This life is a river
Running through cold veins
No calm gasp at all
We're always panting for air

The irrepealable decision
To live and to die young
We said: "Destroy
All we love we leave behind"

All we love we leave behind

Our awful derated state
Feels like a deathless march of distress
Scraping through this tales was a hazard
So let's taste the void

I saw it all, from heartbreaking delight
To crippling pain
That's why we left it all behind
You, me, and the violence

Oh, oh, oh, oh

At least you won't dry this river
And home's just a place for the heartless
No dear friends at all
Just strangers with faded but versant faces

The future's so scary
But you can't just run back to the past
Because it's familiar
Yes, it's tempting
But it's a mistake

Whoa

Where have you been?
Where have you been?

These long roads apart
Seem like a promising shelter
A home away from home
With a beautiful fierce and a fabulous strut

Sequel we go on declaring war on nostalgia
Hours of remembrance
We burn all the nice pictures
And do the ashes like coke

All the footsteps we've ever left
And the one's that will follow
Are set for just one reason
Someday you'll understand

We take step by step just not to stall
But when it's over
Steal me away
And deliver my bones to the sea
To the sea

Oh

Sundown
A blood-red sunset
And the curtain of night
Devours the light
Somehow this gloaming
Looks like a painting of two worlds
That collide

As if you marked it in your dying wish
This farewell couldn't be a more impressive sight
So these are our last common hours
'Cause tomorrow you'll be laid to rest, at first light

The days get shorter
Even if I try to shout off my head
Weird that every day has its own name
But the night holds only one

But also nascent darkness
Won't lull me to sleep
Since I've seen these leeches
Separating the flesh from your bones
Separating the flesh from your bones

But I don't care
If I should crash these walls like waves
I don't care
If I should all too soon face the end of my days
I don't care
Wherever this numbness should lead me
And I don't care
That I couldn't care less

Das letzte Herbstlaub fällt
Wie Gedärme auf Beton
Die Luft wird kalt und kälter
Der Kopf erstarrt im Frost
Betäubt und regungslos
Blau und ausgeweidet
Verhallt das letzte Wort
Im leeren Raum

Yeah

Would you die for me
If I say please?
I'd take this numbness with me
To the bitter end

So if you see me stumble
Please let me drown
Please take me out
I'm already dead

You know, I walked the path
Of sorrow once before
So I will depart
And nevermore return

There's only one decision in our lives
We can choose on our own
Vultures or worms?

I don't think
We will withstand this trip
Along these paths
Cobbled with shards

To tell you now
Makes me feel so heavy hearted
But one night
This life will tear us apart

And now that I gave away
The stories' end
Its facts sneak in
So deadly slow and subtle
But just
That something is subtle
Doesn't mean
It's going to turn out right

This lethargy, so perfectly shaped
Continues spiting filth in my face
Steady going on subsisting
Outlive this trivial life

Although
This edgeless dagger
Is stuck
Deep in my heart

How sad a fate
Even these tidal-washed detonations
Of relief won't save me

'Cause in case of doubt
This landmine marathon
Will guide me to
My early grave

Oh

And in spite of everything
Someday
I'll tie this rope
To the highest tree
And take my life
And as soon
As my last cigarette
Has burned to its end
Without turning once
I will have left
This world behind

Ooh

Only death is real

Ooh

Sometimes I pose a question
To myself again and again
But I can't find an answer
You may say I got no sense of humor
But the smile has been wiped off my face

There's no kindness in these eyes anymore
No ablazing vital spark
And once again I feel so fucking lonely
I am never alone
Although I am never alone
Whoa

Sometimes I feel like I got stones in my stomach
So heavy to haul
All we try to amend should be an appeasement
But falls on deaf ears

There's no turning back
'Cause we were born at this ridiculous place
And since we don't break the circle
We'll be in need of body bags (yeah)

Is all this happening for a reason?
Or just by mischance?
Is it true that we are nothing
But handprints on a misty pane?

How can we fall asleep
While the world is still burning?
How shall I sleep when I carry the weight
Of the world on my shoulders?

How shall I sleep?
How shall I sleep?

Every time you think
The most stupefying incident
In this world already happened
There comes one more

Shouldn't this be proof enough
For our ingrained failing
Prove enough that we should know
This all boils down to nothing?

It's still the same war
In this day and age
We just call it a different name

Oh
Just call it a different name

Yet another tone
And these walls
Come tumbling down
On our heads
So that we are
Finally buried alive
In this dungeon of lies

After all these years
I discerned
I don't belong here anymore
It's an ardent desire
All we love
We have to leave behind

It's about time to take leave
Please let me tear apart
Even this lethargy can't restrain me
It may be too late

I am hungry, I am thirsty
I'm tired and cold
In this awful state
I won't weather out another winter

We breathed fire and brimstone
But at the edge of the night
Everything that was left to say
Was spewed and scattered over the floor

As well-being with or without you
Guzzles me from the inside
But have you ever seen happy people
With boring stories to tell?

