- 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?
- 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
- Alpha Venom
Alpha, alpha venom
I bite into a lemon
I bleed inside my denims
But this is not your pain
Alpha, alpha venom
A genius invasion
So easy to get sick
So hard to overcome
- Am Radio
Hoo hoo hoo!
Katakatakataka
Deine Freundin will nicht mehr mit
Dir gehen - Katastrophe!
Du hast perverse Gedanken
Kannst es keinem erzählen - Katastrophe!
Du hast ein hässliches Lachen und
- And I watch You
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
- Bad Medication
Vibing to Cash keeping me up and taking shot
Oh, kind of a mess i'm hallucinating
Fighting with God
I'm not gonna look, I'm not gonna look
I'm simulating my face is in pain
Seeker of attention
- 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
- Berlin-Tel Aviv
[Hook: Sophie Hunger]
Ich bin der Stern, der auf deinem Boden schlief
Ich bin der Stern, der gefallen vor dem Himmel liegt
Ich bin der Stern, in dem du nachts die Sonne siehst
Ich bin dein Stern, Berlin, Berlin
[Vers 1: Max Herre]
Elli war 13
- Birth-Day
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
- Citylights Forever
In Berlin there is a project waiting holding
Wearing apole and tucked and disposed
And I wish there were two
Little dogs on the logs
So I could play with each other
The question comes to my head
- Coucou
Coucounis coucou je me souviens de tout
Coucounis coucou je me souviens de tout
I'm not your mom i'm not your friend
But I know your voices miles up the wind
I know when you're friend
By the glow on your cheeks
I know if you're worried
- Das Neue
Deutschland die neue Türkei
Die Schweiz schon bald im Siebengebirge
Und jetzt ist das neue vorbei
Drum wenn Du bald nach Hause kommst
Dann bin ich nicht mehr hier
Ich kann nicht bleiben wie ich bin trotz Dir
- Die ganze Welt
Ich spreche leise
Mit 'ner zerbrochnen Fensterscheibe
Über Anarchie
Ich üb' an Haltung
Im Garten mit arbeit'slosen Akrobaten
Auf Terpentin
- Drainpipes
In the 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
She dares not to speak knowing
That this would unfold
The lack of a voice, genuinely hers all alone
- Electropolis
You are a piece, piece of the puzzle
You are a piece, piece of the puzzle
You are a piece, piece of the puzzle yeah!
You are part, part of the syndrome
You are part, part of the syndrome
You are part, part of the syndrome yeah!
- Everything Is Good
Wouldn't do a handstand
Even if I could
Always take one at a time
Everything is good, everything is good
I went to school to learn nothing
I bought a car to get sued
I smoke and smoke to keep coughin'
So everything is good, everything is good
- Fathr
Boy boy you can't not need him
He's the ceiling
He pulled your hair he made you
He's the one who dared to
Fend the flames and then run
Boy boy we say he's working
He can't be staying we lie our heads hoping
- Finde Mich
Finde mich finde mich
Meine Spuren sind überall
Ich hab das Blut nicht abgewischt
Du bist mir auf den Fersen dicht
Bitte fass mich an
Ich Granit, du Kristall
Zusammen sind wir Zucker
- Halluzinationen
Von Anfang ganz ohne Zwang
Kaleidoskopische Visionen
Das Leben zieht an mir vorbei
Gewiss, ich sollt mich schonen
Halluzinationen ich bin euch treu geblieben
Und mich kann keiner lieben
Mich kann keiner lieben
Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst
- 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
- Heharun
You Sheila you won't sing with the choir
You will not compare you will not be a liar
You won't grow your hair
For the men up in the tower
You will not compare
You will honour your desire
Oh don't you wake up oh don't you wake up
- Heicho
Mami, sitz ab, i mues dir öbis sägä
Du bisch perfekt gsi, Neopren im Rägä
I cha vier Sprache, und weiss "nei" z'sägä
Aber i wott meh vom Läbä
I weiss nid wie langs wird wärde
Und I weiss nid wohie das füert
I hane Plastiksack mit Gmües
Und es fatalistischs Gmüet
- 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
- House of Gods
School boy heroes a speech in
Every lip you copy kingdom
Newspaper army that pretends to
Collect the truth dog in a trap and you try
To forget why it's whining
While you just decide for your self
Alien neighbor my house doesn't burn
- I Opened a Bar
I opened a bar for all my friends
Who have no work and for the ones
Who do have work to safely vomit
What they've earned into the hall
Underneath a disco ball
I opened a bar for arctic plates
- Le vent nous portera
Je n'ai pas peur de la route
Faudra voir, faut qu'on y goûte
Des méandres au creux des reins
Et tout ira bien (là)
Le vent nous portera
Ton message à la Grande Ourse
- Leave Me with the Monkeys
Upstairs they have begun to sweep
The floors and night begins to speak of
Possibilities silence, promises
Cities full of story lines
Do I have to sing those rhymes possibilities
Broken promises
Take away your easy jokes
- Leaving Tehran
The giants are sleeping and court has closed
You're so tired and needing what
Nobody's supposed to know
Pack your fast phase
And your favorite ones and
Adiquat I did what i would have done
At last the town, the family is in our
I forgive my friends late feed the enemy and
- Les plus grands cauchemars
Si tu veux, moi je veux on peut se voir
Le soir, le dimanche a la station
Quand le bus ne passera pas
On fera mine d'attendre l'arrivée
De quelque chose qui nous sauve
A la vitesse du son
Ça sera pénible, ça sera bizarre
- Let It Come Down
Through Karachi, Karachi
In plastic paille, plastic paille
It will far, it will far a last
The past is the past is the past is the past
The country code, country code
The special tie, special tie
The self portrays those cause
- LikeLikeLike
I know I'm not supposed to look at you the way I look at you.
