ALL WE CAN DO IS CROON
Why don´t you open your window
Why don´t you wave to me from your place
I feel so small
But the thoughts are so huge
They overgrow
The only worthwhile activity
is to stay home and sing a song
Cause everybody can
Solitude is clearly the worst punishment
In a prison, in the mind, in a Prague apartment
The days are long like moonlight beams of a winter's night
And now, my friend, all we can do is croon: la la la…
Why don´t you smile with your eyes
When I can´t see your face, let´s compromise
I feel so alone
But I am not the only one
Who needs company
The only good is it can´t last
until the end of our days
time brings harmony
Solitude is clearly the worst punishment
In a prison, in the mind, in a Prague apartment
The days are long like moonlight beams of a winter's night
And now, my friend, all we can do is croon: la la la…
EMPTY HOUSE
I packed my bags again,
backpack on my back and wine in my hand
A warm jacket in case it blows
or if I needed something soft under my head
I took a decisive move but as I approached
the uncertainty made my pulse race
and hung iron weights on my legs
And then from the opposite hill
I saw a light and the warmth of the family hearth
As her car drove away, I stood still
of my own free will, I ran down the hill
As far as the foot can go up
I walked mindlessly until my fear
replaced joy like hate replaces love.
And then I stood on your terrace
and stared through the shutters into an empty house
empty but fragrant and cozy
and dreadful because it belonged to your spouse
Why is it that every time I'm on the road
I never find you here and when you're here
you're not alone? Maybe it’s time to let it go
And so I stare at the shutters
I see nothing more but my disappointed face
Aged with waiting and hiding
True feelings for the man who’s got a different base
Suddenly I realised that I wasn't yours
And thankfully, I never have to be.
Only half the love is not for me,
and the light of the house went out to shine
to another path of mine
LOSE AND GET
Travel, I can travel by train.
Walk, I can walk outside again.
Who would say, who'd believe so?
A year, a month, even a week ago?
Eat, I can enjoy eating any time,
Baguette and cheese, fruit and sweets.
These are all mine!
It's deep and intense being just fine.
Lose and get, lose and get back
Let's concentrate on what we do now
Lose and get, lose and get back
Let's discover the little joys we have. But how?
You'll find your answer.
I wouldn't be there yet
Without the lose and get.
I am part of something bigger than this.
One of my lessons came to me.
And on the verge of life
Through asking for help I found love.
I found the big, the biggest bridge
Built the town around it and wrote the anthem.
My closest ones are the neighbours.
The colleagues are my angels and so am I for them.
Lose and get, lose and get back
Let's concentrate on what we do now
Lose and get, lose and get back
Let's discover the little joys we have. But how?
You'll find your answer.
I wouldn't be there yet
Without the lose and get.
Walls and doors are mirrors
Flowers and trees can actually draw.
We know how to fly and laugh
And how to tell cooked from raw.
We dance every day, we sing every night,
We see even the smallest light.
In a moment it can all be gone.
The secret is to dream, believe and go on.
Lose and get, lose and get back
Let's concentrate on what we do now
Lose and get, lose and get back
Let's discover the little joys we have. But how?
You'll find your answer.
I wouldn't be there yet
Without the lose….
Lose and get, lose and get back
Let's concentrate on what we do now
Lose and get, lose and get back
Let's discover the little joys we have. But how?
You'll find your answer.
I wouldn't be there yet
Without the lose and get.
MONOLOGUE TO GRIEF
I wish we could talk
But you´re not a person
You did not give me a chance
to work things out myself
I wish I‘d listened more
Before you came to me
I wish I‘d recognized
what was not good at all
Well now you are here
I´d offer you a beverage
But I don´t welcome you
and I wish you were gone
Please let me stay alone
I’ve already got your point
I admit I was blind
But this is a little far out
You took years off my life
but gave me one true love
I´m exhausted by the pain
but fulfilled by the growth
And I should say thank you
but I think you should leave
I am a good person
Who deserves to enjoy life
//: I‘m taking back my wings
I‘m taking back my smile
I am a good person
who deserves to enjoy life ://
NOBODY KNOWS
Nobody knows,
nobody knows,
nobody knows a thing.
When I just ask
about the past,
nobody knows anything.
Nobody heard,
nobody heard,
nobody heard a peep.
