Nits

I can't sleep Counting sheep The hours slowly slip away Half past one Half past two Someone please tell me what to do I'll fix myself a drink So now I leave the bed My thoughts, they rule my head Hear that hum There's a buzz I think about the two...

When I close my eyes, I see your face The airplane flies like a time machine in space And I don't wanna fall I just wanna fly back to you Clouds in the sky Clouds in the sky Clouds in the sky Clouds in the sky Here I am, I'm a man with the child in h...

Step by step by step by step... Steps on the carpet Your partner is perfect Steps on the lino To teach you to tango It takes two more lessons Then I got the chances To meet all the girls who Are waiting for dances Put on the blazer And even my razor...

Hello my name is Mr Reasonable Always willing to lend an ear I am amazed by all your senseless talking And the silly notions I hear You said nothing Nothing can change your mind Some fools believe there's gonna be a change Still I do not believe anymo...

Sometimes I hear the hammer on steel Sometimes I hear the grindstone turn And I am looking Looking Sometimes I see the cool wet stone Sometimes I see the tin white skin And I am looking Looking Hesitating So afraid to touch And there is more to...

Death in Venice and don't look now I've seen the movies, I don't know how I lost my way in this moonlit town Somebody whispers, I'm looking down I smell the water, I smell a rat I see the darkness and somebody said This part of the city is not very clea...

I have been waiting for hours in this train And I'm riding through Brussels in the rain Back to Paris more or less confused By the shadows of tractors on the land By the changes in my life, I pretend There's a new life waiting there for me I asked mysel...

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 (all I want) Shadow on a street (is my shadow on a street) Fire on a mountain (fi...

Come back, come back To the house on the hill Where the tree is falling And I think I will Come back, come back To the house no more Where the water's burning And they knock on your door Ohh, when it's all or nothing All or nothing for me Ohh, when...

Car is driving through the hills all day Mom and Dad and the kids are on a holiday And they wanna eat "Daddy, we're hungry We're on the road too long We are hu-hu-hungry We're on the road too long And we wanna eat!" And Daddys says: "I know a little...

The Angel of Happy Hour I am the shame in the secret wars She smells the leaves in the autumn cars I am the rain from the falling skies She came, the winter was in her eyes She said: 'The wonders that filled my head They fell asleep, but I'm not dead I...

L. a trick-a-sunlight Falls down like the rain Enters through the cornea Leaves inverted image in my brain Overhanging clouds Fly into my room Percolate to alcohol And fall down with a boom And I will laugh L. a trick-a-sunlight You'll never know my...

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...

Dive on a Sunday in a lake Dive on a Sunday into a lake Dive on a Sunday into a lake Dive on a Sunday into a lake Around the fish we are swimming Around the fish we are swimming Dive on a Sunday into a lake Dive on a Sunday in a lake Dive on a Sunday...

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 And every time I turn a corner I smel...

Between the buttons There's a name inside her shirt The silk lining with a hole That sometimes hurts 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 jus...

(Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) Wake me up Sunray On this bright sunny summerday Leave my bed Bike in head Clear blue sky Bird and kite On this day Time is on my side Someone said Bike in head On a shadow lane Between big trees Bike-chain spins...

Bilbao Boa, don't wanna know why Bilbao Boa, people like a dancer Bilbao Boa wrapped around my shoulder Bilbao Boa talking like a stola Bilbao Boa, don't woho-ho-lola Bilbao Boa, keep her like a dole These are the stories I heard Those are the picture...

Houses Tattoed by warfare Holes in Houses that once were homes Silence Trees stand in silence As usual They speak of different times Time's passing by They know Time's passing by Streets are deserted As usual Everyone stays inside Das Bild am...

They hide in the curtain They smell I'm not certain In the night domestic animals bite They scratch They've got nails In the dark domestic animals bark His bite is better than his bark When you meet him in the dark His bite is better than his bark...

I'm missing my friend I'm missing her again And I don't know why (Why) Is the sky Blue Blue Blue, blue, blue Blue, oh blue Blue, blue, blue I'm missing my friend Missing her again And I don't know why (Why) Why is the sky Blue Blue Blue, blue...

Bobby Solo - he's in the villa Bobby Solo - he's on the terrace Bobby Solo - he's wearing pretty shirts Bobby Solo - he's singing lo lo lo lo Pazzo pazzo pazzo We only got two minutes Pazzo pazzo pazzo Bobby Solo is doing interviews Bobby Solo is loo...

When she drops in town a little handkerchief He picks it up for her Although he's not a prince of charm Now she stands upon his shoulders And looks across the garden And sees the oak behind the farm I'm up here in the waving tree I feel my mother looks...

The building was always one step ahead of me Gonna beat it at its own game I'm always looking up at my building And the shadow that is hanging over me Jump to conclusions From the 82nd storey Jump to conclusions From the 82nd floor Jump to conclusions...

He lives in a bungalow He lives in a bungalow Sits on a couch and Looks at a colour show He lives in a bungalow He lives in a bungalow Different cars in a garage Down below Look at my etchings on the wall Look at the lampshade in the hall They told...

I'm taking my time I am travelling I am travelling You taking your time You are travelling You are travelling It makes no difference What they say Tomorrow we will sail away It makes no difference Where we are Every night a falling star In cabins...

