There's Nothing Left To Laugh About (1983)
KILL KILL
Young blood for the army, see the ads on the walls. Tho there were so many warnings, still we get fucked all. No-one seems to notice, no-one seems to care. So sell your body and send it to anywhere. / / Kill kill kill kill. Better love to slaughter, better love to maim. Kill kill kill kill. Live in Europe the American way. / / It is a hard hard life, sure you will survive if you are ready to obey and listen to their lies. They say: here the times are good, the times are nice. But a kick in the face is all you will ever find. / / Are you in for destruction? Have you got the right size to block your mind? Act dumb, deaf and blind. If you want to be as in your youth, their hell will burn even much hotter for you.
NO RIGHT TO KNOW
Do not ask a thing. I see those looks in your eyes. You want to know all the whats & the whys, but I do not want to reveal my mind that belongs me. You make me lie. Leave me alone, leave me alone. / / Eyes are looking down on me to figure out all I do see. But I will never let it show, cos you have got no right to know. / / You are asking me to speak my mind, but I do not want. I see no use to tell you the truth or anything at all. Just what makes you think that you deserve to know me. Do not even try. Leave me alone, leave me alone. / / I hardly know you at all, cos I did not need. So why bother me, why asking me? I do not see. It all belongs me; all I feel or see. So fade out of my life. Leave me alone, leave me alone.
HELL-AGE
It is a load of shit, here to face. Every dream seems out of place. Do you really hope, really believe that you are going to get where you want to be? / / Hell-age. There just is no doubt: it is all over now. All the cries are about survive. / / You have got no money, got no job. But you realise that work is not more as a cover for a hard life with increasing problems, hate and lies. / / And the faith in politics is not there, cos it is not for you. They will never care. So you are running around, seeking a hiddingplace. Every step you are sinking deeper into your grave.
DEMENTED
People still ask me why I detest the army-life "where youth is at his best". A place to face a dream we all have missed: another world-war. God, I feel so pissed. / / Demented demented. All around and chasing you. Demented demented. The world is insane, a living prove. / / What the hell do they all take me for? A butcher-boy, a systems whore? I still got some pride, what about you? I spit it out, while you still chew. / / Crawling thru shit. God, I did not know. Is that lifes aim? Is that the show? Civilization they are calling this acting as a bunch retarded pigs.
IT WILL BE YOU
Look at your friends. Don't you see it? The fun you had is now no more. They go their own way, so what for pretend you have to stick to their ideals that soon will fade and leave you beside their way. / / And it will be you who has got nothing to live for. And it will be you who has got nothing to say. And it will be you who has got nothing to give for. And it will be you. It will be you. / / You threw away past and future. Felt safe in numbers, didn't you? Now you are alone and you can chew the life they have spit at you. See people change, they were just young. No use to say that they are wrong. / / So what you may do: better notice the steps you make are for your sake. The danger-signs are always too late. And time won't hold as it is showing you have wasted your life. Your friends seem happy and you just cry.
GOING FURTHER
Nagasaki is no nightmare after all. A new generation is ready to fall for someone else's benefit. The maimed and slaughtered taught us no shit. / / And it is going further. Murder after murder. Anywhere they come from. Well, it is all going on. / / See the paranoid creeps all at the top seeking for places for their bombs to drop. So many are dead without wanting it and we are now next. But we do not resist. / / The media is covering all the threats. Reality won't work, so they lie instead. The arms-traffic is going fine. All so normal in a sickly mind.
SACRIFICED
Everyone is talking about the soldiers that died, but no-one is ever wondering the reason why. Just open your eyes and see that nothing has been won. And the soldiers won't raise. They are dead and gone. / / They have sacrificed their lives for a world that is never there. Just think about it. The things will never change, see nothing has ever changed. / / Now it is all over and nothing is gained. The fear of war will still remain. It is heading for a come-back with someone else on turn, cos we will never care. We will never learn. / / What is all left? Another monument. Lives are now inscripted in the cement. That is all they did leave behind. And what is the reason now to sign?
WALLS
Standing still, lost the reason to move to face another season. If I can not be what I wanted. I will never get what I wanted. Am I fault? Am I greedy? Just to know what I needed. Others may say that they are king, but turn out to have just nothing. People call me a sick kid, people call me a misfit. I feel that I do not belong. Misty and not just so strong to smash the wall to the "be me", to smash the wall to the "be free". If I can not be what I wanted. I will never get what I wanted.
POISON
The tellie gives us average types. Seems I have missed the aim for miles. Family life: daddy is in command. And some don't even understand. / / This is poison. This is poison. This is poison. This is poison. / / School does not teach you how to live; work is a rule, you have got to give. Is this human? Living as ants. And some don't even understand. / / People think they are smart. Don't think at all, so life ain't hard. But still telling others where to stand. And some don't even understand.
CALL BACK YOUR TROOPS
The bottom has been reached. Nowhere we are and nowhere we go. Some got no food and they are slowly dying, cos no-one wants to know. Ain't got no home. All money has gone to some wargame-shit. Life has lost all values; everybody has been killing it. / / Call back your troops. No nomore reason left to fight for. Call back your troops, cos there is no nomore reason left to fight for. / / Cancer rules the world. A natural cause of dying is now a laugh. Ground is all poluted. All that still grows is breathing death. The sky it smells, it strangle us by every breath we take. See here, this is the land. Is it really this that you want to take? / / The people everywhere are born to live, but they just die. Work will not pay. You will collapse of keep on wondering why. Money we need, but not for buying more tanks or planes. The rulers will loose grip. They are just insane anyway.
SINKING DOWN
It is time to take a look outside. First you may think all is going right, but behind your back people are planning war. Only getting things you have never asked for. / / Down down down down down down that's where we're sinking to. / / You are able to breathe, is that enough? The air inside soon will blow you up. You could be all-right yet, but you see everyone around you is dying from some disease. / / You work on a future, cos you are told to. Better realise they have never told you could get killed, walk under some car. Beaten up on the streets, you won't get far.
GETTING NOWHERE
Observe the days of the human race. History tells there is blood on its trace. Horrible actions in the name of God. Look at today; we did not learn no lot. / / Still we are getting nowhere. It is the play of an old show. Still we are getting nowhere. / / There is no future for you, for me. Always gotto live in the history. Past and future: meaningless wars. Hell, ain't life just a fucking bore. / / Obey the voice of the government, otherwise you will not stand a chance. Promises and lies for the willing mass. Going fine as all in the past.
The Godsend (1984)
SILENT MAJORITY
Living in mass is living so well. All remote-controlled by what the tellies tell. They hate every alternative way. So afraid to use their brain. / / See through their game. Silent majority's got nothing to say. See through their game. Silent majority's driving me insane. / / Familiar with the rules of the game. They're the pawns that haven't got no say. Modesty they're calling it. But what can you say when you're bright as shit. / / Hidden away, still walking in the way. They drag us all down into their grave. Behind your morals is no place to hide, when the game is over and death walks by.
HELL-AGE
It's a load of shit, here to face. Every dream seems out of place. Do you really hope, do you really believe that you will get where you want to be. / / Hell-age. There just ain't no doubt, it's all over now. All the cries about survive. / / You've got no money, got no job. But you realise that work is not more than a cover to a hard life with increasing problems, hate and lies. / / And the faith in politics ain't there. It's not for you, they'll never care. You are running around, seek some hidding-place. But every step gets you deeper in your grave.
KILL KILL
Young blood for the army, see the ads on the walls. There were so many warnings, still we get fucked all. No-one seems to notice, no-one seems to care. So sell your body to send out anywhere. / / Kill kill, kill kill. Better love to slaughter, better love to maim. Kill kill, kill kill. Live in Europe the American way. / / It's a hard hard life. Sure you'll survive if you're ready to obey and listen to their lies. They say the time's here good, the time's here nice. But a kick in your face is all you'll find. / / Are you in for destruction. Have you got the right size to block your mind. To act dumb, deaf and blind. If you want to be as in your youth, there hell will burn even hotter for you.
WALLS
Standing still, lost the reason to move to face another season. If I can't be what I wanted, I'll never get what I wanted. Am I in fault, am I greedy. Just to know what I needed. Others may say that they are king, but turn out to have just nothing. People call me a sick kid. People call me a misfit. I feel that I don't belong. Misty and not just so strong to smash the wall to the "be me", to smash the wall to the "be free". If I can't be what I wanted, I'll never get what I wanted.
DEMENTED
People still ask me why I detest the army-life "where youth's at their best". A place to face a dream we've missed. World-war thirst and getting pissed. / / Demented demented. All around and chasing you. Demented demented. The world's insane, a living prove. / / What the hell do they all take me for. A butcher-boy, a system's whore. I still got some pride, what about you. I spit it out, while you just chew. / / Crawling through shit. God I didn't know. Is that life's aim, is that the show. Civilization they're calling this acting as a bunch retarded pigs.
SACRIFICED
Everyone's talking about the soldiers that died, but no-one's ever wondering the reason why. Just open your eyes and see that nothing's won. And the soldiers won't raise. They're dead and gone. / / They've sacrificed their lives for a world that's never there. Just think about it. The things will never change. See nothing's ever changed. / / Now it's all over and nothing's gained. The fear of war will still remain. It's heading for a come-back with someone else on turn, cos we never care. We'll never learn. / / What is left is another monument. Lives are now inscripted in the cement. That is all they did leave behind. And what's the reason now to sign.
COULD HAVE KNOWN
There's no living with peace in mind. Every one's out to skin you alive. We're made to believe there's just one choice. Attack and kill. Or you get destroyed. / / A wall of fear. Where we're made to see another threat or enemy. We could have known if we'd only lived to break down that wall, that there wasn't anything at all. / / Bombs and guns are our day and night. No use to say who's wrong, who's right. With love we're raised to break to hate. With blowing up this world we won't hesitate. / / There's no point in war for sure. What the hell is that hatred for. Could have been better as now, maybe. But now it's too late, only death we breathe.
GOING FURTHER
Nagasaki's no nightmare after all. A new generation is ready to fall for someone else's benefit. The maimed and slaughtered taught us no shit. / / And it's going further. Murder after murder. Anywhere they come from. Well, it's all going on. / / See the paranoid creeps all at the top seeking for places for their bombs to drop. So many are dead without wanting it and we're now next, but we don't resist. / / The media is covering all the threats. Reality won't work, so they lie instead. The arms-traffic is going fine. All seems so normal in a sickly mind.
SEND FROM HEAVEN
WHY SHOULD I
There's no-one at all to thank for. All obligations are gone for sure. People make me think I'm not alone, but in trouble-times I'm on my own. / / Why should I do all the things I don't wanna do. Why should I play their game, when I always lose. Why should I. / / All my life I've been exploited. Just left behind without any choices. What did I get. Shit, no nothing. I won't play, when there's nothing to win. / / What right do you have to judge me. No right at all if you just don't see your own life that's cheap and useless. I'll take my chance cos lower I'll never get.
GETTING NOWHERE
Observe the days of the human race. History tells there's blood on its trace. Horrible actions in the name of God. Look at today; we didn't learn no lot. / / Still we're getting nowhere. It's the play of an old show. Still we're getting nowhere. / / There's no future for you, for me. Always gotto live in the history. Past and future: meaningless wars. Hell, ain't life just a fucking bore. / / Obey the voice of government. Otherwise you will not stand a chance. Promises and lies for the willing mass. It's going fine as all in the past.
NOTHING TO GIVE
Don't tell me what to do. I live the way I choose. You might say I'm wasting my life. Better take a look at yourself and find. / / Nothing to give and nothing to show. You're just getting fat and old. Nothing to give and nothing to show. All is slipping out your hold. / / I've got nowhere to go. But still, you are the jokes. With your respectable images. Can't tie me down, I see how it really is. / / I look at you and see. This ain't no way I want to be. You're dead. You're really through. Sometimes I just feel sorry for you.
SINKING DOWN
It's time to take a look outside. First you may think all's going right. But behind your back, people are planning war. Only getting things you've never asked for. / / Down down down down down down down, that's where we're sinking to. / / You're able to breathe, is that enough? The air inside soon will blow you up. You could be allright yet, but you'll see: every-one around you's dying from some disease. / / You work on a future, cos you're told to. Better realise they've never told you could get killed, walk under a car. Or beaten up on the streets, you won't get far.
A.W.S.
Get out your sleep and on your feet. Another day, still the same to me. They see the loot coming their way. Me just doing what they say. / / Work. God, how I hate work. Another reason to wish I wasn't born at all. Work. God, how I hate work. So I will act deaf if this is nature's call. / / Bosses with smiles treat you as shit. They're on top, still they're so thick. They don't do nothing for their pay. Me toiling to make their day. / / Sweat and tears and going nowhere. I'm just a tool, hell it ain't fair. They see the loot coming their way. Me just doing what they say.