Why does she keep me
when I just sleep?
Nobody heard a peep.
Please don't tell me you don't know.
Please you don't have to live in a woe.
Please don't go as well with the crowd.
Please just shout it all out loud.
Nobody saw
nobody saw
a thing.
Why am I cold
when she is spring?
Nobody saw anything.
Nobody said,
nobody said,
nobody said a word to me.
What happened to her,
the story is blurred,
nobody said any word.
Please don't tell me you don't know.
Please you don't have to live in a woe.
Please don't go as well with the crowd.
Please just shout it all - - -
Please don't tell me you don't know.
Please you don't have to live in a woe.
Please just move yourself from the cloud.
Please just shout it all out loud.
OPPORTUNITIES
It's late in the evening, time to go to sleep
I'll tell you a little story about people and opportunities
There was a teenage boy who got seriously sick
But then he got a good life, a beautiful wife and two smart kids
He became a good doctor cause of the knowledge he gained in youth
Depends how you see things
Depends what you learn
If you pray for good times
You don't get them right away
Depends how you see things
Depends what you learn
If you pray for good times
Don't expect them right away
//: What God does for us
He offers opportunities ://
It's late in the evening, time to go to dream
You can ask that boy to tell the story that should never disappear
He sees a different world after what he's been through
Now he would say thank you cause he learnt what not to do
He became another person - the one he wanted to be
Depends how you see things
Depends what you learn
If you pray for good times
You don't get them right away
Depends how you see things
Depends what you learn
If you pray for good times
Don't expect them right away
//: What God does for us
He offers opportunities ://
PIECE OF WOOD
Piece of wood, piece of wood
that I never understood
Why it had a special meaning for me?
Piece of wood, piece of bark
I’ve got always in my pocket
and it keeps me away from the dark.
Once you asked me why
I never really cried
And I said there would be no way to survive
Even though it was hard
you found out where to start
How to bring me a small piece of home
Ref.: Piece of wood...
You needed your way
your forest and clay
your days away from the people and the town
you brought a saw
into the woods
you carved me a little charm without a flaw
Ref.: Piece of wood...
You‘ve put your woes
in this piece of pine
and prepared another chamber for mine
Cause wood can absorb
all unwelcome moods
and whisk them away over the skyline
Ref.: Piece of wood... 2x
WAKE UP CALL
When she walks back to the beginning,
in her mind and in her heart,
nothing but a warmer feeling
comes out as the beauty of art.
What happened on the way here
that she can't focus her eyes?
That she can't truly cheer
even though she has always been wise? Ooo
All we see is a knot of troubles
but under an armour, behind a wall
is still some softness that yearns to double.
Perhaps all she needs is a wake up call.
Somewhere in the game she lost her face.
Between disillusionment and deeper sorrow
she couldn't find a button to the next phase.
She gave up to rejoice in a morrow.
When she stops to fight the flow
of inconceivable thoughts,
a bright remembrance clears a port
to remind her who she was. Ooo
All we see is a knot of troubles
but under an armour, behind a wall
is still some softness that yearns to double.
Perhaps all she needs is a wake up call.
One should keep his eyes wide open
and always look behind that wall.
What could have been done? What words remained unspoken?
What could have saved one's life was a wake up call. Ooo
WHEN YOU´RE SO FAR AWAY
My Love how can I talk to you
With that sound delay
My Love how can I smile to you
When you're so far away
My Love how can I get squashed in your arms
When you simply cannot stay
My Love how can I get lost in your eyes
When you're just so far away
We'll find our way
Like we always do
These strings nobody can break
Nothing can make them out of tune
Here is what I can do
Here is what I wanna tell you
Every time I hear you or see you
It's always the same
Here is what I can do
Here is what I wanna tell you
Every time I fall in love with you
again and again
My Love how can I make you laugh
When the situation seems so grey
My Love how can I hug you tight
When you're so far away
My Love how can I give you bliss
When you cannot make me sway
My Love how can I give you a kiss
When you're just so far away
There's always something new
That's trying to separate our paths
But even when the distance makes me blue
My heart always belongs to you
Here is what I can do
Here is what I wanna tell you
Every time I hear you or see you
It´s always the same
Here is what I can do
Here is what I wanna tell you
Every time I fall in love with you
again and again