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1. |
Rain - free download
04:32
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RAIN
I sit and watch the rain
As it falls from the sky
Like a lake pouring down on the whole land
For hours it’s been pouring with no break
It feels as time had stopped to tick
And just the drops drip like a clock
It’s not that I don’t like it
But it’s just a bit different
From what I thought I would be doing today
Have you ever tried it?
Have you ever tried to let the rain wash your face and brain?
It is rain falling on my face today
Rain it’s beautiful to me today
I thought I would be passing by
The pond beside my running way
And sit there in the sun for some time
But the weatherman failed
And the sun stayed at home
So do I on my sofa now
On this meanwhile quite lazy saturday
Now there’s this song
On my window pane
It’s bright and soft and I’m delighted
With its melody
It makes me listen and not hear
It turns my mouth into an ear
It’s like a prairie or a river running deep
I do look at the clouds
Then I open up my window
And turn my nose up to this fertile wet sky
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2. |
Let them dance
04:21
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LET THEM DANCE
I’m like an ant under this sky
Where white ships sail and white dragons fly
I’m like a bird flying low
A plasticbag escapes a shutter bangs like tin
I feel the wind play games in my hair
It makes them dance like ten hairdressers
So let them dance
I’m an engine the wind’s my steam
Dusk falls I pass by lit up rooms
I feel a joy bounce in my veins
Giggle with the winds like colors in my cells
Pines sway like reed at the sea
Autumnleaves swirl like a herd round my feet
And dance with the wind
So let them dance
The radio plays sweet pop-music
And this café is warm and cosy
Here’s like an isle in the storm
But out there in the night I hear it roam
See the table right next to the door
Look at the white tablecloth
See it dance back and forth
See how it lifts and dances in the draught
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3. |
(Not) killing a boy
02:48
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(NOT) KILLING A BOY
Me in a car on a street
Next to me on the seat
A small boy in a black suit
Me like a dog his master bad
Being late the paper torn
Oh I was cornered from the start
The boy has got dark skin
And shiny eyes that cheerfully are twinkling
He’s innocent as a wanton calf
And me like a dog his master bad
Desperate me behind the steering wheel
Oh I was cornered from the start
In what a temple of fear do I live
Of what kind of lies have its walls been built
What kind of threat does this boy’s joy mean
That it does terrify me oh so deep
To make me wish that this boy was killed
In my dream
A rope tied around the small boy’s neck
And a bar that I would stick in and turn
Until his last breath will be done
But the metal bar breaks as I tighten the rope
Around the small boys small and fragile neck
He makes a few little clicks and gasps
And grins just challengingly at me
What kind of freedom would be so wide
What kind of joy could be so bright
What kind of power must this boy have had
That I couldn‘t even touch one hair
Of the small boy’s small dark head In my dream
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4. |
Silverback
05:24
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SILVERBACK
Silverback is stomping through the jungle
Silverback has got a giant snout
All the jungle animals do panic
Because Silverback is gonna yell and shout
Silverback’s an angry old gorilla
Silver is the fur along his back
Silverback’s as frightening as Godzilla
It’s not the size but he does shout so horribly
Silverback comes sneaking to the gum tree
Where the owl is gazing at the midnight stars
Help me! he is wheeping really desperately
No one loves me and that’s tearing me apart
Silverback I know you are not bad
Silverback I do believe that you’re just sad
But you’re shouting is so weird
And it’s stopping up you’re own ears
And there are things we’d actually like you to hear
Now Silverback deep inside had a tender heart
And loved to watch the flight of the butterflies
It touched him to tears and he would hide away
What’s that mean with an ape
That is often loud and hard?
What’s the suffering behind the shouting?
What’s the wound beneath the stomping?
Could it be that Silverback
Didn’t heal years of pain?
That he shouted all his tenderness away?
What you’re shouting out might be your pain
But it’s not pure no it’s not it’s hidden
Behind a lot of anger
And that’s a very dangerous mask
Because who can see your true face?
