Sketches on Sea - 2006 - Mr. Porter's Wedding Züri Sad Fisherman Marketplace Leaving Tehran Beauty Above All Before You Say... Hello Dr Stummi Nashville The Tourist Die Fahrende Lied Für Zwärger Flucht Nach Obe

Monday's Ghost - 2008 - Shape The Boat is Full A Protest Song Walzer Für Niemand Birth-Day Sophie Hunger Blues Round And Round The Tourist Teenage Spirit Rise and Fall Drainpipes Monday's Ghost House of Gods Spiegelbild

1983 - 2010-04-12 - Leave Me with the Monkeys Lovesong to Everyone 1983 Headlights Citylights Forever Your Personal Religion Le Vent Nous Portera Travelogue Breaking the Waves D'Red Approximately Gone Invisible Broken English Train People

Non Albums Tracks - Misc - Bang Bang Dirge Hotel Belfort Let Me Go Ne Me Quitte Pas

Sketches on Sea

Mr. Porter's Wedding

It's been a while now
It's been a drag
It's been a whole lotta nothing
It's been very very very very bad

It's been a lifetime
It's been a rag
It's been a
Shallow names all over the place
And it's been very very very very sad

But now, but now
Love me
Let me love you
Let me hide your face in mine
Love me
Let me love you
Let me hide your name in mine

Züri

It's four in the morning, a beer on the shore
We're waiting for glory no waiting for more
It's four in the morning and the streets have our name
This city is ours and this is the game

It's four in the morning and here comes the push
The longing desire, the tickle, the wish
And it's four in the morning and the rush wouldn't leave
The rush in your blood that doesn't believe

That we might be wrong
We might be wrong
We might be wrong
Everything doesn't mean anything at all

I'll lend your hunger a quiet release
For all your desires might manage to breathe
And the beating will turn its eyes off your head
And the pressure will turn into walking ahead

'Cause we might be wrong
We might be wrong
We might be wrong
And everything doesn't mean anything at all

It's four in the morning, a beer on the shore
We're waiting for glory no waiting for more
And it's four in the morning and we still won't go home
Still chasing the dragons but dancing alone

Sad Fisherman

Today has more than this hour
And the months they have more than tonight
The before and the after
The clapping, the laughter
One hell full of silence and time

Here they were ringing the bells
And I thought you could keep me from hell
And all that I own from my flesh to my song
Was yours, and yours all alone

Hate me, get out of my sight
Push me away bring up the fight
Don't let me stare, oh don't let me here
Mixing the wrong and the right

Here you are, still in my bed
And I just can’t stop turning my head
And pretend that it’s real and it’s you that I feel
And nothing has ever been sad

So kiss me and kiss me again
Loose it completely I can't be your friend
Then we will know if ???
That we made up to get rid of ourselves, choir

Let's pretend today had only this hour
And the months they had only tonight

No before and no after
The clapping, the laughter
Hell sinking way out of sight

No before and no after
The clapping, the laughter
Helsinki, running for life

Beauty Above All

Here you are again and everyone's aware
Even the believers join in to the state
Afraid of insufficiencies, they elsewhere must deny
They're shaken by the whispering gleam of what is passing by

Hello
Hello Valentine

Here you are again with all what belongs to you
Reigning over dreams that to no one else come true
The weight of such a power would break it all in two
If only you would know, yet you just don't have a clue

Hello
Hello Valentine
They cry

Here you are again and we offer all to you
The longing of the ugly of those who cannot choose
The longing of the strange by differences abused
They turn inside their uniform but wouldn't dare to prove

Hello
Hello Valentine
They cry

Hello
Hello Valentine

Hello
Hello Valentine
I as well do wish that you were mine

Dr Stummi

Dr Stummi weiss nüt z'sägä
Offebart keis Bild
Het är doch nie glehrt rede
So fühert är nüt im Schild

Das seit me über ihn
Das sigi halt eso
Doch heimlich tuet är sprudle
Flüsst är liechterloh

Är het nur nie gfunde
Es Wort wo ihm de gnüegt
Wo cha zeige und empfinde
Was i sim Herz sich rührt

Zwische dunkle Bärge
Ersinnt är i sim Bett
Us all däm ghöre säge
E Mönsch wo är gärn het

So tuet är si vergrabe
Hinter sire Stirn
Die luti Bildparade
Wo doch nie steit für ihn

Und hofft und hofft ufs Wäse
Wo ihn mag ghöre glich
Und hofft und hofft vergäbä
Und stirbt ganz ohni Pries

Nashville

My lover's in the field
Swinging his shield
Fighting the windmills
That disappear

My lover's on a mission
Singing in prison
For the lonely ones
The constantly missing

My lover's on duty
Singing his song
He says
"Where there is beauty
Wisdom goes wrong"

Oh but this ain't Nashville
Oh this ain't Nashville

The Tourist

Go
Born on top of a cedar
You can't see me
But I see whatever
You are moving

Die Fahrende

Kömend doch nöcher, liebi Lüt
I bringen oi e musig mit
Sensatione stönd üs no bevor
Mir fühered si dur e goldigs tor

