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See The Leaves Falling
04:12
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I feel it is creeping in
Don't know its name, but it's under-skin
It feels so cold it feels so sleek
All-embracing
A mindscape cold and bleak
It's over and under me
I lose the ground I am falling free
Can't see the soil, can't see the sky
It's a tailspin cause I cannot fly
I can see the leaves falling
When cold winds are calling
To come to the other side
Baby can't you be with me
When I have to leave this place of mine
To follow the line
I'm so afraid of the dark
That's rising early to leave its mark
It covers all, it takes away
To remind me
That nothing ever stays
To be never-endingly
And all is fading so constantly
Perceptions fail it's out of scale
I am shaken
Am I left behind?
Fields in fall where the flowers fade
Rime that clenches a winter glade
Thoughts that break my head but nothing's moving
Hurting thorns are playing hide and seek
A primal law is causing mental leaps
A haze is soaking my inner core and steals a part of me
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I Couldn't Say Goodbye
04:45
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The clouds are low today
And fly around my head
Days are getting shorter now
And there is no way back
The hand is moving on
Much faster than before
And all I know to be in front
Is that you have to pass that final door
A shadow came to coat you
To creep into your flesh
To poison every living cell
Entangled in a mesh
I see you, hear you
Still in my head
You're far from this world and far away from here
Somehow I can feel you are still near
I know there is a time
When we will meet again
You're waiting on the other side
I couldn't say goodbye my friend
A footprint in the soil
Will be covered by dust
A candle flame that spreads its light
Will be blown out by a gust
A human's legacy
Is kept inside our hearts
A memory can still remain
Though we drift apart
The chapter's over now
The last page has been read
A lonely place below the trees
This picture stays inside my head
I wonder where you are
I wonder what you feel
No echoe's coming over from infinity
There's nothing to reveal
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I take what's left, what others left behind
It's not what I like but more than I need
So I'm on the safe side
I don't complain, things could be worse
I'm still alive and so long ago
All my tears have dried
I try to hold on
From day to day from night to night
Till track of time is lost
I don't give up my hope
And step by step I'm moving on
This valley must be crossed
When the sun comes up tomorrow
And the pale moon's getting weak
I can breathe
My feet still on the ground
And the light wipes out the shadows
So the colour's coming back
I can see clear
When I look back to a past that slowly fades away
It feels like a film, that's made for myself
To remind me
It's like a stranger's life and I play the leading role
But I am not paid, my name is not shown
A movie-retiree
All links are cut
No friend to call, no family
I'm out here on my own
A future made of doubts
An empty map, that I'll complete
I'll face it all alone
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4. |
Black Swan
05:32
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Sailing down the river, boats are passing by
I'm watching sailors and commanders on their way
With no home to stay
They
Don't see me
Don't hear me
And all those
Rigid heads don't move as I am sailing by
And my friendly salutations disappear
So I am looking down and try to hide my face
I want to chase my feelings – back to private spheres!
I don't waste a tear
Troubling doubts come up as I'm moving on
A voice inside my head keeps saying „get you gone“
I remember people calling me black swan
to lead me astray
Don't hate me
Don't love me
Just let me
Take the stony path to climb a mountain high
To have a look at what's there on the other side
To find this kind of place that is well concealed
Buried under junk and dust to be revealed
Can't swim with the tide
Amidst a mass of faces that all look all the same
I'm feeling like a stranger who's outside the game
I remember people calling me black swan
But I don't go astray
Don't see me
Don't hear me
Don't love me
Don't hate me
Just let me
Go
Between awake and sleep, in the dead of night
I was surrounded by black water
White swans with their wings spread wide
Came quickly close then closer
They're circling me with rising speed
No way to move I'm sinking deep
The ground beneath my feet
Shakes me out of sleep
Flee from the waters
Cause the tide is rising high
Flee from the waters
Cause the waves will touch the sky
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5. |
Your World Is Broken
05:15
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Years are passing by and blur away the memories
Just a little point left on the skyline clear
Nameless and filled with ousted sorrow
It's creeping up coming close coming near
No one ever spoke a word to fill the silence
Not a song was born to sing against the pain
Under the veil of dust and darkness
You bear your burden but you won't complain
I see
Your World Is Broken
Don't leave
Your words unspoken
Now
Walls and wooden gates are built to give protection
But quiet and bodiless the feelings will come back
Born from a force inside your memory
And your soul will begin to crack
I see
Your World Is Broken
Don't leave
Your words unspoken
Now
It feels like under ice
You cannot touch what lives behind the surface hidden down below
A shape is shining through intangible and dark
It's chained to you it's following a birthmark to your soul
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Face to face, hand in hand
Sharing time and space
From start to end
We're all human
Foes or friends
Words described pure and clear
What we feel inside
Joy and fear
What's in you, what's in me?
