Lyrics

ELEANOR SPEAKS

(all you do is really dull)

under the bridge
people get married
everything fits
couldn’t be better
the words in their mouths and their mouths in each other
roars from the deep
terrified children
eleanor speaks
burning her fingers

HELLO HELLO
are you wandering
by the falling trees

murderous teeth
blood on the pillow
archaic feet
testing the ice age
they’re eating the snow and they leave no left-overs
yet a defeat
under construction
eleanor weeps
missing the future

HELLO HELLO
are you wandering
by the falling trees

the fact and all you may see
is not all it’s cracked up to be
before no more there were times
when you and I had differences
together we could call upon
the sun for water
and play without a single worry

SWIM

I’m swimming all the time
I’m swimming for my life
and all I do is swim
I’m swimming for my life

you can swim she said
you can swim she said

more and more of less and less
the charm of no success
it’s nowhere to be seen
it’s someone else’s dream

words too short to speak
words I meant to keep
I don’t understand
I don’t understand
words too short to speak
words I meant to keep
don’t know what to be you’re confusing me

I never understood
just how she thought I could
me and my future wife
above a plain of knives

you can swim she said
you can swim she said

I’m swimming all the time
I’m swimming for my life
and on some dreary day
I’ll swim my life away

words too short to speak
words I meant to keep
I don’t understand
I don’t understand
words too short to speak
words I meant to keep
don’t know what to be you’re confusing me

INTERNET WARRIOR

right beside the decoy
the river inhales the sea
god good god good god good god
the atmospheric pressure is somehow controlling me
hide in glove-compartments
don’t ever believe in me
god good god good god good god
the dream readers are sleepy don’t take them too seriously

the math magician showed no sign of life
the nurses knew the man was just a child
the curse of words that made him hesitate
went cheer up boy ’cause everythings just great

sometimes I’m fed up with faces and sometimes I stare
sometimes I’m faithful and sometimes I don’t really care
I don’t mind falling behind
and I keep speakers under my pillow to keep it in mind

now the moon will hit you
and nothing will ever change
god good god good god good god
I freeze up far too often…. enough is enough for me

I made a quick decision to calm down
and left their open mouths without a sound
I found no reason to complete the score
no reason but a door behind the door

sometimes I’m saving up favours and fake alibis
sometimes I’m honest and sometimes I’m purposely shy
I don’t mind falling behind
and I keep speakers under my pillow to keep it in mind

ICICLES

I see icy flakes hiding frozen lakes
one by one and on and on they go in the sea of snow mother
mother mother mother
I see icicles swing like crystal bells
hear they clearly call and I can tell
it’s a magic spell mother
mother mother mother
I would sing along if I had I tongue
but I’d never walk into the wrong house to help the wrong mother
mother mother mother
other mothers hide their sympathy
no one dares to talk though you’re asleep

sleep sleep sleepyhead (sleepwalking)
dream on dreaming on and on and on and on…..
sleep sleep sleepyhead (keep walking)
till the dream is gone…

I see eyes so cold look into my coals
please don’t leave me standing in the snow
with a carrot nose mother
mother mother mother
naked in the snow do you have to go
I can’t live without you in my sticks
am I getting sick mother
mother mother mother
start to lose my form never been this warm
now I’ll never walk into the wrong house to help the wrong mother
mother mother mother
other mothers light their christmas trees
no one dares to talk though you’re asleep

sleep sleep sleepyhead (sleepwalking)
dream on dreaming on and on and on and on…..
sleep sleep sleepyhead (keep walking)
till the dream is gone…

HELPLESSLY YOUNG

ever since she stole my sense and sentenced me to life
overnight… sentences don’t come out right
might just bite her… best decide to write to get in touch
still I doubt…….where or how to ask her out
without asking way too much

I don’t know what to say
she reminds me of the future
and foreign countries
we could choose any plane
trust the world or make a hideout
it doesn’t matter…

‘dance?’ she said ‘I can’t’ I said’ I’d like to but I won’t’
‘fine’ she said…. ‘what else can you show me now?’
I stayed quite polite there all night just to hide that all I want
is her kiss but that’s asking way too much
I don’t know what to say
she reminds me of the future
and foreign countries
we could make other plans
and get used to Barcelona
it doesn’t matter

almost helplessly young
wake up crying for no reason except the music
almost helplessly old
find it hard to be surprised but it doesn’t matter

THE WAVE BALLET

by the cold water nothing sleeps
we all keep presents
for you
for you
call off all danger in the dark reef
it’s all well hidden
from you
from you
we’ll wave it away
we’ll wave it away
we’ll wave it away

at the bottom of this lake
there was only you and I
we could let the water win
at the bottom of a sigh

I know the way I know the way I know the way I know the way

I could hear your sinking heart
as you closed your eyes to speak
of your mother’s wedding dress
and the clothes you used to seek

I know the way I know the way I know the way I know the way

submariners stopping by
to dissolve their paper gold
soon they’ll join our wave ballet
and their stories will grow old
too obsessed to fall asleep
yet we fail to stay awake
while we drift towards the drain
at the bottom of the lake