Can I go into the heartbeat Into the river of dreams Can I go Can I go into the same days Into the heart In the river of dreams Can I go Can I go into the wild wood Into the changing mood Into the way it's been (waste bin) Can I go into the Into...

In the mirrors of this house I've seen your face A thousand times or more Times or more In the corners of your room I've seen your face A thousand times or more Times or more In the darkness of the town I've seen the wheels a-turning I'll be gone A...

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...

Friday she is black Sunday she is white Chameleon girl Is making me feel alright Yesterday she was yellow Tomorrow she is green Chameleon girl Is the prettiest girl I've ever seen Monday she is brown Tuesday she is blue Chameleon girl Is breaking...

On a Sunday morning A bus is stopping At the espresso bar Stepping out Into the light and disappears Christine, you're in a dream Oh, Christine "I like to buy a postcard Of the falls And send it home When he calls I will keep it as a bookmark For...

I thought that I saw you in the last train With a plastic white fork in your hand Your teeth, your elbows, your shoulders Your mouth and your eyes You saw me standing on a platform One second with 24 frames I was gone with the last letter of your name...

Nits Henk Cranedriver (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) It's early in the morning He's climbing up The ladder to the top Of his crane He's smoking a cigarette In his cockpit of glass Look down The town's Still asleep Peter and I were walking Al...

The beauty of the town, she takes my breath Sunlight's cutting houses in two The beast of the town, he brings only death He's cutting a man in two Oh, my heart is so empty, my head is so full I cannot understand why they blew up a car With a man and his...

I think of the year When she was 16 She charmed the boys out of the tree I saw the moon When I was 15 Fell like a fire into the sea dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA dA He smiled at me when he was 50 He turned his head and sai...

(Hofstede) Give me the sombre city highroads The clouds are framed by attic windows Those are the words I long to hear But when I walk I keep my tears from falling And if you don't know where to go You're lost in a dead end street The houses fall down e...

(Hofstede) Give me the sombre city highroads The clouds are framed by attic windows Those are the words I long to hear But when I walk I keep my tears from falling And if you don't know where to go You're lost in a dead end street The houses fall down e...

So many reasons to be afraid Afraid of the darkness Afraid of the light So many reasons to be afraid Afraid of the daytime Afraid of the night Day and the night Yesterday she found him Lying on the ground Fallen down Without a sound Somebody said '...

It's a terrible waste To be stuck here in nowhere I'm calling your name It's a terrible day To be in this wasteland I'm calling your name Just your name It's a terrible day To be in this wasteland I'm calling your name It's a terrible waste To be s...

He is standing in the living room She is sitting on the bedroom floor They are talking to each other on the babyphone He lights another cigarette She is re-arranging pillows on the bed Kids in the kitchen, rain outside She wants a Different house Diff...

I'm turning the pages Of the book that I've read I was sleeping for ages Now I know I am dead The trees in the summer The rivers with ice I cannot remember My lost paradise Far far away No one can say Where we'll be tomorrow Far far away A man i...

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 people have a tape recorder I can be I can be you now I can be I can be you I can be I can be you I can be I can be you...

The break of the day, I lift my head I leave the bed and go to work Bicycle, streets in town Rainy day is falling down It's maybe impossible But I've got dreams I may be an optimist But I've got dreams Dreams Dreams Oh, dreams Oh, dreams Oh, drea...

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'm so tired of learning to talk Building fences on the wall In this state, I shall not remain I don't want to go, but if I die young Fill my empty room with the sun Fill my empty room with the sun This Doesn't matter like it did before This doesn't m...

I'm fighting it, fighting it, fighting it Till I am winning Rewinding it, winding it, winding it To the beginning Erom on (Erom on, erom on) I open the window I open the door When I'm closing My room and my house And backwards I'm walking To your h...

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...

In a Swiss town by the lake Fall down like a white snowflake There's a fire in A fire in my head There's a fire in A fire in my head Roll on like a stone in a field I got a home but I got no shield There's a fire in A fire in my head There's a fire...

I am waiting in the hospital With my mother's eyes There's a song on the radio That I don't wanna hear No, I don't wanna hear I'm turning pages of a magazine With my father's hand There are pictures in the magazine That I don't understand No, I don't...

I smoke five fingers In an Egyptian jail The following singers John… Bob… Leonard and Neil Forever on my trail I left my mummy In the Valley of Kings His voice is haunting me In my head he sings Dance with me Egyptian girl I'm looking at you With th...

Shoes fit Footprints Shoes fit Footprints Shoes fit Footprints Shoes fit Footprints Scar between the shoulders Scar on the back of his head The sole between the shoulders The heel on the back of his head Mother said it looks like a footprint And...

I went back to the Netherlands I saw the Fountain Man In his hands ice was water Water a cloud This is how the sea is kept out Why some bodies sink And why others float Said the Fountain Man He not only changed his shape He didn't remain within any v...

Once I was a green man living in a tin can Once I was a green man living in a tin can You cannot open it, cannot open it I can Green man Once I was a blue man living in a bottle Once I was a blue man living in a bottle I cannot open it, cannot open it...

This is a story you haven't heard You may not believe it's true What happened to this cat called Frozen Fred Could happen to me and to you Fred had a passion for frozen food And TV dinners, too He hated that merciless summer sun The weekly barbecue S...

What a beautiful dress You're wearing tonight What a beautiful shoes You have on your feet Do you remember It's a long time ago When the summer was green The winter was snow Cherry eye, window panes Wonder why it always rains Look at me I'm getting...

Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight Someone sings Goodnight In a sweet voice Goodnight Tonight Everything's alright Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight Mother is coming Goodnight Up the stairs Goodnight...

Take me to great lake Ontario Walk me to the lighthouse through the falling snow And I was loving you I was loving you I was loving you Ohh, I was loving I was loving Loving you Take me to the river where the sirens sing Listen to the raindrops falli...

A rainy day in a rainy town In this heart of mine In this heart of mine Cloud in my head, my head in a cloud In this heart of mine In this heart of mine People say that there's no one there In this heart of mine In this heart of mine It's a rainy day...

It's almost midnight now Getting cold in Rome The hands of the watch, they turn Turn without mercy I'm counting every hour Must be a new delay Wait on a suitcase Tomorrow, tonight and today Spent the last coin I had On water and sandwiches The hand...

Sometimes life is so simple Sometimes it seems so hard While in the end it doesn't matter Simple or hard Bring it down to the heart of the matter Brind it down to a matter of Heart I walk up to my piano Lay my hand on the keys Got no idea what is pen...

(Hofstede) Fresh shirts in the drawer Fast train to the city His first object Had to protect Locked behind doors His first object Fresh shirts in the drawer Fast train to the city 

My world My world My world My world There's no love lost between Me and this old great big world That will never change So I made my own one In my own time, true to scale In my own house My world My world Little shops and little houses Tiny tra...

There'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 Rich men (rich men) down on their knees Hold me, it's gett...

She's so innocent He's so different On this mountain in Switzerland She knows nothing 'bout boys He had too much choice On this mountain in Switzerland The instructor is a handsome man He's going up and down again Oh no I, oh no, no I She knows nothi...

Another car is stopping for gas Be careful with that burning match The radio is playing Nat King Cole Nat King Cole sings Another stranger turns the wheel I stay behind in silence and feel The oil on overall and hands Is all that's left, all left for me...

Sometimes I was feeling like a homeless boy In the city without hope, the city without joy I found her Just for one day Sometimes I was feeling like a homeless boy In the city without hope, the city without joy I found her Just for one day She said:...

Cabin 80 Cabin 80 to way out I am waiting Did you see me in the crowd Hook of Holland, 6 am Someone shouted: "Tell me where I am" Hook of Holland, trains and boats Someone said: "It's raining overcoats" See the man on See the man on the quay See th...

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

When the rain falls on the asphalt pavements It floats in gutters of the street Down the drainpipes underneath this house We are as quiet as a mouse After the broken arm things went slow Since that day I took a little, took a little, took a little time...

I saw the house on the hill It burned like a tree In an endless night Tell me, river, when the fire ends Tell me, fire, where the river bends I had a vision of my house It turned into a flame On the riverside Tell me, fire, when the river bends Tell...

I tried to be afraid But you said that it was too late I tried to be alone But you said that I wanted this home But I try (I try), I try I try (I try), I try I try to be like you But you never wanted that I Wanted it, too But I try to be around Som...

I'm a fly in your eye I'm a bee on your knee I'm a moth in your mouth I'm a fly I'm a worm in your shoe I'm a brick in your wall I'm a cloud in your sky I'm a fly I'm a car on your road I'm a ship on your hip I'm a bird on your head I'm a tree on yo...

When you are a small trombone You think about the world outside your home And the burning of the trumpet Smells like white smoke and elephants fire And my ice princess dances on the ground when she walks Oh, my ice princess once was made of wood and water...

In a play where the actors die You told me you were thinking Of the clothesline in the attic In a play when the shirts are dry You showed him the vaccination mark On your upper arm I will try to frame your face I will try to speak your name Das Mädch...

In Dutch fields the poppies grow Between the crosses, row by row We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Dutch fields. In Dutch fields We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Du...

I was born in a valley of bricks Where the river runs high above the rooftops. I was waiting for the cars coming home late at night - From the Dutch mountains. I was standing in a valley of rock Up to my belly in an early fog. I was looking for the road...

Tell me is it far to the planet of Mars Can we go there jumping from star to star Should I live my life in dreams Should I write your name in cream Can we get there, I don't know But I see your face up in the moon I see your eyes in the lights of June...

The ivory boy came to Hamburg and Cologne He bought three one way tickets for the train He travelled with his sister and a girl who looked like Lili Marlene He said: "Cancer, cancer is a hurricane Blows away my body and it tears out my brain But the song...

The war monument is still standing between two footballfields With the names of the men killed on the battlefields. @ They were center forwards keepers and backs they thought they would win. It's a family tradition to play in a football team I have n...

A strange day In the middle of winter Cold day In the middle of winter Winter garden Jardin d'hiver Winter garden Jardin d'hiver Bundle of light between buildings Bundle of light between two trees Tu ne viendras pas ce soir Snow falls Tu ne vien...

She is waiting on us in the Jazz Bon Temps in Texas Catfish on a plate, the kitchen's open late tonight Diamond in her mouth, sparkles when she shouts "Hey you guys, I can wait here" It's sad, but we have to go Call me a stranger Call me a fool Call me...

Johnny and Betty would dream Of all the beautiful things They had seen inside a magazine And he was reading lots of different books And Betty Betty she didn't mind She had a mirror to look behind Kitchen is made for you The TV is on for two It must...