E schöne tänzer turned umenand
En alti häx list eim us der hand
Üse philosoph wird oi öppis welle bewiise
Und üsri lösli versprechend hoochi priise

So ghört mer de spiilmaa singä in der straase
Dä gaukler wird däzu faxe mache müese
De zauberer schwingt scho wider sine staab
Und au d’rössli gönd ganz hübsch im trab

Das sind kinder useren andere rasse
Sind liebi lüüt und tüend niemer hasse
Si züchen ume ihres läbe lang
Und ihres läbe teilens ine gsang

Die lüüt, die kömed us däm dunkle
Wo mer ghöre ka die tote munkle
Wos stei git wo hell tüend funkle
Wo mer träum dri ka go tünkle.
Die lüüt, die tüend endlos fahre
Und tüend üs wunder offebaare

Scho vo wiit her ghört mer si ko
Dänn bliibs für e paar tag doo
Säge tüenz di tegend stähle und
Die tegend fremdi chinde quäle

Die lüüt sind bruun und gsehnd gsund us
Und schöön sinds, dass mer stuune muess
Si läbend freier als alli andere zäme
Aber die andere sägend me sötti sich drum schäme

Und in ihrere mitte git’s e frauezimmer
Si gsend si alli ganz genau a ihrem flimmer
Das isch ihri lilie oder ihri dornerose
Die macht männer zu helde in kämpferpose
Sie lueget stolz uf d’auge vo dene buebe
Dän laat si ihre kopf i irne arme ruebe
Und d’auge steched gförlich umenand
Und eine treit e mässer in sinere hand

Die lüüt, die kömed us däm dunkle
Wo mer ghöre ka die tote munkle
Wos stei git wo hell tüend funkle
Wo mer träum dri ka go tünkle
Die lüüt, die tüend endlos fahre
Und tüend üs wunder offebaara

Das isch halt z’vill für min verstand
I gspühr die zeiche i minere hand
Mi trägend d’füess dene vögel na
Könt i ächt au no mit oi ko

Während anderi bunde sind an ihre erde
Läbe träged und treit könd werde
Kann us mir nur en spiilmaa werde
I im exil bin da uf erde

Drum schliich i amigs in dä straase ume
Tun zum motorebrumme lieder summe
Dän tumal nomal d’schicksalkarte weg
Morge lan i mi vo de fluugzüüg wecke

Dän gang i bis an stadtrand us
Suech mer es plätzli, won i könti pfuuse
Dänn luegi zum abehimmel ufe
Und tuen deht d’wätterzeiche überprüefe

Miis bluet, das rünnt deht us dem dunkle
Wo mer ghöre ka die tote munkle
Wos stei git wo hell tüend funkle
Wo mer träum dri ka go tünkle
Und au i will endlos fahre
Und will oi wunder offebaare

Lied Für Zwärger

Si isch erwachet hüt am morge
Zwüsche Riese riesegross
Wenn si öbis wot erkläre
Mues si schreie wild druflos
Gseh tüe sie si gar nid
Steit si nid tobend just dervor
Oder hackt si mitme Bieli
Nid es paar Löcher ines Ohr

Sig emal chli lieslig und lueg dr Bode a!

D'Riese riesse grossi Löcher hie i Wald
Und boue grossi Schlösser ganz nach Riesegstalt
Doch wär, wär söll drin wohne
Vo öich gits weni nur
Doch vo ine gits Millione
Wo chratze ade Tür

Sig emal chli lieslig und lueg dr Bode a
Uf vilne, chline tusig Zwärge tuesch du stah
Dank vilne, chIine tusig Zwärge tuesch du stah

Nid lang isches gange
Im Vergliech zur Ewigkeit
Da si d'Zwärge vor Verlange
Ganz im Stoub zerkeit
Und D'Riese si versunke
Will d'Schwärchraft kennt kes Rächt
Weder für di zogne Gränze
No für Grössi oder Gschlächt

Flucht Nach Obe

I sim Garte heds käi Ärde
Nume Bletter oni Schtiu
Und jedes Mal wens chunt cho rägne
Schwümmt als dür sini Tür

Sis Huus isch gar nüt anders als e
Als e Huut voll vo Idee
Und der Bode en Atrape
Da blibt im nid vil mee

Als d Flucht nach obe
Wo ales tribt wien är
Als d Flucht nach obe
Wo ales tribt wien är

Als d Flucht nach obe
Wo ales tribt wien är
Als d Flucht nach obe
Wo ales tribt wien är

Und är hed au keni Wurzle wo
Wo zie us sine Bei
Und er seent sich nach de Fessle vome
Alternde Dehei

Und flüchtet bald nach obe
Ufglöstem na
Und flüchtet bald nach obe
Ufglöstem na

Und flüchtet bald nach obe
Ufglöstem na
Und flüchtet bald nach obe
Ufglöstem na

Als d Flucht nach obe
Wo ales tribt wien är
Als d Flucht nach obe
Wo ales tribt wien är

Als d Flucht nach obe
Wo ales tribt wien är
Als d Flucht nach obe
Wo ales tribt wien
Ales tribt wien är

