1. |
Intro Things Fall Apart
04:11
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Unimpressed, humourless, things might fall apart
Don’t expect timelessness, cause things might fall apart
Don’t believe if they say things will fall apart
And take it all the way, the other way, and things must fall apart
Don’t you see harmony, might keep things apart
You won’t hear harmony, some things belong apart
And all of this contradicts, things fall apart
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2. |
The Escape
03:30
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Begin to live
Disguise your face
You’re so distinctive
Just like anybody else
Forget your privilege
A crime’s a crime
This stage is hideous, the stage might shine,
so look behind
And don’t you run to the forest
Don’t hide in your fault
You’re stuck in default
A stonewall might crumble
A tree might fall
You stay put in default
And you’re so damn reflective
And you don’t consume
But if they get elected
You hold the truce, there’s nothin you can do
So don’t you run to the forest
It won’t do any good
Stay put, stay put
Your conscience is clean
It’s not all your fault
You stay put in default
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3. |
Funny
02:33
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All is safe, cause I’m safe
I let work and own three flats in a lane
I don’t steal, I provide
I don’t enslave, everyone is free to decide
And there’s never, there’s never gonna be tears
And there’s never, there’s never gonna be fears
And don’t stop, and top top top the top
And my luck mocks my own construct
Isn’t it funny that I can’t change
I don’t feel safe, I’m out of cash
I can’t pay rent, I feel like trash
It’s all my fault, cause I decide
And my toe just died, although they all provide
And there’s tears, there’s always gonna be tears
And there’s fears, there’s always gonna be fears
I can’t stop, but never reach the top
I guess fuck, ich guess I’m out of luck
Isn’t it funny that I can’t change 8x
But I wanna be rich
Everybody wanna be rich
Rich, rich, rich, rich…
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4. |
Lazy and White
04:15
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Watch out, summer’s gone
Breath in, you can get it done
I will find peace
And have a dance on the mad bull’s back
And have a drink of the devil’s flask
And meet a wolf on a full moon’s night
I’m alright, I’m gonna be alright
I must have been alright
I’m lazy and I’m white
Cynically in fright
But never in a plight
Get up, nothin’s won
Breath out, you must be the one
Give myself peace
And hope Miss F. won’t lurk in the dark
And Mister A. won’t be crossing your path
And Aunt D. won’t greet in the mall
And Uncle Failure won’t give you no call
And have a dance on the mad bull’s back
And have a drink on the devil’s flask
And meet a wolf on a full moon’s night
I’m alright, I’m gonna be alright
Someone helped me feel alright, though unhappy and unwise
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5. |
A City in the Warm Rain
03:45
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A city in the warm rain, a city like a stain
All those plastic operations, but all plastic is in vain
Go stuff the ancient beauty and everything’s façade
This capitalist spirit, those shiny tales to tell
But everything is grey
Some things, the rain can’t wash away
Another fallen princess, atrificially maintained
Rattling behind a air mask and noone is to blame
And we are all to blame
Not me not you, we can’t escape
I know I lie into you face
It’s me, it’s you we should be brave
And tear the mask right off her face
And see, everything that she can be
Just another sacrifice
Just a town with empty eyes
So safe me from her lies
And there’s nothin romantic about shit weather
And nothin meaningful about piss in your doorway
And I don’t like strolling homeless and forgotten ones
Like it’s naturally inevitable
But there are other options available
And what the fuck are all these empty houses for
And I still love a mother’s care
I can’t deny I like it there
I must Admit I feel at ease, I feel at ease, I kind of feel at ease, I feel at ease
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6. |
False
02:45
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I feel so false
I feel alarmed
Am I the last one standing?
Am I the last one fighting?
I feel so false
All is so false
Am I the first one hangin? the first one falling?
The first one hangin? the first one falling?
And everything’s so false
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7. |
Sleep
04:06
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I sleep, in world without your lies
I dream, of a world without your cries
In my cave, mere shadows on the wall
So beautifully banal, so terribly banal
Sometimes, I don’t wanna be awake
I don’t wanna be in ache
Sometimes, I don’t wanna be awake
I don’t know but to escape
I sleep, but the lies will never change
I dream, but everything feels strange
I run, into my little cave
I run, I’m not brave
Sometimes, I don’t wanna be awake
I don’t wanna be in ache
Sometimes, I don’t wanna be awake
I don’t know but to escape
I don’t wanna be awake
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8. |
All You Get
03:38
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You came, you tripped, you fought
Your back, against, the wall
You chose you’r own scene, withdrawn in between
Is this Me?
