CD 1
01. silent signals
all the people runnig through the cities
crowding subway lines and trams and buses
trying to connect with secret signal codes
sending messages like little men from outer worlds
in outer space and time
do you hear what i think do i hear what you think
we’re communicating vessels
waving little signal flags from our isolated lives
i wanna hear your messages please let me have your messages
i wanna get your messages let me not miss your messages
i am running through the city having you in mind
who are so many miles away from me on another continent
can you catch my signals while you board a suburb train
which takes you to your room
do you catch what i feel do i catch what you feel
we’re communicating vessels
trying to connect across the distances of land and sea
i wanna hear your messages please let me have your messages
i wanna get your messages let me not miss your messages
but there is no sound and there is no song
only mute voices only white noises silence is obiquitous
everywhere everywhere speak speak or at least whisper
noone says a word in this silent universe
let’s have some music melodies of yesteryear
sing sing break this quiet silent as the grave
speak speak speak speak speak speak speak speak speak speak
speak speak speak speak speak
why is there no language where are all the words
how can i hear your messages please let me catch your messages
i cannot hear your messages why can’t i hear your messages
i wanna hear your messages please let me have your messages
i wanna get your messages let me not miss your messages
how can i hear your messages please let me catch your messages
i cannot hear your messages why can’t i hear your messages
i wanna hear your messages please let me have your messages
i wanna get your messages let me not miss your messages
i wanna get your messages
02. guardian angel
do you see do you see that my angel walks next to me
do you hear do you hear my angel’s voice laughing near
do you know do you know that my angel flies very low
even if i make a trip even if i sell my dick
even if i trip the blind angel’s looking nice and kind
even if i sink a boat even if i fuck a goat
even if i kill a fly angel never asks me why
even if i rob a bank or if i blow up a tank
even if i get up late angel always stays my mate
angel’s walking here beside me
angel has come down to guide me
angel’s slender arms direct me
angel’s tender wings protect me
so i don’t have to fear anything
do you see do you see that my angel loves only me
do you hear do you hear my angel speak soft and clear
do you know do you know that my angel never says no
even if i’m in the gutter even if i slip on butter
even if i lose my money angel smiles sweet as honey
even if i beat my mother even if i cheat my brother
even if i steal a ring angel never stops to sing
even if i sell my soul even if i miss my goal
even if i drop my crown angel never lets me down
dearest angel please don’t leave me
kindest angel don’t deceive me
never never fly away
stay forever and a day
so i don’t have to fear anything
suddenly you look much colder
and i feel a little older
are you up to some mischief
do you have the urge to leave
suddenly your wings are spreading
tell me please where are you heading
are you rising to the sky
higher
higher
oh so high
03. decadence is excellence
decadence is excellence
celebrate the circumstance
what you have done as self defence
some people see as taste offence
decadence is brilliance
we all have seen the evidence
it started off as something strange
has lasted long without a change
decadence in the real sense
decline weakness arrogance
says little about the efforts taken
please correct me if i’m mistaken
decadence is an offence
for people known for ignorance
when you check upon their taste
you quickly see it was a waste
do what you have always done
say what you have always said
be as you have always been
be as you have always been
that’s fine
that’s fine
that’s fine
that's fine
decadence is self defence
it saves you from incompetence
needn’t find a trend to follow
you may be gone but back tomorrow
wear what you have always worn
swear as you have always sworn
cook as you have always cooked
cook as you have always cooked
that’s fine
that’s fine
that’s fine
that’s fine
decadence is significance
it shows that you take every chance
you’ve learnt to be consistent
it’s better than non existent
love as you have always loved
sing what you have always sung
touch who you have always touched
touch who you have always touched
that’s much
that’s much