I'm walking on the thin ice of the lake It's almost spring It will melt and break The holes are getting bigger A déjà vu, a prophecy, a joke The skyline with the factories The black sky with the smoke My brains inside a cap of fur My thoughts are burni...

Les nuits sont noires L'envie, l'espoir Le nom de Dieu Il pleut toujours A time to weep A time to laugh A time to speak A time to keep silence Les jours sont blancs L'oiseau, l'enfant Et moi, je suis Colère, l'envie A time to be born And a time...

Amsterdam, the first of June 1992 Dear Eric, yesterday evening I came home late And 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...

It's the year 2040 I survived the holy war Through the big world I am walking Since the downfall of the car I am almost 87 I am almost in my grave And I don't believe in heaven anymore So I come back to the hotel Where 50 years ago A woman waited for...

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 And no one will be there to help you Louder and louder No one can hear you (No one can he...

Who'd have thought that I'd be here by myself? Who'd have thought that you'd be bad for my health? Now I know, now I know I'm just a man on a wire Who'd have thought about the 'cause and effect? Yesterday's love is not tomorrow's regret Now I know, now I...

Man-Friday Man-Friday Man-Friday Man-Friday Man-Friday It wasn't there before What is he doing here The only to survive The island saved my life Man-Friday Man-Friday Man-Friday Man-Friday What is he doing here A stranger in my land What brou...

Cover up the pretty faces Cover up the eyes and the lips And the things we like Under a mask Oh, what a feeling it is Oh, what a feeling it is to be unknown Under a mask I wanna know Is this really your face I wanna know Are they really your eyes I...

Another story's over Memories are new You walk alone along this lonely avenue You thought she had a whole world to offer You found out there is no more to discover All you feel around you is this coolness of her You turn the key around twice Memories ar...

Don't go far I'm your star Don't be late I can wait The moon will shine On this house of mine Don't go far I'm your star Don't be late I can wait The moon will shine On this house of mine Don't go far I'm your star Don't be late I can wait Th...

Moon dog Give me a fire Give me a water From your wishing well Moon dog Give me a rock Give me a stone From your home sweet home Moon dog Julie and John What have you done When the moon struck one It's a dirty old road In a dirty old town It's...

My father was a chimney weeper "Don't look down", he said The four winds that blow in this street Still whisper his name Men are long and black you see They're sad and smoke Like the chimneys in the factory And they're always broke Moon Moon Moon Mo...

We're proud of Jan (we're proud of Jan) We're proud of Jan (we're proud of Jan) We named a mountain after you Somewhere in Antarctica Unclimbable, no different From the nameless others He spent a number of years at this project And now he knows how an...

I was walking in a town On the waterfront I saw a building I went inside into the darkness Into the coolness of the air-conditioning There were photographs of children They were in a war, and they killed them I was feeling, feeling smaller Smaller than...

Mrs. Sunlight is walking on the bright side She's dreaming of the moonlight in her eyes I wish I had fever I wish I had smallpox or worse Then I needed love and care Of my sweet nurse Mrs. Sunlight dances Under the circumstances She likes 'Rome was no...

Nescio Questo paradiso Nescio Nella bocca del lupo Nescio Lo straniero è morto Nescio Questo paradiso I jumped off a bridge And went swimming for hours And nobody Nobody's looking I came to a hotel With double rooms and showers And nobody Nobod...

East West, home's best There's no place like home No letters in the box No voices on the phone Elevator up and down Floor one to ten When I'm almost on the street I go up again New flat Big table, small bed New kitchen, too Neighbours I've never...

He is counting all my footsteps I am looking at my watch Night Fall See him walk The somnambulist He is counting all the trees Night Fall Night Fall Night Fall In the ponds and in the ditches He is counting all The ducks and swans Night Fall Wh...

The Queen of the Lowlands Is sleepless tonight She's walking on marble floors In the pale moonlight The oilman from Texas Still pulling the strings In this palace of puppets Of my paper King No one will sleep In the fields of Verdun No one will fin...

I once had a girl Or should I say, she once had me She showed me her room Isn't it good, Norwegian wood She asked me to stay And she told me to sit anywhere So I looked around and I noticed There wasn't a chair I sat on a rug biding my time Drinking...

Urgh! In the office at night Someone switched off the light Young man standing by the window Looking down on the street below In the office at night And the light falls through The windows on the sidewalks And the light falls through The windows on...

Boy, look at the letter A Cover your left eye Cover your eye And will you please explain What are you seeing again When the letters grow small Boy, look at the room And cover your right eye And look at my hand And will you say to me How many finge...

Dance with me, baby I'm falling Dance with me, baby I'm falling Falling asleep in your arms tonight Dance with me, baby I'm falling Catch me, my baby I'm falling Out of a tree in your arms Catch me, my baby I'm falling asleep in your arms tonight...

Life is so boring Out of suburbia You tend to forget you're alive at all Houses are piled up high Reaching out for the sky They make you feel so very small No one's out there in the street There is not a soul to meet Vintage violence Midnight fever...

My aunt is living in the country In a house by the water That's the place where I have learned to swim When the uncle was still living He kept his prize winning chickens That looked like waiters in black and white I was sleeping in the attic Between t...

Somebody said: "You better not forget To put heart in front of head" I know it's true I've been thinking of you And all the words That you have said Pillow talk to me Pillow talk to me Pillow talk to me Pillow, you talk to me Like a puff of smoke...

