Our second CD was finished in 2009 and is called "Timeless in the Sky".
The lyrics to the songs can be found further down the page.
Track list:
The record release/good-bye-concert at the Dodohaus in September 09 was great fun. Thanks to Rainer Dombrowsky who supported us from start to finish. Thanks too to Detlef Stein for the photographs from the evening.
Lyrics:
1. Just another Rolling Stone
Words and music by Dietmar Dombrowsky
1 Ships thundered on in the South China seas
Windswept coastlines in the Gulf of Mexico
Iced over peaks in South America
Where eagles fly timeless in the sky
Refrain My life is just another rolling stone
With no place anywhere I can call my own
I need you to want me to give me a home
I need you by my side like I need the sun
2 Flashes of darkness in empty crowded streets
Voices that blend andcluster round bar lights
The void gets filled for the time that this lasts
To drift back to the cold pre-urban night
Refrain My life is just another rolling stone
With no place anywhere I can call my own
I need you to want me to give me a home
I need you by my side like I need the sun
Chorus Don’t you know all the way I havejourneyed to be near you
I have looked and searched all over
Just to find some peace of mind, (peace of mind) peace of mind (peace of mind)
Refrain My life is just another rolling stone
With no place anywhere I can call my own
I need you to want me to give me a home
I need you by my side like I need the sun
3 As the morning lights begin to whisper in your eyes
And forests shed black robesforgreen
The ice will melt and rivers start to flow
To take me to the place that I belong
Refrain My life is just another rolling stone
With no place anywhere I can call my own
I need you to want me to give me a home
I need you by my side like I need the sun
2. Mystery Man
Words and music by Stephen Laskey
1 Everybody says it how we’ve started house on fire
And if I declared them wrong you'd tell me I'm a liar
But it’s been a month or more and time enough to see
You're trying much too hard to fall for me
2 When we’re on the roller coaster moving like a train
I could never think to doubt you nor could I complain
Only that I notice when I'm lying in your arms
As sweetly as you speak your eyes are calm
Refrain 1 Mystery man, say why
Everything you play by
Has to be right, perfectly right
Open your heart to me
3 When we’re on the roller coaster moving like a train
I could never think to doubt you nor could I complain
But it’s been a month or more and time enough to see
You’re trying much too hard to fall for me
Refrain 1 Mystery man, say why
Everything you play by
Has to be right, perfectly right
Open your heart to me
Refrain 2 Maybe the moon won’t stay
Twenty-four hours, one day
But if you can mystery man
Open your heart to me
Refrain 2 Maybe the moon won’t stay
Twenty-four hours, one day
But if you can mystery man
Open your heart to me
3. Give me Half a Chance
Words and music by Stephen Laskey
1 Waiting for the train
Counting up the billboard signs and station fines
Hoping that my brain
Eases on the number nine this heart of mine
Feeling out of sorts, dealing with some thoughts
I just don’t need, my heart still beats for you
Refrain Don’t take me out tonight, don’t make me blue
Just give me half a chance to say my love is through
Don’t start to walk away, don’t fight my tears
Just give me half a chance to walk back through the years
2 Checking my belief
Seems to me that God came first and did his worst
Looking for relief
Man invented lifelong thirst but something burst
Piping hot remains, coursing through my veins
I’m still so scared, I’ve not been spared like you
Refrain Don’t take me out tonight, don’t make me blue
Just give me half a chance to say my love is through
Don’t start to walk away, don’t fight my tears
Just give me half a chance to walk back through the years
Chorus Just give me half a chance, half a chance, half a chance
Just give me half a chance, half a chance, half a chance
3 Nothing I can do
Time is maybe on my side but not the tide
Shaping up anew
Even if it hurts my pride I’ve got to hide
Keeping out of range, hoping you can change
Is not my style but still no trial for you
Refrain Don’t take me out tonight, don’t make me blue
Just give me half a chance to say my love is through
Don’t start to walk away, don’t fight my tears
Just give me half a chance to walk back through the years
4. This Thing Called Love
Words and music by Dietmar Dombrowsky
1 I rarely ever find time to think about love
But I always seem to be thinking about you
I used to believe all you do is play it down
And just get on with the things you have to do
Refrain But why...I don’t know what you feel for me
Why can’t I stop all this thinking about ,
