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Drunkards Walk
01:07
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2. |
Death Blues
02:56
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Death Blues
(Mark Dead Littler)
The cypress trees bared witness
In the crimson light
To the first murder
DEATH BLUES
DEATH BLUES
Legba taught three chords
To a young man who lost his wife
It went something like
DEATH BLUES
DEATH BLUES
In Golgotha you could hear’em scream
DEATH BLUES
In the fields they hollered in pain
DEATH BLUES
In prison they whistle the same old tune
DEATH BLUES
DEATH BLUES
Abraham sang it, and David too
Ruth and Hannah taught the little ones that first tune
The day will come where St-John’s visions will come true
The trumpets will sound
And what will we hear
DEATH BLUES
DEATH BLUES
Noah’s still waiting for another flood
And the kings hands are still sticky with all that blood
His kingdom is as rotten as the sea is blue
And wherever you’ll turn you’ll see death too
DEATH BLUES
DEATH BLUES
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The cards are marked
The dice are loaded
And the world’s a game that’s been rigged
The ferris wheel goes ‘round & ‘round
And it’s always the carny kid who’s to blame
And the story it’s always the same
Big man’s inside his Palazzo
While the lil’man scrambles in the streets
And that’s exactly where they’ll both stay
Until the world stops going ‘round & ‘round
And the story it’s always the same
You know cities are built upon bones
And History is written by the victors
And it’s always written
And it’s always written in fever and ashes and blood
Your eyes bulge beholding her beauty
But beauty demands a high price
When the fog lifts
And the winds shift
Things are rarely what they seem
And you heard it all before
And the story it’s always the same
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4. |
The Power A Secret Holds
03:38
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The power a secret holds
(Mark Dead Littler)
The cripple knows more
Than he shows
In the darkness of the forest
A child wanders
From a hard soil
A strong spirit grows
Do you know the power a secret holds?
The roar of the first lion
The call of the last crow
In the galleys
Off death they row
It’s not made of silver
It’s not made of gold
Do you know the power a secret holds?
Walls crumble, rivers rise
And kings stumble
It steals a thousand years
In the blink of an eye
It turns flesh into stone
The ancient question why
The answer will never seduce
The way a question will
Do you know the power a secret holds?
She was a mystery
The way she brushed her hair
The way she hid her shame
Do you know the power a secret holds?
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5. |
Bela Lugosis' Dead
02:28
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Bela Lugosi’s Dead
(Bauhaus)
White on white
Translucent black capes
Back on the rock
Bela Lugosi's dead
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines
The black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with times dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead
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6. |
Tic Tac
04:13
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Tic Tac
(Alain Dead Croubalian)
You imagine the tic tac
Of the clock behind your back
You imagine the tic tac
Of the clock on the kitchen rack
And you wonder why
It takes so long
For him to come around
It takes so long
For him to come home
You imagine the flic flac
Of the waves against the rocks
You imagine the clic clac
Of the waves against his boat
And still you wonder why
It takes so long
For him to understand
It takes so long
For him to come home
All the stories you knew they were coming
You knew them right from the start
All the stories you knew they were happening
Yes you knew them all by heart
And I don’t know why you say you don’t like me anyway
I don’t why you say you don’t love me anyway
And all the time we’re sad
And all the time we’re mad
I don’t know if it’s worth it at all
You imagine the clic clac
Of the Hasselblads in his back
You imagine the clic clac
Of the paparazzis in his back
And still you wonder why
It takes so long
For him to understand
It takes so long
For him to come home
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7. |
Drunkards Dream
03:30
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Drunkards Dream
(Traditional)
Edward you look so happy now
You dress so neat and clean
I never see you drunk about
Please tell me where you’ve been
It was a dream a warning dream
That heaven sent to me
To snatch me from my drunkards doom
Grim, want and misery
Grim, want and misery
How come this happy change
You’ve kinder to them grown
How come this happy change
Your wife and family are they well
You once did use them strange
You’ve kinder to them grown
How come this happy change
The money all was spent for drink
What a wretched view
Almost broke my Marys’ heart
And starved my children too
And you starved your children too
My Marys’ heart did waste away
Yes I saw her sunken eyes
