Not married anymore

 

once upon a time I had a girl and made her mine

she was great and I did everything to win

she was rough and she was sweet not like anyone you'd meet

now I wish I wasn't married anymore.

 

We talked deep and travelled far built a home and bought a car

had two kids and swore forever was our shore.

It was tough at times it's true but we dug in and pulled through

now I wish I wasn't married anymore.

 

She had this thing she couldn't stand seeing women with her man

be it collegues, friends or strangers passing by

It went from cold to hard and bad filling all the time we had

having talks and seeing shrinks, we had a try.

 

It got cluttered, it went cold, it was mean and it was cruel

it was something I don't wish for anyone.

We went following the curse with each day a gettin' worse

I just wished i wasn't married anymore.

 

Even after years of hurt, after throwing 'round the dirt

we thought love could lead us through these stormy seas.

It was vain and did no good we did things we never should

we both wished we wasn't married anymore.

 

The things she threw at me could be anything, you see

did not hurt half as much as what she said.

I was trying to recall the time we had a ball

searching shelter I had no wish to die.

 

To end this tale of woe there's much more as you will know

it is over and I'm free and feeling fine.

The page is turned and hope's come home I look forward and I roam

I'm so happy, I'm not married anymore.

 

Drink to my health

 

Drink to my health, drink well

stamp your boots, raise hell

join the hooting and howling

dance with a flame in your heart

swallow the souls of desire

be the queen of love's empire

live like a burning fire

fare well

 

Mess around with me beware

touch my soul, if you dare

There's more to it than hootin' and a'howlin'

better than a smack in the eye

it's the good times for you and for me

summer at the edge of the sea

a flower who has found it's bee

take care

 

Be unfaithful or be true

it only depends on you

Follow the path of your longings

greet the day with a smile

enjoy the daring fear of chance

be the first to join the dance

greet the love that falls into your hands

a dieu

 

 

We both know that we've had our time

when I was yours, and you were mine

we done a lot of hootin' and a'howlin'

party to the break of dawn

There were good times sweet to remember

others as grey as november

fill your pockets with tears of ember

bye bye

 

Ask yourself

 

You have to ask yourself a question.

You have to ask yourself just once.

You have to go below your face to find a shadow of truth.

You have to see through all these lies

seeing through the easy tales, below the love gone stale

Below beyond belief. Below beyond your grief.

 

You have to open up your heart

You have to open up your mind.

There is no easy way to cope oh no, it would have been known.

You have to take yourself head on

going through each hard fought round taking beats and going down.

Below beyond your belief to find the words of relief, of relief.

 

A single day

 

This has been a very long divorce

what took so long? What took so long?

Did we need to stretch the pain so far?

You never wanted me at all

Not a single day

 

Still we went through years of married life

It seemed so right. It seemed so right.

Building up a home took all our time

We thought we loved this life. Every single day!

 

I know that I tried and I know that I cared

I tried but always failed.

Now I know I couldn't change the track

that we were so determined to follow.

 

Now we have to face this end of love

it is so sad. It is so sad.

This is when we end the life we shared

we thought forever, but no:

It was just a single day. It was just a single day.

 

 

At the end of a rope

 

You never can tell

if this is heaven or hell

you live among angels

at the bottom of a well

your nose hits the dirt

as you hear the bell

you've lost another big deal

now there's nothing more to sell

 

You lived upon your status

you knew you were unique

you were born among the strong

had only scorn for the weak

the great big city artist

now is revealed to be a freak

there's no more magic karma

your importance is disappearing as we speak

 

The future full of promises

has emptied it's horn

no gypsy woman told your mother

the day you were born

that the boy child at her bosom

was a son of a gun

you were just another joker

now you're on your toes and run.

 

You thought you'd own houses

in every country on the globe

you thought among your friends

you'd count a king and a pope

the great shining future

was all vanity and hope

you're just another apeman

swinging at the end of a rope.

 

Maybe this is all

that was meant to be

not only for you

but also for them and for me

I guess that it will never

be too late to see

that everyone's making the best of it

while trying to be free.