But if I wouldn't suffer
I wouldn't feel alive
Dead but still breathing
An avenue of escape
But blurred
In this hazy notions

The pain is gone
But I still wear the wounds
They still flare up
In heavy snow and glowing embers
But these monuments of yesteryears
Will soon turn into scars
Thanks for leaving
So I can finally breathe again

Yeah

I came up to our house
With barren feet and empty handed
You weren't here in a long time
But your ghost still haunts these walls

Over all these years
We slowly lost each other's sight
We tried everything just not to forget
But this life has no clean brakes

So now that you're gone
I've got no more reason to croak in this place
Alas, this formerly lively area
Turned out just bleak and lonesome

So why should I stay?
Why should I scrape a living
By disgrace?
When almost every other spot
In this world
Seems to have more
Meaning than this one?

I keep on starring at these blank walls
Where our pictures hung
As they indicate
My former home became a grave

"I am happy" is something
We haven't said for a while
We didn't succeed to win this fight together
But at least we tried

Yeah
At least I tried

All these sore memories
Hidden in a heart-shaped box
Which I buried so deep
Within the power of man

But the day will dawn
When I'm going to rake over their ashes
And scatter them into the river
That once flooded this place

Run as fast as your legs
Will carry you away from me
I just brought you misfortune
And the sands of time are running out

With every minute that's elapsing
The spleen is decreasing
And when a few years have passed
You won't be able to recall my face, yeah

Listen, folks
Nothing in this world worth having
Comes easy at all
For every decision that comes to our mind
We pay the price
What hereafter will wait for us
Only the ocean knows
But you can be everything but certain
I paid the price for every word I dropped

Needless to say
My constant fear of separation
Is actually not disappearing
Still the same reason why
I'm depraved of sleep
I'm losing friends
And above all
I'm losing confidence

"Forever and a day"
In this case
No second abandon
Just pure resolution
And our final decision
In this relation
We never thought to repent

I can still hear
You admonishing me
But slowing down
Is not an option
I can still feel the rhythm
And my heart is still beating
So your presence is no gift
But a curse

You all once meant
The world to me
Who knows? Maybe we'll meet again
At my funeral
Don't get me wrong
This is no reckoning to the life we've lived
But the only thing we share today
Is our past

Let me back in
Let me back in

Bleeding hands
Grab for the last tread
I exchanged all confidence
To self-elected suspense
Sometimes I suffer
From this life hour for hour
But apart from this circumstance
My voice gets stronger
With every minute that falls

Did you ever, ever
Bleed for something?
Did you ever, ever
Bleed for something?

Maybe these streets
Would be an easier way to go
Without these turns
Just going straight
But we can't choose their course
'Cause this is how we built them

I walked a thousand miles
To escape these barren landscapes
But they are still here
They haunt me like shadows
'Cause this endless melancholy
Is my oldest fear

It must have been years
Since we sat next to these autumn fires
As nothing had happened since
But anyway, it's too far gone

We shouldn't have let the grass grow
Under our feet all summer long
'Cause no one owns this moments
As far as I know, they just last for a while

Whoa

And I still wonder
Why this journey finds no end again
Finds no goal
Godspeed
But we will never arrive together
At the same time
Sad to say
That some of us won't find their way
Find no kind of home
So if I'm not coming home tonight
You will know that I'm gone

I've heard all these old stories
So please tell me something new
I heard it all far too often
I already know the end

And now I try to attach
As much wordily wisdom in just one song
But the answer's still a riddle
Or almost a fucking lie

This was the bloom of our youth
And autumn's coming soon
Whoever has no home now
Will not build one anymore

Yeah, this is my human garbage
Spread on the tracks of life
You still search for a reason?
Maybe the train was on time?

Last words? A final answer?
Apologies? I have none
Love has always been the word
For farewell and parting

Whoa
Whoa

They caught us near the street
Like deer that takes refuge to the dark
Always in our backs
They snapped us in our weakest moments

With broken legs
You can't run that far
They'll obtain you fast
And take aware
To hear what they mean
'Cause usually they speak with knives
They speak with knives
They speak with knives

Voices sounding like an empty orchestra
That plays the soundtrack of our lies
Every single note they bow or wind
Feels like a thorn in skin

In the end this journey was anything else
But successful, one bridge too far
We searched for freedom
And found nothing but a cold tomb

At least we found nothing
But a cold tomb
At least we found nothing
But a cold tomb

Oh

To narrate retro-perspectively
I never thought this trip could end up in chains
Somehow we always thought
That we'd be the arsonists that will set the world on fire

Ah

And once again I'm calling the rain
To wash away this dry fields of grief
To wash away my bones
And all I've ever feared

Everything I know for sure
Is that time's a mirror itself
Somewhere along the way
Also the good times have to come to an end

Outside these walls
I can see how night divides the day
And as the dawn falls I remember
Death always remained more perfect than life
Than life

After a while they screamed
Give 'em blades to dig up their own graves
The dawn marked their beginning
The dawn marks the end
Give 'em rope

[TEARS FOR FEARS Cover]

All around me are familiar faces
Worn-out places
Worn-out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere
Going nowhere

And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression
No expression
Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow
No tomorrow

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very

Mad world
Mad world
Mad world
Mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday
Happy birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen
Sit and listen

Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me
No one knew me
"Hello, teacher, tell me, what's my lesson?"
Look right through me
Look right through me

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very

Mad world
Mad world
Mad world
Mad world

Yeah