FLEMMING

FLEMMING

FLEMMING (2000)

  1. Your Life Is Dead
  2. In Search Of What?
  3. Again
  4. Your Way
  5. Starry Night
  6. Name?
  7. The Water's Rising
  8. This One
  9. Free To Choose
10. The Box
11. Rolling Dice
12. 2 By 2

FLEMMING

FLEMMING

1. YOUR LIFE IS DEAD

She always believes me
Everything I say she always
Comes and goes and comes and goes
I bet she knows, I bet she knows
Every time she goes
She always deceives me
"Everything", she says
She turns me round and round
And up and down
She wears a frown beneath her crown
And then she puts me down

And when she's gone again I'm free
Until she's here again
Then she is me again
But how can this be all around me?
Is it all just in the things I see?
Are there things I haven't tried?
Would someone stop me when
I'd try to burn off all my hair?
Or would they tell me it's alright?

She always believes me
"Life is just the time before you die"
She said, "So cry instead
Your life is dead. Your luck is bad"
Your life is dead

And when she's gone again I'm free
Until she's here again
Then she is me again
But how can this be all around me?
Is it all just in the things I see?
Are there things I haven't tried?
Would someone stop me when
I'd try to burn off all my hair?
Or would they tell me it's alright?

And when she's gone again I'm free
Until she's here again
Then she is me again
But how can this be all around me?
Is it all just in the things I see?
Are there things I haven't tried?
Would someone stop me when
I'd try to burn off all my hair?
Or would they tell me it's alright?

2. IN SEARCH OF WHAT?

Try to find out
History remains inside my skin
It's long ago since selbsthass took me in
Allen: "We're all winners of our race"
But I just feel the pain
For the millions I've left behind

Need to find out
Bliss has been the absence of a dream
But it's too easy to seek refuge in a scream
I've lost count of all instant attitudes
I'd like to stay the same
But soon I'll surrogate my name

Should be grateful
They didn't badge me to tell me who I am
But I feel
I'm a chance of less than one percent
Allen: "We're all winners of our race"
But I just feel the pain
For the millions I've left behind

And how can I feel
My problem is me
And time has done me wrong
And I should throw out
All what was, it's all gone...

But it will be back.

3. AGAIN

Trying to find a way to sleep again
Hope that I find a way to sleep again
I'm in a deeper shade of doubt
Dare not to speak up all that loud again, again
Trying to find a way to speak again
Hope that I find a way to speak again
Never tried something worth a try
Some clever lie for an alibi again, again

You never meet a lonely stranger
The abandoned die

Trying to find their normal way again
Hope that I'll find my normal way again
I never had a shed of doubt
Of things that I will not talk about again, again
If you'd understand your pain
Your prison would unlock itself
An end to all your shame
Your beauty will reveal itself
You'll never have a chance for it again, again

If you'd understand your pain
Your prison would unlock itself
An end to all your shame
Your beauty will reveal itself
You'll never have a chance for it again, again

If you'd understand your pain
Your prison would unlock itself
An end to all your shame
Your beauty will reveal itself
You'll never have a chance for it again, again

Trying to find a way to sleep again.

4. YOUR WAY

Once you were a warrior on time
Once you were addicted to your mind
But then something changed, changed
Every bit's a sign that it's the way
How things turn out to be just not ok
Somewhere else, a different place
You might see someone else's face again
But you won't know when

Hide your weeping
Try to keep in your last chance
To finally see the day
When things start going your way
What's the use when all the news's the same?
When everything just goes the way it came?
Somewhere else, a different place
You might see someone else's face again
But you won't know when

Hide your weeping
Try to keep in your last chance
To finally see the day
When things start going your way
Keep on trying to start your flying
Keep your final chance
To see the day
When things start going your way

Hide your weeping
Try to keep in your last chance
To finally see the day
When things start going your way
Keep on trying to start your flying
Keep your final chance
To see the day
When things start going your way.

5. STARRY NIGHT

I've searched the sky
I could not find
I'm a stranger on the earth
I see it swirling like purple waves
My homeland is a church
And when I cannot tell
I express myself
By the colour of my eyes
Is there anyone to share my light?

I get my rest
From the trees of death
They cast a shadow on my soul
See them swirling like dark-green flames!
They help me no to lose control
And I try to tell
When I lose myself
About the curls around the stars
Escape
The sorrow that will always last

I've searched the sky
I could not find
I'm a stranger on the earth
I see it swirling like purple waves
My homeland is a church
And when I cannot tell
I express myself
By the colour of my eyes
Is there anyone to share my light?

