Red Cross
With this rainy night in my head I conquer your room with imploring smiles
My doubts run down your windows like trembling raindrops
That live just for a while then disappear into this parted sea
That doesn’t seem to get me free
With this icy beat in my heart I slip into your bed with descending eyes
My boats strand on your beaches like passing-out dolphins
That used to flicker with a smile in dances fearlessly and wild
But I cast my nets so carelessly
You gotta hide your love
This is the price of love
You gotta pay
These Norwegian ships on the shore patrolling our moves they might be on our side
But instead of waving hello maybe inciting a proof
We spray red Xs on our backs and neutralize our sex
Saying please let us be
And okay we gonna hide our love
This is the price of love
We gonna pay
So all you Greenpeaces
Scandinavian governments
Amnesty Internationals and United Nations
Send us your love
Your troops pass by my window like parading hilltops
I walk out for everyone to see a red cross painted onto me
And it always will be
You gotta find your love
There is no price of love
You gotta pay
You find your love
There is no price for love
You gotta pay
Scandinavia
I am the dancer and you hate ballet
I am the part time lover
You are the commitment I’m CIA
You’re FBI undercover
We’re in all of this together
Assuming time is forever
I got a bad picture of myself and you like your ways
I like to swim in cold rivers
Your only lake is the bath tube I’m refusing to pray
You’re certain we will all be delivered
We’re in all of this together
Assuming time will be forever
You are the subway and I am the walk
You are the tea ceremony
I am the warm beer and you like to talk
Nobody ever heard an open word of me
Sisters and Brothers
Sisters and brothers hold on to each other
You fall when you’re alone with it
You dance you cry you look into mirrows you don’t know
You miss the train by forty minutes at least
Your chance to fly just by the force of your wanting to
Well it is or let’s put it this way it isn’t
So sisters and brothers hold on to each other
You fall when you’re alone with it
Find yourself a lover get yourself out of your cover
It’s all so much lighter when you’re sharing it
You breathe you try to spit the toothpaste not on your feet
While you fear your sudden speechlessness in front the complete houses of parliament
You’ve been compared adored and pushed back into your seat
While they teach you to take over the whole part of guilt and punishment
Sisters and brothers hold on to each other
You fall when you’re alone with it
Find yourself a love get yourself out of your cover
It’s all so much lighter when you’re sharing it
We’re all sons and daughters and we’re trying to recover
Standing tall not denying it
That we’re dependant on each other born with a love for our mothers and fathers
That we’re all that we’re all just trying it
Trying to make it
Sometimes Forever
It’s not America it’s not even a coast at all
But our boat’s getting sight of a place we know but cannot recall
The upperdeck is filled with the beautiful smell of your forehead
Let the blizzards pass by just get the winters to turn to fall
Tell the silent kids hey that’s why we need protection when we’re small
And when you’re big you’re gonna look after yourself
But even when you’re big you can’t always decide your love and where it falls
And it falls
And you fall
You will fall in love and it will feel like forever
You’re unexplainably happy
So deliberately trapped in this love adorable
And the streams will jump out of the riverbeds
When your lips get dry from all the kisses you have given each other
Everything is affordable
And you fall
Fall in love
To be in love means that it feels like forever
You’re unexpectedly laughing
When I ask you say it’s cause of nothing
It’s uncontrollable
You’re incredibly happy
You say hey come on and get me
You’re free and understandable
The little unsinkable boat in the bathtube is kind of forced
Setting a new course again
The foam is the fog and the showerheads the cloud
Bringing storm and heavy rain
The two white giants are so unpredictable
And the crew on board is scared unspeakable
That they’re lost
Are we lost
To be lost means that it feels like forever
Sun Sun Sun
A young bee in my kitchen hearing the radio news
It’s in unclear condition just like my half-prize boots
It’s detecting my flowers with its bomber plane sound
I’m heading out for the shower before it wrecks the water pipes of this town
I’m older older older now I’m much colder colder colder now
The dark red shoe laces that I installed in my boots
I bought them at the seaside marketplace and I was there with you
We’re older older older now and we‘ve split up lately anyhow
Sun sun sun sun sun maybe she rises
Sun sun sun sun sun maybe she rises
The stirring dark oceans are far away from this land
But with silent devotion there’s a salt water smell
The bee sees the colors in a different way
So I open the window don’t wanna force it to stay
It’s bolder bolder bolder now and freedom makes it wild somehow
It’s all over over over now our lives will just go on somehow
Maybe we’re rising
Sun sun sun sun sun maybe she’s rising
Sun sun sun sun sun maybe she’s rising and she’s riding on
It’s warmer warmer warmer now
It’s warmer warmer warmer now
Take a Bow
If your fever was wrong and you heard loving songs
The warm breath of cities and towns of your daddy the clown