I know the way I know the way I know the way I know the way
(all I need to know I know I knew so very long ago
believe me I don’t wanna know how close or far just wanna go)

yet heaven don’t need you
you won’t have to wear your disguise
whereever it leads you
you know it won’t show in your eyes

THE TEA PARTY

I saw my salvation
shape shifting skin
as I pulled the curtain
tense like champagne trapped in the veins

in a shadow play for the royalty
she proved to me that gravity ain’t the main authority

I have seen the queen and danced with her puppy
she’s already done a movie about me
now I´d worry even less for the future
if she promise not to mess with my heartbeat

it hits me it’s hurting
tilting her thrown
it tickles the fancies
and circles the bone

I tip toe in hanging hair
from her balcony out of human reach
she trusted me that cabaret was her main priority

I have seen the queen and danced with her puppy
she’s already done a movie about me
now I´d worry even less for the future
if she promise not to mess with my heartbeat

(dreamy boys and dreamy girls in a dream)

MISS MISS MOSS

stand up once again don’t be afraid to be my friend
you know your DOs and DON’Ts by heart
you understand conceptual art
is this the right incarnation? a rather good compensation?
a minor modification? for you and me
sisyphus has quit he’s now retired from that shit
he’s throwing parties he’s pulling strings
to high society and kings
you see his massive erection
reveals his new found affection
and his potential connection
with you and me

candid cartoons are leaving in couples
the billboard excites ukrainian models
pretenders in tents uptown copenhagen
a common excuse like sara and tegan
it’s all very NOW and uffie’s a-fading
the clone on the hill completes the invasion
the bar in the cage the duck in your engine
you see all you’ll find is no easy way out

sunday takes the blame
I’m not the one I once became
the more you do the more I don’t the more you woo the more I won’t
‘is this the part you’ll forget soon? remember this when you get home
no talk of bygone vacations …just for a change’

the bodyguards sleep all over the building
a friend of the earth prevents it from tilting
in colorful heat the pantomime tickles
the manatee team but nobody giggles
it’s easy it’s easy peasy it’s easy it’s easy it’s easy peasy it’s easy
I’m right at your feet you don’t have to please me

and in his shrinking heart he had a dream
of everyone around to be the same
and in his tainted mind he didn’t know
how close his biceps really were to blow
and in their shrinking hearts they had a dream
of everyone around to be the same
and in their tainted minds they didn’t know
how close their biceps really were to blow

it didn’t take a team to start a fight
they wouldn’t wanna miss miss moss tonite
a single step towards the local bar
and cannibals were eating from the floor
the tanning girls admired every champ
sunny boys! sunny boys!
they’ll never know you know they’ll never know
to cheat on today is to cheat on tomorrow

I do but I doubt it makes any difference
the colors are drying out in the distance
the fire escape stays in my back pocket
no wonder that Mars attracts every rocket

I do but I doubt it makes any difference
I do but I doubt it makes any difference
I do but I doubt it makes any difference
I do but I doubt it makes any difference

EVE

do we have to wait and see
do we have to let it be
time is running out
and it’s running loud

silence in our new-made bed
it’s too sad not to regret
time is running out
from our rainy cloud

and the bells rang out for the couple who still had no troubles to forget

is this me and is this really you
arguing about the decoration
I don’t recognize us anymore well
that’s what’s going on

expectations I can’t fill
you’re still certain I’m still ill
time is running out
I can’t make you proud

you don’t have to wait for me
you don’t need my company
living in the past
is growing up too fast

and the bells rang out for a moment before the in-laws got their pictures

is this me and is it really you
telling me to find an occupation
I don’t lionize you anymore well
that’s what’s going on
and all together it’s just a feeling

go love go
don’t come back again
I’m not your friend
bye love bye
I just can’t pretend to be your friend

BEELITZ

I took a long deep breath
and found that nonetheless
the oxygen still managed to get in
my mouth could hardly taste
no difference food or waste
I’d love to chat but I’m not where I’m at

where I’m at
where I’m at
where I’m at

my eyes could hardly see
how dear she was to me
but nonetheless they focused on the rest
my hands could barely feel
what’s fake or just unreal
I’ll try to sleep and find a girl to keep

girl to keep
girl to keep
girl to keep

don’t take your hands off that wheelchair
shield the young eyes of your friend
write him a note just don’t go (write me just don’t go)
kiss me alright…. and blow a wish child
just don’t fool around while we cut off the air supply

girl I need
girl I need
girl I need

free seats in the each of the wheelchairs
read bits aloud for the dead
write them a note there you go (write me just don’t go)
guess it looks like they had a safe flight
(eat the falling snow) kiss it’s cold bites
make sure that this child’s feet won’t hit the ground

where I’m at
where I’m at
where I’m at

go take your boat to the bath tube
speed up your feet my dear friend
I’d have to stay under water to stay out of love
(with suitable boots and my carnival teeth)
(now we have lost his pleasant behavior)
dance for the fans it’s your duty!! shitty committees agree:
we splash the ingredients and fuck the big audience
and saving up favours again and again…

tonight no phones are ringing
and god is on his knees
he knew the ark was coming
he didn’t know what for
he couldn’t take advice from anyone
now god has left the lighthouse
and on the shore he wasn’t sure
exactly why he was doing a long gone melody
what must be done is done now close the door