Lyrics

Behind the Next Door

you drink too much

but you can't ease the tension

you drive too fast

and you can't stop the engine

your mind is a church

where children paint the ceiling

the walls are soft

and words have lost their meaning

behind the next door

maybe I'll change

behind the next door

you'll watch me unfold

behind the next door

we are starting again

behind the next door

and you dream too much

cause you are scared of living

now the thrill is gone

there was no revolution

behind the next door

maybe I'll change

behind the next door

you watch me unfold

behind the next door

I'm moving in time

behind the next door

walking through the fire to the streets where you were born

you had a lightbulb in your heart when you were alive

now the shining light has started shimmering again

and there's a lightswitch in my mind you left behind

nevermind the radio, it's more than a feeling

but tonight you will shine when you sing to me

and carry me home

we'll it's more than a feeling

but tonight you're alive when you sing to me

behind the next door

I'm starting again

behind the next door

you watch me unfold

behind the next door

just radio-waves

behind the next door

watch me unfold

I'm moving in time

Saturday Night

who am I – don't know

animal for sure

growing up so fast

who are we – the last 

embryo on display

I wanna be closer to you

who am I – don't know

why we're here – don't know

will there be a show

after this – don't know

all I know after all

I wanna be closer to you

tomorrow – there's no tomorrow

saturday night

in a heaven of withering stars

shades will be light in your eyes

keep on breathing

who are we – don't know

sun is black

we glow

embryo on display

animals

decay

here's my limbs

here's my bones

here's my desire

for what it's worth

I could be dirt

but I am a liar

I wanna live

I wanna feel

I wanna stay

stay in the moment

saturday night

in a heaven of withering stars

shades will be light in your eyes

I wanna dance with somebody

I want somebody like you

pulling me closer to make me forget all about you

can we ever go back to the rhythm

can we ever go back to the past

where do we go

I don't care

I just wanna go fast

Live Forever

this is what we do with boys like you
we put a rag in your mouth and we trap you in a locker
with American soil I will choke you at the side of the road
if you think you are somebody special, you better think twice
put a flag in your hand and pretend that everything is all right

there was a time in your life when everything was all bright
and with a Viewmaster Stereoscope™
you changed the world with the flip of a switch on the right
he was the best friend you've ever had
his name was Jonah

tracing all the lines in the palm of your hand
balancing a horse inside the Eiffel tower
in the material world, you saw a man with a cape
then you came to believe he was your father
journalism died for Superman
it was the year when they caught the Una Bomber

in the remains of the day you had the light in your eyes
oh my god I wish I was somebody like you
the song goes on forever

you're gonna live forever
life is a dream that you'll always remember
forever starting all over
I got the love that you long to discover

don't you know you gotta be strong enough free her
don't you know you gotta be strong enough to leave her
don't you know that life isn't long enough to keep her
don't you know, it is always forever.

I never thought my life would come down to this
I stare into the radiator
the summer sky is bludgeoned with Strawberry Fields,
a day in the life
behind the wall with a John Lennon crucifix
I listen to the karaoke
Holden Caulfield sings in the dark
oh my god I wish I was somebody like you

you look up to the sky with your feet on the ground
as the world keeps turning
she wanna dance with me now
here she comes!
she doesn't like the sound of the midnight train
by the downtown river
she wanna dance with me now
come on!
you're gonna live forever

here's to all the things that we don't understand
the muddle in the middle, the chain of command
the plough that is reaping the fruit of the land
but heaven's not a place for Superman
the song goes on forever
now you're playing the trombone in a marching band
the song goes on forever
you're stuck in the ethereal traffic jam
the song goes on forever
bleeding the eternal summer rain
if you ever had the choice
would you do it again?

live forever!

Sadlands

I recall the summer and the light in your eyes
I was tuning radio waves on the ceiling
all the songs we shouted in the back of your car
I recall the lines but I don't know the meaning
I recall the record store they burned to the ground
and the city on the day of the crash
and all those beautiful homes

I'm in the wreck of your heart

with a windshield full of frost and broken tires
now I'm listening to the radio
more than a feeling
but I can't feel a thing

just carry me home

Jonah

in heaven, everyone loves you
in heaven, nobody knows you
but I do

I dreamt I was a beautiful boy
sleeping in a womb of an animal
clutching the umbilical cord
my body was the map of America
they blessed me with these beautiful hands and fingers
but my belly was a bag full of chemicals
so they decorated all of the walls with mirrors
now everybody waits for the miracle

you were the first Iberian lynx in the snow
hunting for the Birds of Paradise
you wore a crown all painted in blue and white
your kingdom was a grave of fireflies
I see you in the morning light
in the winter we are dressed up like animals
looking for cracks in the ice on the river
and in heaven there was nothing at all
just a cauliflower shade of an atom bomb
now I am fumbling away in the dark by the river