But you heard it all by failure
But if this fatherly kiss was interrupted by this
You let yourself be taken by ships cause if not him
It might as well be a sailor
Take a bow
Tomorrow I will be gone
Cause if you count it all together it turns out to be none
If your fever got less and you opened your dress
For others to hide and you tell them with pride that if that’s life
Then you got no use for it
And if the big time is not about to come I think about taking a smaller one
Instead and when I’m nearly dead I’ll find the truth in it
Take a bow
Tomorrow I might be gone
Cuase if you count it all together it turns out to be one
As we left the city it was one heading north and the other running back and forth
With an open mouth reminding mama of you as a baby
Each day the world’s getting bigger of range
More and more places where you can feel strange
Unless someday we hold ourselves maybe
We take a bow
Tomorrow we might be gone
Cause if you count it turns out to be two anyhow
That’s where it hurts the most
Your right hand is reaching out for your left hand
They’re shaking each other as if they were best friends
When the left hand says it’s gotta leave
That’s where it hurts the most
A woman from Sao Paulo has found a way to your heart
And you found a way to hers and a big journey was about to start
But then she found another man and she loves him too
In a very different way she says
But you feel as if she’s taken the heart away from the place where it was
Now that’s where it hurts the most
You say I could have believed in you
She says I could have believed in you
And with the arm that’s left you wave to the people
You shout I’m no bandit you can trust me completely
I just grew lonely and my soul turned blue
Everyone that I once knew is gone
Now that’s where it hurts the most
The Decline of Television
I’m jumping around
Uuh I’m getting higher and higher
Till I reach 68
It’s the pool billard channel
The volume is down
I’m getting overrun by the desire
To send I love you’s to all the world’s antennas
Cause maybe you watch TV too
I watch these documentaries
On the Beatles and on Second World War
But no documentary can ever reveal
The beauty of your smile
The magic in your eyes
Oh no
Trudy I got trouble to speak
I’m afraid that my words are too weak
Like a well-meant folk pop song
Failing to tell the dead from the living
Trudy I got trouble to share
My thoughts as if they were not there
Especially when there’s someone around
But with you it’s different I’m believing
If your friends are in town
Maybe you all come around
I’d cook dinner but not like on TV
Plus I don’t have a TV apartment
They sell this body-shaping tool
I watch them sell it for over an hour
They almost got me with their happy faces after the treatment
From time to time they show a good movie
That makes you feel like you have the power of love
But you and me we got no need
We just have to make the necessary arrangements
So if you are in town
Maybe you come around
We would kiss but not like on TV
Plus I don’t have a TV apartment
Trudy we got no trouble to dance
We seem to trust in the coincidence
That we’re here together
In this very unrepeatable moment
So if our friends are in town
Maybe they all come around
We’d be connected but not like on TV
Plus we don’t have a TV apartment
Thank God the Mermaids
Thank God the mermaids
Escaped our sights escaped the fishing boats
And asked if they were spreading their legs
By doctors sitting on the edge of their beds
They said they found a place where no-one’s been before
And just the good men can follow can follow can follow
Oh please let me follow
At least I’m not a doctor
I’m just a dreamer
But you don’t wanna be dreamed
And the sleep of 6 billion people can’t calm down your beauty
As it is raging through the streets
Love is the master
But love is the servant too
I drown in your eyes
But I got washed out by a tempest angry and silent angry and still angry and still
And a loneliness has come to the captains while their only friends they watch expectantly Onto the sea they love their lives they love their lives they love their lives
In this storm they start to realize
The Smell of Dogshit in Early December
The smell of dogshit in early December
Is hanging in the cold air like pink and brown sunbeams
And it’s the snow the dirty snow I remember when it lies in the dead grass
And these islands mark the silence of your bad dreams
My skin my skin is so white so don’t look at me please
And the hands got a red incredible
The blue makes them look even dead
They’re selling christmas trees
And the birds don’t seem to mind the icy rain that is falling
It’s just that they don’t sing at least I’m not recalling
And the birds they don’t seem to mind the icy rain that is falling
It’s just they don’t sing they don’t sing they don’t sing
At five it’s dark that’s clear
It’s just that the whole day didn’t really start
I’m sweating a little under my woollen cap
Somehow stopped being a child
But without substitution
And the birds don’t seem to mind the icy rain that is falling
It’s just that they don’t sing at least I’m not recalling
And the birds don’t seem to mind the icy rain that is falling
It’s just they don’t sing they don’t sing no they don’t sing
The Trees
Here they are those who are not afraid
There they’re standing like trees in the night
With their shadows that fall down to the ground
You try to build a guiding light
