|  TO THE UNDERWORLD
To the underworld I'm going down
Step into the ground
Into the breath of/from the gutter of the underworld
What will be I don't know
And I don't care if somebody's asking me
But I never will go
Back to the places where I once used to be
I don't care who you were
Cause we never stay the same
Every moment's a change in the concrete game
I don't care where you've been
Everybody's astray
Like a homeless bird in the stormy bays
Of the underworld
Of the underworld
Welcome, welcome to the underworld
Now I'm on my way cause I'm out of bounds
Direction unknown which is always
What you don't understand
Vague vision in front as the past
Is calling from the lost and found
Never ever turn around, don't wait
And you'll work it out, work it out
I don't care who you were
Cause we never stay the same
Every moment's a change in the concrete game
I don't care where you've been
Everybody's astray
Like a hopeless bird in the stormy bays
Of the underworld
Of the underworld
Welcome, welcome to the underworld
WHALES
They're singing songs like us
Why don't we communicate
Their lifestyle is floating
Remember, they're like us
They're coming from afar
Remember, they're astral
What is wrong with their orientation
Where is the error?
What do we know of their orientation
Tell me why do whales run ashore?
We're living like islands
No neighbours to talk or play with
The ocean is endless
There's liquid forever
Our race is so lonely
We're stranded, they landed, tell me...
What is wrong with our orientation
Where is the error?
What do we know of our orientation...
We're stranded, they landed...
We need someone to talk to!
BURNING WHEELS
I love to see your moves, it's so divine you dance
I love to see your moves, it's so divine you dance
When you're struttin' your legs ain't no gravity on this planet
When you're struttin' your legs ain't no gravity anymore
And I walk-walk-walk like an astronaut
With your monroe smile on the screen of my eyes
And every giant step I take melts the snow on the roof of the world
And the stars like burning wheels roll by
Burning wheels roll by
I'm the blossom's scent since you stick in my soul like a flower
I'm a blossom's scent since you're comin' on down like a shower
And my heart is a golden bell, I can't keep it from tolling
Yes, my heart is a golden bell and I can't control it anymore
And the stars like burning wheels roll by...
HIGHSCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
She's a cool blonde scheming bitch
She makes my body twitch
Walking down the corridor
You can hear her stilettos click
I want her so much I feel sick
The girl can't help it, she really can't help it now
It's like a highschool, highschool confidential
Teenage Brandos stalk her in the halls
They tease her with cat calls
She's a combination Anita Eckberg, Mamie Van Doren
Dagmar highschool confidential
What's the principal doin' with her? (who's that guy?)
Is she screwing with her?
What's her perfume: Tigress by Fabergé
She makes me cream my jeans
When she's coming my way
She drives a candy pink Cadillac
If I don't get her soon, I'll have a heart attack
When she flashes me a look I wanna burn my books
Givin' up, givin' up, givin' up high-high-high...
ROLL AWAY THE STONE
Baby, if you say you still care, I follow you most anywhere
Roll away the stone, roll away the stone
And in the darkest night, I'll keep you safe and all right
Roll away the stone, roll away the stone
Won't you roll away the stone, why be cold and so alone?
Won't you roll away the stone, don't you let it lie
No matter if fools say we can't win, I know I'll fall in love again
Roll away the stone, roll away the stone
So sing, we still go a chance, baby, for love and sweet romance
Roll away the stone, roll away the stone
Won't you roll away the stone
Don't you let it die, just kick it away
Won't you roll away the stone
THE SHAPES OF THINGS TO COME
Jesus' praying for rain
Lightning flashes around
The prophet is screaming
His head hits the ground
We should hear the warning
If you read the signs
Play with your own life
But don't play with mine
The shape of things to come...
There was Moses and me
When the wind took a change
He heads off the venue
He moves out of range
If you knew the action
You see us so blind
Play with your own life...