What a risk!
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5. |
Zoo
04:56
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ZOO
I’m running home like a hunted frog
I do my duties and work like a dog
I break my spine to ease my mind
To be sure to get my hug
But chasing makes me numb
Like a frozen fish on ice
And stuff to keep me busy
Is like a dogdung full of flies
And the chance to end everything
Of all that can be done
Is nearly as encouraging
As a mussel’s wish to run
It’s like a zoo
That keeps me racing all the time
It’s like a zoo
That keeps on racing through my mind
I’m drifting like a racing horse
And free like a tiger in a cage
I’m introspective like a 1000 bees
And am as happy as a rat in a trap
And am angry as a raging bull
I want to feel like a bird in the sky
Dance like a butterfly
Sit in the sun like a fat black cat
Let my mind and my spirit fly
I want to feel like a tree in the breeze
Sing like the child on my knees
Lie in the sun like a big brown bear
With no one and nothing to fear
I want to stand on a stage like a popstar
Play a few chords on my guitar
Laugh and cry in my microphone
Set my soul more and more free
It’s like a zoo
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Slugtalk
05:38
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SLUGTALK
One night when the waves
Of the ocean of my life were high
I went for a walk in the dark
Because I thought this might help
I felt like a ship being hit by the waves
I was lost and in distress at sea
My sadness was thick like the mud at my feet
That was soaked like a sponge by the rain
I walked up the hill rising in front of me in the night
And finally came to the main road up there at the top
I continued my way because I hadn’t yet found
What I actually had hoped to get
There was no consolation in this rainy night
But instead I did almost step on a little brown slug
And I stared at the slug
And the slug stared back at me
And I was overwhelmed
By these beautiful eyes on sticks
That something so fragile and so small could exist
That a being so fantastic and so slow could live
Where are you heading to slug
Here in the middle of the track?
Where fast cars are passing
With tires heavy and black
This road is dangerous and it is long
And you’re fragile and you are slow
Does the way you have taken now make any sense
This is what I’d like to know
The slug looked me right in the eye and said:
And what about yourself?
You are but one little boat
On the ocean of life!
This ocean may be dangerous
And it’s so immense
And you’re fragile and slow
Does your way make any sense?
This night when the waves
Of the ocean of my life were calm
And silence did sink in like snow
I walked down the hill falling under my feet
And I thought of this slug with no doubts
While I carefully checked
Where to put down my boots
In order not to step on one of these brown little slugs
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7. |
Centerpiece
02:50
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CENTERPIECE
Today I am as fragile as glass
Got skin like thin grass
And I’m as near to myself
As my nose is to my ass
A dinosaur lies upon my chest
What to do? Do the best
Have a rest, don’t get stressed
Did you ever try to stand a day
With nothing to do
Oh it‘s amazing how things can come
And things find you
But what I do is speeding into town
Doing errands erring all around
As if my centerpiece was sitting in a shop
I could buy it there and stop
Feeling fragile but reassured
The streets keep roaring in my ears
My shoes keep biting at my toes
The views are stinging in my eyes
Don’t you know foolish bloke
Stop to race like ten old clocks
Do chill out and have a break
Round the block I find an ad that reads
«Find your centerpiece here and get well»
As I read it I’m relieved as one can be
Enter the store and buy for me
Once for ever my centerpiece
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8. |
Repressions
02:26
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REPRESSIONS
The tunes shine so bright
In the middle of my inside
Send their gleams of hope
Let me know everything’s all right
Is it real?
Is it true?
Ain’t it self-deception
in a difficult moment on the way of life?
That’s the doubt inside my mind
Thoughts wrapped in clouds
And drifting through my soul
The shiny thoughts I’ll keep
And the painfull ones I’ll damn
Is it real?
Is it true?
Ain’t it self-deception
in a difficult moment on the way of life?
That’s the doubt inside my mind
That’s the doubt I hold inside
Is it real?
Is it true?
