Tekst piosenki
A motor-bike in Afrika,
Yeah, he's riding the white line,
Oblivious of snakes stretched out across the way like trip-wire,
Shouting
"The road is mine!"
Tracing the line of the Skeleton Coast,
Ghost riders from the Sud-West:
The original Angels of Death they seem,
Six motor-bikes abreast.
Riding through the oppressive night,
Now only the hardest remain.
Look at the scars of the tyre-tracks,
Look to the bodies behind their backs,
Look at the bastards bray
In Afrika today.
The bodies of Biko and Soweto poor,
The Christian message of Dutch Reform,
The sound of the monster, the motor-bike roar,
The hate in the eyes of the uniformed Boer,
The head and the bucket, the boot and the floor...
Racial torture and racial war
In Afrika today.
Come in Rhodesia, South Africa, your time is up...
No protection on a motor-bike, man;
Sooner or later that normal traffic's gonna get you.
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Always we shout to be heard As though our voices could express The sense of sentences deferred And of lessons learned, Of storylines unfolding, O...
Spitting drops of rain flow down And touch my cheek, Intermingling with my tears As I silently weep. Then the fatality of life Presses close and...
Seems the fashion's for one-liners these days, The kind that get up everyone's nose, So much back-slapping that the vertabrae Are fatally exposed.....
I've been hanging around, waiting for my chance To tell you what I think about the music that's gone down To which you madly danced - frankly, you k...
This is not the final call, And this is not a ghostly guide And these are not the words for which we've waited; Still we're glued to the headsets...
Four pails of water and a bagfull of salts. That is all we are, that is all a man comprises, chemicals alone, with no spirit, soul or ghost - noth...
He crawled on hallowed ground without a map; He walks on hollow legs, leaving no footprint; Drifts like a ghost through the quarters of lost desire,...
Why wait for life to happen, When right before our eyes Blind fate unwraps its patterns? I just said "See you soon". My piano was in tune When yo...
Butterflies on the wheel Of a world that turns unyieldingly... Every fragile beating wing Moves the motor of the thing, Oh, Gaia! Butterflies st...
(Gets Tense) The current affair gets to be my business I heard the news on the radio The sun on earth... what is this? Is that the way that the crazy...
In my time I've told a lie of two. I've been a deceiver, but believe me what I now say is true. There's no other way I can express what I'm thinking o...
Schmetterling auf dem Rad Einer Welt, die unaufhaltsam kreist: Jeder zarte Flugelschlag Antriebskraft fur Nacht und Tag, O Gaia! Schmetterling,...
He had worked on this for years Since they know they'd be childless: To hybridise a thornless And deep-scented damask rose. She was always by his...
My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)
Searching for diamonds in the sulphur mine, leaning on props that are rotten, hoping for anything, looking for a sign that I am not forgotten; lost in...
Watch for the silent moment, only waiting to be saved. Wait for the Liemaker: he comes again And sinks his barbs through honesty: Roll him over wit...
Once, all the stars in the sky were bright, Now they're red and fading And all the colours we wore, the shades that we bore Have moved. And the go...
In Germany, his days finally caught him; I won't insult his memory with long-distance grief. Tears and wakes weren't his style: not him, not for Ke...
So if it's just so then where is it now when I find the moment uncertain? Broken water pail - no moon in the water, try to hold it now. So I...
We think we're fireproof, We never think that we'll get burned; We think we're fireproof, We never think, so well get burned; We think we're fireproof...
I lay down beside you: I am a unicorn, you a virginal maid, And I come in laughing play But, maybe, to be saved. Peer through the backcloth: I a...
She wants to be your new pen-pal, Wants to regale you with some confidences. You might consider there'll be consequences to address When all the fe...
She was waxed up to face the camera like butter wouldn't melt In the back room Agencies hammered out a deal: points on the pelt. In the airlessly fr...
In the here and now... Between sensation at the nerve-ends And arrival of information at the cortex Time elapses So, you see, each time we touch We di...
(Bar & Grill) It's a private club, so exclusive that the membership is one, you can walk right in, can be sure your face is always welcome here....
If you catch me running along by the sea, With bare feet in the sand, Then you'll know I am dreaming my life out In a way you won't understand. I'...
At the dead of night, I woke with the sense that my dreams were escaping, all uncannily unspoken like words at the tip of a foreign tongue... As for...
