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1. |
I Remember
02:35
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2. |
A Desperate Lie
03:57
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[Verse1]
In the valley of trust we spend the night
My desperate heart bursts into light
As the morning comes we lie awake
Paradise is just a lie away
[Chorus]
Your heart is just, a lie away
Momories just, a lie away
That girl is just, a lie away
Our love is just, a lie
[Verse2]
The mind keeps the eyes
Shut as if there was something behind left to find
Insidious(heimtückisch, schleichend) and unseen
It diffuses to the edge of me
And the morning breaks loose
A side I've never known
Cut the record on repeat
I swaer I'll say it all
[Chorus]
Now as always, every answer
Is a mountain, is a mountain
Now as always, every answer
Is a mountain, is a mountain
Now as always, the pretender
Is a mountain, still countin'
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3. |
Meant to Be
04:44
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[Verse1]:
I never wanted you to know
I never found a hole deep enough to throw
it all away
But that day you came and laid your shine
Over what was left behind
And I've known you just for so long
To know what to expect
The insight came so slowly
To slowly to detect
Our talks just seemed unending
I was an ordinary lad
Until you asked me: Does a good bye
Always feel that sad?
[Chorus]:
So I follow down your footsteps
To the bright an mighty park
The embrace in the doorway
Lured my hands out of the dark
So we open a new chapter
A story yet untold
Somehow still not knowing
How it might unfold
[Verse2]:
I changed the expectations
To promises to keep
I'm tired of pretending
There's something else to reap
There's a plan beneath the mountain
Far beyond my restricted mind
But I'd rather look the beauty
Right into the eyes
[Bridge]:
Somehow the feeling got stuck to the ceiling
I haven't slept for one night on this weekend
Fooling myself, too hard to believe it
You are the scent of my gold
[Solo]
[Chorus]:
If it's a lesson to be learned
Or a badge that's to be earned
I don't know
Until the fire disappears
And this one feeling that I fear
I let it go
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4. |
Protective
04:04
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[Chorus]
Deceive your ghosts
And keep your soul clean
It just started healing
Go swallow the gun
Just like you swallow
All your secret feelings
Deceive your ghosts
[Verse1]
Shut the engine down, open door
No longer hide
I found your color on the safe
I thought there was
Something inside
Turn around, gasp for air
Is somebody there?
I get the feeling, I see you leaving
Dark, long hair
[Chorus]
[Verse2]
Contraception, empathy, a single cell
Plain perfection
I've read your lips before you cast the spell
I got the key but pick the lock
Let noone in, obstructive mind
I tied your arms to the ceiling
[Bridge]
I had it once and I have it now
A broken jar and a broken vow
I said it once so I say it now
Sweet surrender, you got it all
you got it all
Tell the ghost it's about time
So I go and call you mine
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5. |
How Could
03:35
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6. |
Such a Sacred Sky
04:32
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The day I found my passport
I realize that there are places
I have never seen before
And I call your number
An hour later you stumble
Through my open bedroom door
I say I wanna leave
I beg you to come with me
To places we have never seen before
Ok, I come, I come, I come
Throw away old papers
Say what else I'm gonna win?
Well the sun the other day
It barely touched my skin
This place is the furthest
I've been away from home
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7. |
Call For Our Perspetive
04:40
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[Verse1]
I watched the lights go out
you turned your voice down
Amenity's just gone
left it's crown
with the remnants passing slowly
we're losing sight
spent the last few days just staring
against my empty walls
then I just turned my head and lost the bearing
into the night
[Chorus]
When will this world stop falling for me?
