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Cities Like These
04:12
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this is how we move
this is what we do
this is the part when you start to feel it too
we dance the night away
sometimes the next day
somewhere at the edge of summer
lost and led astray
i heard about a time
when life was in its prime
a time when a bag of drugs and a dream could get you by
i found you on your back
on alexanderplatz
the sky there just keeps on climbing
but your dreams keep falling flat
don't go
won't say i'm so sorry you're leaving
you already know
tonight let's do something that we might remember
one day when we are older
i heard you're leaving town
your cafe's closing down
your neighbours are different now
your music got too loud
you say you're sick of the same old sounds
and the winter gets you down
and none of us would even be here
if we were happy just sticking around
we got lost at the edge of summer
will you remember?
will you remember how we killed some time
getting lost in cities like these?
i'll see you in a couple of years
we'll drink a different kind of beer
somewhere far from here
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This Light
04:02
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this light
it's so amenable
i think i look good in this light
and this life
it's so comfortable
but i'm starting to feel uncomfortable
because i heard some bad things
i heard some bad prospects are brewing
for this whole situation
i heard some bad things are stewing
something sinister is brewing
i've got something in my eyes
i think i've got something in my eyes
this light
it's so amenable
do i look good in this light?
and this life
it's oh so fucking comfortable
but i'm starting to feel uncomfortable
because i heard some bad things
i heard some bad prospects are brewing
for this whole situation
i heard some bad things are stewing
something sinister is brewing
i've got something in my eyes
can you see something in my eyes?
can you see it?
am i getting warmer?
i'm not feeling colder
am i looking good in this light?
am i getting warmer?
i'm not feeling colder
do i look good in this light?
i've got something in my eyes
can you see something in my eyes?
am i getting warmer?
i'm not feeling colder
am i looking good in this light?
am i getting warmer?
i'm not feeling any colder
does anybody feel colder tonight?
i've got something in my eyes
can you see something in my eyes?
can you see something?
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Bad Times
04:16
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if i feel it on my own
is it real?
and if i feel it in a crowd
is it real?
i've got a real bad feeling
and i swear it's real
you'll have to trust me on that
if it comes up with the sun
is it real?
and when the day is almost done
is it real?
i swear i saw it
in a lunar orbit
that's when the night comes alive
if you read it in the news
do you feel it?
and when the north is thirsty too
do you feel it?
when the trees are burning
and no one learns
they'll have to feel it someday
when you say it's just the booze
i know
and not enough nutritious foods
i know
this ain't no crisis
but it ain't the nicest
come on and show me
what sugar and spice is
when it gets worse with every day
i'm sorry
just hold my hand and look away
i'm sorry
bad times are coming
and i'm sorry darling
you'll have to trust me
please will you trust me?
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Ideas
03:35
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there's a voice in my head that comes and goes
something about a conscience
i just tune it out
and listen to the radio
there's a song in the air that no one knows
something about resistance
i hear it at night
as i sweat into the sofa
there's a thorn in my side i thought i'd lost
it's coming back to haunt me
i could pull it out
and have nothing left inside of me
i've got a head packed full of ideas
but i don't know which ones to follow
so they empty out
like the sweat that soaks my pillow
cos ideas can melt
like the smiles that slide
from the faces of the children
as they realise
there's really nothing left for them
but no one can say the war is lost
when the losers keep on fighting
just not tonight
i've got far too much anxiety
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Pfandsammler
03:25
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i can see you by the side of the road
hunting bottles in a bin on your own
i keep walking to my girlfriend at home
will you be there when i come by tomorrow?
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Harsh Noise
03:14
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i think i discovered a brand new art form today
it doesn't have a name yet
it doesn't matter
it feels like harsh noise meets duchamp's readymades
appropriate this
stick this in your pipe and smoke it
is this new?
does it sound new?
do you feel it like i do?
just say when
when there's something happening
as soon as you feel something
the sun's out and i feel good today
the windows are open
it's still summer
then somewhere, from some cold distant place
some northern memory
comes to get me
there's a word on the tip of a tongue
but it's not my tongue
there's this feeling like you've been here before
and it comes and it goes
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Drontheimer Str.
02:52
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8. |
Buffo the Great
05:38
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i was born in winter
i was born under falling snow
on a day to remember
for all the wrong reasons
the nurse said i'm sorry
there's nothing i can do
cos the stars are aligning
it's the worst fucking timing
looking back now
it's the fires i forgot to light
that burn the brightest
i was conceived in silence
on a long dark drizzly day
in a state of confusion
the radio was dead
they had to make a decision
i was sold to the circus
for a couple of dancing bears
and if you can believe it
i was scared at the beginning
they said we'll make you famous
just sign on the dotted line
take your time
soon the world was besotted
overwhelmed by dazzling displays
of historical splendour
i was feeling much younger
and if you could have seen me
at the top of my tumbling game
well then you would believe me
i was somebody back then, i swear
you've got to believe me
like a meteoric light
i'm falling
like tectonic plates in the night
i just keep crawling
but i'm still performing
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9. |
The Claw
05:48
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the claw, the claw
it grips you when you're sore
it's better than the next time
and worse than the time before
the claw, the claw
it's right outside your door
it's tap tap tapping
can you hear it?
i think i feel it coming
the claw is old
from times when knights were bold
they felt it in their chests
when their princesses caught a cold
it's clutching and snatching
at so many misspent seconds
as we slowly grow older
(and we're all growing older)
i think i feel it coming
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Grief Scene Berlin, Germany
complaint rock
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