Oh yeah - let's make love
You might be the one I'm waiting for,
I think we've met somewhere for sure
Chasing shadows leaves you feelin' blue
This situation needs a cure
New assassins, new messiahs,
Keepers of the balanced law
Strangest lovers of the fire
Which ignites the Halo of our souls
In Jerusalem, we pray - It's time to meet you there
Let's take love to Jerusalem - Oh yeah - let's make love
Big yellow Cadillac, carry me back home
On glory roads of pure delight we head out for the stars
In Jerusalem...
NEW HORIZONS
Once, we were together
Once we were one
Once we were running, we knew where we came from
We were the music, we heard the call
We were giants after the fall
Once we were children, once we were so small
To the new horizons I cast my eyes
When I look at you reaching out to the new
Horizons
Once and today
Once and today
Once, we were divided, once, we lost our sight
Once, we were freezing in the TV light
You are a rainbow, you're looking fine
Shall we make it one more time
To the new horizons I cast my eyes
When I look at you reaching out to the new
Horizons
Once and today
Once and today
You are a rainbow
VICTORY OF LOVE
Waiting for a change in the weather
I'm waiting for a shift in the air,
Could we get it together - ever -
Hoping for your return
Hoping for your sweet, sweet return
Hello - is this heaven calling?
Hello - hello
Is somebody there?
She must be somewhere
And then she says
Hello - hello - hello
She's really an angel -
She stands in the sunshine
She's closing her eyes -
She's starting to dream
She's pulling the strings
She's dreaming a strange dream
Where nothing is grey -
Then she takes me away
And she's pulling the strings
When she's playing with love
She's playing with love, hello - hello
Counting - I count every second
And I'm standing
I stand in the rain,
I walk up that lane
Which leads to the sunshine
She stands in the sunshine
She's closing her eyes
Then she takes me away
And she's pulling the strings
When she's playing with love
She's playing with love
Hello - hello
BEETHOVEN
There's a tremor in the city, but it looks all quiet
There is something awful brewing but there ain't no fights
Beethoven
You can read between the lines that there must be more
You're alarmed but you don't know what you're waiting for
Beethoven
The boots are back in town
When ignorance and fear are closing mouths and ears
The skins are on their way when it gets dark in Europe
It's just a state of mind, the blind leading the blind
There's a scrawling on a tombstone: Judenschweine Raus
Once again the racial fury is burning down the house
Beethoven
There's a bleeding yellow man lying in the street
But there isn't anybody doing anything
And one grey day shall rise from the flood
No dikes will stem the heavy tides
When cold-pierced heavy bodies scream
They fall as if the monstrous scythe of clouds had smashed
Them from the skies
The scattered squadron of mankind
Stabs right into the churned-up ether
Of long forgotten birdless flights
Beethoven the boots are back in town
Beethoven the boots are back in town
The demons of the past will be replaced at last
There are smarter ones to stay, how can you stay away
From the order of disgrace, how can you close your eyes?
