Better Than Raw (1998)



1. Deliberately Limited Preliminary Prelude Period In Z
2. Push
3. Falling Higher
4. Hey Lord!
5. Don't Spit On My Mind




Instrumental



They're spending millions for your thrill
Collective desperate overkill
Wrapped up in harmless words that grin
Forbidden games you'll never win
The more you see the more you know
Intended media mind control
Shut down and see how beautiful life can be

This is the prime in your lifetime
You see through eyes of someone else
More than half of your lifetime
Is just a tale in a storybook

Push, enforce your independence
Push your real intention
face your unconscious addiction
Push your private fiction
Push

It's getting sicker frame by frame
You're always staring at the same
What is a lie, what is the truth?
Incredible disgusting news
The world is rough, the end is near
Just calculation with your fear
Without a shame nor least respect
The operators stand erect

This is the prime in your lifetime
You see through eyes of someone else
More than half of your lifetime
Is just a tale in a storybook

Push, enforce your independence
Push your real intention
face your unconscious addiction
Push your private fiction
Push - Push - Push - Push

Push your independence!

Solo: Roland - Michael - Roland

This is the prime in your lifetime
You see through eyes of someone else

Push, enforce your independence
Push your independence
Push!




I thought that I felt all right with my world
But now what I knew seems taken by someone
Probing me, waiting if I take the bait
Surrender, step into the line

We won't give into the false
We are not as dull as taken
Some will hold out if they can
They must kill us if they want us to fall

When we unite
We're falling higher
When worlds collide
We'll stand straight in turmoil and fear
No harm coming near

Hungry forever since we took a glance
Feared that the world was taken by someone
We realized by the look in your eyes
Metal will never die

With magic in our hands
We are lost and found contenders
For a kingdom of our stand
Come together no surrender at all

When we unite
We're falling higher
When worlds collide
We'll stand straight in turmoil and fear
No harm coming near

Solo: Michael - Roland

With magic in our hands
We are lost and found contenders
For a kingdom of our stand
Come together no surrender at all

When we unite
We're falling higher
When worlds collide
We'll stand straight in turmoil and fear
No harm coming near
No harm coming near
No harm coming near
We're falling...
We're falling...
We're falling higher




What is it all about?)
Pleasure or pain
Cold or fire
Love against disdain
Hope or despair
Truth or liar
Normal or insane

Do you know what to choose?
It can't happen you lose
Like the stars need the light
No without right

Hey Lord, hey Lord
Life is striking as you taught
Hey Lord, hey Lord
Time is running, time is short
Hey Lord

(What is it all about?)

Good or profane
Odd or even
All is face to face
Sinner and saint
Serve each other
Life is called this place

Do you know what to choose?
It can't happen you lose
Like the stars need the light
No left without right
Hey Lord, hey Lord
Life is striking as you taught
Hey Lord, hey Lord
Time is running, time is short
Hey Lord
Hey Lord

Solo: Michael

Hey Lord, hey Lord
Time is running, time is short
Hey Lord, hey Lord
Life is striking, life is short
Hey Lord, hey Lord
Time is running, time is short
Hey Lord, hey Lord
Why'd you want us so wayward?

Hey Lord, hey Lord
Life is striking as you taught
Hey Lord, hey Lord
Time is running, time is short

Hey Lord
Hey Lord
Hey Lord
 Hey Lord 

(What is it all about?)




Every lie will win a prize
Love sold by a whore
Calculated sacrifice
Death without a war
Aftermath and alibis
Straw doll chess to please the poor

Don't tell me of any wonders shitting gold
Don't tell me of a hard way we have to go through
Still we pay your warmth out of the cold
Do you really think we're that blind?

Don't spit on my mind
Don't spit on my mind
Don't spit on my mind

Any form of government
Has a black sheep part
But the brave will never know
What the black sheeps start
In the name of country love
They enrich themselves apart

Don't tell me of any wonders shitting gold
Don't tell me of a hard way we have to go through
Still we pay your warmth out of the cold
Do you really think we're that blind?

Don't spit on my mind
Don't spit on my mind
Don't spit on my mind
No, oh!

