1. FINAL THRILL

Another land, another culture
With a different kind of life
What was once forbidden
Belongs here to social life

While you travel to those countries
You can live a thousand lives
In a castle somewhere in britain
Or a temple down in asia

Give me a golden shower
Give me a new thrill
Give me this experience
And give me the last kill
Give me almighty power
Give me a strong will
Give me a new life
And give me the final thrill

Hatred, boredom and the lies
Plenty of false moral rules
Breaking them in many ways
You don`t belong to these fools

Being sneaky, unpredictable
Never is forgiven
Condemned and rejected
But you live, you live your life


2. HISTORY

They were fighting for land in earlier days
Wanting to extend their living space
They were fighting for their faith a thousand years
Call it holy war - it`s the sum of your fears

They are fighting for oil at the present time
Want to suppress all of these crimes
Fighting goes on in the next decade
It will never stop until it`s too late

They will fight for water not far from today
A limited resource after the decay
They were fighting for land in earlier days
Thought they were a superior race

History repeats itself
The war will soon begin
It`s already ten to twelve
We are almost within

A new war just started to avenge their nation
The war against terror - our new obligation
We are in a tunnel with no light at the end
The war is not over, there is more to defend


3. LÜGNER

Dir selber warst du niemals treu
Denn treue kennst du nicht
Verschlagenheit, dein attribut
Jetzt zeigst du dein gesicht

Wenn du in den spiegel schaust
Frag` ich mich, was du erblickst
Was glaubst du zu bekommen
Wenn du selbst nur dreck verschickst?!

Mit jeder silbe, die du sprichst
Ein weiteres versprechen brichst
Mit jeder silbe, die du sprichst
Das schwert der luege an uns bricht

Die wahrheit ist kein freund von dir
Denn wahre freunde hast du nicht
Ausgenutzt hast du zu viele
Doch gegeben hast du nichts

Die luegen haben es dir leicht gemacht
Denn luegen fiel dir niemals schwer
Am ende waren die taschen voll
Doch all die kassen leer


4. PRISONERS OF WAR

We have to fire up the engines, supply them with coal
And if we get too weak we are burned as fuel

I have seen my comrades getting burned down here
Counting my days until it`s my turn

Aboard this flagship
We are prisoners of war
Used as human resources
We haven`t come very far
There`s no more hope
It`s a war without an end
A fight against humanity
Nothing more to defend

We haven`t seen the sun for uncountable days
The only light we`ve seen is the fire of burned bodies

Our skin`s stained black by dust and by coal
The smell of burned flesh is present everywhere


5. FASTER LIFE

It`s driving me forth without a rest
These feelings inside me I cannot control
An unknown force is controlling my fate
It provides me with this restless life

I`m coming home to recover
But after a day I feel it again
I have to leave and go on a journey
To unknown places I haven`t heard of

Travelling from place to place
My life is way too fast
I`m always on a race
And I wonder how long it will last

And this time I will not return
I will travel on to all these places
And it may be I find a place
A definite place to settle down


6. OBSCURE PICTURES

I`ve had to leave
But still can see you
Almost every single day
When desire overwhelms me

But more important is
What I can do
Although I really want to
Feel and smell your perfect skin

An obscure picture on my screen
Is all that`s left of you
Your voice distorted from my speakers
And there`s nothing else I can do
This is a lesson for our love
We have to be patient for now
But while the time is passing by
We will find a way somehow

So I can`t wait
To see you here
In flesh and blood in real life
Satisfying all my senses

But nevertheless
I`m still alone
In a dark room, cold and sterile
In front of a flickering screen


7. COMPULSIONS

The dreams still come and go
Lying wounded on a beach
With shrapnel in my leg
My only weapon is a knife

And there is this golden fluid
A bag full of tiny bottles
It`s a promise for relief
The key for my survival

So I feel, yes I feel the need
To lock myself up in a room
Squirt some morphine into my veins
To leave this cruel world for a while

And when I close my eyes
I find myself somewhere else
In a world built on illusions
Where compulsions are expelled

Out of a need I had to use it
Although I never thought I would
And before I was aware
This need was present every day

A golden mirror for my soul
Will be injected through a syringe
Slowly creeping up my vein
To hit the center of myself


8. STOLEN THOUGHTS

Every morning I wake up
With a new identity
With some new memories
Of my former life

All the thoughts I ever had
All the memories I can recite
Are just an illusion
Implanted in my brain

And even the city changes
With new buildings and new roads
But I really cannot tell
If it`s just an illusion

Implanted illusions is all-
That I can remember
Stolen thoughts of a time
When I met you last november
Now, there`s just confusion-
At this place without a sun
I try so hard to escape
There`s no place to which to run

And suddenly, it hits me
That there was no sun for years
The illusions fade away
Making room for reality


9. THIS WORLD

For centuries and centuries
I walked along their battlefields
Rotten flesh and burned soil
Is all what they have left

A strange desire for destruction
Can be felt at all these places
An awful waste of resources
All for their killing machinery

A world all made of battlefields
A world all drowned in blood
A world which will not last forever
Is all that we have got

A world all made of battlefields
A world all built for wars
And now we take the battlefields
Far out to the stars

They get better year by year
With a frightening efficiency
Killing thousands in one strike
By pushing just one button

So I have been everywhere
From the jungle to the mountain
And even in the deepest sea
I saw the signs of a past war


10. RED QUEEN

You always wanna` be the best
It`s a struggle without an end
Running as fast as you can
But you will never reach your goal

It`s the struggle of our daily life
Of politics and war
Everyone here runs so fast
But never sees the finish

And suddenly you find yourself
Running with the red queen
Through valleys and over hills
And sometimes against the stream
And suddenly you realize
Nothing here is what it seems
You are beyond the looking glass
Like alice and the red queen

And when you wonder why
You cannot get to this point
Cannot finish what you started
Then you are through the looking glass

You`re far beyond reality
Or isn`t this the real world?!
Where we all struggle and fight
Without knowing what it`s all for


11. DATE OF EXPIRATION

Date of expiration
A disease you cannot cure
It`s our destination
No delays anymore

Great expectations
But the end is so near
A strange iteration
And soon it starts again

Did you ever smell the rain –
The humidity in the air?
Did you ever feel the pain –
Depending on what you will dare?

The sweetest pain you ever felt
It`s fun and desperation
Emotions which you cannot steal
Love has no date of expiration

What an infiltration
Privacy`s so far away
Station after station
Cannot stop my thoughts

The final decision
No excuses anymore
Time for condemnation
But do you really care


12. LÜGNER (rearranged)

(See track # 3)