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Tankard - Stone Cold Sober lyrics



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01. Jurisdiction

Our clean-cut leaders
In dirty money they deal
Transactions undercover
They bribe, divert and steal

Industry bosses
And the political class
Scratching each other´s back and
Kissing each other´s ass for cash
Where do you see a just society?

Fuck the law! Fuck the law!
They can do it in your face
Fuck the law! Fuck the law!
When they´re in a higher place

Who said we´re equal?
Laws only govern the slobs
No one goes after those who
Do the white collar jobs

For tax evasion
A fine you maybe will pay
But as a demonstrator
They will lock you away for sure
Equality is just a fantasy

Fuck the law! Fuck the law!
They can do it in your face
Fuck the law! Fuck the law!
When they´re in a higher place

Crime and punishment?
The law is sacred
It makes most people behave
But if you have the power
You make the law your slave

There is no justice
That´s what the proverb says
The small ones always get caught
The big ones always get away

Where do you see a just society?

Fuck the law! Fuck the law!
They can do it in your face
Fuck the law! Fuck the law!
When they´re in a higher place

Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
Fuck the law! Fuck the law!
They can do it in your face
Fuck the law! Fuck the law!
When they´re in a higher place
Fuck the law! Fuck the law!
They can do it in your face
Fuck the law! Fuck the law!
When they´re in a higher place

02. Broken Image

Images flooding all of your channels and
Senses down inflated facts
All is now is all
Meshes, where is the catch
In the net of a world of words
Appropriate reality meaningful fluidity

Disconnected symbols signify no more
In decontextualizing
Flickers of the TV´s amputated signs

Is it mediation the screen is hiding a meaning
Fragmentation broken mirror
Reformation the mind assembles the pieces
Information reconstruction?

Memory passing into oblivion
History postmodernized
Into the present
Distance collapse into a design of coincidence
No tomorrow in today

And tomorrow no today
Arbitrary symbols signify no more
In uncontextualizing
Fluidal collages washing it away

Give me mediation the text is hiding a meaning
Fragmentation broken mirror
Reformation the mind assembles the pieces
Information reconstruction?

Where am I, I need to clutch a
Solid word that simply means
Nothing real is here around me
Language is reduced to schemes

S.O.S. communication
Breaking down without a code
Free but lost without a limit
Endless nothing in my way

Anarchy but the language is violent
Is there no escaping it
Without destruction
Meaning the final quest leading into obscurity
Curses on a conscious mind
Reiteration endlessly

Unremitting spirales
Twisting common sense
Is there no communication
Silence no solution neither is the word

Is there mediation the mind is hiding a meaning
Fragmentation broken mirror
Reformation the mind assembles the pieces
Information reconstruction?

Mediation the mind is hiding a meaning
Fragmentation broken mirror

03. Mindwild

Violent chambers, neon glaring off the white tile walls
Ethical sterility aims to quelch the smell of fear
We know of the agony you tend to here
We know pain just as you
Remember this forever

Master of life, your soul is so clinical
To heal, you maim, your reasons too cynical
Mindwild - you shall feel the pain you give
Mindwild - you will die if we can´t live
Now that we´re mindwild, you´re one of use

Something binds you, spikes of metal piercing through your thoughts
Mice and man are much the same toxins pumping through your veins
Remember to take your pulse and chart the pain
You and me, eye to eye
I whisper through your nightmare

Master of life, a demi-god they call your like
Angel of death, now bleed red your robe of white
Mindwild - you shall feel the pain you give
Mindwild - you will die if we can´t live
Now that we´re mindwild, you´re one of use

Silent chambers, empty cages, shattered means of pain
Human, creature, leave behind ruins of an evil dream
The final experiment has ceased the scream
You and we are of one
Remember this forever

Master of life, your kind is not masterly
Lay down the crown, you reign is mere anarchy
Mindwild - you shall feel the pain you give
Mindwild - you will die if we can´t live
Now that we´re mindwild, you´re one of use

04. Ugly Beauty

Woman of my dreams, so blond and beautiful
I just got to have that lady, so sweet and dressed to kill
We went out on a date
I took here to my place
She whispered in my ear
She´d do anything for me
When she got undressed I found to my surprise