Solo: Jorn - Michael - Roland

We are the people, we are the masses you are for
We give the power and our desire must be your law
Don't think I'm standing here all alone, one of a kind
Don't think because you're still there
Means that we are all blind

Don't spit on my mind
Don't spit on my mind
Don't spit on my mind
Don't spit on my mind
Don't spit on my mind
Don't spit on my mind




Now we chase the end of time
Afraid what we will find
Once again since Jesus Christ
The stars look down on mankind

Revelation
Overcome creation
False illusions
Fade and die
Whatever we awaited
Charity or hatred
Whatever we awaited
Will arise
It's revelation
Revelation

Power and prosperity
It won't be like before
Name, rank, and authority
Not counting anymore

Revelation
Overcome creation
False illusions
Fade and die
Whatever we awaited
Charity or hatred
Whatever we awaited
Will arise
It's revelation
Revelation

Solo: Roland

Bemoan your words
Bemoan your deeds
Repent your thoughts of lies

Attain your sword
Attain your shield
Defend the sense of life
Bemoan your hate
Repent your greed
Improve your rotten seed

Solo: Michael

Pray for the child
Though born just by a fraud and a whore
Pray for the child
Who won't know what it's crying for

Revelation
Overcome creation
False illusions
Fade and die
Whatever we awaited
Charity or hatred
Whatever we awaited
Will arise
It's revelation, yeah
Oooh, yeah
It's revelation




Feel it running off
So strong and clear
An age is over fast
And disappears
Help him if you can
His hour will come soon
Push away his fear
He'll see Elysium
It's time
It's time

Guard his little while
And calm his shiver
Wash and dry his tears
And cool his fever
Take the Bible's words
Speak it pure in his soul
Lay love in his mind
He's close to the final goal
It's time
It's time

It's time to go
Time for freedom
Time to face what we all believe in
Pray strong
Pray to the higher
Turn your back on the devil's fire
Time to go
Time for the freedom
Time to face what we all believe in
Time is passing by

When his mind was clear
He called you brother
Now his brain is dazed
It's resigning rather
Mother take his hand
Say a last good-bye
We're not gifted to
Turn water into wine
It's time
It's time

It's time to go
Time for the freedom
Time to face what we all believe in
Pray strong
Pray to the higher
Turn your back on the devil's fire
Time to go
Time for the freedom
Time to face what we all believe in
Time is passing by

It's time to go
Time for the freedom
It's time to go
Time for the freedom

Solo: Michael

It's time to go
Time for the freedom
Time to face what we all believe in
Pray strong
Pray to the higher
Turn your back on the devil's fire
Time to go
Time for the freedom
Time to face what we all believe in

It's time to go
Time for the freedom
Time to face what we all believe in
Time to go
Time for the freedom
Time to face what we all believe in
Pray strong
Pray to the higher
Turn your back on the devil's fire
Time is passing by




May I take you higher
Feed well your desire
We won't be forgotten
Foes left slain and rotten

I will have my way as once before
Others stand in awe, can't scorn at all

I can, I can, I can make it all again
I don't wanna lose, don't wanna go down
I can, I can, I can make the call again
Fulfill my dreams until I'm cured
I can!

Will I be the flyer
Keep you more inspired
Some will leave here shattered
Wish us tarred and feathered

Show me anyone who doubts our ways
I will laugh out loud and I will say

I can, I can, I can make it all again
I don't wanna lose, don't wanna get drowned
I can, I can, I can heed the call again
Can attain ev'rything to leave you sure
I can!

I can! I... I... I... I can!

Solo: Michael

Leave me waiting years or strike today
Trample down the walls and pave your way

I can, I can, I can make it all again
I don't wanna lose, don't wanna go down
I can, I can, I can make the call again
Fulfill my dreams until I'm cured
I can!

I can! I... I... I can!




"I believe what we call a game
Is more than just a handful of pain"

I still remember every hour
Every second has been ours
Far away from any burden
We met eyes without a curtain
headless into a new sensation
Whether brain nor fear nor patience
Careless we had a game to play
You crossed my way for twenty days

Why don't you just heal
The yearning that I feel?

