@ALBUM: Wool (2000) @SONG: Ivory Boy The ivory boy came to Hanburg and Cologne He bought three one way tickets for the train He travelled with his sister and a girl who looked like Lili Marlene He said: 'Cancer, cancer is a hurricane Blows away my body and tears out my brain But the songs you play somehow ease the pain' You're keeping my senses awake Sometime just before going on stage The girl with the pale and the beautiful face Suddenly stood next to me Like a ghost in the house of mystery She said: 'Cancer, cancer, I'm a little flame That started this fire, burning his brain And I don't know who gave me a face like Lili Marlene' How can you fade away. Like a light on a dark highway A million years from now, I see you when the light changes Keeping your senses awake, awake So the lights went down and the crowd was dark Like the moon that covers the sun Except for two white faces that slowly became one How can you fade away. Like a light on a dark highway A million years from now. I see you when the light changes I will be there @SONG: Walking with Maria 1999 I am walking with Maria on a cold winter's day I'm dressed in black second hand clothes She's wearing a blue winter coat, C & A The river is a stillborn child. Seagulls in a purple sky We walk from the light into the darkness Hands like ice. Feet like ice 1959 I was walking with Maria on a warm summer's day She was wearing her dress with the yellow flowers Me in my blue jacket, C & A The river was a new born child. Mother's milk and butterflies We ran from the darkness into the light Hand in hand to the swimming pool I dreamed last night I was drowning but now I will swim I won't be afraid 1999 The river is a frozen sheet. An old man lying underneath We walk from the light into the darkness A million starts - one yellow moon. I will die - maybe soon I won't be afraid @SONG: 26A (Clouds in the Sky) When I close my eyes, I see your face. The airplane flies Like a time machine in space. I don't want to fall I just want to fly back to you Clouds in the Sky Here I am. I'm a man with the child in his eyes Your sweetest smile, your angry eye When I lift you up. In the clear blue sky I don't want to fall. I just want to fly back to you Clouds in the Sky I don't know where I am. Goodbye. Where I am I know you live on in this world when I'm gone Clouds in the Sky When I close my eyes, I see your face. The airplane flies Like a time machine in space. Here I am high above the ocean Here I am in the clear blue sky. Here I am Clouds in the Sky @SONG: The 'Darling' Stone The wind is turning. A fire is burning, somewhere far away Where are we going. To Hietaniemi Hautausmaa It's a perfect grey graveyard day Will I be saved when I call your name Stranger, you're so late. Between the rich men and the soldiers 'Rest in peace', that's what they told us I only want your life, your life, your life We could not find it, the 'darling' stone It simply disappeared beneath the leaves that were falling I can hear your calling Stranger, why I'm so alone Soon I'll be gone with a suitcase in an airplane Back into my life. Your life, your life Where are you going, my sleepless darling Back into your life, your life @SONG: Seven green parrots Seven little parrots in a tree outside The colours of their feathers change like traffic lights Snowflakes are falling on the ground A feather is whirling without a sound Sometimes in a dream I walk a snow-white street I can hear somebody whisper underneath my feet A needle is scratching rupper soul In the ice on the river there's a big black hole Now that I am looking at this naked tree I feel every branch is a bone inside me The boy who is climbing without a sounf The man who is standing on the ground So seven green parrots are flying away The leave me in the grey light closing down this winters day The snowflakes are falling on the ground A feather is whirling without a sound. @SONG: Crime & Punishment The beauty of the town takes my breath awa. Sunlight's cutting houses in two. The beast of the town brings only death. He's cutting a man in two. My heart is so empty, my head is so full. I cannot understand why they blew up a car With a man and his wife Crime & Punishment Cut me like you cut a flower Burn me like you burn a tree. The lines in my face The nails in my hand. Crime & Punishment Give me one reason when the truth is a lie Don't take my body when I offer you my hand Crime & Punishment My heart is so empty, my head is so full I cannot understand why they blew up a car With a man and his