Monday's Ghost

Shape

They said
"Lady or gentleman
You're either or
It's morning, it's evening
It's once or it's more"

What's the name
Yeah what's the name
Yeah what's the name again
When I held up the roof the floor would cave in

Shadowboxing, monologue
And we talk and we talk and we talk
Shadowboxing, monologue
And we walk, and we walk, and we walk
And we walk, and we walk

Scribbling and coughing a line in the winds
Busy with oiling your sandcastle's hinges

What's the name
Yeah what's the name
Yeah what's the name again
Stamp on the ground and the ceiling falls in

Shadowboxing, monologue
And we talk, and we talk, and we talk
Shadowboxing, monologue
And we walk, and we walk, and we walk
Shadowboxing, monologue
And we clean, and we clean, and we clean, clean
Shadowboxing, monologue
And we dream, and we dream, and we dream
And we dream, we dream, and we dream
And we dream, and we dream

And we go down to the beggar
To fight for a queen
And it's now and forever
And we are and we seem
And we sculptured a statue
To worship and bear
The chaos that's behind the glass of
Who and what and who and what we are

Shadowboxing, monologue
And we talk, and we talk, and we talk
Shadowboxing, monologue
And we walk, and we walk, and we walk
Shadowboxing, monologue
And we dream, and we dream, and we dream

The Boat Is Full

"The boat is full"
I hear us warning
As we order french champagne

"The boat is full"
I hear us yearning
"Let's build a fence against the rain"

"The boat is full"
I hear us turning
Turning, turning, turning
On a highway made of gold

"The boat is full"
We're so concerned and
Pass a law against the cold

There is someone out there breathing
On the top of all our lungs
Do you really think we're easy
Because of what we've done

If this is full, then what is empty
Other than our will to live
If this is full, then what exactly
Could we possibly achieved

So, is this it
Where we begin
They end, they end

So, is this it
Where we begin
They end, they end

So, is this it
Where we begin
They end, they end

So, is this it
Where we begin
They end, they

A Protest Song

You are the answer
You never talk
You have no question
You are a thought

You are the answer
You're shaped and emblazed
Through the holes in my cover
You're something I made

You are the answer
My truthful response
My final saying
When everyone's gone

You're my illusion
My pattern of wrong
Hollow idol
Tip of my tongue

You're my disgrace
And my self-made war
And I don't want to remember
Faith anymore

Wasting myself in the name of a face
You were made for me by mistake

Oh wash away
Oh wash away
You had nothing to say
You were made for me by mistake

I had nothing before
Then I had you
I was denying
Now I refuse

Never been young
And you'll never grow old
My life's in my words
Hands they are cold

Never made sense
But now I disturb
And I'm bashing my goods against
The door of the world

Oh wash away
Oh wash away
You had nothing to say
You were made for me by
You were made for me by
Mistake

Walzer Für Niemand

Niemand kommt rein und setzt sich hin
Den Fuss auf den Tisch, die Hand unters Kinn
Niemand ist hungrig, mein Frühstücksmenü
Niemand kommt immer zu früh

Niemand, ich habe Geschenke für Dich
Was wäre ich geworden gäb es Dich nicht
Meine gesammelten Werke, bitte sehr
Alles gehört nur Dir

Niemand, keiner kennt mich wie Du
Unbedingt, ich geb alles zu
Keine Enttäuschung, kein einziges Mal
Aber Dir ist eh alles egal

Niemand, siehst Du's? Ich wachse nicht mehr
Meine Hände sind Füsse, niemand schau her
Bald bin ich nichts und das was dann bleibt
Ist Deine Wenigkeit

Niemand, was, was willst Du
Immer bist Du hier
Niemand, was, was willst Du
Von mir

Birth-Day

One, two, three, four

In my backyard I grew a statue
Overwhelming and high
And I thought it was a virtue
To gaze at it and sigh
And time passed by
And so did I

Now I just woke up in your morning
To find that I'm there too
Suddenly you start moving, saying
"What is it you do?"

You're not a star but you are, you are
And I'm not your fan but I am, I am

You're not a star but you are, you are
And I'm not your fan but I am, I am

And I'm so glad that you're no legend
But that there are two cups on the floor
Please don't talk about heaven
Let's have a beer on the shore

Oh you're not unbelievable but you are here
I'm not unachievable but now I'm here

Sophie Hunger Blues

My brother is a farmer so you ask him what to do
The rain's about to harm you, "build a fence" he says to you
So you build a fence and wonder why you're slowly sinking in
About the chief commander suggesting you should swim
And that's the very moment when you stop and start to fear
"It's strange in here"

The whole place around you is drowning in a flood
While the military's aiming at the sky that wouldn't stop
My sister she's a lawyer so you ask her what to do
Your boy's drowned right before you "let me sue" she says to you
That's the very moment when you stop and start to fear
"It's strange in here"

The whole place is floating gently towards the sea
You're turning to the President: "Ah Sir, don't let this be"
He chuckles once and chuckles twice and then begins to shout
"Let's bring them clouds to justice, track ‘em down and smoke ‘em out"
And that's the very moment when you stop and start to fear
"It's strange in here"

The shaker...

