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Summer Prelude
02:14
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2. |
Seven Hours
04:34
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again i fail to understand
okay go on the rest i'll pretend
tried too well so give me the bill
tried too well so give me the bill
okay
go on
say
what for heaven's sake is wrong
am i right 'where i belong'
seven hours away from mars
in this old familiar shell
i'm not fitting in too well
like seven hours away from mars
time is up so let's go home
the evening was great
yeah yeah
the weather was too but now i gotta go
maybe we can meet next week
escape
button
please get meout of here
maybe i see you next year
what for heaven's sake is wrong
am i right 'where i belong'
seven hours away from mars
with all the changes overdue
seems i have grown away from you
like seven hours away from mars
what for heaven's sake is wrong
i'm not fooling anyone
seven hours away from mars
in this old familiar shell
i'm not fitting in too well
like seven hours away from mars
what for heaven's sake is wrong
am i right 'where i belong'
seven hours away from mars
with all thechanges overdue
seems i have grown away from you
like seven hours away from mars
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just about the midnight hour
see the bottles on the table
thinking bout the times we had
and the happy faces
just about the memory
like a photograph
doing the impossible
was not so hard
fly out of this heart
and find me my counterpart
so if shes out there i believe
that someday she'll be mine
you can't blame it on the butterflies
cause this is something different
they don't give you no alibis
they just give a hint in life
just about the sweetest dreams
and the deepest eyes
about the wine and tv nights
and the wind of summer
just about the fairest song
all the violins
all conductors going mad
because of love
fly out of my heart
i need a chance to start
so if shes out there i believe
that someday there'll be 'us'
can't blame it on the butterflies
cause this is something different
they don't give you no alibis
they just give a hint in life
you can't blame it on the butterflies
cause this is something different
they can dry your tear-stained eyes
they'll be there for you
can't blame it on the butterflies
cause this is something different
take the reason for your sighs
catch them if you can
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4. |
LN Calls
04:47
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when ellen calls the world goes under
a second later i'm in pain
another minute and i swallow the last bit of understanding
because there's nothing left to gain
maybe i am in the wrong place
maybe i should be switching sides but nevertheless
i am safe when i am on the darkside
where all i can see is mine
i shouldn't listen to her talking
i shouldn't answer the phone
she was all i wanted
she was in all i ever done
she was all different from the others
and now she is all gone
and all the way
from then until today
i keep questioning myself why it shook me all the way
i remember all the good things
but they're the ones that made me crack
and in the end i wanted nothing
but nothing didn't want me back
i shouldn't look back like this
this isn't doing any good
she was everything i wanted
she was in all i ever done
she was all different from the others
and now she is all gone
all the way
from then until today
i am questioning myself why it shook me all the way
i shouldn't listen to her talking
i shouldn't listen at all
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5. |
A Lady's Lullaby
02:58
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6. |
Down
03:17
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like a block of stone carried on my back
it feels when i'm putting down the phone
so you got a load of issues
so you got a load of time
i rely on you to bug
and you never dissappoint me
one more endless round
one more endless round
you're always getting me down down
you're always turning my mood around
you got complaints and you got a load of trouble
congratulate yourself you brought me
down down
here's the place for a nice little
suburban nightmare
and I know that you're gonna use it
how did i get involved in this one way thing i can't say
cause i know you're gonna use it
one more endless round
one more endless round
you're always getting me down down
you're always turning my mood around
you got complaints and you got a load of trouble
congratulations you just brought me
down down
shut it up
just listen once
i am not the place
for trouble and trash
you can't blame me
i see the way it is
and i don't intend
to let you overturn me
you're always getting me down down
you're always turning my mood around
you got complaints and you got a load of trouble
congratulations you just brought me
down down
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7. |
Amber
10:27
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standing at the waterside
driftig in the evening light
falling as i close my eyes
come and take away my ties
can you hear the whales tonight
sing their songs into the wide
revive me
make life to me
i don't know what it takes
to be relevant this time
i don't know what it takes
to keep it up beyond the finish line
i don't know what it takes
but it takes so much not to break
i don't know if i can do it
but i'd always do it again
never i'll forget the sound
of the clearing water washing out
the relicts and footprints memories and fears
signs of existence all proof we were here
faithful, still i don't beleive
i am worthy to receive
this brand new life washed ashore
and nothing as it was before
i don't know what it takes
to be relevant this time
i don't know what it takes
to keep it up beyond the finish line
i don't know what it takes
but it takes so much not to break
i don't know if i can do it
but i'd always do it again
in the sunset things can be taken for gold
when the silence breaks and the beauty unfolds
so we burst the chains and we break the shield
as we search for amber in the seashell field
again i begin and i know i will stumble
but i know you'll be there helping me up
and the tougher the times the more solid we are
and no longer we whisper when we speak to the stars
i don't know what it takes
to be relevant this time
i don't know what it takes
to keep it up beyond the finish line
i don't know what it takes
but it takes so much not to run away
i don't know if i can do it
but if you're helping me I'll try
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8. |
Trendstranded
05:04
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when you got your first wristwatch you became a part of time
at the moment you learned to read you helped the plan go (into effect)
oh now you feel older every day
day by day
fading away
mishmash melody sounding
hearing the calls but still ignore
all you see is prevailing
this isn't a law that you control
and like this you are following the trail wherever it goes
now they are high on giant sunglasses and miniature cell phones
and they keep telling you this is what you want.
