Kurhaus - It's Never Too Late To Break A Contract lyrics

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The sun was just about to disappear behind the horizon<br />

But it got cooler only imperceptibly. these damn midsummer nights.<br />

No wonder the kids come across stupid ideas and start to riot.<br />

- there, you hear it?<br />

- yeah, it's starting over. somewhere in the distance, <br />

In a faceless street canyon something had exploded.<br />

Black smoke was rising but you couldn't say from where exactly.<br />

There was just too much concrete blocking the sight.<br />

- since the gangs sacked the barracks there's a hell going on.<br />

Now the kids armed better than the riot cops.<br />

- I really wonder when they will deploy the military.<br />

- oh, the military. it's been long since they were doing<br />

What the government is telling them.<br />

They just try to stay alive and make a living.<br />

- maybe, but I'd never have thought it would come down to this.<br />

- what? that the shit is gonna collapse?<br />

- yeah, I mean this is exactly what we were singing about all the time.<br />

All these songs by all these bands, you know. this whole revolution thing, <br />

This is just what takes place out there right now.<br />

This is really it, you know, and I'd really love to be part of it. -<br />

Well then why don't you just go out there?<br />

- ha, like we hadn't sold ourselves.<br />

We are part of what they're rebelling against out there, <br />

Don't you know that. we are nothing but fucking traitors.<br />

- hey, who do you think that I have betrayed, eh?<br />

I've never pledged loyalty to no one! <br />

- you haven't? and what about yourself?<br />

Don't you think your I from back then would be appreciative of your I of today?<br />

- well, I dunno.<br />

- but I do. your I from back then would beat the shit out of your I of today.<br />

And so would my I from back than with mine. and you know what?<br />

- what?<br />

- we would be damn right to do so.<br />

- you're exaggerating.<br />

- I ain't. the very moment that we lost our hopes for a better future<br />

And started to make the best of the world as it is was the moment<br />

That we betrayed our fucking selves.<br />

- so what? we had to go on somehow. we had to survive.<br />

You be going against the current all the time. that'd be killing you. really.<br />

- like we'd be alive... <br />

- aren't we? stop being so fucking self righteous.<br />

You live and really not bad at all.<br />

There's a hell of a lotta people who'd be killing to have your social security.<br />

- well, I guess that's just what's going on over there<br />

Where the smoke is ascending, ain't it?<br />

Why can't I take part in this or maybe turn back time and start it all over.<br />

- why? do you think you would change anything? you are a fool.<br />

You'd do everything again just exactly the way you did it before.<br />

Maybe some minor changes here and there but in the end you would resign again<br />

And join this big game that we call society! <br />

- hey, first of all maybe you call it society. I still call it what it is:<br />

Exploitation and suppression and assimilation or sedation or... <br />

Ah, whatever. and secondly... <br />

- yeah, what?<br />

- secondly I wouldn't let it come down to this. I mean, <br />

I wouldn't let it get to a point where I might have a chance of betrayal, you know?<br />

- and how in the world do you want to do that?<br />

- I'd start early burning down all the bridges<br />

So I got no chance to turn around and go back.<br />

I'd have bacchanal sex with ever changing partners of every gender.<br />

I wouldn't let a single day pass without breaking at least half a dozen laws.<br />

I'd give a fuck about school and college would be nothing for me<br />

But a place to hook up with co-conspirators. I'd never work and if I'd do so<br />

However I'd steal from my employers whatever I could get my hands on.<br />

I'd spray paint the truth on every fucking wall and go to the church services<br />

To beat up the priests. every day I'd fall in love anew and every day<br />

I'd get my heart broken. I'd slash the tires of public buses<br />

So the people can't get to work and get some spare time for something more reasonable.<br />

I'd just do everything to make myself unbearable for this society<br />

So it wouldn't even try to absorb and assimilate me. and whatever I'd be doing, <br />

I'd do it radically 'cause I'd know that we're all doomed anyway.<br />

I'd know that every day I don't live the revolution is a day spent in prison, <br />

A day not worth living at all. I'd just refuse to walk this bullshit trail of death<br />

That is called life by those who don't know what life really means.<br />

Or even worse those who know it but who don't dare living it.<br />

Like you and me... like you and me... <br />

- you know what? your melancholy is so pathetic.<br />

If this is really what you feel why do you sit in here and wine about<br />

Left out chances without realizing that you're missing countless of them right now?<br />

Why don't you just get yourself out there and do something?<br />

- yeah, really... why don't I just do that... why don't I just do that... <br />

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In the meanwhile the sun had set and the reddish shine<br />

Of numerous fires was illuminating the night. armoured cars patrol<br />

In the streets and the spotlights of helicopters are cutting through the dark.<br />

The air is full of noise and the smell of burnt rubber.<br />

Maybe destruction is the only kind of change possible in a world like this.<br />

Maybe this is how it's got to be... maybe...