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In ninety-one he started playing his game
He says the USA is the enemy to blame
This year, ninety-nine, nothing has changed.
Did this mighty man ever use his brain?
People are afraid of a new "Desert Storm"
A new state of war has already been born.
The missile-attack with American bombs
should decide the game of terror and flames.
Violence against violence, weapons against guns,
White man in a villa against black man in the slums.
War's another word for terror, many people die
Nobody has learned from it in nineteen ninety-nine.
So many people 've lost their lives by wars.
Will the end of this millenium stop this chaos?
The 20th century was filled with wars.
We can't bring peace to earth, but fly to the stars
No more of this! There were enough fights
Wars 're caused by mistrust and terrible lies.
The only innocent victims are the kids of this world.
Stop destroying humanity, this planet is only borrowed.
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Hopeless darkness, I open my eyes
I dreamed of a life in paradise
without pain, disease and war.
Death, is it worth living for?
Atom bombs and chemistry
3rd world hunger, 1st world luxury
Cancer, AIDS, do we need more?
Death, is it worth living for?
We close our eyes, don't want to see (that)
we are responsible for our misery,
we are destroying the humanity
I would like to live in paradise
I would like to start a new life
would like to understand
why we believe in our lies
World weariness comes over me
I try to forget my nightmares
It's too late, can't you realize?
Go and boil your head!
I close my eyes, fall asleep again
I hope to wake up without pain
If we stop living with lies,
we can build a new paradise.
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Hol mich ein!
04:49
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Leb mit mir
Stirb mit mir
Lach mit mir
und wein‘ mit mir
Vernichte die Vergangenheit
alle Ironie aus dieser Zeit
Kehr zu dir selbst zurück
Verlasse, was dich stört, was nicht zu dir gehört
und deinen Wert nicht kennt
sonst macht es dich verrückt!
Hol mich ein - hol mich ein!
Hol mich ein - hol mich ein!
Sei mir Vergangenheit und Zukunft
Hol mich ein!
Tanz mit mir
Steh mit mir
Geh mit mir
lauf fort mit mir
Vergiss alles, was vergangen ist
Die Angst, die Wut, den Tag
an dem du gingst
Such dir ein neues Ziel, erwarte nie zu viel
verlass die Einsamkeit, genieße alle Zeit
damit sie Sinn dir bringt!
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Tragedy
04:42
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Klang der Seelen
04:08
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In einer anderen Dimension,
dort wo unsere Seele wohnt,
gibt es weder Raum noch Zeit.
Es herrscht dort - die Ewigkeit.
Sphärenklänge, die uns durchdringen
werden immer weiterschwingen.
Hörst du - den Klang der Seelen?
Die Seelen der Vergänglichen
als Klänge ewig fortbestehen,
unbegrenzt von Zeit und Raum,
genau so - wie ein ewiger Traum
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Down
05:00
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She has got enough from me.
I understand her.
There's an emptiness inside my brain,
feel nothing, but I swear
that everything I wanted - was meant like I said
- nothing bad.
I try to flee from reality
and only want to die.
I close my door, hope that things get better.
Please explain to me why!
Tears run down my face. Everything's too much
I'm starving 'cause I miss - your touch.
Last night I had a nightmare caused
by my depressive thoughts
I see no future, I am afraid,
but life still goes on.
I've got to forget my fear and I must do it alone.
Everybody lives with it and dies, when the time has come.
I feel so down, I feel so down ...
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Cassandra
04:04
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Another time, a different place
a planet without human race
nobody is walking around
the earth has turned to fertile ground
Criminals are now in demand
cause nobody is resistant
against the virus in the air
so they will breathe (taste) it to compare
She saw the past, she saw future.
And all she saw will soon occur.
she´s unable to interfere
although she knows the end is near...
Turn back the time - that´s in her mind
she sees the past in different eyes
a film is passing all the time
she has a vision of the crime.
She saw the past, she saw future.
And all she saw will soon occur.
she´s unable to interfere
although she knows the end is near...
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Time goes by
05:28
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Something happens when you leave me
Something happens when you treat me
And something happens when I try to flee
from my own bad reality.
