LAST ARGUMENT (2014)
1. Three Beats
One Beat, I’m safe it’s warm and dark. /
Two Beats, there’s a gleaming, sprinkling spark. /
Now I m here and the life is waiting for me, /
Breaking the crust like the seed of a tree /
I feel the time between my fingers, (it’s running, running) /
I Know my life will end (it’s stunning, stunning)! /
Carpe Diem seize the day, (you can’t go back) /
Before Death is coming to break my neck! /
One Beat, it’s youth your powerful, unleashed /
Two beats, a girl an altar and a priest. /
My feet on the ground a coin in my account, /
Moving on, on a one way road I’m bound /
I feel the time between my fingers, (running, running) /
I Know my life will end (it’s stunning, stunning)! /
Carpe Diem seize the day, (you can’t go back) /
Before Death is coming to break my neck! /
The End is coming – “I’m not dead yet!” /
Your life will end – “there’s something after it I bet!” /
“I’m young and strong” – (but) your weakness will thrive! /
“And what’s about an afterlife!” /
One beat, the beginning, the origin, the start. /
Two beats - split second, I’m old and retired. /
Three beats, but how many beats will there be? /
What's my rhythm/It’s my decision, the answer lies in me! /
I feel the time between my fingers, (I can hold it a bit) /
I know my life will end, (but I will fight it!) /
Carpe Diem, seize the day, even if it means stress /
And when the death is coming I know my life was a success.
2. Architects (At Their Best)
Tonight I have to tear this city down, /
That we’ve built from our thoughts /
in our dreams. /
We did a great job. Architects at their best /
Your constructions are outliving mine. /
So it seems /
You’re crawling so desperately I’m falling again /
Often I have seen you so, I’m used to admitting /
It feels as if it is my city that is falling in /
It feels as if it is my city that is falling-----------in /
We are blamed for every accident /
Broken legs, broken hearts /
Blatantly /
Tonight I blame you and you blame me /
Architects always bear /
Responsibility /
You’re crawling so desperately I’m falling again /
Often I have seen you so, I’m used to admitting /
It feels as if it is my city that is falling in /
It feels as if it is my city that is falling-----------in /
I have to forgive and forget this time /
We’re at a turning point and I can’t cross the line /
You’re crawling so desperately I’m falling again /
Often I have seen you so, I’m used to admitting /
It feels as if it is my city that is falling in /
It feels as if it is my city that is falling-----------in
3. Under Our Illusion
Breath the air we give you /
Your lungs nearly collapse cause of toxic emissions /
So used to it you hardly feel your lung-irritation /
Eat the bread we sell you /
The golden ears became gray a long time ago /
crammed down they keep the grumbling low /
See the fire on the screen we let you feel warm /
There's deviousness in our words your soul will be torn /
You've to toil and obey that's why you're born /
This illusion we sell you and it all feels like home /
Drink the water we donate /
A refreshment with gray-water won't last long /
though you feel good all taste buds are gone /
Believe what we show you /
Your free will enchained by broadcasts of our television /
Watch the life on the screen, feel alive with our permission /
See the fire on the screen we let you feel warm /
There's deviousness in our words your soul will be torn /
You have to toil and obey that's why you're born /
This illusion we sell you and it all feels like home /
Don't wake up! Don't wake up /
We don't discern friend and foe /
We just lead you follow /
Walk along on the embers of a great blaze that burned down your home /
Live on under the illusion of a great life though lush meadows are gone /
We lead, you follow. /
See the fire on the screen we let you feel warm /
There's deviousness in our words your soul will be torn /
You have to toil and obey that's why you're born /
This illusion we sell you and it all feels like home /
Let's lead, not follow.
„Lautsprecher verstärken zwar nicht unsere Argumente, aber machen diese weithin hörbar!“
-Last Argument, 2014