6. NAME?

Everybody's always looking
For somebody new

Everybody's always looking
For a thing to do

And everybody wants
To be a king

Shouting 'bout the better song they sing
So what is your name again?
Seems to have slipped my mind
Just when... when did we meet
And when did you first see my face?
You might be back in some other place

Second hand is never
Recommending something new

Everybody's wound up
Looking for a week or two

And no-one seems to care
Or wonder why

Well, everything's just
Written in the sky

So what is your name again?
Seems to have slipped my mind
Just when... when did we meet
And when did you first see my face?
I got a question in my mind
The answer I can't find

And what you say
And what you do
Makes only sense to you

And what you do
And what you say
Can only fade away, away

Everybody's always looking
For somebody new

Everybody's always looking
For a thing to do

So what is your name again?
Seems to have slipped my mind
Just when... when did we meet
And when did you first see my face?
I got a question in my mind
The answer I can't find.

7. THE WATER'S RISING
Instrumental

8. THIS ONE

If you'd state many ways
To control every day
Won't you stand in my way for so long?

If you'd state many ways
To control every day
Won't you stand in my way for so long?

What can you say
When words slide away
And they're gone?
I'm saving this one for the day

When time will take my breath away
I'm talking this one when
I'ts time to say "I'm sorry
For my way"
But not today 'cause today's
Been so fine so far
I lie in the grass and
I look at the stars in the sky

Where no-one can see me
There nothing goes wrong
And when there is no-one
I can get along with myself
Safe in silence I'm happy
To be on my own

What can you say
When words slide away
And they're gone?
What can you do
When lights don't shine
Through anymore?
I'm saving this one for the day

When time will take my breath away
I'm talking this one when
I'ts time to say "I'm sorry
For my way"

I'm saving this one for the day

When time will take my breath away
I'm talking this one when
I'ts time to say "I'm sorry
For my way".

9. FREE TO CHOOSE

Inside everybody seems to hide
'Cause they don't listen
You breathe, no-one ever comes complete
Enough to miss them
'Cause you're free to choose
Nobody wants to be abused
Nobody wants to feel your blues
Nobody wants to see your bruise

Inside no-one seems to know your name
'Cause no-one listens
You cry, no-one seems to wonder why
And how you miss them

'Cause you're free to choose
Nobody wants to be abused
Nobody wants to feel your blues
Nobody wants to see your bruise

If you can fake the reasons why
You try to understand
How to play your role again
Then you might just go again
If you can look the other way
And fail to pay the price
They pay their loan again
Then you're on your own again

'Cause you're free to choose
Nobody wants to be abused
Nobody wants to feel your blues
Nobody wants to see your bruise.

10. THE BOX

Taste in me, please leave it here
Leave your smile and shed some tear
And everything around us
Is just getting near

And please come back to what we know
We will play their favourite show
We know our roles
And we will fool them to reach our goals

They'll try to catch us
Try to change us
Make us orthodox
But they won't find our songs
They're in our heads
And in our secret box
We'll hide the memories of what we were
We'd like to live our ways
And they will think they did their jobs
But then we'll simply fly away
To a cloud up high so far away
We'll watch the world get drowned by rain
And everything around us will just stay the same

And we will play our favourite songs
To Jonathan Richman we'll sing along
We'll dance to Chaka Kahn
And we won't feel we're wrong

They'll try to catch us
Try to change us
Make us orthodox
But they won't find our songs
They're in our heads
And in our secret box
We'll hide the memories of what we were
We'd like to live our ways
And they will think they did their jobs
But then we'll simply fly away
We'll have to hide ourselves

We'll have to hide ourselves.

11. ROLLING DICE

I've been
Like a candle on a sunny day
And like her flame
I've burnt myself away
And this lonely day
Has turned my anger to pain
And no-one's here to listen to my story
No-one to take away the pain

I've been
A thousand different pictures in a frame
And none of them has ever meant a thing
I pray for rain
But all the skies are clear
My eyes are dry
But I wish to drown in tears
And this lonely day
Has turned my anger to pain
And no-one's here to listen to my story
No-one to take away the pain

So shed your eyes and dance all night
And cover all despair with your selfish lies
Then sing the fall of man to justify our lives
We hide ourselves behind our airtight alibis
Looking down,
You and me
With our dark and gloomy views.

12. 2 BY 2

There's no love enough
It makes no difference to you again

If you're wondering what it's all about
It has no impact on you again

Don't you understand?
You sit all alone on your side of the line

You are not my friend or enemy
But is that ignorance yours or mine?

Don't you wanna come inside?
Then come on

Cause we're all going too
We're all going too
We're all going too
We're all going too
We go two by two
We're all going too
We're all going too
We're all going too
We go two by two
We're all going too
We're all going too

We're all going too
We're all going too
We're all going too.

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