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Omniscient (2019)
03:44
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I know the world is unfair – it’ll crush my dreams, but I just don’t care
I know you treat me so mean – I’m just another meal of soylent green
I know the world is unkind – it’ll steal your soul and rob you blind
I know you think I’m insane – c’mon baby let’s go singing in the acid rain
You say you don’t really care – that computers have become self-aware
You say you hate rock ‘n’ roll – but you know-modern music ain’t got no soul
You say the world is to blame – I suppose you think-that this is just a game
You try to act really cool – but it’s clear to me that you’re just a fool
Breathe despite the palpitation, you will need your concentration
Coming to the destination, time for your re-education
Living in a fabrication, nothing left but self-immolation
I could make one observation, but it’s all mental masturbation
We’re scared to step out of line – serpentine, number nine, running out of time
We live our lives in a hole – searching for somebody with a bit of soul
Don’t know what it all really means – since it don’t add up to a hill of beans
We try to do what we can – not sure why, ‘cuz no one really gives a damn
Living in the radiation, of our mental retardation
Blood pumped full of medication, prep us for our termination
Hear the demon invocation, of our social constipation
Just a useless condemnation, we will have our vindication
Drowning in your-cup of sorrow, face a bloodshot-hell tomorrow
End your earthly-days on skid row, feels just like some-stupid game show
Comes the time-you have to let go, step onto the-astral plateau
Ask yourself “where-does the time go?”, cosmic tantric-memory flow
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Even when I’m right I’m wrong (Words & Music: Peter Hoflich)
Everywhere I turn there’s people trying to tell me my mission in life is to fail
Can’t see the value of all my contributions, the taste in their mouth has gone stale
Wondering how I’m ever gonna face tomorrow, in this hell of lies
A vision of the future is coming over me, and it don’t look very nice
Even when I’m right I’m wrong
Why can’t we all just get along
Even when I'm wrong I love my pretty baby
Even when I’m right I’m wrong
Walking down the street there’s people looking at me, they don’t wish me well
Some guy cuts me off and he thinks that it’s all my fault, he tells me to go to hell
Gonna dream about a brilliant new tomorrow, a place I’ll never find
Hell is other people I guess I’ll have to face it – man, I gotta unwind!!
Even when I’m right I’m wrong
Why can’t we all just get along
Even when I'm wrong I love my pretty baby
Even when I’m right I’m wrong
Play the game of life we’re all in this together, we take our fair share of abuse
But ask a simple question you can’t get a straight answer, die die cannot lose
Checking out the headlines it’s not a pretty picture, mass hysteria
Looking into the mirror a stranger looks back at ya, schizophrenia
Even when I’m right I’m wrong
Why can’t we all just get along
Even when I'm wrong I love my pretty baby
Even when I’m right I’m wrong
I'm talking to my baby but she’s not listening to me – basic disconnect
I can’t read her mind but I know what she’s feeling – a total lack of respect
Before I was Han Solo, but now I am Darth Vader – see what you wanna see
Forget about the good times, just focus on disaster – believe what you wanna believe
Even when I’m right I’m wrong
That’s why I’m singing this song
Even when I'm wrong I love my pretty baby
Even when I’m right I’m wrong
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Make It A Double
06:38
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Well I’m looking like I’m feeling good, I’m feeling like I’m looking good
But I think I’ll be misunderstood, right here in this neighborhood
The coffee’s white the coffee’s black, it looks like we’re under attack
You never know how to step back, when you’re dealing with a maniac
Kick out the spam, green eggs & lamb
Kick out the lamb, green eggs & jam
Kick out the jams, green eggs & ham
Kick out the ham, green eggs & spam
Make it a double, double-double (x4) …MAKE IT A!
I’m having a friend… for dinner, he really is a connoisseur
When the two’ of us get… to’gether, we never discuss the weather
They tried me once, the can’t try me again, I know you cannot comprehend
It was after-a-night at the drive-in when, I slept with your sister and her friend
Don’t go straight, make a detour - Don’t go straight, make a detour
Don’t go straight, make a detour - Don’t go straight, make a detour
Make it a double, double-double (x4) …MAKE IT A!
I saw her on the road today, I saw her on the interstate
I saw her then on Channel Eight, I had to do another take
I’ll beat them if they don’t beat on me first, the first time really is the worst
Man, I’ve got a raging thirst, I think my heart is gonna burst
Kick out the spam, green eggs & lamb
Kick out the lamb, green eggs & jam
Kick out the jams, green eggs & ham
Kick out the ham, green eggs & spam
Make it a double, double-double (x4) …MAKE IT A!
