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Alphaville
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
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 1. The paradigm shift
 Let's dance,  stop the fight
 We do the paradigm shift tonight
 Yeah, it's a natural  drift, alright
  Em4+/7M
 And it's coming up out of the blur
 Out of your mind from deep below
 The hidden harmonies discover
 Chaos - which means ORDER
 In the solution in the spiritual way
 For quietness is stronger than motion
 And silence is stronger than sound
 We're listening to the tone which is not played
 Nothing is what we want
 Quietness is stronger than motion
 Silence is stronger than sound
 Nothing is what we get
 But the holistic movement
 Yes, that is the way
 Do you hear the river flow
 Do you hear it ???....... YES.
 You talked yourself into wrong questions
 You don't care about the answers
 You let the others be the good ones
 You're part of the death bringing system
 There's no place where you can hide
 Stop ! chasing the wrong ghosts of time
 I'm running out of time
 TIME KILLS
 You're lowering hopes much too much
 Getting into the grind much too much
 And losing faith in your abilities
 The loyalty to you beloved system of belief must surrender
 To chaos which means ORDER
 Evolutions not a model of yours
 FOR QUIETNESS IS STRONGER THAN MOTION
 DO YOU HEAR IT ???
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)
 2. Fools
 We waste our time  with big illusions
 Talking to the  walls
 But Jericho will never fall
 We sold our trumpets long ago
 Exchanging all the best we had
 Into atomic master plans
 We read the books, we had our chance
 We spend the world for just one dance
 So keep on dancing - all you FOOLS
 The cups of fury have been filled
 So keep on dancing all you clowns
 Let's have a sip before we're killed
 So keep on dancing
 So keep on dancing !
 These politicians make me sigh
 Democracy is just a lie
 As long as we are rich enough
 Each government will do for us
 We feed like vampires on the world
 We are the first they are the third
 There's no hope we had our chance
 We spend the world for one last dance
 So keep on dancing - all you FOOLS
 The time to reap has finally come
 So keep on dancing - all you clowns
 We had our chance let's have some fun.
 7 seals 7 trumpets 7 cups 7 plaques
 7 angels, the scarlet beast
 Mother of Marlots
 Faithful and TRUE
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)
 3. Beethoven
 There's a tremor in the city
 But it looks all quiet
 There is something awfull brewing
 But there ain't no fights
 Beethoven
 You can read between the lines
 That there must be more
 You're alarmed but you don't know
 What you're waiting for
 Beethoven  the boots are back in town
 When ignorance and fear
 Are closing mouths and ears
 The skins are on their way
 When it gets dark in Europe
 It's just a state of mind
 The blind leading the blind
 There's a scrawling on a tombstone
 Judenschweine raus
 Once again a racial fury
 Is burning down the house
 Beethoven
 There's a bleeding yellow man
 Lying in the street
 But there isn't anybody
 Doing anything
 Beethoven the boots are back in town
 (S.F. Prayer)
 And one grey day shall rise the flood
 No dikes will stem the heavy tides
 When cold pierced heavy bodies scream
 They fall as if the monstrous scythe of clouds
 Had smashed them from the skies
 The scattered squadron of mankind
 Stabs right into the churned up ether
 Of long forgotten birdless flights
 Beethoven the boots are back in town
 Beethoven the boots are back in town
 The demons of the past
 Will be replaced at last
 There are smarter ones to stay
 How can you stay away
 >From the order of disgrace
 How can you close your eyes
 Beethoven
 The boots are back... The boots are back... The boots are back
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)
 4. Ascension day
These  are the days of Evil perfection
 This is the world of torture and fame
 This is the age of most vicious infection
 These are the times of terror and pain
 Let them inside and they build you a nightmare
 Show them, you fool, it'll not be in vain
 Here is your costume of deepest surrender
 These are the times of terror and pain
 I wanna ride on the crest of sensation
 I wanna scream in the whirlpools of love
 I wanna drown in a climax of thunder
 I wanna be with the fools in the storm
 Do what you want and then die when you want to
 We're gonna walk on the blood of the MEEK
 We're gonna sail through the oceans of wonder
 We're gonna live in the DREAMS that we seek
 Send in the parasite clowns on their horses