POISON
The tellie gives us average types. Seems I've missed the aim for miles. Family-life: daddy's in command. And some don't even understand. / / This is poison. This is poison. Spreading out all in my brain. Spreading out to block my say. / / School don't teach you how to live; work is a rule – you've gotto give. Is this human? Living like ants. And some don't even understand. / / People think they are real smart. Don't think at all, so life ain't hard. But still telling others where to stand. And some don't even understand.
FOR MILES
Shadowland EP (1984)
LIVE IN LIES
Confusion hits, I've got nothing to say / Stuck too deep in this game I play / The tellie has taken over my mind / I see no truth, I must've gone blind / / Live in lies, live in lies / And I don't see what's wrong – what's right / Live in lies, live in lies / Give me dreams and I'll get by / / There's nothing I do for my sake / Never realised, now it's far too late / Everybody's telling me things to do / I try, but I can't shake them loose / / I often wonder / Just who the hell is this / Under my skin / And is this who I always tried to be... / / I break the past, I break the walls / Want to find myself after all / But years later I look, I see / I'm out of track and there's no me
NEVER CHANGE
Out on the streets and feel the cold / You find there's nowhere you can go / All you once loved has been destroyed / It's hard to live your life without no joy / / You're waiting for another day / And it brings nothing, but more pain / / Cos times, they never change / The shit we live in is still the same / And times, they never change / No times, they never change / / Everyone seems out to bring you down / Look for friends, there's no soul around / Stand alone's the story of your life / Wondering for what you pay that price / / Just what you do, just what you say / You'll always end up in the rain / / But nothing matters anyway / World keeps turning and we'll fade away
GET BY
Every step I move from here / Goes to darkness and to fears / I lose the power to understand / Can't even recognize my friends / And I do see / What life is about then / It's me standing here all alone / / I gotto get by / There's no turning back nomore / I gotto get by / There's no sight in front nomore / There's no sight in front nomore / / I see that I am seen as dirt / Even didn't speak no word / No one's offering a break / Decisions always come too late / The chance in life / Is not to be given / It can only come from yourself / / Never know who to believe / Only truth are things I see / Every step I move from here / Goes to darkness and to fears / I can not cry / So what is to do now / There's nothing left to laugh about
ULTRA-WASTE
See... just take a look at me / I'm the one you don't want to be / Good for nothing, I don't do shit / Never seem to fit / / But all you think, but all you say / It does not matter to me anyway / And I will not listen, and I will not crawl / And then stop to ask myself what for / / Ultra-waste / Never try hard, never try hard / Ultra-waste / But I die hard, but I die hard / / You... just haven't got a clue / Why I spoil my time so true / Your deep urge on to succeed / I don't seem to need / / All ends are dead, just look at you / The things that you are going to / Ain't worth no sweat after all / What goes up will take its fall
FOR MILES
Across the sea, the stormy seas / The bird don't look behind / He wants to know / Tho' there is no / Shore in sight for miles...
THE WISHING
Wish there would be heaven / We would when / We stand before the ones / We used to laugh about / They were plain / But we couldn't make them understand / Now they all got they could want / While we're sinking down / / You're in show / And you know / Where you go / We won't go / We just die to see you cry / / Everyone said yes / And we said no / And doesn't it feel fine / Just to be so sure / We're not one in the clan / That bores you so / But now, pride is all we've got / We wish there could be more
SHADOWLAND
There's a shadow on each morning / Noises I hear, still the same / Wake me / With nothing / In my hands, but pain / / There's a so much that I long for / But I know nothing is free / So you're working / And waste life / Or drown in dreams / / There's a choice that leads to nothing / And we'll never know what for / But you'll find me / Reaching / Way out for more
Communion (1985)
FOR THE BETTER
I'll stand and hold on to my dreams. I know things do not always seem to be what you have got in mind. But I can't live another life. / / And how I build life up from ground. And how they try to tear it down. / / I hope for the better. Not to end up with the worst. I hope for the better. Not to end up getting hurt. I don't want to take cover. But no matter what you do. You don't want to break somebody. Then somebody will break you. / / Survive. It's getting harder. But I could never change. And hatred is the starter. But I could never change.
GO FREE GO HOME
When you feel down. And there is no-one around. It can get tough. Will you struggle alone and never give up? Will you crawl back and say: I've had enough? / / Go free. Go home. Go free. Go home. Either you make it or you don't. Go free. Go home. Go free. Go home. Either you make it or you... / / When you've come there where life seems unfair. And you feel like a fool. Will you stand up – saying: and from here I rule? Will you knock on your door – say: Life's too cruel? / / When you feel old. And you're being told that you're out of place. Will you laugh it away right in their face? Will you return and say: I've got no place to stay?
DAYFALL
Late. When the heat of the day has come to end. I see where I am. And the true aim I live to. (It's a) never touch – just stare. I ain't going nowhere. / / I care. But don't think I'ld dare to change the road. And I will not know if it was right. Wish fear to hide. And then I could say. At least I tried.
SLIPPING OUT
I've gotto scream. I've gotto shout. Can anybody let me out? Is there anyone who hears? I'm taken in by fears. / / What you're talking? Is it about me? I can not hear nor see. What is happening to my life? What did you have in mind? / / World is slipping out back-door. Live on rumours. Nothing more. I'm the last on earth to be told. All I know's that I'll never know. No. / / Don't turn away. I'm talking to you. See... I'm a person too. What's the use of having rights. When you've got more than I.
DOWN ON ME
My eyes are blinded. They throw shit in my face. They take all that's mine. Can't follow my way. / / Nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. Just getting nowhere fast. / / My head. It's drumming. Responsibilities and ties. A fog is coming. Feels hot/ice hot/ice. / / My ears not hearing. Who's there looking at me? From that hole comes light. But I can not reach.
ANYONE CAN TELL
Life's been so simple here. You grab the things you've learned and went. You've never tasted fear. Always played on safe. Did understand. There's been no day you couldn't cope. Cos you always lived on hope. There's some freedom you have paid. But you'll win someday. / / Where are you now? Where are you? There's lives like heaven. Lives like hell. Anyone can tell. / / We want the best of all. But you knew just out where to look. You joined their games and all. And what was offered... you just took. But what you've got is not enough. There is more way at the top. Want to know what's behind doors. Cos it will be yours. / / Where are you now? Where are you? The lives like heaven can be hell. Who was there to tell?
DEEP IN GROUND
Leave me (alone). I am forming. Need time to straighten things out. Silence. It's all I ask for. Don't want no-one around. / / And you don't have to reason my life with all its faults. And you don't have to reason. Don't you do anything at all. (Once I stood up for myself. I stood up and I fell. Was loosing grip on life. I'm loosing grip on life...) / / Down. Way way deep in ground. Cos I can't hide around. Down. Way way deep in ground. / / How many times must I say I'm old enough to think for my own. Need to know where I'm standing by doing things just alone. / / And you don't have to reason what I am going to do. And you don't have to reason. What's me – you ain't got a clue. And you don't have to reason the way I look at life. And you don't have to reason. Keep off from what is mine.
THE HEART OF ALL
Want to see. Want to know. Where we will go. Dead body's lying in a row. Still the same. The hate remains. We are used to live in pain. / / Where is the heart of all? There is no heart at all. Where is the heart of all? There is no heart at all. / / What we are. What we do. It is all through. People hurt eachother... me... and you. It goes on. Lives are torn. Till every living soul has gone.
WITHOUT NAME
Life's going fast. Gotto be on time. Chances go by and I must decide what I want to be/want to get. But it's always less than what is expected. / / And you don't seem to understand. I want to have all full in hand. / / I've been waiting for so long. Always seem to get it wrong. Be a face without a name. Never doing more than blame me. / / The world goes – while I'm catchin' air – on without me being there. Gotto choose a road. But I'm so afraid that I can't walk out/I can't turn away. / / And you don't see the way I think. And feel the mess I'm in. / / And you don't ever realize. It's something way deep inside.
MOTHERLODE (Song Of Exploitation)
We're told that we are someone. And swallowed that back in time. We're told that we are someone. And never wondered why. We took our place before machines. While years did disappear. Made jokes about the bosses... When they weren't any near. / / We're told that we stand in front. But that was said before. We're told that we stand in front. But I wasn't really sure. Just looked around me/met around me... eyes no-more that bright. Let's leave this place – I said one day. But all I heard was "Why". / / Sometimes I see them walking by. I don't know what to say. Sometimes I see them walking by. The same time of the day. They carry all the silver. And it's more than they can hold. They know there's no escape... once they've seen the motherlode. Once they've seen the motherlode...
LIKE DYING
I'm lost. See I'm drifting out too far. No-one tells me where they are... The ones that never crawl through shit... The ones who're standing tall. But it seems nothing more than lies. If you want to live your own life... You're a nothing. There's no hope for you. / / Far from home. I feel alone. I'm tired of trying. Freeze out here. No sound I hear. Must be like dying. The desert reaches to... I can't see. I guess I'm where I'm meant to be. Far from home. And feel alone. So tired of trying. / / Guess I just want to be proud of myself. But from faces I can tell... It is another world I'm in... Here they rule the game and win. You're a hero when you do all the things they ask you to. When you refuse... you just don't belong. / / First time I wonder... What am I to do?
NOTHING IS SACRED
The road you walk is death-paved in blood. They say the times are getting better... When they are not. / / Get up. Stand up. All you've build up will be destroyed. The ones who think ain't got no voice. They're psychopaths... That run your life. They're after you and find out where you hide. / / When you say what you think... You're no longer safe. You'll be watched... You'll be tested... And thrown away. / / All the luck you'll find... All the ways you're told... All the oaths you'll sign... All in your world won't hold up to the end. / / The threats came slow... But now you can't think it out of your life. The more you think... You see that you're running out of time.
EMPTINESS
Here I am. Down the street. Lot of faces quickly meet... And dissolve. Choose who you want to be today. And follow him along the way... You'll know. He too don't know where to go. / / And there I stop. And I stare through emptiness. See nothing for me there. Everywhere... Faces seem to turn away from me. / / Years are coming up so fast. And youth lies back in past. I don't know. And I'm the one that is walking by. Looking fortunate from outside... I'ld be... Fooling everyone. But me.
I DON'T NEED IT
I used to build a future for me. But then I knew what they'ld want me to be... Another human machine to their use... In a world where there's nothing to choose. / / I used to learn what I would not need. It wasn't more than keep me off the street. They gave me shit... Cos all I did was take. Just couldn't live the life they did create. / / And I don't need it anymore. To things you say I close the door. Repeat yourself and I will ignore. You may talk... Over again. / / I used to walk the path they made. Now I rather go and meet my own fate. Sometimes I'm right... And get so hurt. But doing their way could be far worse.
COMMUNION
These are the days that I don't trust anyone. It makes me so sad to see that friends are gone. / / And I can't find a way out. Just what was it that I wanted anyway... And what were we all about? Once... We would... give all we had away for communion. / / We used to feel strong. But let it slip away. So much that went wrong. We gave each all the blame. / / And there's nothing left in hands. Just what was it that I wanted anyway? Now our faces lie in sand. Once... We would... give all we had away for communion.
Survival EP (1986)
LIES FOR SURVIVAL
Years. We're looking back now as if we've learned from our mistakes. No fears as we gave up life long ago. What we have now is not what we always wanted. Just who are we fooling anyway... And nothing more that we live for is true. We are secure, cos we ignore the truth. And will it do... Till time is through. Will it do... Enough for you. Or will you know... You have been sold. Will you know. Lies for survival. What for... When it is sure that there is nothing more.
DAYS
Isn't it sad. There's nothing we are at. Don't it feel bad after all the plans we've had. And when I shout. I am told "We all want out, but we won't". And when I shout. I am told to shut my mouth by them all. Days. They came, they went away and didn't leave no trace. While I'm here getting jobs I just don't want. Days make clear my life has failed. Cos all I seem to do is pay. All my dreams broke down. I stood with empty hands. Our time will come. But when it takes too long we won't be strong enough to carry on. And when I shout. I am told "We all want out, but we won't". But then I shout "There's nothing left in emptiness, in Days..." ...And saw my plans, once build on sand, weaken and strand...
