1. |
Magic song
05:09
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How do you pay for your life?
Each minute does have a price
breathing is too expensive
be thankful for your existence
complaining will make you sad
If you obey they'll be kind
just match your dreams with their lies
Don't expect too much darling
shut up or die starving
they'll give you enough to survive
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2. |
I'd like to be hopeless
03:28
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I’d like to be hopeless
So I’d be free
Free from you
And your blackmailing needs
Free to run anywhere
If I ain’t got hope, then I won’t
Find any reason to stay
If I ain’t got hope
I can do anything
And fall with a smile
when you are staring at me
If I ain’t got hope
Then I won’t suffer
When you eat me for breakfast
And then forget me at supper
If just for one day
I was a hopeless man
I could empty my mind
And give (my poor brain a break) a break to my brain
If ain’t got hope
Then you won’t hurt me
When you say that I have never, ever,
Made you horny
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3. |
The blues that I'd sing
03:24
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How did love become
the most dangerous game?
How did I stumble
over the same stone again?
An ancient attraction
that I can’t resist
Came for the beauty
But stayed for the beast
I could talk to you
Night and day
But looking at each other
We don’t feel the same
I should save these words
For a better lover
But I begin to doubt
If I will find another
The blues that I’d sing
Would sing (be) about you
I try to keep it hid
But it cuts me through
I refuse my vengeance
I decline my gain
If I’m not the hunter
then I must be the pray
Only bad people
Have a good conscience
I must be a saint
‘Cause I regret everything
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4. |
Part of your species
04:02
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I bet there’s someone else singing this song
On another planet
But he does not feel half as alone
As this soul that is crying
Give me love
Give me sex
Give me friends and fame
Give me all (what) a man can steal today
I would not feel
I’m part of your species
Am I so different or am I just sick?
There’s no way to know it
Will I be lost all my life like a freak?
My desire ain’t working
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5. |
All day, all night
04:43
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I have walked this loneliness
and it’s surroundings
for so long that I know well
where it all ends
When you are here
you can only walk in circles
All day, all night
All day, all night
I’m a lonely boy
Just looking for a sign
Days of love have passed
and they are long gone
And (but) it’s hard to accept a loss
without regrets
I’s the gambling life
That we are all obligued to
It is so absurd
If I come to think about it
But this over-thinking still
Did me no good
I’ll shut off my brain
And let my body guide me
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6. |
Everybody feels the same
02:55
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Everybody feels the same
Like a mistreated animal
All they do is trying to understand
Where the hell the pain is coming from
Who's being so cruel to me?
Where do my prayers go?
At the end of the day all they have
is resentment and a bitter soul
Why do you hurt yourself
rejoicing in your pain?
What’s in that lonesome place
That you can’t help but coming over again?
What are you longing for?
What keeps you stuck in here?
You’ve built your inner self
Always addicted to your deepest fears
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7. |
I had it for a glance
03:21
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Though dreams start to fade
I keep on loving life anyway
'cause I had the luck
of having fun with a few girls
In my hands, I had it for a glance,
Your loving
The good days I had
They felt like I was stealing a price
'cause life is so strange
that being happy is not a right
In my hands, I had it for a glance,
Your loving
If life had to end
I must admit I'd leave with a smile
My only regret
would be not having sex more times
In my hands, I had it for a glance,
Your loving
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8. |
I'm scum
03:44
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I hope you are doing fine
with your new boyfriend
Though it cannot be that difficult
when he’s a millionaire
I’m standing at my bedroom
which is four feet long
while you are there at his mansion
in a fancy chaise longe
But do not trust me
all I say has just a single aim
‘cause I’m scum and a deceiver
just like everybody else
Sure, it was not the money, honey
what took you by his side
(it) was his maleness and self-confidence
which I find out of style
All that self-reliance
I could never fake for you
is the product of the wealth he stole
from workers’ revenues
To bring justice to this world
I’m not thinking about me
let’s fight him and his kind
and their stupid self-esteem
Leave the palace, break his heart,
come to the bastille
marry a poet, you could even marry me