 Send in the idiots and let them advance
 Send in the monsters of your own creation
 Send them all in and give them a chance
 We're gonna dance to the sweetest of music
 We're gonna play with the whores in the rain
 We'll dissipate the Lord's last temptations
 All in the cross fire of torture and fame
 I wanna ride on the crest of sensation
 We're gonna live.......
 In the dreams that we seek
 We're gonna live in the dreams that we seek
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)
 5. The impossible dream
 . . . . . . . .
 Sometimes it seems  so strange
 The way I feel  for you
 It makes my life  so quiet and free
 And when you smile  at me
 It's just that special  love
 That kind of liberty  I never  felt before
 And I don't need  to be a poet
 I don't need  to be  a HERO
 When all I need  to do  is keep  on loving you
 I just have  to be me  and I don't need  to be
 The stranger  anymore  I used to be
 In my impossible dream
 I keep my fingers crossed
 I never want to lose
 This new found world that's so alive
 Angel
 I'm so in love with you
 My heart has circled in the past
 The demons of deceit but now aside I've cast
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Sooter - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)
 6. Parade
 (Only this song put me in great difficulties, because the chords are really
 special and moreover they are played by piano. Yet here is what I found.)
 The crowd  is looking drowned
  /2
 And a mother in tears
 There are flip  flapping flags  in the silence
 And a national anthem's a blues  in these days
 Flag him down,  rest in peace
 What peace do you mean
 When the boys are coming back ?
 He's live on T.V.
 He's dead as a hero can be
 But.... he didn't die for nothing my dear
 The video of his death is travelling the world
 Flag him down, rest in peace
 What peace do you mean
 When the boys are coming back ?
 The boys  are coming back
 When the boys are coming back
 IN COFFINS
 Way back in the crowd
 A girl says goodbye to a boy
 To a boy who's parading to heaven
 And she puts all the blame on the government
 Flag him down, rest in peace
 What peace do you mean
 When the boys are coming back ?
 When the boys are parading to heaven my friend
 Put all the blame on you
 On you.....
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)
 7. Ain't it strange
 Ain't it strange  that we destroy what we embrace
 And we leave what we seek
 It's such a shame
 Ain't it strange that we smile when we cry
 And no one knows why we are here
 And where we're going to
 Ain't it strange
 We could be, we could be so good together
 We could be, we could be so good together
 Ain't it strange that we share what we hate
 That we break what we love
 It's such a shame
 Ain't it strange when we pray we betray anyway
 And no one knows what we are for
 Why we're so tough why must hurt
 When we're so fragile
 Ain't it strange
 We could be, we could be so good together
 We could be, we could be so good together
 Ain't it strange still we could fall into a dream
 I'd wish no one will catch that fall for we could fall for love
 Life is but a dream, life is but a dream
 All the tears in the world not in vain for the pain is gone
 The shame is washed away when we're all one
 Life is but a dream, life is but a dream
 It's hard to believe after thousand of years
 The world's still drowning in blood and tears
 We've been quite advanced but again we fail
 It's dog eat dog on the rat rave trail
 It's getting too much and we're getting nowhere
 While hatred and fear is all that we share
 I can't take it no more when I'm watching the news
 We must stick together or we're bound to lose
 Now listen to this........
 We could be, we could be so good together
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)
 8. All in the golden afternoon
 All in  the golden afternoon full leisurely  we glide
 For both  our oars, with little skill, by little  arms are plied
 While little hands make vain pretence our wanderings to guide
 Our wanderings to guide
 Ah, Cruel Three ! in such an hour, beneath such dreamy weather
 To beg a tale of breath too weak to stir the tiniest feather
 Yet what can one poor voice avail against three tongues together
 Against three tongues together
 Anon, to sudden silence won, in fancy they pursue
 The dream child moving through a land of wonders wild and new
 In friendly chat with bird or beast - and half believe it true
 And half believe it true
 And ever, as the story drained the wells of fancy dry
 And faintly strove that weary one to put the subject by
 "The next time -- it is next time" the happy voices cry !
