Ernesty International

Grey Magic

I know that something good is gonna happen

Don’t know the time when I‘m laying down my weapons

I will return I will let you know when I am done with it

I believe that was a one time wonder

I was bewildered by the spell that I am under

Black magic ridiculous just get away with it

But I feel I’m expected by the angels

But I feel their love is welcome by the devils too

What a wonder

It come down with a thunder some rhythm’n blues

That was the time when a princess had been led it

It was the moment when the feeling should have stepped in

But it was stepping out

It was vanishing like the memory of a long lost lover

As if the needles and the puppets and the cruzifix will stop this

And if the rain dances and the sermons gonna top this

If the seas might split to praise the resurrection of the Lord

So I feel I’m expected by the angels

And I feel their love is welcome by the devils too

What a wonder

It all came down with a thunder pray spread the news

First the sailors will triumphantly walk upon the water

Then they will decode the sectres of the lotteries

But I’m ready to die rather simply as soon as I feel love

Handfuls of Paper Money

Take a look at the city walls

And how the serpent´s lying still

The underworld waits for the day to fall

The junkeys smile cause fall it will

And handfuls of paper money

Land on the babys´ beds

And most of the rain that´s coming down

Hits right in the baby´s face

At the corners the martyrs wait

Don´t cough out the dust they breathe

There are dogs with broken fingernails

Matyrs are just the guys that they don´t really need

And handfuls of paper money

Lie on the baby´s beds

And I don´t really know what is so funny

But there´s a smile upon her face

Press agencies and dirty subway cabs

And bottled beers and mobile phones

Neon temples and tangled spider webs

And country bands and broken homes

Smoking dope won´t kill this jelousy

And wulf-eyed shoe-shine boys can´t help

And they´re just trying to get your sympathy

To feel you heal you steal you just like anybody else

An angel´s flying in says don´t worry

Opens his soft packed cigarettes

Offers you one and says I´m sorry

But your loneliness is all that you have

In a Beekeeping Mood

Love me tomorrow or today

I’m not Jim Morrison

I’m not even Daniel Day Lewis’s son

Not even if I could play

I had this thought I’d never die

One life you have

Like a thought that’s passing by

But in this heart of mine

The present time will never fade

First I thought it was picture

Then I found it was you

In a balloon in early June

In a beekeeping mood

But in this heart of mine

The present time will never fade

A friendly clown with the clearest eyes

Was coming your way

Don’t mind if there’s a carnival

There’s something you can’t play

You can’t play the morning

That’s falling from the moon

First I thought it was picture

Then I found it was you

In a balloon in early June

In a beekeeping mood

But this love of ours

Is heading out for flowers or trees in bloom

Infantry

I brought the infantry when love was needed

Placing arrows on a flipchart in direction of attack

I pushed so consequently on the weakest spot but I forgot

There was your beauty and with a big force it struck back

And all this jealousy brought a brutality

A thousand regiments of cavalry

And all this jealousy brought war right over me

I cried for air support I cried I’m wounded

I cried for a medic I cried for you as you stood there in the haze

You stroked my hair and as the doctor came with a saw you just said no

His heart is gonna stay there in its place

And all this jealousy brought a brutality

A thousand tanks lots of artillery

And all this jealousy brought war right over me

Jesus on an Iron Cross

You walk into free entrance parties

Finding gold in silver mines

You keep an eye on the goodly-hearted

And see how the goodly-hearted just waste their time

Cause the guys in the last row are not missing

You won’t find them when they’re lost

Out of the walls he has grown as they try to start pissing

A Jesus on an iron cross

There’s ice cream in your other hand

Cause your left is filled with dynamite

An explosion of coincidences

Fading over into a fevery sky

My brain has flown into the garden

And kissed my lover on her thighs

My head fell off and begged her pardon

But hit a kid that just walked by saying

My mama kissed an evil stranger

He took her hand and placed it right

It’s her life but it’s my danger

So kill me if you have the time

Cause the guys in the last row are not missing

You won’t find them when they’re lost

Out of the wall he has grown as they try to start kissing

A Jesus on an iron cross

Just one

Just one sun per day and person

Gods however as many as you can fantasize

And if nothing‘s ever really glowing the TV biz will help you improvise

Just one circus for every city

Just one husband and for some sadly just one wife

And if the sword swallower is happening to sneeze it’s most likely just one life

Just one million US dollars

Each year being shipped onto my secret band account

The label bosses telling me hey it’s the secrecy

