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Start It
05:38
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Screaming women, kerchiefs on
Fierce looking beards with a gun
TV pictures on our mind
Their eyes alone see the sun
Politics of centuries ago
Deriding today
All in all the same as here
Just two different paths of one way
Now we have to start it
Open-hearted all the time
Now we have to dance to get higher
Now we have to start it
Or we won't find the time
Together in a line
Believing in a war so fair
So sweet, so intimate they pray
Our prejudice our fear to share
Of course they wanna stop to pay
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2. |
Cuckoo
07:21
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Cuckoo: You turn around
You turn around again
He'll touch the ground
And won't return again
Your son will die again
You exert yourself
You exert yourself again - in vain
I'll rise up to the sky
To see the corpse below
Enjoy the sunny days
He'll be cold as a stone
Try to rest till next time
Your heart beats now
Your heart beats now again
At the final blow
One last breath to grow
One last push to go
Little Bird: Ooh-ba-ooh
Sayway - sail away
The start is the end of my lifetime
Mother Bird: Hungry all the time
I try so hard to feed their beaks
I can't afford to sigh
Gotta hurry up I can't stand their squeakes
Ooh - I need more time
I need so much more time now
I'm a true-hearted mother - somehow
Flying cross the aisles
I'm chasing the worm on the grass
In the fern
I'm far away I fly
Back on my way to see if they are okay
Ooh - I need more time
I need so much more time now
I'm a true-hearted mother - somehow
Somehow
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3. |
Itai
05:04
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[Translated: There's a cat on the moon
Hungry - licking her slashed paw
While the memory of a hopeful tune
Prowls around her
Deaf for her call
There's a ship on the ocean
Loaded with confidence and trusts
Dividing the waters titanicly
Laughter on the icebergs
And from the moon]
The sun shines harsh on a withered scene
A mother rocks her bale of bones
Her dying tears overflow my TV screen
But my remote control wipes it clean
The race is on to face its end of time
Just the fate of species once in a while
But when I turn around
And look into their eyes
You smile
You can we smile?
Chairmen chat and parsons pray
Singers soil our souls with grease
Investigators invest in real estate
Down at the bay
And the children
They fall silent to their knees
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4. |
Safe
06:33
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I don't know no prophecy
I don't know no heresy
I don't know anything at all but you
I can't tell no right from wrong
I'm neither wise nor strong
But I know your secret - therefore I am
Ooh, the night is long and I'll be sailing
Sailing home to your heart
Never be apart
Ooh, the night is warm and we'll be cooling
Cooling the wounds of our fight
And everything's all right
I don't believe in the government
Or in anything heaven sent
The traps lurking everywhere
Are paralyzed by you
I don't trust the things I see
I don't trust hypocrisy
There's nothing but your sweetest
That I rely on
Ooh, the night is long and we'll be dancing close - skin to skin
Knowing we will win
Ooh, the night is dark and we'll be shining
Shining like stars in the sky
Sparkling so high - again
And so we're safe
Embracing all the world
There's a war outside
Here's a place to hide
And we're each other's key
And so we're safe
Opposing time
There's a peaceful isle
In a stormy sea
And we agree
There's nothing else at all
I don't care if the market relaxes
I don't care for the income taxes
Diamonds are a feeble gleam
Compared to your eyes
Perhaps future runs fast
Perhaps they learn from the past
The only time I understand
Is the presence of your soul
Ooh, the night is long and we'll be charming
Charming away all the pain
And the stupid, and the rain
Ooh, the night the deep and we'll be flying
Flying on waves in the air
A life to share
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5. |
Glimpse of Home
14:51
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Arrows of dew
Arrows of dew fly silently in the night
Arrows of dew first come warm
And then no rhyme
The quiver god quivered quite a lot
When he aimed at our hearts
He failed to tear them apart
Arrows of steel stuck inside our fantasy
Arrows of dew they had to melt away
She didn't stay
Tender journey
Lilac lighting
A flower on my way
I got down on my knees
To smell her bloom
Inhale her scent
She stirs me so
Her eyes so shy
Sparkles in our minds
Colours in my pulse
Being silent we spoke
