Mando Diao : Ode to Ochrasy

Rock / Suède
(2006 - EMI Records)
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1. WELCOME HOME, LUC ROBITAILLE

Smile you're on tv again
You must put up a happy face
Your mother told you to on Christmas day
Oh you must do what they say
Now you're thinking of happy thoughts
Like no one did you harm and it was all
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Life's so brilliant but why? I'm not sure
You remember the day
You remember the package
Where he used to spend his years
And now you found him or was it him that found you
It feels like you already knew

Life is sweet when he is back so I just say
Welcome home, Luc Robitaille there's so much
That you missed I'm old but I need you as much as yesterday
Oh Mr. Robitaille stay
I threw the others away

This must be the worst thing I've done
I don't know even why I wrote this song
There's so much more to him than that paper card
Look him crossing the line oh it's so hard
To define the moves inside my head it's all just
Blood blood sweat sweat tears tears behind all fears
Now it seems so clear everything falls into place
This mathematic maze and now you found me
Or was it me that found you it feels like you already knew

Life is sweet when he is back so I just say
Welcome home, Luc Robitaille there's so much
That you missed I'm old but I need you as much as yesterday
Oh Mr. Robitaille stay
I threw the others away, I threw the others away

Smile you're on tv again you must put up a
happy face your mother told you to
And now you see you found him or was it
Him that I found you
It feels like you already knew

Life is sweet when he is back so I just say
Welcome home, Luc Robitaille there's so much
That you missed I'm old but I need you as much as yesterday
Oh Mr. Robitaille stay
I threw the others away, I threw the others away,
I threw the others away, I threw the others away
I threw the others away, I threw the others away,
I threw the others away, I threw the others away


2. KILLER KACZYNSKI

Bombs over the street bombs all over the subway
Bombs on your mind when there's no one around
But in your garden there was never a problem
But now you're standing on the street

Bombs for your dad bombs for your mommy
Bombs that passed a long time ago
But in your childhood there was never a problem
But now you're standing on the street

And you wish that there was something you could do
To win back that feeling that was new and fresh but

Bombs over the street bombs all over the subway
Bombs on your mind and the people around
It's such a shame now this game you play now
You're standing lonely on the street
With bombs tied on to your feet

Yeah

Blood all over the street blood all over your body
Blood on your mind and the people around
But in your garden there was never a problem
But now you're standing on the street

And you wish there was something you could do
To win back that feeling that was new and fresh but

Bombs over the street bombs all over the subway
Bombs on your mind and the people around
It's such a shame now this game you play now
You're standing lonely on the street
With bombs tied on to your feet

Yeah


3. LONG BEFORE ROCK'N'ROLL

She said that I like just lying on the bed
Beneath the ceiling
With the head upon my pillow
There's nothing else I'd rather do
I said that I'd rather do it on the couch
Or in the kitchen whereabout
You seem so down, child,
Like nothing could destroy your world...

But I never ever wanted to
You would never ever let me to
I would but you must wait 'till it gets dark
So what is it that you want me to
I can make it if its good for you
So play me some from 1954
Before rock 'n roll
Yeah, before Rock'n'Roll
Before Rock 'n' Roll!

Well later she came
With flowers in her arms, said
We can do it in the car
My brother owns it
The driver seat is made for us"
And I said I'd rather grab a bite to eat
There is a diner down the street
Let's take it easy
And join this lovely harmony

But I never ever wanted to
You would never ever let me to
I would but you must wait 'till it gets dark
So what is it that you want me to
I can make it if its good for you
So play me some from 1954
Before rock 'n roll
Yeah, before Rock'n'Roll
Before Rock 'n' Roll!

Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Before Rock 'n' Roll...
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Before Rock 'n' Roll...

Long Before Rock 'n' Roll.
Before Rock 'n' Roll...

Yeah, yeah, yeaaaaaaargggggh!


