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Fragment I
02:22
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Soliloquy
03:53
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I say
I bought a ticket to the darkside
I left my body in the twilight and everything went black
I say
the bitter fruit is in your brain, babe
Your thoughts are slaughtered on a cold tape and pleasure is on the rack
And did you ever know hearts are hollow
another fear and a pill to swallow
and did you see yourself in decay
another end of another boring day
And did you ever feel the pain at night?
And did you fight to understand?
And did your fingers reach out for the light?
And did the fires burn your hand?
I try
to clean my fingers from the bloodstains
to tame my instincts within cruel chains but vanity is a treat
To cry
there might be something in the distance
a sweet assent in your resistance or maybe it's deceit
And did you ever see beauty fading
a trembling hand and new dust squalls raiding
and while the pleasure was so near
it's another end of another boring year
And did you ever feel...
Tie your instincts to a stake and understand
There will be laughter for overtaking when in the silence a heart is breaking
so lick your fingers count to five and reach the end of another gloriously boring life
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3. |
Perfect Illusions
04:57
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We struggled hard to be the losers we are
A lifetime job the rearrangement of shit
We're praying and hoping inventing ourselves
creating perfect illusions
We're laughing and fucking betraying ourselves
to keep our hands from the rope
Oh yeah we never fought the enemy inside
rubbing hope in our wounds being kept alive by illusions
and being killed by the same
Do you believe in the bible?
Do you beleive in love?
In terms of predestination in guidance from above?
So will you lose your religion lose anything you'll find?
So will you lose your panic – or will you lose your mind?
O how we laughed while celebrating the end, my friend
before we felt our voices turning to stone
We're praying...
Do you believe in the system?
Do you believe in time?
The force of imagination or in the written line?
So will you lose your construction your knowledge in the shelf
So will your lose your emotions – or will you lose yourself?
And when we praised lament we thought we'd have a second try
and when we soiled these lives we thought that we could never die
With eyes wide open still being blind
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4. |
Close These Eyes
03:45
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Just another empty bed anywhere in boredom
another night of agony a piece of flesh in cooling
and memories will come as smooth as pills to swallow
close your eyes to see the painful days that follow
A mind to measure gauges
got wounded by the pages
and went through different stages
a feeling locked in cages
that moaned inside for ages
see where they gonna go...
Can you tell me what time it is
I don't give a damn but I know it is too late
I once had a growing desire I don't know where I put it
but the flame's rising higher
Just lying in a bed and watch the insects coming
A crack inside your head that keeps your throat from humming
Prepared to dream salvation
Convceive intoxication
Marked as sweet sedation
A torture's exaltation
where hands touch devastation
Just a bad dream of salvation - I close these eyes once more
and we got lost in cybervisions- I close these eyes once again
Close these eyes
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5. |
Ventriloquist
03:34
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I lift my head for another ovation mortify the mind of a desolate guy
another nowhere for perambulation fleur-de-lys and labyrinth to tackle and try
and to avoid all the faces now facing the faces
and will there be enough space left to replace the places
There'll be a feast for the fault of misleading then we cut the tongue of the ventriloquist's doll
Open your heart now to megalomania sentimental me so sick and tired of it all
and to avoid all the faces now facing the faces
and will there be enough space left to replace the places
it's the time of a bitter embrace
We loved to dance with our head in the clouds with our feet in the mud
and our hearts in our mouths
I see a pretty face that's what we need it's the power
breaking us asunder
I'm an icecrusher baby and I'm gonna reach out for your heart
I kiss every maggot on your soul before I tear it apart
And prepare for a dream where you dream yourself dreaming
And scream out for a dream that will keep you from screaming
it's the time of a bitter embrace
We loved to dance...
I turn the table and scatter the meal
lick the dust from the carpet and open the seal
I drink the water that drips from your heart
it's the power tearing us apart
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6. |
My Heroin
03:47
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It could be just a joke but anyway it's hard to laugh between your enemies
It's possibly the hope to find myself that makes me look into your eyes
And don't you know my „I love you“ is just a metaphor
the atavistic instinct of a better life
I sense the night
inside
And every word I hear is torn and raped behind this brow
And all the poison that I spit has been a prayer but now
Bitterness will be my heroin
Let's get out the syringe start searching for your vein under this pallid skin
Another expectation of a new sensational embrace
People die when their brains are empty just another joke but can we face the truth
Here's the answer that it's giving: when the pain stops there's no living
Is that right? I sense the night
inside
And everything I hear is torn and raped behind this brow
and all the self-destroying thoughts were only love but now
Bitterness is just like heroin
Push the spike into my vein
Bitterness is just like heroin
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7. |
My Shadow
04:31
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If music be the food of love I will be choking you with tunes
I'll sound the trumpet beat the drum on your execution day
I when I hear your „I love you“ I know you are a liar
And when I say my „I love you“ it means you're mine forever
My arms will be your chains, my lover
Feel my shadow on your heart each time you are leaving
Feel my shadow on your heart and you'll never be leaving
Cruel little thing called love – I was the pain that you desired
I drank the marrow from your soul like you first fed on mine
And it was you who placed your heart between my fingers
The sheer beauty of our love is your destruction
I'll torture you to death, my lover
Feel my shadow on your heart...
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8. |
Rotting Before Your Eyes
04:30
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Let's buy some packages of humus so we can bury ourselves and decay
cause I won't stay here
Let's buy some canisters of shiny sulphuric acid that we may take a bath
just get away
I'd love to be rotting before your eyes, my dear
My gift of love
Hold my hand and feel the bone
Cause when we die we die alone
Did you ever see such aradiant smile on that face
Did you ever see a breastbone shatter?