Young red guards Will fight the waves on yellow river There to face a force Ten typhoon tiger mountain Are we playing ping pong I'm on your side You're on my side I'm on your side You're on my side We play or fight On this table I am able On this...

A rich man's work always gets done He spends his days out in the sun Trusting the figures in the morning paper Your sweat - the oil in his machine You are the eyelid of his dreams He knows his ten commandments: Use your neighbours Love their labour T...

We're sailing on an ocean On an ocean And the time flies We left the port of Amsterdam We wave our hands And say goodbye We say goodbye! Goodbye! The heart is at the wheel tonight The wheel tonight is turning west The moon is on the sea and shines...

Me and my friend and his girlfriend are swimming In Telephone Lake where willows are ringing Out of the water a periscope snake Says: "Go to the place where the wireless valves break" Me and my friend and his girlfriend are driving Through silence and so...

Sometime in a nameless place She told me about her childhood days Trust me what I have to say I say it in the morning Leave at the end of the day I never was a child Who played outside to hide and seek I was the one to hide No, I never was this happy...

She was always thinking That the others were the losers And that they could never kill her, too This is the official world Now welcome to the papers And the forms are waiting here for you It didn't work at all She couldn't stand or fall It didn't work...

So many years And the river flows down So many It is hard to count them And so many years I am standing there On this stone bridge Now Like sand flows Through my fingers The water flows under me So forgotten in the city smoke So many years I've...

Hello sunlight, my new friend I came back to look for her again I like to see Mrs. Robinson again As I'm standing in the Underground Where silence is the only sound I like to see Mrs. Robinson again She is almost eighty-two Skin and bone and her hair...

She was a chanceless contender In the Deborah Harry look-alike contest A long time ago He was an upcoming doctor Wearing rubber gloves That is the reason He was stealing the show She looked at him She looked at him And thought of something to say He...

I am, I am I am, I am I am, I am I am, I am You are, you are You are, you are I am, I am I am, I am I am, I am I am, I am You are, you are You are, you are Rumspringa Rumspringa, oh I am, I am I am, I am I am, I am I am, I am You are, you ar...

No one can harm me This is my army No one can hurt me No one deserts me I'm walking up front You're lagging behind I want action Don't need peace of mind You stand on your own And say we are wrong You're strange and you're restless You keep looking...

On Saint Louis Avenue There's something in the air My heart beats like a hammer On Saint Louis Avenue Cathedral bells and cars Are singing when I meet her "You came today... I am living one day ahead of time" She said On Saint Louis Avenue There's...

Saragossa mating season Got to go today It's my nature versus reason Somehow I can't stay I am an eel somewhere Out in the ocean Finding its way on his own Fresh water, salt water Gulf streams and cold water Only one sea is my home Saragossa mating...

(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'm Rabbit Ho I can smell it I can eat it Savoy (Savoy, Savoy) I push my head through the wall Something fr...

Winter in Berlin Weisse Strassen, weisse Nächte Ein Mann geht durch den Schnee Um die Ecke der Schillerstrasse In die schwarze Winternacht Nacht und Nebel sind seine Freunde Wo er ist, ist sie nicht Bahnhof Zoo, er kauft eine Zeitung Ein Schwarzweiss-...

Seven green parrots Seven little parrots in a tree outside The colours of their feathers change like traffic lights Snowflakes are falling on the ground A feather is whirling without a sound Sometimes in a dream I walk a snow-white street I can hear so...

Nits Omsk Shadow Of A Doubt (Hofstede) Oh I'm undecided What I'm going to do now Have to think it over What I'm going to do now I can be a singer In the next apartment Waiting for the orchestra To step inside Almost fall asleep Behind the dark pi...

Ugly street, ugly town Ugly faces running 'round Silly fool, silly fool No one knowing where he's bound Silly fool, silly fool Always someone else's tool Silly fool, silly fool Don't you have pride at all Pride at all Let it rain, let it rain Let th...

Sister 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 Sister R...

The streets of Barcelona are filled with blood and rain The war is rolling over Spain Men and women running with sticks of dynamite Storming stone buildings in the middle of the night In the window near the last 'O' of the sign 'HOTEL COLON' Machine guns...

In the black of the night In the black of the night There's a flashing light Shining bright, shining bright What happens now to your eyes so suddenly What happens now to your eyes Wer reitet so spät Durch Nacht und Wind Darling child, come with me...

Beware of the slip of the tongue Don't say nothing When the company's wrong You smile and they're shaking your hand When you're older you will understand So you be silent Be silent Beware of the slip of the tongue Don't say nothing When the company's...

I saw a box in New York Inside the MOMA Clay pipe and cork It's a soap bubble It's a soap bubble I saw a map of the moon Cut out of camels Tin spoon It's a soap bubble It's a soap bubble He is walking very slow Through Manhattan in the snow Josep...

She doesn't even warn me Or tell me she's coming tomorrow But suddenly she's there on my doorstep She doesn't even cry, cry like the other girls But suddenly there are tears on my pilllow Her eyes are gonna burn me down Every time that she is in my town...

See this tall man walking the streets of Helsinki He's called Seppo, he's 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 and nobody cares You're like this l...

Shake your rattle, fly your kite There's evil in the dark Spirits awake, spirits awake Hear the sad song on the water Someone passed away Spirits awake, spirits awake Two worlds side by side In broad daylight, in darkest night Spirits awake, spirits...