Look out through your dark hair, tell me the colour of your eyes when they're cool; look out through the dark ages and tell me what's covert, transfix...
Here's the lost boy with the brittle smile, Plastered panstick on his face, Making himself up; for a little while All the fragments will remain in...
Between coma and consciousness no hard and fast line, No chance to vote on the motioning eye. A mystical vision or a fall from grace, The chase in...
There are so many questions, there are so many doubts - this is auto suggestion your spirit is giving out. If I offered my reasons would you give me a...
Schlaft nun - ein alter Tag sagt euch Kindern Adieu, Doch schon morgen trinkt ihr vom Schaum der Welt und tut euch weh, Ganz sicherlich. Was fur ei...
Halfway between the zoo and the temple of your Art... but what do you do with this motion of the heart? Who'll be looking for you when it all fal...
Besieged in the battlements of Babylon, Still looking for a hat-peg you can hang your head upon - Now you've found a place you think is Avalon: You...
There's no time for dull regrets No-one underwrites your debts. No satisfaction guaranteed, But this much I believe We make the lives we lead. B...
Beside the pool of clear water, Fed by a secret spring, your lips are sealed, But in your body language Angels sing. I swear on the Bible, Swear...
Consternation out of the box As the conversation runs onto the rocks; In full expectation nothing comes as a shock. It's all plain sailing in the...
Im Weiher silbert das Wasser, Gespeist aus dunklem Grund, du glanzt und schweigst Und Engelsflugel streifen Deinen Mund. Ich schwor' bei der Bibe...
The air is thin, the air is thin, the Top of the World Club’s what we’re in. How thin the air, how thin the air, the Top of the World Club isn’t there...
Mannheim: rainy Saturday with no money nor friend... Only Tequila can end the boredom. Try to reach London for a pocket of hope; We're children, we...
Some call me SATAN others have me GOD Some name me NEMO...I am unborn. Some speak of me in anagrams, Some grieve upon my wrath... The ones who giv...
Time to burn, we could talk all the problems through... Are the promises still unbroken, do the spoken words still ring true ? Oh, and where are you ?...
He could have been so great, he could have had it all, He had it on a plate, but he threw it at the wall. And he can't know why, but he still said "...
Along the tracks the wires are humming In bursts of code like far-off drums. Fathering the message: Further up the line someone's shouting Down th...
I said steady up, settle down, make way for the Idiot Boy. He's here to sell you some kind of a story; Like a stuck-up sore thumb he'll be coming on...
I have a vision of you, locked inside my head; it creeps upon my mind, and warms me in my bed. A vision shimering, shifting moving in false firelight;...
Looking out forward over the prow of our long ship, Pulling our oars and listening to the foam; Helmets and sheepskins salt-damp in the sea-mist: W...
Between the light and the shadow, out of the corner of my eye I saw your feathers all ruffled, anticipating the sky.... You've got no reason to stay...
No thanks for the memory, no thanks at all, No way we can wipe the slate or contrive escape From the names we're called. No thanks for the memory,...
So many years ago, I thought you were the one - Who knows when people change, surrender into strangeness, Adrift upon their lives, encompassed by th...
[Spoken by Hugh Banton:] "Oh, why didn't you say, more Stevie Wonder?" "Sod the music," said the man in the suit, "I understand profit and without...
We bite off our tongues While chewing the fat; Though the fire in our lungs is celestial Our delivery falls flat. Would a time come to be silent?...
Dear Wendy, I still believe the promises We swore upon when we were magic. This came to me as in a dream: My heart was in your hands. Wendy, do yo...
[Chorus] Three endless days of bitter grief passed And Montresor abandoned any attempt to cheer his friend. Then came a sudden change in Usher's De...
I mark the high days and the holidays red-letter on the page; fast-forward into memory, prepare to be upstaged. The envelopes I push against so rapidl...
Time for the unrehearsed entrance, Show a leg you can break, Down the cocktail While it's laughing at you for heaven's sake... I can't be your pro...
All men are born equal at the moment they arrive: Check the limbs and senses we require to survive. But some come deaf and dumb and blinded, Some h...
A figure by the traffic lights, Face washed out in the rain, She's here once more to make her nightly Stand for love and pain. Her story written...
