1. |
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RADIO WAR
Listen to the voices in the night
Transition from black into white
Radio lies just like a camera
Radio War
Short wave offensive begins
A conflict that no one can win
Born of the need to control
Radio war
Weapons of communication
The Victim is always information
Fighting with lies is so clean
Radio War
Radio War
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2. |
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Casualties
Legions of the fallen
Victims of the peace
Dreams they believed in
Betrayed them to the World outside
No one counts the casualties
Religions for a future
Where everything’s nice
The politics of lifestyle
A chemical ideology
When leaders leave the faithful
To pay the price
No hell below them
No heaven above
But the streets are still hostile
To the hopeful and the innocent
And out there you need more than love
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3. |
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Poseidon
Der Untergang der Poseidon
Es liegt das Atomschiff so still
Der Untergang der Poseidon
No help has come, it never will
Der Untergang der Poseidon
Zusammen in Unserem Einsengrab
Der Untergang der Poseidon
Two hours air is all we have
Der Untergang der Poseidon
Wir liegen tief in Dunkelheit
Der Untergang der Poseidon
It’s cold down here, forever night
Der Untergang der Poseidon
Langsam kommt die letzte Stunde
Der Untergang der Poseidon
Eternity since we went under
Der Untergang der Poseidon
Hoffnungslos und fröhlich jetzt
Der Untergang der Poseidon
Death brings sleep, eternal rest
Der Untergang der Poseidon
Trained to kill, we were trained to die
Der Untergang der Poseidon
Aufwiedersehen, es ist vorbei
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4. |
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Against The Wall
Don’t want to hear their lies anymore
Don’t want to see their faces
Where all the feelings were before
Are only empty spaces, now
Adrift in a wasteland
Where every dream just turns to ash
Searching for a purer age
Among the debris of the past
And all the worthless of this World
I’ve seen them up against The Wall
The sweetness of a poisoned dream
To watch the faceless bodies fall
Adrift in a wasteland
Where every dream just turns to ash
Searching for a purer age
Among the debris of the past
It takes a lot to learn to hate
To be a prison of your own
Out of time and out of place
And a soul that’s turned to stone
Adrift in a wasteland
Where every dream just turns to ash
Searching for a purer age
Among the debris of the past
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5. |
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The Game
There was a time
When I lived for adventure and travel
The Tokyo Hilton, life was always first class
They paid me to see the World through a camera’s eye
Now I see through the bottom of a glass
From Saigon to Cairo isn’t far
When you’re tired of the game
Different pictures, different wars
But the hotel bars all look the same
Expenses are good, bad news will always sell
But the rules say you can’t afford to feel
I Live like a tourist in somebody else’s hell
It may be death to a lot, but it’s a living to me
From Saigon to Cairo isn’t far
When you’re tired of the game
Different pictures, different wars
But the hotel bars all look the same
I turn away from the empty eyes of a refugee
A face in the crowd without a name
Each one’s another untold story
But to me they all seem to look the same
From Saigon to Cairo isn’t far
When you’re tired of the game
Different pictures, different wars
But the hotel bars all look the same
A pall of smoke hangs over the hotel strip
The sky over Beirut’s burning bright
I’m walking away from it all for the last time
I’m catching the last plane out tonight
From Saigon to Cairo isn’t far
When you’re tired of the game
Different pictures, different wars
But the hotel bars all look the same
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6. |
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Perfect Love
Awake in the darkness of this room
You listen to the night
Silence between us once again
We are two strangers in the night
It’s always been this way
Don’t wait for that perfect love
It’s too late to be dreaming of
A safe kind of refuge for your heart
You’ve got to take what you can from it
To make all the pieces fit
And fake what it takes to play the part
Alone now as always, we just turn away
It’s too late for words
All day we pretend that it’s all right
Until the emptiness returns
I just can’t reach you now
Don’t wait for that perfect love
It’s too late to be dreaming of
A safe kind of refuge for your heart
You’ve got to take what you can from it
To make all the pieces fit
And fake what it takes to play the part
What drove us together was the loneliness that keeps us apart
You can hide behind love, but it won’t change a thing
That fear was there right from the start
Don’t wait for that perfect love
It’s too late to be dreaming of
A safe kind of refuge for your heart
You’ve got to take what you can from it
To make all the pieces fit
And fake what it takes to play the part
We were young, things were different then
We lived for the moment
We never thought that it would end this way
It seemed that love was forever for a time
But, now there’s nothing left to say
Don’t wait for that perfect love
It’s too late to be dreaming of
A safe kind of refuge for your heart
You’ve got to take what you can from it
To make all the pieces fit
And fake what it takes to play the part
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7. |
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Don’t Tell Me Stories
Don’t tell me stories
Don’t give me reasons
Don’t tell me why it turned out bad this time
I’ve had my bad times
And now it’s your turn
You’ve got to learn to keep your heart out of trouble
All the night girls love a bad guy
Even thought they know they’re all the same
It hurts to live with the pain of losing
And so you need someone to share the blame
He had the muscle
He had the money
A chance to move in with a faster set
Until you find out he doesn’t need you
And now the time has come to pay the debt
All the night girls love a bad guy