I know I'm not supposed to look at you the way I look at you.
I wear my shades all day long and sing it in a folk song tune.
I know I'm not supposed to wait for you the way I wait for you.
I know I'm not supposed to wait for you the way I wait for you.
So I pretend I'm on the go and only meant to say hello to you.
- Liquid Air
I'm so good at giving
You don't need to take
This ain't getting better
We're never gonna make it to the other side of the lake
Fall and fall and fall in love with actors
You like to feed the rats
I can be so many things
But I can't be that, that, that
- Love Is Not the Answer
Love is not the answer to everything
Ask the ice-cream van driver down on Madison
He's getting tipped by fathers on weekends
But can't afford no Pipe
Tobacco Cherry Blend
So, oh please don't
Oh, please don't love me
- 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
- Mad Miles
Happy New Year California, I've
Got no money, you've got miles
Kids are dreaming for you
Sleeping barefoot on your isles
They watch the sun til they cry
Happy New Year California
I eat your honey and drink your wine
The world is yours and you're mine
- Maria Magdalena
Maria Magdelena look at your phone
I know that I said that I can do it alone
But I lied, I just wanted to win
War between barren and breaking with it
Please, please, please ooh
Please, please, please ooh
- Monday's Ghost
In your distant city lights
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
- 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 ones constantly missing
My lover's on duty singing his song
- Oh Lord
Right at the stile
He thought that I was smile
To look at you like into a mirror
Now that you dead world is there instead
And the only thing I fear are your lovers
Pain and ordeal proving what is real
When between you two oh Lord it just ain't
- One Too Many Mornings
Down the street the dogs are barkin’
And the day is a-gettin’ dark
As the night comes in a-fallin’
The dogs’ll lose their bark
An’ the silent night will shatter
From the sounds inside my mind
For I’m one too many mornings
And a thousand miles behind
- Queen Drifter
It's been a while, thousands of miles
I never had a favourite place
Folding up tables, eating with strangers
Never seen a favourite face
You're so scared of being alone
So you start to love the things you know
But my carbon fiber is shatterproof
- 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
- Rote Beeten aus Arsen
Deutsche Frau, du bist ganz genau
Wenn du deinen Käfig misst
Deutsche Frau, du, du bleibst dir treu
Selbst wenn es deine Seele frisst
Deutsche Frau, ich werde blau
Wenn du mir in die Augen siehst
Deutsche Frau, komm gib dich auf
Ich, ich zeig' dir was, was ewig ist
- Round and Round
In the backyard you said:
"Let's have a family"
In the front yard your note: "Oh
Don't you wait for me"
In the papers you wrote: "I'm
Free as free can be"
And your footprint, you left no legacy
- Security Check
Cried in the cab through security check
Put your toothpaste and my shoes in a separate box
Little do they know about the monkeys in my head
I cried at the gate, I bowed to the crowd
Feeling your hands as they pat me down and
There is nothing safe, safe about me now
It's too soon
It's too soon
- 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 that name? Eh. what's that name? What's my name again?