Doubts appear
Born in dust, grown in water
Made of flesh, made of bone
Way down here through the decades
A billion souls all still alone
Our love is true, stand by me
As I fight for you
Can't you see
There's a distance
Locked by key
Hearts and souls, human minds
Sharing aims and goals
But still too blind
Just to find out what is behind
Born in dust, grown in water
Made of flesh made of bone
Way down here through the decades
A billion souls all still alone
A flash of thoughts an overflow
Whenever humans try
To share an inner state of mind
When feelings are flying high
So seperate, marooned and stuck
Our hopes are running dry
We cannot join another soul
Before we're gonna die
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Frozen Hearts
05:22
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Memories flash as silhouettes get visible
On well-known places
Tears come up remembering well-known faces
Lost in time
Years won't heal and still it hurts
Ain't there someone who converts
Wounds into some silent grief
In the end it's just a weak relief
Frozen hearts
And empty roads made of silence
Where ever I go
No-one talks
About the scars
Left by violence
The radio plays on and on....lalalalalala
Eyes in front of flashing screens kept watching on
As we were losing
All we had on stages built of vanity and might
Stupid string puppets with guns
Killing fathers and their sons
All who stayed at behind at home
Were breathing dust in a world of gloam
Can you see the lonely ones
Mothers and forgotten sons
Fathers, daughters hand in hand
Still living in a murdered land
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From Africa
Mellow cradle of humanity
We've spread out wide
Over mountains vales and the seven seas
No higher court
To direct the leaps forward on and on
Mankind's dawn
We walked along the coastlines
Further east
Woken up
From a dreamless sleep
Word of mouth
And hand in hand
Through an open ended land
Sharing insights commonly
Feeling rescued, feeling free
There was no one who would dare to raise a plea
Reached out freely for the stars
There was so much to yield
All gained on an open field
Sharing insights commonly
Feeling rescued, feeling free
There was no one who would dare to raise a plea
Once it seemed to have no end
But one day something was penned:
It's just one world.
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You build your fences, raise your walls
Protect your borders against all
Once there were just open fields
You hide in shelters strong and tall
Look through windows much too small
To see the fields
All the open fields
Born of mistrust fed by fear
Left in darkness blurred and blear
Human freedom put in chains
Where are the memories bright and clear
Bring them back to have them here
As open fields
Open fields
You take your sharp knife, clench your fist
You hurt with words you will resist
Once we were just face to face
You use your bullets drop your bombs
You fight with fire use your guns
Afraid of all
So afraid of all
Frozen frames put in bald heads
By Trump's and Putin's message threads
Playing with fire constantly
Raise your voice don't look away
We're all humans on our way
Through open fields
Open fields
Break the silence finally
There is no right of privacy
For all those who have drawn these lines.
Overcome that silent wall
That's made of mistrust make it fall
It's only a seal-off sign
Just the brave ones speak out loud
What they think without a doubt
Words only can break these walls
Looking back to what we've lost
Won't change the future free of cost
It's all hard-won
If we will move on
We come from east we come from west
And what we share is one bequest
The same great hope in all these heads
We disbelieve in idle words
That speak of blessing and of curse
No need to try
We unveil the lie
All those memories in my head
Where do they come from
It seems to be so long ago
And all the pictures that they show
Don't belong to me
So all I see is like a trip back in time
A silent conversation with a mime
I feel green grass under my feet
And I see faces
Watching me so graciously
So I can walk across the lea
Without a single doubt
I feel a gentle draught
Takes me away
The fragile dream dissolves and I can't stay
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10. |
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The border in front of you makes a barrier in your head
Consciousness unlimited or in crippled mode instead
Whether breakdown or policy
There' s no difference between you and me
We are human
That's a human law
The walls around your territory make a wall inside your heart
Stone on stone increases the weight documented in a chart
Wheather fear or pride or joy or pain
It is all a consequential chain
We are human
That's a human law
Frozen thoughts inside your brain
You are meshed you are enchained
One step forward followed up by two steps back
Place an idea in your head
A dream of freedom born and bred
You must just erase the lack
Kept inside a controlled space many safety guards around
Safeness simulated by preventing all to cross the bounds
Nothing enters and nothing leaves
There's no outer influence that cleaves
It's not human
That's a psycho's law
Controlled by the screens in front slaves to visual stimuli
A transparent society losing the way while passing by
A freedom made of pigeonholes
It's like living in some goldfish bowls
Is it human or just human-made?