No word disturbed the air
Smiling side by side
A tune in my heart
In the throat of the night
What kind of storm is this
I'm losing ground
Round and around and around
And around and around
Only your smile
No sleep at all
Collapse of time
Coughing my breath
Thorns in my chest
Almost insane
Elevator
The doors open wide
As we entered the room to rise
The springtime sun outside
Showed so much fun and delight
The buttons revealed
So many heights that me might reach
The flight so sweet
In a pushing beat
Hand in hand
I declared that I love rainbows
On the wall paper
I wrote my love letter
You mentioned the mountains
That are so hard to climb
And I thought maybe I can help you
Higher we came
And through the walls of glass I saw
That famous bridge over troubled water
We kissed our lives
And with the setting sun behind
I felt this might be home
Tohuwabohu
Instrumental
How can I explain
How can I explain
How can I explain
This block so dull
My stomach rebels
And these strange pell-mells
How can I explain
How can I explain
The lasting change of her face
Ugly to nice
Beauty to ice
How can I explain
How can I explain
The forces in me
What makes me fall
In love and life at all
Fragments of the rainbow
Now that the station's lost the train
And all the clouds have lost the rain
Now that the tumbler's all drunk out
Horse powers have left the roundabout
Fragments ache under my feet
I rub them off to a frequented street
The rainbow fell out of the blue
I gather the colours that broke in two
I try to mix them in my sand box-pail
Till my nose knows it's the right trail
Still so much love runs through my veins
Still it's only me who waters my plains
Home
It's not a house, it's not a land
It's not a people, it's not a band
Not a theory, it's not an idea I fear
My only home is where I sing
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6. |
All My Ways
04:42
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The paths we go
Sensations we show
Are they shaped in a line
Do we control
With heart and soul?
And my thoughts, are they mine?
Are my decisions
Just vivid visions?
Is it true, am I alive?
The bridles ends tight in my hands
And the view crystal clear
But the coachman's seat is wide
And he sits by my side
The horses in my back obey
You're guarding all my ways
Am I running free
Or fulfilling my destiny?
Are these questions worth the time?
What's the meaning of a dream?
Am I water in a stream?
What's the source of a rhyme?
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7. |
This Circling World
04:43
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This slope must be done
Listen to your drum
This challenge must be won
No matter what will come
Step by step
On our track
From down below to the top
There are stairs to climb
The rain may spoil our clothes
It won't penetrate our skin
The wind will teach your nose
How to find the way within
So build a boat
To cross the sea
Of the never wondering sleep
There's a bonfire on the shore
We're standing high high above
This circling world
And we can't get enough
Of this circling world
The trees will lose their leaves
But only for some moons
And hidden in your sleeves
Is the ace to heel your wounds
You've got legs to run
Before the damage
Is done
And you can't force yourself to smile
There's so much more to do
This urge that we can feel
The pulsation of our life
The sensation's real
There's more than 9 to 5
There's a tide to turn
So go on and learn
How to explore yourself
You’ve got a heart to burn
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8. |
Wash & Go
07:59
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9. |
Autumn Song
04:19
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And so we fail again
Like a clock that's out of time
The whispering lights have gone away
Laughter circled round the glade
A breeze danced in the grass
Coloured chinese lanterns blew
The light up to the stars
Smiling stars
And so we fail again
Like a circus without a clown
The smell of life has left the sky
Burning before the afterglow
Waves caressed the sand
Humming nasty gnats they bite
Escape my killing hands
Anyhow
Time to retire
Tentacles seize
Trying to drown me
Under the ice
Heart of the run
Longing for sun
To feel secure
To return
And so we fail again
Like a tree that's lost its leaves
My hemisphere turned towards the cold
Swans pass by majesticly
Fountains in the park
A sweet scent lingers in the air
The warmth lights the dark
Once again
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Chandelier Neuss, Germany
CHANDELIER is a German progressive rock band. Originally active from 1986 to 1998, the band reunited in 2019.
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