German Overalls-Peter Hammill

[ti:German Overalls (2006 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.26]German Overalls (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill [00:01.45]Mannheim: rainy Saturday with no money nor friend [00:08.82] [00:12.13]Only Tequila can end the boredom [00:20.13] [00:27.09]Try to reach London for a pocket of hope; [00:33.32] [00:34.52]We're children and we grope in the dark [00:41.27] [00:50.07]Hugh spends his last Mark on coffee and cheese [00:55.70] [00:57.88]I feel just like a refugee [01:00.81] [01:07.56]Rathaus-keepers and traffic police [01:10.12] [01:11.08]Middle-aged maids with rotting teeth [01:13.90] [01:15.26]Industrial magazines and old Sunday Times: [01:18.06] [01:18.78]Reading material bleeding lines [01:21.61] [01:23.95]What are we doing here [01:27.23] [01:31.71]Memorial menace eager for revenge [01:36.94] [01:39.63]Has begun to bend our minds [01:45.62] [01:52.84]Shower-curtain imperative in the presence of acid; [01:59.35] [02:00.27]Now feeling placid is death [02:06.44] [02:15.13]I try to hold my breath as the P A comes down [02:21.56] [02:22.83]Here we all are in Ktown [02:29.18] [02:32.65]The Big Wheel never fails to grind around [02:35.36] [02:35.94]It drags me up it drugs me down [02:39.33] [02:40.41]Seven senses wonder Can this be real [02:43.91]Or am I become a performing seal [02:46.92] [02:48.88]Why are we dying here [02:53.03] [03:01.16]I walk the streets alone try to find a sign of love [03:05.79] [03:08.74]I've crushed the plaster-bone in the freaky clubs [03:14.70] [03:16.67]I have bit the fruit [03:19.01] [03:19.78]But all I live for is to play [03:22.34] [03:22.96]And I'm tired of the nights and the days [03:31.87] [03:34.71]Of airports taxis and motorway showers [03:38.03] [03:38.84]Groping for a key in the afterhours [03:42.79] [03:43.31]David takes to travelling in the van [03:45.97] [03:46.75]He knows that we all can understand: [03:49.49] [03:51.14]We're at the mercy of the Kosmos tour [03:54.11] [03:54.62]Making a pilgrimage to the German Lourdes [03:57.52] [03:59.43]But we're still crippled here [04:03.23] [04:44.15]Cathedrals spiral skywards I think I'm getting vertigo [04:55.72] [04:57.18]I think I don't know what is real [05:08.44] [05:23.00]One more sudden spotlight one more madness is over; [05:29.23] [05:30.76]I must not show a sign of fear [05:40.82] [05:49.83]Words echo round my ears I think I'm going to laugh [05:55.29] [05:57.00]Think I'll just go and take a bath guess I'll wash my clothes [06:04.34] [06:05.15]Don't you know I'll grow to go and make my name [06:10.22]Maybe be a servant in the Famegame [06:12.68] [06:14.16]Stake my sane and rest my life on the line [06:17.49]Now lay me asunder and rend my mind [06:20.60] [06:21.87]At the fall of the curtain let this be my ghost