that’s much
that’s much
04. bonfire
get out of my way
i’ll push you through
to open my eyes
get away
get away
get away
my frightened enemy
and let me sound around
out of my mind
why do i do try to get on bonfire
and all the way to the good things
would be waiting yeah
to offer me to sweet
bonfire
i'm gazing in
bonfire
i'll run away and be tired and glad
i'm so glad to be away
get out of my way
i’ll push you through
to open my eyes
get away
get away
get away
my frightened enemy
and let me sound around
out of my mind
why do i do try to get on bonfire
and all the way to the good things
would be waiting
to offer me to sweet
bonfire
i'm gazing in
bonfire
i'll run away and be tired and glad
i'm so glad to be away
hide sweet bunny hide
chocolate melts in the sun
hide easterbunny hide
chocolate melts in the sun
05. christmas
my boots touch the ground
i love this soft creaking sound
see the snowflakes in the haze
tell them land upon my face
in a second they will be late
only a sudden change of state
but still the same matter
i need to have a shatter
don’t think too much of the past
you know sometimes a year can last
for the rest of your life
so let’s go for drive
looking forward to all the love and fear
merry chistmas and a happy last year
merry chistmas and a happy last year
daddy doesn’t know
and when the candles glow
he asks me about my friend
the one so full of spirits
remember when we first met
nothing we did will i ever regret
now there’s no life in him
i hate to call him a victim
don’t think too much of the past
you know sometimes a year can last
for the rest of your life
so let’s go for drive
looking forward to all the love and fear
merry chistmas and a happy last year
merry chistmas and a happy last year
the social deficiency syndrom
invades the manmade kingdom
so much of personal decadence
so poor of social intelligence
rudolph the red nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose
rudolph the red nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose
we sit together on christmas eve
feel so happy no make believe
i’ve never been a man of sense
shall keep the rest of my life in suspense
if you don’t have the vaguest notion
you can’t take away my bare emotion
don’t think too much of the past
you know sometimes a year can last
for the rest of your life
so let’s go for drive
looking forward to all the love and fear
merry chistmas and a happy last year
merry chistmas and a happy last year
merry chistmas and a happy last year
merry chistmas and a happy last year
06. silly nightmares
early in the morning you wake me and you shake me
and you look at me as if i were a monster
and it takes a while until i understand that it’s another of your
deadly boring silly nightmares i’m going crazy and i promise you
that i will suffocate you with a pillow
just to have a little peace of mind at last
while i’m having tea
you go on and on and on and on and on and on about it tell me
why don’t you just shut your trap and eat your toast
instead of telling me your deadly boring silly nightmares
i can’t stand it any longer i’m afraid i’m gonna strangle you one day
and cut your lovely body up and throw it in a pond
baby don’t you see
you can’t do this to me
i don’t even have time to pee
every night that’s not right
and i have to tell you frankly
i don’t care if in your dreams you’re kidnapped by gigantic eagles
i don’t care if you are torn to pieces by a dozen beagles
i don’t care if you drown in a tub of bubbling shit
and i don‘t care if someone with a knife cuts up your clit
please please please please don’t give me all this
once upon a time we were two happy lovers
but this was before your deadly boring silly nightmares
they have ruined what was between us now there’s nothing left of it
it’s swallowed up by all your bloody fucking dreams
baby don’t you see
you can’t do this to me
i don’t even have time to pee
everty night that’s not right
and i have to tell you frankly
i don’t care if you are raped by thirty naked nuns in rome
and i don’t care if you are crushed by elephants in your sweet home
i don’t care if you fall off a tower when a strong wind blows
and i don’t care if loonies try to nibble off your pretty toes
just give me for heaven’s sake just give me a little break
just give me for heaven’s sake just give me a little break
and i don’t care if you drown in a tub of bubbling shit
07. when gurus fall
when gurus fall
then usually all
the things they have made and have built fall with them
when gurus fall
they usually call
a treacherous rebellion from outside their empire the reason