Thinking about , thinking about you I just don’t know
2 It puzzles me no end this thing called love
It leaves me powerless and speechless and trapped deep, deep, deep
down inside
It’s part of me constantly and it’s all too hard
My soul is suffering my knees all bruised from all this praying
Refrain But why...I don’t know what you feel for me
Why can’t I stop all this thinking about ,
Thinking about , thinking about you I just don’t know
3 Missed opportunities offered to me only once
Set myself in motion just a little bit too late
Dreams of loaded dice rolling in my favour now
Kings and princes drop by the wayside while we ride on high
Refrain But why...I don’t know what you feel for me
Why can’t I stop all this thinking about ,
Thinking about , thinking about you I just don’t know
5. By My Side
Words and music by Dietmar Dombrowsky
1 Your hands, your touch, your warmth, your smile
Give me the sense of an inner life
I’d give, I’d take, I’d trade it all
Just to have you by my side
2 If fate would only be so kind
I’d even sacrifice my independent line
To always know that you will be by my side
Chorus 1 Another morning waking up by your side
Walking and talking in the autumn wind
It’s all part of what I crave
Just to have you by my side.
3 Your hands, your touch, your warmth, your smile
Give me the sense of an inner life
I’d give, I’d take, I’d trade it all
Just to have you by my side
Chorus 2 Alive I long to hear that song
Flow on all the time, all the while
Alive I long to hear that song
Flow on all the time, all the while
4 Your hands, your touch, your warmth, your smile
Give me the sense of an inner life
I’d give, I’d take, I’d trade it all
Just to have you by my side,
Just to have you by my side,
Just to have you by my side.
6. Every Man I Know
Words and music by Stephen Laskey
1 Every man I know’s been down to the city
With the rundown blocks uptown and the pretty
Piazzas in the slums
And the money says Jesus Christ never comes
2 Every man I know’s kept time like a drummer
When the birds of love come home for the summer
And pipe across the roads
Every man I know speaks of fine episodes
Chorus But that’s the way the wind blows
Once a man concealing facts from the world
Once a man revealing true love likes to be the pearl of emotion
Once a man at ease with cool as windy notions of morning breeze
3 Not a wisp of will to dream of a cellar
Every man I know works for Cinderella
The coaches overflow
Like a fairy tale every man that I know
Like a fairy tale every man that I know
Like a fairy tale every man that I know
7. Bush Taxi Song
Words and music by Dietmar Dombrowsky
1 Taking the long way to the rock
Away from the rain
Moving to heat that spreads the day
Across this wide expanse of land
2 The sky so blue the land so red
Feels like no other place exists
Yellow grass and purple inselbergs
Squinting your eyes for a monkey tail
Refrain Everybody is dancing, yes they are dancing,
They are dancing or so it seems
Everybody is moving , gently swaying,
Lazy motions make you feel at ease
3 The palm wine’s wrapped you in a
Don’t-give-a-damn frame of mind
Cola nuts in your right hand
To keep the mind alert and bright
4 Abyssinian rollers in the sky
Flit by in hues of silvery blue
Gurara falls roar in the distance
Water pounding in a steady beat
Refrain Everybody is dancing, yes they are dancing,
They are dancing or so it seems
Everybody is moving , gently swaying,
Lazy motions make you feel at ease
5 Palm fronded huts along the road
Beside broken down trucks
Stop by the roadside for some chop
Drinks for the driver too
6 Yams pounded freshly in the morning
And egusi soup tasting so sweet
The Cassanova Groovy Spot so bright
Star beer in the starlit nights
Refrain Everybody is dancing, yes they are dancing,
They are dancing or so it seems
Everybody is moving , gently swaying,
Lazy motions make you feel at ease
8. Only One Life
Words and music by Narin Kiki
Intro: Le-i Le-i Le-i Le-i Le-i Bada Le-i (Bada Le-i) (x2)
1 Sitting drinking coffee my eyes fall on this girl,
She´d like to start her life but she is much too shy
And I can see there´s nothing in the world
She would like to do more than to travel far away (but she is much too shy)
Refrain Let your life just flow let it easy go
You only have one life
Take it, hold it, live it, every moment is your life
2 Walking down the street, my eyes fall on this woman
She thinks her life is over, that all her tears are cried
But I can see that soon a river of tears
Will fall down to the floor (a river of tears will fall)
Refrain Let your life just flow let it easy go
You only have one life
Take it, hold it, live it, every moment is your life
Chorus Only one life, only one life, only one life….
