Peter Hammill - German Overalls Lyrics

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Manheim; rainy Saturday with no money nor friend,

Only Tequila can end the boredom.

Try to reach London for a pocket of hope;

We're children, we grope in the dark.

Hugh spends his last Mark on coffee and cheese...

I feel just like a refugee...

Rathaus-keepers and traffic police,

Middle-aged maids with rotting teeth

Industrial magazines and old Sunday Times;

Reading material/bleeding lines.

What are we doing here?

Memorial manace, eager for revenge,

Has begun to bend our minds.

Shower-curtain imperative in the presence of acid;

Now, feeling placid is death.

I try to hold my breath as the P.A. comes down...

Here we all are in Ktown!

The Big Wheel never fails to grind around;

It drags me up/drags me down

Seven sentenses wonder 'Can this be real,

Or am I become a performing seal?'

Why are we dying here?

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I walk the streets alone, try to find a sign of love,

I've crushed the plaster-bone in the freaky clubs,

I have bit the fruit

But all I live for is to play

And I'm tired of the nights and the days

Of airports, taxis and motorway showers,

Grooping for a key in the afterhours.

David takes to travelling in the van,

He knows that we all can understand;

We're at the mercy of the Kosmos Tour,

Making a pilgrimage to the German Lourdes...

But we're still crippled here.

Cathedrals spiral skywards, I think I'm getting vertigo,

I think I don't know what is real.

On a more sudden spotlight, one more madness is over...

I must not show a sign of fear.

Words echo round my ears, I think I'm going to laugh...

Think I'll just go and take a bath, Guess I'll wash my clothes,

Don't you know I'll grow to go and make my name,

Maybe a servant in the Fame game;

Stake my sane and rest my life on the line...

Now lay me asunder and rend my mind;

At the fall of the curtain let this be my ghost

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