C a i r o L y r i c s

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Armies of Compassion
Buy Ecuador
Day Off
Fast Food Fiends
Fuckin' Cold
Gotta Get
Live or Die
Men, Suffering
New Years Day
Planets
To Myself
Tsunami
Tic Toc
2200

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Anyway

With the letter I found from the tax man
I realized that the trouble went off
years of uncoordinated correspondence
file 16 in the big brown paper bag
So I had to appear at the tax office
a severe lady waiting there for me
called me foe of the country and it's people
told me of a 1000 Euro fee, I thought
anyway...

Left the building, heavy raining started
all I saw was my car on the hook
and this uniform under this umbrella
with a strong face, a pen and her note book
200 just to get the fuckin' car back
50 for having overseen the sign
saw the smiling face of a satisfied bitch
and my thoughtlessness really made her day, I thought

anyway..
anyway, she's got nice tits!
anyway, she's got nice tits!

Wet I was when I headed for the subway
when a truck hit the puddle right in front of me
crossed the street at the Saab dealer's corner
when I felt I would really loose my religion
I was just about feeling a little better
just as if this day wasn't hard enough
saw my ex-wife doing window shopping
with her 300 pound bald-headed love machine

anyway..
anyway, she's got nice tits!
anyway, she's got nice tits!
Thiel

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Armies of Compassion

This tragic story starts with elections in 2000
Our proud democracy was the joke of the world

But no one's laughing now
This pampered idiot's a real scary clown
As he pays for the silver spoon
With tax breaks and rebates and fields of crude

Who won elections in the year 2004?
The leader of deficit, intolerance, and war

And you call this liberty
When only those with money are really free
How much worse can it become
Than being led by the blind who are deaf and dumb
Wright

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Buy Ecuador

Buying fruit from a toothless woman
Eating out on the dollar menu
Paying the landlord a pittance for rent

Hooray! To be American
I can have the things you can't
Compared to you I'm a millionaire
And cuz your money's the same as mine

You know the temptation
It consumes your whole nation
But it's locked behind the shiny glass

3-legged dog smiles as it falls behind
Crippled man happy just to get some fries

Build us some roads, we're bringing equipment
To take from you all that we can get
Indigenous people fall under our power

All hail! The Gods of Money
We give a few cents and take over your lives
The more you'll want and the less you'll keep
And soon your customs are gone forever

You cannot stop us
We'll pay off your leaders
And buy up all your land

3-legged dog smiles as it falls behind
Crippled man happy just to get some fries
Wright

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Candle

So it is quite some time ago
since I felt it
and not just any girl will do
I'm complicated
laughing together and we touch
as we're eating
our hearts and minds are just one beat
time is fleeting

and as you leave and close the door
I'll be waiting
until your laughing smile is back
in my arms again
the time we spend is so intense
I'm addicted
we want to have this night again
and we get it

Be sure I want to
stay by your side
Merlot, candle light
and we talk
and we laugh
and then
maybe fuck you

Be sure I want to
sleep by your side
hold you, be tied
under moonlight
it's all right
and maybe fuck you
Thiel

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Day Off

I better roll another one
and have breakfast in the sun
Called the office
told Esther: this day I am off
Coffee and the morning news
and a nice b.j. would do

Many things to mind, but pretty far away
life is short, sit down, relax and seize the day

I think: I'm calling Richy
and meet him in the park
Staring at the peaches
and let our minds flow
And once we're suffering
we have a mass or two

Many things to mind, but pretty far away
life is short, sit down, relax and seize the day
Life is your career, so be in time and hurry on
dying, looking back, you maybe think you have been

Made a business plan
wrote a song or two
And I won't go to bed at night
'cause this is my day off
Singing songs
and do the things I love

Many things to mind, but pretty far away
life is short, sit down, relax and seize the day
Life is your career, so be in time and hurry on
dying, looking back, you maybe think you have been wrong
Thiel

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Fast Food Fiends

In the name of profit
We gobble up with greed
Thank you Uncle Sam
For your healthy subsidy

Oh, you're very welcome
The people want fast food
So we'll widen out their graves

Today they will save, but tomorrow they will pay

Are you hungry?
But you haven't got much money
Have we got something for you

Oh, how we love it so
It's softened up with fat
We could eat it everyday

Before we were fit, but now we need a diet

Oh, lucky day
You can have it your way
And all you'll have to do is change

How do you expect me to?
I haven't got the time
For my money I work all day

Again and again, I'll eat your poison
Wright

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Feel Bad

Were it unripe cherries from your garden?
Moldy salami from my tank back bag?
The red wine was waiting for a fortnight,
made me pray to the ivory god.
Was is cause I realized, I lost you?
That I met you with another man?
Was it, cause I really saw it coming?
Sometimes my mistakes evolve and revolve.