Even thought they know they’re all the same
It hurts to live with the pain of losing
And so you need someone to share the blame
It’s hard to take just what you want when you need it
You’ve got to choose some kind of compromise
You want protection but you cannot make the payments
So when it starts to hurt you run to me for a way out
All the night girls love a bad guy
Even though they know they’re all the same
It hurts to live with the pain of losing
And so you need someone to share the blame
You come around and it’s the same old story
You need a confidant to suffer with
You want a hand to hold a shoulder to cry on
But you already took all that I had to give
All the night girls love a bad guy
Even thought they know they’re all the same
It hurts to live with the pain of losing
And so you need someone to share the blame
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8. |
The Game (Video Version)
04:02
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The Game
There was a time
When I lived for adventure and travel
The Tokyo Hilton, life was always first class
They paid me to see the World through a camera’s eye
Now I see through the bottom of a glass
From Saigon to Cairo isn’t far
When you’re tired of the game
Different pictures, different wars
But the hotel bars all look the same
Expenses are good, bad news will always sell
But the rules say you can’t afford to feel
I Live like a tourist in somebody else’s hell
It may be death to a lot, but it’s a living to me
From Saigon to Cairo isn’t far
When you’re tired of the game
Different pictures, different wars
But the hotel bars all look the same
I turn away from the empty eyes of a refugee
A face in the crowd without a name
Each one’s another untold story
But to me they all seem to look the same
From Saigon to Cairo isn’t far
When you’re tired of the game
Different pictures, different wars
But the hotel bars all look the same
A pall of smoke hangs over the hotel strip
The sky over Beirut’s burning bright
I’m walking away from it all for the last time
I’m catching the last plane out tonight
From Saigon to Cairo isn’t far
When you’re tired of the game
Different pictures, different wars
But the hotel bars all look the same
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9. |
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Alone
In the darkness beside me
You listen to the night
Silence between us
We’re strangers in the night
It’s always been this way
Alone now as always,
It’s too late for words
By daylight we try to pretend it’s all right
But the emptiness returns with the night
I can’t touch you now
Don’t ask me to help you
Your fear is your own
It’s a lesson we all have to learn
You’re always alone
Always alone
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10. |
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Casualties
Legions of the fallen
Victims of the peace
Dreams they believed in
Betrayed them to the World outside
No one counts the casualties
Religions for a future
Where everything’s nice
The politics of lifestyle
A chemical ideology
When leaders leave the faithful
To pay the price
No hell below them
No heaven above
But the streets are still hostile
To the hopeful and the innocent
And out there you need more than love
|
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11. |
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|
RADIO WAR
Listen to the voices in the night
Transition from black into white
Radio lies just like a camera
Radio War
Short wave offensive begins
A conflict that no one can win
Born of the need to control
Radio war
Weapons of communication
The Victim is always information
Fighting with lies is so clean
Radio War
Radio War
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12. |
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Perfect Love
Awake in the darkness of this room
You listen to the night
Silence between us once again
We are two strangers in the night
It’s always been this way
Don’t wait for that perfect love
It’s too late to be dreaming of
A safe kind of refuge for your heart
You’ve got to take what you can from it
To make all the pieces fit
And fake what it takes to play the part
Alone now as always, we just turn away
It’s too late for words
All day we pretend that it’s all right
Until the emptiness returns
I just can’t reach you now
Don’t wait for that perfect love
It’s too late to be dreaming of
A safe kind of refuge for your heart
You’ve got to take what you can from it
To make all the pieces fit
And fake what it takes to play the part
What drove us together was the loneliness that keeps us apart
You can hide behind love, but it won’t change a thing
That fear was there right from the start
Don’t wait for that perfect love
It’s too late to be dreaming of
A safe kind of refuge for your heart
You’ve got to take what you can from it
To make all the pieces fit
And fake what it takes to play the part
We were young, things were different then
We lived for the moment
We never thought that it would end this way
It seemed that love was forever for a time
But, now there’s nothing left to say
Don’t wait for that perfect love
It’s too late to be dreaming of
A safe kind of refuge for your heart
You’ve got to take what you can from it
To make all the pieces fit
And fake what it takes to play the part
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13. |
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|
Don’t Tell Me Stories
Don’t tell me stories
Don’t give me reasons
Don’t tell me why it turned out bad this time
I’ve had my bad times
And now it’s your turn
You’ve got to learn to keep your heart out of trouble
All the night girls love a bad guy
Even thought they know they’re all the same
It hurts to live with the pain of losing
And so you need someone to share the blame
He had the muscle
He had the money
A chance to move in with a faster set
Until you find out he doesn’t need you
And now the time has come to pay the debt
All the night girls love a bad guy
Even thought they know they’re all the same
It hurts to live with the pain of losing
And so you need someone to share the blame
It’s hard to take just what you want when you need it
You’ve got to choose some kind of compromise