Here's the modern political man, for sure he's nobody's fool, Believes in media coverage as a promotional tool. Trust in him because he's got the ri...
He'll be young forever if he keeps this up... So the bedroom playboy's never going to grow up. The heart is a secret garden To which there are no s...
"It was always going to be like this, whatever you bring yourself To say. Why don't you point that thing the other way and telescope This tangled st...
And when language corrodes All our faculties falter and blur. Nobody knows how our tongues got so swollen and furred. What truths are there left to...
You got some shares, it's a capital venture, You hedge your bets with a gilt-edged bond, You're stretched out tight by the terms of debenture, The...
A pretty pass in the rear-view mirror, It's coming on the overtake... I've got to stop panicking, got to stay cool, Got to learn to live with my mi...
What's it worth to be safe? What's the way to be sane? I can throw myself at the garden On my hands, Prune the lawn and mow the roses, But I neve...
How was it that we first met? I forget, all I know is you Looked happy. We walked around and talked a while; In your smile I found that I Was ha...
Well, it must have been here somewhere, That which the culture highly prized: The list of ancient buildings, The attitude of mind, The wisdom of t...
Money where the mouth is, pennies on the eyes. Yeah, times are hard and you find that you're in trouble But it's hard to sympathize. You talk up qu...
Fuelled by alcohol, Shooting out words like a rocket, Like a prophet out of Babylon Method acting the absurd... Shoot me those highballs Till I'm...
[Usher] Yes, I hear it! Yes, I have heard it Long, long - many minutes, many hours, But I dared not speak: I tell you I dared not speak. No more...
You Can't Want What You Always Get
Give it a bit of hard on the rudder Hot on the heels of foot to the floor; Setting your mind on one thing or the other, Do you still find you're al...
Willie, what can I say to you To hold true in your changing life? You've come into a cruel world; Little girls can lose their way in the growing ni...
Here it comes up on the screen, The propaganda of the military-industrial machine. By now we find there's little choice: When our masters tell us "...
Nothing is like anything else, Everything's the same, Our progress punctuated By a series of coincidence To form a logical chain. Nothing is lik...
I’d see your face on the street often times as I went on my day to day. We were never to meet but a nodding acquaintance had come our way. I never pa...
You've never shown a trace of human frailty, No-one could ever catch you on the hop: Each post-modern take on the action Would find you already, in...
In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted Once a fair and stately palace - Radiant palace - reared its head. In the monarch, Thought'...
[The Voices of the House] Beams buttresses plaster copings We We Corbels bressumers quoins chimney- breath are Joists arches wainscot shafts We ris...
Act 6. She Comes Towards The Door
[Usher / Montresor / Chorus / Voices Of The House] No, what a House Monstrous thought! We Now the punishment breath! Is finished. The evil that Ho...
Foot down in the GTi Cabriolet To the villa in the South of France For vacation; Keep your head down, baby, Keep your hair in golden curls And you wi...
He made a bit of money, that's something you might like to know.... He'll be drinking in the cafe on the corner after the show. He's been so many peo...
When you told me that you loved me I had no reason to doubt it So I went about my life in such a selfish way And never really thought about it. Oh...
This is no time to hesitate, The line slips into overload; The mixture too thick, The touch too close to the motherlode. Time - there's so little...
Far, so far away... Surely you remember Log book pages frayed That fanned the flames of long ago, Guttered in the grate, Shadows in the embers......
There was something in the conversation, Ancient languages were breaking through; I was falling for infatuation - How about you? You say it's not...
You know that she's got something she wants to give; Hard to tell if it's of spirit or the life she lives... Maybe somewhere between the two. Oh, t...
Hair in the gate, let's take a minute To find out where this character's lost his way... Unless I'm much mistaken I'm at the limit Of what I can an...
Turn a card, turn a page, The action sure to start, Second-stage reaction To illogical thoughts on random lines - In a Borges dream we move toward...
I once wrote some poems of stillness and silence, Standing by rivers of reflected light; My thoughts were on being loved and yet unloved, too - I s...
Already there’s no case for special pleading, no points to score, no blow by blow. I look around the room that we’ll be leaving. Even while you’re he...
Trapped like a rabbit by the future glare, onrushing headlights that blind you, a frightened runaway, at least you know I care, I will seek, I will se...