Sometimes you feel bad, wondering
what caused the pain
sit back and listen, what
the inner voice is saying

Feel bad,
never try to fuck a fucker
instead
live with lie and self-deceit

Told me, you no longer have these problems
when it happens that I talk to you.
Ever thought, that I'd be looking through you,
all those silly games and lies that you try
You don't pick up, when you read my number,
you don't call back from your hideaway.
Was it something deep down in our childhood
Was it something that I did do or say?

Sometimes you feel bad, wondering
what caused the pain
sit back and listen, what
the inner voice is saying

Feel bad,
never try to fuck a fucker
instead
live with lie and self-deceit
Thiel

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Fuckin' Cold

It's fuckin' cold here
It's really cold, dear
And now it's snowing
It's fuckin' cold here

I've been a year here
It's fuckin ' cold, dear
Even though you're here
It's fuckin' cold, dear

No one denies...
It's cold here, it really is
No one denies...
It's cold here, it's really cold

When it's a-freezin'
It isn't easy
So I complain, I know
But it's a hardship
Cuz when my boots grip
I find it hard to go
Wright

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Gotta Get

I was not the all time loser
but I never cared a lot
if these square heads point their fingers
I just like what I have got

I was not the all time hero
but I learned to raise my voice
and if no one else is talking
is there any other choice?

I was not the all time poet
but sometimes I write a line
even all these love filled poems
didn't really make you mine

Once we're big enough
we gotta get
out of this place
Once we're big enough
we gotta get
out of this place
out of this town
out of the sun
out of the face of the human race

I was not the all time winner
and the chances were a few
and if no one cares about you
there is something you can do

I was not the all time lover
but my ratings were quite high
if you want to be my lover
have a try as you walk by
Thiel

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Information Junkie

I'm an information junkie
need always something new
if you can't give impulses
there's nothing I can do

Is my thought of more interest
than the words that leave your brain
find me on the seventh floor
in this world of mine

Information, facts, impulses
on the hunt for something new
new dimensions, new perspectives
and there's nothing I can do

My mind is always wandering
so beautiful the world
with all my tender senses
I suck it dry

Took some time to see behind
what's the center of it all
the one whose learned what really counts
will stop talking too much

Information, facts, impulses
on the hunt for something new
new dimensions, new perspectives
and there's nothing I can do
Thiel

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Live or Die

If you want it,
Go out and buy it
Because you have all the money
That you need in this world

But if you buy it,
You'll have to work more
Work takes time and life takes time
Which one do you want?

Time's always running
It's never there waiting
For you to decide
Life's always fading
And anticipating
For you to arrive

If you want time,
You'll have to find it
As you wait the better times
Are passing you by

So if you wait long,
The time that you'll find
Will never be as pleasant
As it once could have been

Time is here and now
Life is gone too soon
We must choose between
What can be done today or tomorrow
Wright

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Men, Suffering

When you told me it was over
I was not prepared at all
wish that somebody had told me
that the border's crossed
I was running round in circles
driving drunken with my car
it's the same old tragic thing
it's men, suffering

I was roaming through your quarter
throwing tin cans at your door
climbing rooftops, just to see your
face once more
it's the time for being drunken
it's the time to run away
it's the same old tragic thing
it's men, suffering

It's men suffering from loss
it's men suffering from loss
you called me, it killed me

Nothing else in life's important
never was, not anymore
future day'll be filled with mourning
and I'm getting grey
I already fear the winter
and the darkness to go through
it's the same old tragic thing
it's men, suffering

It's men suffering from loss
it's men suffering from loss
you called me, it killed me
it's men, suffering
Thiel/Wright

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Mindfucker

Shadows conceal knives
From the pages
To the reader's mind

From the white
An ink that blackens
Twisting thought to the darkest of life

Murder is a play
See it happen
On channel 8

Shining light brings the fear of darkness
Come inside
It's the only safe place
Wright

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New Years Day

There was a time
I really thought I knew
now I don't know
what to do

And if I could
would I be strong enough
to overcome
my old me

And I go for
another new years day
watch me take off
turn to light

When I was young
all things were clear and fair
it didn't get
me anywhere

Father excuse
that I woke up that late
does it make sense
is it fate

And I go for
another new years day
watch me take off
turn to light
Thiel

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Planets

We are no double solar system, our masses can't equilibrate

We are no double solar system, our masses can't equilibrate
We didn't grow to keep each other, our radiation's not the same

We might end up as double planets, quit rotation, keep the pace
Too weak to balance out our masses, and slowly be drifting apart