Down in the airshaft Of the old hotel Doors on both sides Of a concrete cell No sign of daylight No happy view A two-pillow mattress One hardly used And a man lies still His face up to the moon The sound of footsteps In the corridor Two hands kno...

He doesn't talk much He doesn't move about either No one likes him No one dares to come nearer It started harmlessly Heavy on every knee Couldn't tell from the start He was a piece of art It started harmlessly Heavy on every knee Couldn't tell from...

We're strangers of the night Looking at each other in the window light You say: "Let's go this way tonight" The city turns The city burns And I am in the back of the car The city turns The city burns And I don't know where you are Strangers of the n...

Right behind her in revolving doors In the window of a passing train Talking shadows in a telephone box I was running She was walking It was one of those rainy days I was looking She was turning Suddenly I met your face Right behind her in revolving...

On a sugar river Where the water is sweet Where the pebble is a mountain And the crab nibbles your feet Jellyfish, big jellyfish She's a man-of-war Jellyfish, big jellyfish He's a woman far (away) On a sugar river We are sitting in a boat Made of h...

Mister Bluebird on your shoulder Stays very calm on his feet I don't know why Sometimes my eyes are swimming Look at the way we were talking Strangers for so many years I've been away You spent the day swimming I'm sitting down by my window Looking...

Tables and chairs Do not like one another They bite in each others legs Tables and chairs Do not like one another They bite in each others legs Tables See how they're neatly grouped together They are a table and four chairs See how they're peacefull...

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday's gone Friday and Saturday, Sunday is no fun Mr Moonshine, that girl is mine For a long time I was wrong Take a piece of my heart Take a piece of my heart You don't know what to do with it As long as you're not losi...

(45623-6278-16109-11555) Give me your number And I'll give you a call I am a dreamer and I know I can fall Oh baby, baby, listen when you're alone Beep beep Telephone, telephone, telephone, telephone, telephone, telephone (45623-6278-16109-11555) Giv...

He spent his nights On camping sites Can this sun tan Make him a man He's in one of the tents She's in one of the tent tent tent (Camping gaz) (Can can vas) (Pins and poles) (Tins in holes) You're frightened of My freckles love Can this sun tan M...

The wind is turning, a fire is burning somewhere far away Where are we going? - To Hietaniemi Hautausmaa It's a perfect grey graveyard day Will I be saved when I call your name Stranger, you're so late Between the rich men and the soldiers 'Rest in peac...

In the ballroom of romance Bridie's waiting for a dance With her back pressed to the wall She lets the lamplight stripe her hands She smells the perfume of her friends "Soir de Paris" No news from France No news at all Secret glancing, the little sche...

Suddenly you came to see me After all those years You said 'hello' Time has been a friend In the town without a home I went So alone again I miss the Bauhaus chair I miss the Bauhaus chair Can you turn back All the pages with the photographs Can y...

The heartaches, the headaches The mistakes, the daybreaks 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 Train stops the raindro...

Looking out my window Looking at this dirty part of town Looking out my window Cold eyes looking Cold eyes looking down You should see them going Going down not noticing the slope You should see them going Empty faces Faces without hope Doctor, it'...

I was walking down A sunny street in town In a dream She was standing In the shadow of a tree In a dream In my dream She invited me Inside her house to see The walls were black Black and white Just like a woodcut Printed down In a dream In my dr...

Here I am with my child on the Eiffel tower Looking down When the light disappears Paris is a frozen town Now she turns her face to the camera A photograph And the river is a diamond snake Around her head I can't see it anymore Nobody's knocking on...

She is walking through the snowflakes On the churchyard With a small bunch of flowers in her hand She's putting it on a gravestone Of a young soldier Who died on the desert sand And it hurts And it hurts The song in her head Where the flowers are gon...

1906 The morning after Carmen The earth was shaking The sky was almost burning San Francisco I'm The Great Caruso My blood-red suite with the lits jumeaux Are turning When I look at my life My life is a dream When I look at my life My life is a dre...

(Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) I met her In a shop Downtown She was buying a hat With a feather Brown She said Or red That's all she said That's all she said 'BROWN' When the rain falls On our head Think Think Of the time When we met In a...

Into a town Into a street Into the house There's a hole Into a room In a wall There's a hole The cloud on a lake Comma of the world There's a hole There's a hole In my heart She looks at me As if I were a mirror There's a hole There's a hole...

I spent some time alone In an old country home Where the wallpaper looked like a landscape In a foreign land I took some walks alone Around this old country home And the landscape looked like the wallpaper Time's slipping away Time's slipping away T...

Wheels on steel go rumbling through the night "Away, away" they seem to say I tip-toe tip-toe through the sleeping train An infant king who meets his bride My self-reflection in the window pane A portrait or a photograph Two eyes, two ears, nose, uncert...

This is the place where they built the machine They wipe out the drawings and lock up the dream - the hope This is the town where they wait for the wars They lock up the houses and burn all the cars - the smoke Here on this map we are close to the place T...

The streets are red with raindrops Falling from the crying sky It's in my ear It's in my eye A man outside the laundrette Is falling on the rainy street It's in my ear It's in my eye War and peace Live together like Siamese twins One stops The oth...

