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Your helpless little fingers They've never been as calm as now Your trembling is over It's better now If there was a light in the dark I would try to wake you up Could I look into your eyes While another baby cries Forgive me I see the children in the playfield You had to leave your place Your silent accusation They took away your face Your little life was over Before it ever had begun Your little wings were broken You never reach the sun If there was a light in the dark I would try to wake you up Could I look into your eyes Would you take my alibis Forgive me Ev'rybody knows it Repression is the way You're not the child next door You're much too far away But there's no light in the dark So I won't try to wake you up I couldn't look into your eyes In this world of alibis Forgive me Fool's Garden Index Lemon Tree(Hinkel / Freudenthaler) I'm sitting here in a boring room It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon I'm wasting my time I got nothing to do I'm hanging around I'm waiting for you But nothing ever happens and I wonder I'm driving around in my car I'm driving too fast I'm driving too far I'd like to change my point of view I feel so lonely I'm waiting for you But nothing ever happens and I wonder I wonder how I wonder why Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree I'm turning my head up and down I'm turning turning turning turning turning around And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree I'm sitting here I miss the power I'd like to go out taking a shower But there's a heavy cloud inside my head I feel so tired Put myself into bed Where nothing ever happens and I wonder Isolation is not good for me Isolation I don't want to sit on a lemon-tree I'm steppin' around in a desert of joy Baby anyhow I'll get another toy And everything will happen and you'll wonder I wonder how I wonder why Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree I'm turning my head up and down I'm turning turning turning turning turning around And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree Fool's Garden Index Pieces(Hinkel / Freudenthaler) Hello, who are you? 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Wild, wild days Fool's Garden Index The Seal(Hinkel / Freudenthaler) You said it in a strange kind, I don't forget the day Your smile is not the same now, You've drawn your hands away I don't begrudge it to you You've found another place Another place is good too But I can't look inside your face Inside your face now you get away And now we shunt our train on to a siding I see you wave your hand and disappear You said come on and fly with me, Fly and then we'll dive Into an endless sea And now you fly again, I couldn't fly like you And now I'm losing you Pathos how the eyes gape I've got blood in my hands Thoughts about the promises And all the tears that we have shed Don't you let them use you, Be cautious when you dive Into the world around you You've broken all the ties All the ties now you get away And now we shunt our train on to a siding I see you wave your hand and disappear You said come on and fly with me, Fly and then we'll dive Into an endless sea And now you fly again, I couldn't fly like you And now I'm losing you Fool's Garden Index Autumn(Hinkel / Freudenthaler) And when the land begins to call The sprites they dance The leaves they fall The change's begun And what remains Not even thoughts Not even names We can remember can forget We can achieve the highest aims But we won't change the rules we're depending on Now the freak of nature's holding up The mirror to the haughty thoughts Our brains are filled up Don't you feel the earth is trembling to heal The wounds we injured to her heart The things are easy as they are And when the land begins to call The sprites they dance The leaves they fall The change's begun And what remains Not even thoughts Not even names And when the time begins to fade The side-scene changes because it's late We cannot keep we drop the ball For now the land begins to call Fool's Garden Index The Tocsin(Hinkel / Freudenthaler / Röhl) You saw her standing at the gateway With her hands in the clouds But the higher she is moving The more it gets you down And she's waiting in the afterglow With her eyes somewhere else It's like she says: "Don't let it worry you" Was it just a warning Someday you might awake Maybe all inside of you Is not enough for what you take Was it just a warning Someday you might awake And maybe all inside of you, Maybe you'll fail Somewhere out where you are standing still And shovel dust in the wind Someone told you'd Better wait until the rain will begin Maybe it's time for reflections And the night endless long gives You chance enough To make believe it's going on Was it just a warning Someday you might awake Maybe all inside of you Is not enough for what you take Was it just a warning Someday you might awake And maybe all inside of you, Maybe you'll fail Fool's Garden Index Finally(Hinkel / Wissler) No longer the same train It's reelin' on a different track No longer the same mistakes And no more looking back The station you're heading for Is not a place for me I couldn't see the barriers While I was standing in between Finally No longer the man I used to be No longer the same ship We were sailing on a different sea No other apparent reason To go down on my knees We were runnin' way too fast, But now it's runnin' off the rails I couldn't see the exit Not before the moment we were bound to fail Finally No longer the same shit Finally No longer the same train Finally Without you, without you Finally, finally No longer the fool for you, No puppet on a satin string No more excuses for nothing, No more words that I don't mean We were plantin' the same tree But we had different leaves Now the soil is dry Let's end up this story For another one to begin Finally Fool's Garden Index One Fine Day(Hinkel / Freudenthaler) Who's gonna cover me When I shiver in a frigo In a house of steel? And who's gonna kill the pain? Is it me? It is me! Close my eyes pass the door Walk up on a stormy, cloudy day You can colour the grey sky, grey sky Walk up on a stony, narrow way Sun one fine day Who's gonna follow me When I leave a little trace behind? And who's gonna call my name When I'll attain a new land? Close my eyes pass the door Walk up on a stormy, cloudy day You can colour the grey sky, grey sky Walk up on a stony, narrow way Sun one fine day Looking at the surface But the beauty is inside I see the colours change Should I bow myself and pray Should I be afraid of bad news Should I move myself or stay Turn another page now Don't you think about your constitution Open the cage now Ev'ryday's a revolution Open the cage now No time to weigh I'll turn another page one fine day Fool's Garden Index |
