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Wake Up
03:12
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Wake up
The child saw oil-soaked water birds
Countless chicken head first
Dissection bound in a kind of merry-go-round
Such a harrowing sight for the eyes of a child
On the first color TV in the early 70’s
The child thought now that they know
They won’t let me reap what they have sown
Pass on poison in a cup and let their own child sup it up
Enough is enough is enough
Isn’t it about time to wake up
The child saw oil crisis twice
Learned about carbon dioxide
Walked through acid rain
And watched local forests die
He marched against Castors and nuclear disasters
Way before coming of age in the mid-80’s
He was driven to tears by the slaughter of baby seals
To avoid depression he joined collective suppression
To look over the rim of a death cup
Whatever held us up
People can’t you hear the ticking of the clock
Isn’t it about time to wake up
To look over the rim of a death cup
Whatever held us up
We are more than just a part of the live stock
Wake up, wake up
Enough is enough is enough
Wake up
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2. |
House on Fire
02:55
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House On Fire
House on fire
World fucked up
But we keep on buying
We ain’t got enough
This house is on fire
This world is fucked up
But we keep on buying
We ain‘t got enough
We know it we feel it
We see it each day
You know it you see it
Keep looking away
Hey! Hey!
We buy it in plastic
We throw it away
We’ll be six feet under
The plastic will stay
There will be more plastic
Than fish in the sea
But we keep on buying
Till we can’t breathe
We can’t breathe
House on fire
World fucked up
But we keep on buying
We ain’t got enough
I can see people in the grocery store
Buying food in plastic packaging
Buying water in a plastic flask
Carry it home in a plastic bag
I can see loads of that plastic waste
In painfully perishing animals
Including sea birds, dolphins and whales
Leaving nothing but plastic after their decays
House on fire
World fucked up
But we keep on buying
We ain’t got enough
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3. |
Propaganda
04:04
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Propaganda
Every day I turn on the radio
Someone tells me we did not start war
To exercise the right to defend ourselves
We call to arms preach tit for tat
Stop hold on
Is this the end of our debate
You repeat your fake news over and over
Until they condone your trover
To exclude anyone from human rights
You just call him Nazi or anti-Semite
Stop hold on
Ultima ratio fuels the hate
We will refuse to wear each other out
People want to live together
But now the love-of-neighbour-think-aloud
Is cut from our agenda
Due to propaganda
Imagine change
Wounds will heal
Heal over time
Imagine change
Do you feel
The new paradigm
No we won’t surrender
To your pervasive propaganda
Every day I turn on the TV set
I hear that peace is impossible to get
Cause ever since the day we have settled down
We would fight to keep the settlement safe and sound
Stop hold on
Haven’t we already passed that phase
All their lives they’ve been told that we are dangerous
And all bad is coming from the west
We were lied into the war on terror
Axis-of-evil or access to resources there are
Stop hold on
Wouldn’t it be better to cooperate
We will refuse to wear each other out
People want to live together
But now the love-of-neighbour-think-aloud
Is cut from our agenda
Due to propaganda
Imagine change
Wounds will heal
Heal over time
Imagine change
You will feel
The new paradigm
No we won’t surrender
To your pervasive propaganda
We will withstand you
And your pervasive propaganda
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Something Moving in the Water
Have you ever been in love
Felt the blessing from above
Let it set your world on fire
Get you high on your own supply
|: Try to
Catch your breath it’s right before you
There is
Something moving in the water :|
When you’ve got
Nowhere to run and nowhere to hide
You can
Hold on to my eyes
I‘m right by your side
Have you ever seen the dark
Felt the menace seize your heart
Sensed it suck your spirit dry
Get you down and won’t go by
|: Try to catch your breath it’s right before you
There is something moving in the water :|
When you ain’t getting nowhere although you’re running as fast as you can
It’s time to turn around, check and change what is chasing you lame
Reveal the lie, I‘m right by your side
Celebrate your life
Try to catch your breath it’s right before you
There is something moving in the water
Say good-bye to clean and sober
It ain’t what some preacher might’ve told you