It’s the secrecy and the humility that counts

Just one time one blink one kiss one fuck one thunder

Just one cloud disolving back into the sun

Just one clown hey that is me

Messing up in counting up to one

Just one password a boring line of numbers

Like a pirate movie treasure burried in the ground

And just one second then you forget it

And watch it drifting back into some unknown kind of south

Left Handed Serpent

He’s a left handed serpent the only thing he can do with his right

Is to wave hello and goodbye and king-style

He wouldn’t know how he feels but made a face that said don’t ask

Just be slightly disturbed about my unfortunate and completly helpless state of mind

If he walks down the street the houses lying still people would watch

But the overwhelming majority of people just wouldn’t waste a glance on him

You can’t apply democracy to people who can’t feel that there is no such

Thing as perfection when it comes to human life in and out this very stratosphere

He’s a left handed serpent he’s much faster than you think

He can tell the time by the way the sun hits the lines of your face at dawn

He’s the biggest wonder and he meets the fact he’s not famous in London and New York

With a spectacular humility a messiah-like readiness to forgive the world

But if he walks down the street the houses lying still the universe breathes

But he’s not affected by the kind of ready rhythm of the stream

If he just could fall if he just could scream if he only could get real

He could be released from the forces of an on and on and on and on going childhood dream

So sweet so deep so filled with horror and defeat

So sweet so deep so filled with horror and relief

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Limited Soldier

I’m a limited soldier

And whatever they told you it’s not right

I’m a primitive dancer

I dance the dance of romances

It’s more like a flight

When they told me form a fist

I said put it on the list I’m a loser

But I also lost the list at least I don’t know where it is

I think the freezer

I am heavenly blinded

I’m sad but I don’t mind it

And I try this freedom with a smile

I’m apparently gifted

I’m like a stone you can’t lift it

And that’s why I didn’t lie about the flight

The ghosts the rabbits they felt a little uneasy

They start the motor they start to run

Their revolution’s quick and a little bit cheesy

I saw the photos with their wooden guns

I’m a limited soldier

And whatever they told you it’s not right

I’m a primitive dancer

I do the dance of romances

It’s more like a flight

I tiptoed once around the sun

It’s less a tango more a run my revolution

If you think I might have faked it

My clothes are burned that’s why I’m naked

Now there’s this institution

Ernesty International

I’m undefeatedly grinning

My life is nothing but winning

So I don’t try to hide behind the sweetness of my smile

I’m undeniably dreaming

I dream from morning to evening

So I don’t try to hide behind the sweetness of my smile

I’m unexpectedly laughing

When you ask I say it’s because of nothing

So I don’t try to hide behind the sweetness of my smile

Liz Taylor

Love me tomorrow or today

I’m not Liz Taylor

I’m not even Doris Day having fun

Not even if I could play

I had this thought I’d never die

One life you have

Like a thought that’s passing by

But in this heart of mine

The present time will never fade

First I thought it was picture

Then I found it was you

In a balloon in early June

In a beekeeping mood

A friendly clown with the clearest eyes

Is coming your way

Don’t mind if there’s a carnival

There’s something you can’t play

You can’t play the morning

That’s falling from the moon

First I thought it was picture

Then I found it was you

In a balloon in early June

In a beekeeping mood

Love is just Love

One walks with boots ten inches high

One makes you laugh until you cry

One did white magic on her former boyfriend

One has no trouble saying no

One climbs the stage tells me to throw her down my phone number

Says I will be in town the whole weekend

And one waits at the station

All covered up with stardust and languages from twenty nations

One is dancing like a majesty

Says she’d give up all her lovers right for me

One is clever one is free

One has eyes so pure that one glance makes you believe

One writes books that touch your soul

One gets wild and crazy on alcohol

One shows you how to swim across the sad and deepest oceans

One knows all human weaknesses by name

One makes you feel that life’s a game

One makes you come by just touching your shoulder

She’s capable of understanding your most mysterious emotions

And one turns yourself right into you

She’s happy being close to you

She’s happy being close to you

One makes you find out that life is easy

She says you just know how to please me

She makes you feel like a man

And your jealousy and not knowing what to say

Just get washed away by the rain

As long as you’ll be there I will be by your side

Love is just love is just love is just love

Love is just love is just love is just love

You’re the one I love