Beethoven
JET SET
This is the time now gimme the beat
Feel how the rhythm grips your feet
Ah Kitty-Baby take my hand
She's like a devil heaven sent
I'm in her arms and she's in mine
Maybe we'll make the film on time
Sitting in the 15th row
Oh Baby, Baby I love you so
We are the jet-set society, we are the jet-set
And that means liberty
We're on the run
We know where to go
We've got the tickets for the midnight show
These nights are burning out so fast
Hop on the beam, you won't be last
The Russians seem to be that way
We love 'em like we love D. Kaye
We need no money, we got it free
We are the high-high-high-high-high
So-ci-e-ty
We are the jet-set society, we are the jet-set
And that means liberty
We are the jet-set / hop on the beam
We are the jet-set / hop on the beam
Shine on society - shine on liberty
Shine on luxury - shine on so-ci-e-ty
Streets are full of love and fear
This could be the final year
Enrico's dead but still okay
We dance the streets feeling well
If she's a liar, I'm her lover
If she's a priestess, I'm her cover
If she's a lady, I'm her man
If she's a man, I'll do what I can
DANCE WITH ME
When the heat of light melts into the speeding time
When the king returns from the ivory city-side
Let the Magnet-Mages wave the signals, flashing oh so fast
Then you'll meet me dear, under the moonshine
In a lovers' heaven, we'll keep our promises at last
In a lovers' heaven, we'll forget the past
Do you want to dance with me through one of those lonely nights
It's more than a dream, maybe we're reaching the gardens of delight
Do you want to dance with me through one of those lonely nights
It's more than a dream, maybe we're drowning in Empires of Delight
In the stardust dawn underneath the crystal roofs
Where the Solar Boys are playing games they never lose
Where the sailors are swaying through the lightdomes,
Shining from the skies
There you'll meet me, darling, anyway
In a lovers' heaven, we'll keep our promises at last
In a lovers' heaven, we'll forget the past
Do you want to dance with me through one of those lonely nights
It's more than a dream, maybe we're reaching the gardens of delight
Do you want to dance with me through one of those lonely nights
It's more than a dream, maybe we're drowning in Empires of Delight...
WISHFUL THINKING
Into the night
Still falls the rain
Even the dogs stay home tonight
Out on the streets
Going nowhere
Just one direction in my thoughts
Love can be magic
It can be a game
Sometimes it's tragic
And sometimes a shame
Words were my bullets
Emotion my gun
I was a runner
Now I'm on the run
Sometimes I wish that you were dead
That is because you haunt me so
I wasn't right to let you go away
I try to kill the pain inside
But you are always on my mind
No matter where I go or stay
Sometimes I dream my time away
And where we're together again
But I know that can never be
And all my hopes are in vain
You were my treasure
That I didn't know
You were the sun in my life
Thought I was dying
When I realized
There's just one chance to survive
BIG IN JAPAN
Winter's cityside
Crystal bits of snowflakes
All around my head and in the wind
I had no illusions
That I'd ever find a glimpse
Of summer's heatwaves in your eyes
You did what you did to me
Now it's history, I see
Here's my comeback on the road again
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Aah when you're big in Japan - tonight
Big in Japan - be - tight...
Big in Japan... ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan - all right,
Pay! - Then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh when you're big in Japan
Neon on my naked skin, passing silhouettes
Of strange illuminated mannequins
Shall I stay here at the zoo
Or should I go and change my point of view
For other ugly scenes
You did what you did to me
Now It's history, oh, you'll see
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Aah when you're big in Japan - tonight
Big in Japan - be - tight...
Big in Japan... ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan - all right, Pay!
Then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
FOREVER YOUNG
Let's dance in style,
Let's dance for a while
Heaven can wait,
We're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best
But expecting the worst
Are you going to drop the bomb or not?
Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power
But we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit,
Life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men
Can you imagine when this race is won?
Turn our golden faces to the sun
Praising our leaders,
We're getting in tune
The music's played by the madmen
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever
Forever - and ever
Some are like water,
Some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young?
It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth's like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever
So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
We'll let them come true
Forever young...
MERCURY GIRL
She's staying around or else she's goin away
It could be forever or it might be a day
Or may be forever I call her a mercury girl
She's building me up & then she's knocking me down
Like a factory chimney in a northern town
And I am demolished I call her a mercury girl
She never sees me till the sun goes down
Lives in a secret world
Says: her career is in another town
Life with a mercury girl
One day once when I've got some time
I try to hold her but she wouldn't be mine
She slipped through my fingers & I missed the mercury girl
She came back to me with her mocking eyes
She told me she loved me but it could have been lies
And life can be up & down, life with a mercury girl
Life can be up & down, life with a mercury girl
One day once when I've got some time
I try to hold her but she wouldn't be mine
She slipped through my fingers & I missed the mercury girl
And life can be up & down, life with a mercury girl
Life can be up & down, life with a mercury girl
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JANUARY 1999