Place an idea in your head
A dream of freedom born and bred
You must just erase the lack
Reach out freely for the stars
There is so much to yield
All on an open field
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11. |
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From Africa
Mellow cradle of humanity
We've spread out wide
Over mountains vales and the seven seas
No higher court
To direct the leaps forward on and on
Mankind's dawn
We walked along the coastlines
Further east
Woken up
From a dreamless sleep
Word of mouth
And hand in hand
Through an open ended land
Sharing insights commonly
Feeling rescued, feeling free
There was no one who would dare to raise a plea
Reached out freely for the stars
There was so much to yield
All gained on an open field
Sharing insights commonly
Feeling rescued, feeling free
There was no one who would dare to raise a plea
Once it seemed to have no end
But one day something was penned:
It's just one world.
You build your fences, raise your walls
Protect your borders against all
Once there were just open fields
You hide in shelters strong and tall
Look through windows much too small
To see the fields
All the open fields
Born of mistrust fed by fear
Left in darkness blurred and blear
Human freedom put in chains
Where are the memories bright and clear
Bring them back to have them here
As open fields
Open fields
You take your sharp knife, clench your fist
You hurt with words you will resist
Once we were just face to face
You use your bullets drop your bombs
You fight with fire use your guns
Afraid of all
So afraid of all
Frozen frames put in bald heads
By Trump's and Putin's message threads
Playing with fire constantly
Raise your voice don't look away
We're all humans on our way
Through open fields
Open fields
Break the silence finally
There is no right of privacy
For all those who have drawn these lines.
Overcome that silent wall
That's made of mistrust make it fall
It's only a seal-off sign
Just the brave ones speak out loud
What they think without a doubt
Words only can break these walls
Looking back to what we've lost
Won't change the future free of cost
It's all hard-won
If we will move on
We come from east we come from west
And what we share is one bequest
The same great hope in all these heads
We disbelieve in idle words
That speak of blessing and of curse
No need to try
We unveil the lie
All those memories in my head
Where do they come from
It seems to be so long ago
And all the pictures that they show
Don't belong to me
So all I see is like a trip back in time
A silent conversation with a mime
I feel green grass under my feet
And I see faces
Watching me so graciously
So I can walk across the lea
Without a single doubt
I feel a gentle draught
Takes me away
The fragile dream dissolves and I can't stay
The border in front of you makes a barrier in your head
Consciousness unlimited or in crippled mode instead
Whether breakdown or policy
There' s no difference between you and me
We are human
That's a human law
The walls around your territory make a wall inside your heart
Stone on stone increases the weight documented in a chart
Wheather fear or pride or joy or pain
It is all a consequential chain
We are human
That's a human law
Frozen thoughts inside your brain
You are meshed you are enchained
One step forward followed up by two steps back
Place an idea in your head
A dream of freedom born and bred
You must just erase the lack
Kept inside a controlled space many safety guards around
Safeness simulated by preventing all to cross the bounds
Nothing enters and nothing leaves
There's no outer influence that cleaves
It's not human
That's a psycho's law
Controlled by the screens in front slaves to visual stimuli
A transparent society losing the way while passing by
A freedom made of pigeonholes
It's like living in some goldfish bowls
Is it human or just human-made?
Place an idea in your head
A dream of freedom born and bred
You must just erase the lack
Reach out freely for the stars
There is so much to yield
All on an open field
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