4. THE WILDFIRE (IF IT WAS TRUE)

Well there's something in the way
She said I hate you 'cause you breathe
It's not the first time that i heard it
But this one is out of reach
I got my mind set on destruction
And if it will strike me hard
Will you remember me

Oh it's in the way you set your life
On your alarm and hit the snoozer
You waste your life expectancy
You throw away your hopes and dreams
The night will never end, it'll stay forever
Well the dark will eat you up inside

So I smile and shed a tear
And said when will you go away
She said who cares you're not
Entitled to ask those things today
Don't let the salt get in your eye
Don't let the ghost get in your heart
There were sweet memories
In the corner of my mind
They were telling me to throw up
All the things that I want to hide that

We're having fun in the daytime
We'll chase the stars in the nighttime
And we'll take the sun in the morning
We just don't care if they see us fall
If it was true

Well today I bought the paper by myself
And cried 'cause everyone was happy
And on the streets well they where dancing
To some kind of Puerto Rican music
That we would hate
But we would just move along to

So if you're driving in your car
And hear this song on radio1
Well I know that it sound silly
'Cause you don't have a car
But I just read it in a book
That these things happen in the fictive world

So I smile and shed a tear
And said when will you go away
She said who cares you're not
Entitled to ask those things today
Don't let the salt get in your eye
Don't let the ghost get in your heart
There were sweet memories
In the corner of my mind
They were telling me to throw up
All the things that I want to hide that

We're having fun in the daytime
We'll chase the stars in the nighttime
And we'll take the sun in the morning
We just don't care if they see us fall
Just don't care
Just don't care at all
If it was true

Well there is something in the air
That makes it difficult to live
The way we lived back in the days
When we had all the time to kill
It's just the wildfire burning
There's no way to put it out
Just a wildfire spreading
Through my days and throug my nights
Don't ask no questions
Don't ever tell no lie
I´m so tired of explaining
Every minor detail of my life

We're having fun in the daytime
We'll chase the stars in the nighttime
And we'll catch the sun in the morning
We just don't care if they see us fall
We're having fun in the daytime
We'll chase the stars in the nighttime
And we'll catch the sun in the morning
We just don't care if they see us fall
Just don't care
Just don't care at all
If it was true


5. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME

You came a long way you didn't know my name girl
You thought that I was just a gigolo
And you told all your friends that I was strange and weird
But that's a lie that I'm sure you know
So I'm telling you where to start
But you're not interested at all

'Cause you, you don't understand me
You don't understand what
What I've been through
You don't understand me
You don't understand what
What I've been through
Oh what I've been through

It's such a shame I'm wasting all my talent
Writing songs to you without feelings
You didn't want the heaven by your side
That's too bad you'll see 'cause I'm warm and nice
And now you're telling me where to go
I wish that I cared, but I don't

'Cause you, you don't understand me
You don't understand what
What I've been through
You, you don't understand me
You don't understand what
What I've been through

Oh...
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But I will always be the one that holds you in the end...

In the end... ohhh
Now in the end...


6. TONY ZOULIAS (LUSTFUL LIFE)

I had a heart attack and boy it brought me back
To where I was before I started to believe in myself
I didn't need no gun, I didn't need no sword
I didn't even know the meaning of the terrible war
I didn't need you and you didn't need me
And no matter what you told my God you sold your soul

And if you ever see me without home you know that's cause I want it so
I just like to live a little lustful life and if it's lightning on a sunny day
You know that's cause I want my way I just like to live a little lustful life
To live a little lustful life, to live a little lustful life

Oh, I didn't need no fun I didn't need no cunts
To tell me to leave my door in the morning sun
Cause I know where it's at yeah, I know where it's at
It's up to every little fellow down to every cat
You never need me and I never need you
And no matter what you told my God you sold your soul

And if you ever see me without home you know that's cause I want it so
I just like to live a little lustful life and if it's lightning on a sunny day
You know that's cause I want my way I just like to live a little lustful life
To live a little lustful life, to live a little lustful life

And if you ever see me without home you know that's cause I want it so (4x)
I just like to live a little lustful life and if it's lightning on a sunny day
You know that's cause I want my way I just like to live a little lustful life
To live a little lustful life, to live a little lustful life

