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Hypnotic
05:30
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Stay right where you are
Try to cover up your scars
Secrets just to keep and to conceal
Do your utmost for them not to reveal
Keep your body calm and lose
No unpredicted moves
They keep you in a strong hypnotic haze
You try to flee and break out of your cage
Where all words lack to describe
How much it hurts to seek and hide
Keep your mind under control
Like a fish inside a bowl
You’re a brainwashed mental maze
A spinning wheel with no escape
And everything will stay the same
Until you gain control again
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Paper House
03:41
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I’m on a ride, a carousel of doubt
Spin me around but I won’t black out
Your memories forever magnetized
Erase all tapes before you press rewind
Light up a match and try to set aflame
This paper house that I’m trapped inside
That I’m trapped inside
You’re floating in a stream without an end
The ground under your feet got swept away
We roll the dice to see what we receive
A game of life that I cannot conceive
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Plastic Smile
03:56
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A weightless travel through the sea
Has me gasping for fresh air
Deep water surrounding me
Dark blue everywhere
Luminous from outer space
Daze inside a conscious mind
Shuffled pieces puzzled brains
Somehow falling into place
But when I see the plastic smile
Constrained upon your face
My mind begins to realize
Everything can be replaced
Indications of a broken sky
Casting shadows on the earth
Mother nature’s lullaby
Causing death and giving birth
Nothing has significance
Life without a reason and a rhyme
Even I can be replaced
A fear that’s growing in my mind
But when I see the plastic smile
Constrained upon your face
My mind begins to realize
Everything can be replaced
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Fine Line
04:41
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It’s a fine line that keeps us apart
An echoing rain sustains in my heart
It’s a fine line between love and hate
You better decide before they close the gate
You better watch out before it’s too late
It’s a blind eye that’s looking at you
Watching the sun eclipsed by the moon
It’s a short time between night and day
The burden of life that can’t be taken away
The burden of life that can’t be taken away
No matter how hard I may try
No matter how I ignore what I cant deny
These are high hopes to simply put aside
Waiting for both of our worlds to collide
But how should I even know where I belong
When everywhere I go seems wrong
When everywhere I go seems wrong
No matter how far I may run
No matter which path I’m walking on
No matter how loud I may shout
No matter how loud I scream
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Memories Of Tomorrow
04:20
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Comply your task, no questions asked
Who’ll turn your screw, I wonder?
Follow in line, stay nice and kind
Who wears a mask, I wonder?
Gently laying my head against your chest
Do you mind if I stay and rest?
True leadership, obey to it
Who do you love, I wonder?
When we all fade away into dust
Is there somebody else that will judge?
When I fade away, when I fade away
Obedience throughout the land
Who takes an end, I wonder?
Memories of tomorrow can predict the past
Memories of tomorrow can predict the past
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Wrong Side
03:32
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I’m living in the wrong place
Sitting at the wrong side
Can someone get me out of here one day?
I’m thinking with the wrong mind
Belonging to the wrong kind
Don’t even know what this is right here
And you may ask yourself How did I get here?
How did I get here?
What have I become?
I’m staring at the wrong face
Looking in the wrong eye
But should I even care for it, at all?
I’m counting up my last days
Spelling out my last words
Couldn’t even tell if I’m awake
And you may ask yourself
How did I get here?
How did I get here?
What have I become?
And you may ask yourself
And you may ask yourself
How did I get here?
How did I get here?
What have I become?
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Machine Dance
04:22
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Little too fast and little too slow You’re gonna run, run, run and never overtake Overtake
Little too late or little too soon
I’m gonna wait, wait, wait for you to reappear
reappear
No one here and no one there
You’re gonna shout, shout, shout your voice is overheard
Overheard
Sense the numbness of your mind
You never act because you always overthink
Overthink
You build a boat for me to swim
And watch me float away
And though I try so eagerly
I can’t come back to se us dancing like machines
Little too fast and little too slow You’re gonna run, run, run and never overtake Overtake
Tie me up and cut me loose
You keep on reckoning the feelings in your head
In your head
You build a boat for me to swim
And watch me float away
And though I try so eagerly
I can’t come back to se us dancing like machines
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Know
04:03
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I could be here
I could be somewhere
I could be anywhere I ever want to be
It could be near
It could be distant
Take you imprisoned right before it sets you free
And all that I can’t get my head around
I want to know the truth about it now
So much that I want to ask about
And oh so much to say I don’t know how
I could you
You could be me
Or you could be the one you always whished to be
It could be real
Or only in my mind
It could be in your grasp don’t let it slip away
And all that I can’t get my head around
I want to know the truth about it now
So much that I want to ask about
And oh so much to say I don’t know how
And I know it’s all around
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Until
04:35
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I won’t leave until you’re gone
Tell me what was going wrong
Can’t we travel back in time
Until we realign?
We had it all and asked for more
Unsure what we were looking for
How could I be so naive to believe
This would be easier on me
But we tossed it in the trash, the last of the remains
In the corner of my head I think I should've stayed
Who do you think that you are? You don't know anymore
And i wonder late at night, will I stay awake
Until you've passed out of my mind?
I won’t leave until you’re gone
Every crack’s an open door
As long as I think that it might
I will try to sneak inside
It's not a test, all that I see
Is really happening to me
I want to hide and close my eyes
Just escape into the night
Why'd we toss it in the trash, the last of the remains?
In the corner of my head I wish I could've stayed
Who do you think that I am? I don't know anymore
And i wonder late at night, what keeps me awake
Until you've passed out of my mind
I won't leave until you're gone
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Craving
03:27
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Never thought, never thought that I’d be going through
All the things, all the things that you made me do
Never knew, never knew my mind would fuck with me
The labyrinth in my head is a dead-end street
They told me sleep about it, try not to weep about it
But I only dream about it, can’t get my head around it
All along, all along I was weak inside
I did not realize what was on your mind
But the map to this maze lies inside your words
And I know now I know they were overheard
They told me sleep about it, try not to weep about it
But I only dream about it, know every bit about it
I thought that it was over
I thought that we were through
My body is growing older
And I’m craving for you
Don’t tell me that it’s over
Don’t tell me that we’re through
My body is growing older
And I’m craving for you
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11. |
Tin Man
08:44
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Rusted solid from the rain
Lips and limbs don’t move
No emotion and no pain
No sign he could improve
He feels like only half a man
And missing out on all the rest
His body is an empty can
No heart beats in his chest
If I could only be like him
No pain I long to sense
But sadly I’m not made of tin
And heavy weighs my head
I cannot carry all this weight
On my lonesome way to Oz
Don’t want to feel no love, no hate
Or anything at all
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Frogcodile Wuppertal, Germany
FROGCODILE can easily cast a melancholic and hypnotic spell over the listener or put him into a feeling of joyful ecstasy
right in the next moment.
Desperately seeking for sense and drenched with an inquiring loneliness the introverted lyrics flow through echoing guitars und buzzing synthesizers. A dark and yet colorful soundscape, that escapes from habitual song structures time and time again.
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