ISN'T IT SO
Isn't it so. We hurt 'till there's nothing left alive. We kill everything that comes in sight. There's bloodshed, there's bloodshed. Down a river flows. We're fed up, we're fed up. But it doesn't show. We do our best and things are getting worse more than ever before. We do our best and we spoil... Though we know, still we do it. Bury it when it hits. Isn't it so. Isn't it so. We lie 'till there's nothing left to say. We cheat before we've tried an honest way. There's cruelty, there's cruelty from everyone we know. We don't want to see, don't want to see. But it does not show.
TOMORROW NEVER COMES
My needs, they're taken away. I should have known it all the way. I go out, buy me some food to keep me alive, but it grew me roots. And I stood in the Land Of Waste. And when I saw its face I knew it was too late. Tomorrow never comes again. So now I'm just wonderin' why I dream my dreams that won't see light. And think: So what am I going to do. Just trying the best in this world of fools... And then I knew, and there I knew many things were not meant for me. Many ways that could not be walked today. They'll never be... by me.
Funeral Oration (1987)
HERE WE GO AGAIN
And here's what I / ...still want you to say these days / After all time / Much pain seems here to stay / I keep saying lines I've said before / Cos I feel the same as I did before / And as I'll always do / / Will I ever know / Just The Where I'm going to / I don't know / I don't know / / And here we go again / A world has not gone under yet / And here we go again / With the few who haven't left / And here we go again / And here we show again, once more / It hasn't changed – All we stand for / / Many times we bite the dust / And The People laugh at us / Do they think they're better off / They're not better off / They just live a lie / Could they ever be too stupid to realize / Say everything's all right / We know it's not all right
THIS TIME
Once, it was all hate we had in mind / Nothing that we did was very kind / Indeed / / Down with all we see / Down with all / / Suddenly, a time I knew it / I couldn't do it / For I outgrew it / / Break it down... Break it down / But I won't stay around / No, I won't stay around this time / / Once, we kicked away all we ran through / There was nothing left that could be used / Indeed / / Cheap our lives will be / Cheap our lives / / Suddenly, a time I knew it / I couldn't do it / For I outgrew it / / Break it down... Break it down / But I won't stay around / No, I won't stay around this time / / What will be – I can not see / But it'll belong to me / Cos something is mine / There are things in life to get / There are things here to collect this time
NO LONGER
Hell, I'm so tired, but don't know what for / I reached the point where I can't take much more / Afraid of life – I outran it fast / And now I stop and now it's catching up / / I'll no longer hide / And there's nowhere that I'll run to / I'll no longer hide / And there's nowhere that I'll run to / / I've closed my eyes for a very long... / Time's running out and now I feel so wrong / There'll be a day that will change your way / And I'm afraid this just might be / ...all happening today / / I'll no longer hide / And there's nowhere that I'll run to / I'll no longer hide / And there's nowhere that I'll run to / I'll no longer hide / And there's nowhere that I'll run to / I'll no longer hide / And there's nowhere that I'll run to
THE WISHING
Wish there would be heaven / We would when / We stand before the ones / That we used to laugh about / They were plain / But we could not make them understand / Now they've all that they could want / While we are sinking down / / You're in show, and you know / Where you go, We won't go / We just die to see you cry / / Everyone said yes / And we said no / And doesn't it feel fine / Just to be so sure / We're not in that clan / ...that bores you so / But now – pride is all we've got / We wish there could be more / / You're in show, and you know / Where you go, We won't go / We just die to see you cry / We just die to see you cry
OVERLAND
I hear talk / Is it about trust / I hear talk / Is it about faith / Yes, they're all good and minds are broad / I like the things they say / / But when you're out of things to share / They'll act like you're not there / ...you're nowhere at all / When trouble's down on you / You're out of any use as a friend / / Overland / I look, but I don't understand / All I see – It's dirty and it looks like End / / I do see / A lot of fun / I do see / A lot to do / There's work for you and a lot of choices / And there is money too / / But it isn't what it seems / There are rules preventing you from dreaming / When you live the life you choose / There are ways to make you lose what is in hands / / Overland / I look, but I don't understand / All I see – It's dirty and it looks like End / / Overland / I look, but I don't understand / All I see – It's dirty and it looks like End / Overland / I look, but I don't understand / All I see – It's dirty and it looks like End
THE AIM I CHOOSE
Failure... / Now do you know / A time you did not feel a little low / You did go with hope / To see The World how it should be / / And time goes fast / The past is far behind / And life's a mess / The best is far behind / / And The Aim I choose / I believe in you / Though I can't go through / I believe in you / I believe, but... / / Nowhere The Going / When there ain't fun in-sight / Nowhere The Going / When there ain't fun in-sight / / And The Aim I choose / I believe in you / Though I can't go through / I believe in you / I believe in you / / Nowhere The Going / When there ain't fun in-sight / Nowhere The Going / When there ain't fun in-sight / The Build-Up we're throwing / ...down and give up The Fight / We turn back – We're knowing / ...that we won't make it right
USED TO BE
We used to be, in our soul, rebels / I guess that we had fun / We used to feel – Forever in this world / ...drifting without end / But we were wrong / / We go our own way / We go a long way / We go a lonely... / / You told me what to do / But I don't know / I fear that I'll always be here / Wish I could go up higher... higher / / I know / You know / We're at The End here / From here we go to what don't matters / / We used to be a running / Thought we could run away / We used to feel – Nothing ahead of us / ...could change us / But I guess that's yesterday / / We go our own way / We go a long way / We go a lonely... / / You told me what to do / But I don't know / I fear that I'll always be here / Wish I could go up higher... higher
IT AIN'T EASY
These times I'm so afraid / I'm feeling pretty old these days / And still no place for staying / / It ain't easy / It ain't easy / It ain't easy / / There's not much I have done / Though other people may have fun / They're not what I want to become / / It ain't easy / It ain't easy / It ain't easy / / Tell me more / And take me through The Promised Land / To a dreamworld, where The Broken will be mend / / Everything here is so wrong / There is no way now to stand strong / ...in a struggle going on and on / / It ain't easy / It ain't easy / It ain't easy / / Living like I do / Like I do / Like I do / 'Till my years are through / Like I do / Like I do / And I do 'till there's some to loose / ...it's living like I do / It's living like I do / And hell knows where I'm going to / And hell knows what I'm going through too
LIKE ANY OTHER LIFE
I'll never give up / All day I try lots / ...of things destined to die / Like any other life / / Want something different / Not the ways my friends go to / But end up after trying / ...like any other life... is mine / / And yes, I know I must've been blind / To let my only life pass me by / To think it just wasn't worth my time / But somehow I still feel that way inside / / And an hour turns to hours / And an hour turns to hours / Keep forgetting what will happen / And there is nothing to remember / And I should cry about it / And I should laugh about it / But I can't / / I have learned somethings / To bring me some things I want / It turned out a lie / Like any other life... goes on / / I guess it's nothing wrong / To make plans when you're young / And find you're not that strong / And life's the same old song
WE ARE NOT ONE
We are not one, we are not one / Such as much said / We are not one, we are not one / ...in what we feel / I can't keep an united dream up / I would ruin it, I would ruin it / / Away I go to find myself / I need to know where I go / To find a home for me alone / I'm going home / / You'll never understand me / And I do not know you / So better off we would be / ...finding something to do / For ourselves / Better off we'd be for ourselves / / It's not just fun together / We walk each all in the way / I don't know all the answers / But I know I can't stay / It ain't right / Drown down in a mass / It ain't right / / We are not one, we are not one / Such as much said / We are not one, we are not one / We'll never be / I can't keep an united dream up / I would ruin it, I would ruin it / / Away I go to find myself / I need to know where I go / To find a home for me alone / I'm going home / / Hey hey – I'm heading home / Hey hey – Gonna be alone / Hey hey – I thought about it / And I can't feel sad about it / / Hey hey – I'm heading home / Hey hey – Gonna be alone / Hey hey – Not really planned it / But it's what I always wanted / / Hey – I'm coming home / Hey – I'm coming home
FAILERS FALL
We see you / You will not make it in this world / Well, join The Group / And we will laugh away this world / ...is all mud / And nothing really matters not / / We listen and have a ball / We listen – After all... / We've heard a thousand failers fall / We'll hear another failer fall / / We've got no money / But we're so cold / Let's dream ourselves to Mexico / We don't care / Hear the sound / ...of the whole world coming down / Listen to The Coming Down / Listen to The Coming Down / But don't try to understand it / / This world is all mud / What's on it matters not / / We listen and have a ball / We listen – After all / We've heard a thousand failers fall / We'll hear another failer fall / / And it doesn't hurt no-more / All we had went out the door / And we lost all our old friends / Cos they did not understand / / And it doesn't hurt no-more / Way it used to feel before / And it matters not, no-more / Nothing matters not, no-more
IF YOU CAN
When there are some things to say / And the noise's such a blur / And you speak soft or turn away / You will never be heard, but hurt / / If you can / There are things you ought to do / If you can / Before your time is through / Now you really don't have to / ...walk on water / Cos people made a bridge / But if you can / You should do it too / / When you feel that you're left out / While booze keep you stoned / You can go join in The Crowd / But you'll never be known out home / / If you can / There are things you ought to do / If you can / Before your time is through / Now you really don't have to / ...walk on water / Cos people made a bridge / But if you can / You should do it too / / Life is not always that hard / But you'll have to make a start / And don't you tell me / ...that can not be done now / / If you can / There are things you ought to do / If you can / You should do it too
DIDN'T WANT TO DIE
I was looking around, I met soldiers on the street / Just walking the town and bored like you, like me / Too young to know where life is going to / Too old to go on ways that still are new / / In another time or in another place / They would have signed their short life all away / But times have changed, they want us to believe / But we're still chained by lies and by deceive / / And they didn't want to die / Did not know the wrong from right / Did not know the wrong, no / They didn't want to die / It wasn't them who'd won... at all / / Now we are told: a free world must do fights / But that's been told a hundred years, a hundred times / And all these soldiers I see may think they're having fun / But there won't be no mercy, when war is on / / And they didn't want to die / Did not know the wrong from right / Did not know the wrong, no / They didn't want to die / It wasn't them who'd won... at all
TO THE FIRE
When I stand there / Far away and looking down / To where I've been around / / "We'll never change", we said / But we haven't stayed the same / / And is it fair / ...to say this changing is growing up / Or is it youth we're giving up / / Every step we're going further / Making us tired and feel down / Making us tired and feel down / Cos we brought The Water / Took it down to The Fire / To The Fire
WOULD YOU UNDERSTAND
Burning up inside / That I can not hide / But I've tried and I'll try / / Don't confuse me anymore / Nothing left I know for sure / What I've learned – I must ignore / These days I don't know what I can say / Thoughts of people change – They change / When I do things my way... / / Well, then it's wrong / And then it's right / And then... / Now would you understand / Now would you understand / / And it sure bothers me – Don't know what to believe / And I've lost all my faith in what The People say / / Burning up inside / That I can not hide / But I've tried and I'll try / / The way they think I don't see through / I'm in suspense and that is cruel / Now with the things I do... / / Well, then it's wrong / And then it's right / And then... and then / Now would you understand / It's getting out of hand / I see nothing I have planned / And I no longer know / What I need to make life go / ...the way I want it so / / And they are always there to criticize unfair / And think they know it all – Like if they never fall / They're getting me uptight – They make me loose my sight / 'Till The Reality is beyond my believes
FIND A WAY
Places you go through / People stand in cue / Just to bother you all day / / When they pass along / Saying that you live wrong / They don't speak your tongue / It's plain to you / / The People think you're weird / They just don't understand / They act like concerned / But they don't give a damn / / Hey, where you go / They want to know / But do they want to know / Do they really want to know / / They've given you advice / You looked at their eyes / And there was no life to face / / You're on your own / For your sake – Gotto find a way / Gotto find... / You're all alone / For your sake – Gotto find a way / Gotto find a way / Gotto find a way
TELL IT LIKE IT IS
I don't know all / But there's lots to say / If I only knew a way / That would make stand strong / I'd be real free / And get rid of people I don't need / Of all the things I wanted / ...it's the thing that I wanted / / There are times I think of it / When I'd better not / It happens a lot now / / Tell it like it is / Why don't you, don't you / Tell it like it is / Why don't you, don't we / / If I will fall / I don't know if I / ...can get up and survive / Will I find time to try... / And then The Strength... / Cos losers fall and stay small / And end up with nothing at all / / There are times I think of it / When I'd better not / It happens a lot now / / Tell it like it is / Why don't you, don't you / Nothing but The Truth / Nothing but The Truth / / I'm scared of loosing / ...the things life still can bring me / But what will be left of me / ...then after I have paid, anyway / What will not drown in shame / / Tell it like it is / Why don't you, don't you / Tell it like it is / Why don't you do it now / Well, you must somehow / Tell it like it is / Tell it like it is
THIS AIN'T HEAVEN
Stand up and watch up / There's emptiness above / And that ain't much reason / ...for us to kneel / I know how it feels to be wishing / ...yourself in someone else's shoes / Cos there is nothing where you go to / / And this ain't heaven too / And this ain't heaven / / ...not to you / There is no fun today / You know that's not to say / ...that there is when you're away / There in your grave / No matter what some say / / I know how it feels / But you gotto have to deal / ...with this / We all do / / And this ain't heaven too / And this ain't heaven too / No, this ain't heaven too / So what you're gonna do / Now with a life to loose / And feel it's almost through / What is it you can do / This ain't heaven too / This ain't heaven, not to you
The More We Know EP (1989)
THE CALL
Many times I can not cope / Feel like I'm hangin' on a rope / So I need to get away / Now and then we need escape / / Stranded / Without no I.D. / Here I'm landed after all / ...Oooh and all / Well nothing seems for real at all / / ...When I hear The Call / ...When I hear The Call / / Stand out The Line / Stand out The Time / I hope I find a way / Where everything in our world / ...Can be faded / I'd me more in it, maybe / Be more in it / Be more in it, maybe / Be more in it / ...Oooh / / Put your work aside / Don't let feelings hide / And get rid of all the strain / And the music / ...Let it play / ...And it may / ...Take it all away / / Here I'm landed / On a place I'm free / Here I'm landed / Funny how I see it all / / ...When I hear The Call / ...When I hear The Call / ...When I hear The Call / ...When I hear it / ...Hear it now
MORE THAN WE KNOW
Running all day, running away / Can't even think one moment straight / A day goes fast indeed / / Stumble and fall, get up and crawl / On, on like nothing's wrong at all / The truth's not what you need / A lie is all you need / / And if you should stop to see what is up / Maybe you would find you had enough / Make time to think 'bout your life / / But you never will, can't even sit still / You work work work, well you're going down hill / With living from 9 'till 5 / Was that all you wanted from life / / There is more than we'll ever know / We're living in the day-time / There is more than we'll ever know / We're living in the day-time / / There is more than we'll ever know / We're living in the day-time / There is more than we'll ever know / We're living in the day-time / / Something's out there can't you see / It could be yours / If there's anything indeed / It should be yours / For a long time you had dreams / You promised you would hold / You shouldn't have let it go / But you let it go / / There is more than we'll ever know / We're living in the day-time / There is more than we'll ever know / (More than we will know) / We're living in the day-time / There is more than we'll ever know / We're living in the day-time / There is more than we'll ever know / (More than we will know) / We're living in the day-time
IN LIFE
WHAT IF
Say No To Life (1989)
YOU DO WHAT'S RIGHT
If I'd more answers / Would have told you all along / We all know some things are not that easy / And all that I can do / Is try to do no wrong / That is all / There's no more to it really / / You do what's right – you do what's right / You do what's right – you do what feels right / You do what's right – you do what's right / You do what's right – you do what feels right / / There might be doubt / About so many things we do / We don't have the time no more to worry / Deep inside I know how far to go / And you know too / Don't blame us as long...
ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE
One day in your life / One day in your life / It's one day then / And you will realise / What you want to be / / And then you just begin and / You don't know about it / There is ones that never win and / You don't know about it / / Come on / That's an open door / Once you're out you see there's more / And change / It's never gonna be the same / It's never gonna be the same / / I will go / Now I know / When I stay / I might as well go dream my life away / / Stand by / Grab that chance when it's still yours / Stand by / Suddenly you'll feel ignored / And you never gonna know what for / You never gonna know what for
TOWN
Early morning sounds go by / Traffic lines into another night / Inside we're hoping for a change / We just have to walk away / But I can not walk away / / There's more than livin 'n town / I see it's house and crowd around / I know that I want to go / But I know I'll never go / There's more than living down the line / That's right / But a dream is just a dream / We don't want to chase a dream / Before it's too late / / There's so much we've never seen / Or maybe in a dream / Is it there for you and me / Well I've got no idea / Here there ain't much left to do / But we never stop to move / Oooh and sometimes feels we're through / / There's more than livin 'n town / I see it's house and crowd around / I know that I want to go / But I know I'll never go / / Ooh-oh / We don't understand / That it's us who never end there / Where we know we should be / Never know how it could have been / We don't understand / That it's us who never end there / Where we know we should be / Never know how it could have been / If only... Hey hey hey / / There's more than living down the line / That's right / But a dream is just a dream / We don't want to chase a dream before... / A dream is just a dream / We don't want to chase a dream before... / A dream is just a dream / Don't want to chase a dream before... / It's too late
TIME IS OUT
Hey hey / Hey you looking to the sky / And you wonder why / You do the things you always do / And I know it too / There's so much more / But you won't do much more / You never / / Well you think there was no way / So you didn't try a way / To make life the way you want / To make life the way you plan it / / Now you'll never know the truth / Never know the truth / Never know the truth / Never know the truth / / You might find out where you stand / And you find you're near the end / Time is out again / Hey-ey-ey / Time is out again / Hey-ey-ey / / Time is out again / Hey-ey-ey / Time is out again / Aah-ah-ah / Time is out again / Hey-ey-ey / Time is out again / Naah-nah-nah / / No more chances / No more chances / No more chances / No more chances coming in / No more chances coming in
WHERE DO YOU GO
And one day there you go / You're leaving home / And little by little / You find it's like they've told / You struggle hard / Yes and how / You finally found a town / And a home to live now / / But then where do you go / Where do you go / / Anything that you want / And you don't want / Well that's called living / Dreams now one by one / Forfilled / The fun... well / It's not stretching that far / No matter where you are / There's always a missing part / / But then where do you go / Where do you go / / And you look around / A lot of things are lost and found / Whatever out there / To find it you'd go anywhere / Or chasing that dream / Or anything you'd like to be / Search for it / But where / Tell me where / / Where do you go / Where do you go / Where do you go / Where do you go
DON'T TAKE IT
You know / You try to hide it / There's a nothing you go to / You know / You try to fight it now / But people change you too / / If I'd stop I'd swear / They'd find me anywhere / They'd find me anywhere / If I'd stop I'd swear / / Stand away / I cry for answers / And you don't seem so wise / Stand away / I know that answers / Are out your life / / Now I stand free / Don't take it away from me / Now I stand free / Don't take it away from me / / If I ever fall / Then I loose it all / If I ever fall / Then I loose it all / All's falling down around / Hey-ey-ey around / / Now I stand free / Don't take it away from me / Don't take it away from me / There is more than I can see / There is more than I can see / There is more than I can see / There is more than I can see
UPSTREAM
Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / We go and we go / / Life can be rough / Life can be tough / A deep green sea / Gentle and mean / Life can be cruel / Turn you into a fool / Each and every day / Will treat you the same / It's the same / Just the same / Same all the same all the same / / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / We go and we go / / And we get by get by get by / And find a way you'll see / When we believe in what we are / And we get by get by get by / And find a way you'll see / If we believe in what we are / / You say there's not much that you need / To stay alive / More you don't need / And it is only what you want / And it is only what you want / / But I can hear you say / When you get up the down hits / Harder every day / / And every day it's just the same / You're building up what's breaking / / Only what you want... it ain't
10 MORE YEARS
We've been around for some times / And there's been times we had doubts / We can not live life otherwise / No we don't want to get out / / Aaah and give it ten more years / / We know our future / And it just makes us afraid / An office-boy / It could be you it could be you / We better stick around and wait / / Aaah and give it ten more years / / Why say goodbye goodbye / Why when you know it isn't right / Why say goodbye goodbye / Why when you know it isn't right / / See your friends / They're changing / Soon you won't see them anymore / Why not say auf Wiederseh'n / Auf Wiederseh'n / Wiederseh'n, auf Wiederseh'n / Wiederseh'n, auf Wiederseh'n / / Uuh I / We give it ten more years / / Why say goodbye goodbye / Why when you know it isn't right / Why say goodbye goodbye / Why when you know it isn't right / Why say goodbye goodbye / Why when you know it isn't right / Why say goodbye goodbye / Why...
THESE DAYS
When I / When I go out / When I find the time / I look in front of me / The things I find / Few pieces of dreams broken / Can I / Can I go back / Just where it went wrong / Pick my life up like it just begun / Ooh no / We can't fight getting older / / No / And there is nothing going on / These days / And all the things that mattered / Slipped away / Can I take heart / When heading home once more / Sudden change no more / / And there's nothing we can do / I know it's true / Friends are not the friends / We once knew / And we aren't too / And we aren't too / And we aren't too / And we're not / / Come on and take it / All you can get you money maker / Come on and break it / With the past and you could make it / Come on and take it / A little bit more / You're almost there / And a little luck / And you could make it to anywhere / / And there is nothing going on / These days / And all the things that mattered / Slipped away / Can I take heart / When heading home once more / / Sudden change no more / Sudden change no more / Sudden change no more / Sudden change no more / Sudden change no more / Sudden change no more / Sudden change no more
SHUT ME OUT
How it feels / It's my ideals / That makes me run / And no single job well done / First I start then I find / Something else comes in my mind / / Shut me out / It shut me out / It's shutting me out / / And I will tell you / There's something down the road / And I will tell you / That there's something down the road / And you will never know / You'll never know / / And I'm trying / And I'm trying / And I'm trying / To do what feels right / / You can tell me / That it's time to change my life / You can tell me / That I'll find more trouble / When I chase those dreams of mine / When I chase those dreams of mine / / When it's hurting deep inside / When it's hurting / Just the way I feel inside / And it's more than pain now / Hey now / Well it just won't stay out / Hey now / But I do all I can do / I may do the things I shouldn't / When I choose the way / When I choose the way
TRUST
It only goes so far / Stay out the way of anyone / Well time is going faster than you know / A life's not in control / Or is it me just anyway / Sometimes I think it's just me anyway / / Say / Don't you know / It's build around my name / Say / Don't you know / Life's build around my name / / Hey-ey-ey / With one thing left to say / So many more feeling just the same / And it is just begun / But tell me where's the fun / Trust in no one / When you trust in no one / / Say / Don't you know / It's build around my name / Say / Don't you know / It's build around my name / Say / Don't you know / Life's build around my name / Say / / If you don't look around / And looking up instead of down / You're the only one here / Left in town / If you don't look around / And looking up instead of down
STAND RIGHT
And you there standing / When are you coming out / The game is ending / When you're not coming out / / And you will find out / You'll find out like the rest / That you can't hide out / Well not just like the rest / / Stand up stand right / Cos you know you will feel alright / Stand up stand right / / Stand up stand right / Cos you know you will feel alright / Stand up stand right / / There you are / You've come a long way / But what's left / From the person that you were / Come this far / But it's no way to forget / Just the person that you were / / Back to where it's coming from / Well it's going where it's coming from / Back to where it's coming from / Going where I'm coming from / / Back to where it's coming from / Going where I'm coming from / Back to where it's coming from / Well I'm going where I'm coming from
DON'T BRING ME DOWN
For anytime / That I am dreaming / There comes a time / I wake up screaming / Softly in myself / Well it's a private hell / We are dealing with / But we never show it / / Out the door / We take more / More than we can bear / Yes it's more than we can bear / Take it home / Take it home now / / Somehow we will survive it / Make it through the day / We laugh we cry all way / At night we go to sleep / Too tired to find more answers / And when we do awake / We'll do the same and the same / Everyday hey-ey-ey everyday / Another morning / To move us through this town / And I know / I can make it if I try but / Please don't bring me down / Please don't bring me down / Bring me down / Bring me down / Please don't bring me down
ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE II
Come on / That's an open door / Once you're out / You see there's more / Come on / That's an open door / Once you're out you can see there's more / And change and change / And change and change / And change and change / And change / You never gonna be the same / / I will go now I know / When I stay / I might as well dream my life away / / Was it only yesterday / I burned my house down / I got away / To find life's just the same / Anything I do / Nothing's really new / And all I stood for I forgot / What I had once I have not / / Stand by / Grab that chance when it's still yours / Stand by / Cos suddenly you'll feel ignored / / I don't believe you anymore / I don't believe you anymore / I don't believe you're never down / And living in the perfect town / Wish I'd never left my town / Wish I'd be around be around / Be around be around be around / / I don't know / Where to go / I have tried / I wish I'd never tried / / And now you tell me that it's a lie / How can you tell me it's a lie / And now you tell me that it isn't true / How can you tell me that it isn't true / Well it's back and home / Here I am / And so much for the living that I know / Well it's back and home / Here I am...