I just think you set the bar a bit too high
And we're out here desolated
mind and soul capsulated
[Solo]
[Verse2]
I guess all the lies were self defending
The cornerstone in the yard
If I could I'd just change the ending
A little spark
Every forest tells a different story
But all of them are made up
In the end it's just death and glory
And a little less dark
[Solo]
saunder aimless
through empty minds
a cheap frame is
all that's left behind
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8. |
A Subtle Force
03:27
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[Verse1]
In a year further down the line
We will dance in the streets
You're calling me from the other side
But I'll be in my dreams
We were that close, that close
To the point where it all returns
We were that close to cut it out
And a new day begins
[Verse2]
In a year further down the line
I will be on my feet
And I walk just another time
The distance: you to me
We were that close, that close
To the point where it all returns
We were that close, inside out
The shallow water burns
[Chorus]
It's a secret I'll never tell
You got up before you fell
A little darkness between the lies
A message in disguise
A message in the skies
[Verse3]
It's been a year further down the line
You haunt me in my dreams
This little word follows me around
I still don't know what it means
We were that close, that close
To the point where it all returns
We were that close, I crossed out
One sixth of a turn
[Chorus]
It's a secret I'll never tell
You got up before you fell
A little darkness between the lies
A message in disguise
A message in the skies
It's a secret I'll never tell
You got up before you fell
We were all set to fail
A never ending tail
A never ending tail
[Bridge]
Some forests never end
A falling fortress to defend
A sentence without bail
A never ending tail
A never ending tail
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9. |
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[Verse1]
We knew for a lifetime
You can't just go unknown
I burned my name and my wand
They got no power in this town
A stupid name on a cymbal
A stupid pic on a jug
The little things turn to symbols
They're all I got
[Chorus]
So this love died quietly
But the basement changed just slightly
In lonely hours I'm burning
Down our well-known home
[Verse2]
Out of battens and old cloths
I just built a new god
Deaf and dumb like the old one
Our words get lost in the flood
[Bridge]
And the wrong side has been turned up
This day I cried to our new god
The force is just strong enough
To break me
And they say our love can't be broken
I am waiting for my own trial
And they say our love won't be forgotten
It's what they say but I
I got my doubts about it
I can't read anything inside these lines
We'll have your dad pick us up
Like in old times
I'm getting closer to yet uncrossed borderlines
I will head forward
Into the unknown
No, it's not all gone
But the wrong side
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10. |
The Cracking Truss
03:07
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[Verse1]
I watched the light go out
you turned your voice down
Amenity's just gone
left it's crown
with the remnants passing slowly
we're losing sight
spent the last few days just staring
against my empty walls
then I just turned my head and lost the bearing
into the night
[Chorus]
When will this world stop falling for me?
I just think you set the bar a bit too high
And we're out here desolated
mind and soul capsulated
[Solo]
[Verse2]
I guess all the lies were self defending
The cornerstone in the yard
If I could I'd just change the ending
A little spark
Every forest tells another story
But all of them are made up
In the end it's just death and glory
And a little less dark
[Solo]
saunder aimless
through empty minds
a cheap frame is
all that's left behind
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11. |
Your Voice
01:20
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12. |
Perished
04:34
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[Verse1]:
So here we go
Here we are
Casting shadows
My eyes turn to blue
I always feard
But never knew
So, indistinct ends
Crave the last drop
Of my patience
[Chorus]
An unending story
Ran out of words
just improvised
rightful vainglory
An abandoned mansion
Doors and windows gone
I walk inside
Do I smell benzene?
[Verse2]
Crawl out ouf holes
And into skulls
Of people wailing
In front of your house
I'm in my car
I sit here waiting
[Bridge]
We're out of cards
And there's noone to tell
Me "everything's gonna turn out well"
I'm the last one to see
But was the second to know
This pile of stone will move somehow
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
[Verse3]:
So here we go
Here we are
Casting shadows
My eyes turn to blue
I always feard
But never knew
[Bridge]
We're out of cards
And there's noone to tell
Me "everything's gonna turn out well"
I'm the last one to see
But was the second to know
This pile of stone will move somehow
A lot of words were said, the least were actually true
Tell me: in the end what did I mean to you?
And I talked to your mother
She said the last time you cared
Was the evening when I was accidentally there
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13. |
In The Crashing Waves
03:44
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[Verse1]
I keep you in my locker
of dreams I never tell
I thought I know you
But I know you just a bit too well
The displacement craves for
Another day
[Chorus]
Some places are better left unknown
Disappearing is the strangest way to go
I have always known the answer
But never spoke
Cut the raw skin on the fences
It's what we owned
When the warpaint
Crumbles we ain't
That confident anymore
Your waves crushed
Beneath us
They flushed your hope to our shore
Under the same sky
And the same lie
Back and forth
In my head
While the scars and
all the false friends
tend to stay
until the end
[Verse2]
When you played Ecstasy of Gold
I was close to the apnea
I don't believe you're still watching us
I just like the idea
Under this wild sky
Follow the shoreline
'till they merge into one
[Chorus]
We're on the same side
In the same fight
In the end we die alone
We crave the same lights
the same cold white
But our days keep moving on
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14. |
Beneath Us
04:51
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[Verse1]
lessons to be learned hover over me
and I've got somewhere to go, a way
A shivering peasant and a frozen lake
Cracks in the picture of hidden landscapes
[Pre-Chorus]
Somewhere inside of your eyes
A child got old
And somehow in the sky the light
Of a star went cold
[Chorus]
In the summer the memories fade
The constants change
and symmetries break
[Verse2, louder]
Most distant stars cast a shimmering light on your thighs
And I hear the cadence of a muffled drum, resistant tribes
You got your head in the distance
And your cigarette on fire
If I had only known what was going on
Behind your eyes
[Bridge]
Sometimes sleazy, always easy
This path leads right home
It's safe to say:"There is no reason"
With you we have grown
[Chorus]
Sometimes a cry for help
Ceases before it gets heard
[Pre-Chorus]
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