To live, to live and to die and to die
To live, to live and to die and to die
To live, to live and to die and to die
To live, to live and to die and to die


7. AMSTERDAM

I was down in Amsterdam almost hurt myself to death
I pushed myself so hard just like the redlight girls
Well I cried and stopped to smile
I thought my career was over and the dealer boys they had to bring me water

I stumbled over mountains and the shadows of the street
I fell into the river, I cried and and begged for mercy
And I talked to God on the telephone
But I really can't tell you what he told me but it was a lie
No I really can't tell you what he told me but it was a lie

When I came to Amsterdam the hotel showed a movie with Marlon Brando and his friend Pacino
Well I thought that this is nice
I'm sure I can relax now but suddenly the room was full of demon

I escaped through the window almost ran a mile away
I had nowhere to go so I cried and and begged for mercy
And I talked to God on the telephone
But I really can't tell you what he told me but it was a lie
No I really can't tell you what he told me but it was a lie

But nothing seems to matter in this lonesome dirty town
But for a short brief moment I thought she was the one
And she and I were fighting about sex, love and TV
That's why I had to get down and talk to God on the telephone
But I really can't tell you what he told me but it was a lie
No I really can't tell you what he told me but it was a lie


8. TV & ME

Gunned down in a fight it was a bloody pleasure
Though I couldn't walk I'm not dead
I smell the pavement and the end there's a light
And so pretty women though I couldn't see
I'm not blind and inside my mind

Fright night on the radio starving junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother I just sit and hang around
While there's Conan something, MTV's burning up from lack of fever
I ain't got nothing against them brother I just sit and hang around
I just wish there was something more to this TV & me

Lift off into space it's all on Discovery
I don't understand why it takes so long for me to turn
So long for me to turn it off

Fright night on the radio starving junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother I just sit and hang around
While there's Conan something, MTV's burning up from lack of fever
I ain't got nothing against them brother I just sit and hang around
I just wish there was something more to this TV & me

Well there's fright night on the radio starving junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother I just sit and hang around
While there's Conan something, MTV's burning up from lack of mercy
I ain't got nothing against them brother I just sit and hang around TV & me


9. JOSEPHINE

Josephine is not your kind
She believes in magic and rhymes
You tried hard to make her fine
But she sleeps with acid

Do her parents know it's for real
When she asks them to be high
I don't know
But they sure will be aware of it

She smokes clouds every single night
Should be glad that she's alive
In her head she sees butterflies with pistols

Josephine is not your kind
She believes in ravers with dimes
You tried hard to see her eyes
But they're made for others

She runs to the club with some cash
And spends them all on pleasure
In her head there's some old drug
Taking care of her

Gets the very best of a man
And pays him with a laugh
Don't you see she's not a mystery


10. THE NEW BOY

She was only 21
But so much older than she's now
Now she passed the 24
I guess it's time to say goodbye

Here's the new
Here's the real
Here's the life you like to live
Now here's the new boy taking on the world tonight

When we met
She smelled like honey
When we kissed she tasted tears
Then for 14000 seconds
We made love behind old fears

Here's the new
Here's the real
Here's the life you wished to live
Now here's the new boy taking on the world tonight
Take the words on your way I don't waste the things I say
When in doubt fuck the world
Forget all the things you've heard
Now here's the new boy taking on the world tonight

Why so sad? Don't you like my way of life?
I don't last forever neither do the things we love
You are wise this is now
This is all the things I want
Everything around us
Is moving except time
She was only 24
But so much younger than the past
We've laid all our troubles down

And now it's us against the rest
Here's the new here's the real
Here's the life you like to live
Now here's the new boy
Taking on the world tonight

Take the words on your way I don't waste the things I say
When in doubt fuck the world
Forget all the things you've heard
Now here's the new boy taking on the world tonight


11. MORNING PAPER DIRT

You smashed her right between her blue eyes
He didn't think ahead yeah that's what he said
Then everyone of us just turned our backs to him and said
That was not a nice thing to do
I can't believe that he was so cruel

