[Part 1]
Lukewarm feelings, neither 'Yes' nor 'No'
Relative - time to go - I'm Einstein
She wears that defiant look, that I-Don't-Give-A-Shit look
It goes 'click' in my head, I say 'Then it was nothing'
Shrugging, nothing more, I'm gone, who isn't?
With every step away from here, everything loses its colour
It's too much for my nerves,
I gotta run, gotta smoke, gotta get drunk,
Gotta hide inside myself,
Gotta cut myself off from the outside world, buy something,
Gotta swim among the crowd, dive into the nightlife
I see myself from above: A dark figure going astray,
Black trench coat, soundtrack, white noise
Invisible behind me, a cape of rubbish feelings
I want to hang it up, take it off, put it town
The moon projects its face in
The dark grey rain showers,
Evading clouds and their hundred eyes...
[Chorus]
You look at me and say I should be able to read lips
The only one who ever believed in us was me
We just stay silent, 'cause I don't know what love is anymore
Did you know that someone had destroyed your ivory tower?
You look at me and I wish you were able to read lips,
'Cause my thoughts are shouting at you to take a rope and end it all1
You think that we always get whatever we want in life
If we're simply always ready to give a fuck about it...
[Part 2]
What a nightmare, what a fucked up day
In a fucked up month
In a fucked up year
In a fucked up life
Fucked up soul only dealing
With fucked up subjects
At 16, I seriously thought I gave a fuck about everything
Everything that took its toll can be seen in my eyes
When I feel like shit, I write my best songs
Depressing mood, no love, lousy praised songs
I wrote way too many of those,
I'm sitting at the bottom of the well,
I write screams, let the wounds fall silent
[Chorus]
You look at me and say I should be able to read lips
The only one who ever believed in us was me
We just stay silent, 'cause I don't know what love is anymore
Did you know that someone had destroyed your ivory tower?
You look at me and I wish you were able to read lips,
'Cause my thoughts are shouting at you to take a rope and end it all
You think that we always get whatever we want in life
If we're simply always ready to give a fuck about it...
[Part 3]
All of a sudden she stands there, her face swollen from crying
Her make-up is running down, down, down
Her eyes are black and wide - look up here!
Steady look, all in black, my eyes unscathed
Tight leggings, cleavage showing - big entrance
In her eyes, "Sorry!" under purple lights
The old trick: make up sex2
Quickly suppressing the knowledge that 'Us' is impossible!
Then silence, guilty conscience
The certainty comes...I throw up into the pillow
[Chorus]
You look at me and say I should be able to read lips
The only one who ever believed in us was me
We just stay silent, 'cause I don't know what love is anymore
Did you know that someone had destroyed your ivory tower?
You look at me and I wish you were able to read lips,
'Cause my thoughts are shouting at you to take a rope and end it all
You think that we always get whatever we want in life
If we're simply always ready to give a fuck about it...
1. Lit: 'take a rope to yourself'.2. Lit.: 'make up fuck'.