 The happy voices cry !
 Thus grew the tale of wonderland, thus slowly one by one
 It's quaint events were hammered out - and now the tale is done
 And home we steer
 A merry crew
 Beneath the setting sun.
 (Lewis Carrol - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)
 9. Oh Patti
 Patti can't take it,  she gotta give it back
 The world is a big place and she's frightened
 And if you kiss her,  she gotta kiss you back
 She couldn't stand a kiss for free  - on her own
 And while she's playing  with all she exchanged
 Yawning at the multitude
 Her world is a big place
 Full of toys and boys and teddy  bears
 Where nothing is for free
 That's what her mother told  her once
 And Patti  has a big, big heart
Bigger  than her life
 She just forgot the most fantastic things within
 She's sitting in her glasshouse
 And she does  not dare to throw the stone
 To make  it all come true
 Of what she's dreamin'  of and so  it seems to me
 Patti can't take it,  she gotta give it back
 Her world is a big place and she's frightened
 But if you love her  maybe she'll accept
 Maybe she'll take your love for free
 On her own
 All alone
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)
 10. Ivory tower
 HERE IS the news  from my little hideaway
 My sweet IVORY TOWER
 I've sent  you songs about so many things
 Mighty Moondog's skipping waves
 Dolphins playing their lives away
 Golden Circus Girls and Pharaoes
 Fallen angels, streetside romeos
 Patricia's Park and anyway
 Eternal youth and neverending summerdays
 Lonely Girls, Music Halls the Mysteries of Love
 In the event  that I don't return
 Please take this message  to understand.....
In  the event....
 I am a stranger in  a strange land
Welcome  stranger to the land  of the free
Welcome  Carol to Phantasy....
 OH my God, I feel so alone
 A million light years far from home
 It seems to be a tragedy
 How can I live in Germany
 Another house is burning down
 It's time to face the cruel reality
 This is a game no more
 Disaster in the 20th century
 In the event that I don't return
 Please take this message to understand
 In the event that I don't return
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)
 11. Faith
 Wake up in the morning  still I heard  this song
 Must be somewhere from my dreams I don't know
 Made me feel so good, sun was shining bright
 God I love you that you brought this little song
 To give me faith
 In the morning
 I need your faith
 To go on, yeah
 Give me some faith
 Can't get enough of that sweet feeling
 Give me faith oh yeah
 Keep the faith
 Sweet little girl lying next to me
 Sunlight's playing on your face with some shadows
 You're so beautiful, dream on, dream on, lady
 I'm gonna wake you up when the time is right
 I'll give you faith
 In the morning...
 One day I shall be released by my creator
 Going home to where I came from long ago
 And the big wheel keeps on turning round and round
 Into eternity with me to cosmic meadows
 I will be there with all my friends....
 Faith
 In the morning
 I need you, faith
 To go on yeah
 Give me your love and your affection
 And I'll keep the faith
 I'll keep the faith, oh yeah
 I'll keep the faith
 Give me faith
 God bless you, faith
 In the morning...
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)
 12. Iron John
 If you open up the cage  you will hurt  yourself
The  king said it's forbidden  or you will  get hell
 But the prisoner lets you know where to find the key
 Under her satin pillow, yes, there it has to be
 Modestly is fine but it doesn't take you very far
 When you make your decision don't be afraid of the dark
 Longing for the Golden Ball that it will be yours for keeps
 Be sure about it as you saw so shall you reap
 Let's take a ride on Iron John's shoulders
 He has more gold than anybody in this world
 Let's take a ride, hey ho on Iron John
 He has more gold than anybody in this world
 Jump on the train to nowhere, from now on you are free
 After rising from the ashes you'll become a mystery
 Too many of those strange injections, too many gazes at the sun
 The lady smiled "well that's the business running after number 1
 For all their childish daydreams you caught their falling stars
 Just for the cheapest contracts you signed your autographs
 And if you started much too early therefore you're stopped too late
 Make sure that no one stops you now, here comes the ultimate"
 Let's take a ride....
 He will be with you,  he will be there
 If you call out the  magic words
 Let's take a ride....
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Nielson - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)