When I was born I felt a treble in my hand
And in short time it started to expand
It travelled up my arm and settled in my shoulder
From there it filled my chest and scared my heart and took it over
Ever since I'm far from sleep I walk the roads at night and weep
"Peace, please!"

Soon after I would shake from head to toe
I left my cardboard house in spite of not knowing where to go
I thought I might find silence if I'd move at such fast pace
So the shaking would sort of discharge somewhere along the race
But the more I walked the more I ran the more things got out of hand
God damn

Under these circumstances it was hard to find a job
Let a lone to touch someone so I'd given up the tought
But then one day I pointed out a figure in the dark
Shaking just as much as me so I offered him my heart
And now guess what happened, there was an earthquake
The whole world fell apart

The shaker...
The dreamer

Once she had a dream from which she never would awake
She feared that if she'd touch the ground her hands would start to shake
Nothing ever fades away her kingdom knows no time
The kick of any given kick is perfectly designed
And she can pull it out any time, that's a bit like singing

The city that she's living in never would insist
On anything of everything, it costs her nothing to exist
Freedom, freedom freedom, free, chains are in demand
When there is no necessity in using your own hands
Well, maybe that's the reason why they're shaking

Now you're banging on her door asking her to step outside
"Come on girl, you must awake, go get yourself a life!"
After endless minutes she answers finally
"well maybe you know who you ar
But still you search for me
Craving for the miracles of my uncertainty"

"You have so much, I miss so much
But what you miss is what you have" she says
From the outside it's you yelling back
"Oh, don't make me laugh!"
When in fact you know she's true
Everything you need out there you need
'Cause it's not you"

"I'll let you be part of my dream
If I can be part of yours"
Bob Dylan said that
"I'll let you be part of my dream
If I can be part of your reality"
I said that

Round And Round

In the backyard you said
"Let's have a family"
In the front yard you note
"Oh, don't you wait for me"
In the papers you saw
"I'm free as free can be"
And your footprint
You left no legacy

Round and round and round and round you go
Who you are, nobody knows
Round and round and round and round you go

Funny air, blow over, blow over, blow over, blow over yeah
So unaware, fall over, fall over, fall over, yeah
Funny air, blow over, blow over, blow over, blow over yeah
So unaware, fall over, fall over, fall over, yeah

In the backyard I sought
I sought a family
In the front yard, I wrote
I wrote on theories
In the papers my note
"I will, I will for eternity"
Now my footprints
"You are my legacy"

Round and round and round and round you go
Who you are, nobody knows
Round and round and round and round you go

You were a shot in the head, when I thought I was home
And I keep throwing you up, so I won't be alone
And I still lead you around, claiming amends
And I wake you and make you and break you again

You were a shot in the head, when I thought I was home
And I keep throwing you up, so I won't be alone
And I still lead you around, claiming amends
And I wake you and make you and break you again

The Tourist

Go
Born on top of a cedar
You can't see me
But I see whatever
You are moving

Can't you put up a ladder
Can't you free me
I'm on top of the cedar
Waving, screaming

Born on top of a whatever
You can't see me
But I feel the shiver
When you are moving

Can't you put up a ladder
Can't you meet me
I'm not holding a treasure
I'm waving, screaming

Can I wear your gloves when my hands are breaking off
Can I wear your gloves and then come down
Can I wear your gloves when my hands are breaking off
Can I wear your gloves and then calm down
Go

Born on top of a cedar
I'm watching my breathing
It's been almost forever
Since I've been feeling

I can't touch you however
I can't lean out
Stuck on top of this cedar
That I have brought up

Teenage Spirit

Let them measure out the room
The dimension, the effect
Let them formulate the state
Of each and every bit
Let them price and calculate
What and what is not
Let them choose and demonstrate
What they have and haven’t got

And I say “Oh, woah, I don’t know”
“Oh, woah, I don’t know”

If I could open up my chest
Pour out of myself
And in a corner I should rest
Rain there in the shelf
Then I’d be soaked up
By words of mountaintops
To finally have spoken out
A line that someone dropped

And I say “Oh, woah, I can know”
"Oh, woah, I can know”

???
???
Things that I could do
See the pawn has the long way home
Go

Let them measure out the room
The dimension, the effect
Let them formulate the state
Of each and every bit
Let them price and calculate
What and what is not
Let them choose and demonstrate
What they have and haven’t got

And I say “Oh, woah, I don’t know”

Might I then will come right next to you
Without the fear of running after
Might I talk when I’m talking through
Then I'll be faster
I'm just supposed to stand with you
Ask you for my clothes
No more shall I sing for you
But no, but no, but no, no, no, no

???
???
Things that I could do
And the pawn had a long way home
'Cause the pawn wouldn't need to know

Rise And Fall

Burning countryside
Mountains being climbed
We shift and turn and swear and yearn
And try try and try

A general collision
With all that stands as such
We reinvent and tear apart
And stitch and stitch and stitch

Marching band's parading
Perfume floods the streets
Everyone's standing
The crowd inside of me