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9. |
I do what I can do
03:25
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My enemies betray me
And they become my friends
My girls are always crazy
For some other man
I swear I’m doing all I can
I know what it looks like
When all I try turns out bad
I do what I can do while I can do
With all the strength I have
The tales I tell myself
About my past are so sad
And those I can make up
About my future are dark
I cared so much I just gave up
Still, from time to time
I manage to be glad
I do what I can do while I can do
With all the strength I have
Despite having some heartbreaks
I carry on with my scars
But I have lost the (my) faith
In being a regular guy
I was so happy by your side
I’m fighting with a pain
which tries to drive me mad
I do what I can do while I can do
With all the strength I have
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10. |
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You've got to pick up the pieces
C'mon, sort your trash
You better pull yourself back together
Maybe you've got too much cash
Better call, call the law
When you gonna turn yourself in? Yeah
You're a politician
Don't become one of Hitler's children
Bonzo goes to Bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy
Pick up the pieces
My brain is hanging upside down
I need something to slow me down
Shouldn't wish you happiness, wish her the very best
Fifty thousand dollar dress
Shaking hands with your highness
See through you like cellophane
You watch the world complain, but you do it anyway
Who am I, am I to say
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11. |
Me and my curse
03:42
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I got cursed
expelled from mankind
I wasn’t happy inside
but I miss the girls
They said I was
a threat for their lives
so they abandoned me
alone in this isle
Oh, but now this curse
has become my pride
We’ll be together here
until the day I die
I lost all faith
I could not comeback
It made no sense
even to try
I tell myself
I’m fine as I’m
but I’d love to be
just like everyone
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12. |
Teenage feelings
04:36
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Teenage feelings
in my thirties
I should grow up
but it's too expensive
Your black boots
and your hippie dress
are turning my nights
in a game of chess
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13. |
One sided love
03:15
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Rules were clear, I accepted to play her game
No romance, the first to fall in love here would fail
She explained it to me after a desperate kiss
I stole (gave) her September the sixth as my birthday gift
I fell soon after I cannot lie, I couldn’t resist those clear blue eyes
She won her freedom, which had never been at risk to lose
But lost my love which I always waste like a lonely fool
Another day, the same tale
A pair of burgers and a movie, it all looked well
Alice in Wonderland worked like a magic spell
Before I left I stood there and told her
I loved her more than a bacon cheese burger
The white rabbit, and the dodo, and the caterpillar
They all laughed at my babbling statement full of fears
Her words of smoke which had been like my moon and stars
Were now like jabs while driving home in my car
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14. |
When you are a...
03:30
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Maybe my time is gone
maybe I stayed too long
one thing I know for sure
(is) I can't live this life
one more single dawn
And how far should I go?
Where do I belong?
Maybe it's just my fault
and there's no place to go
when you are a...
I gave you all my love
I gave you all I've got
I sang you all my songs
but whatever I tried
It wasn't enough
I still get out of bed
each and every day
and you are inside my head
I guess there's no place to go
when you are a...
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15. |
The songs stay
02:19
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I’m just a pile of bones
wrapped in greasy skin
I’ve got these common eyes
she will not notice me
Her white skin chills my spine
her eyes don’t let me sleep
She hides a storm behind her smile
I’m drowning in that sea
So I wrote (for) her
A couple of love songs
‘cause while she goes away
the songs stay
I smell of sweat, I’m depressed
I’m the weakest man in town
The dark colour of my filthy hair
will not stand out from the crowd
She’s got millions chasing her
Darwin is not on my side
I don’t want to pretend what I’m not
but I hate to be who I am
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16. |
Those days are gone
06:50
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Those days are gone
Long gone
When I would fall
In the romantic adolescence of love
And it’s charms
That made me feel at home
Sometimes, I couldn’t catch it
Sometimes, I let it go
Somehow, I feel (know) it clearly
Love will not return
Now I have fear
deep fear
of getting hurt
by the unruly frightful powers of love
And it’s harms
That make me feel exposed
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