OLWU - The complete lyrics
thoughts of icy comfort
my mind is off season
but i’m not afraid of it
i’m not afraid of it
no emotions just reason
but i’m not afraid of it
i taste the taste
with the shades drawn
the streets calm
the sky white
and i’m all alone
no friends, no friends
could reach for those sands
no stars, no stars
could guide us that far
i feel like a tall tree
but, yeah, down by the riverside
they got a giant fire
and you know quite exactly what they came for
forged with thin alibies
axes cut the quiet
d-minor-town
i took a walk through the city of d
went past the railways the roads and the trees
and it never felt so cold
four-brickwalled lightless home
and i traded the mattress for a comfortable bed
but tell me who’d sleep when there’s planes in your head
maybe we all need sleep
or some youth special treat, oh
now there are the old folks who still stake the claim
for a city once so far away from being tame
and they talk of a culture that broke any spells
like seventeen people celebrating themselves
but you know we’re all hanging by the same thread
some stay alive and some drop dead!
And i stumbled through venues just like moonlit morgues
when there’s no listener there is no talk
stay tuned, stay rock, stay roll
and care for me i’m old
oh
the beaver
well there is no doubt about it
i can do things better when i mean what i say
i wanna quit, i wanna shout it
i wanna keep on doing the things i believe in
darling, i’m not proud of reluctance
of disturbance and burdens of indecision
i’m still! Still waiting
for a 5-4-3-2-1 ignition
with a hole in my soul and my eyes open wide
with paralysed arms i am ready to fight so much, so much yeah!
And i hope that i’ll never be here again
when you talk about us don’t use the word ‘friends’, no, not again
well there is no doubt!
Ref
erratic
all you masqueraders
all you hesitaters
blood hungry vile impalers
sit down in my canoe
cowards and spectators
and weirdo innovators
be seated at my table
i hate each one of you
beneath the lantern tower
all the light is ours
there should at least be flowers
instead there are no hues
just wicked souls together
ridiculous endeavour
with voices tarred and feathered
and not a thing to do
i am with no one
no one at my side
i’ll keep it with mine
you want it so, so
bad all the time
the last one on fire
the last one will finally come down tonight
the last light will finally go out tonight
until nothing
don’t spoil my day
you can’t take this love away from me
but don’t you walk away
we’d be better off with unity
underneath all the wrath
well i swear that i got heartfelt, aching, mirror-breaking love
an it keeps me from running out
so fuck that great unhappiness
until nothing no more is alive in our minds that hates
until all the wrath is left behind we’ll have to walk that way
city of old emperors
you know it’s a fault to believe
that you won’t be deceived
you’ll be down and out
you’ll be down and out
and as the blue to the grey
as the light of the day
you will fade away
you will fade away
i told you more than one time
that with you life is fine
so don’t let me down
don’t you let me down
and as the boy you fancy
is a girl or the other way round
it don’t matter now
cause love will bring you down
and i’m waiting for the landslide to come
and i know we might be buried soon
i know we’ll have to run
and i’m waiting for the landslide to come
and i know we might be buried soon
i know we’ll have to run
rep. 1st verse
like a statue
though i never did talk
i jsut gave you my vow
took you into my soul
as much as i would allow
and when you realized
i would never stay the same
and when you realized
that i would go slightly
insane
you said, you said,
we are not ready yet
to call a spade a spade
i’ll come right up to your breast
listen how your heart aches
yet you gave me the key
to take care of your delights
sit you down on my knee
just to watch you…
don’t disappoint me now
don’t break the picture
i beg you – don’t you
don’t be a bore right now
swallow the hurt like you used to
like a statue
a little pain in the silhouette, the silhouette
the image is ready now, now, and now it’s dead
ref
right where your heart is
is it human
to liquidate the rocks
we built up?
resolution, boredom, stop!
So give me
over and over and over
but not too much!
Travel right where your heart is
don’t forget your home keys
jump right into madness
please leave your address
you learned enough today
so leave it in the classroom
get yourself into bed
turn the TV on for typhoons
we’re not angry
but we ain’t satisfied
we wear those banners
but for wealth we strive
and we do it over and over and over again – yeah -
Ref
our home to live
our love to give
your favourite song
a thought long gone
a plan worth while
a funeral pyre
an earth to admire
to be alive!
To be alive!
Ref
what you get
you’re so proud and you’ve done all you can
what is nothing gets nothing again
i know you so well, dear
you’ll be buried along with your name
there’ll be no fifteen minutes of fame
no way…get back…
i got nothing to say
that i’ve not already said
anyway this is what you get
and where there’s a will
there’s a way into despair
you will take me there
after all your embarrassing ways
how come your smile is still in its right place, beautiful…beautiful?
You’ll be buried along with your name
no fuckin’ fifteen minutes of fame
no way…get back…
ref
doldrums
sit yourself down here
right here next to me
and tell me what you see
just wanted to take a rest
lay it down for a while
look how they closed your file
the safest way was to run
but i know well it’s no fun
to admit you’ve come undone
sometimes you turn around
past was peaceful and sound
suddenly somebody knocked you down
don’t close your eyes
this time, this time
hold your head
up high, up high
and when you said,
you’re not afraid
that was a lie
i realized too late
with quicksand dance
and dollhouse laughter
unhappy ever after
so don’t…
ref
and you can’t stay without a move forever
in the doldrums, forever!
a million ways
the unexpected comes before the fall
with open doors both of great and small
yet i never crossed the border
there are just lions who tell you there’s more
but i love the thought of getting loose
with all the fun in this world to abuse
yet very early it gets obvious
which path you choose
love like liquid fire, with
right and wrong desires
they all live in here, with
all of hopes and of fears
if i live or die it’s made of love
if i refuse or try it’s made of love
if you got something that you want so much
we won’t turn it off
if you love the direct ways to hell
if you love me or only love yourself
yet very early it gets clear enough
in which room you dwell
ref
early morning lullaby
silence before
the thunderstorm
of the hurried life we’ll never know
like leaves in the fall
i call for withdrawal
with the silence of
an early morning lullaby
i don’t see the light anymore
but i’m sure it’s there
the waves will carry us to different shores
we all will arrive anywhere
so don’t you forget
before you go to bed
to lock the world all out and throw away the key
the city is theirs
through hard and through fair
but to you it sings
its early morning lullaby
i don’t…
you’re the fall (feat Marco/A Tale of Amity)
beneath the weight of a million shovels
the fire’s burning with the force of a sun
lying in the ground buried awake
but we’re not yet done
there’s still a difference between yielding and withdrawal
hail to the captain we’re the summer you’re the fall
so choke the longing, break the restless, stop the quick
and get the impact, yeah, the power of being sick
division came before we got together
i wonder if we still can
trade the true for the so called enemies
or if it’s easier to burn ourselves
