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Asbestos Poisoning
03:16
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As long as I breathe this in
The danger crawls right under my skin
I didn't ask for this man
I didn't ask for this man
I walk alone the city streets
Silence is the only thing I come to meet
I didn't ask for this man
I didn't ask for this man
I don't know tides on my shores
I don't know my face no more
Because
All my cells are now in panic
All my cells are now in panic
I return to the factory
My name is a number
They don't know me
I am insignificant
I am insignificant
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Cover Me Again
04:40
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Dear City, Dear City
Won't you cover me again
Spread your wings and fly
You are a butterfly
Spreading all your fame
Dear City, Dear City
Won't you cover me again
For all the world to see
What you mean to me
Taking away all my pain
Snow is falling on your rising flames
Time will heal your scorching pain again
Time to rise is now inane
Dear City, Dear City
Won't you cover me again
Dressed all up to see
What you gonna be
Praying for every shame
Dear City, Dear City
Won't you cover me again
In the darkest night
In the wildest fight
Protect me with your name
Snow is falling on your rising flames
Time will heal your scorching pain again
Time to rise is now inane
How beautiful thee are
How beautiful thee are
How beautiful thee are
How beautiful thee are
Dear City, Dear City
Won't you cover me again
Spread your wings and fly
Just like a lullaby
Labeling me insane
Dear City, Dear City
Won't you cover me again
I let the world see
Just what you mean to me
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Waakzaamheid, (de~)
02:30
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I found a seed
For you and me
We'll let it grow
Into a dance hall
The place to be
Just you and me
In the shadow of
A happy childhood
Dance for me
Will you dance for me?
Dance for me
Will you dance for me?
Dance for me
Will you dance for me?
Dance for me
Will you dance for me?
They know me here
We've greased the carvings
The beautiful
The stakes are empty
They let me in
To find a cure here
Relieve my pain
Upon the dance floor
Dance with me
Will you dance with me?
Dance with me
Will you dance with me?
Dance with me
Will you dance with me?
Dance with me
Will you dance with me?
The DJ sees
Just what we need
The place is moving
The crowd is jumping
I found a seed
For you and me
And if it grows
We can go there pumping
Dancing here
We'll be dancing here
Dancing here
We'll be dancing here
Dancing here
We'll be dancing here
Dancing here
We'll be dancing here
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An Architects Dream
02:49
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The City is moving
Moving through the light
I'm dreaming this picture
When the sky falls down I can see their bright eyes
The paper is still white
(However) The green is in my head
Paper scratches under my crayon
My big, black heart paints a street of a thing, alive, with coco smells in the skies
For mankind
The city is building into the sky
The glass and white lines
Are the empty basis of the torture in my mind
The streets are paving
The whaling fleet they once knew
A viral thing
And some call it art
Some call it crime
But it's real and high
And I say I did it all for your
Mankind
Building
The architects dream
(The city is moving)
The city is moving
Moving through the light
And I guess I was drunk
Now I see this dollhouse reaching for the sky
Water is streaming in canals that once disappeared
In my dream I saw a lively city
Reaching for the big blue sky
With a beating heart
For everyone to fly
Now you're man?
Kind?
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Chalk On A Blackboard
05:19
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We're chalk on a blackboard
Go from this world to the next
Our ships will leave the port
Our minds will one day forget
When you ride through our town
With sunlight through woolly clouds
You will tangle upside down
Don't know how to make your parents proud
In search of new harbors
Our whaling fleet gets lost
An horizon of armors
Will pay for our healing costs
The mills slowly turning
The bearing wind in their sails
The meadows are burning
Not one creation has ever failed
All of them are hard working
Communists 'till the end of days
But now the tables are turning
The world no longer taking over our ways
The green, and white, and red
A trademark for all to see
It kind of makes me sad
They're cutting down our family tree
The chalk, now erasing
We're dust in the wind
We're traveling fast
The chalk, now erasing
What have we done to our past?
We're chalk on a blackboard
Slowly everyday erased
We're chalk on a blackboard
Slowly everyday erased
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With my back against the wall
I thought I was heading for a fall
Completely out of my control
I couldn't even keep alive a doll
Lying on my feeble back
Erasing the mistake of my tracks
I tried to learn your language
But I couldn't cope with it
A screaming pain within my chest
I'm wiping out my rotting past
A tiny mess, that's all that's left of you
Perhaps in the end I was a bit too cruel
Can you ever forgive me?
