unknown

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..

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
An it's amazing how my life became the wildest game of all
I never knew without your love
And since i fell for you i fail 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 feel thunder and lightning
Whenever i hold you i feel 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 came & 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!!!!!!!!!

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 couldn't 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
How can i ever
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..

I saw you smile, i saw you true, i saw you through
Today you're in your best disguise
Where are you now musician, lost your speech, where are you now
You dragon tamer, tell me please, where are your heroes now

Wake up, you forsaken heaven's sheep, your heaven's cheap
Wake up, open your eyes, feel the might of the light, i know you've got a sun inside
I saw you turn, i saw you burn today, your flickering, empty eyes hurt me like pins
Are you still in, tell me...

Where are you now, magician, lost your wand, where are the dreams
That you have dreamt....when you were a hero
Where are you now, where have you gone, you're much too beautuful
To slip into oblivion

Wake up, you forsaken heaven's sheep, your heaven's cheap
Wake up, open your eyes, feel the might of the light, i know you've got a sun inside
I saw you turn, i saw you burn today, your flickering, empty eyes hurt me like pins
Are you still in, tell me...

I know you'e got a sun inside, i know you've got a sun inside...
I know you've got a sun
I know you've got a sun
Inside

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 times to make youy 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'd you say: well

What were they for, these black inked dreams
A guaranty 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


Janey diamond/1993

Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much, his face was wet, then i knew, he was not lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and tv's
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store, everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought i'd need so many people

A girl of my age went off her head, hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, i think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
And a queer threw up at the sight of that

I think i saw you in an icecream parlour
Drinking milkshakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
I don't think you knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it raind, so i felt like an actor
And i thought of ma and i wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, i want you to walk

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes, we've got five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot, we've got five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years...

I'm moving
I'm not going to rest till i find you
I'm following one step behind you
I'll do what i do to remind you
I'm following one step..

I've been keeping strange hours, i've been saying strange things
I've been places where i should not go
But i catch conversations that feature your name
And my ears and my eyes never close
I've been all of the places where you used to be
And your friends don't remember my face
I don't know if you wonder what's happening to me
I don't vanish that easy, i'll make you believe me
I'm moving...

Did the voice sound familiar on the landing below
Are the footsteps behind you like mine
You're a thought in my head i could never let go
And that thought takes up all of my time
Swallowed up by obsessions that can't be denied
I can't find out what's right and what's wrong
Swallowed up by the whirlpoos of colours at night
Oh, please show me no mercy, my reason deserts me

I'm moving...
There's so many people that you knew
To understand everything you do
You're too far ahead now to need them
They live on the streets, you can't see them
The small and the crushed and the helpless
The weak and the cruel and the useless

They're following one step behind you...


Tim whelan/91

Central park looks 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 a ticket
Statue points up to the clouds
Now i'm leaving new york city
I can hear the seagulls cries

Whenever i saw you, it felt like the first time
Whenever i kissed you, just like the furst time
Whenever i hold you it was never the same
And i thought that the last time
Would never come
Today

Autumn's sun burns down on berlin
A turkish bride just passes by
Someone plans a revolution
Little kites dance in the sky
I will always hear your heartbeat
I will always think of you
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
Whenever i kissed you, just like the furst time
Whenever i hold you it was never the same
And i thought that the last time
Would never come
Today
Here comes the rain
Right now!


Gold/1988

You came one night, turned my tide
Blood red moon that you are
Now i sit here, what can i do
Wrapped in feathers and tar
You clutched my back and you bit my neck
Stroke me down to the floor
You burn my brain, lay me in chains
And i want more

I'm on my knees, can't you see
I don't know what to do
Can't you heal me, can't you feel
That my heart belongs to you

It seems so wrong, that i sing this song
Could it be, babe, could it be that you feel the same
But let me tell you, and taht ain't no excuse
Where both in the same situation
Under each others sign like partners in crime
And nobody needs to tell me
That this ain't the end of the world
It's just one of those crazy moments of the late, late 20th century
But you visit my sweetest dreams and you kindle all of my phantasies
And you're right, it's your name that i scream
Don't you feel it, don't you hear me baby...

I'm on my knees, can't you see..

You came one night, turned my tide
Blood red moon that you are, now i sit here, what can i do
Wrapped in feathers and tar
You paint my lips and you sank my ships and i, i love you so, ilove you so
You see me pray, please go away
No, don't go, don't go, cause i want more..

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

You should hear the warning if you read the signs
Play with your own life but don't play with mine

You're living your way, i'm living mine
May be tomorrow we will collide

If you knew the action, you see us so blind
Play with your own life but don't play with mine

The shape of things to come
The shape of things to come
Welcome to the future



Boyter, lewis, malcolm, ross/1991

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 alright
It'll go away somehow, come on 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, well alright
It'll go away somehow, come on do your thing

Peace on earth, god in heaven, peace on earth

Living in heat, memory melting in pools of dirt
The genetic plaything is eating what i left behind
It'll go away someday

Walking in the streets of pnom 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

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 hyms
And if i was a seagull i'd just rise up
And carry my soul across the sea
Drifting beyond the horizon
Lost by the ground to be free
If i was a life-boat i'd be waiting all my life
For another stormy day
And if i was a dolphin i'd be playing all the time
Just playing my life away
And if i was a kite i'd just be laughing
And dragging you up to the sky
Setting you down on a white cloud
While a seagull's floating by
And the silence roars like thunder

When the sirens sing again...