 13. The one thing
 With all  the Grace that you  possess you're telling  me your lies
 A kiss, a touch, a gentle stroke a look into my eyes
 Your promises and fairy tales have all turned into dust
 Your star was high, your kingdom grew in vain now fades at last
 That is the 1 thing I know
 Stop talking, stop talking with that voice
 Stop ! I can't stand it when I look into your eyes
 Stop talking who do you think you are
 Stop, you're too perfect but this time you've gone too far
 How can  you be so sure  about those tears  you're giving  me
 Your mysteries and agonies show no effect on me
 I can't believe the love we shared would ever grew so old
 Your warm embrace was heaven but tonight it feels so cold
 THAT IS THE 1 THING I know
 Stop talking
 Stop talking
 That is the 1 thing I know
 The 1 thing I know
 That is the 1 thing I know
 When I look into your eyes
 That is the 1 thing I know
 I can't stand it I can't stand it no more
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)
 14. Some people
Some  people seem to have it all
Some  people always have to crawl
Some  people pay to be abused
Some  people wind up destitute
 Some people search their souls for truth
 Some people try to be of use
 Some people pray before they kill
 Some people kill just for the thrill
 Some people follow 1 man's vision
 Some others die on television
 Some people build their homes on sand
 Some people live in garbage cans
 Some people think that life is dear
 Some people hope the end is near
 Some people fight for right to life
 Some people hate to stay alive
 Some people dream of life on Mars
 Some people end their life in cars
 Some people throw their lives away
 Some others go on holidays
Some  people live  and love in vain
Some  people don't  and go  insane
Some  people always  need to win
Some  other people  love to sin
 Some people breaking all their vows
 Some people slashing sacred cows
 Some people like to worship stars
 Some people think the world's a farce
 Some people try to make ends meet
 Some others end up kissing feet
 Some people find their Holy Grail
 Some other people go to hell
 Some people never catch their breath
 Some people drink themselves to death
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Ocean - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)
 15. Euphoria
Kind  of thunder from my heart
 Flooding my eyes
 Flooding my eyes
Kind  of armies marching through my head
Sombre  soldiers from nowhere
 Kind of someone's moving out of me
 Have no fear
 Have no fear
 Kind of someone's moving out of me
 Goin' somewhere
 Goin' somewhere
Ship  is leaving right  on time
Empty  harbour, wave  goodbye
 Evacuation of the isle
 Caveman's paintings drowning
 Famous last words on the air
 I stay here and you are there
 While our city softly sinks
 Caveman's paintings drowning
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)
 16. Apollo
Show  me a place that ain't Hell
If  there's space give me room to breathe
 That's all that I need
 For this body can't fail
 And if music be the food of Love
 Play on ! give me excess of it
 Let it all out
 Please take me out  of here
 And I shall rise  from the ashes
 Grow like a rose from the ruins
 There must be light  in the darkness
 Hope at the end of the night
 Yes I've been tryin'  all my life
 To get  to heaven
 But awoke,  in the eye of the storm
 But I shall rise  from the ashes
Grow  from the ruins
 And return back home
 This is the call from the gras
 Coming up to the prisoners of pleasure
 Drunk on the blood
 Of the next generations
 And I've been through many strange confusions
 Splitting myself into too many faces now
 The mirror is broken
 I can see the worms behind
 But I shall rise from the ashes...
 You may  well have your ways of triumph
 You may well have your ways of truth
 (Just gimme some room to breathe...)
That's  all that I need
 That's all that I need
 Me and my strange  friends
 (Take my hand and I'll take you out of here)
 Me all belong to the grand astral body
 (I'll take you out of here)
 And there's you behind these legendary curtains
 (I'll take you out of here)
 Take my hand before you wither in the crowd
 (I'll take you out of here)
 Take my hand
 I'll take you out of here
 This is the end of the show
 I don't know was I wrong was I right
 Oh Love I don't know
 I wasn't perfect for sure
 But now I feel like a new born baby
 Lying in the dew of the morning
 Laughing at the sky
 Like a brave new Apollo
 And I shall rise from the ashes...
 Back home
 (Gold/Lloyd/Echolette - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)

