mad puppet
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| Die Alben: |
| masque (1982) |
| not only mad (1991) |
| king laurin and his rosegarden (1994) |
| live at carambolage (1997) |
| cube (2000) |
Not only Mad
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I know your works I know your works You're neither hot nor cold Would that you were hot or cold Suicide of waterfall Dear director You should remember me I am the handicapped night porter You saw go lame in this crumpled tail-coat Down the Hotel foyer I've got to write this letter As you know in my disease The chest is compressed more and more It comes to panic outbreaks Of heart liver and bile A paleolitical pick nick But I climbed the path To the healing power In the secret of the night Nothing compares To my overwhelming cascade Thundering deep down the milled gorge Waterfall symphony Water falling miracle As it were love at the first sight As a spine cripple It's so hard to reach Such a miracle But when I was vigorous Went up through the Hotel gorge When nobody could observe me Until the dead line I soon noticed it was too dark I missed the rushing So that I went to see What the matter was And there... A mask of shattered nature Naked as never before Gapes a suicidal crack A cascade in low water Dear director Suicide It really was a suicide The foaming force ha poisoned itself Suicide I know it was a suicide Waterfall's dead body dictated following testament: In protest against the senseless Exploitation of my thermal spring Only one example of mankind's ruinous utilization Of its resources I - the foaming force - have Poisoned myself which was no difficult matter With the addition of all the waste relentlessly polluting my water Radium emanation - the real miracle of thespa - is instantly destroyed The inert gas radon develops its radio-activity to a full degree and undiminished Radiation damage remains in all the pools I relegate to you - crippled night porter - the task of writing my last will and Testament You crippled similarly are left to wonder through space and time a horrifying Example to mankind To you I will reveal one last time the power of my natural music which all have failed to hear Fire in the sky Deep in the night, a moonlit night On a bumpy way, hey A man runs exhausted He's got the news Out of the blue "Sky is in full blaze" Quite knocked out, no voice to shout His eye falls on a proud crowd They are having a good time They kick up the row He's the only one to know He's screaming but they don't hear The man is shocked, tired to death He didn't expect rocks ahead "we'll have not the least chance!" No one sees No one agrees He's screaming but they don't hear Fire Don't you see Fire Fire in the sky Fire Don't you see There's a sheet of fire Fire Fire in the sky Gonzalo There was a young man He didn't agree to resignation He trusted in a better world and in justice (to the justice...) Down in La Paz (why on earth "La Paz "?) in the dark slums Where life isn't life anymore He conceived a comprehensive view It was too easy for him to say: "there's no way" (Oh Gonzalo somehow I feel bad as if it were my fault) "No, there is a way, don't give a chance to fatalism" (I have to think... think of all the things...) "We all can help each other and all strangers can be brothers I mean, we've got to reach out our hands". You know Down in La Paz a man was shut down 'cause he believed in possibilities "First world you're the last" Your power builds on the past A stolen future stocked And the whole world has got to be rocked In times of too much talking, when not enough has been done You went out. No talking! You got going! (Oh Gonzalo somehow I feel bad, I remember what you said: "First world you're the last ..." There are ways and ways of mastering life and I don't mean we need more heroes But anyhow I am deeply impressed by you stood up for what you believed in "First world you're the last ...." Waitin' for money Waiting for money Boy I am so cool I'm gonna buy a swimming pool It's really high emotion I'm gonna buy the Atlantic Ocean So welcome to the West! All around this brand new age Gnomes fall down from space to save the human race "Oh how exciting! Oh how exciting!" Voices from outer space caught in old radios "Oh how exciting! Oh how exciting!" all around this brand new age Come on let's fall in trance, We do the transi dance "Let's raise a spirit! Let's raise a spirit!" So many broken spirits searching among the stars "Oh how exciting! Oh how exciting!" All around this brand new age All around this brand new age ... Neither hot nor cold I know your words are neither hot nor could Would that you where hot ore could So 'cause you're luke-warm And neither hot nor could I'll spew you out of my mouth. Spew you out. Out of my mouth I say: Yeah, You say: No! For you say I have prospered, I am rich And I need nothing more, and I need nothing Not knowing that you are wretched You're pitiable and poor You are naked and blind Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold Refined by fire that you may be rich And white garments to cloth you To keep she shame of your nakedness (from being seen) So much to say, but so hard to explain Since you've become dull of hearing! Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold Refined by fire that you may be rich And salve to anoint your eyes Anoint your eyes that you may see So much to say But so hard to explain Since you've become Dull of hearing! For though by this time you ought You ought to be teacher But you need someone to teach To teach you again the first words Tsch... I hear your tsch... Always your aha Aha Have any of you spoken ? There are hard times of deep emptiness When only fears accompany my loneliness A broken man, enmity around Still ore the raven's going on to do his sound I won't save myself no more It's all over, I'm done for It's too late, it's too late What a pity! What a sudden awake I thought I could avoid again deadly mistake Life seemed so easy, I lived like a lord It seemed to last long I felt free but I was caught I won't save myself no more It's all over, I'm done for It's too late, it's too late Have any of you spoken? It seemed so to me Is there nobody here to help me? Not even one? Lost on an island In the middle of a sea I'm drowning on a dry land Can't you see? You When days are gone I think back on the work I've done Dissatisfied or proud At the end of it all is you You I know you're the truth The light in the dark, the door I go through You've just one thing to do: don't leave me in the lurch All I ever used to do All that I ever used to say I did it my way Give adjustment to my thoughts Adjustment to my words, correct my reactions Take my hand, I need someone to go the right way Somebody wise, revitalize! Give me a future, give me a future take my hand I need someone, don't leave me in the lurch First of all I do need you, I need you to grow up I need you to get strong I know I depend on you, I'm a nothing without you, you are the master Take my hand .... I'm terrified to get lost, I'm in fear to lose my life Lost when you turn your face away Because in all I do I simply need your guarantee First off all I do need you ... don't leave me in the lurch Love never ends If I speak in the tongues of men And of angels But have not love I'm a noisy gong And If I have prophetic powers But have not love I am nothing Love never ends It doesn't insist on it's own way Love never ends (I mean real love) It's patient and kind Rejoices in the right Love does never end If I give away All I have But have not love I gain nothing And If I understand All mysteries But have not love I am nothing I'm sure I say Love is the way To keep your sorrows and Your fear away It comes in your heart I comes in your mind Eternal feeling And there is no more behind Love never ends Love never ends (I mean real love And do you really know What love is? What real love is?) Love never ends Love never ends |