Your leafs have nearly all abandoned
The branches of your tree
And they’re flying around
The wind at their side as their only company
They reach the rhythm tangled in this song
They reach the blackness of the sea
They returning back someday soon
Bring their love right back to me
Three out of four Musketeers
Three out of four musketeers
With one arm each embrace their souls
Their golden castles
The forth is me with my right foot right in the door
With my left I walk down to the beach
On a silver sandy shore
I spied a thousand ships were coming in
To make us lose another war
We are defeated
We are defeated right
Cause if you beat it
Their fleet is rebuilded twice as strong
This is just how it used to be
And it used to be more like a tragedy
Musketeers are seen so easy
Can only hide in carnivals
Their eyes disguised as spaceships
Speeding to Cape Canaveral
So I happily surrender
To the beauty of your smile
And you’re pulling off my uniform
We both stand naked for a while
We’re not defeated
We’re not defeated no
Nothing’s like it ever used to be
It’s more just like I dreamed it to be
Nothing’s like it ever used to be
Cause it used to be more like a tragedy
Tired Lovers
Oh democracy might die it stares on us from empfty cages
That’s what freedom must be like when step by step it leaves the stages
Like love when gone it always was outrageous
This smile you had it as a child but with life it slowly rearranges
You’ve always had your ways to improvise on how in love your body engages
Your love had a way to be contagious
But now the demagogues won
Everybody’s in for the fun of being reactionary it’s not just momentary
Dying means death and death might mean that you can’t go on
We’re all on this world for a reason and we all think that it’s scary
This reason is not necessarily carelessly giving itself to us all
A French kiss on the kitchen floor used to change everything and peace would come
As if it was just humanity we worshipped
Some kind of solidarity
Out of our sleepiness a clarity
That some might call love
And you said
Tired lovers tired lovers like us
Tired lovers tired lovers like us
Heartaches we got them all the time sometimes they’re exploding into laughter
And everybody’s after the life they believe they’re deserving to have
So everybody’s into the vogue to think the world’s too complicated
Completely overestimated
Refugee related
So let’s just hate it and wait for the next war to come
Tired lovers tired lovers like us
Tired lovers tired lovers like us
A French kiss on the kitchen floor used to change everything and peace would come
As if it was just humanity we worshipped
Some kind of solidarity
Out of our loneliness a clarity
That some might call love
This smile you had it as a child I hope that it is never fading
I’m gonna stay up all life waiting for it to come
Trumpet Song
My house was crowded with a couple of strangers
When you need them as friends
You don´t care bout the danger
That you turn out to be the visitor
So if you´re stranded in your own revolution
It was a harmless hungerstrike
Ending in this self-pollution
Attacking the voice
If I just was the empire
You´d turn out to be the queen
And all our hearts are gonna float into the stream of words
I got a million acres of ashes
For all my phoenixes to fly out
Just like rain from the lashes
That are tattooed onto blinded eyes
I learned your language by heart not to mistake it
I know the password
But I don´t know the place where to take it
If I just was the empire
You´d turn out to be the queen
And all my hearts are gonna float into the stream
If I just was the ocean
You´d turn out to be the British Fleet
And all your ships are gonna sail into my dreams
I found a trumpet in the back of the garden
And I found you saying
Man I´m not begging your pardon
We´ll find a beauty in you
We´ll find a beauty in me
We´ll find a beauty in wanting our beauty to see
If we just were the music
Drifting in from the sea
Then all our hearts are guided by our memories
If we just were the children
Our language just confused by ABCs
Then all our love is melting to these melodies
Volunteers
A monkey with a blue and red face loved his madness
How else could he be so amused
And as he changed the expression
With a scary passion from alarm to sadness
It took a sec till he got the news
That you don’t survive when being refused
Be patient trees and junkies just stay funky
Your love works up and down
When the rain comes it makes a curious sound
Hey elephant it’s irrelevant
What anybody says about the Taliban
They’re hiding in the fields
Where they’re making heroin
It wasn’t the children that brought the terror in
The victim always will succeed
Using one’s own death as a punishment at least
Hey you with the red face
Look at this monkey and what a punk he’s
His voice’s got the funniest of tones
And pain will burn off the lies around your soul
Paulina love has entered the arena
They can’t even count
Our one hundred meter thing at all
Paulina I’d do everything to please you
Your happiness is saving all our souls
There’s ants in the desert
And their presence caused the lizards to be scattered
Under every second stone
And if you decide it that with the beauty of your smile
You direct the clouds across the sky
To send water and life to every home
The wonders of not feeling alone
Hey everyone make love or jokes instead of terror
Love works up and down
Word to the chairman
Dear world there’s hope in honest error