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

When the sirens sing again...

He will travel all the ways
That lead to the unknown lands
Time has distorted his view
An amen in his due

When the sirens sing again...



Diamond/1989

This is a walk into the dark
Master of duel, lighting a cigarette
Flash in the rain, sign of a walk into the dark
You

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
Insects whirr into the sky
& atlas dropped the earth u know

U wrote a 2. comedy
With all the nightmares u 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...

I can hardly wait to see her coming down the stairs
A demon's playin 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 at the 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 burning flash of kisses
Rushing from her lips into the center of my mind..
...more alphaville lyrics!

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

Sometimes i feel wherever i go, i leave no man's land behind
And god is a pet and the devil's a toy, and i'm a danger in your paradise
Here i go
Here i go
Sometimes i feel wherever i go, i leave crimson roses behind
With a toy in my hand and a pet at my side, i spread roses,
Roses in your paradise

Here i go, with a toy in my hand and a pet at my side, here i go
Here i go, i'm a danger in your paradise

And life is a pretty, impolite bastard
I spit at you, i spit at you, i spit at you, bastard
I want to cut out your chameleon tongue
I'm a danger in your paradise

Here i go...

Sometimes i feel wherever i go, i leave crimson roses behind
With a toy in my hand and a pet at my side
I spread roses, roses in your paradise
And life is a pretty, pretty gigolo
I caress you, i caress you, gigolo
And god is a pet and the devil's a toy
And i'm a danger in your paradise

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
Desperados in love
Won't kill this sweet dove
For nuggets of fleeting bliss
C'mon, c'mon you can't escape
The bleeding 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

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 live 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.....

Members of the earth, lets fighting for the sun

When you feel so far away
Though you're close to everything
And the feeling of estrangement

There is a landscape in my head
I sometimes travel
But this is strictly after dark
Beyond the barricades and trenches
There stands the factory
Hand me the costum of the sad acrobat
And he says:
Son, this is the bread i break for you
But do not touch it
And he says:
Son, this is the wine i pour for you
But do not drink it
Dein aschenes haar, sulamith

And he says:
Son, this is the bread i break for you
Son, this is the wine i pour for you
But do not drink it, don't drink at all..

There is a stranger on the shore
I sometimes travel
But this is strictly in my dreams
He feeds the seagulls in the winds with ashes
And as he speaks he's got my father's voice
And he says:
Son, here is some bread i broke for you
Son, here is some wine..

Those were the days, my friend
Dein aschenes haar, sulamith
Der tod ist ein meister aus deutschland

You're playin' around with money and fear
And a power you can't control
And the zimmermen grin their perjured grins
Sayin': there's no risk at all !
Look into the eyes of the next generation
I know you would never dare
You're layin' 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...

Yor 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..!

I forgive, i forgive

I forgive all my friends who left me alone, i forgive the wall that it had so many stones
I forgive the lord that he never sent a priest, i forgive the hangman, i forgive the beast
I forgive the winter that it was so cold, i forgive my father that he was so bold
I forgive the ashes that they couldn't stay flames, i forgive the acid, i forgive the rains
I forgive james joyce that i couldn't read his books, i forgive that you've never given back what you took
I forgive the puzzle that i didn't fit, i forgive the shit that i couldn't write a hit
I forgive the dog that she never came home, i forgive all the ways that they always lead to rome
I forgive the worm in the very last tree, i forgive the girls who haven't forgiven me
I forgive inspiration when it came to late, i forgive all the ladies when i had to wait
I forgive superman that i didn't stay clean, i forgive, i forgive, anyone, anything
For the sake of love, for the sake of love
For the sake of love

I forgive the angels who could never take me high, i forgive all my dreams that i couldn't really fly
I forgive the thought that i couldn't stop thinking, i forgive all the drinks that i couldn't stop drinking
I forgive the clock that it didn't wake me up, i forgive the driver, i forgive the cab
I forgive all the moments that they wouldn't stay, i forgive all the years that they've flown away
I forgive the promises that they've been broken, i forgive the curses that they have been spoken
I forgive all the prophets and the saints of the past, i forgive the stars when they fell too fast
I forgive the joke that it didn't make me laugh, i forgive desire that i had to starve
I forgive all the love for the sake of love, i forgive all sakes for the fake above
For the sake of love, for the sake of love
For the sake of love


Diamond/gold/1995
-

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 alright
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 got 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..




Ian hunter/1973

Caroline says
Are you really sure that you know me
I never met you before, can i trust you
But she's never cautious, no, never, will she ever learn
Wil 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 some one 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'll lead you where you what to be
It's playing there for you and me

Caroline says while looking at the polaroid in her hands
Isn't it strange to remember
And when she's out, she never locks the door, she is always like that
She could never ever cope with the real life of the ordinary people
And she says, hey, listen to this, i should 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 some one asks her
Where do you go to, she thinks for a while before she answers

I don't know...

The circus is full of smoke
After all this 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
12 years, 6 were good, 6 were bad
20.000 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 got to shoot, not to sing
Welcome, customers, whores, i still got my gun
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 i sold my music for less than a soul
To a full-playback-pop-music-teenage-hero
Here's to you, sweet needles of success
Welcome, customers, whores, i still got my gun
Here's to you, you got to shoot not to sing
I still got some shots inside

Welcome, sweet needles of succes
Take me home, take me home
Oh, sweet needles of success
Here i go
Into the dry-ice fog


Gold/1990