1. NEON

I remember the day was not so fast
The day was made to last
Now I’m here
Where the road is getting lost

I remember all the things we said
All the tears we shed
Now I see so clear
Is this what you really want?

Feel the rain on me
Then I feel the rain fall through me
Watch me now
Watch me now

I remember
And now I see, I see everything
You, still you don’t
Leave me where you want

See the rain on me
Then you’ll see the rain fall through me
Watch me now
Watch me now

Can you feel the pain, can you feel the pain…?
Can you feel the pain,
Can you feel the pain, crushing on you?

See the rain on me
Then you’ll see the rain fall through me
Watch me now
Watch me now

Feel the rain on me
Then I feel the rain fall through me
Watch me now
Watch me

See the rain on me
Then you’ll see the rain fall through me
Watch me now
Watch me now


2. GHOSTS

Lyin’ and freezin’
Evening comes on the big screen
Fast, day by day
The sea’s gone dry
I never realized

Dust of my question remains on my fingers
After all this time still i’m waiting for answers

Ghosts come at sunset
Share my bed and whisper in my ear
They lie upon my body as stony sheets
I cannot fall asleep
They show me all my fears
Calling them by name
However hard I try to close my eyes
The hurt is just the same

Red the flower in my side
Pain is beating
See life in flowers
White worms heave
Flesh is eaten

Dust of my question remains on my fingers
The wind of your answer
He can’t blow anything away
Nothing away

My ghosts come at sunset
Filling up my eyes and mouth with sand
I try to breathe grabbing at the air
To take your helping hand

Since the day you left me
I can feel they chase me everywhere
I reach out for help and tumble into the void
For no one’s there

(If only I could breathe…
If only I could… see… instead)

Hold the tears in my heart
Consequence of unlistened prayers
“Please, listen to me”
So Jesus showed me shelter
Then gave me rain…

Wait for the day to come
Wait ’till the ghosts are gone
Daylight is still so far
But so much nearer than you are

My ghosts come at sunset
Share my bed and whisper in my ear
I try to fall asleep – I only fall
They’re feeding on my fear

Who cares says “patience,
It only takes a little time”
But all i see by now is ghosts
And so far still they come…

Still they come…
Still they come…


3. HEAVENLAND

Do not dream of me
I don’t long to be here
One fine day I’ll walk, walk away from here
There was peace in our dreams

But war is all they mean
Tell me once again of friends and lovers gone

I have seen someone fly
Up on broken wings
In cascades of sunlight rivers sing

So don’t dream of me
I don’t long to be here

One fine day we’ll walk, walk away from here
One sweet day we’ll walk, walk away

Heavenland !
What has become of you and us?
What’s left over the hills?


4. THE MARBLE COLUMN

the ordinary man:
Don’t wake up, stay down there
So you won’t see the falling bombs
All the people stare at eagles flying,
But how long?
Come see the falling bombs

It feels like when you watch tv
Sparkles and fireworks out of reach
Right behind the hills
They tell you that this had to be
They did the same to me

Tonight – treasures beyond the hills
Tonight – treasures beyond the hills

Dreamland is dreamless
Parties of people kill heavenland
Kill heavenland – kill heavenland

Silent boys, plastic toys
The greatest army ever seen
Army soon will fall
The pieces they don’t fit at all
Is there a god to call?

Waters falling from your eyes
They have no sound or smell
Rainbows we see from this land
They lead us to the wishing well
Maybe the walls of hell

Tonight – there’s stars beyond the hills
Tonight – there’s stars beyond the hills

Dreamland is dreamless
Parties of people kill heavenland
Kill heavenland – kill heavenland

the soldier:
He’s in front of me
I’m willing to kill
In front of me
And he’s coming up, coming up
He’s staring at me
And i shoot it out
And he’s dead
His body’s falling

He’s in front of me
He’s willing to kill
In front of me
And I’m coming up, coming up
He’s staring at me
And he shoots it out
And I’m dead
My body’s falling

Join the party !!

God:
Call
But don’t you call for me unless you drown
I’m not that strong
I do not long to be here

the ordinary man:
Dreamland is dreamless
Parties of people kill heavenland
Kill heavenland, kill heavenland
Your land

And the column will fall down
And the column will fall down
And the column will fall down
Will fall down


5. NAIL IN MY HAND

I try so hard to get out
Still within reach of your clutch
You’re stuck between my ribs
And out of reach of my touch

You are my broken bones
You are my blurry sight
You are the tar in my lungs
That makes me cough at night

You are my twisted heart
Blind and deaf to any call
You are the nail in my hand
You hang me on the wall

Waiting in town – in a hot summer day
Waiting in vain – you’ve never gone away
You’ve never gone away

You are the break in my fingers
You are the straw in my eye
You are the beam hanging over me
Over me but out of sight