when gurus fall
they normally gall
their follower’s feelings and make fun of their obedience
when gurus fall
we usually all
say that we have already known that right from the beginning
and in the end we’re always cleverer than before
we try to regret but we often forget to touch the core
when your coming to terms with your past is a fake
you are often inclined to repeat the same old mistakes
when gurus fall
people often install
committees to find out how it could have come so far
when gurus fall
people are on the ball
to say something clever on matters too high for their brains
and in the end we’re always cleverer than before
we try to regret but we often forget to touch the core
when your coming to terms with your past is a fake
you are often inclined to repeat the same old mistakes
and in the end we’re always cleverer than before
we try to regret but we often forget to touch the core
when your coming to terms with your past is a fake
you are often inclined to repeat the same old mistake
and in the end we’re always cleverer than before
we try to regret but we often forget to touch the core
when your coming to terms with your past is a fake
you are often inclined to repeat the same old mistakes
you are often inclined to repeat the same old mistakes
you are often inclined to repeat the same old mistakes
you are often inclined to repeat the same old mistakes
you are often inclined to repeat the same old mistakes
you are often inclined to repeat the same old mistakes
08. the inner light
without going out of my door
i can know all things on earth
without looking out of my window
i can know the ways of heaven
the farther one travels
the less one knows
the less one really knows
without going out of our door
we can know all things on earth
without looking out of our window
we can know the ways of heaven
the farther we travel
the less we know
the less we really know
arrive without traveling
see all without looking
do all without doing
arrive without traveling
see all without looking
do all without doing
arrive without traveling
see all without looking
do all without doing
09. starhail
we took shelter in the archway
both of different lives
strangers to each each other
we watched the hailstones
crashing on the floor
i took a stone
that leaped towards me
into my mouth
and let it melt like a sweet
you puckered your mouth
and laughed and laughed
the wind
didn’t reach my lappet
and the rain
hardly wetted your shoes
why did you
take my hand
and pull me out under the open sky
where the hail
smacked bumps on me
and where the rain
glued the white dress to my body
and compromised me
and compromised me
and compromised me
and compromised me
and compromised me
and compromised me
and compromised me
10. i don´t want to fall
please please please relieve me
from the stress that makes me vile ever so vile
so feeling cease and don’t increase
and let me fall again into this trap
that i’m inclined to tap into every time
i catch a smile in this sky full of princesses
keep off i don’t want to kiss you
kiss off i don’t want to miss you
i don’t want to
i don’t want to fall
i don’t want to fall in love so often
i don’t want to
i don’t want to fall
i don’t want to fall in love so often
i don’t want to
i don’t want to fall
i don’t want to fall in love so often
i don’t want to
i don’t want to fall
i don’t want to fall
and be madly in love
stop i’m about to forget
what all this has brought about
my affairs are an endless line
of bad memories
starting off well and ending
as nightmares in my street
disastrously twice as disastrously than any film
keep off i don’t want to kiss you
kiss off i don’t want to miss you
i don’t want to
i don’t want to fall
i don’t want to fall in love so often
i don’t want to
i don’t want to fall
i don’t want to fall in love so often
i don’t want to
i don’t want to fall
i don’t want to fall in love so often
i don’t want to
i don’t want to fall
i don’t want to fall
and be madly in love
this urge that has made me search all my life
has made my life a drama in more than one hundred acts
this urge that has made me search all my life
has made my life a drama in more than one hundred acts
this urge that has made me search all my life
has made my life a drama in more than one hundred acts
this urge that has made me search all my life
has made my life a drama in more than one hundred acts
oh why do i do i act so compulsively
oh why do i do i love so impusively
oh why do i do i fail so convulsively
oh why do i do i act so compulsively
no no no no longer
