1. SISTER ROSA

Sister Rosa
I'm not living like a nun
I flew a thousand miles to see you
I have to start where I've begun

You, with that smile on your face
You cannot say what you mean
But you mean to say that all of
Your dreams were blown away

Sister Rosa
I'm falling on my knees
Jesus and Maria forgive me please
Me with my soul in my hand
I walked into your sanctuary today
And all of my sins are blown away

You, with that smile on your face
You cannot say what you mean
But you mean to say that all of
Your dreams are blown away

Sister Rosa
Now put your feet back on the ground
You're floating up in heaven
Won't you come down on your feet

How long
Has this been going on


2. THREE SISTERS

Mother bought a jacket for the rain
With a capuchin
Lightning strikes an aeroplane in a dream
Sister talks about hello and goodbye
Passing 'the Anger and the Hope'
Frightened by the world

She said the angel takes your soul away
She changed the darkness in the light of the day
Sister takes her bear to the zoo
To the elephant and the little bird blue
Frightened by the world

Love is a roomful of strangers
Love is a suitcase filled with danger
Frightened by the world

Mother where are you, father where are you
We can never find our home anymore

Three sisters in the back of the room
Three sisters hand in hand at the zoo
Frightened by the world

By the world


3. HOLD ME GENEVA

It's a straight road through the heart of town
And it leads to the lake and there I found
This old fountain is still falling down
In a town like Geneva everything is melting
Like swiss cheese and the rich men fall
Down on their knees

Hold me it's getting colder
Hold me I'm getting colder too

Pierre Michel said 15 words
15 short answers if you dare
We are upstairs in the red rooms
Of the hotel Clos Voltaire
His girlfriend is taking photographs
She's always hanging around
She's like the fountain of Geneva
Always falling down

Today I'm leaving with another train
In my home of rain

Don't think I'll ever be back again
My heart is empty, my head is empty now
The road to the lake I will never find
Because I use this map of dreams
And it is filled with colours
And streets I've never seen

The car is driving, I will return
Back on the road to Bâle and Bern


4. ROBINSON

In the movie "The Graduate" a young boy
Benjamin, is seduced by a much older
Woman, Mrs Robinson.

After thirty years Benajmin realizes he is
Still in love with her and he starts
Looking for Mrs Robinson.

In this song we were using lines from the
Old songs of Paul Siman, like in a collage.
We asked permission to put his words in
The song, but this weas refused.

So we had to change the lyrics of
Robinson.

Who is the hammer and wo is the nail?

Hello sunlight, my new friend
Hello Darkness, my old friend
I came back to look for her again
I've come back to talk with you again
I like to see Mrs. Robinson again
I like to see Mrs Robinson again

I'm standing in the Underground
Cause I'm sitting in the railway station
Silence is the only sound
I've got a ticket for my destination
I like to see Mrs. Robinson again
I like to see Mrs. Robinson again

She is almost eighty-two
She is almost eighty-two
Skin and bone and her hair is blue
Skin and bone and her hair is blue
I like to see Mrs. Robinson again
I like to see Mrs. Robinson again

Dup du du dup dup du du duu
Dup du du dup dup du du duu
I like to see her again

Don Quichote's my destiny
An honest man to honesty (????)
Parseley, Sage and Rosemary
Parsley, sage and Rosemary
I love no one and no one's loving me
I touched no one and no one touches me

A poem and a string quartet
Cause I'm sitting in the railway station
One pillow on my empty bed
Got a ticket for my destination
I like to see Mrs. Robinson again
I like to see Mrs. Robinson again

She is almost eighty-two
She is almost eighty-two
Skin and bone and her hair is blue
Skin and bone and what can I do
I like to see Mrs. Robinson again
I like to see Mrs. Robinson again

Dup du du dup dup du du duu
Dup du du dup dup du du duu
I like to see her again
Dup du du dup dup du du duu
Dup du du dup dup du du duu
I like to see her again

I'm a table I'm a chair
I'm a forest and I'm a street
I'm a meadow I'm a cow
And I'm a hammer and I'm a nail
I like to see Mrs. Robinson right now
And I like to meet Mrs Robinson again

I'm standing in the Underground
Poet and a one night stand
Silence is the only sound
Poet looking for a friend (???)
I like to see Mrs. Robinson again
And I'd like to see that old woman again

She is almost eighty-two
She is almost eighty-two
Skin and bone and what can I do
Skin and bone and her hair is blue
I like to see that old woman again
I like to see Mrs. Robinson again

Dup du du dup dup du du duu
Dup du du dup dup du du duu
I like to see her again
Dup du du dup dup du du duu
Dup du du dup dup du du duu
I like to see her again


5. THE CHANGING ROOM

The heartaches, the headaches
The mistakes, the daybreaks
The sunset on a small bed
I can't forget the sleepless night

Sometimes I smile but I'm so afraid
In my changing room

A baby is born in a hospital
The time is standing still
The train stops the raindrops
On the window, don't go

Her shadow falls on the street
When she left the Tanzschule
Her shadow falls on the street