3 Waiting for the bus my eyes fall on this young man
He´s unable to move, he feels somehow paralyzed
And I can see there´s nothing in the world
He would like to feel more than to fall in love (but he´s unable to move)
Refrain Let your life just flow let it easy go
You only have one life
Take it, hold it, live it, every moment is your life
Outro: Le-i Le-i Le-i Le-i Le-i Bada Le-i (Bada Le-i) (x2)
9. For you Now
Words and music by Stephen Laskey
1 What’s got you so confused
Looking at me like my head’s not used
Why should you think it strange
Some things in people will not be changed at all
That’s all
2 Twenty-four hours a day
Hard as a diamond in what we say
Once in a lonely while
Soft as a baby and lots of style in love
Sweet love
Refrain 1 Over and over into the valley
Travel the rising sun
Ever familiar over and over
Getting the day’s work done
And I’m the same when there’s love my way
Always the same in the games I play for you now, for you now
3 Who could believe it true
Filling up holes in a life or two
Couldn’t do more for love
More than remember the songs we cover through
And through
Refrain 2 Over and over into the valley
Travel the rising sun
Ever familiar over and over
Getting the day’s work done
And I’m the same as that morning light
Always the same in the ways I fight for you now, for you now
10. Cool on the Rocks
Words by Josh Perlman, music by Dietmar Dombrowsky
Refrain Angels bloom for just one day
Rest of the time they just look back and say
Wasn’t it cool on the rocks babe?
Wasn’t it good by the sea?
1 Thunder-rolls on a drum-tight sky
Tapping your name till the day I fly
Clock-hands spin and skeletons grin
One of these days I’m gonna cave on in
Found my bride in a bed of sin
Aint no words for the hurt you’re in
Refrain Angels bloom for just one day
Rest of the time they just look back and say
Wasn’t it cool on the rocks babe?
Wasn’t it good by the sea?
2 Sick and shot like a junkyard cat
I spent the night in a laundromat
Crazy girl with the pumpkin teeth
How am I gonna rock this heart to sleep?
Oaths that bleed like ink on a page
Mumble them out against a dirty grate
Refrain Angels bloom for just one day
Rest of the time they just look back and say
Wasn’t it cool on the rocks babe?
Wasn’t it good by the sea?
3 Spit out teeth and fish for gold
Counting up all the good lies you told
Bad old brain shot through with stars
Gonna take a gun to the one that took out ours
Cobblestones from the last earthquake
How many tears is it gonna take the earth to break?
Refrain Angels bloom for just one day
Rest of the time they just look back and say
Wasn’t it cool on the rocks babe?
Wasn’t it good by the sea?