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Readable chord sheet for Prostitute by Alphaville

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1. The paradigm shift

Let's [Em]dance, stop the fight
We do the paradigm shift tonight
Yeah, it's a [C/G]natural drift, alright
                              Em4+/7M
And it's coming up out of the blur
Out of your mind from deep below
The hidden harmonies discover
Chaos - which means ORDER
In the solution in the spiritual way

For quietness is stronger than motion
And silence is stronger than sound
We're listening to the tone which is not played
Nothing is what we want
Quietness is stronger than motion
Silence is stronger than sound
Nothing is what we get
But the holistic movement
Yes, that is the way
Do you hear the river flow
Do you hear it ???....... YES.

You talked yourself into wrong questions
You don't care about the answers
You let the others be the good ones
You're part of the death bringing system
There's no place where you can hide
Stop ! chasing the wrong ghosts of time
I'm running out of time
TIME KILLS

You're lowering hopes much too much
Getting into the grind much too much
And losing faith in your abilities
The loyalty to you beloved system of belief must surrender
To chaos which means ORDER
Evolutions not a model of yours

FOR QUIETNESS IS STRONGER THAN MOTION

DO YOU HEAR IT ???

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)

2. Fools

[B]  We waste our tim[Bsus4]e with big illusions
[A]  Talking to the[E] walls
But Jericho will never fall
We sold our trumpets long ago
Exchanging all the best we had
Into atomic master plans
We read the books, we had our chance
We spend the world for just one dance

So keep on dancing - all you FOOLS
The cups of fury have been filled
So keep on dancing all you clowns
Let's have a sip before we're killed
So keep on dancing
So keep on dancing !

These politicians make me sigh
Democracy is just a lie
As long as we are rich enough
Each government will do for us
We feed like vampires on the world
We are the first they are the third
There's no hope we had our chance
We spend the world for one last dance

So keep on dancing - all you FOOLS
The time to reap has finally come
So keep on dancing - all you clowns
We had our chance let's have some fun.

7 seals 7 trumpets 7 cups 7 plaques
7 angels, the scarlet beast
Mother of Marlots
Faithful and TRUE

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)

3. Beethoven

[Cm]  There's a tremor in the city
[Bb]  But it looks all quiet
There is something awfull brewing
But there ain't no fights
Beethoven
You can read between the lines
That there must be more
You're alarmed but you don't know
What you're waiting for

Beet[Cm]hoven the boots are back in town
When ignorance and [Bb]fear
Are closing mouths and ears
The skins are on their [Ab]way
When it gets dark in Europe
It's just a state of [Bb]mind
The blind leading the blind

There's a scrawling on a tombstone
Judenschweine raus
Once again a racial fury
Is burning down the house
Beethoven
There's a bleeding yellow man
Lying in the street
But there isn't anybody
Doing anything

Beethoven the boots are back in town

(S.F. Prayer)
And one grey day shall rise the flood
No dikes will stem the heavy tides
When cold pierced heavy bodies scream
They fall as if the monstrous scythe of clouds
Had smashed them from the skies
The scattered squadron of mankind
Stabs right into the churned up ether
Of long forgotten birdless flights

Beethoven the boots are back in town

Beethoven the boots are back in town
The demons of the past
Will be replaced at last
There are smarter ones to stay
How can you stay away
>From the order of disgrace
How can you close your eyes
Beethoven

The boots are back... The boots are back... The boots are back

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)

4. Ascension day

[D]These are the days of Evil perfection
This is the world of torture and fame
This is the age of most vicious infection
These are the times of terror and pain

Let them inside and they build you a nightmare
Show them, you fool, it'll not be in vain
Here is your costume of deepest surrender
These are the times of terror and pain

[G]  I wanna ride on the crest of sensation
[F]  I wanna scream in the whirlpools of love
[Eb]  I wanna drown in a climax of thunder
[Ab]  I wanna be with the fools in the storm

Do what you want and then die when you want to
We're gonna walk on the blood of the MEEK
We're gonna sail through the oceans of wonder
We're gonna live in the DREAMS that we seek

Send in the parasite clowns on their horses
Send in the idiots and let them advance
Send in the monsters of your own creation
Send them all in and give them a chance

We're gonna dance to the sweetest of music
We're gonna play with the whores in the rain
We'll dissipate the Lord's last temptations
All in the cross fire of torture and fame

I wanna ride on the crest of sensation
We're gonna live.......
In the dreams that we seek

We're gonna live in the dreams that we seek

[Gm] [F] [Eb] [D7]

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)

5. The impossible dream

. . .  .        . .       .  .
[D] [A] [Bm] [G]  [Em]    [D] [A]  [Bbm]  [Bm] [Bb]

[D]  Sometimes it [A]seems so strange
[Bm]  The way I [G]feel for you [Em]
[D]  It makes my [A]life so quiet and [Bm]free  [G]     [Em]
[D]  And when you [A]smile at me
[Bm]  It's just that [G]special love [Em]
[D]  That kind of [A]liberty [Bbm]    I [Bm]never felt be[Bb]fore