wife. Crime & Punishment Lawyers Liars Lovers Losers Dealers Users @SONG: The Angel of Happy Hour I am the shame in the secret wars She smells the leaves in the autumn cars I am the rain from the falling skies She came, the winter was in her eyes She said: 'The wonders that filled my head They fell asleep, but I'm not dead I can change, I can change' She came from towns where she was a famous silhouette I turned around to light her a cigarette Passion fruit was in her eyes The ice and the fire. The lights in the sky Something's wrong. Why you're gone. My eyes are red Why does it hurt so bad Why, you've changed. Why, you've changed. My angel Where she lives nothing grows A dry old plain, the ill wind blows so cold She was the angel of happy hour She took the honey from every flower Passion fruit was in her mouth The ice and the fire. The lights in the south Why, you've changed. Why, you've changed. My angel @SONG: The Wind, the Rain The wind, the rain, the child, the train The tree, the lake, waiting The house, the shoe, the blind, the hand The air, the face, waiting Now that I've found every heart has been broken Now that I've lost all the time that I had. I will be gone Now that I've heard every word has been spoken Now that I've seen every line that you wrote. I will be gone I'm walking through the valley in the darkness and the light I'll fear no evil with you by my side The stone, the nail, the boy, the snow The door, the heart, waiting Now that I've seen every road has been taken Now that I've lost all the the love that I had. I will be gone The wind, the rain, the child, the train The tree, the lake, waiting The house, the shoe, the blind, the hand The air, the face, waiting The stone, the nail, the boy, the snow The door, the heart, waiting The thirst, the truth, the taste, the thing The turn, the thorn, waiting @SONG: Jazz Bon Temps She is waiting on us in the Jazz Bon Temps in Texas Catfish on a plate. The kitchen's open late tonight Diamond in her mouth, sparkles when she shouts 'Hey you guys, I can wait here' Sad, but we have to go Call me a stranger. Call me a fool Bellatrix is playing tricks at midnight Give my light to the Junkie XL Farewell Iceland belle. A cowboy is shooting a hole in the wall Strange, but we have to go To the Iron Cactus. To the Electric Lounge Call me a stranger. Call me a fool Joni in your blue eyes I see open windows Joni in your sad eyes I see A door. A room. A wall Sacrifice. Rolling dice. It's all there, it's all there Love and hate. Fish and bait. It's all there, it's all there There's a sign 'turnaround' at the end of a highway I'm checking out of the Cactus Tree motel today Sad, but I have to go @SONG: Swimming Mister Bluebird on your shoulder. He stays very calm at his feet I don't know why. Sometimes my eyes are swimming Look at the way we were talking. Strangers for so many years I've been away. You spent the day swimming I'm sitting down by my window. Looking outside at the rain I don't know why. Sometimes my eyes are swimming Laurel leaves and thyme, salt and pepper, I'm cooking Oranges and honey, coriander, open sesame, cooking I don't know what it is. What is moving her. What she's diving for Mister Bluebird on your shoulder. He stays very calm at his feet I don't know why. Sometimes my eyes are swimming @SONG: The Strawberry Girl Dead leaf falliing from a family tree. Drop in the ocean. Rock in the sea In a long cold winter. She's falling asleep on a pillow of feathers Wool of sheep China moon on a cold winter night When she's sleeping, the light is milk on her pillow Gold-fish is swimming around in a bowl near the window The curtain is moving slow. The wind is blowing Strawberry girl takes me to her kitchen Am I fish or bait Paper straw in her soft skin. Sip her lemonade Koala faces, thick grey fur. Pieces of snake skin. Millefleurs In a long cold winter she's waking up on a pillow of feathers Wool of sheep Strawberry girl takes me to the river. We sit down in the breeze Goose-flesh when she starts to shiver Cover her with wool and listen to the wind in the leaves of a tree She tells me she leaves me. I don't know where I am going I'm just a black sheep. A falling leaf. A falling leaf from a family tree @SONG: Frog Once I was a green man living in a tin can You cannot open it, cannot open it I can. Green man Once I was a blue man living in a bottle I cannot open it, cannot open in You can. Blue man Once I was a red man living in a brown box You cannot open it, cannot open it I can. Red man Green man. Blue man. Red man