Padded bra and cotton stuffing, a whig and jelly thighs
She was not what she was cracked up to be

What you see is awful beauty
Don´t you be a sucker for some gaudy illusion
What you get is pretty ugly
Look behind the picture for a different conclusion

Going on a trip, I´ve got to get away
Makes me feel so free and easy when I lay myself a line
No troubles anymore
I float above the floor
But no I´m crashing down
The world is spinning round
Need another kick, I got the junkie blues
Down and out I feel like dying, my mind is so confused

Lies and self-delusion, heaven is hell

What you see is awful beauty
Don´t you be a sucker for some gaudy illusion
What you get is pretty ugly
Look behind the picture for a different conclusion
Everybody´s dream, money and luxury
All my wishes and desires, I buy ´em just like that
Ten cars and twenty whores
Wild parties, beers galore
A golden toilet seat
But still I feel like shit
Now I realize you can´t buy happiness
Everybody loves my money, but my life is a mess

Everything that glistens need not be gold

What you see is awful beauty
Don´t you be a sucker for some gaudy illusion
What you get is pretty ugly
Look behind the picture for a different conclusion
What you see is awful beauty
Don´t you be a sucker for some gaudy illusion

06. Behind The Back

Rumors growing like a cancer
From the rotting fester of envy
Sleazy liars, character assassins
In the shadows lay their seed

These two-faced snakes
Crawling before you

Serpents, vermin, waiting to jump you
Weaving webs of poisonous chatter
Sweet-talk facing you in daylight
Spitting venom in the dark

Behind the back - when you cannot see
They pull the knife on you, the hypocrites fight cowardly
Behind the back - To get the best of you
When you´ve got friends like that you don´t need any enemies

Greedy, groping for attention
Always hiding their real intentions
Never honest, ever intriguing
Sing a poisoned song of praise
They never say
What they are thinking

Phony brothers speaking with two tongues
Join our posse, dis´us the next day
False friends, we can do without you
We have others we can trust

Behind the back - when you cannot see
They pull the knife on you, the hypocrites fight cowardly
Behind the back - To get the best of you
When you´ve got friends like that you don´t need any enemies

Beat it if you wanna kiss ass
If you want to give us the back star
We don´t need you spreading dirty stories
We just want to bang in peace

You´d better not
Play us for suckers
Say it, shout it, tell me to my face
I would like to get it from you straight
You got anything to say, man?
Do it like you´re not a rat

Behind the back - when you cannot see
They pull the knife on you, the hypocrites fight cowardly
Behind the back - To get the best of you
When you´ve got friends like that you don´t need any enemies

Get off our back, Mac!

07. Stone Cold Sober

Hey, listen, we´re so sick of it
Fire water is the devil´s drink
Don´t want it, no more chugalug
Empty Tankard? Fill it up with milk!

Minerals! Vegetables! Health food and some peppermint tea
No more of that liquid death
No more beer! No more booze! We´ll play healthy metal instead

No whisky, you can have our beer
We´ll be living in sobriety
Immortal! Drinking is a sin
Prohibition is a good idea

Alcoholic days are gone - gonna fight those evil ways
Stone cold sober - gonna stick to the perrier
Alcohol is no more fun - gonna drink our tonic straight
Stone cold sober - and we´re all gonna lose some weight

Don´t do it! Through your beer away!
There´s a better way to have some fun
At parties, if you wanna booze
Get a six-pack of tomato juice

Minerals! Vegetables! Health food and some peppermint tea
No more of that liquid death
No more beer! No more booze! We´ll play healthy metal instead

Believe it, we are clean and dry
We could play a gig at double a
Headbangers on a water binge
If you´re heavy don´t you drink and dive

Alcoholic days are gone - gonna fight those evil ways
Stone cold sober - gonna stick to the perrier
Alcohol is no more fun - gonna drink our tonic straight
Stone cold sober - and we´re all gonna lose some weight

The future - we can see it now
Merchandizing heavy metal milk
Thrash soda in the water bar
Multivitamins - we got our fill

Minerals! Vegetables! Health food and some peppermint tea
No more of that liquid death
No more beer! No more booze! We´ll play healthy metal instead

Alcoholic days are gone - gonna fight those evil ways
Stone cold sober - gonna stick to the perrier
Alcohol is no more fun - gonna drink our tonic straight
Stone cold sober - and we´re all gonna lose some weight
Stone cold sober - gonna stick to the perrier
Stone cold sober - and we´re all gonna lose some weight
Stone cold sober - gonna stick to the perrier
Stone cold sober - and we´re all gonna lose some weight
Stone cold sober - gonna stick to the perrier
Stone cold sober - and we´re all gonna lose some weight
Stone cold sober?

