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The Morning Sun
04:30
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The Morning Sun won't ask for reasons to believe
The night has gone and so have the dreams
The Morning sun came for devotion and a song
it dries you mouth slaps your face and moves along
The cries from the street the cold floor beneath your feet
you grope about til you hit the shutters and bathe in light
Open your eyes, you may be blind
The night has gone, gone are the promises and dreams
their afterglow between the sheets
And waves on the sea maunder about eternity
you smile and spit into the sink
Think of a song that keeps pushing you along
cause fate will strike and strike even harder in morning sun
The Morning sunwon't ask for reasons to believe
it slaps your face and leaves you bare
The priests and engineers could not remove you fears
you're on your own existing alongside those
fascists, fundamentalists, investment bankers, revisionists, deniers, cancer, blindness
The Morning Sun won't ask for reasons to believe
another night will come tomorrow, maybe tomorrow
Will you wake up tomorrow?
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Now Watch Out
04:50
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Now watch out
Don't loose yourself in anxiety
Watch out
Times are relentless and fast
And with each day unleashed like a dog from the cage of eternity
and in a space like a beautiful morgue burnt out and spoiling integrity
You gotta watch out
Watch out
Don't give away your uncertainty
a standpoint must be found even on slippery ground
And reality will bow to the truth of the day
and a lie disguised as belief might be considered the better way
You gotta watch out
„I'm scared of the changes but I can't stay the same the water is flowing down
for the light in the distance will be turned into day“
Everything else will move ahead – I'm going down
You will not move you will not stay you will be tossed around
You cannot move you cannot stay there will be changes
Watch out
there's breathing behind your back
a hand taps your shoulder and pushes you into the void
But all we want is progression to what we had had before
And we wanted the future but all we ever got was war
You gotta watch out
Try not to move the cahnges are hurting me
as much as stagnation destroys me
I'm scared of the changes but there' nothing to do
others will move me others will hold me down
I'm scared of the changes and while I try not move
and while I try not to break you move
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Naked And Torn
04:22
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Streets are empty as our lives
long gone missing where retention thrives
The sun is sinking behind concrete walls
a cold wind returns as darkness falls
We're on our own again naked and torn
Don't loose it – now. There's time left
And if there's anything left to say you better say it now
cry it out shout it out
'cause has there ever been anybody or anything worth a life
go for it die for it
Whatever we're to say winds will carry away
Naked and torn at the end of the day we'll be carried away alone
We're on our own again like we were born
On our own again naked and torn
I'm on my own again fading afar
We're on our own again - that's what we are
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Liquid Deadly Borders
04:33
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It's coming from the sea
an unrelenting breeze hurling clouds across the sky
It's coming from the sea
a notion of unease faint humming like a sigh
It's coming from the sea
the smell of distant lands a warm exotic breath
from places in the sun polluted suddenly
by the stench of death
And can you hear the calling of the waves and of the endless sea?
We are afraid of nature 'cause nature is merciless – and so are we
Voices can be heard across the sea
We are afraid of nature – it lies within our nature
And I'm afraid of our nature
It's coming from the sea
the cries of sacrifice one children's body for each wave
The boats that can't be saved
and other boats nearby that aren't allowed to save
Liquid Deadly Borders – I am ashamed, want to spit into the ocean
Ghosts shall be haunting the beaches
where we built our castles made of sand
And the ocean doesn't care
And will we hear the calling of the waves and of the endless sea?
We are afraid of nature 'cause nature is merciless – and so are we
It's within our nature
And here's another boat we can ignore
as behind our backs every tidal wave is throwing bodies to the shore
Nature is terrifying and so are we
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Aglossia
04:12
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And my hands are shaking
while the world is breaking into fragments of the mouldy kind
And my heart is beating
while the air is heating up to wash us all away
Here's the sound of banging heads against the wall
the only way to deal with shame
unconscious again, senseless and in vain
And outside we're waiting
hear old men debating the distinction between fact and truth
and in the pouring rain
it still feels the same as twenty years ago when we thought
it mus be over soon, but here they are
as in line hey stand
with their dicks in hand pissing on the future of their kids
The sound of banging...
