1 Brighter Days

Ventured down or overdrawn
no recess, no light, no dawn
you reclaim your good life back
somehow you feel you lose track

There’s no rest, no time to spare
you doubt if you’re gonna dare
jump into the wishing well
pray for luck and cast a spell

There are times to wait
now it’s the time for you to run
with your hope and a will
to finish all that you ’ve begun

No way forth and no way back
being close to heart-attack
nervous, shackled, crumbled, sold
somehow feel my faith grow cold

If I’d ever had the blues
now I’m straight, no time to lose
chase the shadows off my heart
begin afresh a brand-new start

There are times to wait
now it’s the time for you to run
with your hope and a will
to finish all that you’ve begun

There’s a trace of light
it’s getting brighter day by day
you will see if you just believe
your luck is gonna stay:

your luck is gon-, your luck is gonyour
luck is gonna stay

There are times to wait
now it’s the time for me to run
with my hope and a will
to finish all that I’ve begun

There’s a trace of light
it’s getting brighter day by day
you will see if you just believe
your luck is gonna stay:

your luck is gon-, your luck is gonyour
luck is gonna stay

2 Your Bride

Just don’t call me Pandora
I’m not Persephone
don’t give me all those stories
all names are swept away

Don’t try to understand me
to chase away my fear
so brave while I’m beside you
so dark when you’re not near

I’ll follow you my darling
oh take me to that room
where I can be your bride babe
and you can be my groom

But I still bear those shadows
my mind’s a darkened sky
my doubts are circling vultures
I’m bound to watch them fly

My hopes and fears are twin-like
a Siamese pair grown
you couldn’t kill one of them
‘cause none of them can survive
on it’s own

I’ll follow you my darling
oh take me to that room
where I can be your bride babe
and you can be my groom

Make me whole
melt two into one
mend my soul
make me forget myself
make me whole
melt two into one
mend my soul

I’ll follow you my darling
oh take you to that room
where I can be your bride babe
and you can be my groom,my groom
my groom,my groom,my groom ...

3 Ease Your Pain

When your hope seems to scatter
when all chances seem to have gone
when you break down to give in
and you always wear a frown

When you think that this world
is too much for your shoulders
when you’re tired
of rolling the rock upon the hill

When you feel that you’re left
with less than nothing in your hand
and you feel too deserted
to stand up and march to the end

When you sit and stare
drink too much you can’t get no sleep
and the blues is your
everyday-mood when you’re in too deep

Well, pretend that I’m a doctor
who never fails to ease your pain
or pretend that I’m a shelter
that gets you, gets you through the rain

Though, I know sometimes it’s all too much
here’s your strength, I am your friend
here’s your strength, I am your friend

When your purse is all empty
there’s no love for you to find
no one cares to understand you
you got dark clouds on your mind

When you hide behind your cushion
you feel lost and dull and sad
then don’t hesitate
to call upon a friend

Well, pretend that I’m a doctor
who never fails to ease your pain
or pretend that I’m a shelter
that gets you, gets you through the rain

Though I know sometimes it’s all too much
here’s your strength, I am your friend
here’s your strength, I am your friend

Well, pretend that I’m a doctor
who never fails to ease your pain
or pretend that I’m a shelter
that gets you, gets you through the rain

Though I know sometimes it’s all too much
here’s your strength, I am your friend
here’s your strength, I am your friend:

(ad lib) Here’s your strength, I am
your friend ...

4 Bonnie and Clyde

We are two on the abyss
that is two lives at stake
we have both our twists and turns
but we’re true and wide awake

You and I
we broke up to smash walls
we broke up to break on through
to stand tall

We’re not Bonnie and Clyde
though we shoot like stars
we’re not Bonnie and Clyde
though we fight our wars
we’re not Bonnie and Clyde
though we try to get away with
our crimes:

We live to die,we live to love
we live to cease what we were given
cease what we were given
cease what we were given

We’re two on a journey
we’re two on a quest
on the run babe, they won’t catch us
we’re not heading way out west

You and I
we broke up to smash walls
we broke up to break on through
to stand tall

