1. WITH USED FURNITURE WE MAKE A TREE

With used furniture we can make a tree
With old clothes we dress a family
With broken stones we built a city
With used furniture we make a tree

Without a recipe
Without anything

Without ringtone belly button dance valley soap star dj cannibal vj

Without MTV TMF LPF Mr. P misery marketing anything freezing eskimo disco

Kokoloko lots of snow I don't know go no go buffallo gicolo

With used furniture we make a tree

Chicanery
Do you know that sometimes
Some things are growing slow

With used furniture we make a tree
Chop chop chop chop
Jump jump jump jump

We are jumping into the sea of love
A remedy
Without America
Without money


2. AQUARIUM

I was walking through the Palace of Mirrors
In the city of Luzern
I was looking at my own face
A 1000 times turning with every turn
The eyes of my child like a school of fishes
In the aquarium
Were looking at me from another world
From a world to come

She said "Bring me the light
That was shining on the tree outside
Bring me the rain that was falling
On my shoulders on a summer night"
I thought nobody died, but it's not true
We die and there's no escape
Let us rewind our lives like a videotape

I was walking through the empty rooms
Of the house we'd left behind
I heard the voice of my child going up
The stairs in the pale moonlight
There were words like raindrops
Words like snowflakes falling down
Falling down from another world
A world to come

She said "Bring me the song that was
In my head when I fell asleep
Bring me the love that came
And left me like an empty train"
I thought love never died
But it died and there's no escape
Let us rewind our lives like a videotape

I remember the aquarium in Artis
With the angry big fish
The glass is like a mirror
We could see our faces making funny faces
It seems that our eyes were looking at us
From another world

Bring me the summer
That I thought would never end
Bring me the snow
That was falling in my open hand
I thought life never ends
But it ends and there's no escape
Let us rewind our lives like a videotape

She said "Bring me the head
That was resting on my shoulder
Bring me the heart that I left behind"
I thought nobody died, but it's not true
We die and there's no escape
Let us rewind our lives like a videotape
Play back in slow motion


3. CHAIN OF IFS

If someone dead suddenly lives
Would I take him by the hand
And show the world just like it is
I don't think he understands
How to love and hurt and live
He'll see the endless chain of ifs

If I'm walking through the left door
Instead of walking through the right
If I take a little more
Would it be wrong or right

There are too many choices
I see the endless chain of ifs and whens
All my thoughts and all my worries
They keep escaping through the hole in my head

To love and hurt and fall
I see this endless wall
I can feel this endless chain in my hand

To love and hurt can be the reason to be alive
Someone died with the words
And it hurts

If I took a different train
Would you have been on it
Would my life have been the same


4. BETWEEN THE BUTTONS

Between the buttons there's
A name inside her shirt
The silk lining with a hole
That sometimes hurt

So I forget that I was
Waiting for so long for him
My secret life

She turns her face
To the mirror on the wall
Sometimes in dreams
His face is just a hole

So I forget and
I feel incomplete
I leave behind
My secret life

Once it was summer
When she left
A note on the table
A photograph

So I forget that I was
Waiting for her so long
My secret life

And when she walks away
Her high heels
Click like a sad valise

So I forget and
I feel incomplete
I fall apart
My secret life


5. DOPPELGANGER

Some people look like each other
Some people have a little brother
I can be
I can be you now

Some people have each other
Some paint pictures of their mother
I can be
I can be her now

Some people are made for each other
Some people even like each other
I can be
I can be you now

Some people have a doppelganger
Some people make a copy of each other
I can be
I can be you now


6. CANIGO

Canigo into the heartbeat
Into the river of dreams

Canigo

Into the same days
Into the heart
Into the river of dreams

Canigo

Into the wild wood
Into the changing mood
Into the waste bin
(the way it has been)

Canigo

Into the fish-eye
Into the blue sky

Canigo

Into the days like
Into the days like this
Into the waste land
Into the river of sands


7. WELCOME BACK

Welcome back
I can hear you friends
Are so glad, up in heaven
Welcome back
There's a party going on at
Cloud Eleven

Welcome back
Let's pretend we're still together
Till it's daytime
Welcome back
When the morning comes
You'll melt away in sunshine