but let me ask you just one question.
is it?
i mean is this what YOU want?
being yourself is so easy, have you tried?
mishmash melody sounding
hearing the calls but still ignore
tic tac timing away
what a constraining thing and what for
ki ka coolness around
keeps cooling you down on the inside
when you're looking back
you gotta know what you left
why not already live at the end of the rainbow
why not search your own garden for gold
it's not the things alone it's how you behold
mishmash melody sounding
hearing the calls but still ignore
tic tac timing away
this isn't an animal you control
ki ka coolness around
keeps cooling you down from the inside
when you're looking back
you gotta know what you left behind
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9. |
Two Sides
05:56
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there she is cheerful like always
spreading her pleasure around
in a world that keeps changing all the time
and once again she buys
the entire world with just one smile
she does only know the good side
but there's days the sun don't shine
there are reasons i divine
always keep an open eye
and you're okay
she is happy
that' allright
but will she ever
will she ever know
that there's two sides to life
there she goes
looking fine
all the differences we had
in the past time
all blown away
laugh it up, everything times two
to the top is the way and the sky is the limit
she can even make you smile
when you're down, down on the ground
just a matter of time
just a trip of the mind
just a failure symptome
just stop talking like that
noone said that it will happen
but it'll surely happen now
shut up
she is happy
that' allright
but will she ever
will she ever know
that there's two sides to life
there she goes
looking fine
all the differences we had
in the past time
i am only here in case she cries
i remember a time
warm light and music
days gone by
someday i will be fine
i am only here just in case she cries
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10. |
Something You
04:15
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i let things happen
and never cared about
a day of waiting
it ain't so bad and now
i'm watching the tide
thinking of something
dreaming of you
i turned away
from telling good and bad
i kept my say
with everything i had
now i'm watching the tide
dreaming of something
thinking of you
because you're the one that's special to me
in all the years
of walking on my own
i realised that
it's okay walking alone
but now i'm watching the tide
dreaming of something
thinking of you
because you're the one that's special to me
you're all i am
my only one
my maybelline
i am your son
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11. |
Within a Groove
03:57
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12. |
Believe me Maybelline
07:21
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it takes some time to realize
it takes some time to understand the reason why
so many ways we didn't walk
so many words we didn't say
but surely we will find a way
that we can walk maybe go a bit astray
that we can make something out of it
maybe find a home
and maybe lead our lives to water someplace alone
what are you saying maybelline
let's go together cause we're both stuck in between
stuck inside the daily run
stuck in the routine
head on straight let's hit the air
as easy-going as free of care
not as high as icarus but close enough to see
that up here all that matters is just you and me
where are you going maybelline
all the time i thought that you and me were clean
and now it's time to change the gear
lets speed or lives away from here
cause this is not a place to stay
why are you crying maybelline
believe me all the world will be our scene
come on and dream this dream with me
one more time we will be
so easy like a smile
so easy one more time
so easy flying by
come on lets fly
where are you going maybelline
please stay with me right now so we can not be seen
let's fly away the stars are ours
let's burst and turn to dust for now
hey now you're laughing maybelline
you look so beautiful when you have turned green
you will be the princess and i'll wake you up
there are a million ways to waste a summer night
but this one won't be wasted if we turn to light
this single time we'll take the dive
and if its the last this summer we will be alive
unlike the other times before
we're not so anxious anymore
regarding all the chances where we failed to score
everything is counting
when the world has ceased to turn
and now the city walls burn
throw overboard the lessons that we had to learn
take my hand and hold it tight
let's save another summer night
so good to have you maybelline
i know i can be sure you are the one i mean
follow me with all your trust
right into what's calling us
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Michael Ellis Oldenburg, Germany
I was born in 1983 and began my musical career at the age of six when I first took violin lessons. On my ninth birthday I got my first electric guitar and I have been playing rock and roll ever since. Over the last years I have recorded several albums and ep‘s (17 altogether I think) containing lots of musical styles from acoustic folk music via progressive rock and songwriter to pop and rock. ... more
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