You’re young, you’re smart, you’re gay
At least, that’s what, they say
A pig might fly, a hero cry
Certainty is not truth, you’ll see
So cool me down
I’m hot you frown
Don’t cut me down
I’ll stand my ground, don’t cut me down
I came, I fought, I fell
Seems I didn’t know my self (so well)
I know I’m in a hole, but I know I’m in control
I hope, you hope, let’s hope I’m whole
I blamed it on the brain
I tried to change in vain
I’m all you get, don’t grief just yet
And see, if I will break that easily
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9. |
Greed
12:31
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I hate you, won’t run to (you), I’m so scared of you
Don’t feed one, don’t need one, don’t yield to one
So they claim, to obtain, the natural fate
You’ve seen them, disguised and, those shells possessed by them
I said that I won’t be so scared anymore now
I craved some, you craved some, let’s crave no more
and clench fists
My hate, my hate, their name is hate
My fear, may fear, their rule is here
The evil’s seed, the evil’s seed
Your name is GREED
And your name ain’t just
Be safe, be safe comrade, they’ll come around
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10. |
Something Real
08:36
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I was down my local pub, when this old acquaintance came up, cigarette in one so called GT in the other. Lately wearing expensive coats and ties
And he said, nice pub, so real and so traditional, just like in the old days and I wondered which old days he might mean, he seemed so clean
And the he asked what I’m up to, same old, same old and he was so interested in philosophy and music until it became real
And the he laughed, gotta go back to work, 7 o’ clock, someone has to do it, but I respect what you’re doing
But I never believed, why I should do something real?
I never found a proper tone, I never strike a single right note
A major chord, a little smile, a better rhyme, a happy line and don’t cry
And there’s a mad king on the loose, forgive me love I’m not amused, I feel abused
And everything will contradict, a blind man’s vision in the mist, is this it?
And see, it’s me, I breath, I bleed, I’m needy
No twist, I’m pissed, insist, I’m pissed off, resist
Mirror, mirror am I real?
Am I here for their appeal
Mirror, mirror is this real?
Chosen, chosen, do I care?
Do I give way to despair?
I’m fraid I think that I do care
And there’s nothin real to write about
No lovely flowers in the ground
Is there Something sweet to write about
And everything is fuckin brill
Said he running in the mill
Rolling stone up endless hills
Is there something I don’t know?
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11. |
Harry Treadmill
12:10
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(Life: The condition that distinguishes animals and plant from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity and continual change preceding...death)
Trapped, trapped inside
Trapped, trapped in life
Harry Treamill tries
To prosper and to fight
And it’s hard, it’s hard it won’ go by
it’s hard, it’s hard to live to die
And one’s it’s gone, you’re safe within
You’re free from fights but cannot win
And Harry Treamill doesn’t run
To the sun…
And it’s gloomy and undone…
He breaths, he breaths, but does not heal
No longer captive, but never free
He kneels, he kneels, but doesn’t flee
Not officially captive, but never free
And he’s patient and waits, but he never escapes
He patient and waits, but never gets paid
The fight of a lifetime, you can give up or pray
Definition of fate, you will never escape
He breaths, he breaths, and sometimes heals
Believes, believes, and gets deceived
A legend of freedom, don’t never believe
To live is to fight and to never find peace
And Harry Treadmill, is patient and waits
And Harry Treadmill, will never escape
And Harry Treadmill, is patient and waits
And Harry Treadmill, will never escape
He’s afraid to live, he’s afraid to die but after all he’s glad to be alive
An endless mountain, a top to0 high, I call him Treadmill
And he would not live if he would not feel
He would not love if there was no appeal
Wouldn’t be depressed if all is behind
I call him Treadmill, I call him right
He would not cry if he was not sad
He would not go on if all is bad
He would not stumble if he was conform
And if he fitted, he wouldn’t fall
Sometimes he’s cranky and wishes to die
But after all he’s glad to be alive
A play to play, a fight to fight
I call it Treadmill, you call it life
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12. |
The Mountains 2.0
02:24
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He’s back from the mountains
He’s back from the height
He found a wonderful wife
He had a wonderful lifetime
He lived a beautiful lie
He’s back in the city
He’s back in the dirt
He wished he hadn’t returned
He wished he wasn’t concerned
He learned he isn’t concerned
And it could be so easy
It could be true
This town so greedy
It can never be true
He’s back, and he’s not peaceful
It was so damn peaceful
And now his car broke down
And his wife left town
And his plant closed down
He’s back from the mountains
Wants to return to the mountains
Feel safe in the mountains
We all should go to the mountains
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13. |
Things Fell Apart Outro
08:52
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Things fell apart
necessity ain’t harm
If everything stand still, there’s nothing left to win
A compound so robust
Is now reduced to dust
His odds might not be strong, but he’s aloud to play along
Things fell apart
Now break with who you are
A fall prepare to rise, now look into the light
He had nothing to adore
He prayed that things might fall
They felt safe inside their shells, they lost apart they fell
Embrace the chaos, embrace the fall, a chance to restart, things fell apart
Embrace the chaos, embrace the fall, a chance of true art, things fell apart
Not everything will change some true things will remain, to arms it called, embrace the fall
Not everything will change, some true things did remain, to arms it called, embrace the fall
THE FALL...
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Independent record label from Hamburg, Germany.
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