I hide my tears behind this tune
Still talking to your echoes
In this room
Not one of us had ever guessed
We'd fade away so soon

Welcome back
Let's forget the words we had
Or left unspoken
Welcome back
There's no sense in me denying
My heart is broken

Welcome back
Please forgive me
I take the privilege to cry
Welcome back
May our love stand out forever
This is goodbye
I take the privilege to cry cause
This is goodbye


8. EIFERSUCHT

Sometimes the darkness
Sometimes there's light
Sometimes I worry
In the middle of the night

Sometimes it's bitter
Sometimes it's sweet
Sometimes it's snowing
Sometimes a street

Sometimes a kitchen
Sometimes it's april
Sometimes I cannot
Sometimes I will

Sometimes it's raining
Sometimes I dream
Sometimes she's pretty
Sometimes a machine

Sometimes I left
Sometimes an eye
Sometimes the buttons
Sometimes the blue sky

Sometimes die Stimme
Sometimes Eifersucht
Sometimes I'm back
Sometimes in a book

Sometimes it's hard
Sometimes a chair
Sometimes a table
Sometimes she's there

Sometimes umbrella
Sometimes the sky
Sometimes we're walking
Sometimes in an eye

Sometimes it's bitter
Sometimes it's sweet
Sometimes it's snowing
Sometimes in the street


9. SAVOY

(a day in the life of Mr. Ho and Rabbit Ho)

I turn my head to the wall
I see something small and innocent

Silently he walks in
Do you know
I am Rabbit Ho

I can smell it
I can eat it

Savoy

I push my head thru the wall
Something frightens me
It's big and tall

I can see him
I can smell him

Mr. Ho

Sniff

I can see things
I can feel things
I can touch things
I can smell things
I can taste things

Savoy

And I walk away

There was a green thing
From the flowershop `Madonna'
Waiting for me
In the dressing room of the

Savoy


10. THE ESPRESSO GIRL

She's walking in my dreams
I'm walking in your dreams

I found her again
Unter den Bogen in Bern
With a little black camera
A `Du' in her hand
All I could see was
The bend of her knee
The Espresso Girl
She's talking to me

On the highway from Fulda
Through the december snow
To the Batschkapp in Frankfurt
After the show
The painter from Poland
The vicar in black
The name on my jeans
The Espresso Girl
Is walking in my dreams

The year I was following the Cure
Words were insects around my head
Everything was electric and pure
I went to see Mr. Smith
The red mouth saying
Japanese words like candy
To the bathroom mirrors
The Espresso Girl
Is walking through my head

As we walk unter den Bogen
We walk through the years
With shadow and light
The happiness and the fears
The shop with the big blue tapestry
It has been hanging there all those years
With two small figures facing each other
Little blue flower in a button hole

Forget me not forget me not forget me not

Always cooking up
Always looking for

My face in the mirror of Hotel Krafft
Behind me the boats on the Rhine in Bâle
Almost standing still against the stream
Like the boat in the painting on the wall

The Espresso Girl
Is swimming around my head

Always looking up
Always looking for
Get me not
Forget me not forget me not


11. RUMSPRINGA

I am
You are
Rumspringa

What am I doing out here
Lift me I'm feather-weight
Why is my head full of fear
Naked in silence
I think I once was

I am
You are
Rumspringa

Why has my soul disappeared
Bring me a bible
Why is my head full of fear
Naked in silence

How did I disappear
What am I doing here

I think it's getting late
I think we'd better wait


12. ATHENS

It's running through my veins
I'm in Athens and it rains
It's tapping at this window
I'm in Athens and it rains

There is a cloud in my eyes
On this late afternoon
It flies through the sky
It will be ammonia soon

Every time I turn a corner
I smell an aroma so sweet
In a coma my feet stop walking

It cannot disappear
I'm laughing through the tears
I'm laughing through the years

It cannot disappear
I'm in Athens and I'm here
I will not disappear

So keep the strange eye
Keep the strange smell
For yourself
And no one else

So keep the answer
So I look at the lines in my hand
See the future
See the past
It ends

It cannot disappear
I'm in Athens and I'm here
It cannot disappear

There are too many ruins here
And I'm one of them
I fear

Somewhere a phone is ringing
Somewhere someone is singing
Trains and boats and planes

I'm in Athens and it rains