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KILL KILL
Young blood for the army, see the ads on the walls. Tho there were so many warnings, still we get fucked all. No-one seems to notice, no-one seems to care. So sell your body and send it to anywhere. / / Kill kill kill kill. Better love to slaughter, better love to maim. Kill kill kill kill. Live in Europe the American way. / / It is a hard hard life, sure you will survive if you are ready to obey and listen to their lies. They say: here the times are good, the times are nice. But a kick in the face is all you will ever find. / / Are you in for destruction? Have you got the right size to block your mind? Act dumb, deaf and blind. If you want to be as in your youth, their hell will burn even much hotter for you.
NO RIGHT TO KNOW
Do not ask a thing. I see those looks in your eyes. You want to know all the whats & the whys, but I do not want to reveal my mind that belongs me. You make me lie. Leave me alone, leave me alone. / / Eyes are looking down on me to figure out all I do see. But I will never let it show, cos you have got no right to know. / / You are asking me to speak my mind, but I do not want. I see no use to tell you the truth or anything at all. Just what makes you think that you deserve to know me. Do not even try. Leave me alone, leave me alone. / / I hardly know you at all, cos I did not need. So why bother me, why asking me? I do not see. It all belongs me; all I feel or see. So fade out of my life. Leave me alone, leave me alone.
HELL-AGE
It is a load of shit, here to face. Every dream seems out of place. Do you really hope, really believe that you are going to get where you want to be? / / Hell-age. There just is no doubt: it is all over now. All the cries are about survive. / / You have got no money, got no job. But you realise that work is not more as a cover for a hard life with increasing problems, hate and lies. / / And the faith in politics is not there, cos it is not for you. They will never care. So you are running around, seeking a hiddingplace. Every step you are sinking deeper into your grave.
DEMENTED
People still ask me why I detest the army-life "where youth is at his best". A place to face a dream we all have missed: another world-war. God, I feel so pissed. / / Demented demented. All around and chasing you. Demented demented. The world is insane, a living prove. / / What the hell do they all take me for? A butcher-boy, a systems whore? I still got some pride, what about you? I spit it out, while you still chew. / / Crawling thru shit. God, I did not know. Is that lifes aim? Is that the show? Civilization they are calling this acting as a bunch retarded pigs.
IT WILL BE YOU
Look at your friends. Don't you see it? The fun you had is now no more. They go their own way, so what for pretend you have to stick to their ideals that soon will fade and leave you beside their way. / / And it will be you who has got nothing to live for. And it will be you who has got nothing to say. And it will be you who has got nothing to give for. And it will be you. It will be you. / / You threw away past and future. Felt safe in numbers, didn't you? Now you are alone and you can chew the life they have spit at you. See people change, they were just young. No use to say that they are wrong. / / So what you may do: better notice the steps you make are for your sake. The danger-signs are always too late. And time won't hold as it is showing you have wasted your life. Your friends seem happy and you just cry.
GOING FURTHER
Nagasaki is no nightmare after all. A new generation is ready to fall for someone else's benefit. The maimed and slaughtered taught us no shit. / / And it is going further. Murder after murder. Anywhere they come from. Well, it is all going on. / / See the paranoid creeps all at the top seeking for places for their bombs to drop. So many are dead without wanting it and we are now next. But we do not resist. / / The media is covering all the threats. Reality won't work, so they lie instead. The arms-traffic is going fine. All so normal in a sickly mind.
SACRIFICED
Everyone is talking about the soldiers that died, but no-one is ever wondering the reason why. Just open your eyes and see that nothing has been won. And the soldiers won't raise. They are dead and gone. / / They have sacrificed their lives for a world that is never there. Just think about it. The things will never change, see nothing has ever changed. / / Now it is all over and nothing is gained. The fear of war will still remain. It is heading for a come-back with someone else on turn, cos we will never care. We will never learn. / / What is all left? Another monument. Lives are now inscripted in the cement. That is all they did leave behind. And what is the reason now to sign?
WALLS
Standing still, lost the reason to move to face another season. If I can not be what I wanted. I will never get what I wanted. Am I fault? Am I greedy? Just to know what I needed. Others may say that they are king, but turn out to have just nothing. People call me a sick kid, people call me a misfit. I feel that I do not belong. Misty and not just so strong to smash the wall to the "be me", to smash the wall to the "be free". If I can not be what I wanted. I will never get what I wanted.
POISON
The tellie gives us average types. Seems I have missed the aim for miles. Family life: daddy is in command. And some don't even understand. / / This is poison. This is poison. This is poison. This is poison. / / School does not teach you how to live; work is a rule, you have got to give. Is this human? Living as ants. And some don't even understand. / / People think they are smart. Don't think at all, so life ain't hard. But still telling others where to stand. And some don't even understand.
CALL BACK YOUR TROOPS
The bottom has been reached. Nowhere we are and nowhere we go. Some got no food and they are slowly dying, cos no-one wants to know. Ain't got no home. All money has gone to some wargame-shit. Life has lost all values; everybody has been killing it. / / Call back your troops. No nomore reason left to fight for. Call back your troops, cos there is no nomore reason left to fight for. / / Cancer rules the world. A natural cause of dying is now a laugh. Ground is all poluted. All that still grows is breathing death. The sky it smells, it strangle us by every breath we take. See here, this is the land. Is it really this that you want to take? / / The people everywhere are born to live, but they just die. Work will not pay. You will collapse of keep on wondering why. Money we need, but not for buying more tanks or planes. The rulers will loose grip. They are just insane anyway.
SINKING DOWN
It is time to take a look outside. First you may think all is going right, but behind your back people are planning war. Only getting things you have never asked for. / / Down down down down down down that's where we're sinking to. / / You are able to breathe, is that enough? The air inside soon will blow you up. You could be all-right yet, but you see everyone around you is dying from some disease. / / You work on a future, cos you are told to. Better realise they have never told you could get killed, walk under some car. Beaten up on the streets, you won't get far.
GETTING NOWHERE
Observe the days of the human race. History tells there is blood on its trace. Horrible actions in the name of God. Look at today; we did not learn no lot. / / Still we are getting nowhere. It is the play of an old show. Still we are getting nowhere. / / There is no future for you, for me. Always gotto live in the history. Past and future: meaningless wars. Hell, ain't life just a fucking bore. / / Obey the voice of the government, otherwise you will not stand a chance. Promises and lies for the willing mass. Going fine as all in the past.
The Godsend (1984)
SILENT MAJORITY
Living in mass is living so well. All remote-controlled by what the tellies tell. They hate every alternative way. So afraid to use their brain. / / See through their game. Silent majority's got nothing to say. See through their game. Silent majority's driving me insane. / / Familiar with the rules of the game. They're the pawns that haven't got no say. Modesty they're calling it. But what can you say when you're bright as shit. / / Hidden away, still walking in the way. They drag us all down into their grave. Behind your morals is no place to hide, when the game is over and death walks by.
HELL-AGE
It's a load of shit, here to face. Every dream seems out of place. Do you really hope, do you really believe that you will get where you want to be. / / Hell-age. There just ain't no doubt, it's all over now. All the cries about survive. / / You've got no money, got no job. But you realise that work is not more than a cover to a hard life with increasing problems, hate and lies. / / And the faith in politics ain't there. It's not for you, they'll never care. You are running around, seek some hidding-place. But every step gets you deeper in your grave.
KILL KILL
Young blood for the army, see the ads on the walls. There were so many warnings, still we get fucked all. No-one seems to notice, no-one seems to care. So sell your body to send out anywhere. / / Kill kill, kill kill. Better love to slaughter, better love to maim. Kill kill, kill kill. Live in Europe the American way. / / It's a hard hard life. Sure you'll survive if you're ready to obey and listen to their lies. They say the time's here good, the time's here nice. But a kick in your face is all you'll find. / / Are you in for destruction. Have you got the right size to block your mind. To act dumb, deaf and blind. If you want to be as in your youth, there hell will burn even hotter for you.
WALLS
Standing still, lost the reason to move to face another season. If I can't be what I wanted, I'll never get what I wanted. Am I in fault, am I greedy. Just to know what I needed. Others may say that they are king, but turn out to have just nothing. People call me a sick kid. People call me a misfit. I feel that I don't belong. Misty and not just so strong to smash the wall to the "be me", to smash the wall to the "be free". If I can't be what I wanted, I'll never get what I wanted.
DEMENTED
People still ask me why I detest the army-life "where youth's at their best". A place to face a dream we've missed. World-war thirst and getting pissed. / / Demented demented. All around and chasing you. Demented demented. The world's insane, a living prove. / / What the hell do they all take me for. A butcher-boy, a system's whore. I still got some pride, what about you. I spit it out, while you just chew. / / Crawling through shit. God I didn't know. Is that life's aim, is that the show. Civilization they're calling this acting as a bunch retarded pigs.
SACRIFICED
Everyone's talking about the soldiers that died, but no-one's ever wondering the reason why. Just open your eyes and see that nothing's won. And the soldiers won't raise. They're dead and gone. / / They've sacrificed their lives for a world that's never there. Just think about it. The things will never change. See nothing's ever changed. / / Now it's all over and nothing's gained. The fear of war will still remain. It's heading for a come-back with someone else on turn, cos we never care. We'll never learn. / / What is left is another monument. Lives are now inscripted in the cement. That is all they did leave behind. And what's the reason now to sign.
COULD HAVE KNOWN
There's no living with peace in mind. Every one's out to skin you alive. We're made to believe there's just one choice. Attack and kill. Or you get destroyed. / / A wall of fear. Where we're made to see another threat or enemy. We could have known if we'd only lived to break down that wall, that there wasn't anything at all. / / Bombs and guns are our day and night. No use to say who's wrong, who's right. With love we're raised to break to hate. With blowing up this world we won't hesitate. / / There's no point in war for sure. What the hell is that hatred for. Could have been better as now, maybe. But now it's too late, only death we breathe.
GOING FURTHER
Nagasaki's no nightmare after all. A new generation is ready to fall for someone else's benefit. The maimed and slaughtered taught us no shit. / / And it's going further. Murder after murder. Anywhere they come from. Well, it's all going on. / / See the paranoid creeps all at the top seeking for places for their bombs to drop. So many are dead without wanting it and we're now next, but we don't resist. / / The media is covering all the threats. Reality won't work, so they lie instead. The arms-traffic is going fine. All seems so normal in a sickly mind.
SEND FROM HEAVEN
WHY SHOULD I
There's no-one at all to thank for. All obligations are gone for sure. People make me think I'm not alone, but in trouble-times I'm on my own. / / Why should I do all the things I don't wanna do. Why should I play their game, when I always lose. Why should I. / / All my life I've been exploited. Just left behind without any choices. What did I get. Shit, no nothing. I won't play, when there's nothing to win. / / What right do you have to judge me. No right at all if you just don't see your own life that's cheap and useless. I'll take my chance cos lower I'll never get.
GETTING NOWHERE
Observe the days of the human race. History tells there's blood on its trace. Horrible actions in the name of God. Look at today; we didn't learn no lot. / / Still we're getting nowhere. It's the play of an old show. Still we're getting nowhere. / / There's no future for you, for me. Always gotto live in the history. Past and future: meaningless wars. Hell, ain't life just a fucking bore. / / Obey the voice of government. Otherwise you will not stand a chance. Promises and lies for the willing mass. It's going fine as all in the past.
NOTHING TO GIVE
Don't tell me what to do. I live the way I choose. You might say I'm wasting my life. Better take a look at yourself and find. / / Nothing to give and nothing to show. You're just getting fat and old. Nothing to give and nothing to show. All is slipping out your hold. / / I've got nowhere to go. But still, you are the jokes. With your respectable images. Can't tie me down, I see how it really is. / / I look at you and see. This ain't no way I want to be. You're dead. You're really through. Sometimes I just feel sorry for you.
SINKING DOWN
It's time to take a look outside. First you may think all's going right. But behind your back, people are planning war. Only getting things you've never asked for. / / Down down down down down down down, that's where we're sinking to. / / You're able to breathe, is that enough? The air inside soon will blow you up. You could be allright yet, but you'll see: every-one around you's dying from some disease. / / You work on a future, cos you're told to. Better realise they've never told you could get killed, walk under a car. Or beaten up on the streets, you won't get far.
A.W.S.
Get out your sleep and on your feet. Another day, still the same to me. They see the loot coming their way. Me just doing what they say. / / Work. God, how I hate work. Another reason to wish I wasn't born at all. Work. God, how I hate work. So I will act deaf if this is nature's call. / / Bosses with smiles treat you as shit. They're on top, still they're so thick. They don't do nothing for their pay. Me toiling to make their day. / / Sweat and tears and going nowhere. I'm just a tool, hell it ain't fair. They see the loot coming their way. Me just doing what they say.