The heartaches, the headaches
The mistakes, the daybreaks
The sunset on a small bed
The sleepless night, I can't forget


6. LOUDER & LOUDER

Louder and louder you keep crying louder
No one can hear you
Higher and higher you keep flying higher
No one can see you
Lower and lower you keep falling lower

No one will be there to help you
Louder and louder
No one can hear you

Higher and higher you keep flying higher
No one can reach you
Lower and lower you keep sinking lower
No one will catch you
Louder and louder you keep crying louder
No one will be there to help you
Louder and louder
No one can hear you

You cry
Louder and louder
No one can hear you

Lover and lover
I keep thinking of her


7. H.O.M.

It's a rainy day in a rainy town
In this heart of mine in this heart of mine
Cloud in my head and my head in a cloud
In this heart of mine

People say that there is no one there
In this heart of mine
It's a rainy day in a rainy town
In this heart of mine

I can't understand why I'm feeling this way
I came home but my home's blown away
There's nothing but an empty space
In this heart of mine

We're all walking on a tightrope strung
In this heart of mine
People say that there is no one there
In this heart of mine


8. ALL I WANT

Gimme some time
Sometimes I'm so afraid
Gimme some love
That nobody loves me
Gimme some hope
I hope it's not true
Gimme some love
That's not what I want

All I want
My shadow on a street
Fire on a mountain
Child in my head

Gimme some light
Sunlight in the morning
Gimme some rain
Holes in my shoes
Gimme some blues
I'm standing on the crossroad
Gimme some money
That's not what I want


9. THE LIGHT

I had no reason to be so afraid
I came to the mountain
And the sun went down
There was something in the air
There was a hole in the ground
An old man went in
And a little child came out

Your light will shine, will shine, will shine

I came to the house
At the other side of the town
The sun was pouring down
Like honey on the ground
An old man went in
And a little child came out

I came to a room
At the backside of this house
There was something in the air
And the wind blew through this house
And I saw my father standing
Near the window with a light
He was looking at the darkness
Of his never changing night


10. RAINFALLAGAIN

Sometime in a nameless place
She told me about her childhood days
Trust me what I have to say
Say it in the morning
Or at the end of the day

I never was a child
Who played outside to hide and seek,
I was the one to hide
I never was this happy child

Rainfallagain, niagallafniar rain
Rainfallagain, fall again, fall again
Fall again, rain

Don't misunderstand me
I love my life and my heart beats strong

I will never be a mother like my mother
I'm another can't you see
That this life in the lowlands
Means nothing, nothing to me


11. HOUSE OF JACOB

There's a story she told me
About a ghost in this room
He's walking at night
With a stick and a broom

He sits down beside me
He looks in my eye
His face is so pale
Like the moon in the sky

In the house of Jacob

There's a tape in a shoe box
With the voice of a boy
He's singing 'She loves you
Yeah, yeah, yeah'

There's a shop around the corner
Where a man is cutting hair
He's talking to mirrors
He will always be there

In the house I grew up
In the house of Jacob

I don't know how
I don't know when
He's coming back
My long lost friend

In a big brown building
There's a blue swimming pool
It's hot like a desert
But the water is cool

The tower of Rembrandt
Throws a shadow so black
On the houses of my street
When I'm coming back
To the house of Jacob

There's a story she told me
About a ghost in this room
He moves like a cloud
He goes through my head

Ghost through my head


12. SOUL MAN

See this tall man walking the streets of Helsinki
He is called Seppo, he is a friend of mine from Finland
He tells me: Henk she left me again
And I went back to my old apartment close to the graveyard

Nobody loves you, nobody cares
You're like this leaf that's falling down
Nobody likes you and nobody cares
You're like this leaf that's falling down on the ground

Soul man, soul man I hope I can
Be your friend
Be your friend again

Now he's all alone in the radio studio at night
He is a disk jockey working for Radio Mafia Helsinki
Sometimes women call him in the night

Nobody likes you, nobody cares
You're like this leaf that's falling down
Nobody loves you and nobody sees that
You're like this leaf that's falling down on the ground

One night we went walking from the Torni hotel to the Kosmos restaurant
And we were not allowed inside, we were wearing the wrong shoes
That's Helsinki Blues
So we went along the Vanha to the station
And we were watchingthe trains to Saint Peter disappearing in the night


13. LETTER TO E.

Amsterdam, the first of June 1992

Dear Eric,

Yesterday evening I came home late
I went to the shelf with the videotapes
I saw the tape of Geneva, March 31. 1984
The day we went to the fountain
Flavia, you and me

It's a circle of women
With names that ended with an A
They went away
They went away

Remember you said you wanted
A photograph of the four of us
We watched the fountain, we walked in Geneva
Around the Russian church with the golden onions
We saw a guitar in the window
It was great
Like a Picasso-painting

Now frame by frame
The water fell from the fountain
Today your necklace is broken
The string of pearls, the gallery of portraits
The women that ended with an A
The frozen moment of a summers day

It was a circle of women
With names that ended with an A
They went away
That's ending on Y