You don't call us
we will call you

Wherever you are

You don't find love
love will find you

Wherever you are

You try
you fail
you try again

Wherever you are

Love Will Find You (Film Version)

According to the government
there's no cause for alarm
All the citizens are therefore
advised to remain calm

Cascading streams of water
leaves rustling in the wind
Droplets are painting pictures
to your windowpane

Calling from forever rain
the whole world has gone insane
Languished anticipation
endless precipitation

Without my raincoat
and having a sore throat
it just made me rile

A sea of umbrellas
bobbing up and down,
it almost made me smile

Raindrops dancing in the haze
of railroad tracks and alleyways
The naked glare of sodium light
confiscated by the night

Never heeding the warnings
now they have to pay the price
Their calculating schemes
followed by broken dreams

I see the storm getting nearer
with every passing day
Here's for the future generation
who'll see the sky getting clear

According to the government
there's no cause for alarm
All the citizens are therefore
advised to remain calm

[Guest vocals: Ada Mantz.]

Kompleksi - Forever Rain

What the hell you're staring at?
Take a photograph!
It's the blues time 
it's the dues time
it's the Kompleksi time

When I was five
as he came home one night
my dad, he broke all my toys
he wouldn't connive
it was his choice
I ain't no lovechild

When I was six
my ma wouldn't let go
as she grabbed my hair
not before I stopped crying, no
I ain't no lovechild
I couldn't breathe
she didn't care
I ain't no lovechild

I ain't no lovechild
oh no
I ain't no lovechild
oh no

I wasn't born in the summer of love
and I ain't gonna wear flowers in my hair
you can just at me stare
for all I care
I ain't no lovechild

You can pump me up with your drugs
but it won't make me feel any better
you can give everyone your shallow hugs
but you can't change the bad weather

I ain't no lovechild
oh no
I ain't no lovechild
oh no

Don't let my face deceive
I just need to be loved a little bit
but how to receive
when you can't even transmit?

I ain't no lovechild
oh no
I ain't no lovechild
oh no
I ain't no lovechild
oh no
I ain't no lovechild
oh no!

(I Ain't No) Lovechild

Love Missile F1-11

You came into my life like a vision,
a poster on my wall
and sometimes I wonder
if it was real at all

They prepared you for the flight
with absinthe and fungus white
you thought it was out of sight
when you took the first bite

I saw you in your spacesuit
waving, smiling, looking cute
the countdown and lift-off
your spaceship was en route

Ground control to Major Tomboy
take your gingseng pills
and put your make-up on
you're in for some thrills

Was trying to reach for you
but you were far too high
saw you flying up there
the only star in my sky

You'll be looking glamorous tonight
glowing in the starlight
but the globe is getting dark
my cosmic Afrodite

You were used to getting
everything you ever wanted
you cast away your old toys
and there were always new boys

Pray not to crashland
and pray not to lose your mind
pray not to malfunction
pray not to lose control
because what goes up, must come down

Because there might come a day
when you're walking barefoot
on broken mirrors stained with
white residue

Like crushed rose petals on asphalt
your dreams scattered black and blue
and you can't understand a word people say

Please don't burn in the atmosphere
please don't die in the desert
please don't drown in the ocean
please don't die left alone like you left me
please don't lose yourself in dreamtime like I lost you

Was trying to reach for you
but you were far too high
saw you flying up there
the only star in my sky

Was trying to reach for you
but you were far too high
saw you flying up there
the only star in my sky

Cried 96 tears for you
my lady cosmonaut in blue
taking spacewalk, doing whirls
my tears turned into pearls

Slick Little Girl (with Sonic Temple Assassins)

According to the government
there's no cause for alarm
All the citizens are therefore
advised to remain calm

Cascading streams of water
leaves rustling in the wind
Droplets are painting pictures
to your windowpane

Calling from forever rain
the whole world has gone insane
Languished anticipation
endless precipitation

Without my raincoat
and having a sore throat
it just made me rile

A sea of umbrellas
bobbing up and down
almost made me smile

Raindrops dancing in the haze
of railroad tracks and alleyways
The naked glare of sodium light
confiscated by the night

Never heeding the warnings
now they have to pay the price
Their calculating schemes
followed by broken dreams

I see the storm getting nearer
with every passing day
Here's for the future generation
who'll see the sky getting clear

According to the government
there's no cause for alarm
All the citizens are therefore
advised to remain calm

Forever Rain (demo)

Here I stand before a firing squad
because of someone I mistook for a friend
No cigarettes or last wishes
just waiting for my end

We worked the resistance
under the eyes of the occupation army
Sharing secrets and codewords
he was our best man, so I heard

He liked to talk and convince people
persuasion was his game
Shaking hands and flashing smiles
every night he had a new dame

(chorus:)

Betrayal
betrayal
betrayal
...