We’re not Bonnie and Clyde
though we shoot like stars
we’re not Bonnie and Clyde
though we fight our wars
we’re not Bonnie and Clyde
though we try to get away with
our crimes:

We live to die,we live to love
we live to cease what we were given
cease what we were given
cease what we were given

We’re not Bonnie and Clyde
though we shoot like stars
we’re not Bonnie and Clyde
though we fight our wars
we’re not Bonnie and Clyde
though we try to get away with
our crimes:

We live to die,we live to love
we live to cease what we were given
cease what we were given
cease what we were given

5 The Clearest Eyes

This moment is good
this moment belongs to us
I know you’re busy making plans
In a hurry to build up our future
this moment is true
we’re calm and quiet

Let me creep into your arms
seal your lips with my kisses

‘Cause you know who we are
in the silence of now
the earth liquefies
round the sun’s golden bough
we’re bare and we’re wounded
we tore off our disguise
I see the last star twinkle
in the clearness of your eyes

An hour before dawn
we’re up to see the sun rise
I guess I should freeze the frame
and keep this picture inside of me
we know who we are
still we don’t know, who we’re
gonna be

Hold on me fast and don’t let go
let me look into these clearest eyes to hope

‘Cause you know who we are
in the silence of now
the earth liquefies round the sun’s
golden bough
we’re bare and we’re wounded
we tore off our disguise
I see the last star twinkle
in the clearness of your eyes

Hold on me fast and don’t let go
let me look into these clearest eyes
to hope

‘Cause you know who we are
in the silence of now
the earth liquefies
round the sun’s golden bough
we’re bare and we’re wounded
we tore off our disguise
I see the last star twinkle
in the clearness of your eyes

this moment is good
this moment is good
this moment is good
this moment is good

6 Estranged

Tonight they’re going to serve my
head cut off on a plate
I can sense being unwished
in the unworthiest state

I’m left in the lurch
degraded by fate
is there anyone who could save me
I guess for tonight it’s too late

This is a nightmare
how I long to wake up
these plain grinning faces
how I want them to stop

Sitting here is like being
put up on a stage
when you don’t know the lines
and you turned the wrong page

These wonderful people
live their beautiful lies
evince and exalt
all their smart alibis

Seems I’m the freak here
unwise as I’ve been
live as a failure
my fall is foreseen

This is a nightmare
how I long to wake up
these plain grinning faces
how I want them to stop

Sitting here’s like being
put up on a stage
when you don’t know the lines
and you turned the wrong page

What am I supposed to be here?
What am I supposed to do?
Seems as if I signed
the wrong contract
somehow I feel locked up in a zoo

This is a nightmare
how I long to wake up
these plain grinning faces
how I want them to stop

Sitting here’s like being
put up on a stage
when you don’t know the lines
and you turned the wrong page
the wrong page

(ad lib) wrong page, wrong page
wrong page ...

7 Summerbreeze

When a summerbreeze
is carrying me to our hideaway
and I smell the waves
washing up on the shore

When a summerwind
whispers all that I have to say
and the smell of oranges
fills up the air

That is the time
when I learn to linger
that is the time
when I start to live

It’s in your touch
it’s on the tip of your finger
I take everything
that you can give to me

When you turn around
and bow down for a last kiss
I cannot be blue
for I know we’ll return

That is the time
when I learn to linger
that is the time when I start to live

It’s in your touch
it’s on the tip of your finger
I take everything
that you can give to me

When we are back
and the leaves start-a-falling
a taste of goodbye
begins to fill up my mouth

When you turn around
and bow down for a last kiss
I cannot be blue
for I know we’ll return

(ad lib) we’ll return,we’ll return,
we’ll return ...

(ad lib) we’ll return,we’ll return,
we’ll return ...

8 One Way Street

What would you say
if I’d cry you a river
what would you say
if I said it all wrong
what would you say
if I kneeled down to shiver
at your hand to beg you to moan

What would I’ve done
if you’d fought just to win me back
what would I do
if you proved me all wrong
what would I say
if you had tried to make it up
would I return to our home?