My babes on straw in sickness lies
And I heard their wailing cries
And you heard their wailing cries
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8. |
I Am All I Got
03:46
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I am all I got
(Mark Dead Littler)
I remember the day
When I cried out for help
No one came a-runnin’
That’s when I first new
I am all I got
I went to the wise man
But no answer he could give
I went to the kind man
But he shrugged his shoulders and wept
You are all you got
I went to the saint
But he has busy prayin’
I paid a visit to the sinner
But he said brother
Don’t even bother
You are all you got
I went to see my mother
But she was busy dyin’
I went to my father’s grave
But he was merely dust
Yes, I am all I got
So forgive me pretty darling
But I am all I got
Believe it or not
Love will save us not
I am all I got
There might come a day
When the Lord will embrace me
Say: son get on your knees and pray
But until that day
I am all I got
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9. |
Langenthal
03:02
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Langenthal
(Alain Dead Croubalian)
Sisch scho wieder Dunkel
Und isch erst halb Füf
Sisch scho wieder Nabel
D’graui Decki isch Tüf
D’Bahnhofplatz isch leer
Und’Bahnhof Buffet de git’s nicht mehr
Sogar de Kebab isch zue
Hüt zobig, in Langenthal
Sit en Jahr bisch du z’Züri
Schaff in a grossi Bank
Hasch so viele Fründe
Meh als i ha dänkt
D’Würeplatz isch leer
Nei, det kunt niemet mehr
Du seisch du chunsch immer z’kurz
Z’kurz? In Langenthal
Ich lauf dini alti Huus vorbi
Ja sisch immer wies immer isch gsi
Dinii Eltere winket mir zue
Sie wüsset ich häng immer no a di
Viellicht bisch amol wieder allei
Dann wotsch du allei hei
Vielliecht bisch amol würkli froh
Es wartet öpper uf di in Langenthal
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10. |
Exotic Odyssey
03:18
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Exotic Odyssey
(Mark Dead Littler)
Grotesque decadence
Toxic rhumba
And those g’damn flies
Names you can’t prononce
Faces you can’t read
The fan sounds like a dragonfly
I’m on an exotic odyssey
And I won’t be back
What’s that smell?
What’s that sound?
Who’s that singing?
Who’s that crying?
Angola opiate
Narcotic meaning
And dangerously beautiful girls
Time’s like a train going by
I’m on an exotic odyssey
And I won’t be back
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11. |
Policeman
02:15
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Policeman
(Traditional)
Police came and I didn’t wanna go this mornin’
So I shot him in the head with a 44 this mornin’
Two little children lying in the bed this mornin’
One rolled over to the other and said it’s mornin’
I know something I ain’t gonna tell this mornin’
Wanna go to heaven in a coconut shell this mornin’
Ol’ uncle Charly laying on a log this mornin’
Finger on the trigger and his eye on a hog this mornin’
Down went the trigger and bang went the gun this mornin’
Wish I had a wagon to haul him home this mornin’
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12. |
Teenage Kicks
02:01
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Teenage Kicks
(the Undertones)
Are teenage kicks so hard to beat
Everytime she walks down the street
Another girl in the neighborhood
Wish she was mine she looks so good
I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night
I’m gonna call her on the telephone
Have her over ‘cause I’m all alone
I need excitement and I need it bad
And it’s the best I ever had
I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night
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13. |
How Deep Is The Water?
03:40
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How Deep is the water ?
(Alain Dead Croubalian)
How deep is the water, how high is the sky
How deep is that love you said was mine
That deep dark water it looks so cold
But I’m sure you’ll never leave me alone
How deep is the water, how high is the sky
Who cares what the poeple might say
The sea’s always deeper where it’s blue
I’ll go anywhere, anywhere with you
How deep is the water, how high is the sky
Will you forever be mine
Look how pale the moon shines from below the waves
Peace rests at the bottom of my dreams
How deep is the water, how cold is the night
Heaven is silent for those with no name
Of course I was dreaming of another trade
But I blew the only chance I had
How deep is the water, how high is the sky
We all know the path is narrow
And that it leads to nowhere
But tell me do you have somewhere else to go?
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The Dead Brothers Switzerland
Legend has it that The Brothers recently gathered in a remote Swiss mountain village and fueled by wicked wine and strong
spirits, cut a disk that merges the worlds of Richard Wagner, Dashiell Hammet and Georges Brassens.
It will not take long for the analysts to enter the scene and ask:
Is it Jazz?
Is it Blues?
Is it Avantgarde folk?
Or is it simply Rock ‘n’ Roll?
The answer is: YES!
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