You're not invited to stay
You're not intended to go
Can you tell the future
I don't think so
We should hear the warning
If you read the signs
Play with your own life
You live in your dreams
I live in mine
Maybe tomorrow
We will collide
THUNDER & LIGHTNING
I was walking in the rain
When the angel of my intuition whispered hello
And then I turned around there was you
Well, I was quite surprised to face that kind of incarnation
Love is always unexpected, love strikes blind and undirected
And it's amazing how my life became the wildest game of all
I'd never know without your love
And since I fell for you I've failed to brave the heavy weather
Raging round the axis of my heart
And I don't, I don't need to...
Whenever I see you I want thunder and lightning
Whenever I touch you I need thunder and lightning
Whenever I hold you it feels better than the time before
That's what I want, thunder and lightning for evermore
There were times when I was down
There were times when all my hopes had faded
My whole life just seemed to be a senseless quest for energy
But love is the answer, love is all we need my friend
Now you've come and changed the weather
Now I wanna live forever
Yes I admit I'm playin' with powers that I can't control
But I tell you, I will do the best I can
We're on a crash course plane that's heading down to paradise
And that is the intention of the plan and I don't need no heaven
What do you want? You know it! What do you want then?
I tell you what I want! I tell you what I need!
I don't need no heaven!
I need thunder and lightning, don't need no heaven!
BITCH
You're living your way, I live mine
I may be down and you are oh so high
But in a while I'll sip your wine
Then call me bitch until you die
Life's a bitch and then you die
Your guardian angels crashed all from the sky
There's nothing left, you can't deny
Life's a bitch and then you die
You think you're free
But there ain't no reason why
You're just a fool chasing shadows all the time
There's no escape, no matter how you try
And after all you can't deny, life's a bitch...
Hey little girl, sweet thirteen
What are you doin' on this nightlife scene
Hey fat old daddy, you ain't doin' right
Eat up your money and get out of sight
Life's a bitch and then you die
Your guardian angels crashed all from the sky
You're all alone, I see you stumble
The spiders get you when the wall will crumble
The wall will crumble...
DAYS FULL OF WONDER
When you feel so far away though you're close to everything
Just the feeling of estrangement's creeping up on spider's legs
Even in these days of wonder, even in the age of faith
There are some who goin' under
There are some who never got it made
So you passed so many years in a labyrinth of traces
Running round and round they led to no one but yourself
Here comes the eternal stranger
He who has fallen from grace to the iron grounds
And I'm tolling my bell just to let you know
I'm here by your side in these days full of wonder
In the ashes of your time when the dragon screams for more
The reptiles make their comeback in your eyes
And heroes fall for heroin and heaven falls for fake
And Doris' daisies burn to hell on the grand parade of lies
In the middle of the night when the last of god has died
And the only friend you've got is the heartbeat of the clock
That music plays for all time, the TV light is freezing
The war-paint on your face...
PEACE ON EARTH
It's nothing serious, just a simple case of bottles, I left behind
It's nothing serious, just a wooden case of bottles, I left behind
It'll go away someday, well all right
It'll go away somehow, c'mon do your thing
C'mon, c'mon and do your thing
It's nothing dangerous, just a solid block of concrete, I left behind
It's nothing dangerous, just a solid block of action, I left behind
It'll go away someday...
C'mon do your thing, c'mon, c'mon and do your thing
Peace on Earth, God in Heaven, Peace on Earth
Living in the heat, memory melting in pools of dirt
The genetic plaything is what I leave behind
It'll go away someday
Peace on Earth, God in Heaven, Peace on Earth
Walking in the streets of Phnom Penh, giving me dangerous feelings and then
Seeing those bottles in motion again, cruising in cocktails
Peace on Earth, God in Heaven, Peace on Earth
TODAY
Central Park looked like a graveyard, it never rained like that before
I took the ferry to New Jersey, never coming back no more
In my hand I hold my ticket, statue points up to the clouds
Now I'm leaving New York City, I can hear the seagull's cries
Ain't no doubt...
Whenever I saw you - It felt like the first time
Whenever I kissed you - Just like the first time
Whenever I'd hold you it was never the same
And I thought that the last time would never come
Today
Sun is shining down on Berlin, a Turkish bride is passing by
Someone plans a revolution, little kites dance in the sky
I will always hear your heartbeat like a groove of yesterday
Laughter's ringing from the playgrounds as I watch the children play
Ain't no doubt...