Nothing could change
what we felt or said before
sometimes you must learn
to let it all go
we had to see
we can’t live on our memory

We close the door
we throw the keys and we go
we close the door
we throw the keys and we go

What had we done
if we met in another life
could it be we met
in the wrong time or place
there is no sense
in those questions that we arise
it’s loss that we now have to face

Nothing I could do
would bring it all back to us
the saddest truth
is what I read in your eyes
what we became
was not quite what we started as

Once we were one
but now how far
have we come apart?
Once we were one
but now how far
have we come apart, come apart?

Nothing you could do
would bring it all back to us
the saddest truth
is what you read in my eyes
what we became
was not quite what we started as

Once so much love
There’s still enough for goodbye
once so much love
now we both can’t live a lie
we can’t live a lie

9 Melting November

The year is at it’s end
but the summer’s on your face
although it’s freezing outside
I feel your heat
pulsing through my veins

All that I hold dear
is right here in your arms
that day in November
seems to have born
some kind of spring-like charms

And now a sun
warms me in my winter
melts all my doubts away
my thoughts are bound to fly
southwards with the birds
you got me drifting astray

The year is at it’s end
but the summer’s on your face
although it’s freezing outside
I feel your heat
pulsing through my veins

When you’re wrapped around me
the world is within us
we fight and die in sweet embraces
flowing glowing lava

Glows in flashes on our faces
illuminates the earthy crust
and burns our doubts to dust
burns our doubts to dust
you got me drifting astray

The year is at it’s end
but the summer’s on your face
although it’s freezing outside
I feel your heat
pulsing through my veins

The year is at it’s end
but the summer’s on your face
although it’s freezing outside
I feel your heat
pulsing through my veins
through my veins

10 Microcosm

In you I float, in water I’m thrown
in your water I wallow, I drink
I swim carried by your gentle
waves

In you I live, in fire I light up
in your fire I sparkle, I burn
I explode, shoot like a star in the
nightly sky
I explode, shoot like a star

I’m all for you
will you take me take me take me
into your soul, into your soul
to the center of your passion
to the center of yourself
to the center of your passion
let me vanish inside of you

In you I die, in earth I’m rooted
in your earth I’m buried
to dwell again
I lay down my head
to touch the ground

I’m all for you
will you take me take me take me
into your soul, into your soul
to the center of your passion
to the center of yourself
to the center of your passion
let me vanish inside of you

In you I breathe, in air I will
uprise on your breath I roam
inhale your scent I revel up
in stratospheres
I thaw my soul near to your sun

... far away
will you take me take me take me
into your soul, into your soul
to the center of your passion
to the center of yourself
to the center of your passion
let me vanish inside of you

I’m all for you
will you take me take me take me
into your soul, into your soul
to the center of your passion
to the center of yourself
to the center of your passion
let me vanish inside of you
inside of you, inside of you
vanish inside of you

11 The Story of Able

I’ve seen all these houses
the bridges the streets
the roofs and the hallways
the windows and walls
I’ve seen all those valleys
those markets and gardens
those forests, those farms
built by the proudest of men

I dreamt the forsaken dream
of Cain slaying Able
I knew how it seemed
to be all doomed to fall
I sat here alone
under this broken gable
I hugged myself
on the cold stony ground
the cold stony ground

I’ve smelt the sweet odour
of herbs and of spices
of trees and of flowers
of wind and of rain
I’ve looked into faces
of people who vanished
forlorn and forgotten
their family-stem
the world’s on the upside

dreamt the forsaken dream
of Cain slaying Able
I knew how it seemed
to be all doomed to fall
I sat here alone
under this broken gable

I hugged myself
on the cold stony ground
the cold stony ground

I’ve seen many leaders
contracts resolutions
bull-headed and thuggish
they plant a bad seed
their innocent lamb
is torn into pieces
their banner is Christian
but it’s Jesus they spoil
the world’s on the upside

Darwinian nature
and still we face the human stain
their greed makes them lusty
to kill all heretics
stab out all dissenters
to dissemble their aim

I dreamt the forsaken dream
of Cain slaying Able
I knew how it seemed
to be all doomed to fall
I sat here alone
under this broken gable
I hugged myself
on the cold stony ground
the cold stony ground
the cold stony ground