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Turn Me On
04:22
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I felt glad to get out
It's been a while since I came around
To get blown by some sound
Meet friends and let it all hang out
I didn't mind to stand in line
I still am a pregame mastermind
As I get in, they kill the lights
I never mind a show to start on time
The shake of hips is nice to see
The lights, the strobes, the symmetries
But what the hell do they mean?
And why does everyone look so bored to me?
Where is the love?
Where is the dirt?
Where is the mystery?
I wanna feel, I want something real
I want to feel that I'm alive
If I get lost, It's alright
I came to leave it all behind
Oh, I know it's been
Such a long, long time ago
We were crazy enough
To easily let go
Now everybody raise your phone
I might as well be here alone
Ah c'mon, c'mon
Please don't get me wrong
I'm sure this is cool
It just doesn't turn me on
When we went out
When we were young
We did not think too much
We got high
We had fun
Fair to say we didn't give a fuck
And why not?
When it's a ride
A million ways to spend the night
When the moon shines so bright
In the enormous sky
Oh, I know it's been
Such a long, long time ago
Nothing feels like it used to no more
Every club plays the same dumb beat
That does nothing to set me free
Ah c'mon, c'mon
Please don't get me wrong
I'm sure this is cool
It just doesn't turn me on
Ah c'mon, c'mon
This just doesn’t turn me on
Ah c'mon
Set me free
C'mon
Turn me on…
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2. |
You & I
04:17
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You and I
We have always been on fire
You and I we know
Nothing is safe
And nothing stays the same
It’s alright
You and I we know
There’s nothing that I could say
That’s gonna change your mind anyway
So why don’t we just safe that bit
And get it over with
You can have it your way
I don’t mind the blame
Whichever way you wanna to look at it
Pain is always pain
You and I
We have been together
All this time
No one knows it better than you and I
We have always been
On fire
You and I
We know
There’s nothing that you could say
That’s gonna change my mind anyway
So why don’t we just safe that bit
And get it over with
You can have it your way
I don’t mind the blame
Whichever way you wanna to look at it
Pain is always pain
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3. |
Cabin
04:25
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I wanna live out in the country
I’ll build a cabin in the woods
Deer and foxes will be my neighbors
I’m gonna grow my own food
Shut off my phone, neglect taxes
Just sit back and relax and
When it gets dark I’ll build a fire
And smoke a smoke that takes me higher
Yeah maybe it’s just that I’m getting old
But this city makes me feel so alone
I’m gonna pack my things and go
Escape this mass of stones and drunken neon lights
Restless fears and endless fights
There’ll be wild animals I’ll get to know
I’ll learn the way they come and go
I’ll have mushrooms and tomatoes
I’ll bake bread and grow potatoes
Once in a while I’ll hike down to the village
To get supplies from the local store
A nice old lady behind the counter
Will tell me stories from the days of yore
Yeah maybe it’s just that I’m getting old
But this city makes me feel so alone
I’m gonna pack my things and go
Escape this mass of stones and drunken neon lights
Restless fears and endless fights
I will watch my children play
Like I used to when I was a boy
Birds and trees will be their friends
Twigs and stones will be their toys
Our life’s song will be sung
Among golden showers of the setting sun
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4. |
A Ride
03:58
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She is so drunk
High as a kite
The room keeps slipping away
like it skates on ice
She's got a hiccup
She's shaking
She might need the bathroom
But doubts she can make it there
If only he
Would stop talking
Could someone please pick him up
And put him back
She needs a drink
To come around
This is her favorite song
They should play it loud
When it's a ride
You got to ride it
If it makes you high
There is no use to fight it
Oh, yeah
There is a shiver
Slowly going down her spine
When it's a ride
You got to ride it
Such a secular eclipse
Such sophisticated fits
Who in his right mind would ever want to fall for this?
What a freak show
She should cry
But is now part ambition and part Lucy in the Sky
Cause It's always all
It's never, never
She knows she's better at things than at being clever
Forget the truth
Forget the known
Get ready to seek out the ghost that has never shown
When it's a ride
You got to ride it
If it makes you high
There is no use to fight it
Oh, yeah
See that crocodile
Slowly crawling up your driveway
When it's a ride
Man,
You got to ride it
When it's a ride
You got to ride it...
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5. |
Calling
03:52
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Like the birds sing their song to the morning
I'm calling
Calling you to come back to me
See the clouds gather storm
From the mountains
They are calling
Calling you to come back to me
All the seas, all the rivers and fountains
Are calling
They are calling you to come back to me
Cause you've been gone for so long little darling
I'm calling
Calling you to come back to me
Oh, my love
Before you I knew you
Life was just a game to me
Nothing ever mattered much
Now I'm a fool for your love
And I always starve
Cause I always hunger for your touch
All the snowflakes that winter has falling
They are calling
Calling you to come back to me
Backyard dogs
That are barking and snarling
They are calling
Calling you to come back to me
Like suitors calls you keep stalling
They are calling
Calling you to come back to me
You've been gone for so long little darling
I'm calling
Calling you to come back to me
Oh, I know the world is growing cold
But I cannot speak
And I cannot give this stone in to bloom
Until I hear you sing again
Sing the sweetest notes
Ever heard by man
Here I am
I’m calling out
Across the scattered land
Can you hear me now?
