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Getting up was just
Getting up was just getting up
Leaving was just
Leaving was just leaving
Leaving to return again
Sooner or later
Return again
Like the way it sometimes goes
But not every time
Because you leaving
Hurts much too much
Does it have to be like this?
Or does it fall to us?
Fall to us?
You leaving
Feels like punishment
Here at ground zero
We are sad and weary
So sad and weary
Standing still was just
Standing still was just standing still
Dying was just
Dying was just dying
Dying to come back to life again
Sooner or later
Come back to life again
Like the way it sometimes goes
But not every time
Because you leaving
Hurts much too much
Does it have to be like this?
Or does it fall to us?
Fall to us?
You leaving
Feels like punishment
Here at ground zero
We are sad and weary
So sad and weary
You wore blue again that night
In a shadow of black light
No gaps were stopped
With the letter you forwarded
Time reverses everything
What once was beautiful becomes ugly
And what you first thought was difficult
You don't remember anymore
Will you still let me go?
What was incomplete can wait
You leave nothing undone
White noise in my soul and in my ears
I don't want to hear it anymore,
but it will never stop
White noise, what you had you will never lose
It only gets stronger
and it will never stop
You kept wearing blue that night
On the screen in my head
In the letter you forwarded
You promised me nothing
But you also didn't finish anything
Unpleasantly numbed
I keep staring at the ground
White noise in my soul and in my ears
I don't want to hear it anymore,
but it will never stop
White noise, what you had you will never lose
It only gets stronger
and it will never stop
Will you still let me go?
What was incomplete can wait
You leave nothing undone
White noise in my soul and in my ears
I don't want to hear it anymore,
but it will never stop
White noise, what you had you will never lose
It only gets stronger
and it will never stop
I've been expecting you for a while
The end of the steet
Was never far away
But darling, still I was afraid
You wouldn't show up
Or that you would pass me by
Then I dreamt something
That was more real than you
Nothing changes
Nothing improves
The desire is there
Be here with me
And now that I can see you
I ask
More of you
Crawl under my skin and stay there
More of you
In exchange for this broken body
You already noticed where I was
The end of time
Was so far away
And I took words in my mouth
That meant nothing to you
But noises are nothing new
And they led you to me
Not always but they did this time
Nothing changes
Nothing improves
The desire is there
Be here with me
And now that I can see you
I am
More of you
Crawl under my skin and stay there
More of you
In exchange for this broken body
I become more of you
Crawl under my skin and stay there
More of you
With all my heart and soul
More of you
Rather lose something you really love
Than keep something you wouldn't miss
Rather outside even though it's cold
Than inside where there's nothing anymore
There is nothing here to stay for
Here is only what once was
That I will cherish for ever
For ever
Who can tell me how everything works
And how big the gap is between now and never
And why it is that now I notice
You are far away, yet closer than ever
Rather ask for the longest way
Than the answer that makes you stand still
Rather say what I rarely say
Than conceal that I have to go on
I don't have to tell you anything
What I haven't already said
With my lips or with my eyes
For ever
Who can tell me how everything works
And how big the gap is between now and never
And why it is that now I notice
You are far away, yet closer than ever
Rather laugh about something in the past
Than fear something that might happen in the future, perhaps
Rather love a great spirit
Than hate something you can't see
I don't have to explain you anything
It lies here open between us
And I take a last bow
For ever
Who can tell me how everything works
And how big the gap is between now and never
And why it is that now I notice
You are far away, yet closer than ever
The top of the world
Waits for me till I'm there
Till I discover
That it has gone
I can go further than I think
I give up
I resign
I am free
With my feet on the ground
And my hands to the sun
I am free
There ain't no heaven there ain't no hell
It's a result caused by itself
My arms open wide
I want to be there when I live
Let me be the man
Who searches for nothing
Because he doesn't need anything
I give up
I resign
I am free
With my feet on the ground
And my hands to the sun
I am free
There ain't no heaven there ain't no hell
It's a result caused by itself
You look up and see how far it still is
Yet so close
You look for the glasses through which you see
It is close
You are free
You are free
With your feet on the ground
And your hands to the sun
Free
There ain't no heaven there ain't no hell
It's a result caused by itself
Free
The sun, the sand, the heat and the river still
The silence and the dryness, and the emptiness of this here
The heavens and the earth, the expanse of this land
And the wisdom of one man, that would suffice
There is nothing left to wait for
Tomorrow it remains night
I thought over my troubles and the world
And all the times I lay awake
I decided
What a beautiful day
What a beautiful day
The soil, the grass, the roads to a trembling horizon
The time is space here, the depth is wild
The nonsense and the necessity, they reach the limit
The love of one man, that did suffice
There is nothing left to wait for
Tomorrow it remains night
I thought over my troubles and the world
And all the times I lay awake
I decided
What a beautiful day
What a beautiful day
What a beautiful day
What a beautiful day
For the end
She acted like she slept
Not too light and not too deep
Every man would believe her
A deaf man that was blinded forever
And you, you couldn't believe what you heard
At once you were lost for words
And you also couldn't see her
An enemy that means you well
Seems more than a friend then
A handful of diamonds
That are too small to be split
You will regret so much
That she slipped away like grains of sand
She guarded like a lioness
Every sigh a silent scream
Of pleasure and divine misery
An insider that keeps still
And you, a gambler without chance
Every throw stood for something
But all in vain with this woman
Who never stands up for anybody
And certainly not for you
A handful of diamonds
That are too small to be split
You will regret so much
That she slipped away like grains of sand
A handful of diamonds
That are too small to be split
You will regret so much
That she slipped from your hand
She was one diamond
Between grains of sand
I heard that you feel lonely
That your heart is a fortress now
Your security still intact
I heard that you stay inside
That your nights are still too short
And touched by the moon
Are you going to give up?