his name was Jonah
he was the best friend I`ve ever had
and I remember his rifle
and his diploma
and the day that he said he was going to be the king of the world
his name was Jonah
he was the best friend I've ever had
and I remember his rifle
he was a loner
on the day that he said he was going to be the king of the world

shine a light, shine a light
people they come and go
shine a light, shine a light
it is the way of the river

shine a light shine a light
this is your final show
shine a light shine a light
it is the way of the river

his name was Jonah
he was the best friend I've ever had

keep on breathing
you gotta keep on moving
you gotta keep on trying
keep on living
you gotta keep on dreaming
you gotta keep on trying

Velvet Moon

take me to the Velvet Moon

my Dickensian driver

you rock the cradle with mercy

and you look sublime

I will see you soon 

in Victorian slumber 

we'll meet the kindness of strangers

and there ain't no time

take me to the Velvet Moon

to the drifters of the light

so it goes 

it's just the end of the world

like Krug champagne

we're just lightbulbs in the rain

this room has a view of the lighthouse

but it's nothing like the Velvet Moon 

take me to the Velvet Moon

Dave, is that your name?

count the lightbulbs in the rain

so it goes

it's just the end of the world

I'm so glad you came

count the lightbulbs in the rain

so it goes

it's just the end of the world

Irina Margareta

I can barely remember the things that I've done

all I know is the visiting hour is gone

this is how I repay you for what I became

putting you on the payroll, it’s nothing but fame

there are voices in my head

there's the girl in my bed

there's the sound of sirens wailing in the street

I got nothing left to lose

I'm the winner

show me the killer, you’re a winner

everybody’s shouting your name

Plastic Messiah

fuel the fire

blame it on the video game

show me the killer, you’re a winner

generations calling your name

Francisco Goya paranoia

everyday is exactly the same

but in heaven – there's no tomorrow

in heaven – let's watch a movie

the light in your eyes is like heaven

you had the voice of a demigod behind the iron curtain

you made them dance in the funeral of Nicolae Ceausescu

Irina Margareta

I hear her now

Red Mule can't sell Goya beans

jet fuel can't melt steel beams

Dave!

state your name!

lightbulbs in the rain

so it goes

no one knows

Dave!

I was careful with the blade

treat the mango like suede

surrounded in a city of yellow sky-skrapers

it takes courage to be blind

and I choose to be kind

the secret in your eyes that shapes my world

is like heaven

and all the things you left behind

I can still push rewind

the secret in your eyes contains a thousand movies

I was only just a child

now I can't really tell

how you became the voice of the world

it's like heaven

there's no tomorrow

in heaven

let's watch a movie

the light in your eyes is like heaven

The House

this is the house

it's the house where it all happened

this is the room 

it's the room where it all happened

this is the bed

it's the bed where it all happened

yeah this is the house

his father was a drinker, an animal

with the ear plugs and the twinker and the Tramadol

his mother was a thinker, always miserable

oh the dinner conversations

they were unbearable

this is the house

it's the house where it all happened

this is the room 

it's the room where it all happened

this is the bed

it's the bed where it all happened

this is the house

it's the house where it all happened

kids in the basement playing Space Invaders

the neon commanders in the pitch-black night

oooooh the lateral flexion of her carpal bones

she made a ten foot tall statue of Ferris Bueller

this is the house

this is the bed

this is the room

everything she said

all I wanna do is just jump from a plane 

and parachute into a trance

dance!!

got the neon oxygen mask from Versace

all I wanna do is chop chop with my laser 

Chopstick Chow Mein Commodore

and drink with my friends 

all I wanna do is drink with my friends 

in the bunker

Velvet Prison

you gotta be hip

you gotta be square

you gotta be hip

take a look at yourself in the mirror

the ubiquitous square unfolds your secrets

you gotta be hip

you gotta look perfect

the ubiquitous square is watching everything you do kid

you gotta wear Gucci

when the ocean drives the death of Versace

you gotta be hip 

the ubiquitous fear is everywhere

from the Rockefeller man at the crossroads puppeteer

up to the Wall Street crash and The Challenger

it's posh posh apocalyptic

one love, one touch

kiss me before you go

one life, two souls

a million ways to go

she's gonna buy a piano with ivory keys 

and royal curtains of panda bear skin from China

she's got a black-market photo 

Tiananmen Square

he's going shopping for centuries now

she said I know, I know, I know

I know it's hard to be alone

and when the engine stops they will take you away

you took the blow, I know, I know, I know

it's China in your hand

and there's a hurricane in your plastic bag

she said 

heaven

it's like heaven

are you the voice in my head

are you the blade in my back

are you the gun in my hand

is this a panic attack

are you the love of my life

I really don't understand

I can't explain

but this Saturday is gonna be perfect

ice cream cone melts in the summer

underneath a fresco of Gorbachev 

becquerel babies of Machiavelli

siamese twins and iodine

radio – I got the Radio Luxembourg

radio – I got the Radio Luxembourg

Lydia was into visceral video violence

she never listened to her dad

Lydia, she had an Alfred Gilbert Geiger Counter

oh boy the good times that we had

I know the times are changing

I never understood just why Lydia

was into visceral video violence

oh boy the good times that we had!