i don’t want to regret what i’ve said
before some mother’s very eyes
about my plans and fears
for the next hundred years
‘cause i know very well
that we are doomed to fail at any rate
keep off i don’t want to kiss you
kiss off i don’t want to miss you
i don’t want to
i don’t want to fall
i don’t want to fall in love so often
i don’t want to
i don’t want to fall
i don’t want to fall in love so often
i don’t want to
i don’t want to fall
i don’t want to fall in love so often
i don’t want to
i don’t want to fall
i don’t want to fall
and be madly in love
11. the anatomy of melancholy
CD 2
01. the referee
i was just about to think that all the benefits in life
are there simply if you strife hard enough
yet it seems that it’s no sin to sack in and to grin in
grin in their face
i was just about to gatecrash straight into your heart
but one moment i was inattentive and in the next one
i was inoffensive and alone
my dream my dream was gone
i was just about to fill this post
made to measure made to measure just for me
one minute meditation was too much consideration
and i and i was out
i was just about to score this goal
that all the world would envy me for
when i heard him breathe behind me
this stinking thief came and kicked me
everything’s permitted behind the referee’s eyes
has a crime been committed
if it’s hidden from sight
everything’s permitted behind the referee’s eyes
has a crime been committed
if it’s hidden from sight
i don’t know but i feel it’s not fine as it is
but it’s real oh so real
everything’s permitted behind the referee’s eyes
has a crime been committed
if it’s hidden from sight
everything’s permitted behind the referee’s eyes
has a crime been committed
if it’s hidden from sight
i don’t know but i feel it’s not fine as it is
but it’s real oh so real
02. high end
once upon a time there was a swing
over me there is an apple tree
one certain branch grafted by father's hand
when he was young
this is happiness i thought
grass soil smell
smell of blood all over me
this is life i thought
icy ice as ice can be
missing bees and all the trees they're used to
easter comes and all is muted
light is stiff and cold and carries me up
in a mood i think it's silence
this is loneliness i thought
where was i
eyes up closed
was i up there
this is past i think
will i travel back and forth
getting used to all these stories
written into papers that are written in my innocence
and they're wide open
this is beautiful i think
mess me up quickly now
this is a habit i think
03. suicide pilot
oh what fun to hold a gun
how insane to steer a plane
what a riot to be a pilot
what a joy to destroy
what is our target for today the eiffel tower
will it be the pope himself to feel the muslim’s power
let’s fly straight into the gate of brandenburg my brothers
kill as many infidels we can and fuck their mothers
heading for big ben would also be a good idea
serves them right for eating pork and drinking all this beer
oh what fun to shoot and run
what a lark to light a spark
on the road to explode
the victims wait for our hate
countdown for the western world is running three two zero
paradise is twice as nice if one enters it as hero
all the pretty chicks will dance around us day and night
but first we’ll bomb some embassies comrades what a sight
and then we’ll drive an airbus for a modest modest fee
right into the forehead of the statue of liberty
i was born the third of eight in one-nine-seven-five
onto a heap of garbage just outside of cairo
always going hungry staring at the tourists
hating them like crazy
swearing i would get them and kill them
for their dollars
and their champagne
and their tv’s
and their golf clubs
and their young whores
and their big cars
and their mansions
kill them
kill them
oh what fun when all is done
when they are dead
and i am dead
and i am dead
04. open windows
suitcase in hand lilac continues down the cold pavement
in the dead city under a red moon
knocks on a door asks for a room
climbs hundred steps behind a fat woman
black eyes are staring above silver doorchains
at the new tenant as the fat woman says
you better keep away from open windows
you better keep away from open windows
she gives her a strange look when she opens the door
you better keep away from open windows
you better keep away from open windows
and she leaves her alone
there are spiders in the corners of the room
she puts down her suitcase the floorboards are creaking
she moves her forefinger in the dust of the mirror
until she sees her white face
she leans out the window a black cat is running