Let's do the dance of death, honey
„My hands are cold as always“
Catch my urn
„Your limbs, how sexily they clatter“
I do it my way
„Look into my eyes“
They are so hollow and so cute
„My pelvis is wide open for you“
And mine is too – oo oo oo oo
I'd love to be rotting before our eyes...
My heart is a bloody old muscle, nothing will remain
My mind is a handful of dust – take it.
Hold my hand and feel the bone
Cause when we die we die alone
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They're cutting their flesh just to see if their blood is running colder again
here are the young men – not young anymore
Let's put some weight on their shoulders for they do deserve it - we might deserve it
The colourless smile of mistrust and pain
These are the days an animal dies within – everything is but a waste of time
Where are the young men rubbing their eyes again
Paralyzed and waiting
What's another year now? A glimpse and a turning
new faces emerge and fade in the distance
These are the days...
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10. |
Dog
04:18
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And it's the suicidal face now for the love of style
And so the story goes and so we all go in a while
The obvious embrace will perish in a milky haze
I'm looking pretty kind you'll never read my mind
I sleep and wait for the toll
The only evidence will be a blistered soul
Immortal insolance
My skin is looking pale move to another tale
of lust and innocence
Release the dogs
Relocate the pain on top of hills to pluck a rose – and bleed
And raise your arms the victory's a crucifixion pose – so sweet
The table is set with poisoned food with fouly stench and maggots creeping
Your mind will be a bloody mess – so drink now and confess
All the silent screams all the silly laughs all the secret loves
The gun is right at hand a kiss will understand the songs of severance
I'm looking pretty old a tale has twice been told of losing innocence
I guess we're pretty safe behind these locks
The crannies didn'nt yawn – and now
Release the dogs
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11. |
God
03:30
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(Shakespeare „As you like it“ Act II Scene 7)
And you lied to me god with all your holy promises
your halolight, your angel smile and your hand that holds me
but it wasn't me this is is for sure who has been wrong
through all these lonely years I won't take it anymore
A shining paradise on earth that's what you said haha don't make me laugh
'cause take a look at me where am I now where are we now?
Saints and children talk to you
and fools – that's why I do.
(segue Shakespeare)
And you lied to me god
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12. |
Dummyhead
03:51
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Maybe this is just a passing phase
- we thought so many times and then it was too late
Once again another taste
a new sensation harder to feel anything at all
And all the things we said and all the things we did
but killed another number on our way
With a dummyhead expression
we turn our faces towards the next letdown
There is a new spring and darkness will end but when we walked out
the flowers had withered in our hands
Another place in the corner and some lust to steal but a spider
slowly crawled over our meal
Another book another brain another bed another girl another pain
and time is running – still the same time
And everything we saw and everything we know
we never found our way between the lines
With a dummyhead expression we fetch another mask and walk away
In the mirror is a tired looking man his eyes now frozen by a million sights
We retch and close our eyes and clench our fist to ram it with a smile
Into the glass
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13. |
Solace Solipsism
03:33
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I want to slit the blue sky
Put a finger in it´s wound and watch eternity suffer
And I want to lift off and fly
to drop a bomb of poisoned smiles onto this o divine playground
And I gonna leave you tomorrow
alone in the holy maelstrom of pain and of sorrow – another nightmare to borrow
So let`s hope to be blind that we don`t have to look back
that we might leave it behind
I`ll sign the contract
But I am not quite sure so I guess I`ll take your blood
And I`ll write down with my blood
„There`s no right way of living in a wrong life“
And I`ll stop on a runway
and hope that doomsday is gonna be a warm Sunday so we have
something to talk about on Monday
We`ll sing „I did it my way“ before we stand up and pay
Close the doors and end your life in the cell of your personal monastery
Make your god a babbling screen and pray your rosarys of naivite
Life is so great when nothing gets in your way
Life is so great when you don`t know nothing
So tell me you`re happy and face me
Wait for a miracle and face me
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14. |
Unhappy People
04:22
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And suicide is completely out of style
- we didn`t know that so we`ll wait another while
to murder your sweet dreams and your party people minds
and the taste of it all – so sweet it makes me sick
And you`re so pretty open to everything you see
Isn`t it cool, he? Derive your philosophy
from little girls with voices and the looks of barbie dolls
And your innocent smile more important than your words
and your innocent smile so sweet it hurts
We`re unhappy people leading our unhappy lives
spoiling every party with our fatalistic tunes
We`re unhappy people we`re so far behind our time
we`ll never get that old as we feel inside
We don`t move our feet to the rhythm of the beat
We won`t clap our hands our put them in the air
we`d rather keep on mourning
And did you see the photos of the Jews strangled on hooks?
Not too much thinking it might affect your looks
I`m sorry for the bleeding I didn`t mean to waste your time
Cause life is so sweet so sweet it makes you ill
Life is so sweet – and we are still
Unhappy people...
We are unhappy people leading our unhappy lifes
ruining every party with our fatalistic tunes
We`re unhappy people dating our psychologists
making themgo mad while we are still the same
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15. |
Fragment III
01:31
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16. |
Withering In Pride
02:39
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The lilies on the shelf
the long forgotten promises they made
The passion of lovers is for death said she O no not me I never lost control and if I only could
I`d make a deal with god but all the faces all the voices blur
like lilies on the shelf
their silent accusation
Time takes a cigarette puts it in your mouth when he music`s over turn up the lights and in a way
I`m yearning to be done with all this measuring of proof I`m feeling very sick and ill today
I must be looking through Gary Gilmore`s eyes procession moves on the shouting is over
of course I`ve had it in the ear before
The lilies on the shelf -
withering in pride
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