Will you not answer back?
I can't stand that
I can't believe that
It is becoming new moon again
It is becoming new moon again
I heard that you sing songs
With a voice of pure gold
In a language that doesn't exist
I heard that you don't talk anymore
That you are indifferently silent
An untold story
Are you going to give up?
Will you not answer back?
I can't stand that
I can't believe that
It is becoming new moon again
It is becoming new moon again
Are you going to give up?
Will you not answer back?
I can't stand that
I can't believe that
It is becoming new moon again
It is becoming new moon again
You don't pose for the photo
You only had fun
Touch me, one more kiss
A pure way
To do something beautiful
Don't ask me for secrets
Don't ask me to give up a song
I need everything now
Be who you are and let go of me now
We play for the beauty
We drink for the comfort
Against love, death and the rest
Honest enough to make you blush
And that suits you the best
Don't ask me for secrets
Don't ask me to give up a song
I need everything now
Be who you are and let go of me now
The days that we could carelessly
Toast to yet another day
Little did we know
That they would pass
That there was nothing else
And all the things we did
Were both urgent and late
Little did we know
That it would pass
That it's about the here and now
So touch me, one more kiss
A pure way
To do something beautiful
Don't ask me for secrets
Don't ask me to give up a song
I need everything now
Be who you are and let go of me now
Don't ask me for secrets
Don't ask me for secrets
I remember everything from that day
If it only was one day
Because this story takes place
Outside of time
I remember your smile
If it only was a smile
Because your grimace disappeared
And I lost you
You were gone
And it looked like
You never existed at all
Did I really make you up?
You were then, you are now
You live in a bubble of air
You were there and you are here
And the air bubble floats far away
But it keeps you alive
I can still see the empty glass
If it only was one glass
Because all drinks were settled
Outside of time
I remember a joke
If it only was a joke
Because the laughter disappeared
And I lost you
You were gone
And it looked like
I never existed at all
Did you really make me up?
I was then, I am now
I live in a bubble of air
I was there and I am here
And the air bubble floats far away
But it keeps us alive
Everything was then, everything is now
It's all in a bubble of air
Everything there is everything here
And the air bubble floats far away
But it keeps us alive
All of a sudden you've lost your way
You twist and turn the map, but there is nothing you recognize
A jungle doesn't have tracks
And you will fall if you run
Back
You want to return
To a place you've never been before
Return to the world
To there and beyond
And where are the crossroads?
Peddling with your soul thinking about selling
Is a luxury, not a sin
And a life needs to pass
Back
You want to return
To a place you've never been before
Return to the world
To there and beyond
Blindly
All things considered
Things you can't label
Please fit in
With all that doesn't suffocate you
But lets you live freely
Everything from your hands
Let it go, set it free
Because birds that burn
Usually fly one more time
Back
You want to return
To a place you've never been before
Return to the world
To there and beyond
Lend us your thirst
Lend us your hunger
Lend us your heart
Lend us your lungs
Lend us your hand
Lend us your breath
Lend us your smile
Lend us everything you had
Your friends here are crazy
With hearts that are too big
And with their too big mouths
You know, your friends here are crazy
They will wait here around your place
Lend us your sleeve
Lend us your pins
Lend us your women
Lend us your heroes
Lend us your love
Lend us your fire
Lend us your stroke
Lend us everything you had
Your friends here are crazy
With hearts that are too big
And with their too big mouths
You know, your friends here are crazy
Crazy from desire
Crazy from sorrow
But not crazy from anger
They're not that crazy
So laugh at your brothers
They keep waiting
Your friends here are crazy
You know, your friends here are crazy
They keep waiting around your place
They're your friends, they're crazy
© René Wirtz 2002