It's for you that I send
From the rooftops of empires falling
I'm calling
Calling you to come back to me
In the dark by the neon lights yawning
I'm calling
Calling you to come back to me
Like a dream that appears without warning
I'm calling
Calling you to come back to me
Cause you've been gone for so long little darling
I'm calling
Calling you to come back to me
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6. |
Camouflage
06:06
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This is where we're coming from
This is what we've been raised on
This is our firm belief
Nothing really matters now
Nothing to get scared about
Out and in and in and out
It’s just one small step and then there’ll be no going back
Here is where we draw the line
This is yours and that is mine
This is how we camouflage
Everybody raise the flag
Show all where the times are at
Tattooed head to tattooed head
Do what hat you cannot do, do what you cannot do without
Brother don't look back, sister, don't shoot your mouth off just now
When morning comes, we cross the plain
One by one, we are all the same
When morning comes, are we the ones or are we gone?
And who by fire?
Who by a swift sleight of hand, who by the white blinding light?
Do you really think we care?
Did mother courage cut your hair?
Right to left, now left do right
None of this will win your fight
Cause everything is shopping mall
Everybody is bright and tall
Everything purchasable
Mother, close the door, Father, kill the lights
There's death on a pale horse, riding through the dark of night
When morning comes, across the plain
One by one, we are all the same
When morning comes, are we the ones or are we gone?
And who by fire?
Who by the great masterplan?
And who by the flapping wing of a butterfly?
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7. |
Part Of The New Age
03:34
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I was sitting in a parking lot
It felt like the perfect spot
To look for my heart
And gather my thoughts
She said she gave it all up for me
All her friends that were like family
She gave them all up
And what has she got?
I watched people passing in the street
An endless shuffle of a thousand feet
Where do they all go
What do they all seek?
Oh, I know there're things
That she's never shown to me
I guess I must have been too naive
To ask what it was she meant
When she told me that she wanted to be
A part
Of the new age
Of the new day coming
Aha
Make a start
Find a new way
Find a new life's longing
For us
I asked somebody for a cigarette
And saw myself in the gaze I met
What did I expect?
I was a wreck
She says she sees someone from the past
And that everything has gone so fast
She never knew
Why I never asked
I tried listening to the radio
But all they ever play is just so so
I thought I smelled snow
Oh-oh
There is a couple stowing a wet dog
Into the back of a car that looks like a chopping block
The sky is as grey as any other day
And I,
I wonder if she’s found a way
To be a part
Of the new age
Of the new day coming
Aha
Made a start
Found a new way
Found a new life's longing
For us
Or maybe not
Maybe not..
Well maybe not..
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8. |
Don't Give Up On Me Now
04:22
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I,
I want to apologize
I wanna say
How sorry I am
Oh, I know I have done
All I said I would never do
I’ve treated you wrong
I feel like a fool
If I could turn back time
All of it could be undone
I would do everything
I would do everything
Love, don't give up on me now
I sure will find a way
There'll soon be better days
I'll get us through this somehow
I promise I can change
Nothing will be the same
Don't cry
Baby don’t cry,
Now baby don’t cry
I'll try
I will try
I will try…
When I look back at it now
I really can’t explain
Cause I don't understand
I don't understand
I must have been someone else
I sure was not myself
I'm not like that
I'm not like that
Love, don't give up on me now
I sure will find a way
There'll soon be better days
I'll get us through this somehow
I promise I can change
Nothing will be the same
Don't cry
Baby don’t cry,
Now baby don’t cry
I'll try
I will try
I will try…
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9. |
The World At Her Feet
05:46
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She comes on stage, the band kicks in
A flashing wall of sound and light explodes
A sea of hands is reaching out
Fans faint in anticipation of the show
She sings: I believe in love and love is everything that I need
She feels the rapture of the crowd
The mass of bodies moving with the beat
Here she belongs
In the songs
That she sings on and on
To the world at her feet
She is loved by everyone
When the final curtain falls
She is rushed through bleak hallways to the back
In a black chauffeured limousine
She sees nameless cities pass through tinted glass
She’s been high and she’s been low
She was always on the go without regret
She could never understand
How anyone could ever want to go back
Cause here she belongs
In the songs
That she sings on and on
To the world at her feet
She is loved by everyone
She meets
There is no one
She needs
She is loved by everyone
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I sing this song to apologize
Dear future generations to come
Cause we have thoroughly fucked up our duty
To keep an eye on the dumb
Instead we let them have the power
We were too pretentious to take
Now it looks like it’s too late to keep them
From bombing us into a dark age
And it’s like waiting in poor weather for a change of luck
Just a ray of light on your face
Who is to blame
When it starts raining again?
Do you remember how we used to party this place?
That’s now another sad plastic food chain
I feel strange
Among the change these days
Say do you sometimes feel like the last one
Left to give a fuck
Cause you're still holding on to ideals
That the rest of the world long gave up?
Everybody is taking on jobs now
That once we loudly despised
Paying our due to the cost
Of a 2.4 Kids family life
Just like waiting in poor weather for a change of luck
A ray of light on your face
Who is to blame
When it starts raining again?
Do you remember how we used to party this place?
That’s now another sad plastic food chain
Do you feel strange
Among the change these days?
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BROKOF Berlin, Germany
BROKOF is an alternative folk rock band based in Berlin, Germany.
They released five albums since 2010 as well as a collaboration with american Singer Random Willson.
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