Aint’t it self-deception
in a difficult moment on the way of life?
That’s the doubt inside my mind
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9. |
Mirage Girl
04:02
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MIRAGE GIRL
This side of the city
Is not very pretty
Though I walk through
Cause I wanna be with you
These streets that I go
Are streets that I don’t know
Though I go through
Cause I wanna find you
Mirage girl
Tell me are you real?
Mirage girl
Confused you make me feel
Mirage girl
Will I be holding you one day?
Oh mirage girl
Cease to hide away
The city is the desert
And me I am the nomad
And I’m so restless
You be my oasis
There are figures
In the back-light
And they flicker
On my horizon
Wasn’t that your smile?
For a very short time?
I found your heart on the pavement
Black as obsidian
And it was hard as a diamond too
I start to wonder is it really worth
What I’m going through?
We advise you to be careful
Oh what I’m now is disillusioned
So leave and fade away like a mirage
The streets swallow my story
And no-one will say he‘s sorry
In the afternoon heat
While the city bumps the beat
Did I see you walking?
Did I hear you talking? Wasn’t that your smile?
For a very short time?
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10. |
Bad Counselors
06:20
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BAD COUNSELORS
If you rule such an empire as me
You need counselors for this you see
To help you with pieces of advice
Support you in good and bad times
Counselor number one is Dr Fear
His voice is loud and mighty in my ear
He’s pale as plaster like Counselor Shame
Just so their council often is the same
Bad counselors bad counseling
How can I rule my world?
They’ve been here for so long
I got so used to them now
I’m afraid to rule all alone
I sent my carrier pigeons
To bring back Counselor Joy
He sailed away with Counselor Play
They’re sailing to
The edges of my kingdom
They quit when I made Counselor Pride my chairman
To bring offerings to Mother Devotion
I don’t know who put them next to my throne
The specific file in the archive is gone
I just know I must have been too young
And now I’m so afraid to rule alone
The Counselors Wonder Courage and Amazement
Ask for co-determination in my council
Just so the Counselors Calmness Love and Patience
But Dr Distrust threatens with his resignation
I should fire them all
But they’ve been here for so long now
I’m afraid to rule all alone
And it makes me sad
And it makes me angry
And so I throw them out
I kick these suckers
Out my palace right away
I told them to go
I told them to leave
I kicked them out
I sent them away
I told them to go
I told them to leave this place
I kicked these suckers out
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ALL THESE POPSONGS PART I
Oh all these lousy pop songs
I could have written if you‘d let me
But you keep claiming my time
You keep stealing my rhyme
And my neighbour complains about the sound
Oh all these wonderful pop songs
I could have written if you‘d let me
Oh these ingenious pop songs
I could have written if you‘d let me
But I am working so hard
And in the evening I‘m dead
And I ain’t got the equimpent I need
You keep arguing with me
And the kids are so noisy
And in the end I’m too upset to write
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ALL THESE POPSONGS PART II
You tell me that it’s not really true
You say I’m lying
You tell me that the bad boy is me
Oh now you‘re lying
And how you‘re lying
You tell me that it’s all in my brain
That I start a creation
You tell me if you want to create
You gotta start in your mind
And you say that I’m my own king of pain
I got it all in my hand
And you want me now to stop to complain
You ask me when’s your waiting at an end?
You tell me to be fertile in my head
How long do you want to hesitate?
