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Close To Nature
04:40
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CLOSE TO NATURE
I walked a path through a notion of time
Like a particle of dust in a small beam of light
Where a shape is not a shape the world is just a dream
Close to nature
I left a trace where a world lived and died
A message out of time like a pure wave of motion
And all that moves is still
Close to nature
The unity of things is the essence of truth
Though some would try to rule the universe by force
But I prefer to stay
Close to nature
I feel the pain like a thousand knives
A cancer in the soul, I am consumed
The more I try to walk
Close to nature
A flash of light, the sky erupting
My eyes are burned
I cannot bear to see the awful power
Close to nature
This is the end of the beginning
This is the death of life
And all that once did live
Close to nature
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2. |
Beware The Fly
04:04
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BEWARE THE FLY
Mr. Nietzsche had a mind
He used it every day
But at night he had an ache
That wouldn’t go away
It itched so he scratched it
He scratched it ‘til it bled
First it drove him raving mad
And then it killed him dead
Poor old Fred
You’d think he had more sense
But you just can’t be too careful
Tony Walker was a man
Who lived a life of ease
Anything he’d want he’d take
The world was at his knees
His one fateful weakness
Would put him in his grave
When one day a jealous lover
Blew his brains away
What a fool
You’d think he had more style
But you just can’t be too careful
Take a hint, don’t let this be your fate
Beware the fly in the ointment
Everybody’s got a weakness
Great and small alike
Everybody’s got their sore point
Like Achilles and his heel
There’s always something there
To trip and make you fall if you’re not careful
Leon Trotsky could have been
The ruler of the roost
The hero of the working class
The wellspring of truth
A holiday in Mexico
A window wasn’t closed
A killer walked right in
And stuck an icepick up his nose
Leon’s dead
You’d think he had more class
But you just can’t be too careful
Take a hint, don’t let this be your fate
Beware the fly in the ointment
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3. |
Saturdays In Silesia
04:21
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SATURDAYS IN SILESIA
Living in a graveyard
Waiting for the axe to fall
Working in a big hole
Just to pay the rent man
When my work is over
Call you on the telephone
Paint your pretty face
Put on your cardboard dance shoes
Saturdays in Silesia
Holidays are for heroes
City lights, not quite Broadway
Saturdays in Silesia
Bought a quart of vodka
Didn’t even stand in line
That’s one thing that
We are never short of
Caught the number 8 bus
Took it to the navy docks
Girl of my dreams
Lives right around the corner
Gonna take you where the music is loud
Where the rhythm never stops
Find the magic if there’s any to be found
Saturdays in Silesia
Holidays are for heroes
City lights, not quite Broadway
Saturdays in Silesia
And if the soldiers put a padlock on the door
We’ll break it open like we’ve always done before
We don’t have much but what we’ve got we’re going to keep
Won’t you stay close to me?
Gonna take you where the music is loud
Where the rhythm never stops
Find the magic if there’s any to be found
Saturdays in Silesia
Holidays are for heroes
City lights, not quite Broadway
Saturdays in Silesia
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JUST A SOUND IN THE NIGHT
Wave of sound across the universe
Thread of light from the depths of space
Like a ripple on a glassy pool
Spreading out forever endlessly
Just a sound in the night
Brings me your message, shows me the light
Just a note clear and true
Bringing me light years closer to you
When you talk you reinvent the night
Where once was emptiness now is light
Every whisper, every murmured phrase
Telling me all that I need to know
Just a sound in the night
Brings me your message, shows me the light
Just a note clear and true
Bringing me light years closer to you
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Le meilleur des mondes
03:14
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Ring The Bells
05:13
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RING THE BELLS
Sirens sound as dusk dissolves the daylight
In a twilight masque of grey facades
Down the boulevards a million faces
Stare out of the windows of the past
Woman on a platform at the station
Speaking to a Spanish diplomat
Talking of the storm they know is coming
And the need for courage to the last
All is hell
Ring the bells
A cry is heard, the cards are dealt
The process can’t be stopped
The order comes, the tanks roll in
The voice of power talks
Morning comes, the city breathes the daylight
People in the streets and in the stores
All is gone that once we took for granted
Things can never be just like before
Everybody’s waiting for the hour
When the blood and tears can be replaced
But the weak must always feed the stronger
That’s the story of the human race
All is hell
Ring the bells
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7. |
City Of Night
04:02
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CITY OF NIGHT
City of night, a thousand colours
Ocean of light, among the shadows
Under the stars, the world seems brighter
City of night will shine forever
City of night
Neon like ice
Ocean of light
Under the stars
Fire in the sky
City of Night
City of night, a million faces
Try to avoid the darkest places
Like in a dream the night lights shimmer
City of night will shine forever
Spectre de nuit, dans mon esprit
Spectre de nuit, brule d’envie
City of night, while some are sleeping
Creatures of night on corners meeting
Under the stars the world seems brighter
City of night will shine forever
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DANCING ON THE BERLIN WALL
Checkpoint Charlie’s social climb
Mind the tripwires, watch the mines
On Alexanderplatz there’s a party going on
Harry Palmer glasses are required
We’re dancing on the Berlin Wall
Dancing on the Berlin Wall
Cold war night life, neutron hop
Where the action never stops
If you’ve got a secret you can sell it at the bar
And yes, we’d love to see your microfilm
We’re dancing on the Berlin Wall
Dancing on the Berlin Wall
All you heroes, here’s your chance
All you have to do is dance
On Alexanderplatz there’s a party going on
Harry Palmer glasses are required
We’re dancing on the Berlin Wall
Dancing on the Berlin Wall
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9. |
Power Zone
03:39
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10. |
Coboloid Race
05:18
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COBOLOID RACE
This living layer
Planet mushroom cage
We live in cubes in space
Coboloid Race
Coboloid cities
Dissolve downtown
Coboloid processed romance
Dreams rated X
Dreams rated X
Coboloid Race
New human species
Embryos in tubes
Nice hygienic showroom
You could be you
Genetic supper
Bleeding dog food plate
Special series supper for the
Coboloid Race
Coboloid Race
Coboloid Race
Useless cortex
Computer maid
Sexual breakdown
Love interface
Growing faster
Strangling our cage
Your friends from Level 2 the
Coboloid Race
Love interface
Coboloid Race
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Cité Phosphore
04:00
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I Want To See The Light
03:42
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I WANT TO SEE THE LIGHT
Someone left the lights out on the ground
And the people that were there were never found
10:15 flight to Madrapour
Soaring off into the night forever more
And the dreams they were dreaming
Have all flickered and died
Before they close that curtain
I want to see the light
In a dream the truth is overheard
That our destination’s only just a word
He who so desires is free to go
But the gesture would be futile even so
All your well-formed opinions
Are just holes in the night
Before they pull that trigger
I want to see the light
Someone bring my medicine, I’m ill
The machine is ready, waiting for the kill
Powers below have analysed my fate
Memo Update Final Subject Terminate
But I feel only nothing
I with silence abide
Before the push that button
I want to see the light
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