[D]  And I don't [A]need to be a [Bm]poet
I don't [G]need to b[Em]e a HE[D]RO
When all I [A]need to d[Bbm]o is [Bm]keep on loving [Bb]you
[D]  I just [A]have to be me[Bm]  and I don't [G]need to b[Em]e
The [D]stranger anymore[A] I used to [Bm]be
[G]  In my imp[Em]ossible [D]dream

I keep my fingers crossed
I never want to lose
This new found world that's so alive
Angel
I'm so in love with you
My heart has circled in the past
The demons of deceit but now aside I've cast

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Sooter - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)

6. Parade
(Only this song put me in great difficulties, because the chords are really
special and moreover they are played by piano. Yet here is what I found.)

The [C#m7]crowd is looking drowned
      [C#m7]      [C#m7]/2
And a mother in tears
There are [Bm]flip flapping [D]flags in the [A]silence
[Ab]  And a national anthem's a [C#m7M]blues in these days

Flag him [Bm7]down[Eb], rest in [Bb]peace
What peace do you mean
When the boys are coming back ?

He's live on T.V.
He's dead as a hero can be
But.... he didn't die for nothing my dear
The video of his death is travelling the world

Flag him down, rest in peace
What peace do you mean
When the boys are coming back ?
The [Am7]boys[C#] are coming back
When the boys are coming back
[Bm]  IN [A]COFFINS [Ab]

Way back in the crowd
A girl says goodbye to a boy
To a boy who's parading to heaven
And she puts all the blame on the government

Flag him down, rest in peace
What peace do you mean
When the boys are coming back ?

When the boys are parading to heaven my friend
Put all the blame on you
On [C#m7]you.....

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)

7. Ain't it strange

Ain't it [Em]strange that we destroy what we em[Bm7]brace
And we leave what we [Em]seek
It's such a [Bm7]shame

Ain't it strange that we smile when we cry
And no one knows why we are here
And where we're going to

Ain't it strange
We could be, we could be so good together
We could be, we could be so good together

Ain't it strange that we share what we hate
That we break what we love
It's such a shame

Ain't it strange when we pray we betray anyway
And no one knows what we are for
Why we're so tough why must hurt
When we're so fragile

Ain't it strange
We could be, we could be so good together
We could be, we could be so good together

Ain't it strange still we could fall into a dream
I'd wish no one will catch that fall for we could fall for love
Life is but a dream, life is but a dream
All the tears in the world not in vain for the pain is gone
The shame is washed away when we're all one
Life is but a dream, life is but a dream

It's hard to believe after thousand of years
The world's still drowning in blood and tears
We've been quite advanced but again we fail
It's dog eat dog on the rat rave trail
It's getting too much and we're getting nowhere
While hatred and fear is all that we share
I can't take it no more when I'm watching the news
We must stick together or we're bound to lose
Now listen to this........
We could be, we could be so good together

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)

8. All in the golden afternoon

All [F#m]in the golden afternoon full [A]leisurely we glide
For [B]both our oars, with little skill, by [D]little arms are plied
While little hands make vain pretence our wanderings to guide
Our wanderings to guide

Ah, Cruel Three ! in such an hour, beneath such dreamy weather
To beg a tale of breath too weak  to stir the tiniest feather
Yet what can one poor voice avail against three tongues together
Against three tongues together

Anon, to sudden silence won, in fancy they pursue
The dream child moving through a land of wonders wild and new
In friendly chat with bird or beast - and half believe it true
And half believe it true

And ever, as the story drained the wells of fancy dry
And faintly strove that weary one to put the subject by
"The next time -- it is next time" the happy voices cry !
The happy voices cry !

Thus grew the tale of wonderland, thus slowly one by one
It's quaint events were hammered out - and now the tale is done
And home we steer
A merry crew
Beneath the setting sun.