But all of this yeah, all of this
To you does not
But all of this yeah, all of this
To you does not exist

And empires rise and empires fall
And empires rise and empires fall
And we engage and we dissolve

Z'Vreneli abern Guggisberg
Und z'Hans Jacobeli änätern Berg
Z'Vreneli abern Guggisberg
Und z'Hans Jacobeli änätern Berg

S'isch äbä ä Mönsch uf Ärde
S'isch äbä ä Mönsch uf Ärde
S'isch äbä ä Mönsch uf Ärde
S'isch äbä ä Mönsch uf Ärde

Z'Vreneli abern Guggisberg
Und z'Hans Jacobeli änätern Berg
Z'Vreneli abern Guggisberg
Und z'Hans Jacobeli änätern Berg

S'isch äbä ä Mönsch uf Ärde
S'isch äbä ä Mönsch uf Ärde
S'isch äbä ä Mönsch uf Ärde
S'isch äbä ä Mönsch uf Ärde
Wo i möcht binim sie

And empires rise and empires fall
And empires rise and empires fall
And we engage and we dissolve
For nothing but the change

But all of this yeah, all of this
To you does not
But all of this yeah, all of this
To you does not
But all of this yeah, all of this
To you does not exist

Drainpipes

Land with no drainpipes
There's a girl with a flute in her throat
She's only in bloom whispering by the command of a ghost, ghost
She dares not speak knowing that this would unfold
The lack of a voice, genuinely hers all alone

Land with no drainpipes again they are switching their seats
A new order to what has bored them enough, where's the news
So she, buys herself a skeleton to simply believe
There once was a shape underneath our infinite possibilities

Bring her snowstorms
Bring her back, back to the chain
Bring the dictator
Who is now sleeping in vain

Bring her snowstorms
Bring her back, back to the chain
Bring the dictator
Who is now sleeping in vain

Bring her snowstorms
Bring her, bring her back to the chain
Bring the dictator
Who is now sleeping in vain

Monday's Ghost

In your distant Zitilites
I tried to read your time at night
I tried to find your roof your floor
The corners of your mind, the four

And I'll return down to the mines
Where you are safe from me
And I will stop to burn your house
And keep you safe from me

The red flags on your dear facade
Wouldn't break the secret to my guards
Told me not with which wind to come
Refused to tell how and when

I'll return down to the mines
Where you are safe from me
And I will stop to burn your house
And keep you safe from me

How could I so clearly find
And have no chance to read your signs
Bring me back to your front door
And me pretend that I waited for

I wish that you would search the mines
And keep them safe from me
I wish that you would stop the fire
And keep it safe from me

House of Gods

Schoolboy heroes
A speech on every lip
You copy kingdom
A newspaper army
That pretends to collect
The truth

The dog in a trap
Doesn't try to forget
Why he's whining
While you just decide
For yourself

Alien neighbour
My house doesn't burn
If you don't see it
Should I wait for a prophet
For a lesson to learn
For the God

Alien neighbour
There's ash on your lawn
You were the saviour
You would have been mercy
When the winds didn't turn
'Round, around
'Round, around

Look at it
Don't look at it now
Look at it
Don't look at it now
Look at it
Don't look at it now

Spiegelbild

( Feat. Stephan Eicher )

Oh, geschter häsch plötzlech nüt meh gseh
Und sithär gseht dich äu niemmert meh
Oh, geschter isch dr Schpiegel verbroche
Und sithär bricht dis Gsicht usenand

Ich, bi nur e Idee vo dir
So wie du sie willsch
Und du, bisch nur e Idee vo mir
So wie n ich sie bruuch

Wänns das gäbti, häi
Wänns das gäbti
Wäre mir immer gliich

Min Dokter seit
Chumm, leg dr Mantel ab
Und ich säg
Aber drunder han i nüt
Min Dokter seit
Chumm, leg dr Mantel ab
Und ich säg
Aber drunder bin i nüt, nüt

Ich, bi nur e Idee vo dir
So wie du sie willsch
Und du, bisch nur e Idee vo mir
So wie n ich sie bruuch

Ich, bi nur e Idee vo dir
So wie du sie willsch
Und du, bisch nur e Idee vo mir
So wie n ich sie bruuch

Wänns das gäbti, häi
Wänns das gäbti
Wäre mir immer, allei

1983

Leave Me With The Monkeys

Upstairs they have begun to sweep
The floors and night begins to speak
Of possibilities, silence promises

The city's full of storylines
Do I have to sing those rhymes
Those possibilities, broken promises

Take away your easy jokes
Leave me with the monkeys
I know every place to go
And will not go for pennies

They talk to me on every screen
Someone's always calling me
Is this a movie scene
A moving movie scene

My back is turned against the call
I drop my keys and kiss the floor
Countless are the roads from here
But my heart is nowhere

Take away your easy jokes
Leave me with the monkeys
I know every place to go
And will not go for pennies

My heart, my heart, my heart
Is nowhere, is nowhere
Is nowhere, is nowhere

Lovesong To Everyone

I took your door bell and rang up the city
I rolled your fags and it made me feel pretty
One gun held against my shoe
And the other one pointing at you

