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Back
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Modern European
04:21
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Efficiency, efficiency they say
And if it all goes wrong, please look the other way
Under circled stars, circled stars
We shelter in the night
But when the morning comes
You’re alone in the cold harsh light
Deficiencies, deficiencies they say
You’ve had your fun but there comes a time to pay
In a rack rate town, rack rate town
They’ve shuttered half the street
The price of progress
Is your shuddering defeat
Hey ho
You’ve been quiet too long
On the surface it might seem quite unfair
But it's in your best interests I swear
Be a good modern European
I know at times this might seem quite complex
Please don't concern yourself, now sign this cheque
Be a good modern European
There are wheels within wheels....
We urge you to accept this deal
Hey ho
You’ve been quiet too long
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No Fun
04:28
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Die Stille
01:47
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I will come and find you
Oh yes
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Multikulti
04:06
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Wir
Atmen die gleiche
luft wie sie. Verstehen sie?
In den gleichen Meeren
Ertrinken wie die Tiere
Life jackets float like flowers
Endless circles in the sea
Oh those frozen lonely hours
Endless circles in the sea
Wie Blumen
Garlands of cardigans
Saturate and fade
In those far lands we’d start again
Now it’s too late
Life jackets float like flowers
Endless circles in the sea
Oh those frozen lonely hours
Endless circles in the sea
Wie Blumen
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Trans-Europa
04:28
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Von Carlow nach Kharkiv
Von Tromso nach Faro
Roads will lead you back
Trans-Europa
Ten thousand miles of track
Trans-Europa
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Dying Days
03:51
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Bad dreams became worlds and then
We were born in dying days
And as the pillage comes right for you
They’re going to see it through, going to see it through
And to the rhythm of a stamping boot
They’re going to beat on you til they see it through
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Sitka
04:52
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A forest clearcut
Like a military buzzcut
The Sitka stubble and
The tire track rash
The cold mud congeals
Around static truck wheels
The woodland industrial
They cut at the bodies
And they lay them flat
Ripping the roots
Through a forest floor gash
Tear through the sinew
Of a land laid bare
Tell it what it owes you
As you drag it by the hair
The scene reveals
A black hole of bad deals
The woodland industrial
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Like Flowers
01:40
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International Waters
04:31
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3am in Baltimore
Moonlight guides the boats to shore
Voices fill the night air
It’s called a naval exercise
In the language of their lies
The sharks have left their lair
Please don’t me sleep
I can’t face my dreams
Torpedoed from the deep
That sweet complacency
Roof of St Matthew’s is ablaze
The Spar and deli almost razed
Spirits break with the dawn
As blood pools by the sailing school
The acrid stench of burning fuel
The western dream is gone
Please don’t me sleep
I can’t face my dreams
Torpedoed from the deep
That sweet complacency
Submarines in the black Atlantic
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Gone
01:38
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And we're changing
In the amber glow
Dust-clogged sunlight
Through the cracked window
They could hear it
Two hundred miles away
In quiet cornfields
Towards the end of day
Sublimated for the greater good
Bonds are breaking
In those frozen woods
In the rapture in this empty space
We ascended from this earthly place
Were we brave sir?
Did they stir your soul, our endeavours?
May I be so bold?
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No Fun
04:28
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On a roadside in Cologne
With no bars on your phone
The rain the rain the rain the rain
Will soak you to the bone
It’s the first time you left home
You really feel like you’re alone
The mournful roar of engines through
Those streets you’ll never own
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The Holy Roman Army Kilkenny, Ireland
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