Saw the angel falling down Near the laundrette On the sidewalk Falling down Saw the angel falling down Near the laundrette On the ground Oh everything's frozen In my soul I am sleeping Oh everything's frozen In my soul I am sleeping Sleeping Mmm...

I had no reason to be so afraid No, I had no reason to be so afraid To be so afraid And I came to the mountain And the sun went down And 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...

He likes the cold winter nights And the dark afternoons The lodger When there are shadows behind Every window and blind The lodger There's another murder in the news today He kills only women, always blondes they say They hear the sound of a car Kee...

I start each day Thinking about it We know by now There's no love without it Why is it taking so long Till late in the evening Did I just wake up again Or was I not sleeping And hold me Hold me Hold me Till time has come Hold me Hold me And hol...

The highway ended and he got out His one good ear to the ground But where is the magic of Lassie I've got a feeling She's been away too long A voice out of heaven said: quarter past seven! The sand is running quickly through an hourglass But where is...

Nits Bis In The Dutch Mountains The Magic Of Lassie (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) The highway ended and he got out His one good ear to the ground (But where is) the magic of Lassie I've got a feeling that She's been away too long A voice out of...

Oli told me When we walked down He was the milkman In his hometown I wish that life was always simple I wish that it would never rain Every morning Or should I say night He delivered the bottles Before the first light He was the milkman And she w...

Who brings the cars of Michel Valliant Who brings Archie 'the man of steel' Who brings the apes of Scandinavia Out of the drizzle into the real world Here comes the panorama man The globe will turn beneath his thumb And he's leaving again Here comes th...

I had a terrible dream The hour was early I walk in my neighbourhood I turn a corner I see a river of blood With angels drowning Devils with black parachutes Fall down with bare feet On the street With sound of a thunder Incredibly loud My hands ar...

A rich man's work always gets done He spends his days out in the sun Trusting the figures in the morning Your sweat - the oil in his machine You are the eyelid for his dreams He knows his ten commandments: Use your neighbours Love their labour The poor...

Red dog Green barn Brown car Yellow moon Shine Man sings Girl speaks Door slams Cold wind Blows Backyard Mainstreet Warehouse Nine to Five Suitcase Airport Perfume Bye Hometown Birthday Handshake Rain falls Down Coal mine Folk dan...

Black When the night is falling down on me Grey I see the outline of the tree My love and I were walking Through a waving wood The sky was blue My love and I were walking On a frozen lake The setting sun Blue Every morning is a mystery White In...

(Oh when, oh when) Oh when, when will I see you Oh when, when will I see you On a highway in a car On a river in a boat In a town where everyone's sleeping It doesn't matter where you go Oh when Oh when 

Dead leaf falling from a family tree Drop in the ocean, a rock in the sea In a long cold winter she's falling asleep On a pillow of feathers, wool of sheep China moon on a cold winter night When she's sleeping, the light Is milk on her pillow and the go...

Here comes the replay of an old dream I was dreaming when I was a small boy Turn around Turn around I'm in a dryer in the kitchen In a tornado of shirts and towels Turn around I turn around The other day I had my tonsils out The smell of ether in da...

And if you say it isn't hurting Oh if you say you do not care And all the tears that you have showed me You don't mean it, you don't care And so many times You fell in a tender trap Though you are coming back You better pack all your suitcases you saved...

Once on a cold grey morning I was walking home alone The traffic lights in the falling rain The unanswered phone I was so sad and lonely On a lonesome avenue So sad and lonely What could I do Once I opened the drawer In a room of a strange hotel I...

Someone was playing a Walker Brothers song When a ricochetting bullet hit the jukebox 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine' was stuck in its track Anymore... anymore... anymore... anymore... (and back) Mother Violet, Jack "the Hat", "Cannonball" Lee They're all de...

Your picture on a wall I can see it It's too small Your picture On a wall Cannot touch it Hold it closer now Now I'm waiting on your doorstep One of the objects You cannot win you cannot have I am standing in the greenhouse Among the apples You can...

The wind, the rain, the child, the train The tree, the lake - waiting, waiting The house, the shoe, the blind, the hand The air, the face - waiting, waiting Now that I've found every heart has been broken Now that I've lost all the time that I had I wil...

Somebody said that it's red But she knows it's blue There are so many things in her life That she wants to do Sometimes she cries Waving her sad goodbyes She says: "Life is a mystery It's a tree with a wind-up bird" With a wind-up bird Sometimes she...

"Hands up!", he said "If you move a little bit you're dead" I want the secret that you were about to get Tonight they win I'm in a cellar and I have to stay in I'll have to write a song Whether it's right or wrong Here comes the young reporter In his...

I've forgotten all the presents And the papers fly in streets From nowhere to the 7-11 doors Through the turnstile of the supermarket I'm lifted by a trunk in tin foil That's butting me back on my feet Nothing can be like this wind It blows so sweet T...

We've got this thing thing This makes me think thing That double you you Ex my and why thing The double use of wondering Why we don't feel better I try some more thing things Some more of your things I feel that some thing That keep me warm thing A...

He's a man hating his hometown Boys and girls back home gave him nothing But a natural turn-down In a city full of strangers Lived a disappointed dreamer A possible danger Use your head and try to think it over (no no no no) Use your head and try to thi...

Da da da da... 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 cha...

I am waiting At the bus stop Ting Ting With my girlfriend She is pregnant Like a raindrop Ting Ting And the donkey And the bull Are standing next to me Ting Ting Here comes the rain Ting Ting Here comes the rain I am walking With the blind man...