on the rooftop towards her showing his claws
swishing his tail at the new tenant
cats have nine lives or so goes the saying
you better keep away from open windows
you better keep away from open windows
lilac says to the cat as she waves him away
you better keep away from open windows
you better keep away from open windows
and she turns and she thinks and she
damns her mother and her father who had never cared about her
and her sister and her brother who had always thought her ugly
and her playmates who had taken all her lollies and her chocolates
and her idiotic lovers who had no idea of fucking
and the stupid teachers in the rotten suburb school she went to
who had killed whatever talent she possessed in next to no time
and the guy in sunday school who said she‘d go to heaven after all
she pushes a chair towards the window
steps on the seat then onto the sill
and spreads her long arms
she doesn’t notice the man opposite her
in the brightly lit room who opens his mouth
in gaping surprise at the delicate bird trying to fly
towards the sky
and then she shuts her eyes and falls
she falls past the watching eyes
her hair above her like a flame
until she hits the ground
until she hits the ground
you better keep away from open windows
you better keep away from open windows
the man hollers out but it’s a little to late
you better keep away from open windows
you better keep away from open windows
he repeats like a madman
until his woman shuts him up
lilac the lovely lies on the pavement
red her around her like the soft halo
around the moon
05. blush
tur is walking through a mars bar hole
weed spins hot skins muscles glow
shandor eunuch of the autubors
painting faces of the go go girls
oh what do i
i really get buzzy
oh where do i ride
now i recognise your red lies
you shrinking bang baboon
ain’t nothing true
ain’t nothing true
lila lick it to the bobo sighs
earrings gut skins torture cries
even helmet and his april wife
lay me in his homo life
oh ain’t it an anger
oh what effort too
i came up with my duty to
be awfully arising
ain’t there no survival
06. annie´s boy
london can be cold i’m trotting up and down
under your apartment you can’t do this to me
you got to believe me annie i don’t mind your age
just because i mentioned that your hair gets grey
please believe me annie thirteen years of difference
seem ideal to me
i can’t live without your loving care
and your money
everybody says we’re the perfect pair
hear me honey
i will freeze to death down there please let me in
let me in
if you don’t i’m ripe my love for the loony
the loony-bin
snow is falling down but i’ll persevere
under your bright windows until you appear
i know only you wherever should i go
i promise to give back every penny i owe
and i swear i’ll never fuck another woman
for the rest of my life
i can’t live without your loving care
and your money
everybody says we’re the perfect pair
don’t they honey
i will freeze to death o god let it be
let it be
if you don’t i’ll die on the spot you’ll see
you’ll see
if you walk out on me i’ll jump from a bridge
or i’ll hang myself on the wrought iron lamppost
in front of your house i’ll slash my wrists
with a paper knife because i can’t live
i can’t live without you i want you to warm me
i need you to feed me you have to protect me
i’m only a boy so cradle me annie
between your big breasts make me some tea
and put me to bed and sing me to sleep
i’m only a boy
i’m only a boy
i can’t live without your loving care
and your money
everyone can see we’re a perfect pair
ain’t we honey
07. it´s just not on
how come you’re the devil in disguise
how come i don’t learn to be wise
i shouldn’t listen to the ta-ta-talk of my brain
oh i will soon go insane
oh will i ever learn
what makes the world turn
i will never forget to remember to forget
there ain’t no cure
for love but a graveyard
i heaven above
we are talking things over as we always do
again and again ’till we fail in the end
and then i hug you softly and you kiss me d-d-deadly
oh i will soon go insane
oh will i ever learn
what makes the world turn
i will never forget to remember to forget
there ain’t no cure
for love but a graveyard
i heaven above
a kiss is just a kiss
and a lie is just a lie
but nothing ever counts as tears go by
bye bye
moving round in circles you and me
slowthinking turtles
the empty frame of reason
for love there ain’t no season
the policy of youth lacks eternal truth
oh i will soon go insane
oh will i ever learn
what makes the world turn
i will never forget to remember to forget