Just like planets, just like planets, we're subject to nature's law
Just like planets, we can't fight the master plan

The mass that would help to protect you, the proximity that you look for
will suck the stellar stones, that hit you and push you towards your doom

So once you get stuck in my orbit, electricity will pull at you
My magnetism just might crush you, leaving asteroid dust behind

Just like planets, just like planets, we're subject to nature's law
Just like planets, we can't fight the master plan

I never claimed to be a black hole, so, do we really know ourselves?
My matter's polarized the right way? Who made the rules that lead our lives

Maybe I am a supernova, I burn the small particles quick
You delicate, little blue planet, it's better that we both move on

Just like planets, just like planets, we're subject to nature's law
Just like planets, we can't fight the master plan
Theil - for A.

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Stop (living in a dream world)

I admit, I was trying to be happy
I was trying to find luck in your middle class values
I went to live the life of my
parents generation just like job, home, family
And I stuck to my aims no
matter how much energy went off my trembling soul
I look back, should have quit much
earlier cause life did happen on the other side

Stop living in a dream world

I was free, but the freedom was terrific
and my vision dark and grey, I was getting depressed
I came back to reestablish my position in this brand new world of mine
in the center - me
And my mind - dreamt the really possible and lived the dream
to the bitter end
And god's gift - I did nearly loose it on my private quest
for the holy grail

Stop living in a dream world

I admit, I was trying to be happy
I was trying to find luck in your middle class answers
I went to live the life of my
own generation just like dope, fags, alcohol
And I stuck to my life no
matter how much energy went off my trembling soul
I look back, should have quit much
earlier cause life did happen on the other side
Thiel

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Tic Toc

I woke up the other day and thought,
'Hey, what am I doin' today?'
There's a sale goin' on
I said, 'Hey, what are we doin' here?
Let's go!'

I wanna save some, I wanna discount
I shop at Lidl, I shop at Penny Markt

Hey, what's wrong with that?
I just wanna save a buck or two
The sign said it's all right
Is it all right with you?

She wants some good stuff, she wants some specials
She shops at Aldi, she shops at Tchibo

Hey, what's wrong with that?
She just wants to save a buck or two
The sign said it's all right
Is it all right with you?

Brauche ich das wirklich?
Do I need this really?

Tic toc
Let's shop!
Wright

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To Myself

I thought I'd seen it all before
And now there seems to be more
I love my satellite

Another day of violence
It's the thing that never ends
My life is going well

But...
What if I told you some of the things on TV are real
Would you care anymore?
Or would you say to me, 'I know, so...
What're you telling me for?'

You told me before, but I ignore

Just think that spring will come again
And summer has no end
And don't you think of pestilence
Oh great! Now there you go again

It's a coincidence of life
That I am living so high
Or is it absurdity?

So I shrug and shake my head
And wait to see what happens next
And worry only 'bout myself
Wright

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Tsunami

High tide, water all around
Landslide, falling through the ground
It can happen

On a beach, in a pleasant dream
Waves come crashing through
They'll take you
Along with debris
Of your fragile life
There's no time to ask why

Sunshine, feel it coming through
Your mind, making something new
Pretend, we can

As the waves crash over
And the water covers
Will the sun come shining through?
Wright

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Turntable in My Head

Woke up one morning in the early eighties
had a melody in my mind
Couldn't tell a bass from a guitar, baby
green and shy, it's damp hard to find

oh - emotion in motion, oh - distorted emotion
oh - it never stopped, turntable in my head

Started to play music for money, baby
quit it 'cause it wasn't my track
Spent nearly ten years as a zombie, baby
thought I'd never ever come back

oh - emotion in motion, oh - distorted emotion
oh - it never stopped, turntable in my head

Met a heartfelt person for sensuous moments
thought that what I'm doing is great
Bought a Fender bass and I started playing
still I am if it's not to late
Thiel

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2200

Thank you so much,
the paradise we’re given
was beautiful

But we lost our touch,
what happened
ignoring the manual

Progress & evolve,
and only the strong will survive
The winners take all,
and by the way they took our lives

So this is our way,
our dampened materialism,
takes all away...

Sun, once we depend, burns us in the end

Life meant water then, now we’ve poisoned it

Earth enough to feed, raped, wrecked through our greed

Air, clear, have a breath, kiss of death is left

In the year 2200, no more fun
in the year 2200, we are gone

Hunger, dying on the street, although, we could feed

Feel the people’s rage, we never left the middle-age

War, we’re fighting for, keep the gods that we adore

Get what we deserve, paradise, it wasn’t worth

In the year 2200, no more fun
in the year 2200, we are gone
Thiel

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