You were all so very lovely
My hands were in the air
Fell in love right in the beginning
I swear, I swear, I swear

Good God as if they were empty
I filled up my pockets, until I had plenty
Plenty of things belonging to you
Your schools, your fools, your blues

You were all so very lovely
My hands were in the air
Fell in love right in the beginning
I swear, I swear, I swear

I collected the ghosts that would sleep in your hair
And I stole all the words they hung into the air
And with them I shaped a pen and a chair
In which I sit, sing and scribble
I composed a dog barking in vain
And with it the silence behind its complaints
And with that the highways that take things away
And then discovered that there are no endings
And now that I am so completely of you
I do not understand what I do

Dear all, I am full of your blood
I am full of your absence
Full of your love
Full of your words
That will tear me apart
Apart from everything

In mid-air blinding the shades
The sun appears, I get carried away
That was it my truthful account
Of what it's about

1983

Guten Morgen 1983
Wo sind deine Kinder
Ich bin zu Dir zurückgekehrt
Nur kurz noch nicht für immer
1983 zeig mir deine Finger
Und frag nach deinem Abdruck

1983 wo sind deine Stimmen
Wo sind deine Ausnahmen deine Mongoloiden
Wo sind deine Dichter deine Zweifel deine maden
Was hat es gekostet immer besser zu leben

Bitte sing mir ein Volkslied
Bitte sing mir ein Volkslied
Bitte sing mir ein Volkslied
Auch wenn es das nicht mehr gibt

Ich hab ölige Hände und Öl in meinem Bauch
Weiss gemalte Wände, weiss gemalter Staub
Meine Augen sind aus Glas und ich sehe immer schärfer
Aus meinem Mund strömt Gas oh ich werde immer wärmer

Ich kratze an meine decke nach dem Wetter ich will frieren
Ich leg mich in den Keller zu den ausgestorbnen Tieren
Ich leg mich in den Kühlschrank dort liegt noch etwas Eis
Dann ruf ich deinen Namen
Das ist mein kleines bisschen Wahrheit

Und wenn dann der Regen doch kommt
Und all dein Erfolg war umsonst
Und all dein Zeug fließt davon
Ja dann hör gut hin
Ja dann hör gut hin
Dann singe ich dir ein Volkslied
Dann singe ich dir ein Volkslied
Dann singe ich dir ein Volkslied
Weil das alles ist was ich hab

Komm bitte sing mir ein Volkslied
Komm bitte sing mir ein Volkslied
Komm bitte sing mir ein Volkslied
Weil das alles ist was ich hab

1983
Alles muss weg
Alles muss sterben
Es ist nie zu spät neu geboren zu werden

Headlights

You told your tales with pictures
I tried to make it seem good
I borrowed the heart of a preacher
And believed as hard as I could

You don't know how much I worked there
You don't know the risk I took
You hardly, hardly saw me
Behind the mirror round my neck

Caught in your headlights
I had to close my eyes
Caught in your Headlights
I had so little time

Caught in your headlights
I couldn't turn back
I was never myself
I was you
I forgot

You sold your smiles untroubled
Your light was on every face
You were too young to know that it mattered
That every time someone must pay

I bought your every word then
I didn't have my side
I was too old to learn my first lesson
So I dance with tied hands in mind

Caught in your headlights
I had to close my eyes
Caught in your Headlights
I had so little time

Caught in your headlights
I couldn't turn back
I was never myself
I was you
I forgot

Citylights Forever

In Berlin there's a project
Waiting for all
We're a Napoleon cut into spalls
And I wish I were two little dogs on the log
So I could play with each other

The only question that comes to my head
Is should I watch Monty Python or commemorate the dead
Billions and trillions who have never had any time

When I drink up it's empty
When I move I am tough
When I think of a girl in the world
I know she won't be enough

And the prophet next door
Said "the stone in your hand is holding your hand"
And I do understand
And I don't understand
I just wish I could stand in the middle of a mountain

Citylights forever

And now if there's a God
Or if there is not
Still I find myself hoping and pleading a lot
And then seeing Madonna showing her spots
I take a bow to the women in veils

When I drink up it's empty
When I move I am tough
When I think of a boy in the world
I know he won't be enough

Citylights, citylights
Citylights...
City forever

Your Personal Religion

Your personal religion
Your enthusiastic expressions
Your daring clothes
Your overdose
Your intimate songs
Your broken vows
Your divorces
Your forced sexual discourses
Your tight jeans
Your sun cream
Spiritualities

It doesn't speak
It doesn't speak

Your antidepressant breakfast table
Your MTV porn feeding the children
How did you dare think you're worth a war
Your clever quotes on independence
Your independent loneliness
Your massive, massive of self-control

It doesn't speak
It doesn't speak for me
It doesn't speak
It doesn't speak for me

You're taking care of your body
You're taking care of your soul
Your psycho, your spycho analysis
Your T-shirt says Punk
You're so Rock'n Roll
You do whatever you want
Oh, I know I know
Your individual, individual vomit

It doesn't speak
It doesn't speak for me
It doesn't speak
It doesn't speak for me