POISON
The tellie gives us average types. Seems I've missed the aim for miles. Family-life: daddy's in command. And some don't even understand. / / This is poison. This is poison. Spreading out all in my brain. Spreading out to block my say. / / School don't teach you how to live; work is a rule – you've gotto give. Is this human? Living like ants. And some don't even understand. / / People think they are real smart. Don't think at all, so life ain't hard. But still telling others where to stand. And some don't even understand.
FOR MILES
Shadowland EP (1984)
LIVE IN LIES
Confusion hits, I've got nothing to say / Stuck too deep in this game I play / The tellie has taken over my mind / I see no truth, I must've gone blind / / Live in lies, live in lies / And I don't see what's wrong – what's right / Live in lies, live in lies / Give me dreams and I'll get by / / There's nothing I do for my sake / Never realised, now it's far too late / Everybody's telling me things to do / I try, but I can't shake them loose / / I often wonder / Just who the hell is this / Under my skin / And is this who I always tried to be... / / I break the past, I break the walls / Want to find myself after all / But years later I look, I see / I'm out of track and there's no me
NEVER CHANGE
Out on the streets and feel the cold / You find there's nowhere you can go / All you once loved has been destroyed / It's hard to live your life without no joy / / You're waiting for another day / And it brings nothing, but more pain / / Cos times, they never change / The shit we live in is still the same / And times, they never change / No times, they never change / / Everyone seems out to bring you down / Look for friends, there's no soul around / Stand alone's the story of your life / Wondering for what you pay that price / / Just what you do, just what you say / You'll always end up in the rain / / But nothing matters anyway / World keeps turning and we'll fade away
GET BY
Every step I move from here / Goes to darkness and to fears / I lose the power to understand / Can't even recognize my friends / And I do see / What life is about then / It's me standing here all alone / / I gotto get by / There's no turning back nomore / I gotto get by / There's no sight in front nomore / There's no sight in front nomore / / I see that I am seen as dirt / Even didn't speak no word / No one's offering a break / Decisions always come too late / The chance in life / Is not to be given / It can only come from yourself / / Never know who to believe / Only truth are things I see / Every step I move from here / Goes to darkness and to fears / I can not cry / So what is to do now / There's nothing left to laugh about
ULTRA-WASTE
See... just take a look at me / I'm the one you don't want to be / Good for nothing, I don't do shit / Never seem to fit / / But all you think, but all you say / It does not matter to me anyway / And I will not listen, and I will not crawl / And then stop to ask myself what for / / Ultra-waste / Never try hard, never try hard / Ultra-waste / But I die hard, but I die hard / / You... just haven't got a clue / Why I spoil my time so true / Your deep urge on to succeed / I don't seem to need / / All ends are dead, just look at you / The things that you are going to / Ain't worth no sweat after all / What goes up will take its fall
FOR MILES
Across the sea, the stormy seas / The bird don't look behind / He wants to know / Tho' there is no / Shore in sight for miles...
THE WISHING
Wish there would be heaven / We would when / We stand before the ones / We used to laugh about / They were plain / But we couldn't make them understand / Now they all got they could want / While we're sinking down / / You're in show / And you know / Where you go / We won't go / We just die to see you cry / / Everyone said yes / And we said no / And doesn't it feel fine / Just to be so sure / We're not one in the clan / That bores you so / But now, pride is all we've got / We wish there could be more
SHADOWLAND
There's a shadow on each morning / Noises I hear, still the same / Wake me / With nothing / In my hands, but pain / / There's a so much that I long for / But I know nothing is free / So you're working / And waste life / Or drown in dreams / / There's a choice that leads to nothing / And we'll never know what for / But you'll find me / Reaching / Way out for more
Communion (1985)
FOR THE BETTER
I'll stand and hold on to my dreams. I know things do not always seem to be what you have got in mind. But I can't live another life. / / And how I build life up from ground. And how they try to tear it down. / / I hope for the better. Not to end up with the worst. I hope for the better. Not to end up getting hurt. I don't want to take cover. But no matter what you do. You don't want to break somebody. Then somebody will break you. / / Survive. It's getting harder. But I could never change. And hatred is the starter. But I could never change.
GO FREE GO HOME
When you feel down. And there is no-one around. It can get tough. Will you struggle alone and never give up? Will you crawl back and say: I've had enough? / / Go free. Go home. Go free. Go home. Either you make it or you don't. Go free. Go home. Go free. Go home. Either you make it or you... / / When you've come there where life seems unfair. And you feel like a fool. Will you stand up – saying: and from here I rule? Will you knock on your door – say: Life's too cruel? / / When you feel old. And you're being told that you're out of place. Will you laugh it away right in their face? Will you return and say: I've got no place to stay?
DAYFALL
Late. When the heat of the day has come to end. I see where I am. And the true aim I live to. (It's a) never touch – just stare. I ain't going nowhere. / / I care. But don't think I'ld dare to change the road. And I will not know if it was right. Wish fear to hide. And then I could say. At least I tried.
SLIPPING OUT
I've gotto scream. I've gotto shout. Can anybody let me out? Is there anyone who hears? I'm taken in by fears. / / What you're talking? Is it about me? I can not hear nor see. What is happening to my life? What did you have in mind? / / World is slipping out back-door. Live on rumours. Nothing more. I'm the last on earth to be told. All I know's that I'll never know. No. / / Don't turn away. I'm talking to you. See... I'm a person too. What's the use of having rights. When you've got more than I.
DOWN ON ME
My eyes are blinded. They throw shit in my face. They take all that's mine. Can't follow my way. / / Nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. Just getting nowhere fast. / / My head. It's drumming. Responsibilities and ties. A fog is coming. Feels hot/ice hot/ice. / / My ears not hearing. Who's there looking at me? From that hole comes light. But I can not reach.
ANYONE CAN TELL
Life's been so simple here. You grab the things you've learned and went. You've never tasted fear. Always played on safe. Did understand. There's been no day you couldn't cope. Cos you always lived on hope. There's some freedom you have paid. But you'll win someday. / / Where are you now? Where are you? There's lives like heaven. Lives like hell. Anyone can tell. / / We want the best of all. But you knew just out where to look. You joined their games and all. And what was offered... you just took. But what you've got is not enough. There is more way at the top. Want to know what's behind doors. Cos it will be yours. / / Where are you now? Where are you? The lives like heaven can be hell. Who was there to tell?
DEEP IN GROUND
Leave me (alone). I am forming. Need time to straighten things out. Silence. It's all I ask for. Don't want no-one around. / / And you don't have to reason my life with all its faults. And you don't have to reason. Don't you do anything at all. (Once I stood up for myself. I stood up and I fell. Was loosing grip on life. I'm loosing grip on life...) / / Down. Way way deep in ground. Cos I can't hide around. Down. Way way deep in ground. / / How many times must I say I'm old enough to think for my own. Need to know where I'm standing by doing things just alone. / / And you don't have to reason what I am going to do. And you don't have to reason. What's me – you ain't got a clue. And you don't have to reason the way I look at life. And you don't have to reason. Keep off from what is mine.
THE HEART OF ALL
Want to see. Want to know. Where we will go. Dead body's lying in a row. Still the same. The hate remains. We are used to live in pain. / / Where is the heart of all? There is no heart at all. Where is the heart of all? There is no heart at all. / / What we are. What we do. It is all through. People hurt eachother... me... and you. It goes on. Lives are torn. Till every living soul has gone.
WITHOUT NAME
Life's going fast. Gotto be on time. Chances go by and I must decide what I want to be/want to get. But it's always less than what is expected. / / And you don't seem to understand. I want to have all full in hand. / / I've been waiting for so long. Always seem to get it wrong. Be a face without a name. Never doing more than blame me. / / The world goes – while I'm catchin' air – on without me being there. Gotto choose a road. But I'm so afraid that I can't walk out/I can't turn away. / / And you don't see the way I think. And feel the mess I'm in. / / And you don't ever realize. It's something way deep inside.
MOTHERLODE (Song Of Exploitation)
We're told that we are someone. And swallowed that back in time. We're told that we are someone. And never wondered why. We took our place before machines. While years did disappear. Made jokes about the bosses... When they weren't any near. / / We're told that we stand in front. But that was said before. We're told that we stand in front. But I wasn't really sure. Just looked around me/met around me... eyes no-more that bright. Let's leave this place – I said one day. But all I heard was "Why". / / Sometimes I see them walking by. I don't know what to say. Sometimes I see them walking by. The same time of the day. They carry all the silver. And it's more than they can hold. They know there's no escape... once they've seen the motherlode. Once they've seen the motherlode...
LIKE DYING
I'm lost. See I'm drifting out too far. No-one tells me where they are... The ones that never crawl through shit... The ones who're standing tall. But it seems nothing more than lies. If you want to live your own life... You're a nothing. There's no hope for you. / / Far from home. I feel alone. I'm tired of trying. Freeze out here. No sound I hear. Must be like dying. The desert reaches to... I can't see. I guess I'm where I'm meant to be. Far from home. And feel alone. So tired of trying. / / Guess I just want to be proud of myself. But from faces I can tell... It is another world I'm in... Here they rule the game and win. You're a hero when you do all the things they ask you to. When you refuse... you just don't belong. / / First time I wonder... What am I to do?
NOTHING IS SACRED
The road you walk is death-paved in blood. They say the times are getting better... When they are not. / / Get up. Stand up. All you've build up will be destroyed. The ones who think ain't got no voice. They're psychopaths... That run your life. They're after you and find out where you hide. / / When you say what you think... You're no longer safe. You'll be watched... You'll be tested... And thrown away. / / All the luck you'll find... All the ways you're told... All the oaths you'll sign... All in your world won't hold up to the end. / / The threats came slow... But now you can't think it out of your life. The more you think... You see that you're running out of time.
EMPTINESS
Here I am. Down the street. Lot of faces quickly meet... And dissolve. Choose who you want to be today. And follow him along the way... You'll know. He too don't know where to go. / / And there I stop. And I stare through emptiness. See nothing for me there. Everywhere... Faces seem to turn away from me. / / Years are coming up so fast. And youth lies back in past. I don't know. And I'm the one that is walking by. Looking fortunate from outside... I'ld be... Fooling everyone. But me.
I DON'T NEED IT
I used to build a future for me. But then I knew what they'ld want me to be... Another human machine to their use... In a world where there's nothing to choose. / / I used to learn what I would not need. It wasn't more than keep me off the street. They gave me shit... Cos all I did was take. Just couldn't live the life they did create. / / And I don't need it anymore. To things you say I close the door. Repeat yourself and I will ignore. You may talk... Over again. / / I used to walk the path they made. Now I rather go and meet my own fate. Sometimes I'm right... And get so hurt. But doing their way could be far worse.
COMMUNION
These are the days that I don't trust anyone. It makes me so sad to see that friends are gone. / / And I can't find a way out. Just what was it that I wanted anyway... And what were we all about? Once... We would... give all we had away for communion. / / We used to feel strong. But let it slip away. So much that went wrong. We gave each all the blame. / / And there's nothing left in hands. Just what was it that I wanted anyway? Now our faces lie in sand. Once... We would... give all we had away for communion.
Survival EP (1986)
LIES FOR SURVIVAL
Years. We're looking back now as if we've learned from our mistakes. No fears as we gave up life long ago. What we have now is not what we always wanted. Just who are we fooling anyway... And nothing more that we live for is true. We are secure, cos we ignore the truth. And will it do... Till time is through. Will it do... Enough for you. Or will you know... You have been sold. Will you know. Lies for survival. What for... When it is sure that there is nothing more.
DAYS
Isn't it sad. There's nothing we are at. Don't it feel bad after all the plans we've had. And when I shout. I am told "We all want out, but we won't". And when I shout. I am told to shut my mouth by them all. Days. They came, they went away and didn't leave no trace. While I'm here getting jobs I just don't want. Days make clear my life has failed. Cos all I seem to do is pay. All my dreams broke down. I stood with empty hands. Our time will come. But when it takes too long we won't be strong enough to carry on. And when I shout. I am told "We all want out, but we won't". But then I shout "There's nothing left in emptiness, in Days..." ...And saw my plans, once build on sand, weaken and strand...