Try to catch your breath it’s right before you
There is |: Something moving in the water :|
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5. |
Leave the Light On
03:15
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Leave the Light On
Treat me like a criminal
Put all the blame on me
Win the war of the roses
If you need to see malintent
In every word I say
Lay down your diagnosis
I’m desperately looking
For something to say or do
But I can’t make you love me
I just leave the light on for you
I leave the light on
For want of a better clue
I leave the light on
Light on for you
At least something to pursue
I leave the light on
Light on for you, light on for you
Punish me with disregard
Let it all hang out, they say
All is fair in love and war
If you need to be juggernaut
Dash me to the ground
I will stand watch your door
When no word is spoken now
How could we see it through
But I can’t make you talk to me
I leave the light on for you
I leave the light on
For want of a better clue
I leave the light on
Light on for you
I leave the light on
That’s all that I can do
I leave the light on, light on for you
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6. |
Is Man Kind
03:35
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Is Man Kind
Man
Metastasizing like cancer cells
That pathologically strive for eternal life
Man
Everything you can get hold of
To fatten your kind you cannibalize
You wreak havoc everywhere you go
Most species gone, on with the show
But sway some cancer not to grow
Man is bleeding his planet white
Causing his host to die
So tell me how far is man kind
Man
Poisoning water and poisoning land
How long do you want to deny it’s a dead end
Man
Until the very last tree is cut down
Greed and recklessness rule over reason
You’re not master in your own house
You destroy what you should espouse
Are you expecting to be rescued by the Mighty Mouse
Man is bleeding his mother white
Ignoring his children cry
So tell me how far is man kind
Is man kind, is man kind
Can anyone detect a mastermind
Is man kind, is man kind
Man is bleeding his mother white
Ignoring his children cry
Is man kind, is man kind
The evil incarnate or just purblind
Is man kind, is man kind
Man is bleeding his planet white
Causing his host to die
So tell me how far is man kind
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Imagine Yourself in a Bus Speeding Towards a Huge Stone Wall
Imagine yourself in a bus
Speeding towards a huge stone wall
Your driver is bibulous
Shouting „everything under control“
No chance to have a fag
Cause your head’s stuck in a plastic bag
And if you don’t get it right
Bye-bye human kind
Ooh yeah
Imagine yourself again in that bus
Steered by that strung-out know-it-all
Any idea coming across
How to stop the cannonball
Put the pedal to the metal
Put the pedal to the metal
Driver put that hammer down
Put the pedal to the metal
Put the pedal to the metal
Let that wall come tumbling down
Ooh yeah
At full throttle tits up
Or did you just mix up
The accelerator with the brake
Where have you been
When it turned out as one big mistake
More CO2
More burning fuel
More eating meat
More mouths to feed
More herbicides
More plane rides
More plastic shit
More of it
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8. |
Stop Eating Animal
02:43
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Stop Eating Animal
Stop eating animal
Mother earth needs a spot turn
Stop eating animal
Unless you kill it with your own hand
Stop eating animal
Unless your mouth is watering
At the sight of a living
Bird, fish or mammal
Stop eating
Stop breeding
Stop killing animal
Stop slaughtering
Stop torturing
Stop massacring
The plants kingdom gives us everything we need
Makes protein out of nitrogen
And everything our body needs
We’d produce half as much CO2
use one-eleventh the amount of fossil fuels
one-thirteenth the amount of water
and an eighteenth the amount of land
To get the same amount of nutrients
Stop eating animal
Mother earth needs a spot turn
Stop eating animal
Unless you kill it with your own hand
Stop eating animal
Unless your mouth is watering
At the sight of a living
Bird, fish or mammal
We would save
Greenhouse gas emissions
According to what scientists could find
More than the exhaust of all cars, trucks, trains, boats and planes combined
A plant-based diet would help to stop the increase
Of cancer, diabetes, inflammatory bowel and heart disease
And besides animals dignity would not have to be impeached
Stop eating animal
Mother earth needs a spot turn
Stop eating animal
Unless you kill it with your own hand
Stop eating
Stop breeding
Stop killing animal
Stop slaughtering
Stop torturing
Stop eating animal