With the sounds of my city
With the blowing of the wind
In the silence of our children sleeping
I might come to understand
With the pushing of the rivers
With the falling of the rain
With the dust and with its drifting
I will sing and sing again

It's never gonna die
It's never gonna die, oh no
It's never gonna die
It's never gonna die

It's never gonna die
It's never gonna die, oh no
It's never gonna die
It's never never gonna die, oh

Le Vent Nous Portera

( Noir Désir Cover )

Je n'ai pas peur de la route
Faudrait voir, faut qu'on y goûte
Des méandres au creux des reins
Tout ira bien là
Le vent nous portera

Ton message à la Grande Ourse
La trajectoire de la course
Un instantané de velours
Même s'il ne sert à rien
Le vent l'emportera
Tout disparaîtra
Le vent nous portera

La caresse et la mitraille
Cette plaie qui nous tiraille
Le palais des autres jours
D'hier et demain
Le vent les portera

Génetique en bandouillère
Des chromosomes dans l'atmosphère
Et des taxis pour les galaxies
Et mon tapis volant dis
Le vent l'emportera
Tout disparaîtra
Le vent nous portera

Ce parfum de nos années mortes
Ce qui peut frapper à ta porte
Infinité de destins
On en pose un et qu'est-ce qu'on en retient
Le vent l'emportera

Pendant que la marée monte
Et que chacun fait ses comptes
J'emmène au creux de mon ombre
Des poussières de toi
Le vent les portera
Tout disparaîtra
Le vent nous portera

Travelogue

Call back the cards now and
Lay down the pen
Take off your glasses
Unpack your things
Feel with your thumbs
The edge of your chin and
Hold you hands again

Lower my head now I
Halt and I stand I
Follow the lines in
The palm of my hand

I feel with my thumbs
The dust on my skin and
No I will not dream again

I’m ready now
I’m going now
Nowhere
Don’t take me out
I’m breaking out
In here
I’m ready now
I’m going now
Nowhere

Bring me some water and
Don’t bring me wine
Turn off the movies
Let it be time
Destroy all the airplanes
I’ll sleep on the floor
We must dream no more

I’m ready now
I’m going now
Nowhere
Don’t take me out
I’m breaking out
In here
I'll kill the fire
I'll close the doors
And I'll watch you
No more

Breaking the Waves

I left the stage without encore
Walking backwards through the door
I hadn't come to give you more
I'm not quite sure what this is for

On the threshold I would wait
And wait for you to name the case
Are you bored with what you do
Am I just entertaining you

Give me a second, turn from the fire
I am no experiment
Give me a second, turn from the fire
I could be an empire

In every look of yours there's depth
Is it for me or for the risk
Is it love that makes you soft
Or whatever day you're shaking off

In every word of yours there's hope
Are you fighting for my vote
Or is it your romantic side
That just cannot stay unsatisfied

Give me a second, turn from the fire
I am no experiment
Give me a second, turn from the fire
I could be an empire

D'red

I ha aui Prognose
U Kennä ke Affäkt
I bruche dini Rose
Aber ha so viu Respäkt

So Winki die Matrose
Sie si immer nöi
Wär o gärn nöi gebore
Gedankelos allei

I ha gar nüt z´säge hie
Drum frag etzt nüme na
I ha gar nüt z´sage hie
O wenn du meinsch das i das cha

Zwüsche hie u jetzt
Liet aus wo nid isch worde
Zwüsche hie u jetzt
Liet aus wo nid isch gsi
Frag nid nach mim wahre
La mir so viu würd
Aues het u het kei sinn

I wet Dir so viu sägä hie
Drum frag u la nid los
I wet dir so viu säg hie
Frag u la nid los

Approximately Gone

It's way over my head
It's over
It's way over my head
It's done

Every time you're out the door
You're at the back
You're back for more
You never get out
Never get out

Every time I loose my shoes
I cut my feet I think of you
You never get out

You're in between my fingers
You're the hole inside my head

Go!

Invisible

When I step out on the street
All the papers speak to me
Telling me about the truth on pages

The fish are dying out again
Michael Jackson had a friend
I should not forget to spend my wages

That’s how everybody knows
What everybody knows about
Everybody are the bodies that we know about

Where are all the people at
Someone’s paying for the fat
Why hasn’t it exploded yet
It’s invisible

Where are all the people at
Someone’s paying for the fat
Why hasn’t it exploded yet
It’s invisible

Obama, showbiz
Jesus, showbiz
Art, showbiz
Democracy, showbiz
Sex, showbiz
Iraq, showbiz
Memories, showbiz
Sophie Hunger, showbiz

I don’t know what it is that there is behind the curtain
But there is something out there burning and it is unspoken

Where are all the people at
Someone’s paying for the fat
Why hasn’t it exploded yet
It’s invisible

Where are all the people at
Someone’s paying for the fat
Why hasn’t it exploded yet
It’s invisible

Where are all the people at
Someone’s paying for the fat
Why hasn’t it exploded yet
It’s invisible

Where are all the people at
Someone’s paying for the fat
Why hasn’t it exploded yet
It’s invisible

