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Cross the Bridge Turn the Page

by Alexander Dust

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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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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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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
"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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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
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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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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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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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
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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"Cross the Bridge Turn the Page" - originally released 2013 and now for the first time on bandcamp in lossless format and including full artwork. 15 Songs of Desillusion, Separation, Detachment and the struggle for Re-Invention. Comes with 2 bonus tracks and the video to "Distance Eternal".

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released August 25, 2013

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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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