What's the point – if there's a point
beside the point of no return
Don't tell me about it I can't take it
I don't want to hear it I can't take it
and if I can't take it it can't be true
The sound of banging heads against the wall
and the pain will make us high
The sweetest moment we enjoy before the fall
first we dumb down then we die
Shame and Aglossia, unconscious and in vain
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I Dream Shadows
04:10
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Out of tunnels with the boost of shattered dreams
parabolic minds in centrifuge
Strobelight flashes hashing from behind the trees
and the cries of withering and that's why
I dream shadows in the sun
But if I tried I could push the clouds aside
with eyes dim and open wide to be combusted in the light
And handwritten words are fading in the noon
like the posters of our teenage days
Devastation is more effective in cold blood
and there's truth in obscurity
See the branches twisting grotesquely towards the sun
hear the moth colliding popping with the lamp
I can bear it to the melting point, I can with a hand before my eyes
I dream shadows in the sun
But now from the coolness of the night
out of mind and out of sight
I will give myself to the light
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Strange Spring
05:30
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All the empty streets all the empty lives
Cars have left the cities birds are dying slower
And noone knows but newborn heroes give a try
Crematoriums breathe clouds into the sky
Here we are reflecting in the sun
the tragedies, the might-have-been
the smile behind the mask will remain unseen
And it's a strange spring silent as the fall
Together alone silent on our own
And it's a strange world
In the midst of life we are in boredom
In the midst of life we are half-dead
Pithy words of war and pervasive enemies
the same old song now and then
Those who can't achieve a crown will get themselves a mask
and play the strong man again
And life will end in pain an violence
after we died bored an in silence
But here we are reflecting in the sun
we're looking down from balconies
we move our hands applauding an empty world
in this strange spring
here on our own
and we save it now for later
and we're saving ourselves now for later
and we're safe but alone
Here on our own togerther alone
And neither it was love nor was it the bomb that brought us here together
Epilogue
I'm reading Camus while god's all alone again
I'm on my own again as I have been before
so I'm fetching my mask and pretend to gain hope again
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Valentines For Memories
03:03
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Valentines for memories
anything to be said we will not say
You loved me more before you knew me well
I love you most when you're away
And what we once did out of love
we gonna do to pacify
And what we know when we're asleep is what we deny when we're awake
so let's get us some
Valentines for memories
anything that is left can be denied
I love your voice when it is begging
you love mine when I am quiet
And what we keep inside a box we gonna put into a drawer
another drawer in the shelf we can place some flowers upon
some flowers for memories Valentines for memories
for the pain and indifference to cease
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The Party's Over
04:58
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A cold wind is coming from the sea
to usher in this summers's end
A lonely lampion is swinging from the tree
like a strange fruit with doleful taste
A brown half eaten apple bears the imprint of you teeth
the fading image of your smile, the party's over – won't you
Walk with me - I'm only passing by
Walk with me - just for a while
And a strayed butterfly is fighting in a glass
of fruity wine thinned down by rain
and he tries and tries and flaps his wings to escape the sweet
but will drown in the end
So we know we are to fade but still we try
under this fatal sky
something is moving us along, so won't you
Walk with me...
Summer's over – and what else is left to say
tell me on the way
We are only passing by
like the vague memory of an unknown paty guest who smiled and stayed
just for a while
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Pathetic And Great
05:22
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Don't be shocked when we meet again
life hasn't been that kind, you see
Speak a word, smile and let's pretend
nothing has changed inside of me
There'll be noone but ourselves to blame if we don't seize this moment
this tiny struggle against fate, the inevitable regrets
do not fade
And would you stay to the bitter end
to catch a glimpse of eternity
O how we tried and we failed within certainty
that behind these hills is the endless sea
An old teenager covered in ashes
a grey-haired child that wants to be loved
There'll be noone but ourselves to blame if we don't seize this moment
this tiny struggle against fate
as pathetic as it is great
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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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