08. Blood, Guts And Rock'n'Roll

One, two, three pints of blood
On my cornflakes make me big and strong
Then I get my chainsaw, then I get my axe
I am gonna slaughter, ´cos I need it to relax

I´m just kidding cornflake killer's my new hit
We´re a band that signs of death, violence, blood and all that shit

Acid, chains, eating brains
Maniacs and killers
Deadly music is our trade

Murder, bloodshed, body parts and gory mess
Dripping from your stereo, slashing is the way to go

Blood metal - it´s my life
Killing, hurt and pain
Blood metal - there´s nothing better
Blood and guts and rock ´n´ roll
Give me psychotic murder, must be fun to be insane

Songs about cannibals
Roasting victims, human barbecue
Fingers for the cheesedip, grilling legs and thighs
Won´t you come and join us? We will cut you down to size

Mutilation is the business of our show
Sacrifice of human life, set it in our video

Making cash with our trash
Everybody wants to
Live a sadist fantasy
Murder, bloodshed, body parts, a gory mess
Dripping from your stereo, slashing is the way to go

Blood metal - it´s my life
Killing, hurt and pain
Blood metal - there´s nothing better
Blood and guts and rock ´n´ roll
Give me psychotic murder, must be fun to be insane

I´m so scared, cut myself
In the finger, blood is dripping now
Someone´s got to help me, think I´m gonna die
I am tough and brutal, but this pain it makes me cry

Lethal lyrics, ugly words that bite and slit
We´re the band that signs of death, violence, blood and all that shit

Acid, chains, eating brains
Maniacs and killers
Deadly music is our trade
Murder, bloodshed, body parts, gory mess
Dripping from your stereo, slashing is the way to go

Blood metal - it´s my life
Killing, hurt and pain
Blood metal - there´s nothing better
Blood and guts and rock ´n´ roll
Give me psychotic murder, must be fun to be insane

Blood metal - it´s my life
Killing, hurt and pain
Blood metal - there´s nothing better
Blood and guts and rock ´n ´roll
Give me psychotic murder, must be fun to be insane

09. Lost And Found (Tantrum Part 2)

Lost! Found! Lost! Found! Lost! Found! Lost! Found!

Still all this party, raising hell to get my beer
I will go crazy, if I don´t find it here

Someone snatched my only joy
If you touch it you will die

I´ll never give up, I´ll will kill to get it back
Which dirty bastard stole my beloved suds?

Curses by the sixpack cast on you!
Merciless I´ll break you, thief of brew
Still I am getting ill
Need my regular fill
I will have to kill
For my rightful beer

They all look guilty, it´s a damn conspiracy
I´ll spare nobody fighting for liberty

Crash the party with a cry
Either they will die or I

Fists in my stomach, kicking me in my poor face
Bleeding and hurting they call me a disgrace

Curses by the sixpack cast on you!
Merciless you broke me, thieves of brew
Still I am getting ill
Need my regular fill
I will have to kill
For my rightful beer

Slumped in the corner, feeling like a total dope
My head is spinning, no friends, no booze, no hope
Nothing left but suicide
Bid this evil world good-bye

But there´s my beercan, recognize it on the spot
Must have forgot it when I went to the pot

Time for celebration, laughs and cheers
Reunification with my beer
Now - no more getting ill
Got my regular fill
I won´t have to kill
For my rightful beer
For my rightful beer

10. Sleeping With The Past

Mr. Amorphous from Germany
Goes with the fashion, as fashion goes
First a brown shirt, then a red shirt
Now his shirt is white as snow

Look to the future
(Nothing in the past, nothing in the past)
Wiping out what happened here yesterday
(Nothing in the past, nothing in the past)

Here is the deal
Part with the past, no memory
We won't ask you, we will clear you
If you play our game
This is the deal
Show must go on, at any price

Brush off the victims of forty years
Too bad, so sorry, now let's get on
Who was spying, who was dying
Who is lying, who's to blame?