You hear the birds in my italic forest I smell the roses in your cement garden You snow around Around my head tomorrow I rain upon Upon your feet in sorrow Toe in the water Toe in the water You walk on mud along a thirsty river I see the trees I he...

Only rich men can buy Things that poor men can make You've got nothing And they've got plenty Like a tree falling down Hits a grape on the ground They will crush the poor man's head (In books) You can sit beside everyone In deckchairs travel an ocean...

When I was a young boy I was swimming in the river Drinking the water When I was young When she was a young girl She was diving in the water Drinking the river When she was young Tree is falling Tree is falling Tree is falling (And I'm standing)...

On the backseat of a motorscooter It's so crazy what I'm doing to her 80 miles on the rocks It's a kid or a crash Tutti ragazzi with Italian shoes It doesn't matter if they win or lose Together we know what to do As long as you keep on dancing Keep on...

Two skaters on an ice cream floor And one of them fell on the ground This is what she has been waiting for Till one of them fell down Your sister in Canada She's sending a gun and one pair of skates The gun is not real, the shoes are too large You load...

One key of her typewriter's 4 and the sign of percent She says that it looks like the face of a former boyfriend She once typed a whole page of those little noughts and fours And one big X at the bottom meant 'over' of course With a backbone of candy she'...

Posters invite him To visit a sunny wonderland The hostess invites him And offers to take him by the hand He won't run to catch his train He won't run to catch his train Umbrella army walking in the rain Do as so many - visit Europe by train Umbrella...

I said it's incredible You said it's not true at all Car hits, car kills, car hits, car kills I said it's a miracle You said it's incredible Car hits, car kills, car hits, car kills My uncle went to Mars He is out there looking at the stars Uncle on...

I roll up the sleeves Can she bake a cathedral Under a canoe I'm a swimmer in blue I roll up the sleeves She takes a lot of pictures Animals in water (Fish, fish, fish) Under a canoe A shirt is waving in the meadow Shirt is waving in the meadow A...

The first time we met You were walking down the street A copy of "Blonde On Blonde" Under your arm The first time we met You were lost in your overcoat A face that couldn't care less "Nothing is something No one can do without" You told me but later...

You point your finger at the faces (my family) On this photograph This is my father (he looks like me) On this photograph I don't remember (I was too small) The day he went Only the money and the letters (sometimes he'd call) That he used to send Nere...

She lives in Villa Homesick The climate is her skin She spends her time playing solitaire Although she'll never win She reads her Daily Mirror A brief glance at the sun She's walking by the seaside Kicking the shells for fun She spends her days with...

(1999) I am walking with Maria on a cold winter's day I'm dressed in black second hand clothes She's wearing a blue winter coat, C&A The river is your stillborn child Seagulls in a purple sky We walk from the light into the darkness Hands like ice,...

Look at all the pictures Look at all the words Even if it's not true They will write it They are making money Of your private life Coming to your parties Uninvited Don't you talk Don't you talk Don't you talk Dip your pens in poisoned ink Like a...

Welcome back Welcome back I can hear your friends Are so glad up in heaven Welcome back Welcome back There's a party going on At Cloud 11 Welcome back Welcome back Let's pretend we're still together Till it's daytime Welcome back Welcome back Wh...

Today we all went With our 'Atomic' friend To his forgotten land Close to the world's end And Daniel said: Take your time We like the river That runs to the sea We like the highway That runs to the trees And take your time On a river to the sea T...

I don't want to sleep tonight Outside it's raining No one's complaining But me I don't want to talk today No one is staying Everybody's flying Away What we did What we did on our holidays Romeo and Juliet Lying on the bed they say They killed th...

How many years I waited How many years you walked In my raincoat and my shoes On a bright day Like a white night How many days I listened How many days you talked In my raincoat and my shoes On a bright day Like a white night How many hours you wai...

Who... Who's the killer Who's the killer Where's the gun Whatever happened to Mrs Malloo When they found her this morning She had been shot through the head And with the blood on the bed The killer wrote 'Good Mourning' This is a mystery Next one c...

With used furniture we make a tree With old clothes we dress a family With broken stones we build 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 With us...

This is not comme il faut It's no respectable affair I know I lost my head I'm burning bridges everywhere My heart, my head, my brains My senses don't make sense at all The bar sign prints your name Over and over on the wall And I can't take it anymo...

Here comes the yellow boat on a river She is sleeping and I will leave her Look at the yellow boat on the river She is swimming and I will give her (Give her) Water to drink, candles to light I am walking home tonight In the wind on the right corner Fl...

Yesterday I was robbing a bank downtown I was shooting the laminate parquet The halogen ceiling lights It was funny - there was no money Crime doesn't pay But I'm happy And I'm so rich, so rich, so rich, so rich So rich, so rich, so rich, so rich......

All you gentlemen You save all you can But you won't get rich I am wide awake You are sound asleep You won't get me I'm drowning in the middle of an ocean I'm swimming in an ocean of tears I'm drowning but I will not show emotion or fears All you ge...

Wait! (Cross now) Wait! (Cross now) Wait! (Cross now) Here I am on the zebra Here I am on the zebra Laughing cars Traffic war Grinnin' grilles Iron smiles Traffic war Laughing cars Iron smiles Grinnin' grilles Here I am on the zebra Here I am...