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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