Whenever I saw you - It felt like the first time...
Here comes the rain!
Right now!
WHAT IS LOVE
What is love
I'm getting closer to her
And the closer I get the more I lose my fear of loneliness
A step outside in the rain, they just closed the cinemas
I'm light-years away from you as I drive in my car
And your love shines like a neon sign, it ain't so far
Just the distance is unbelievable
What is love - unbelievable
What is freedom
I guess that I'm free again
I'm so God damn free to decide whether I'm wrong or right
To win or lose
I love you, I feel like a little boy
Too little to take all your burning love
And toyland is melting away in the heat
And your love shines like a neon sign
What is love - unbelievable
BECAUSE OF YOU
Oh, I want to know I want to go
Through that situation again, i'd like to catch
That something in your eyes it thrilled me once again
That gentle touch I can't describe
It's like a reflection of the moon on the water
Don't let it go, because of you the earth stood still
Just do it again
Burn, burn away, sacred letters, ragged backdrops
I don't care, the certainty of death,
The boring rituals of life they seem so far
I don't care for my life, I just live for your love
That is because of what you do, just do it again
Because of you the earth stood still
Just do it again
AND I WONDER
I'm going out, I don't know why, there's no need at all
A kind of turbulence outside, but I can't resist the call
I hear a siren, I might be late, fire flickers on a barricade
A piece of smack melts in my brain as I watch the police deploy
And I wonder
Did not expect to meet you there in the middle of the fights
I should have known you got it all, you wanna burn tonight
Out in the riots you look somehow divine, you gotta kill a cop sometime
A random motion, that's what you are, these days are so bizarre
And I wonder to see your face in a place like this, reflecting the flames
You see the market there, across the square
It's closing time, but all the doors are broken
Why don't we step inside, it's free for everyone, you see
It's paradise, well all right!
And I wonder to see your face in a place like this, reflecting the flames
And I wonder...
HEART OF FLOWER
Now at the station: the train to another land
Lands of never seen light, light hidden in infinite night
Night in its biggest might, might of the strongest power
And there the smoke of the train to the heart of the flower
I take the first train to the heart of the flower
And there the smoke of the train to the heart of the flower
The waiting room of kingdom come, I look back upon my life
Life of loss but now the end, end of rat race overdrive
Overdrive to the foreign lands, lands of contemptuous hours
And there the smoke of the train to the heart of the flower
I take the first train to the heart of the flower
Now on the train, this is the end of my day
I feel my spirit escape like a miracle clock that's dying away
I turn once again and wave my hand and say good-bye
I never thought it's so easy, I never thought it's so easy
I take the first train to the heart of the flower
The heart of the flower
THE END/FONT>
I can hardly wait to see her coming down the stairs
A demon's playing in my head a melody I can't forget
She's a beauty in her sorrow, each step a falling chord
That crackles in the giant mirrors on those marble walls
I feel so different today, I'm ready to explode
Into kaleidoscopes of strange delight
Come embrace me, say you'll love me till the very end
Before I vanish in the shifting sands of time
Death, the lover
Death, the lover
Come embrace
Say you'll love me
Till the very end
Come, embrace
Till the very end
Of time
Once I was so sure not knowing leaving traces in the dust
'till you said there's nothing new
Except the things that we forgot
Here I stand awaiting for a signal from oblivion
In the twilight of the old uncertainties
Now she spreads her wings she's comin'
Like a massive wave of love
Rolling black as night into my arms
Now she's comin' in a flash of burning kisses
Rushing from her lips into the center of my mind...
|  IF THE AUDIENCE WAS LISTENING
If the audience was listening
When the curtains rise again
If I knew what's going on, just a part of your plan
If I had a bit of mind kick,
If the spirit unfurled
But I've only got a vision
A strange kind of world
In eternal isolation, for the sake of inspiration
And the stuff that dreams are made of
The jester takes the violin
And lets the poison flow
The insects whirr into the sky
And Atlas dropped the earth you know
You wrote a second comedy
With all the nightmares you could feature
But I'm lying in my own world
Learning from my own world's creatures
If the audience was listening
Just for one more time
I could be more than a clown
Living more than a lie
But while I reel in the spotlights
The show must go on
My souffleuse is dead and I
Can't remember the song
In eternal isolation, for the sake of inspiration
And the stuff that dreams are made of...