You want protection but you cannot make the payments
So when it starts to hurt you run to me for a way out
All the night girls love a bad guy
Even though they know they’re all the same
It hurts to live with the pain of losing
And so you need someone to share the blame
You come around and it’s the same old story
You need a confidant to suffer with
You want a hand to hold a shoulder to cry on
But you already took all that I had to give
All the night girls love a bad guy
Even thought they know they’re all the same
It hurts to live with the pain of losing
And so you need someone to share the blame
|
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14. |
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|
Against The Wall
Don’t want to hear their lies anymore
Don’t want to see their faces
Where all the feelings were before
Are only empty spaces, now
Adrift in a wasteland
Where every dream just turns to ash
Searching for a purer age
Among the debris of the past
And all the worthless of this World
I’ve seen them up against The Wall
The sweetness of a poisoned dream
To watch the faceless bodies fall
Adrift in a wasteland
Where every dream just turns to ash
Searching for a purer age
Among the debris of the past
It takes a lot to learn to hate
To be a prison of your own
Out of time and out of place
And a soul that’s turned to stone
Adrift in a wasteland
Where every dream just turns to ash
Searching for a purer age
Among the debris of the past
|
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15. |
Casualties (Recounted)
02:20
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|
Casualties
Legions of the fallen
Victims of the peace
Dreams they believed in
Betrayed them to the World outside
No one counts the casualties
Religions for a future
Where everything’s nice
The politics of lifestyle
A chemical ideology
When leaders leave the faithful
To pay the price
No hell below them
No heaven above
But the streets are still hostile
To the hopeful and the innocent
And out there you need more than love
|
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16. |
Radio War (Retuned)
02:22
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|
RADIO WAR
Listen to the voices in the night
Transition from black into white
Radio lies just like a camera
Radio War
Short wave offensive begins
A conflict that no one can win
Born of the need to control
Radio war
Weapons of communication
The Victim is always information
Fighting with lies is so clean
Radio War
Radio War
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17. |
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You Hurt Me For The Last Time
Young hearts
Soon learn how pleasure ends in pain
Heartbreak may heal but the scars remain
(Just memories of our time together)
I thought
I’d learn to roll with the punches
Long before we met
Now I’m broken just the same
Girl, you hurt me
For the last time
I should be hard enough to take it now
But, still I cry like the first time
You hurt me
For the last time
So, I don’t blame you
I just can’t see how
We have a chance to try again this time, girl
I know
You’ve had your share of wasted nights
Waiting for him to come home until its light
(But why d’you think it’s only girls who suffer?)
If that’s so
Then you should know how I feel each time I see you
Out with the boys
Two wrongs don’t make it right
Oh no no girl
For the last time
I should be hard enough to take it now
But, still I cry like the first time
You hurt me
For the last time
So, I don’t blame you
I just can’t see how
We have a chance to try again this time, girl
Girl, You hurt me
For the last time
I should be hard enough to take it now
But, I still cry like the first time
You hurt me
For the last time
So, I don’t blame you
I just can’t see how
We have a chance to try again this time, girl
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18. |
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|
RADIO WAR
Listen to the voices in the night
Transition from black into white
Radio lies just like a camera
Radio War
Short wave offensive begins
A conflict that no one can win
Born of the need to control
Radio war
Weapons of communication
The Victim is always information
Fighting with lies is so clean
Radio War
Radio War
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19. |
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|
Don’t Tell Me Stories
Don’t tell me stories
Don’t give me reasons
Don’t tell me why it turned out bad this time
I’ve had my bad times
And now it’s your turn
You’ve got to learn to keep your heart out of trouble
All the night girls love a bad guy
Even thought they know they’re all the same
It hurts to live with the pain of losing
And so you need someone to share the blame
He had the muscle
He had the money
A chance to move in with a faster set
Until you find out he doesn’t need you
And now the time has come to pay the debt
All the night girls love a bad guy
Even thought they know they’re all the same
It hurts to live with the pain of losing
And so you need someone to share the blame
It’s hard to take just what you want when you need it
You’ve got to choose some kind of compromise
You want protection but you cannot make the payments
So when it starts to hurt you run to me for a way out
All the night girls love a bad guy
Even though they know they’re all the same
It hurts to live with the pain of losing
And so you need someone to share the blame
You come around and it’s the same old story
You need a confidant to suffer with
You want a hand to hold a shoulder to cry on
But you already took all that I had to give
All the night girls love a bad guy
Even thought they know they’re all the same
It hurts to live with the pain of losing
And so you need someone to share the blame
|
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Mark Reeder Berlin, Germany
MARK REEDER
(MCR/Berlin).
Factory Records German Rep.
Played in Die Unbekannten and Shark
Vegas.
Runs MFS (Masterminded For Success) Label.
Remixed a/o Depeche Mode, New Order, The Pet Shop Boys, Yello, John Foxx, Blank & Jones.
Starred in Nekromantik II, & B-Movie (Lust & Sound in West Berlin) & 80s TV show The Tube Berlin Special.
Produced Fragment by STOLEN.
www.mfsberlin.com
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