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Turn the Page
04:25
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From my hotel window I can see the fires
and the angry people getting on their way
And my own reflection trembles with the glass -
time to cross the bridge - or is there time to stay?
And the scaffold is a stage - so turn the page
Move your face into the sun
Some things have to be done
And sometimes some things have to break
the pieces rearranged
some to be cut some thrown away
and they'll fit into place.
And the scaffold is a stage - so turn the page
Move your face into the sun
Some things have to be done
While you're waiting for the call the blade will fall
Why now wait for things to come?
Some things have to be done!
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Cross with a View
03:52
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It is the time of open ends
the time of blood on innocent hands
narcotics and defeat
These are the days of fatal change
the days to cut and rearrange
enforcement and retreat
Something grabs me by the throat and drags me further
through the crowd and up the hill
to find my own cross with a view
And there are patterns in the hive
I longed for constants all my life -
but constants are what I fear
And do I climb and never stop
just to be crucified on the top
Well, you will see and hear
JESUS SAVE ME
or shall I get down and save myself
JESUS SAVE ME
I think I go down and help myself
Something grabs me...
And what a jolly good fellow he is
so say all of them
I get my own cross with a view
Follow the slope into the clouds
life is much too vague for doubts
As long as I'm moving I'm on my way.
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And people say goodbye just like that
some don't -
that's what I had to learn
Some step out of your life for a while
and some -
some will not return
And all the time we wait and feel
it isn't quite the time
But answers slowly fade away
the questions will not die
and - in fact - they'll grow
A broken ship in norwegian fjords
and hands
reaching out through the night
He never spoke of death and despair
but once
He did, and he cried
And all the time we wait and feel
it isn't quite the time
But answers slowly fade away
the questions will not die
like the ones who know
And I don't understand you
but I will love you even though
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Ixion's Wheel
04:04
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Lose your way on the downward slope
hold your breath and pretend to be dead
Mind your step though you're standing still
heed your instincts and then turn your head
Did you ever dream about the sea?
Close your eyes and drift away!
This is the time to be new
and I'll never be the same
Wet your lips taste eternity
spread your wings for the cliff edge is real
Feel the ground move your hands in space
and reach out for Ixion's wheel
And I'll never dream of you again
like I dream about the sea
This is my time to be free
and I'll never be the same
In the distance the eagle still dreams of Prometheus' flesh
Like the sea on my lips it's a holy communion
and my own trinity
And our dreams will move towards the sea
- there's a wheel up in the sky
While we're moving towards eternity
- there's a wheel up in the sky
and the wheel keeps on spinning.
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Tiedown
03:43
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"You were fond of me once."
"Yes. Once."
I'm stepping out of line and place the evidence on a tray
Somebody just fixed the point where every mask can be torn away
You gotta reach out your hand - but be prepared for the second round
Should I get hold of your wrist I'll take it - and the I'll tie you down
I'm gonna tie you down
It's a kind of mystery but I rememer the fatal hour
when I discovered something strange in the dampness of a shower
I'm swimming through blackest waters searching hard for a bit of luck
When I get hold of your wrist I take it and then there'll be the time to XXXX
I'm gonna tie you down
Get up, I'm fine - everlasting love is mine
Stand down, you'll see that you have never been free.
Stand down, feel free
You could be a part of me
Get up, I'm fine when you are helpless and mine.
I'm gonna tie you down
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Shut your mouth and go to sleep -
a casual line that cuts so deep and left you victim as a child
And later on you couldn't sleep
and thought "Now is the time to speak" -
but you stayed numb.
Shut your mouth and go to sleep -
and all the secrets that you keep will leave their closets and their graves
They'll haunt you like a melody
expect them like an enemy that couldn't kill during the day
Shut your mouth and go to sleep -
a love and hate that dare not speak will surely take its toll
Then you're talking in your sleep
Behold, the trust is not so deep to save your heart when you're awake
And so I'm placing flowers on the graves
of the private cemetary in my mind
And how could I die with a smile on my face
when my headstone was made by an indian child
My dreams can never be as wild
as the things I'd say when I stayed awake
All of our children that we left by the door
will be sent to their beds
like they are sent to their graves
That's how a real good boy behaves!
And tell me now why shouldn't I
shut my mouth and go to sleep?
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Inside Insight
03:27
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Take a look inside
Take a step inside
Outspoken mysteries, blotted pictures in broken frames
these dim lit corridors lead straight to the dungeons
"Can't you just feel the love?"
