Sass in der Ecke vom Schnellrestaurant -
mit Plastikblumen auf der Fensterbank
Kein Wunder mehr - Brotlaib und Fisch
hol das schmutzige Geschirr vom Tisch
Bin heute so empfindlich - es geht auch ohne Stimulanz

Probier jetzt jede Moeglichkeit, leb in einem Zwischenreich
Der Ozean ist zu, Statik blitzt - elektrischer Schlag
aus kaltem Gefuehl
Augen starren aus der Ferne - bewacht vom stummen Spion

           Die Waerme fliesst noch in mir
           und ich spuer, du kennst micht gut
           Kein Glueck, kein Los zu fassen
           Alles liegt allein bei dir
           Es ist wie es ist
           weil nichts Zufall ist - auch hier

           Komm zu mir - leg die Haende auf
           Bin bereit - leg die Haende auf
           Glaube! - leg die Haende auf

Pflanze Rosen ohne Dornen fuer selt'ne Braeuche
Fette Maenner spielen mit Gartenschlaeuchen
Maedchen am Pool haben Wahnsinnsdurst
ihr Cocktailquirl spiesst die Wurst
Der Ton ist laut, das Licht ist weich -
ich steige in das Zwischenreich

           Die Waerme fliesst noch in mir
           und ich spuer, du kennst micht gut
           Es ist wie es ist
           weil nichts Zufall ist - auch hier

           Komm zu mir - leg die Haende auf
           Bin bereit - leg die Haende auf
           Glaube! - leg die Haende auf

           Leg die Haende auf
           Leg die Haende auf
           Leg die Haende auf, auf mich

   --- instrumental ---

When the night shows
the signals grow on radios
All the strange things
they come and go, as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There's no point in direction we cannot
             even choose a side.

I took the old track
the hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs
they were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
and as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain
             was warm and soaked the crowd.

Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

When the flood calls
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a thousand minds, within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn, they'll
            use up what we used to be.

Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

Met this girl called Josephine and took her up on my machine,
We had a little fun, and now we got a little one.
Had to get married, being chased out of town.
Found ourselves a place to live, we put all our money down.

   Called it Home Sweet Home, Home Sweet Home,
   Eleven floors up in a tower block, happy just to have a home.
   I've gone and changed the lock on our home.

Nothing really worked out right; things got broke, they stayed that way.
None of our friends came round at night, little Sam got no place to play.
"We've got to get out of here, Bill," she said,
"I've been telling you all the while,"
When I came home from work that night,
She'd jumped out the window with our child.

   From our Home Sweet Home, Home Sweet Home.
   Just a place to take a rest, just a place to make a nest.
   We call it home.

When the insurance money came through,
It seemed dirty, didn't know what to do.
Took out the cash, went down to the casino,
Down on the wheel on a double,
And I won, yes I won, like I never won before.
Bought myself a country house with an antique carved oak door.

   It was Home Sweet Home, Home Sweet Home.
   Just a place to lay our head, think of all the things we said
   About in our Home Sweet Home.

I saw the man at J.F.K.
He took your ticket yesterday
In the humdrum

I ride tandem with a random
Things don't run the way I planned them
In the humdrum

Hey Valentina, do you want me to beg?
You got me cooking I'm a hard boiled egg
In the humdrum

    Empty my mind - I find it hard to cope
    Listen to my heart - don't need no stethoscope

[It] Seem' to me that television
She come to cut me a deep incision
In the humdrum

    Empty my mind - I find it hard to cope
    Listen to my heart - don't need no stethoscope

Out of woman come the man
Spend the rest of his life gettin back where he can
As a bow, so a dove
As below, so above
From the black hole
Come the tadpole
With the dark soul
In coal she burn, she burn

As I drove into the sun
Didn't dare look where I had begun
Lost among echoes of things not there
Watching the sound forming shapes in the air
From the white star
Came the bright scar
Our amobea
My little liebe schoen