We’re the alliteration nation, rhyming without reservation
Success is a form of procrastination, out-stel-che-drach ophet station
We’re the alliteration nation, rhyming without reservation
Failure’s a form of procrastination, out-stel-che-drach ophet station
Don’t go straight, make a detour - Don’t go straight, make a detour
Don’t go straight, make a detour - Don’t go straight, make a detour
Make it a double, double-double
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I’ve got the spinal reconstruction blues
I’ve got the spinal reconstruction blues
My spine’s not very fine—it’ll heal, but that takes time
I’ve got the spinal reconstruction blues
They’re putting my spine on ice
I say they’re putting my spine on ice
It sure don’t feel very nice to have your spine all packed in ice
I’ve got the spinal reconstruction blues
They’re coming to lock me up
They’re coming to lock me up
I got evil on my brain, it’s driving me insane
Spinal reconstruction blues
They’ve trapped me in this cage
They’ve trapped me in this cage
It’s blinding me with rage, I can’t take this at my age
I’ve got the spinal reconstruction blues
I’m fixing for to die
I said I’m fixing for to die
This life has passed me by, nothing left except to die
I’ve got the spinal reconstruction blues
They’re coming to bury me
I say they’re coming to bury me
All I want is to be free, escape this misery
I’ve got the spinal reconstruction blues
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I was born in the Sixties, I’ve got rock ‘n’ roll in my bones
My favourite singer is Bob Dylan, and I love the Rolling Stones
We had the greatest albums from the coolest bands
But the world was going crazy, things got out of hand
MC5 kicked out the jams, the Stooges said it’s okay
Johnny Cash played San Quentin, little Pete had his birthday
Back in the Spring of ‘69
I was born in the Sixties, I’ve got rock ‘n’ roll in my soul
Sixty-nine was a year for us to reckon and behold
The first two from Led Zeppelin, two more by Pink Floyd
Creedence put out three man, Brian Jones up and died
The Beatles played a rooftop, then gave peace a chance
A ballad for John & Yoko, Butch Cassidy & Sundance,
Back in the Spring of ‘69
I was born in the Sixties, rock ‘n’ roll was like pure gold
I was too late for the Fifties (that’s the Police – or so I’m told)
The Beatles crossed Abbey Road, in a Yellow Submarine
We heard from Elvis in Memphis, The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
Nixon in the White House, Manson on the road
Morrison in the jailhouse, Woodstock overload
Back in the Spring of ‘69
I was born in the Sixties, I’ve got rock ‘n’ roll on my brain
I take a journey through the past and feel it pumping in my veins
The Gap, Walmart, Wendy’s, the Internet cocoon
China fought the Russians, Armstrong walked the moon
The birth of Monty Python, the Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo
The death of Ho Chi Minh, and Eisenhauer too
Back in the Spring of ‘69
Back in the Spring of ‘69
Back in the Spring of ‘69
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Cauchemar
03:17
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Dirnig (2019)
04:45
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There's no confession without falsehood
We are victims of conceit and rumor
Flowers of vanity and full of pretention
We've been lashed by the tendrils of madness
Will we walk the line like Johnny Cash did?
Or will we simply wait in line?
Creatures of ego unaware of our blindness
We’ve been fooled into living life backwards
We blaze contentious throughout the mornings
Begging the future to protect our kingdoms
Dodging the arrows that burst our delusions
We live on planets of hallucination
Will we walk the line like Johnny Cash did?
Or will we simply wait in line?
We assume that we've mastered reality
And we think that's air we are breathing
Drenched in the sweat of our mutual boredom
We have licensed the death of our spirits
The wind of inanity blows through the ghost towns
Of our passions and keenest desires
Will we walk the line like Johnny Cash did?
Or will we simply wait in line?
Facing down fantasy in the boardroom
We emphasize our mutual envy
Our children will overtake us
They own the future we strive to take for ourselves
The finishing line is a moving target
Forever focusing us on our failures
Will we walk the line like Johnny Cash did?
Or will we simply wait in line?
Life is a journey without an object
Without our courage we really have nothing
Without our courage we really have nothing
Without our courage we really are
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HöFLICH Singapore
Peter Hoflich is a musician living in Singapore. He has sung in the rock bands MegalomaniA, the Hideous Motör-Apes, Reckless Hearts, Von Doom and The Sinisters, as well as the folk unit the Es with Athena Desai and Jae Lee. He also performs his own acoustic songs from time to time, and is trying a few experimental things in the home studio. ... more
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