You are the amputation
You are condemnation
Incurable sickness, mortal disease
Something that tells me i don’t wanna heal

Waiting in town – in a white hot day
Waiting in vain – you’ve never gone away
You let me down – what you do and what you say
You get me pain – you’ve never gone away
You’ve never gone away

I still listen to you
Even now that I meet you with someone else
Someone who came after murder
When the sea quit roaring

And the mourning was gone
Will you leave him alone when the morning’s gone
As you’ve done to me

I still listen to you
Even now that I meet you with someone else
Someone who came after murder
When the sea quit roaring
And the mourning was gone
Will you leave him alone when the morning’s gone
As you’ve done to me

Waiting in town – in a hot summer day
Waiting in vain – you’ve never gone away
You let me down – what you do and what you say
You get me pain – you’ve never gone away
You made me feel so alone
So alone,
Though you’ve never gone away
Never, never, never


6. PRESENTIMENTS

I) Certainties and Doubt

I look outside the window
And wait for dawning light
The river whispers quiet and slow
In the frenzy of the night

The stars of ursa maior
Scattered leaving trails so bright
They were not united like we are
- Stars in the earthly sky

Come on, love, dance with me
Disguise is to banish
Let’s run in ghylls, let’s run in whirls
You’ll fire me and then vanish

So speak to me
Talk to me
I will listen to you
I will listen to you

And you say:
“We are all leaves and we’d better care
For cold breeze has come running in the air
We can believe, or pray, or dare
But cold breeze has come running in the air
Take a look outside our loveland
As far as the eye can see

This frenzy we live in will never end
And that’s the way it will always be
It will always be…”

Don’t you believe when they tell you this is no love
Don’t you give in when they show you the way to go
Can’t you see up there the stars that are shooting down
Smashing on the ground

The night is lit as day
But the moon’s not on the stage
And I saw the sky so grey
And I met the coming rage
Wind blows the dust away
His anger on the window pane
He brings defiantly this way
The sound of a far far train
If I walked on a siding
With a thorn in my side
And hanging trains guiding
They’d call it suicide
The storm is screaming violent
Beyond the falling rain
When the thunder voice is silent
I can hear a far far train


II) The Stranger

Speak to me
Talk to me
Come to me
Stay with me
Hold on to me
Stay with me
Don’t leave me alone

I feel you colder but you say it’s alright with us
I feel like a stranger but you say i’m always the same to you
You keep on telling me you need love but you act like you don’t
I wonder if you are still here tomorrow

Out of distance, flashing far away
Bring it back, ashes on the track
Presentiments recalling something else’s days
Out of distance, flashing far away

III) Vs. All

Down here
Down here…

Take me to where the children smile
Take me to where the sun still shines
Take me to where our love’s not bound
Do it now, I see them coming round

Out of distance, flashing far away
Bring it back, ashes on the track
Presentiments recalling something else’s days
Out of distance, flashing far away

Colours after rain are only memories
Bring it back, ashes on the track
Someone stepping out, someone moving out
Presentiments recalling something else so loud

So speak to me, talk to me
I will listen to you
I will listen to your voice
Your bittersweet words

I look outside the window
Inviting dawning light
The river flows, the corn field glows
Irony of the oncoming night


7. MACHINE

When you need to sing a song
Scream or you will not be heard
Town and cities, shining cities, shining noises
Talk so loud and nothing’s learned
Talk so loud and nothing’s learned

The machine still works and works
Though the end so empty, love
So we live and die, laugh and cry, swear and lie
Fall and fly until the end
But we never wonder why
No, we never wonder why

Who can i believe?
Bread and stones – we feed
They told me to believe
They told me so but

Now someone broke the pictures
And someone else is gonna break what’s left
Who will come to save you?
And who will come to save us all tonight?

Somebody help him to come back again for the kingdom come
Somebody help him to come back again for the kingdom come

Once he guided with a star
Princes, kings and visionaries
Babylon, Jerusalem
Manna falling from heaven
Talk but never understand all the rules from one to ten
Someone broke them once

Lying in a bed of cold
Help is owed, for help he calls
Babylon, Jerusalem
No more joy down from heaven
Once he sang the sweetest song
Breath is lost and strength has gone

No one would help him to come back again for the kingdom come
No one would help him to come back again for the kingdom come

There are no more souls upon here
There are no more souls all across the land
There is nothing left around here
Bonfires beside the streets and still no end
The statue garden, cold bloodless flesh
I’m the moving one, I’m the stepping one
I can hear a laughter, someone’s having fun
They invite me to their cruising dark
And I enter the room…
Walking through the polystyrene corridors…
Searching for reflections…

Somebody help him to come back again for the kingdom come
No one would help him to come back again for the kingdom come
And when the anger’s gone away
You know we’re gonna wait for you again
Somebody help him to come back again for the kingdom come
Somebody… somebody… somebody…