11. Tell Me Now
Words and music by Stephen Laskey
1 You say it’s in the way I love you
Why you need to bump and push me out of your life
I tell you nothing’s ordinary when you meet the right one
Everything’s a drama in your mind
Refrain Tell me now, tell me darling
Tell me now, tell me darling
Tell me why you’ve got to leave me
Got to walk away
2 You say nothing about your feelings
Not one word on why you want me out of your life
You tell me only that you’re very much another someone
Playing in the movies of your mind
Refrain Tell me now, tell me darling
Tell me now, tell me darling
Tell me why you’ve got to leave me
Got to walk away
Chorus And when you say to me
That it’s all so very unconscious
The mess in your mind
You only get me excited more
To find what’s under there
3 It’s in the way I love you
Why you need to bump and push me out of your life
But someday maybe you’ll be sorry, say you left the right one
Looking like the wrong one in your mind
Refrain Tell me now, tell me darling
Tell me now, tell me darling
Tell me why you’ve got to leave me
Got to walk away
12. Crystal Moments
Words and music by Dietmar Dombrowsky
1 Cowrie shells and Diamond Rings
Platinum and silver bells
Golden chains and ruby gems
Wouldn’t make me move an inch
Holding this moment in my hands
Feel the sand seep through my fingers
It’s a moment like a century
That holds us in complete and free
Refrain Wouldn’t it be beautiful
Freeze frame this moment love
And carry it through life
As real and as true as the air that I breathe
2 Oh love, don’t drift away from me
Don’t let the cold and icy wind
Play to emptiness and solitude
Gnaw deep down into my soul
Oceans wide and mountains high
Forests deep and pastures green
Pristine lakes and endless fields
Could not entice me to leave
Refrain Wouldn’t it be beautiful
Freeze frame this moment love
And carry it through life
As real and as true as the air that I breathe
13. Take it Again
Words and music by Dietmar Dombrowsky
1 Take it from me
You don’t have to do it all over
Start up again
But move into a new constellation
Refrain 1 Take it again
Move it again
Shift it all
One step beyond
2 Everyone is in a
Circle of their own
They will never break out
Unless they really want to now
Refrain 2 Call it love
Call it life
Call it love
Call it life
14. Better Much Better
Words and music by Stephen Laskey
1 Sitting down inside, looking at the outside
Ready for some tantrum throwing
You’re moving to the left, I’m turning to the right
But together we’re a typhoon blowing
Refrain Got to make it bad if you want to make
A sad song better, much better
If you want to make a sad song better, much better
Then you’ve got to make a good song bad
2 Give a man what for, specially give a lot for
Knowing I can make him suffer,
I love it when we break up, another day to make up
And look upon a love got tougher
Refrain Got to make it bad if you want to make
A sad song better, much better
If you want to make a sad song better, much better
Then you’ve got to make a good song bad
Chorus Every one’s a love song, even when we fight,
Early in the morning or the middle of the night
Cos we know the secret, got the second sight
How to make a sad song better
3 Happy on Sunday, better on a Monday,
Little bit of perfect summer,
But soon I’ve had enough and I want to play it rough
With a little boy who loves his mama
Refrain Got to make it bad if you want to make
A sad song better, much better
If you want to make a sad song better, much better
Then you’ve got to make a good song
Got to make a good song
Got to make a good song bad
15. Oh My My
Words and music by Stephen Laskey
1 Oh my my
Ideas all over me what’s under me won’t let me fly, oh my
Lie down beside me let the ceiling be the stormy sky, oh my
Two thousand sailors in the Chelsea Hotel
Could never get me through a party so well
Oh my my, feel like I’m hanging over Babylon and out to dry
Chorus Blue sleepless nights don’t ever go away nor find me strong
You keep my body warm
In return I’ll wake you up before I go
Up before I go
2. Oh my my
Why be so foolish as to tell me that you’d like to die, oh my
Lie down beside me like a paper tiger don’t be shy, oh my
Two thousand sailors in the ships of the night
Could never miss you more with all of their might
Oh my my, feel like I'm hanging over Babylon and out to dry
Chorus Blue sleepless nights don’t ever go away nor find me strong
You keep my body warm
In return I’ll wake you up before I go
Up before I go
3 Oh my my
I’ve waited all my life for someone who can make me cry, oh my
Lie down beside me let the window be the moon on high, oh my
Two thousand sailors writing home to their girls
Could never make me touch a lock of your curls
Oh my my, feel like I’m hanging over Babylon and out to
Babylon and out to
Babylon and out to dry