there ain’t no no no cure
for love but a graveyard
in heaven above
baby there's a graveyard
for you and me in heaven above
baby there's a graveyard
for you and me in heaven above
08. man in the mushroom
sailing on a floating cornflake through the indian sea
nothing else that life can give could mean that much to me
but i’m not sailing aimlessly i got a purpose got a cause
i’m a pilgrim offering incense gold myrrh and applause
life’s like a symphony with the brass set wrong
and the tunes out of key
oh it’s fading away
love’s like a bag on your back
it’s heavy to carry and hard to unpack
and keeps slipping away
riding on a drunken sofa through the steppe of time
there’s nothing you can offer me to make me change my mind
mighty mushroom wooden door no handle no bell
but from the west come the blessed
so i’m going to test my favourite charms and spells
fun’s when the frog in your pants
is gasping for breath taking his chance
that doesn’t work
a coconut is like a stewardess
it’s high in the air and hard to undress
no move of the door (and all the mushrooms sing)
heyheyheyheyhey just turn a somersault and see
heyheyheyheyhey the man in the mushroom’s having tea
he is having tea
he is having tea
i i cry i cry help me let me in
you’re trying in vain in this game
if you don’t know his name
the mushroom man’s like a choke in your throat
he brays like a donkey an jumps like a goat
that’s all i know
reminds me of a dancing bear
with the mouth of a lion and the tail of a hare
heyheyheyheyhey just turn a somersault and see
heyheyheyheyhey the man in the mushroom’s having tea
he is having tea
he is having tea
and all the mushrooms sing
say they can’t help me
they can't help me
heyheyheyheyhey just turn a somersault and see
heyheyheyheyhey the man in the mushroom’s having tea
he is having tea
he is having tea
heyheyheyheyhey just turn a somersault and see
heyheyheyheyhey the man in the mushroom’s having tea
heyheyheyheyhey just turn a somersault and see
heyheyheyheyhey the man in the mushroom’s having tea
09. sexual overdrive
look up at the sky
is it a bird is it a plane
no it‘s superman raping an alien
right now on 42nd street
pretty girl can’t stand the heat
gets undressed and screams
but nobody’s touching her as it seems
now the invisible boy is on the run
he only wanted to have fun
the invisible boy is on the run
i’ll be king of the earth
the biggest brothel of the universe
the planet with the cutest chicks
they’ll come and pay
to get their kicks
too many girls burning in their beds
too many mothers being all too sad
when fireboy gets hot at night
the girl he dates may catch some light
he can’t cool his temper when he’s on fire
so you better not the subject of his desire
so you better not the subject of his desire
i’ll be king of the earth
the biggest brothel of the universe
the planet with the cutest chicks
they’ll come and pay
to get their kicks
the superheroes won’t stop me
the super evil ecstasy
’cause they can’t beat the bad seed
i took from mankind
and spread on their mind
super evil ecstasy stealing a girl’s virginity
super evil ecstasy stealing a world‘s virginity
i’ll be king of the earth
the biggest brothel of the universe
the planet with the cutest chicks
they’ll come and pay
to get their kicks
i’ll be king of the earth
the biggest brothel of the universe
the planet with the cutest chicks
they’ll come and pay
to get their kicks
10. she doesn´t exist
i used to ring you and put down the phone
once wore a hole in your drees
even tried voodoo right outside your house
but these days i just couldn‘t care less
he doesn’t exist anymore
he doesn’t exist anymore
i let her go like the fool that i was
thought i’d get over her soon
i smell her perfume when my eyes are closed
and i see her face in the moon
he doesn’t exist anymore
he doesn’t exist anymore
i tell myself it would be different now
i wouldn’t treat her that way
i wouldn’t be me if she wasn’t her's
and it’s far too late anyway
he doesn’t exist anymore
he doesn’t exist anymore
only inside you the ghost of a love
that is wordless and painful and all
there’s noone else in my whole outside world
matches to her in her soul
he doesn’t exist anymore
he doesn’t exist anymore
11. dear crime
thy eyes with a so soft smile
with a so softly smile
gives me a part with a so soft smile
with a so softly smile
they recover all the old and the small
dear crime
dear crime it'a time
within within two braves
and they raised them all
raised all they had upon a scrambled day
within an crime
within a crime that
that forward pulled it's sign
sign