POSH-APOCALYPSE

make it happen based man

bring about the unification of the sky and the earth

I see you – what are you waiting for?

stop explaining

MOMA

living in a coma sleeps all day

he will never amount to anything at all

hooked on medication, life's ok

he is drawing olympic circles now

angel headed hipster starry night

god is breastfeeding babies with Goya milk

everything is Moma everything is right

but every now and then I get this feeling

up on the second floor

In the hall by the torso

there's the piano lesson boy 

with a blue pamphlet of Silent Night

behind the iron railing

PLEYEL is my saviour!

Ginsberg, Guggenheim, Gertrude Stein!

get into the moshpit!

get into the double-dagger moshpit!

a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a Rolls Royce

I see the lost and the found 

and the great and the silent generation

destroyed by madness

baby boomers from the X to the why to the Z

it's the boring twenties

a lie has a lifeline, 

like a sugar cream pie 

it's a pipe dream

don't you touch the portrait on the wall

it's not a replica

it's Celestina painted by Picasso

don't you ever poke her in the eye

that's how the poets die

they see the ghost of Carles Casagemas 

is it true?

is it really you

is it really true?

when the skies are blue

is it over?

is it over?

the anthem of Solidarity will not be divided or destroyed

why are you never listening to me?

raindrops are falling on my head

sweet little lies fucks with my head

nobody knows just where the wind blows 

goodbye Picasso

mountains are buried in the deep

so many dreams 

counting the sheep

nobody knows just where the wool goes

goodbye blue Monday

is it true?

is it really you?

is it really true?

Lemon Symphony

what is the equation if the answer to your question is love?

Fantasia Me Now!

take my hand

are you going to the movies?

do you contemplate the miracles of life?

if life is a miracle

it's a miracle yeah

I'm sitting by myself on a Saturday night

take my hand

got the money in my pocket

for the sour patches waiting at the mall

life could be beautiful

it's a miracle yeah

I'm sitting by myself on a Saturday night

all I wanna do is to see the Neverending Story with you

I haven't seen it since 1987

yes I know it's alright

we can save it for later

but let me know if you change your mind

cause all I wanna do is to see the Neverending Story with you

I haven't seen it since 1987

yes I know it's alright

we can save it for later

but let me know if you change your mind

hold my hand

are you going to the book shop

by the video game arcade at the mall

the video killed the arcade star

the DVD killed the VCR

and the hologram killed the cinema

where life is a miracle

it's a miracle yeah

I'm sitting by myself on a Saturday night

you are my Moonchild

you are the fire

you are the grain of sand

inside my hand

you are my first love

my swamp of sadness

baby it’s all happening

if you only dare to dream now!

save us

where can you be tonight?

I haven’t seen you since the Blockbuster days in high school

watching the wheels go around

it got me thinking about the kisses cut from the reel

nitrate is burning bright

projecting Firemen of Viggiù after hours

in the summer

every day 

we die for magic

god loves his children

one in a million

when revolution comes

they’re gonna rub me to sleep

the sky is bigger than the ocean

when revolution comes

they'll build a rocket machine

for the miracle mile

it burns! it burns!

show me the killer!

push it!

like you want it 

like you need it

like you want it some more

then you grab it 

embrace the habit

pet the rabbit

you’re a monkey, you’re a whore

you’re a star, you’re a killer

show me the killer!

show me the killer!

shower me in tequila!

you’re a monkey on a treadmill!

Heroes

nine o’ clock

seize the day

rise and shine

life’s ok

try the jazz

try the gym

try to run

try to swim

try to dance in their shoes

take your pills

queue the blues

shift control

woke and roll

walk the line

right on time

I’m watching the reruns of infinite sadness

the fire the fury that leads to the violence

these are the tryouts of human existance

the infinite sadness of courage and kindness

and we could be heroes

push it

like you really want it

like you really mean it

everything is now or never

push it

like you really want it

like you really need it

the dream is gonna live forever

wind the clock

seize the day

rise and shine

modern day

shift control

woke and roll

walk the line

right on time