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Ich Bin Dein Teufel Cowboy

from Dark Riders, Storm Riders - album (2020) by Van Hoflich

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A monster love story inspired both by Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark and Black Sabbath's "N.I.B.", the song title and some of the lyrics are in German. This is stylistic, but also plays into the fact that there are still communities all over Texas where German is still spoken, the language carried down through multiple generations from German immigrants who settled in Texas in the 19th century.

Kelly Olafson, a fantastic musician based in Singapore, contributed the awesome banjo track as well as some sweet, sweet vocal melodies.

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You walk the dust plains at night
Your eyes they can’t stand the light
Your lust for blood is your right
And I’m going to take my first bite

I’ve watched you for a long time
You’re weak and way past your prime
Be strong and give me a sign
Just put your hand into mine

I’ll bring you eternal joy
Ich bin dein Teufel Cowboy

The world is a fountain of sin
Your crimes will swallow you in
The hate and the madness will win
And crush your soul from within

I love your pale ghostly skin
Your teeth as sharp as a pin
A man looks-at-you and grins
And so the bloodletting begins

Your heart they want to destroy
Ich bin dein Teufel Cowboy

We watch the birds soaring high
The pain will spread ‘cross the sky
We’ll fight an eye for an eye
The world will tremble and cry

The towns were we slay are just fine
They’re on th’ Texas side of the Rhein
We twist around serpentine
Humanity’s on the decline

Listening to Willie & Roy
Ich bin dein Teufel Cowboy

I’m crazy just like Patsy Kline
I want you to always be mine
Du bist mein Vampir Fräulein
Lass mich dein Teufelprinz sein

I taught you the right way to kill
And now you do it at will
The mountains shiver with chill
And watch the blood spill & spill

The hounds have brought me a sign
Your destiny’s trapped up with mine
I see our final bloodline
It feeds on me time after time

Du bist mein Vampir Fräulein
Lass mich dein Teufelprinz sein

Du sagst zu mir “Grendhal du Schwein,
Du darfst mein Teufelprinz sein.”

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from Dark Riders, Storm Riders - album (2020), released September 18, 2020
Words & Music: Peter Hoflich
Banjo & Harmonies: Kelly Olafson
Lead vocal & all other instruments: Peter Hoflich

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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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