Christian Langer

Diskografie

Pictures (of life and death)

Supper’s Ready | 1996

All songs written and arranged by Christian Langer. „Life holes“ lyrics by Langer/Abad. „One day – Intro“ music by Langer/Netz/Ambros. „Obscure – Intro“ music by Langer/Netz. Recorded an mixed by RCM and Christian Langer at Tukan Studio, Kornwestheim, 1996. Harmonium recorded by Oliver Frick.

Christian Langer – Vocals, Piano, Percussion, Harmonium

Carsten Netz – Saxophone, Clarinette, Flute

Alex Uhl – Bass

Paul Schmitt – Drums

Jo Ambros – Guitar, Strange noises

Uli Kammerer – Cello

  • One day

    • Lyrics

      One day

      One day
      I saw pictures passing by
      I sit alone and clear thoughts move in me
      Some are near now far
      I wonder where they come from
      No one knows

      One day
      I heard whispered spoken words
      I sit alone and clear thought move in me
      Some are near now far
      I wonder where they come from
      No one knows

  • Obscure

    • Lyrics

      Obscure

      Life is something too obscure
      What is right and what is wrong
      Hard to find a way to face it
      Bring me someone to explain the rules
      In my darkness light is shining
      Sometimes I know I’m too blind to see

      My heart is gone out tonight
      To meet someone who cares like me
      Someone who knows the crying game
      Just tell me that I’m strong enough
      To face the whirl

      Life is sometimes too obscure
      The more you risk the more you fail
      Hard to find a way to face it
      Bring me someone to explain the rules
      In my darkness light is shining
      Sometimes I know I’m too blind to see

  • Life holes

    • Lyrics

      Lifeholes

      The mind that fails in time
      Try to make it mine
      Lost in seas of wine
      The rage it is my sign

      Wipe away the truth
      I feel so deranged
      Fill my holes with dust
      I feel so deranged
      Break the sense right now
      I feel so deranged
      Turn it inside out
      I’m so depressed

      The heart that can’t resist here
      Time can make it clear
      The pain that stays so near
      It always feeds my fear

      No escape from lies
      I feel so deranged
      Broken wings can’t fly
      I feel so deranged
      Emptyness no try
      I feel so deranged
      Pass me by
      I’m so deranged

      Heal my life holes

  • The next world

    • Lyrics

      The next world

      After death
      There’s so much joy
      They will use you
      As a toy
      In the next world

  • Tie / Killing thoughts

    • Lyrics

      Tie

      Tell me now that I’m in you
      Father please tell me I’m still alive
      Where were you
      When I was lost before?
      Where have you been
      When I needed your strong hand?
      Please tell me about the past
      Father please
      Tell me about the war
      Hold me
      I need to feel you’re still here
      Where have you been
      When I needed your strong hand?

      Try to remember
      All the plans we made for a better life
      A stronger tie that no one’s ever able to destroy
      Try to remember
      When we both made plans for a better life
      A stronger tie that no one’s ever able to destroy

      Why are you so far from here?

      Tell me now that I‘m still your son
      Father please tell me I’m still alive
      Hold me
      I need to feel you’re still here
      Where have you been
      When I needed your strong hand?

      Killing thoughts

      Maybe we should leave
      The killing thoughts of emptyness
      We must search and run
      To find the land of tenderness
      Maybe we must hide
      Before they come and bleed us white

  • End of the tunnel

    • Lyrics

      End of the tunnel

      Break the silence
      Wake your inner man
      What a failure
      To think that you can’t fail
      Fight your blindness now
      To see the clouds around you
      Blow them all away
      To see my love

      Don’t try to hide
      When I look inside

      We will find the end of the tunnel now

      There’s no anger
      I will understand
      The walls around you
      At least you knocked them down
      You can see the light
      At the end of the tunnel
      There I wait for you
      To give my love

      Don’t try to hide
      When I look inside

      We will find the end of the tunnel now

      You must search and run
      To find the land of tenderness
      There I wait to hold you tight
      Now we have to leave
      The killing thoughts of emptyness
      Before they come and bleed us white

      Don’t try to hide
      When I look inside

      We will find the end of the tunnel now

  • Lies

    • Lyrics

      Lies

      I look at you
      Is it you I see?
      I listen to you
      Is it you I hear?
      Lies
      It seems to me
      You enjoy the dirt
      No air to breathe
      You deceive yourself
      Lies

      You’re not the lowest of the low
      Don’t let yourself go like this
      I’ll save you now
      I’ll help you now
      If you let me know what goes wrong
      What goes wrong inside
      Your eyes can’t lie
      It’s not you I see
      Lies

      You’re not the lowest of the low
      Don’t let yourself go like this
      I’ll save you now
      I’ll help you now
      If you let me help you
      You deceive yourself
      Lies

  • My absent friend

    • Lyrics

      My absent friend

      I heard my absent friend
      Through my soul
      I heard him speak to me
      Like a speaking nothingness
      Join me in my new world
      My absent friend

  • It's time

    • Lyrics

      It’s time

      Nothing to do they’ll never try
      To understand your thoughts
      My dear
      What are you gonna do
      When you feel well and truly sunk by them
      My dear
      And when the day’s gone
      The mirror smiles at you
      You gather all your strength
      And scream it out

      Look at me here I wait for you
      I’m brave, I’m strong, come and see it’s true
      I don’t care about your empty words
      Here I stand
      I’m ready for your show
      It’s time for me to go
      It’s time to go that different way

      You wait all night and no one comes
      To see how brave you are
      My dear
      There comes another day
      And you feel well and truly sunk by them
      My dear
      So when that day is gone
      Again you laugh into your face
      You gather all your power
      And scream it out

      Look at me...