Somewhere in the Hindukush
Lives the greatest poet
Scribbling signs into the dust
And we will never know it

Broken English

There were mountains to begin with
Silence shaped in giants
My voice would reach the highest
But you cannot tell this in english

My old man's precise and attentive
My mother's tongue, mahogony sounds
As a girl I got lost in a cloud
But you cannot tell this in english

I balance an egg in a spoon
I'm never on time
It's too late or too soon
And in the night there is always the moon
That doesn't speak in english

Train People

My love, I cannot feel my teeth
I cannot feel my feet
We're driving forever now
Why did we leave and how
We're driving forever now
Why did we leave and how

Always hungry
And the whistle blows
And it's blindly running
And everybody knows

It should be stopping
And we should get off
And it will collide but
We're all tide up

Now, don't be scared of what I say
It won't carry things away
Our words echo on the rails
Where all of our days are made
Our words echo on the rails
Where all of our days are made

The wire's, your voice
With no hesitation
The metal's, your motion
Without a trembling
The light's, your thoughts
 In anticipation
The station, your sleep
Without a dream

And while we're passing
The towns are passing
And while we're passing
The homes are passing
And while we're passing
Time is passing

Non Albums Tracks

Bang Bang

( Nancy Sinatra Cover / Live )

I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down

Seasons came and changed the time
When I grew up, I called him mine
He would always laugh and say
"Remember when we used to play?"

Bang bang, I shot you down
Bang bang, you hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, I used to shoot you down

Music played, and people sang
Just for me, the church bells rang

Now he's gone, I don't know why
And till this day, sometimes I cry
He didn't even say goodbye
He didn't take the time to lie

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down...

Dirge

( Erik Truffaz Feat. Sophie Hunger / Bob Dylan Cover )

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed
You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road
The stage was set, the lights went out all around the old hotel
I hate myself for loving you and I'm glad the curtain fell.

I hate that foolish game we played and the need that was expressed
And the mercy that you showed to me, whoever would have guessed
I went out on Lower Broadway and I felt that place within
That hollow place where martyrs weep and angels play with sin.

Heard your songs of freedom and man forever stripped
Acting out his folly while his back is being whipped
Like a slave in orbit he's beaten 'til he's tame
All for a moment's glory and it's a dirty, rotten shame.

There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them
In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem
The crystall ball upon the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet
I've paid the price of solitude but at least I'm out of debt.

I can't recall a useful thing you ever did for me
'Cept pat me on the back one time when I was on my knees
We stared into each other's eyes 'till one of us would break
No use to apologize, what difference would it make

So sing your praise of progress and of the Doom Machine
The naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen
Lady Luck who shines on me, will tell you where I'm at
I hate myself for loving you but I should get over that

Hotel Belfort

Don't share your lips
I don't care who, how you kiss
Get up and get dressed
And bless yourself with showing nothing

Don't spill your drinks
I'm not impressed or and not able
Get up and get some ink
Write done what I feel is what I think

No God in the world knows fear
Giant foot prints of heaven
Water begins nowhere
No one is ever ready

Take your things and have them
Nothing else will come
Know that you are dying
And who you are is done

Know that you are living
And how many were before
Sing for the sake of singing
And don't think that it means more

Broken watch doesn't stop time
War is always a decision
Nothing will ever be mine
And this song is an invention

Let me go

( Erik Truffaz Feat. Sophie Hunger )

This is my freedom
This is my voice
My piece of Eden
My blind-eyed choice

These are my movements
These are my arms
This is my trumpeter
These are my drums
Drums, drums

Let me go, let me go
Let me go, let me go

This is my moment
Again and again
I'm not existing
I have never been

I am my future
I'm on my way
Forever forever
Let's play, let's play
Play, play

Let me go, let me go
Let me go, let me go

Ne me quitte pas

( Live in Zurich / Jacques Brel Cover )

Ne me quitte pas
Il faut oublier
Tout peut s'oublier
Qui s'enfuit déjà
Oublier le temps
Des malentendus
Et le temps perdu
A savoir comment
Oublier ces heures
Qui tuaient parfois
A coups de pourquoi
Le cœur du bonheur
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Moi je t'offrirai
Des perles de pluie
Venues de pays
Où il ne pleut pas
Je creuserai la terre
Jusqu'après ma mort
Pour couvrir ton corps
D'or et de lumière
Je ferai un domaine
Où l'amour sera loi
Où l'amour sera roi
Où tu seras reine
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Moi je t'offrirai
Des perles de pluie
Venues de pays
Où il ne pleut pas
Je creuserai la terre
Jusqu'après ma mort
Pour couvrir ton corps
D'or et de lumière
Je ferai un domaine
Où l'amour sera roi
Où l'amour sera loi
Où tu seras reine
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Ne me quitte pas
Je n'vais plus pleurer
Je n'vais plus parler
Je me cacherai là
A te regarder
Danser et sourire
Et à t'écouter
Parler et puis rire
Laisse-moi devenir
L'ombre de ton ombre
L'ombre de ta main
L'ombre de ton chien
Mais
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas