1. PARENTS IN ARMS

(Instrumental)


2. INTRODUCTION

The world is turning
Very fast these days,
Too fast to hold on to
In this computer steered world.
People start dreaming their life
Instead of living their dreams -
They build their own worlds
Were they are kings.

But sometimes,
Somebody finds the key
To the old world,
Back to the old gods,
Castrated and adapted
To the church as their saints
For a one and only God
Who built a world
That´s not even good enough
For him to live in!

So be human,
Be a hero,
Stop being part
Of the mashine.

Look your enemy
Straight in the eye
And fight,
Fight like
The last of Camelot!


3. LAST OF CAMELOT - CHAPTER II

The world is turning
Very fast these days,
Too fast to hold on to
In this computer steered world.
People start dreaming their life
Instead of living their dreams
They build their own worlds
Were they are kings.

But sometimes,
Somebody finds the key
To the old world,
Back to the old gods,
Castrated and adapted
To the church as their saints
For a one and only God
Who built a world
That´s not even good enough
For him to live in!

My sword so bloody in my hands,
We fought a fight that ne ver ends,
Young Raven he stood next to me,
A battle-axe of British steel.

Sir Galahad fought all alone,
Stroke hundreds of them on his own.
And Durandur stood like a wall,
Said Camelot will never fall

Oh Saxons come and taste my steel!

[Chorus:]
Don´t break the circle,
Don´t break the circle,
The circle of the last of Camelot!
Lalala la lalala la lalala la lalala la lalalalala, Camelot (x2)

Taliesin the Druid says:
"They´re thousands against each of us!"
We´re heroes under blood red skies,
We´re heroes and we´re born to die,
Our banners dancing in the wind,
The dragon painted on our shields.

Lianne and Rivan fought so strong,
Like the old
Winds, they came along.
They walked in blood covered in dust,
Together with the gods we trust.

[Chorus]

Lalala.....My son, my son only for you
I do the things I have to do
To bring you freedom, liberty
The day will come soon you will see.

A long day that turned into night,
And victory was on our side.
The army of our enemies
Is now destroyed
But we will see!
The wheels of history
(Are) rolling fast,
Who will die next won´t be the last!

[Chorus]

Lalala.....


4. MAXIMILIAN

Na na na nanananananana
Na na na nanananananana na na na

Here I stand, alone again
But not really on my own.
I can leave you, but I´ll never, never
Leave this child alone.
(I)don´t want no man to play his father,
Like father and son.
(I)wanna watch him grow, teach him all the things, the things I know.

[Chorus:]
Wanna watch him grow, grow,
Wanna watch him grow, grow.
Maximilian Klaus Kilian,
I´ll be there for you `till the end of time.

Na na na nananananana,
Na na na nanananananana na na na

Times will change,
He will grow up and I´ll take him by the hand,
Lead him through his life,
Through pain and darkness, right into the light.
Love don´t last for ever,
But this dagger in my back came much too soon.
(You say) love changes fast
And promises are only there to break.
Responsibility is all too clear to me,
You blinded me so I was blind, too blind to see.

[Chorus]

Na na na.....


5. A TRIBUTE TO LOVE

I dreamed I saw you late at night.
You said you saw me in your dream last night.

Since I´ve known you, my life´s a delight -
All I wanna do is hold you tight.

[Chorus:]
Let´s get together, let´s get together,
let´s get together right now.
Let´s get together, let´s get together, let´s get together right now!

Your friends they told you that I´m no good,
That I wouldn´t love you, but they wish they could.

But my love is much stronger
And my life is much stranger,
Higher than the mountains, deeper than the sea.

[Chorus]

My heart´s got no windows to look inside.
But my mind is clean, I only use it sometimes!!!

[Chorus]


6. KEY TO AN UNLOCKED DOOR

Heroes come, heroes go and I stand in line.
Heroes come, heroes go, I´ll be the next for sure
Heroes come, heroes go, turn water into wine.
Heroes come, heroes go, I am back for more.

Heroes come, heroes go and I stand in line.
Heroes come, heroes go, turn water into wine.
Heroes come and all alone
And far away from home.
You´ve got to be a hero just to get a decent man.

Write your number 666 with kisses
From cold deadly lips,
Draw a circle `round you like a wall
To keep away creatures and all.
The darkness that surrounds you now
Is reality maybe somehow,
You did your rituals, made mistakes,
Burned out and got to this place.

You can´t stop and you can´t hide
All the might deep down inside.
Like the minotaur in his cave,
You go in and lose your head.
You threw away the key from your prison -
You can see it´s me.
Bang your head a gainst the wall,
While I use the open door.

[Chorus:]
Back and alive, I´m stronger than before.
Back and alive, with the key to an unlocked door.
I´m back and alive, I´m stronger than before.
I´m back and alive,
With the key to an unlocked door.

[Chorus]


7. DES TEUFELS LOCKVOGEL

Als Spielmann leb´ich, als Spielmann sterb´ich
Doch lebt´ ich einst grad so wie Ihr.
Hatte Weib und Kind, doch nicht Hof, nicht Gut,
Sie hat´sich ´nen Reichen gesucht!

[Chorus:]
Lalala la la la lalala la la lalalalala la la
Lalala la la la lalala la la lalalalala la la

So zog ich aus als Pilger in Waffen
Und kämpfte für Krone und Papst.
Das Kreuz, das ich trug auf meinem Herzen,
So rot wie das Blut auf dem Schwert.

Ich wurde bewundert, ich wurde verjagt,
Ich wurde bespuckt und beschenkt.
Geadelt wurde ich, zum Ritter geschlagen
Man bot mir Haus und Hof.

Doch ein Singer, das bin ich, ein fahrender Ritter,
Ein Mann, dessen Weg ist sein Ziel.
Geschichten erzähl ich, als fahrender Ritter,
Als Mann dessen Weg ist das Ziel.

[Chorus]

Man hat mich bestohlen, ich habe geraubt
Und sah manches ferne Land.
Ich trank mit Herrschern, ich aß mit Bettlern,
Prinzessinen an meiner Hand.

Ich teilte mein Lager mit tausend Frauen
Und soff mit der Pest und dem Tod.
Ich spielte mit Luzifer um meine Seele,
Gewonnen habe ich nicht.

So hab´ich doch zu aller Zeit mein Bestes stets gegeben.
Und wenn ich einst sterbe, so habt´ Ihr doch meine Lieder, Die ewig leben.

[Chorus]

Und holt mich der Teufel, verbrennt mich der Papst,
Stechen Heiden meine Augen aus.
So hab´ich gelebt und hab´ich gesehen
Wofür Ihr hundert Leben braucht!!!

[Chorus]


8. LAST DAYS OF MANKIND

I´m not responsible for the burning inferno,
But I´ve got to go.
North and south and east and west,
Black and white and yellow, red
Doesn´t matter - no more time!
Five past twelve, the time is over, lend me your hand,
Together we´ll go home - leaving now!
Oil and blood and gasoline,
Fire in the skies, money in their eyes,
Money made the world go round,
But the world goes round without it too!

[Chorus:]
So live your last days like you´ve never lived
So live your last days like you´ve never lived
So live your last days like you´ve never lived before.
Let´s watch the last days of mankind.
Enjoy the last days of mankind.

Babylon, Hiroshima, Holocaust and Chornobyl,
Vietnam and Gulf conflict no more!
Ten centimeters in a meter
Can´t destroy the time that´s left behind.
Insects they will own the world,
Hoping they will take much better care!

[Chorus]

Insects they will own the world,
Hoping they will take much better care!
Books and songs and films and movies -
„The Day After“, „Mad Max“,
They don´t show the truth!
Before you lose your teeth and lose your hair,
Before you? skin is getting wounded,
Enjoy the last days of mankind!

[Chorus]

It´s getting harder by the years,
It´s getting louder, I can´t close my ears.
It´s time to end this letter, but I hope it won´t be the last!

Let´s watch the last days of mankind.
Enjoy the last days of mankind.


9. ASK THE RUNES

Where do we come from, where do we go,
What is the answer I want to know?
Where do we come from, where do we go,
Where are the things I need to know?
Where do we come from, where do we go?
Don´t ask me `cause I don´t know!

[Chorus:]
To find an answer to all your questions
Ask the Runes.
To find an answer to all your questions
Ask the Runes.

Where does it lead to, how will it end,
And tell me who will stop the rain?
What are we here for, why must we die,
Why can we laugh, why can we cry?
So many saints, so many sins
And tell me what tomorrow brings!
So many questions, so many tears,
So many cloudy days and fears.
What can they tell me, what are they for?
They are your friends - an open door!

[Chorus]

What is the difference between good and bad,
Were is the love I never had?
Where are the girls, where have they gone,
Was I right or maybe wrong?
What means `beginning´, what is `the end´,
Where are the letters I never sent?
Should I be quiet or should I talk,
Should I rest or should I walk?
What can I do, what can I say,
What is the price I have to pay?
Should I stay or should I go
Ask the Runes `cause I don´t know!

[Chorus]


10. JOHNNY JUMP UP

I´ll tell you a story that happened to me
One day as I went down to Youghal by the sea,
The sun it was bright and the day it was warm
Says I „a quiet pint wouldn´t do me no harm.
I went in and I called for a bottle of Stout
Says the barman „I´m sorry all the beer is sold out,
Try whisky or Paddy ten years in the wood“
Says I „I´ll try the cider, I hear that it´s good“.

[Chorus:]
Oh never oh never oh never again
If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten!
I fell to the floor and I couldn´t get up
After drinking a quart of the Johnny Jump Up.

After leaving the third I went to the yard
Where I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard.
„Come here to me boy, don´t you know I´m the law?“
I upped with my fist and I shattered his jaw.

He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up
But it wasn´t I hit him, it was Johnny Jump Up.
The next thing I met down in Youghal by the sea
Was a cripple on cruches and he says to me:

„I´m afraid of my life, I´ll be hit by a horse,
Won´t you help me across to the Railway Man´s bar?“

After drinking a quart of the cider so sweet
He threw down his crutches and he danced in the street.

[Chorus]

I went to the Lee Road friends for to see,
They call it the madhouse in Cork by the Lee.
But when I got up there the truth I do tell,
They had the poor beggar locked up in a cell.

Said the guard testing him „say these words if you can -
Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran“.
Tell them I´m not crazy, tell them I´m not mad,
It was only a drop of the cider I had.

[Chorus]

A man died in the Union by the name of Mac Nabb.
They washed him and laid him outside on a slab
And after O`Connor his measurements did take,
His wife took him home for a bloody fine wake.

About twelve o´clock and the beer it was high,
When the corpse he sat up and he says with a sigh:
„I can´t get to heaven, they won´t let me up
`Till I bring them a quart of the Johnny Jump Up

[Chorus]


11. LOVE IS A TORTURE

What I want is not what I get,
What I get is not what I want,
It´s just the same old shit on just a different day!

For me it was love at first feel,
For you it could never be real,
But that´s just the was the story goes!

[Chorus:]
Love, love, love is a torture.
Love, love, love is a torture.

For you it´s just a game,
For me it´s not the same,
It´s a shame that love never went the way we plan it!

You´re not the first, you´re not the last,
But you´re bumpin´in my head,
And you make me feel the world is round and not a plate!

[Chorus]

Keep your kisses for my friends,
It´s not more than shakin´ hands,
It´s just one more broken heart that´s left behind!

For me it´s just a game,
For you it´s not the same,
Just one more easy game for me to play!

For you it was love at first feel,
For me it could never be real,
But that´s just the way the story goes!

[Chorus]


12. BITCHIN´ PAST

I met you at my station in a sleazy part of town
I´ve seen your fancy dress
And wished that we could go along.

But I made the same mistake like every time before!

[Chorus:]
Don´t you lie about your bitchin´ past,
Don´t you lie about your bitchin´ past,
Tomorrow we´ll see what will gonna be
If you lie about your bitchin´past,
If you lie about your bitchin´past!

You tell me I´m a cheater, but I know I´m just a fool.
I wash your dirty laundry, I do everything for you.
My friends meet Maitre Pierre
And I meet Mrs. Underwear,
My band enjoys the beat
And I just crawl around your feet.

I have made the same mistakes
like every time before.

[Chorus]


13. DES TEUFELS LOCKVOGEL

(See lyrics on track 7)


14. PARENTS IN ARMS

(Instrumental)