I cast down my eyes as befits a slave
good dogs die on their masters grave
Just be remembered - give it a try
Just be remembered - wash it away
Can*t you just feel the love smeared on the walls moulded out of clay
Can't you just feel the love dying to be washed away
Take a look inside
Take a step inside
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Breakage
04:33
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Breakage time
we know of a certain time and that's
Breakage time
we know that it has to come
I'll break the silence break the news and break my vows
and the breaking of day means breakaway
Breakage time
we're walking on broken pieces and it's
Shaking time
we'll shake it until it falls
Will my voive break when I break step and break my word?
Still the thoughts of what will be will not set us free
And silently our hearts will break
we serve the time that it will take
And can our wisdom break our fall?
The winner breaks it all
And will you pick up the shell?
Hurting time
You're wearing a broken mask and there'll be
Killing time
Your splinters stick in my skin
You break my spine, it's breaking time, we'll break our chains
With the breaking of day we will be on our way.
So silently our hearts will break...
And everything that broke away still tastes of empty space
And emptiness is common ground when things are hollow
And how can we be sure again that we are not a shell
if we're not broken up and look at what lies within?
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What twinkled in my Eyes
04:43
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Watch me pulling down the blinds
let me lie down in the twilight of impotent rage
And I no longer want to know
what I don't already know - this must be age
But still the mirror spits deceit
for everyone I lost and meet changed while I feel the same
I tell my image to be brave
life's a play the world's a stage where you will fail
But when you fall, fall with grace
stand up and smile and just pretend it was on purpose
More datastreams ahead of me
all questions brushed aside that twinkled in my eyes
These city lights still speak to me
even brighter than before, more fatal in the shade
Maybe it's time to step aside
stand still and let things overtake
It's time to fall
But when you fall just fall with grace
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Distance Eternal
04:37
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There is a train that all the others will not board
I hear its whistle in the night
And on a platform I wait for the day
I'm gonna leave here tomorrow
There is a ship prepared and ready for the tide
I feel the wind to fill her sails
Ahoy there captain, I'm coming aboard
I'm gonna leave here tomorrow
I turn my back on the mirror
I'm gonna leave it tomorrow
for there's a place in the distance where I will never be found
Universal metaphors and wheels around my head
wheels of fortune, treadmills and blades
broken on the wheel rapidly rolling down the hill
to a place in the distance where I will not be found
and everything will be standing still
I'm gonna leave here tomorrow...
I wait silently in the corner
as bleak and empty as a New Years Day
I lift my arm to reach out for the spokes
for a place in the distance
there is a place in the distance where I will never be found
And where I'm not to be found I maybe find myself
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Alone Cologne
05:42
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Shake it, maybe time will set you free
cover the tracks and lose your head
Cut it down, your doubt's an enemy
your insecurity will last -
it was once about your future
but now it's your past
So you washed your dirty hands in London rain
Lay down in the port of Amsterdam
Lost a revolution under Cairo skies
and again you feel alone in Cologne
Why did you take the longest way
get onto the bus and drift away
And why don't you speak your mind speak a word of truth
The question is not what they what you to do
the point is if you do what they want you to do
So you kissed forbidden mouths in Bremen fog
Cemetaries of Paris made your day
whistled by the ruins of the Berlin wall
and still you are alone in Cologne - on your own
I'm staggering on the timeline like I stumble on railway tracks
Can you trust your intuition when you feel misunderstood
if something lasts a thousand years it doesn't have to mean it's good
but wait - absurdity is written on a slate
the rest is but the terror of our fate
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Bridges
05:28
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Life
too vague to be true
it's a noise in the dark or a song out of tune
Love
a fatal idea
or a crude little joke made of children and fear
The first time it did hurt a lot
the second time it did hurt a lot
and the third time it did hurt a lot
and the next time will be hurting once again
and maybe I'll get used to it
and maybe I will not
Lust
a cat-o-nine tails
ties your wrist to the rail while it feasts on your limbs
Space
is the gap between pain
and a long journey by train that will take you to where you have been
The first time it did hurt a lot
the second time it did hurt a lot
and the third time it did hurt a lot
and so on and on and on
And maybe I will understand
and probably I won't
I didn't even turn my head
when I heard the hollow thump of Icarus crashing down
I crossed the bridge and there is still a sun
so let's go back to the bus
there's a whole desert ahead of us
Find the sore and the tender spot
so let's hurt and get hurt a lot
I may never be free
but I'm on my way
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The Page is turned
06:59
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see "Turn the Page"
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Alexander Dust Germany
Alexander Dust is the lead singer and mastermind of the Goth/Dark Wave Band ALSO. Alexander Dust started working as a Solo artist in 2010 and released 7 albums on his own label "Painful Scream Records" so far. Apart from that, he is supervising the release of the ALSO backcatalogue. www.facebook.com/dustalso ... more
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