      So one day you ask yourself if this was all
      That you’d expect from life
      Found out that you never really tried
      To go that different way
      And when the day is gone
      You smash the mirror with a smile
      And go that different way
      You scream it out

      Look at me, here I leave you all
      I’m brave, I’m strong
      I don’t need you all
      I don’t care about your empty words
      Here I stand
      I’m ready for my show
      It’s time for me to go
      It’s time to go that different way

  • I still miss you

    • Lyrics

      I still miss you

      See your picture with the smile
      That I still miss
      Never fade away
      You’re still a part of bliss

      If only I told you
      That I needed you
      That you’re a part of bliss
      Before you ceased to be

      It’s not fair of you
      To hide behind that smile
      I just want you to come back to life
      For a while

      If only I embraced you
      Or just talked to you
      If only you said good bye
      Before you ceased to be

      If only I told you
      How much I needed you
      If only you said good bye
      It wouldn’t be so hard

  • Be here

    • Lyrics

      Be here

      Past is dying slowly
      Pain isn’t over yet
      Over there, lying in the grass
      I still remember all
      We spent a lot of moments
      Over there, lying in the grass
      I wish you were here
      Here with me, my dear
      Don’t hide, my love
      Through the storm
      Shelter me
      Hold me silently
      Don’t say a word
      Just be here
      For a while

  • Love is the sky

    • Lyrics

      Love is the sky

      Till the sky is falling to the ground
      Till the ground’s supporting what you’ve found
      Life is the ocean
      Love is the sky

      When the sky is falling to the ground
      When you feel the curtain’s coming down
      Life will be drowning
      ´cause love is the sky

      The night burns
      The sky glows
      The moon’s dancing with the sun
      The clouds look like fireworks
      ´cause love is the sky

      Say good bye to all the empty things
      Say good bye to what the darkness brings
      Life is the ocean
      Love is the sky

      The night burns
      The sky glows
      The moon’s dancing with the sun
      The clouds look like fireworks
      ´cause love is the sky

      Till the sky is falling to the ground
      Till you feel the curtain’s coming down
      Life is the ocean
      Love is the sky

  • Dancing through the seasons

    • Lyrics

      Dancing through the seasons

      Fed up with the seas of tears
      Hung around for years and years
      Now I just forgot the reason
      Looking for another way
      Coming closer day by day
      Now I’m dancing through the seasons

      Endless dreaming through the day
      Endless doubts about a real life
      Pleasures come and go away
      Is it worth it to cry for them

      Fed up...

      Endless hoping for you calling me
      Endless hoping for a big miracle
      Always tried to hide or tried to flee
      Never tried to break away from you

      Fed up...

  • Long way

    • Lyrics

      Long way

      When they come and get you
      Without even knowing
      How far have you got
      They don’t give you time
      To say good bye to all the empty things in life
      They’re never asking
      If you’ve made it
      You always thought
      It’s still a long way away

  • Closer

    • Lyrics

      Closer

      Jump - fly
      For a moment – free
      I get used to life
      I’m standing next to me
      Something’s pulling me
      High - flying high

      Feel the sky’s closer
      Water’s coming closer
      Feel the ground’s closer
      Ground is coming closer

      High - flying high
      Through the clouds
      I send my love to them
      Higher
      Feel the air
      Breathe
      Take a deep breath
      High - flying high

      Feel the sky’s closer
      Sky is coming closer
      Feel the water’s closer
      Ground is coming closer
      Feel
      Closer

  • The strange ignorance

    • Lyrics

      The strange ignorance

      My mind cannot face the pain
      My hands won’t catch your life
      Strange to be
      Ignorant of the way things work
      Strange to know nothing of what life’s about

      Never to be sure
      Of what is true or right or real
      That when you start to die
      Have no idea why

  • Good bye / Outro

    • Lyrics

      Good bye

      I’m sorry ´bout the time
      It’s hard for me to lie
      I’ve lost your heart in mine
      It’s time to say good bye

      I promised you the sky
      The sky was much to high for me
      I’m sorry ´bout betraying you
      It’s time to say good bye

      Well, I know that it hurts
      Sometimes without an ending
      Can’t help you any more
      It’s time to say good bye

      I stayed here much to long
      Did you ever trust in me
      I’ve lost my faith in me and you
      It’s time to say good bye

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