(Here's the old man and his not-so-childlike bride; Here's the humbling of us all, delusion never dies; Here's the story: anyone can fall at any tim...
All the words in the world Wouldn't make you stay this evening; Though I scrabble around for any I can say, So hard to take our leave, So hard to...
Burnt the bridges, burnt the tread; The sodden syllables are turned. You can't take back what you said When you give your word.
I stretch my hands, clutch vacant laughter in silence and sweet, sweet pain; without demand, but with a longing for what will never come again. I sme...
All the tiredness that you've held in waiting, In abeyance, Now comes rushing in. Floods the bloodstream, burrows in the brainstem, Grinds down bo...
With the sense of anticipation burning on his skin And the train of consequences running at full throttle, Before the touch, before the kiss, This...
I can't think of anything I did or was doing, I can't seem to get a hold on what's come to pass, Here with half a mind on something else And half a...
Dance the dance Dance the dance Till show time The show goes on. Dance the dance Dance the dance In slow time If that's what you want. Dance...
You must be crazy to stay here, and I'll be crazy when you go; though there's so much I want to tell you all the words come out too slow. I've bee...
Wrong drink to order. Suspicion grows, Wrong situation... Oh, no-one knows where you've gone to in the pagan night And the neon reflections sprea...
I stand on the tallest building And stare down at the grey runway And the tail-smoke of the Boeing jet That's taking you so far away. Believe me,...
And if language explodes In our faces like shrapnel All self-defence is blown away. In the end this reasoning's sound: How can we be found If we...
There's a shiver down the spine of the body map... How come everything gets so physical? With your finger on the pulse And your head in the clouds...
You can see in the 1st light that's graced as dawn that there's nothing in my heart but pain as I stand, facing sea, knowing that you're gone all t...
You lay your plans, I take them as they come, I understand: we dance to different drums. It's not in any schoolbook, You're here to teach a lesson...
Nobody knows what she sees, no-one can get behind that warped reflection. What glossy varnish strips away protection from young girls like these? No-o...
Pack your bags, we're leaving Earth, where hate is seething, Nothing's worth believing. There's no time, make up your mind! Imperial Zeppelin......
Strange to behold Is the stone of this wall Broken by fate. The strongholds are bursten, The work of giants decaying; The roofs are fallen, The...
Fried up the brain With rhetorical questions Dictionary games And conundrums ear to ear. When we say what we think Do we think what we're saying'...
Always and a day We swore in common vow That tomorrow we would stay The same as now, The same as now. In every future verb We deny our own "Unt...
I saw your picture in the Evening Standard, You were wearing your battle dress. I really must confess That I shed a silent smile for you- It had r...
Silently I rest in the tall green grass And look steadily upwards. Birds sing ceaselessly around me, And the blue of the sky surrounds me strangely...
'll met, ill starred, the sweat, the scars, The back seat of the car, caught up in the sex, The ties that bind, his thoughts, her mind, Why something...
I promise you, I won't leave a clue: no tell-tale remark, no print from my shoe. Still a steady trail to the water's edge - I will keep my pledge t...
Something About Ysabel's Dance
In the new hotel, on Fiesta Night, the staff are bored; Donna Ysabel dances zombie-like, the guests applaud... The color is local, the tourists are...
Wash your hands clean, don’t let anybody see the dirty work. Keep those secrets locked away from sight forever, hidden safely where your darker side s...
Sweetheart, I want to hold back nothing, Sweetheart, I want to give my all. Roll on the feminine side, The lion lies down with the lamb. Beneath...
It was simple, we were man and wife; something happened to change everything in life and made us fell small but we were giants nonetheless and here we...
Oh, brighter than a thousand suns, The march towards the stars On the wheel, on the car, Off the plane, off the planet And on in the search. Yes,...
Somebody Bad Enough I keep your picture in the back of the book as index to my hidden pages; a secret life is where we meet and I'll not let you go....
Sleep now: Another day in your young lives is done, Go to sleep now. Tomorrow brave new worlds will surely come, And trouble deep; You're such a...
The jokes are everywhere, The secret deal's complete - Money talks, some good advice, The politicians run like clockwork mice, All fits the master...
I'm (so stupid) Along this pilgrim's accidental progress I'd bump into the walls as like as not: It's no surprise I didn't notice when I lost the plo...