But you love your brothers no matter what they say
Yeah you love your brothers no matter what kind of games you play

And it's gonna rain that's what they say
But we're just gonna cover our heads
And we ain't coming out until we're dead oh no
It's gonna drown all of our sins
But we don't wanna loose what we got
No we don't wanna loose what we own oh no

This stinking alley's full of old cats and dogs
They got no money and they got no home
Oh, I once was one of them but now I'm on my own
And it feels so good to be an outlaw in your perfect world

Cuz you love your brothers no matter that's what they say
Alle Yeah you love your brothers no matter what kind of games you play

And it's gonna rain what they say
But we're just gonna cover our heads
And we ain't coming out until we're dead oh no
It's gonna drown all of our sins
But we don't wanna loose what we got
No we don't wanna loose what we own oh no

And it's gonna rain and that's for sure


12. GOOD MORNING, HERR HORST

I've been walking down the street with a Tambourine on my feet
I'm holding every beat steady and low well if it would've been me
I would have turned into the Factory and chase that little girl black and blue

Now I'm bleeding and 'Im freezing and I'm crying once again
For monday glass, for monday glass

So if you see me on the street don't ask me about my passing days
Just slip another coin and walk away

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I once had a love of mine with a different heart in another time
I blow that off with pills and alcohol
I once had a child of mine with a different heart in another time
I blow that off with booze and lack of soul

Now I'm bleeding and 'Im freezing and I'm crying once again
For monday glass, for monday glass

So if you see me on the street don't ask me about my passing days
Just slip another coin and walk away
Yeah, slip another coin and walk away

LaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLa


13. SONGS FOR ABERDEEN

She was an alcoholic artist
With too much makeup 'round her eyes
And I never knew her real name
She was a sunbeam wrapped in lies

But I love her and I'm sorry
And that's all there is to say
It's like a fairy from the ancient time
And I hope it, I hope it stays that way, oh yeah

And when I woke up on your kitchen floor
With a headache made in hell
And the flowers that I gave you
Smiled at me from the window pane

Then I thought I must be crazy
'Cause I'm feeling kinda good
And then when Satan helped me up again
It was then I, it was then I understood
Oh yeah, alright, oh yeah

Oh, well, I was never meant to be the good boy
I was never meant to go to school
Well, it's guys like me who get somewhere
'Cause everybody pity a fool

Now it's payback for the rainy days
Now it's no more me and you
Well, I got mine, you got yours, babe
Oh, now it's payback, now it's me against the world
Oh yeah, alright, alright

Babe, it was the last time I forgave you
Oh, it was the last time I forgave you
Babe, it was the last time I forgave you
Oh, it was the last time I forgave you

Babe, it was the last time I forgave you
Babe, it was the last time I forgave you
Oh, it was the last time I forgave you
Oh, it was the last time, oh yeah


14. OCHRASY

I feel dizzy all laid back and I'm too blind to see
What's going on outside my lonely window
I'm turning on the TV screen watch the news for a while
Then I fall back to sleep again

And I'm dreaming 'bout times, times that are gone
Times when I lived alone in my own land called ochrasy
That place was everything to me
The word I made it up you see
It's all there in my fantasy
And I believe it

I'm waking up again and see that war on screen again
And it makes me want to go and hide
This world is full of misery, the anger is too big to see
That's why I had to dream this dream

I was dreaming 'bout times, times that are gone
Times when I lived alone in my own land called ochrasy
That place was everything to me
The word I made it up you see
It's all there in my fantasy
And I believe it

Now they come again all these soldiers without shame
Dressed in black an equipped with fire
They can stop our happy days and put us in the graves
But never ever reach the ochrasy

I was dreaming 'bout times, times that are gone
Times when I lived alone in my own land called ochrasy
That place was everything to me
The word I made it up you see
It's all there in my fantasy
And I believe it

I'm waking up again and see that war on screen again
And it makes me want to go and hide
This world is full of misery the anger is too big to see
That's why I had to dream this dream


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