His shoes were always perfectly shining
at the finest bistros he was dining
His talk seemed to hypnotise
you were in his pockets to utilise

He was always awfully nice
but I guess everyone has their price
How was I to know
he had no soul

(chorus)

Walking that no man's land
between diplomacy and duplicity
He had the world at his fingertips
but loose lips sink ships

Mind betrays the deceitful eyes
and deceitful words betray
untrue eyes

Mind betrays the deceitful eyes
and deceitful words betray
untrue eyes

He was an incredibly swell guy
the best turncoat money could buy
Had to be on the side of the winner
somebody had to pay for his dinner

In the end you stand alone
these people won't admit they once knew you
I knew what fate had for me in store
in the middle of night a knock on my door

(chorus)

This lonely courtyard at dawn
morning dew still covers the lawn
I hear the church bells chime
as I close my eyes for the last time

Betrayal (demo - with Citizen Omega)

I'm a lonely freak
and people laugh at me
behind my back

But I don't really care
no feelings to spare
I'm not going to crack

So many people turn their heads away
when they see me,
pretend I don't exist or I'm invisible
To be or not to be?

My so-called friends
who used to say hello
don't know me any more
I must have my name on someone's shit list
but all details are covered in the mist

(chorus:)

I don't feel emotions
I just go through the motions
I don't really feel a thing
I don't complain and I don't explain
I must have my soul missing

No matter how hard I try
I can't shed one little tear
Maintaining my composure
I'm unable to cry

(chorus)

I stare myself for hours in the mirror
to see if I'm really there
A failing strategy
wasted lives make waste,
not tragedy

(chorus)

(e)motions

She came on with eyes
that could pierce the sky
she was a skinny girl
with a shirt and tie

She was a girl who wasn't
she was a girl who didn't want to be

Her name was Sara Pain
her name was Sara Pain
Sara Pain
Sara Pain

She could see farther than anyone else had
but she couldn't see herself
and she would go farther than anyone else had
She stared too hard at the cracks
on the pavement and disappeared in them
"And I don't want to live this life", she said
"I dont wan't to live this life
and I don't want to live this life", she said

Her name was Sara Pain
her name was Sara Pain
Sara Pain
Sara Pain

And she was me and she was the world
and she was redemption but there was no one
who could have redeemed her
on that great and terrible day
when she went away
And there was nothing I could do
except watch her fade away
on that great and terrible day
on that great and terrible day

Her name was Sara Pain
her name was Sara Pain
Sara Pain
Sara Pain

She sees the stars falling
she dances on the falling stars
she tramples on the falling stars
one after another
one after another
Till there's nothing but darkness
till there's nothing but darkness

Her name was Sara Pain
her name was Sara Pain
Sara Pain
Sara Pain

Sara Pain

THIS IS OUTSIDER MUSIC. WE CALL IT ECLECTRO.
MYSTERIES OF THE SUBURBS.

Kompleksi is an eclectro act from Tampere, Finland, who has released one LP, "Sister Longlegs Dances In The Disco" (Verdura Records, 2008). 

If you want to encompass the full-fledged Kompleksi audiovisual experience, please follow the attached links to other Kompleksi Web resources (such as Vimeo for all Kompleksi music videos in 4K).

"Kompleksi ('Complex') are an Electro-Pop group from Tampere, the post-industrialist city sometimes known as 'the Manchester of Finland,' where concrete Neo-Brutalist tower-blocks and decaying factories sit a short distance from woods and park-land." [...] 

"Firstly, though, it's important to understand that Kompleksi are neither an ironic parody nor nostalgic kitsch; they have little in common with any of the retro-engineered electro-punk groups that currently have a stranglehold on UK style-mags. Instead, they should perhaps be seen as part of a Finnish electronic music lineage that stretches back to 60s mavericks like M.A. Numminen and Erkki Kurenniemi, via the 80's Helsinki Futu ('Futurism') scene that spawned local synthpop groups like Organ and Stressi. And we should also include the Finnish label Sähkö ('Electricity'), whose pioneering early 90s roster created the original template for Minimal Techno: all these disparate influences have congealed into a wonderfully sticky synthetic stew called Kompleksi." [...]  

"Kompleksi's songs are often inhabited by a palpable feeling of melancholy; their lyrics articulate an acute sense of disappointment about lost cultural opportunities or times passed that resonate on a personal level as well as an historical one. The band gleefully invert the usual Modernist tropes, so that songs about the sixties space-race or working together to create a futuristic socialist paradise become metaphors for failed relationships or emotional stasis." [...] 

"For Kompleksi, the Future never quite happened - the golden age we were promised never materialised - like the rest of us, they have been left stranded with their expectations and disappointments in the concrete Here and Now. In this respect they could almost be categorised as an Anti-Glam group: their lyrics hark back to the kitchen-sink mini-Soap Opera approach of Soft Cell or early League, to an era before electronic music became part of the mainstream Pop vocabulary or was co-opted as a soundtrack to the cat-walk. They're also funny as fuck." [...] 

"But be prepared to loosen your expectations when you listen to them: Kompleksi's fusion of Eastern and Western pop sensibilities will initially sound both familiar and alien, especially if your ears have been blunted by over-exposure to pre-packaged post-Britpop acts. Trust me: these Finns have the potential to breathe new life into this jaded genre in the same way that Jap bands rejuvenated heavy psychedelic rock."

(Quotes from Kek-W @ Fact Magazine, UK, March 2008)

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