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9. |
I See the Light
03:52
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I See The Light
You think you are not enough
And that you don’t deserve their love
I wonder what you take into account
’Cause I see the light all around
You think you are way too shy
And that you can’t keep up with the other guys
But when I watch you mingle with the crowd
|: I see the light all around :|
Delicate and graceful modesty is shining through your every move
Oh and I know that you don’t know that you show
|: The light is within you :|
You can’t stand any flattery
Like calling you my remedy
You criticize my melody
You don’t want to hear what I want to tell you in this song
That I saw the light all along
You are the queen that wants no crown
I see the light all around
Tears in your eyes may darken your skies and your view
Oh but I know beyond the shadow and your sorrow
Wherever you go there’s a light shining through
The light is within you
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Queen without a crown
The light is within you
The light is all around
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10. |
Wedding Ring
02:41
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Wedding Ring
The true story is father be sound you dumped it into the lake
Your wedding ring would no longer be in your way
Now fifty years from that it is found
And as if this wasn’t enough
You bring it up in a paper, you spread it on TV
Your myth of eternal love
And something you desperately long to be
The true story is mother be straight
Your family was a dread
Keeping the house in tidy shape
Was all you had and now
You bring it up in a paper, you spread it on TV
Your myth and make believe
And something that will probably never be
Cause we all know that it never was
Don’t you know we all know that it never was
Never was
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11. |
Mistakes
03:26
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Mistakes
Nothing here seems to be right
I‘ve had enough of this fighting
Before long I will be gone
I‘ll be on my way
In just one blink of an eye
Easy like reason and rhyme come together
Whatever you might say
I‘ve made a lot of mistakes
Every step I take
I used to patch my veneer
And I would run from my fears like a coward
To my ivory tower far from anyone
In times when I had to proove
I am worth something by following blinders
Left my music behind as
I took their money and they took my youth
Dumbest thing to do
Break-ups may cut like a knife
Sellouts may shut down your life
You may never know what is right
And what we should never forsake
All the decisions we make can be so wrong
We‘ll find out in the long run
When it may be too late
I‘ve made a lot of mistakes
I‘ve made a lot of mistakes
I‘ve made a lot of mistakes
I‘m not proud to say
But that response I take
That response I take
I‘ve made a lot of mistakes
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12. |
Your Name
03:18
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Your Name
From what I‘ve heard you‘re still the same
So many years no trace of shame
Collision-clause sets it both-to-blame
So tell me why am I constrained
To carry on your tainted name
To address you in my songs
Was trying to make me feel I belong
But crying tunes have now all been sung
So tell me why am I constrained
To carry on your tainted name
Some day I’ll get a call and I’ll know that one of you has been taken away
Will my sense of indebtedness grow stronger than feeling betrayed
Or what does it take to bury my blame
For a final farewell humble and plain
You will go west and pass on the reign
Leave this burden on the chain
To carry on your tainted name
So tell me why am I constrained
To carry on your name
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13. |
The River
04:16
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The River
Clear waters running deep
Feeding the earth
Feeding me
River, river
Wipe off the score
I do implore
I will melt like a cloud
Breathing In
Breathing out
Breathing light
Breathing sound
Feeling very small
Let my river flow
To the shore
Get into my stride
Fall in step
Follow the rhythm
The pace of my life
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Anthony's Garden Munich, Germany
Singer-songwriter Joerg Mair counts on the wisdom of a pure folk-song reduced to its essentials. Dealing with love and hate,
personal and global crisis, the lyrics are the driving force of every song.
His Trio „Anthony’s Garden“ (Wolfgang Peyerl - drums, Markus Angeli - upright bass) runs in the folk-tradition of Stephen Stills, José González, Bon Iver, Nick Drake or Ry Cooder.
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