What would happen when I'd like to kill you
When I'd deny you and all truth?
Is there a sense for you and me?
Sorry, this is what I cannot see.
Something happens when you touch me
Something happens when you beat me
But nothing happens when I die.
So my life goes on and time goes by.
Nothing happens when I hurt you.
There is nothing that I ever could do
And tomorrow when our world will die
I will pray to you that time goes by
Was there anything we could have done?
Was there anything I should have known?
I won't hear the phrase, 'cause it's a lie.
At this point I know that some time doesn't go by.
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Versuchung
04:43
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Du fühlst diesen Schmerz,
er treibt sich in dein Herz,
wie ein Geschoss.
Weißt nicht mehr wie man lacht,
einsam ist deine Nacht,
mach damit Schluss.
Es gibt zwar Wege, zu entfliehen
lass sie an dir vorüberziehen!
gib endlich auf, gehöre mir!
Nur deine Seele nehm ich dir.
Und:
das Schlechte ruft komm zu mir her
nimm meinen Weg, er ist nicht schwer
Folge mir in eine leichte Welt
Sei selbst dein Gott - im Flammenmeer
Komm mit mir, gib deine Hand
und ich zeige dir mein Land
wo schon so viele Seelen sind
Sei so wie ich, der Hölle Kind!
Ich biet' dir einen Tausch
flüchte in meinen Rausch
komm schlage ein
Wo dich sonst keiner mag
rette ich deinen Tag
bist nie allein.
Die Wirklichkeit, die dich so quält
Ist etwas das für uns nicht zählt.
Hier mit mir kannst Du gut leben
Ich werd' den Rausch der Macht dir geben.
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Expansion
05:34
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Progress was in every age
human's motive power.
From the fist wedge to the machine gun,
from cascade to shower.
Have you ever asked yourself?
Where is the end of this?
Is it the universe or our decline?
Is it the universe or our decline?
We conquered the fire
and cooked our foods.
But also, we burned people,
but also, we burned woods.
It gives too many bad things,
while the goods are too good.
While few people more destroy than many people save.
While few people more destroy than many people save.
The human expansion brings the disaster.
The human expansion brings the death faster.
First comes the collapse of nature and animals,
then comes the decline of human and universe.
Our destiny is progress,
we need it and we've got it.
We're the rulers of our own lives,
but we may not break the rules!
We must learn the rules of nature
to control our progress.
We could live with earth or we must die with earth!
We could live with earth or we must die with earth!
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Leb mit mir
Stirb mit mir
Lach mit mir
und wein‘ mit mir
Vernichte die Vergangenheit
alle Ironie aus dieser Zeit
Kehr zu dir selbst zurück
Verlasse, was dich stört, was nicht zu dir gehört
und deinen Wert nicht kennt
sonst macht es dich verrückt!
Hol mich ein - hol mich ein!
Hol mich ein - hol mich ein!
Sei mir Vergangenheit und Zukunft
Hol mich ein!
Tanz mit mir
Steh mit mir
Geh mit mir
lauf fort mit mir
Vergiss alles, was vergangen ist
Die Angst, die Wut, den Tag
an dem du gingst
Such dir ein neues Ziel, erwarte nie zu viel
verlass die Einsamkeit, genieße alle Zeit
damit sie Sinn dir bringt!
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Sie kommen zurück (Live)
05:00
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Forgotten times
04:48
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instrumental
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Something happens when you leave me
Something happens when you treat me
And something happens when I try to flee
from my own bad reality.
What would happen when I'd like to kill you
When I'd deny you and all truth?
Is there a sense for you and me?
Sorry, this is what I cannot see.
Something happens when you touch me
Something happens when you beat me
But nothing happens when I die.
So my life goes on and time goes by.
Nothing happens when I hurt you.
There is nothing that I ever could do
And tomorrow when our world will die
I will pray to you that time goes by
Was there anything we could have done?
Was there anything I should have known?
I won't hear the phrase, 'cause it's a lie.
At this point I know that some time doesn't go by.
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Symptom Eskalation / Drunkness Germany
1990 - 2009 / 2018: Drunkness
2009 - 2016: RIAS 64
2021 - ... : Symptom Eskalation
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