ISN'T IT SO
Isn't it so. We hurt 'till there's nothing left alive. We kill everything that comes in sight. There's bloodshed, there's bloodshed. Down a river flows. We're fed up, we're fed up. But it doesn't show. We do our best and things are getting worse more than ever before. We do our best and we spoil... Though we know, still we do it. Bury it when it hits. Isn't it so. Isn't it so. We lie 'till there's nothing left to say. We cheat before we've tried an honest way. There's cruelty, there's cruelty from everyone we know. We don't want to see, don't want to see. But it does not show.
TOMORROW NEVER COMES
My needs, they're taken away. I should have known it all the way. I go out, buy me some food to keep me alive, but it grew me roots. And I stood in the Land Of Waste. And when I saw its face I knew it was too late. Tomorrow never comes again. So now I'm just wonderin' why I dream my dreams that won't see light. And think: So what am I going to do. Just trying the best in this world of fools... And then I knew, and there I knew many things were not meant for me. Many ways that could not be walked today. They'll never be... by me.
Funeral Oration (1987)
HERE WE GO AGAIN
And here's what I / ...still want you to say these days / After all time / Much pain seems here to stay / I keep saying lines I've said before / Cos I feel the same as I did before / And as I'll always do / / Will I ever know / Just The Where I'm going to / I don't know / I don't know / / And here we go again / A world has not gone under yet / And here we go again / With the few who haven't left / And here we go again / And here we show again, once more / It hasn't changed – All we stand for / / Many times we bite the dust / And The People laugh at us / Do they think they're better off / They're not better off / They just live a lie / Could they ever be too stupid to realize / Say everything's all right / We know it's not all right
THIS TIME
Once, it was all hate we had in mind / Nothing that we did was very kind / Indeed / / Down with all we see / Down with all / / Suddenly, a time I knew it / I couldn't do it / For I outgrew it / / Break it down... Break it down / But I won't stay around / No, I won't stay around this time / / Once, we kicked away all we ran through / There was nothing left that could be used / Indeed / / Cheap our lives will be / Cheap our lives / / Suddenly, a time I knew it / I couldn't do it / For I outgrew it / / Break it down... Break it down / But I won't stay around / No, I won't stay around this time / / What will be – I can not see / But it'll belong to me / Cos something is mine / There are things in life to get / There are things here to collect this time
NO LONGER
Hell, I'm so tired, but don't know what for / I reached the point where I can't take much more / Afraid of life – I outran it fast / And now I stop and now it's catching up / / I'll no longer hide / And there's nowhere that I'll run to / I'll no longer hide / And there's nowhere that I'll run to / / I've closed my eyes for a very long... / Time's running out and now I feel so wrong / There'll be a day that will change your way / And I'm afraid this just might be / ...all happening today / / I'll no longer hide / And there's nowhere that I'll run to / I'll no longer hide / And there's nowhere that I'll run to / I'll no longer hide / And there's nowhere that I'll run to / I'll no longer hide / And there's nowhere that I'll run to
THE WISHING
Wish there would be heaven / We would when / We stand before the ones / That we used to laugh about / They were plain / But we could not make them understand / Now they've all that they could want / While we are sinking down / / You're in show, and you know / Where you go, We won't go / We just die to see you cry / / Everyone said yes / And we said no / And doesn't it feel fine / Just to be so sure / We're not in that clan / ...that bores you so / But now – pride is all we've got / We wish there could be more / / You're in show, and you know / Where you go, We won't go / We just die to see you cry / We just die to see you cry
OVERLAND
I hear talk / Is it about trust / I hear talk / Is it about faith / Yes, they're all good and minds are broad / I like the things they say / / But when you're out of things to share / They'll act like you're not there / ...you're nowhere at all / When trouble's down on you / You're out of any use as a friend / / Overland / I look, but I don't understand / All I see – It's dirty and it looks like End / / I do see / A lot of fun / I do see / A lot to do / There's work for you and a lot of choices / And there is money too / / But it isn't what it seems / There are rules preventing you from dreaming / When you live the life you choose / There are ways to make you lose what is in hands / / Overland / I look, but I don't understand / All I see – It's dirty and it looks like End / / Overland / I look, but I don't understand / All I see – It's dirty and it looks like End / Overland / I look, but I don't understand / All I see – It's dirty and it looks like End
THE AIM I CHOOSE
Failure... / Now do you know / A time you did not feel a little low / You did go with hope / To see The World how it should be / / And time goes fast / The past is far behind / And life's a mess / The best is far behind / / And The Aim I choose / I believe in you / Though I can't go through / I believe in you / I believe, but... / / Nowhere The Going / When there ain't fun in-sight / Nowhere The Going / When there ain't fun in-sight / / And The Aim I choose / I believe in you / Though I can't go through / I believe in you / I believe in you / / Nowhere The Going / When there ain't fun in-sight / Nowhere The Going / When there ain't fun in-sight / The Build-Up we're throwing / ...down and give up The Fight / We turn back – We're knowing / ...that we won't make it right
USED TO BE
We used to be, in our soul, rebels / I guess that we had fun / We used to feel – Forever in this world / ...drifting without end / But we were wrong / / We go our own way / We go a long way / We go a lonely... / / You told me what to do / But I don't know / I fear that I'll always be here / Wish I could go up higher... higher / / I know / You know / We're at The End here / From here we go to what don't matters / / We used to be a running / Thought we could run away / We used to feel – Nothing ahead of us / ...could change us / But I guess that's yesterday / / We go our own way / We go a long way / We go a lonely... / / You told me what to do / But I don't know / I fear that I'll always be here / Wish I could go up higher... higher
IT AIN'T EASY
These times I'm so afraid / I'm feeling pretty old these days / And still no place for staying / / It ain't easy / It ain't easy / It ain't easy / / There's not much I have done / Though other people may have fun / They're not what I want to become / / It ain't easy / It ain't easy / It ain't easy / / Tell me more / And take me through The Promised Land / To a dreamworld, where The Broken will be mend / / Everything here is so wrong / There is no way now to stand strong / ...in a struggle going on and on / / It ain't easy / It ain't easy / It ain't easy / / Living like I do / Like I do / Like I do / 'Till my years are through / Like I do / Like I do / And I do 'till there's some to loose / ...it's living like I do / It's living like I do / And hell knows where I'm going to / And hell knows what I'm going through too
LIKE ANY OTHER LIFE
I'll never give up / All day I try lots / ...of things destined to die / Like any other life / / Want something different / Not the ways my friends go to / But end up after trying / ...like any other life... is mine / / And yes, I know I must've been blind / To let my only life pass me by / To think it just wasn't worth my time / But somehow I still feel that way inside / / And an hour turns to hours / And an hour turns to hours / Keep forgetting what will happen / And there is nothing to remember / And I should cry about it / And I should laugh about it / But I can't / / I have learned somethings / To bring me some things I want / It turned out a lie / Like any other life... goes on / / I guess it's nothing wrong / To make plans when you're young / And find you're not that strong / And life's the same old song
WE ARE NOT ONE
We are not one, we are not one / Such as much said / We are not one, we are not one / ...in what we feel / I can't keep an united dream up / I would ruin it, I would ruin it / / Away I go to find myself / I need to know where I go / To find a home for me alone / I'm going home / / You'll never understand me / And I do not know you / So better off we would be / ...finding something to do / For ourselves / Better off we'd be for ourselves / / It's not just fun together / We walk each all in the way / I don't know all the answers / But I know I can't stay / It ain't right / Drown down in a mass / It ain't right / / We are not one, we are not one / Such as much said / We are not one, we are not one / We'll never be / I can't keep an united dream up / I would ruin it, I would ruin it / / Away I go to find myself / I need to know where I go / To find a home for me alone / I'm going home / / Hey hey – I'm heading home / Hey hey – Gonna be alone / Hey hey – I thought about it / And I can't feel sad about it / / Hey hey – I'm heading home / Hey hey – Gonna be alone / Hey hey – Not really planned it / But it's what I always wanted / / Hey – I'm coming home / Hey – I'm coming home
FAILERS FALL
We see you / You will not make it in this world / Well, join The Group / And we will laugh away this world / ...is all mud / And nothing really matters not / / We listen and have a ball / We listen – After all... / We've heard a thousand failers fall / We'll hear another failer fall / / We've got no money / But we're so cold / Let's dream ourselves to Mexico / We don't care / Hear the sound / ...of the whole world coming down / Listen to The Coming Down / Listen to The Coming Down / But don't try to understand it / / This world is all mud / What's on it matters not / / We listen and have a ball / We listen – After all / We've heard a thousand failers fall / We'll hear another failer fall / / And it doesn't hurt no-more / All we had went out the door / And we lost all our old friends / Cos they did not understand / / And it doesn't hurt no-more / Way it used to feel before / And it matters not, no-more / Nothing matters not, no-more
IF YOU CAN
When there are some things to say / And the noise's such a blur / And you speak soft or turn away / You will never be heard, but hurt / / If you can / There are things you ought to do / If you can / Before your time is through / Now you really don't have to / ...walk on water / Cos people made a bridge / But if you can / You should do it too / / When you feel that you're left out / While booze keep you stoned / You can go join in The Crowd / But you'll never be known out home / / If you can / There are things you ought to do / If you can / Before your time is through / Now you really don't have to / ...walk on water / Cos people made a bridge / But if you can / You should do it too / / Life is not always that hard / But you'll have to make a start / And don't you tell me / ...that can not be done now / / If you can / There are things you ought to do / If you can / You should do it too
DIDN'T WANT TO DIE
I was looking around, I met soldiers on the street / Just walking the town and bored like you, like me / Too young to know where life is going to / Too old to go on ways that still are new / / In another time or in another place / They would have signed their short life all away / But times have changed, they want us to believe / But we're still chained by lies and by deceive / / And they didn't want to die / Did not know the wrong from right / Did not know the wrong, no / They didn't want to die / It wasn't them who'd won... at all / / Now we are told: a free world must do fights / But that's been told a hundred years, a hundred times / And all these soldiers I see may think they're having fun / But there won't be no mercy, when war is on / / And they didn't want to die / Did not know the wrong from right / Did not know the wrong, no / They didn't want to die / It wasn't them who'd won... at all
TO THE FIRE
When I stand there / Far away and looking down / To where I've been around / / "We'll never change", we said / But we haven't stayed the same / / And is it fair / ...to say this changing is growing up / Or is it youth we're giving up / / Every step we're going further / Making us tired and feel down / Making us tired and feel down / Cos we brought The Water / Took it down to The Fire / To The Fire
WOULD YOU UNDERSTAND
Burning up inside / That I can not hide / But I've tried and I'll try / / Don't confuse me anymore / Nothing left I know for sure / What I've learned – I must ignore / These days I don't know what I can say / Thoughts of people change – They change / When I do things my way... / / Well, then it's wrong / And then it's right / And then... / Now would you understand / Now would you understand / / And it sure bothers me – Don't know what to believe / And I've lost all my faith in what The People say / / Burning up inside / That I can not hide / But I've tried and I'll try / / The way they think I don't see through / I'm in suspense and that is cruel / Now with the things I do... / / Well, then it's wrong / And then it's right / And then... and then / Now would you understand / It's getting out of hand / I see nothing I have planned / And I no longer know / What I need to make life go / ...the way I want it so / / And they are always there to criticize unfair / And think they know it all – Like if they never fall / They're getting me uptight – They make me loose my sight / 'Till The Reality is beyond my believes
FIND A WAY
Places you go through / People stand in cue / Just to bother you all day / / When they pass along / Saying that you live wrong / They don't speak your tongue / It's plain to you / / The People think you're weird / They just don't understand / They act like concerned / But they don't give a damn / / Hey, where you go / They want to know / But do they want to know / Do they really want to know / / They've given you advice / You looked at their eyes / And there was no life to face / / You're on your own / For your sake – Gotto find a way / Gotto find... / You're all alone / For your sake – Gotto find a way / Gotto find a way / Gotto find a way
TELL IT LIKE IT IS
I don't know all / But there's lots to say / If I only knew a way / That would make stand strong / I'd be real free / And get rid of people I don't need / Of all the things I wanted / ...it's the thing that I wanted / / There are times I think of it / When I'd better not / It happens a lot now / / Tell it like it is / Why don't you, don't you / Tell it like it is / Why don't you, don't we / / If I will fall / I don't know if I / ...can get up and survive / Will I find time to try... / And then The Strength... / Cos losers fall and stay small / And end up with nothing at all / / There are times I think of it / When I'd better not / It happens a lot now / / Tell it like it is / Why don't you, don't you / Nothing but The Truth / Nothing but The Truth / / I'm scared of loosing / ...the things life still can bring me / But what will be left of me / ...then after I have paid, anyway / What will not drown in shame / / Tell it like it is / Why don't you, don't you / Tell it like it is / Why don't you do it now / Well, you must somehow / Tell it like it is / Tell it like it is
THIS AIN'T HEAVEN
Stand up and watch up / There's emptiness above / And that ain't much reason / ...for us to kneel / I know how it feels to be wishing / ...yourself in someone else's shoes / Cos there is nothing where you go to / / And this ain't heaven too / And this ain't heaven / / ...not to you / There is no fun today / You know that's not to say / ...that there is when you're away / There in your grave / No matter what some say / / I know how it feels / But you gotto have to deal / ...with this / We all do / / And this ain't heaven too / And this ain't heaven too / No, this ain't heaven too / So what you're gonna do / Now with a life to loose / And feel it's almost through / What is it you can do / This ain't heaven too / This ain't heaven, not to you
The More We Know EP (1989)
THE CALL
Many times I can not cope / Feel like I'm hangin' on a rope / So I need to get away / Now and then we need escape / / Stranded / Without no I.D. / Here I'm landed after all / ...Oooh and all / Well nothing seems for real at all / / ...When I hear The Call / ...When I hear The Call / / Stand out The Line / Stand out The Time / I hope I find a way / Where everything in our world / ...Can be faded / I'd me more in it, maybe / Be more in it / Be more in it, maybe / Be more in it / ...Oooh / / Put your work aside / Don't let feelings hide / And get rid of all the strain / And the music / ...Let it play / ...And it may / ...Take it all away / / Here I'm landed / On a place I'm free / Here I'm landed / Funny how I see it all / / ...When I hear The Call / ...When I hear The Call / ...When I hear The Call / ...When I hear it / ...Hear it now
MORE THAN WE KNOW
Running all day, running away / Can't even think one moment straight / A day goes fast indeed / / Stumble and fall, get up and crawl / On, on like nothing's wrong at all / The truth's not what you need / A lie is all you need / / And if you should stop to see what is up / Maybe you would find you had enough / Make time to think 'bout your life / / But you never will, can't even sit still / You work work work, well you're going down hill / With living from 9 'till 5 / Was that all you wanted from life / / There is more than we'll ever know / We're living in the day-time / There is more than we'll ever know / We're living in the day-time / / There is more than we'll ever know / We're living in the day-time / There is more than we'll ever know / We're living in the day-time / / Something's out there can't you see / It could be yours / If there's anything indeed / It should be yours / For a long time you had dreams / You promised you would hold / You shouldn't have let it go / But you let it go / / There is more than we'll ever know / We're living in the day-time / There is more than we'll ever know / (More than we will know) / We're living in the day-time / There is more than we'll ever know / We're living in the day-time / There is more than we'll ever know / (More than we will know) / We're living in the day-time
IN LIFE
WHAT IF
Say No To Life (1989)
YOU DO WHAT'S RIGHT
If I'd more answers / Would have told you all along / We all know some things are not that easy / And all that I can do / Is try to do no wrong / That is all / There's no more to it really / / You do what's right – you do what's right / You do what's right – you do what feels right / You do what's right – you do what's right / You do what's right – you do what feels right / / There might be doubt / About so many things we do / We don't have the time no more to worry / Deep inside I know how far to go / And you know too / Don't blame us as long...
ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE
One day in your life / One day in your life / It's one day then / And you will realise / What you want to be / / And then you just begin and / You don't know about it / There is ones that never win and / You don't know about it / / Come on / That's an open door / Once you're out you see there's more / And change / It's never gonna be the same / It's never gonna be the same / / I will go / Now I know / When I stay / I might as well go dream my life away / / Stand by / Grab that chance when it's still yours / Stand by / Suddenly you'll feel ignored / And you never gonna know what for / You never gonna know what for
TOWN
Early morning sounds go by / Traffic lines into another night / Inside we're hoping for a change / We just have to walk away / But I can not walk away / / There's more than livin 'n town / I see it's house and crowd around / I know that I want to go / But I know I'll never go / There's more than living down the line / That's right / But a dream is just a dream / We don't want to chase a dream / Before it's too late / / There's so much we've never seen / Or maybe in a dream / Is it there for you and me / Well I've got no idea / Here there ain't much left to do / But we never stop to move / Oooh and sometimes feels we're through / / There's more than livin 'n town / I see it's house and crowd around / I know that I want to go / But I know I'll never go / / Ooh-oh / We don't understand / That it's us who never end there / Where we know we should be / Never know how it could have been / We don't understand / That it's us who never end there / Where we know we should be / Never know how it could have been / If only... Hey hey hey / / There's more than living down the line / That's right / But a dream is just a dream / We don't want to chase a dream before... / A dream is just a dream / We don't want to chase a dream before... / A dream is just a dream / Don't want to chase a dream before... / It's too late
TIME IS OUT
Hey hey / Hey you looking to the sky / And you wonder why / You do the things you always do / And I know it too / There's so much more / But you won't do much more / You never / / Well you think there was no way / So you didn't try a way / To make life the way you want / To make life the way you plan it / / Now you'll never know the truth / Never know the truth / Never know the truth / Never know the truth / / You might find out where you stand / And you find you're near the end / Time is out again / Hey-ey-ey / Time is out again / Hey-ey-ey / / Time is out again / Hey-ey-ey / Time is out again / Aah-ah-ah / Time is out again / Hey-ey-ey / Time is out again / Naah-nah-nah / / No more chances / No more chances / No more chances / No more chances coming in / No more chances coming in
WHERE DO YOU GO
And one day there you go / You're leaving home / And little by little / You find it's like they've told / You struggle hard / Yes and how / You finally found a town / And a home to live now / / But then where do you go / Where do you go / / Anything that you want / And you don't want / Well that's called living / Dreams now one by one / Forfilled / The fun... well / It's not stretching that far / No matter where you are / There's always a missing part / / But then where do you go / Where do you go / / And you look around / A lot of things are lost and found / Whatever out there / To find it you'd go anywhere / Or chasing that dream / Or anything you'd like to be / Search for it / But where / Tell me where / / Where do you go / Where do you go / Where do you go / Where do you go
DON'T TAKE IT
You know / You try to hide it / There's a nothing you go to / You know / You try to fight it now / But people change you too / / If I'd stop I'd swear / They'd find me anywhere / They'd find me anywhere / If I'd stop I'd swear / / Stand away / I cry for answers / And you don't seem so wise / Stand away / I know that answers / Are out your life / / Now I stand free / Don't take it away from me / Now I stand free / Don't take it away from me / / If I ever fall / Then I loose it all / If I ever fall / Then I loose it all / All's falling down around / Hey-ey-ey around / / Now I stand free / Don't take it away from me / Don't take it away from me / There is more than I can see / There is more than I can see / There is more than I can see / There is more than I can see
UPSTREAM
Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / We go and we go / / Life can be rough / Life can be tough / A deep green sea / Gentle and mean / Life can be cruel / Turn you into a fool / Each and every day / Will treat you the same / It's the same / Just the same / Same all the same all the same / / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / Upstream downstream / We go and we go / / And we get by get by get by / And find a way you'll see / When we believe in what we are / And we get by get by get by / And find a way you'll see / If we believe in what we are / / You say there's not much that you need / To stay alive / More you don't need / And it is only what you want / And it is only what you want / / But I can hear you say / When you get up the down hits / Harder every day / / And every day it's just the same / You're building up what's breaking / / Only what you want... it ain't
10 MORE YEARS
We've been around for some times / And there's been times we had doubts / We can not live life otherwise / No we don't want to get out / / Aaah and give it ten more years / / We know our future / And it just makes us afraid / An office-boy / It could be you it could be you / We better stick around and wait / / Aaah and give it ten more years / / Why say goodbye goodbye / Why when you know it isn't right / Why say goodbye goodbye / Why when you know it isn't right / / See your friends / They're changing / Soon you won't see them anymore / Why not say auf Wiederseh'n / Auf Wiederseh'n / Wiederseh'n, auf Wiederseh'n / Wiederseh'n, auf Wiederseh'n / / Uuh I / We give it ten more years / / Why say goodbye goodbye / Why when you know it isn't right / Why say goodbye goodbye / Why when you know it isn't right / Why say goodbye goodbye / Why when you know it isn't right / Why say goodbye goodbye / Why...
THESE DAYS
When I / When I go out / When I find the time / I look in front of me / The things I find / Few pieces of dreams broken / Can I / Can I go back / Just where it went wrong / Pick my life up like it just begun / Ooh no / We can't fight getting older / / No / And there is nothing going on / These days / And all the things that mattered / Slipped away / Can I take heart / When heading home once more / Sudden change no more / / And there's nothing we can do / I know it's true / Friends are not the friends / We once knew / And we aren't too / And we aren't too / And we aren't too / And we're not / / Come on and take it / All you can get you money maker / Come on and break it / With the past and you could make it / Come on and take it / A little bit more / You're almost there / And a little luck / And you could make it to anywhere / / And there is nothing going on / These days / And all the things that mattered / Slipped away / Can I take heart / When heading home once more / / Sudden change no more / Sudden change no more / Sudden change no more / Sudden change no more / Sudden change no more / Sudden change no more / Sudden change no more
SHUT ME OUT
How it feels / It's my ideals / That makes me run / And no single job well done / First I start then I find / Something else comes in my mind / / Shut me out / It shut me out / It's shutting me out / / And I will tell you / There's something down the road / And I will tell you / That there's something down the road / And you will never know / You'll never know / / And I'm trying / And I'm trying / And I'm trying / To do what feels right / / You can tell me / That it's time to change my life / You can tell me / That I'll find more trouble / When I chase those dreams of mine / When I chase those dreams of mine / / When it's hurting deep inside / When it's hurting / Just the way I feel inside / And it's more than pain now / Hey now / Well it just won't stay out / Hey now / But I do all I can do / I may do the things I shouldn't / When I choose the way / When I choose the way
TRUST
It only goes so far / Stay out the way of anyone / Well time is going faster than you know / A life's not in control / Or is it me just anyway / Sometimes I think it's just me anyway / / Say / Don't you know / It's build around my name / Say / Don't you know / Life's build around my name / / Hey-ey-ey / With one thing left to say / So many more feeling just the same / And it is just begun / But tell me where's the fun / Trust in no one / When you trust in no one / / Say / Don't you know / It's build around my name / Say / Don't you know / It's build around my name / Say / Don't you know / Life's build around my name / Say / / If you don't look around / And looking up instead of down / You're the only one here / Left in town / If you don't look around / And looking up instead of down
STAND RIGHT
And you there standing / When are you coming out / The game is ending / When you're not coming out / / And you will find out / You'll find out like the rest / That you can't hide out / Well not just like the rest / / Stand up stand right / Cos you know you will feel alright / Stand up stand right / / Stand up stand right / Cos you know you will feel alright / Stand up stand right / / There you are / You've come a long way / But what's left / From the person that you were / Come this far / But it's no way to forget / Just the person that you were / / Back to where it's coming from / Well it's going where it's coming from / Back to where it's coming from / Going where I'm coming from / / Back to where it's coming from / Going where I'm coming from / Back to where it's coming from / Well I'm going where I'm coming from
DON'T BRING ME DOWN
For anytime / That I am dreaming / There comes a time / I wake up screaming / Softly in myself / Well it's a private hell / We are dealing with / But we never show it / / Out the door / We take more / More than we can bear / Yes it's more than we can bear / Take it home / Take it home now / / Somehow we will survive it / Make it through the day / We laugh we cry all way / At night we go to sleep / Too tired to find more answers / And when we do awake / We'll do the same and the same / Everyday hey-ey-ey everyday / Another morning / To move us through this town / And I know / I can make it if I try but / Please don't bring me down / Please don't bring me down / Bring me down / Bring me down / Please don't bring me down
ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE II
Come on / That's an open door / Once you're out / You see there's more / Come on / That's an open door / Once you're out you can see there's more / And change and change / And change and change / And change and change / And change / You never gonna be the same / / I will go now I know / When I stay / I might as well dream my life away / / Was it only yesterday / I burned my house down / I got away / To find life's just the same / Anything I do / Nothing's really new / And all I stood for I forgot / What I had once I have not / / Stand by / Grab that chance when it's still yours / Stand by / Cos suddenly you'll feel ignored / / I don't believe you anymore / I don't believe you anymore / I don't believe you're never down / And living in the perfect town / Wish I'd never left my town / Wish I'd be around be around / Be around be around be around / / I don't know / Where to go / I have tried / I wish I'd never tried / / And now you tell me that it's a lie / How can you tell me it's a lie / And now you tell me that it isn't true / How can you tell me that it isn't true / Well it's back and home / Here I am / And so much for the living that I know / Well it's back and home / Here I am...