(Lewis Carrol - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)

9. Oh Patti

[F]  Patti can't take it,[C] she gotta give it back
[Dm]  The world is a big place and she's [A]frigh[A7]tened
[F]  And if you kiss her,[C] she gotta kiss you back
[Am]  She couldn't stand a kiss for [G]free - on her own

[Bm]  And while she's playing[Dm]  with all she exchanged
[A]  Yawning at the multi[F]tude
[Bm]  Her world is a big place
[Dm]  Full of toys and boys and [A]teddy bears
Where nothing is for [F]free
That's what her [F2]mot[C]her [G]told her [A]once

And [A]Patti has a big, big heart
[E]Bigger than her life
[F#m]  She just forgot the most fantastic things with[E]in
[Ebm]  She's sitting in her glasshouse
And she [F#m]does not dare to throw the stone
To [C#]make it all come true
Of what she's [A]dreamin' of and [B]so it seems to [C#]me

[C#]  Patti can't take it,[Ab]  she gotta give it back
[Bbm]  Her world is a big place and she's [F]frigh[F7]tened
[C#]  But if you love her[Ab]  maybe she'll accept
[Fm]  Maybe she'll take your love for [Eb]free
On her own
All a[Em]lone

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)

10. Ivory tower

[Em]  HERE IS the news[C] from my little hideaway
[Am]  My sweet IVORY TOWER
I've [C]sent you songs about so many [Em]things
Mighty Moondog's skipping waves
Dolphins playing their lives away
Golden Circus Girls and Pharaoes
Fallen angels, streetside romeos
Patricia's Park and anyway
Eternal youth and neverending summerdays
Lonely Girls, Music Halls the Mysteries of Love

[Em]  In the e[C]vent that I don't re[Em]turn
Please take this [C]message to under[Em]stand.....
[Em]In the e[D]vent....
I am a [Gm]stran[F]ger [Bb]in a strange [Eb]land
[D]Welcome stranger to the [Eb]land of the [D]free
[Eb]Welcome Carol to [D]Phantasy....

OH my God, I feel so alone
A million light years far from home
It seems to be a tragedy
How can I live in Germany
Another house is burning down
It's time to face the cruel reality
This is a game no more
Disaster in the 20th century

In the event that I don't return
Please take this message to understand

In the event that I don't re[Bb7]turn

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)

11. Faith

[C]  Wake up in the morni[G]ng still I hea[Am]rd this so[F]ng
Must be somewhere from my dreams I don't know
Made me feel so good, sun was shining bright
God I love you that you brought this little song

To give me [C]faith
[G]  In the [Am]morning [F]
I need your faith
To go on, yeah
Give me some faith
Can't get enough of that sweet feeling
Give me faith oh yeah
Keep the faith

Sweet little girl lying next to me
Sunlight's playing on your face with some shadows
You're so beautiful, dream on, dream on, lady
I'm gonna wake you up when the time is right

I'll give you faith
In the morning...

One day I shall be released by my creator
Going home to where I came from long ago
And the big wheel keeps on turning round and round
Into eternity with me to cosmic meadows
I will be there with all my friends....

Faith
In the morning
I need you, faith
To go on yeah
Give me your love and your affection
And I'll keep the faith
I'll keep the faith, oh yeah
I'll keep the faith

Give me faith

God bless you, faith
In the morning...

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)

12. Iron John

[Cm]  If you open up the cage[F] you will [Cm]hurt yourself
[Eb]The king said it's forbidden[Gm] or you [Cm]will get hell
But the prisoner lets you know where to find the key
Under her satin pillow, yes, there it has to be
Modestly is fine but it doesn't take you very far
When you make your decision don't be afraid of the dark
Longing for the Golden Ball that it will be yours for keeps
Be sure about it as you saw so shall you reap

Let's take a ride on Iron John's shoulders
He has more gold than anybody in this world
Let's take a ride, hey ho on Iron John
He has more gold than anybody in this world

Jump on the train to nowhere, from now on you are free
After rising from the ashes you'll become a mystery
Too many of those strange injections, too many gazes at the sun
The lady smiled "well that's the business running after number 1
For all their childish daydreams you caught their falling stars
Just for the cheapest contracts you signed your autographs
And if you started much too early therefore you're stopped too late
Make sure that no one stops you now, here comes the ultimate"

Let's take a ride....

[Ab]  He will be with you,[Gm] he will be there
[Fm]  If you call out the[Ab]  magic [Bb]words

Let's take a ride....

