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

When you feel so far away though you're close to everything
And 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..

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...

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 a 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 thru' 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 parallelworlds

Hey, tell me it's true,
Is this the other side of u.
Worlds gonna change
With a move in your face,
Do i still walk on the samestructure?

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 run-way
Everybody hopes to get off the trap
All we really like is to groove with emotion
Waiting for the airline to lift us up...

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

Long view into the dark
Moving your finger
You gonna make it for sure into the dark
Master of duel, rendezvoyeur
This is a walk into the dark
Playing the ball
Roll it on but not too fast
There she goes into the light
Close to your eye
Breaking the mirror
Gone out of sight
Flash in the rain
Sign of a walk into the dark..

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

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...

You need a friend without a doubt
I wonder why you came around
Are you awake or do you dream
You're stuck inside a frozen scene
You try to move but there's no moves
You try to speak but there's no use
You try to wake but you can't
You close your eyes without a chance
You need a friend without a doubt
I wonder why you came around..

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

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

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..!

Say it ain't so, joe, please, say it ain't so
That's not what i wanna hear, joe and i got the right to know
Say it ain't so, joe, please, say it ain't so
I'm sure, they're telling us lies, joe,
Please, tell us it ain't so

They told us that our hero has played his trump card
He doesn't know how to go on
We're clinging to his charms and determined smile
But the good old days have gone
The image and the empire may be falling apart
The money has gotten scarce
One man's word held the country together
But the truth is getting fierce

Say it ain't so, joe, please, say it ain't so
We've pinned our hopes on you, joe and they're ruining our show

Ooh babies, don't you think we're gonna get burned
Ooh babies, don't you think we're gonna get burned
We're gonna get turned
We're gonna get learned
We're gonna get burned
We're gonna get learned

Say it ain't so, joe, please, say it ain't so
That's not what i wanna hear, joe and i got the right to know
Say it ain't so, joe, please, say it ain't so
I'm sure, they're telling us lies, joe,
Please, tell us it ain't so

Say it ain't so, joe..




Murray head/1975

Smiling faces when you're no.1, it's on, can you relate
The people that you meet are the people that you love to hate
Walk this way, talk this way, suckers on my tip-no
I don't need no bodyguards, i don't need no ridiculous jewelry
Vibing the industry, it's people- acting funny with my money, it's
Everything will be taken care of, honey- the fuzzing and the buzzing-
The dealing and the wheeling, shady bitches in big, black limousines
Digging my stuff with a gangsterly..huhu, cashflow's extreme
Yes, i'm getting paid, hey, here's what the people say, this fool's glocking crazy geeze
The bitch is selling out- he's given up integrity-..huh

To me it's a job, the case is sublime, you get yours, i get mine-
Call me a prostitute
Digging the inner so you don't get under, no, my name ain't alexander the great
But came and i saw and i conquered and now i'm in the house
And now the house is haunted cause i can talk this shit
I'm in the game, even when they're kicking it, a hustler
Hitting the big time with mental stamina, with karma spread from the south of france
. to l.a.- to indochina, and i don't quit, i'm coming on
With another hit and playing it rough- with an attitude way out there, yeah
No playing it safe in here, -fool, you don't wanna be rude, - go ahead
---you don't wanna be rude, -go ahead
Call me a prostitute

I was born, growing up, i finished my cup, said good luck, dad-
With a back up from the giddy up--
Began as a problem youth, running wild with the deuce, the juice
I tolled a while but not in vain, whiskey, women, joy and pain
I had to get away and start my own odyssey
. and now i'm back,--what's up,--check me,--take a loupe,--for the close up
See me through, i'm a soulman, i'm a soulman, and i go shoob...

Ain't no sellout, im the shit, there ain't no substitute
You get yours and i get mine, call me a prostitute..

I'm a soulman, and i go shoob, i'm a soulman..

Gold/seum/1995

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