 

 

What kind of a world

 

Hey! What kind of a world is this?

I don't understand anything at all.

We have all been trapped

in a tragedy a nightmare

with no hope of escape.

 

Hey, Have we reached the end of all we know?

Have we gone too far killing of our star?

Is the final show

a tragedy a nightmare

with no one to applaud?

 

I don't see no way to get out

maybe I don't know where to look.

I dream of being amazed

of someone proving me wrong.

 

Hey, what kind of a world is this

No one feels at ease, no one feels at home

the wrong ones reach the top

in this irony, this masquerade

in this sad and old worn out world

in this sad and old worn out world.

 

 

Thanks for the fight

 

I know it's nothing compared to the pain we saw

the misery in the world all around

made our dance around pride and a broken heart

seem so small, so banal so vain.

 

Your words were so hard your eyes so cold

compared to what I'd known before

what came out of your mouth would not hold up in court

they were words meant to kill and dispose.

 

All through the day all through the night

I long to hear you say:

"It was good being with you thanks for the fight.

 

We seemed to live on planets apart

not a word meant the same here as there

I said: "let us both save our skin and go on"

you thought I was pointing a gun.

 

I want to be your friend you want to see me dead

but why after all these years

Why blame me for life's passing why blame at all.

A time has come and gone.

 

All through the day all through the night

I long to hear you say:

"It was good being with you thanks for the fight.

 

So take a deep breath and start looking ahead

at the pleasures you'll meet on your way

not with me that's for sure but with somebody new

more worthy than me for you.

 

All through the day all through the night

I long to hear you say:

"It was good being with you thanks for the fight.

 

 

This is the day

 

It is up to you

if anything's gonna be

between us at all

anything at all

you have to decide now

one of these days

one of these days

 

If the time has come

you'd better not hesitate

you cannot trust fate

never trust fate

it's all your decision

if we will be

if we will be.

 

Is it all or not?

you can't pretend anymore

that it is not you

that has to choose what to do

you have to decide now

this is the day

this is the day

 

 

Hollow old bone

 

What were you thinking when you served me the deal?

What went through your head as you turned on your heel?

”Get out of my life, please. The ”please” is just polite.

I want you gone arrivederci, get out of my sight.”

 

I counted the stars as I looked to the sky

the numbers seemed right when I started to cry.

You swallowed my pride and spit out the stone.

Left me here without marrow a hollow old bone.

 

Your eyes looked beyond me into something great.

I was trying my best but it was years too late.

Your dream had left our cottage for some far unknown vale.

I was left with a burning and a sign sayin' ”for sale”.

 

I counted the stars as I looked to the sky

the numbers seemed right when I started to cry.

You swallowed my pride and spit out the stone.

Left me here without marrow a hollow old bone.

 

You say it's for me to take the big step

you say it is I, who wants to leave your bed

do you remember the anger, do you remember the pain

when the words you were heeding were ”never again”.

 

I counted the stars as I looked to the sky

the numbers seemed right when I started to cry.

You swallowed my pride and spit out the stone.

Left me here without marrow a hollow old bone.

 

Here comes the bride on a stallion all well kept and strong

I lost my mind and my heart, then she left and travelled along.

 

When you bid me farewell will you please take my hand

and remember the years when we were woman and man.

The laughs we did share and the things we went through

I thought the word ”forever” was a synonym for ”you”.

 

I counted the stars as I looked to the sky

the numbers seemed right when I started to cry.

You swallowed my pride and spit out the stone.

Left me here without marrow a hollow old bone

 

I need a new girl

 

I need a new girl in my life, a new face in my dreams

I need a new voice to tell me things who knows all my favourite schemes

With warm hands on my breast a fresh breeze ligthing up my chest

The time is now it seems

 

I need a woman who loves like fire, a playmate to run by my side

I need a woman with a strong desire to be my partner and my guide

she'll tell me things I need to know and grab every chance on the go

I'm opening up the curtains for the show

 

Should it be a blond girl with big breasts, a tall girl with brown hair,

a sweet thing with street flair, maternal beauty full of care.

I know she's out there the star of my love affair

coming down the marble le stair to cuddle up her hairy bear.

 

I need a strong life by my side a voice I'll enjoy to hear.

She'll be a loving wife by and by for now a lover and a musketeer

to bring me through the darkest night and laugh when everything is alright

The time is now I'm ready for you now.

 

In a dead man's skull

 

Key's in the water

stranded on the sand

desert of emotions

it's time to be a man.

 

noises in the alley

become voices in the head

illusions of importance

echo from the dead

 

Love is just a bit of it

pride takes it's part

turmoil of time passing

in search of a new start

 

people getting through their storms

don't come easy says they

you gotta do what you gotta do

it's that kind of day

 

Please, Please

tell me where to go

give a sign to follow

a door to sneak through

 

imprisoned in this all man's land

a place where yes means no

see it all and turn the head

fly high or lay low

 

it's ten for the money

trying not to show

you asked me here honey

now I have to go

 

hiding as a dead man's skull

shark row of skeleton fangs

sausageful of fingers

the day ying killed yang

 

What's on your mind

 

Come on Sally Tell me

Tell me what's on your mind

Tell me what you hide in your heart.

Tell, don't lie. You want to go away

You, You want to get on your way. Away, away

 

Come say goodbye

Come say goodbye

Tell me goodbye

goodbye.

 

Come here Sally come here

please, please take my hand.

Feel the warmth of my skin.

Feel the beat of my heart

Feel the beat of my pain, again, this pain

Feel the break of a heart, this heart, my heart.

 

Come say goodbye

Come say goodbye

Tell me goodbye

goodbye.

 

Ship full of ghosts

 

I'm tryin' to hold onto what happened before

I'm trying to avoid you going out the door

I cling to the whispering dreams of last fall

I think if I listen I'll still hear you call.

 

It's all so unreal, it cannot be true

if you'll hold onto my hand noone will need to go.

Nothing has happened so why did we fail

is it all just a thought of life going stale?

 

I want to keep what we had, I want to live it again

for nothing in the world I'll accept the end.

For the rest of my days I'll keep singing your song

the song full of beauty from before things went wrong.

 

Holding on to whatever we think we had goin'

you carried our dreams while I did the bowing

when the going get's tough and the water starts flowing

you found a ship and sailed away

a ship that held just one and it was you that day.

 

I was noone for you, you was all for me

I used to live in a country, now I'm a refugee.

"We have long years of laughter before us", you said

then later you told me that all love was dead.

 

How could I or anyone else believe

that a love so strong was meant to deceive?

I still think it's a nightmare and I'll wake up soon

but all I can hear is a sad mumbled tune.

 

You show me your back, but I remember your face

you treat med so hard, I still see your grace.

The love and the beauty, it was all so plain

is lying as a corpse where you left it slain.

 

I still wish to hold onto what happened before

to the dreams that seeped through the cracks in the door

I thought I gave you all, but you wanted much more

The ship full of ghosts that took you away

brings back wisdom and freedom at the end of the day.

 

 

Thousand voices

 

This is about the thousand voices

you hear when you want to think clear.

The things that you hear

at times of night when all is asleep

and thoughts are rolling into the deep

glossy lips too close to your eyes

glossy truths and terribly beautiful lies.

 

Larger than life the thousand voices

that fill you with trouble and fear

stab through your ear

the frozen blood of pain and defeat

despair and pity cling to your feet

it's too late to close your eyes

all too late it's awfully clear that you've lost

it all.

 

Only sometimes

 

It can only be sometimes that things turn out right.

sometimes you're lucky, so lucky. and sometimes not at all.

But the one time is all you remember to this day.

The things that shaped your dreams when everything's right.

The moments of truth we call them, our moments of bliss.

 

When something falls to pieces breaks in your hands

It might be very important or maybe not.

most likely it's just another thing to forget.

in the turmoil of the days running over you, over and away forever.

This is here and now and everything's right. in this moment.

This moment of truth we're living, this moment of life.