WAVES
Kind of thunder from my heart
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
Going 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
Cavemen's paintings drowning
NOSTRAMADUS
Estant assis de nuict secret estude,
Seul reposé sur la selle d'aerain:
Flambe exigue sortant de sollitude,
Fait prospérer qui n'est à croire vain.
La verge en main mise au milieu de branches,
De l'onde il moulle & le limbe & le pied:
Un peur & voix fremissent par les manches:
Splendeur divine. le divin pres s'assied.
Le regne humain d'angelique geniture,
Fera son regne paix union tenir:
Captive guerre demy de sa closture,
Long temps la paix leur fera MAINTENIR.
En la frontiere de caussade & charlus,
Non guieres loing du fond de la vallee,
De ville franche musique à son de luths,
Environnez combouls & grand mittee.
Avant long temps le tout sera rangé,
Nous esperons un siecle bien senestre:
L'estat des masques & des seuls bien changé,
Peu trouveront qu'à son rang vueille estre.
Le prochain fils de l'aisnier parviendra,
Tant eslevé iusqu'au regne des fors:
Son aspre gloire un chacun la craindra,
Mais ses enfans du regne gettez hors.
Le regne humain d'angelique geniture...
MYSTERION
Instrumental
CHANGE THE WORLD
We can change the world...
The difference is in the way...
The difference is in the way we are as people
The difference is the sum of what we are
So look at the things that join us together
And take away the things that pull us apart
Ooh, we can change the world...
The light that draws us through the tunnel of perception
Is brighter than the light that makes us shield our eyes
Just believe in the idea and its purity
No need to question its source, no need for lies
Ooh, we can change the world...
Love of my life, we can change the world...
We can change... changes...
The magnetism that you feel inside draws you closer to the heart of the matter
And the wisdom that you see outside is only a mattter of learning and forgetting
Ooh, we can change the world...
Love of my life, we can change the world...
SCRIPT OF A DEAD POET
The coffee black and nearly cold
And I look back while hours pass by
A sheet of paper on the table torn to shreds
If you are able to solve the puzzle, try
It's my last script that you may hold
Or wipe away when the bar has closed
My last remains here in your hands and in the end
What I was writing for, I just don't know
Don't know
How many words to make you understand
Or was it for the triumph of applauding hands
How many words I had to spell and all the stories I would tell
For the short and orgiastic turn when you'd say: well
What were they for, these black inked dreams
A guarantee that I was wise
And so called gods define an entrance for eternal life
Into a masterpeace of mine
All I wanted to be
Was extraordinary, extraordinary
And maybe I was wrong
How many people have I killed
With my suicidal songs
ELEGY
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 in his due
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 silence in the skies
The wind is in his hair, the moon is in his eyes
The bats play on, but he'll be gone
Before the morning spreads its light
The spring is in the air, the stars have left the skies
The wind blows through the leaves, the world becomes alive
The bats sing on, but he has gone
Before the world has left the night
PANDORA'S LULLABY
So you hugged the globe
Now it's whirling too fast
I really got no hope to hang on to the past
The train has departed, the toxins have started
To announce that none will last
I cower in the gutter of a world that's not so near
And I listen to their mutters that are spinning through the air
The words unspoken, the promises broken
And the ones who really care
I'm the watcher of the scene
I see our shadows on the screen
And when the subway brakes to preserve some suicidal bee
I stop to breathe for a while
Maybe it was me
This is the world gliding by
Like the driftwood beams
On a lifetime's stream
The instant fundamental sky for Pandora's lullaby
I see distorted faces coined like gold
And in their wrinkles programs that commercial gurus told
A watermark against a spark
Umbrellas that they hold
I'm gliding in the distance and watch the world go by
An orbit full of questions, a perforated sky
But I just sit and wonder a bit that they never wonder why
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
BEAUTIFUL GIRL
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
CAROLINE
Caroline says
Are you really sure that you know me?