You got it all in your mind
Go now
If you need some changes
Go and change it in your head
Oh all these lousy pop songs
I could have written if you let me
Oh all these beautiful pop songs
I‘m gonna write If I let me
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13. |
Please give me your Love
05:23
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PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR LOVE
Do bring flowers to my bed
Sit beside me caress my head
Bring me presents like a shiny little pen
Or invite me on a holiday to Spain
Put a chair on my terrace
Bring me croissants for my breakfast
Set my table in the gently rising sun
Bring me a pot or two of my favourite jam
Oh Baby oh baby
Please, give me your love
There is nothing I need more
Oh baby oh baby
Please, give me your love
This is what I’m asking for
Find out what’s good and you find out what’s bad
Free myself of biassed labels in my head
And don’t you roast me
On the flame of my expectations
It‘s so abusive and it feels like poison
Now who’s this girl I’m singing to
Who’s this mysterious you
That I’m begging for her love down on my knees
Who’s this fascinating woman
Who’s this beautiful madonna
There isn’t any
Because the love I’ll depend on always
Is but my own in the first place
And so this song is going to me
When my life sometimes is hard to touch
Remind me doing nothing is so much
Then take my hand and wander with me in the woods
Because so much good comes from leaning against trees
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14. |
Piece of Dirt
04:37
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PIECE OF DIRT
One night as I was on my way home
I was attacked by a demon
His claws were like knives
Cut into my face
He made me sing a song by force
Just a piece of dirt
Only a piece of dirt
Oh it’s so hard to me
And it‘s hurting me deep
That I shall be a piece of dirt
I got bold and fought like a lion
That demon grew as big as a dragon
He soaked all my fear as cerosine
And inhaled my pain like nicotine
Soon my life was not much more worth
Than a candlelight in a storm of wrath
But see I was saved by an angel’s grace
He whispered Give him a kiss!
The demon‘s today a guest in my house
He shrunk to a pet-dog with a wet nose
But as dogs need walks
It’s that song that he needs us
To sing from time to time
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15. |
The Tree
02:50
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THE TREE
Today I strolled through the forest
I saw a broken tree
It was cracked at the bottom
At an angle of fifty degrees
In a minute this story is over
But here comes the best
The tree was full of juicy young leaves
And didn’t care about the rest
The tree was fresh like salad green
And didn’t care about the rest
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16. |
Voice behind the Curtain
04:53
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VOICE BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Often a bit from behind the curtain
Sometimes still a little bit uncertain
Bashful in the middle of attention
Thankful for your warm appreciation
As a red-haired boy I was singing on a swing
And lost part of my innocence that day
I dreamed of being adored as a musician
But still these tunes came singing from within
It is my voice from behind the curtain
Sometimes a bit uncertain but happy as a cow
It is my voice singing anyhow
I try to make it fly and I’m happy as a cow
For many years I kept the singer jailed
The voice was tin to me instead of gold
The tunes kept rattling so I played the drums
But now Tom W and Bob D they make me brave
I may never sing my songs like a nightingale
My voice may never fly like a silver plane
So I let rock like an old coach in the meantime
Rolling happily on the feeling trail
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17. |
September
00:46
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18. |
Summer (won't you stay)
04:55
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SUMMER (WON'T YOU STAY)
I put my summershirts in the basement cupboard today
Next to where my sandals now do lie
Exchanged them with my heavy winterboots
Oh how I hate these thick and heavy winterclothes
See a single ray of sunshine makes me smile
Makes my heart cheer and laugh like a child
Imagine what a whole summer means to me
And how these wintermonths make me fade away
Summer won’t you stay for another while?
Winter will be here Soon enough
I didn’t really manage to get warm inside
In these few summerweeks that you’ve been here
I’m not made for snow dnd ice and fog
And the golden autumn leaves that drop
Make me melancholy to my bones
They’re whispering: Yes! Man, you’re gonna miss the sun!
Summer won’t you stay for another while?
Wintertime I smell it it is near
I slowy got to feel a little warmer inside
In this short time that now you’ve been here
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Good Counselors Switzerland
Sie versprühen die sanfte Melancholie eines verregneten Sommertags und retten schon im nächsten Song leidenschaftlich echte Gefühle aus dem Sumpf dieser verkauften Welt. «An Jack Johnson, falls der mal einen melancholischen Tag hätte» erinnern sie eine Musikjournalistin. Auch auf ihrem zweiten, von Guz co-produzierten Album lassen die Counselors wieder ihre verblüffend beatlesken Chöre erstrahlen. ... more
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