Always we're too young to understand that life is neither cruel nor fair, at random or well-planned. So we stride along the shoreline while our fo...
To the city beat on a treacherous curve, Up upon the high wire you're observed - You live as you live, you'll get what you deserve: High life, dig...
We can talk about it in the car; We can talk about it with the drive. Keep your eyes on the road up ahead, Don't forget what we said about staying...
And every time you call me I wait to hear what favour you require of me this time... The object of your own desire, Not everything's about you, I'...
Follow the instructions, The envelope is sealed: We're waiting on an update, Something like the reinvention of the wheel. Who made the world so co...
Here's a sensation I wouldn't trade - Pinpoint in the onrush, Dancing to the rhythm of the wiper blades. Up ahead on the autobahn Headlights like...
Let's begin at the top: There's no reason to think that this will ever stop, So let's go back and start again; In this finite uncertainty we'll cir...
Words upon words Stack the tower of Babel Brick on brick on straw on clay But a whispering stirs And the structure's unstable When all the scaffo...
The way this narrative's unfolding I've got in way above my head, Sense I'm about to be held to account for Some things I never did, some words I n...
Once spoken, Words perfume the air Like woodsmoke, like a breath of self that's no longer there. Such confidence, Such half-baked truth... The so...
Summer song in the autumn, For you didn't catch the colour of the falling leaves. So many words have been spoken Which you didn't understand and so...
The youth are voting with their feet, Such a shame that the dance-beat gets so complicated. Pretty, pretty it seems... On second glance, the look i...
Wir fahren - was konnte schoner sein - Lichtpunkt in der Brandung. Scheibenwischerrhythmus ladt zum Tanzen ein, Lichterketten der Autobahn, Lavahe...
So here we are, alone - Our children have grown up and moved away. Living their own lives, they say... It all seems very strange to me. I don't u...
This is more than merely wrong, as sin on sin's grotesquely piled. Don't look so surprised when you find yourself reviled. Don't look to me for comfor...
Drawing back the curtains, Sluggish city daylight in the afternoon... Here's that special silence, Just before you walk out of the hotel room. Eac...
Oh, suddenly things begin to come clear in my mind As I look into the land laid bare by your eyes; E-S/M attractions are working behind my thought,...
You don't remember all the things I've done; you never catch the careful words I choose; your present will not admit my patient efforts... it's a labo...
Stranger still in another town, How normal to sit out the dance, Eating the good meal by myself, Toasting the empty glass; And they're already set...
Been alone so long that I've forgotten what it's like to feel somebody next to me and hear her breathing peacefully when I wake up at night. Bee...
Lob der Masse, Triumph der Kasse, Alles schlingt im Trog den Einheitsbrei. Die Regale entblossen Hardware Mit dem letzten luxuriosen Schrei. Die D...
And when you feel you can't go on what kind of laurels do you look to? Sometimes we get what we want, sometimes we take a good hook too. Once you thou...
When I was a child they made me read Word-daggers of quiver and squirm; Now in the stumbling dark I see I am a worm, silently fruiting your garden,...
When you're fingered by self-doubt, my dear, No-one is innocent or guilty. Chained, your reaction when you're on the spot: The flower of faith is w...
There you are, in the air, you start at the stillness and the motion. Where you are, are you scared and far from the source of the secret seam? T...
Oh, spit it out, there's no way we'll see eye to eye - My simple truth is your warped confusion; As off different planets we spin eccentric jive....
You're helpless, entranced by the magical Touch of her skin against yours, adrift - What else is there but this? It feels so sweet To fall asleep...
When I began I was full of altruistic dreams, believed in princes and princesses, kings and queens - now I find they're all human inside, all bitterne...
Nothing I can say, but this much I can do: if you want I'll stay and be with you. Just let the tears flood down and, yes, I can offer you tenderness....
Like a shot from the barrel of a smoking gun he's not, Still he aims for adoration. On the spot where the kettle has been called black by the pot H...
Here's the edge, This is the moment When all the fear floods in apace. Time to clear my head, My demeanour emboldened, Of trepidation betray no t...
I've got something to say, And it ain't the usual sort of sob-story That you hear every day. I've got something to ask, And I know that now's the...
The visitors find the children gone from school: Aged relatives sling their guns across the desks... There'll be no break-time for them unless They...