You never met me before, can I trust you?
But she's never cautious, no, never, will she ever learn
Will she always send her dreams and poems to imaginary people?
And she's tough, yes, real tough
Standing right in front of the revelation
All of the big city lights may shine on her eternally
And Caroline's eyes show feelings not from this world
And if someone asks her, where do you come from?
She thinks for a while before she answers
I don't know, I really don't know
And she says, there's no destination on this spiral highway
I don't know, I really don't know
And she says, I can give you names
But I can never give you answers
And she says: listen to the music of your soul
Follow where it's telling you to go
Follow in the footsteps of your soul
Listen to the music, don't you know
It will lead you where you want to be
It's waiting there for you and me
It will lead you where you want to be
It's waiting there for you and me
It'll lead you where you want to be
Caroline says
While looking at the Polaroid in her hand
Isn't this strange
To remember?
And when she's out
She never locks the door
She is always like that
She will never ever cope with the real world
Of the ordinary people
And she says
Hey, listen to this
I might be leaving here tomorrow
It's so cold in this city
And there's not enough money in the streets
And Caroline's eyes show feelings
Not from this world
And if someone asks her
Where are you going to?
She thinks for a while
Before she answers
I don't know
CARRY YOUR FLAG
We must have played
For more than ten years
We must have thought
That we're immortal
Shame, shame on us,
Ah little hussy,
What did you think I was
I look at us
We have grown older
A lot too much
For me to take
I thought
We were immortal
I'm so sorry
I tried to keep my promise...
...To carry on your flag for you
Some superhero-being
It seems to me
That we are changing
There ain't no limit
To imagination
The world just turns around
Without a care
Sometimes I feel like crying
And every time
I need to touch you
I know I cannot
Break the distance
That's why my love
Became so strong and pure
That's why I keep on
Trying forever...
...To carry on your flag for you
Some superhero-being
F o r y o u
Some superhero-being
Waiting
Under the light of the moon
F o r y o u...
I'm coming soon...
COSMOPOLITICIAN
I sleep between the gates of night, in a no man's land
Always closer than you think, a kind of your best friend
I have no religion and I have no flag
I don't care if you're wrong or right
Lilac skinned or black
I'm a cosmopolitician
Closer than your next of kin
Angel, devil of the night
And the seed of everything
And if your world has turned to ashes
I will leave you never
Even when the sun's blown out, I will shine forever
I caress you with my charms
I'm your best friend, the dream
I'm the light that guides you through the nights
And deepest haze
I'm a cosmopolitician...
Anyone can visit me
In my no-man's land
Children, lovers, lunatics
Thieves and presidents
You can call me willow-the-wisp
But I shine in good faith
I'm the one you'll always find
Even when you lose your mind
Your mind
Your mind
Your mind...
TWELVE YEARS
The circus is full of smoke
After all these years
Some were good, some were bad,
Didn't know what I was about to start
When I started
Though I wrote it all down
God, I was so naive
When you're on the show,
You've got to shoot not to sing
Wasn't it worth, anyway
Twelve years
Six were good, six were bad
Twenty thousand songs in my head
And a toast to all the pimps in the world
Here's to you, hey hey, here's to you
Till the last bullet's fired
Welcome, sweet needles of success
Here's to you
You've got to shoot not to sing
Welcome, costumers, whores
I still got my gun
Look, I point at you
There's a shadow on the target
I guess you call it future
And the fingertip orchestras
Sounded like spirit rapping on the radio
The day they sold the music
For less than a soul
To a full-playback-pop-music-teenage-hero
Here's to you, sweet needles of success
Welcome, costumers, whores
I still got my gun
Till the last bullet's fired
I still got some shots inside
Welcome, sweet needles of success
Take me home, take me home,
Oh, sweet needles of success
Here I go
Into the dry ice fog
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...
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JANUARY 1999