Love works up and down
When you fuck you make the funniest sounds
Wait
Wait boss don’t say I’m fired
You could as well fire a bullet straight into my left eye
This loss of the 3rd dimension this loss of the rest of my life
Is worse than the loss of a love
Ah no I guess it isn’t
Wait lover your beauty caused a constant shock to me
Your lips are covered with a lotion from the top
Of the world of the moon of the sun and all the useless rest of it
Love is Saturn and all the dust and stones around it
Wait father you have to judge my steps
Who else will discover what I gotta do next
A million centuries from now we’ll look down on us in a kind of a TV set
The remote control it still will be in your hand
Wait government wait brothers
Wait for my citizenship my need for others
Wait sisters wait mothers wait friends and wait daughters
Wait hey wait for me because I’m ready to arrive here
Watcher of Things
He’s a watcher of things
He lets it happen especially when it happens to him
When he touches he leaves a stain he thinks
His eyes a theatre playing from within
And also he’s a watcher of skin
And when he breathes out sometime he hears it sing
He sees himself getting older
Turn into a credit card holder
Walks with invisible boulders
Over his right shoulder
He’s a foreign spy
For a country that 30 years ago passed by
He’s a watcher of sin
Of people of himself
Of cigarette smoke flying against the direction of the wind
We are back in this Life again
You’ve been travelling without love
You watch the world from far above
The sky is not a sky without a cloud
Without an ocean the land is not the land
I stepped into your labyrinth and mixed it up with mine
We paddled as if we’re on heroin through the summer felt like time itself
And so we danced right on the heads of Mr. and Mrs. President
Trees and sounds and silver crowns and my body in your hand
It’s a bad creation a dying nation a sad frustration a separate station
A funky patient a dead generation a tricky inflation a crooked race
And a splendid Asian a foolish facial a proliferation a masturbation
A condemnation isolation isolation isolation
We are back in this life again
We are back in this life again
Weight of Light
You’re exploding you do it like the thunder you set fire to your boat
You’re placing pieces of heaven right under the sea and then you wonder
Why everybody seems to go
You dream you dream without me
You dream you dream on being without me
You take all the branches right from your family trees build winter-proof houses
Ocean-crossing ships and ladders to the stars
But you’re becoming a part of the landscape of lovebites and doorkeys
To nursery schools and graveyards to theaters and hearts
You dream on you dream on without love
You dream on you dream on never to doubt love
And the weight of the light the weight of the light
Sometimes we feel it on our shoulders though it’s all that easy
And the weight of the light the weight of the light
Sometimes it makes us choose the way of dreaming till we’re gleaming
Till life again feels right
Whatever Years Left
Dreaming the trouble with me is that I’m dreaming
Of me being a sun that is gleaming from one shore to the next
Calling out the names I’m not recalling
For the love I wish I was installing
In these whatever years I have left
Comparing myself to the ghosts that are bearing
The daylight I took from the serenades
And the one million clicks I don’t have
Feeling trouble with us is that we’re stealing
What we happilly were agreeing to give back to ourselves
In these whatever years we have left
Wrestling
There’s a hard beating and it’s not fair you know
There’s a man and there’s a woman bleeding in the living room or so
Oh no
There’s a heavy screaming and then there’s a heavy blow
The neighbours must be believing there’s a wrestling match going on
But I guess that they know that no wrestling match can last so many years no
They’re fighting over something that I really do not know
I got this bad feeling there’s no way for me to say no
No
Before I’m falling asleep I’m folding my hands
If there is a god he will surly understand
That someone who prays all night needs a helping hand
40W King
He is captured in a cage of glass
He’s not right he’s not right
His eyes are troubled by the neon gas
Blinding light from inside of him
He’s everyone’s friend
In the dark holding everybody’s hand
But like a Hollywood vampire he’s linked to the dead end of the day
Losing all its glory
And when he’s gone he’s changed
And the nights are freshly rearranged
And the flies are bumping into him and the spiders preparing their graves
A false moon in their made-up stories
One’s in the cellar one’s kept lit for the insecure and dream-covered sleep of the kid
One’s backstage one’s broken
One is lightening a love scene in unbelievable speed one’s in a bar
That’s the one that is dimmed
And one’s dictating words that are not spoken
One’s blinking inside an advertisement for light bulbs that last 20 years or longer
One’s telling the truck to stop on the street one when touched is burning stronger
One’s red and one’s blue on the police car’s roof
He is captured in a cage of glass
He’s not right he’s not right
His eyes are troubled by the neon gas
Blinding light from inside of him
Electricity without a shadow of a doubt almost invisibly
Flooded my veins
Rushed like s storm cloud in my brain
Made me think
Hey I don’t want to be lonely