Hey, what we called a game
Is more than just a handful of pain

(We go the wrong ways)

Cause I believe it's more than just a handful of pain

(We go the wrong ways)

Cause I believe it's more than a handful of pain

We're different colors, different nature
Both we were like pupil and teacher
It's puzzle with two pieces
Still not done 'cause one still misses

Helpless - I go through unknown stages
A chapter of life which has missing pages
Torture's not only physical
It pains unbound
Way, way down

Why don't you just heal
The yearning that I feel?

Hey, I believe we called a game
Is more than just a handful of pain

(We go the wrong ways)

Cause I believe it's more than just a handful of pain

(We go the wrong ways)

Cause I believe it's more than a handful of pain

More than just a handful of pain

Solo: Michael - Roland

(We go the wrong ways)

Cause I believe it's more than just a handful of pain

(We go the wrong ways)

Cause I believe it's more than a handful of pain

(We go the wrong ways)

Cause I believe it's more than just a handful of pain

(We go the wrong ways)

Cause I believe
(We go the wrong ways) Cause I believe it's more than a handful of pain (We go the wrong ways) Cause I believe it's more than a handful of pain (We go the wrong ways)




Halleluja, homines,
Gaudete de domino,
Qui donat vita omnes, quod amat nos!

Halleluja, mi deus,
Tu vivis omnipotens,
Tu es semper benignus, tu amas nos!

Pater noster in caelis
Totum orbgem terrae regnat
Et vincit diabolum timorem et ominum hominum

O laudate dominum!
Praedicate deum
Amate creatorem,
Qui creavit mundum
Oh, laudate dominum!

Ecce, et te vult Jesus liberare,
Ducere per vitam amicus, gaude tu!

Amici, dimittie
Mente malam pravamque!
Anima accipite salvam fidem!

Jesus Christus in cruce
De vita decessit dolens
Sed de morte resurrexit lux mundi nova

O laudate dominum!
Filium Jesum Christum
Ominum redemporem
Et spiritum sancutum!
O laudate dominum!

Solo: Michael - Roland

O laudate dominum!
Praedicate deum
Amate creatorem,
Qui creavit mundum
Oh, laudate dominum!
Oh, laudate dominum!

Oh, laudate dominum!
Oh, laudate dominum!
Oh, laudate dominum!

Oh, laudate dominum!




We can race over the mountains
Sail over the spheres
We can ride under the oceans
But we can't fight our fear

Something's wrong with the world today
Do you know what it is?

We believe to govern nature
Find ways to lengthn our life
And we go through digital stages
Still the children cry

Something's wrong with the world these days
Do you know what it is?
The planet could be a better place
If we spot the miss
But I guess I would see a start
And I sing it out loud
WON'T YOU PUT YOUR FEET BACK ON THE GROUND

Solo: Roland

We explore the existence of aliens
Try to conquer the space
We refine nuclear science
Still to die in the haze

Something's wrong with the world today
Do you know what it is?
The planet could be a better place
If we spot the miss
But I guess I would see a start
I warn you without doubt
WON'T YOU PUT YOUR FEET BACK ON THE GROUND

Solo: Michael - Roland

Something's wrong with the world today
Do you know what it is?
The planet could be a better place
If we spot the miss
But I guess I would see a start
I warn you without doubt
WON'T YOU PUT YOUR FEET BACK ON THE
WON'T YOU PUT YOUR FEET BACK ON THE GROUND




Tried so hard to understand all of your feelings
Tried to cope with your insanities
Come to think about too many ways of healing
What we lost or maybe never had

One small step into the hidden decoy
One more word is help and one will destroy

I woke up in the midnight sun
So aware damage has been done
Agony or sanctuary
Only fate will show the way

From the bright of day into the jaw of darkness
One is shoved, a victim of a lie
Friendly face turns into a fiery grimace
Suddenly feelings learn to lie

Used up sympathy - no chance to return
To a world one knew but wounds that will burn

Spent more time in the midnight sun
Still aware of what else has gone
Agonized and hypnotized
When will I be shown the way

Solo: Roland - Michael

Fell asleep and no midnight
Still aware justice has been done
No more doubts but disbelief
When the night was day
Celebration, miracle
And fate did show the way



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