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Shipbuilding
03:18
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It's sophistication what they need
It's intimidation what they see
I pack my bags and I move away
Go to a land where they know my name
Well
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
Try not to teach me your words and greed
A fleet like yours is all that we need
A land far from your sobriety
Where sawdust can't beat spawned spirits
Here, well
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
Teach me to build a ship
Teach me to build a ship
Teach me to build a ship
Teach me to build a ship
Teach me to build a ship
Teach me to build a ship
Teach me to build a ship
Teach me to build a ship
Sophistication is lacking here
They all bend down to shame and fear
Some stupid statue is all I get
And all their rudeness, sure, they'll forget
Well
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
I'm in it over my head
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8. |
Gravedancing
03:45
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Back home they call me crazy
Got no feel for my ideas
They live a life that's lazy
Wrapped in the veil of their fears
The true sense of adventure
Has none to do with murder
Sharp dressed into their thick dreams
A close call to all their screams
I am gravedancing
I am gravedancing
I thought they'd like what I do
The widows who say "I love you"
To the stones on the graveyard
I'd be the place where to start
A pinch of empty keyhole
And voodoo in the threshold
Where there is darkness and blame
I give a voice to a name
I am gravedancing
I am gravedancing
I am gravedancing
I am gravedancing
Perhaps the soul that I bear
Could not inhale the thick air
Of love and lust on dark nights
They'd give their hope to this Christ
No hope could bring them alive
Could feel the need of this jive
But it is all in their hands
Or will it mess up their plans?
When gravedancing
When gravedancing
When gravedancing
When gravedancing
Back home they call me crazy
Got no feel for my ideas
They live a life that's lazy
Wrapped in the veil of their fears
They even think I'm dirty
But I can see their pity
I say again and again
I give voices to their names
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It's a game they're playing
Until they smash brains in
Hit her with a leather belt
I's murder in the fitting room
Knives are pulling out
The rush of the game they play
I feel his sweet fingers
Touching, touching, touching her skin
I thought they were friends
I thought they were lovers
I thought they were friends
I thought they were lovers
Left her in my corner
Her skin bursts, and she bleeds
A man in the doorway
Making sure she will not leave
I thought they were friends
I thought they were lovers
I thought they were friends
I thought they were lovers
I thought they were friends
I thought they were lovers
I thought they were friends
I thought they were lovers
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10. |
Into The Clouds
05:16
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Goodbye my love
Goodbye my family
Goodbye my friend
Goodbye your love for me
Goodbye my heart
Goodbye my closed front door
Goodbye my stuff
Goodbye my designated driver
Goodbye my things
Goodbye the pain I once had
Goodbye my feel
Goodbye my tenderness
Goodbye my chairs
Goodbye my breakfast at ten
Goodbye my meals
Goodbye my high definition TV
Goodbye my car
Goodbye my bed
Goodbye my girls
Goodbye my books
Goodbye my studs
Goodbye my rust
Goodbye my school
Goodbye my purpose in life
Goodbye my playground
Goodbye my safe ground
I have to go
I have to go
I have to go
Into the clouds
Into the clouds
Into the clouds
Into the clouds
My prose
My pillows
My shirts
My foxholes
My mind
My plans
My pillow talks
My clouds
My paper route
My past
My DVDs
My girls, I once kissed
My safety net
My safety net
My safety net
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11. |
A River, A Bird, A Man
03:38
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High above the river
That's slowly streaming West
A lonely bird is circling
Looking for a nest
And high above the river
The bird is screaming down
To a man, who's in the water
A man about to drown
The man, who's in the water
Knows nothing but his name
Because every thought and feeling
He once had is called insane
In his teens he did not party
In his twenties he was blue
In his thirties he was broken
'Cause when he meant: "I sure do love you"
He said: "I don't, I don't love you"
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Jean Koning Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jean Koning has been a compelling force in the underground music scene since his unlikely folk&jazz debut transferring the
band The Children of a Lesser God into the avant-punk extravaganza !JP in 1988. His star-studded career includes albums such as Notes from Purgatory, Man Enough to be a Woman and Wake Up In L.A.
Throughout his career, Mr. Koning has been honored with numerous awards.
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