ONCE The Lyrics (c) by Frank Peter Hermsen The Dead End For The Pain My prayer´s for the father My blood is for the son My soul is for the spirit But I´m melting in the sun I´m knocking on heaven´s door Screaming to get out Out of the history of guilt Where I´m not allowed to doubt This is the dead end for the pain The hell for all our fears Let´s pull the nails out of the cross And walk across my tears An asylum for insane Where noone is to blame Pride instead of shame This is the dead end of the pain I don´t feel guilty anymore Don´t wanna be blamed For the wisdom of my questions Don´t wanna be ashamed This is to the one that gave me The possibility to dream To the mystic one that made me Living in a scream Thirty years in war Against my own bloody hand Wake up little Jesus Make us leave this fucking land We´re gonna hide from death Kill those voices in our brains We´re bleeding all our sorrow Into the bloodred rain Don´t You Cry For Me You´re not able to save But you know how to recover You´re too proud to read You judge by book´s covers You spit when you shout And there´s ice in your smile You´re dead you´re whole life And alive just for a while You can call me genius, dummy or freak Treat me as the good one, the ugly one, the creep Love me or just hate me Penetrate me But don´t you ever in eternety Don´t you cry for me You´re only in your hatred free You never danced on misery You can´t forgive, you just forget And you never understood the dreams I had You spit when you shout And there´s ice in your smile You´re dead you´re whole life And alive just for a while You can call me Wonko, dummy or freak Treat me as the good one, the ugly one, the creep Love me or just hate me Penetrate me But don´t you ever in eternety Don´t you cry for me The Dusk I want to vanish in forgiveness Hide in weirdo´s paradise Where I´m someone I´d take care of Hatching out of my disguise Let the mist be the link Between my echo and the way you´ve found Then I´ll be around Released with kindness From all that shit I´ve done Breaking through their walls Gliding till the kingdom come Once you will be waiting And maybe call out my name I´ll be there again I´ve no demands just a desire to sleep Underneath the surface underneath the heat Pressure and pain won´t break the wings Of a lonely chord lost between the strings But earth still is blue And so everything I do Is try to stay cool With every breath I take I´m sure I´ve gotta drown And whenever there is silence I´ll be trapped in sounds Stucked in a hole I see those millions passing by I don´t wanna die I want a home A place beyond my fears I wish we could forget The ghosts born in the darker years Look what they´ve done to me Why can´t I be free Everything I want and everything I do I do for you Faces In The Rain Memories appearing Like raindrops from the sky And if you concentrate You´ll look into an eye Like a shock it´s freezing The bloodstream in your venes When you realize with sorrow Those faces in the rain Eyes of a million tear drops Born in sorrow and in pain Damned forevermore To live on again They make you remember Rape your forgotten past And pick out all those moments You'd left behind at last Midnight And nowhere to hide Deep in the darkness You hear them cry Faces Calling out your name Faces In the rain I can always hear them talking I can hear them call I can see them gathered And I can see them fall Midnight The light just dies Deep in the darkness You hear them cry Faces Calling out your name Faces In the rain Hellfire Tourist Blood runs cold allover my shirt Eternity perished down in the dirt Helplessness calling a voice on a wire Drinking the words of a thousand liars Burning the bridges in front of me Boiling the zones in that we could be Living through daylight like blood drops through love Digging the ground to check what´s above The land is drowning The sea is on fire Towns lie in ruins Hell´s my desire Bombs over Paradise Heaven in dust I´m the hellfire tourist And in fire I trust The smile I see is made just for me But the cry I die doesn´t let me see The beauty of coldness the taste of embrace The dying member of an ancient race I can´t stand those faces on the highnoon bus Trapped in embraces no place left for us I penetrate myself doggie style And I do like this way just for a while Sun is drowning The moon is on fire The earth lies in ruins Hell´s my desire Bombs over paradise Heaven in dust I´m the hellfire tourist And in fire I trust Hey H.B. I´ve tried so hard to stand the blame I´ve played the role of penitence and shame I´ve nailed my hands to every cross Paid the price my life seemed to cost I´ve fought against my own small peace Of a bitter destiny Fatefull Memories Learned to torture me Hey H.B. How much is there for me Just a hole in my head And blood on my bed Finally I will be unchained and free Get me off of my knees Hey H.B. I forgot my hunger Food was just pain I ran away so far away But came always back again I gave to you what I had got With a smile on my face Vicious circles Living in devil´s embrace And after all these leeches Sucking off my blood Finally I´m swimming High above the flood With no right and no wrong No fearfull no strong And everything there is Is singing this song The Lovely One In the shade of the whispering trees Like a flood you came over me Dreams always were a fact for me With you they finally became reality Cause you´re the lovely one We didn´t try to think too much I was stoned just by your touch We´re not swimming against the stream Cause we´re flying high above Cause you´re the lovely one I hold your hand in the wilderness Swimming through your tenderness You have more what I have less You´re filling up my emptiness And you´re the lovely one It´s much more than joy and fun I´m the shadow and you´re the sun No more prayers for the kingdom come Finally I don´t feel shame for what I´ve done Cause you´re the lovely one I´m not addicted to my memories Don´t know if we´ll ever live in peace When we travel through our dreams I believe what I can´t see Cause you´re the lovely one Not A Lovesong I believe, I believe In the thrill of the hunt In the smell of my gun To sweat to swallow to kill to strike Is my therapy to protect my rights I´ll be with you don´t have a choice I watch you sleeping hear your voice Your raging against my mind But I´m the knot in your lifeline This is not a lovesong Call me fascist spoil my ground I´m the first and last to be around I kiss your lips for twenty pound And when you explode I will be the sound I´m the acid air you´ve gotta breathe I kill your family as soon as you leave I´m the dirty floor on which you sleep And my sense of purity is endlesslz deep This is not a lovesong On Cold Seeds On cold seeds through the night With a spider on my wall Gliding through the past Drifting through my soul Pressure can be strong Captured in a cave In the right another light With the other in a grave Marian where are you now Where is the thunder of your breath Gimme Shelter in the storm Beware my mind from deeper death But I forgive I forgive everything and more And I forget The penitence I was made for Can you hear them calling me The train is waiting Waiting For me Marriaged to the traveller Chained to the messenger he just killed Fucked by the glowing of the dawn Lost in cloudy visions still My face is rather swollen My fame is circled in it´s hall My fears are grown and gathered When I beginn to fall Can you hear them calling me The train is waiting Waiting For me Once I love these sounds these voices The rain in that we use to fall In another dark and lonely room With a hundred echoes for one call Well we took the horses through the storm Didn´t know that we would ride Across the whole human universe And back again to our desperate pride Whatever we missed in all those years How many heroes came tumbling down There´s still a word in the doorway And there´s no way around Once Your guitar is gently weeping With my voice near by your side Alone where millions should be In peace where we should fight It´s the blindness conquering our light It´s the rattle killing our tragedy We gave our blood for memories Gave our soul for harmony Once there will be a day The day we dare to dare to ask What´s about the gifts we´ve got Is just you and me and the rain at last Once there will be a shore Once a whiter shade of pale Once there´ll be just waves Once there will be another tale