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Nielson - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)

13. The one thing

With [Cm7]all the Grace that [F7]you possess you're [Bb]telling me your [Dm]lies
A kiss, a touch, a gentle stroke a look into my eyes
Your promises and fairy tales have all turned into dust
Your star was high, your kingdom grew in vain now fades at last

That is the 1 thing I know
Stop talking, stop talking with that voice
Stop ! I can't stand it when I look into your eyes
Stop talking who do you think you are
Stop, you're too perfect but this time you've gone too far

How [C#m7]can you be so [F#7]sure about those [B]tears you're giving[Ebm] me
Your mysteries and agonies show no effect on me
I can't believe the love we shared would ever grew so old
Your warm embrace was heaven but tonight it feels so cold

THAT IS THE 1 THING I know
[Cm7] [F7] [Bb] [Dm]

Stop talking
Stop talking

That is the 1 thing I [Ebm7]know
[Ab7]  The 1 thing I [C#]know [Fm]
That is the 1 thing I know
When I look into your eyes
That is the 1 thing I know
I can't stand it I can't stand it no more

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)

14. Some people

[Am]Some people seem to have it all
[Am]Some people always have to crawl
[Dm]Som[F]e people pay to be abused
[Am]Some people wind up destitute
Some people search their souls for truth
Some people try to be of use
Some people pray before they kill
Some people kill just for the thrill

Some people follow 1 man's vision
Some others die on television
Some people build their homes on sand
Some people live in garbage cans

Some people think that life is dear
Some people hope the end is near
Some people fight for right to life
Some people hate to stay alive
Some people dream of life on Mars
Some people end their life in cars
Some people throw their lives away
Some others go on holidays

[A]Some people [Bb]live and love in [C]vain [G]   [A]
[F]Some people [C]don't and [G]go insane [A]
[Eb]Some people [Bb]always need to [F]win [C]
[G]Some other [Ab]people love to [F]sin [C]
[A]

Some people breaking all their vows
Some people slashing sacred cows
Some people like to worship stars
Some people think the world's a farce
Some people try to make ends meet
Some others end up kissing feet
Some people find their Holy Grail
Some other people go to hell

Some people never catch their breath
Some people drink themselves to death

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Ocean - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)

15. Euphoria

[Bm]Kind of thunder from my [C#]heart
Flooding my [Bm]eyes
Flooding my [C#]eyes
[Ab]Kind of armies marching through my [F#]head
[Ab]Sombre soldiers from no[Bb]where
Kind of someone's moving out of me
Have no fear
Have no fear
Kind of someone's  moving out of me
Goin' somewhere
Goin' somewhere

[F]Ship is leaving [C]right on time
[G]Empty harbour, [D]wave goodbye
Evacuation of the isle
Caveman's paintings drowning
Famous last words on the air
I stay here and you are there
While our city softly sinks
Caveman's paintings drowning

[Bb] [F] [C] [G]

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette)

16. Apollo

[D]Show me a place that ain't Hell
[D]If there's space give me room to breathe
That's all that I [G]need
For this body can't [D]fail
And if music be the food of Love
Play on ! give me excess of it
Let it all [Gm]out
Please take me [D]out of here

And I shall [D]rise from the ashes
Grow like a rose from the [Am]ruins
There must be [D]light in the darkness
Hope at the end of the [Am]night
Yes I've been [G]tryin' all my life
To [G/B]get to heaven
But a[C]woke, in the eye of the [Eb]storm
But I shall [G]rise from the ashes
[Am]Grow from the ruins
And re[G/B]turn [C]back [D]home

This is the call from the gras
Coming up to the prisoners of pleasure
Drunk on the blood
Of the next generations
And I've been through many strange confusions
Splitting myself into too many faces now
The mirror is broken
I can see the worms behind

But I shall rise from the ashes...

[Dsus4]  You [A]may well have your ways of triumph
[Bb]  You may well have your ways of [C/G]truth
[D]  (Just gimme some room to breathe.[Bb]..)[C/G]
[D]That's all that I need
That's all that I [Bb]need
Me and my [C]strange friends
(Take my hand and I'll take you out of here)
Me all belong to the grand astral body
(I'll take you out of here)
And there's you behind these legendary curtains
(I'll take you out of here)
Take my hand before you wither in the crowd
(I'll take you out of here)
Take my hand
I'll take you out of here

This is the end of the show
I don't know was I wrong was I right
Oh Love I don't know
I wasn't perfect for sure
But now I feel like a new born baby
Lying in the dew of the morning
Laughing at the sky
Like a brave new Apollo

And I shall rise from the ashes...

Back home

(Gold/Lloyd/Echolette - Gold/Lloyd/Echolette/Bloss)

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