When I held up the roof the floor would cave in
- She Makes President
Her mother's mother and her mom
Never had much fun
Took the blows like down in silence
See their shame inside their pa
She's got plutonium in her head
She needs no blessing no respect
You combat her favorite venom
But you can't give her what she'll get
- Sliver Lane
So I cannot see it, I gave it my best shot
True love stays away when you're not
Spent all of my savings, impossible to stop
He said, "Water falls in love are met, but turn back"
Sliver lane, sliver lane
I'm back again, I'm back again
A sliver lane, sliver lane
My old friend, my old friend
- 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
- Souldier
You broke the sky the sky is broken
Now you're home forever you broke the floor
The floor won't brake
Your pacing, silent fever
They let you go but it won't let you go
Said you're right your head's as high
- Spaghetti mit Spinat
Du hast gut lachen denn du bist wunderschön
Du musst nie irgendwas spezielles machen
Außer rauchend in der Ecke stehen
Du bist wie ein Versprechen
Nach 'nem Korallenriff im Rhein
Aber draußen dort beim Gästebuch
Ja da fällt dir leider
- Spiegelbild
Oh, geschter häsch plötzlech nüt meh gseh
(Oh, gestern hast du plötzlich nichts mehr gesehen)
Und sithär gseht dich äu niemmert meh
(Und seither sieht auch dich niemand mehr)
Oh, geschter isch dr Schpiegel verbroche
(Oh, gestern ist der Spiegel zerbrochen)
Und sithär bricht dis Gsicht usenand
(Und seither bricht dein Gesicht auseinander)
- Stranger
If there's a place to bury strangers
Bury me tonight
In the hotel's empty parlours
I can hold the requiem you'd like
There's place to bury lovers
I will dig them out wrap you in my covers
I found you once I'll find you twice
- Superman Woman
Lost my legs on my way to Mount Everest
'Cause it's very far
It didn't seem to be that difficult
Looking from afar i lost my ears holding a
Beverage in San Francisco Cove
I couldn't move - paralysis
At a Courtney Barnett show
I lost my eyes seeing a
- Supermoon
I'm a supermoon and your friend in blue
I couldn't be more perfect
I'm a supermoon a hard balloon
My life is like a desert
I was cut out of your stone
I'm empty, but I'm never alone
Turn away, turn around, you turn
In circles all the time
- Take a Turn
Bear your escapades
I know you've made mistakes
But a hidden heart will be very hard to take
Move your tired feet
You don't need to compete
But a heedless heart will be
Very hard to need
- 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
- That Man
God must be tripping or is it the flow
Of people and plastic down on the road
My street looks familiar
But something has changed
I know all these moves
But I don't know the game
- The Actress
Yeah you're so famous in the movies
I make a living with my songs
So how come you don't know what real is
You know exactly how it's done
So how come I can't read your feelings
I know exactly how they're sung
It's your day off, you get that burning
- The Age of Lavender
You took your headphones off and said
You've got this aching in your neck
It's in a blind spot
Between your shoulders and your head
"I'm not an expert" I replied
"But darling, you never sit up straight
Or it's from contaminated chicken
Wings and steak
- 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
On a highway made of gold
"The boat is full" we're so concerned and
Pass a law against the cold
- The Capitalist
You must leave now i have spent you
There is nothing set aside, no
It's the end now i have used you
Watch me now, I'll kick the door
You face the light, face the light
Hoo!
- The Tourist
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
- There Is Still Pain Left
My love, my love
You say there is still pain left
Still glass that is not broken
There are still blows you kept from taking
Still trains you have not missed
There are still wars you've not applied for
Still accusations you've not made
- Travelogue
Call back the cards now and lay down the pen
Take off your glasses and unpack your things
Feel with your thumbs the
Edge of your chin and
Hold your hands up again
I lower my head now I halt and I stand
I follow the lines in the palm of my hand
- Tricks
There's a trick to everything
Sugar shock meets insulin ah ah ah ha!
You go high and need more
Exit through the mouse hole
And then enter through the stage
He-he-he hey!
- Universum
50000 Jahre alt bin ich jetzt schon
Ich hab das Rad erfunden und Feuer geholt
Ich hab gefroren, gehungert alle abgehackt
Und es dann an diesen Tresen geschafft
Ich frage nach einem bisschen
Brom im Wasserglas aspirin
- walzer fuer niemand
Niemand kommt rein und setzt sich hin
Den Fuß auf'n Tisch, Hand unter's Kinn
Niemand isst hungrig mein Frühstücksmenü
Niemand kommt immer zu früh
Niemand, ich habe Geschenke für dich
Was wär ich geworden, gäb es dich nicht
Meine gesammelten Werke - bitte sehr
Alles gehört dir
- We Are the Living
We are the living we're out in the fields
For being in the city for walking on heels
We were expected we were a surprise
But then when they had us we kept them alive
We were the future they gave us a name
They bottled and beat us they left us alone
- Weltmeister
Ich bin ein Weltmeister
Ich kann das, was du nicht kannst
Vor mir verbeugen sich die Sportminister
Ich hab ne Flamme in der Hand
Der Wind, der weht ist Stadtgeflüster
Alle reden nur von mir
Niemand kann das, ich kann besser
- Z'lied Vor Freiheitsstatue
Chum, I ma scho lang nüm warte
Um mi ume verändre sich d'Farbe
Aber I bi immer gliech
Chum oder bini ächt scho gstorbe
I mim letschte Troum verlore
Wo sich eifach immer gliecht