Look to the future
(Nothing in the past, nothing in the past)
Don't dig up the stories long dead and gone
(Nothing in the past, nothing in the past)

Here is the deal
Part with the past, no memory
We won't ask you, we will clear you
If you play our game
This is the deal
Show must go on, at any price

Bygones are bygones is fast and clean
Whitewash the surface, that will be fine
Fortyfive was not a lesson
To the class of eightynine

Look to the future
(Sleeping with the past, sleeping with the past)
Everything is starting all over there
(Sleeping with the past, sleeping with the past)

Here is the deal
Part with the past, no memory
We won't ask you, we will clear you
If you play our game
This is the deal
Show must go on, at any price
Show goes on!

11. Freibier

Es ist Freitag Abend, ich zieh´ schon wieder los
Durch Frankfurts geile Kneipen, mein Durst ist riesengross
Meine Freunde sind auch schon wieder da
Wir nehmen einen zur Brust und finden´s wunderbar
Langsam wird es viere, wir können jetzt kaum noch stehn
Die Kneipe schliesst jetzt sowieso, ich glaub´ wir müssen gehn
Scheisse! Sind wir voll, ich schaff´s nicht mehr nach Haus
Ich such mir jetzt ´ne Parkbank und ruh´ mich lieber aus

Freibier für alle - sonst gibt´s Krawalle
Freibier für alle - Freibier! Freibier!
Freibier für alle - sonst gibt´s Krawalle
Freibier für alle - Freibier! Freibier!
Freibier für alle - sonst gibt´s Krawalle
Freibier für alle - Freibier! Freibier!
Freibier für alle - sonst gibt´s Krawalle
Freibier für alle - Freibier! Freibier!

Ich wache auf, es ist zu kalt, mein Schädel brennt wie Feuer
Mann, war das ´ne Nacht, die war mal wieder teuer
Scheisse! Ihr Schweine! habt mein Geld geklaut
Meine Frau und´s Auto sowieso - Ich bin ´ne arme Haut
Oh, Mann, ich hab´ schon wieder Durst doch kann mir nichts mehr holen
Ich treffe ein paar Freunde, sie wurden auch bestohlen
Jetzt langt´s uns! Schluss mit der langen Rede
Wir stürmen in die nächste Bar und schrei´n aus voller Kehle

Freibier für alle - sonst gibt´s Krawalle
Freibier für alle - Freibier! Freibier!
Freibier für alle - sonst gibt´s Krawalle
Freibier für alle - Freibier! Freibier!
Freibier für alle - sonst gibt´s Krawalle
Freibier für alle - Freibier! Freibier!
Freibier für alle - sonst gibt´s Krawalle
Freibier für alle - Freibier! Freibier!

Es ist Freitag Abend, ich zieh´ schon wieder los
Durch Frankfurts geile Kneipen, mein Durst ist riesengross
Scheisse! Sind wir voll, ich schaff´s nicht mehr nach Haus
Ich such mir jetzt ´ne Parkbank und ruh´ mich lieber aus
Oh, Mann, ich hab ´schon wieder Durst doch kann mir nichts mehr holen
Ich treffe ein paar Freunde, sie wurden auch bestohlen
Jetzt langt´s uns! Schluss mit der langen Rede
Wir stürmen in die nächste Bar und schrei´n aus voller Kehle

Freibier für alle - sonst gibt´s Krawalle
Freibier für alle - Freibier! Freibier!
Freibier für alle - sonst gibt´s Krawalle
Freibier für alle - Freibier! Freibier!
Freibier für alle - sonst gibt´s Krawalle
Freibier für alle - Freibier! Freibier!
Freibier für alle - sonst gibt´s Krawalle
Freibier für alle - Freibier! Freibier!

Meine Damen und Herren, es gibt kein Freibier - dann wird´s Krawalle geben!

12. Of Strange Talking People Under Arabian Skies

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