Text:
[Verse]
The sun’s a tyrant burnin’ high and cruel
Shadows stretch like broken tools
Sweat drips down my collarbone
Revolution's here but I’m all alone

[Chorus]
Banana leaves and bullet shells
Echoes ring like liberty bells
The ground shakes the air’s too thick
I’m stuck in the middle of this banana republic

Help me, help me please help

(solo)

[Verse 2]
Flags wave red they shout for change
Justice here feels out of range
A man with a rifle eyes my soul
His finger itches while his heart’s a hole

[Prechorus]
I can’t tell who’s wrong or right
Just faces lost in endless fight

[Chorus]
Banana leaves and bullet shells
Echoes ring like liberty bells
The ground shakes the air’s too thick
I’m stuck in the middle of this banana republic

Help me, help me please help

(solo)

[Bridge]
The night whispers secrets to the brave
Dreams get buried in shallow graves
The stars look down with a silent frown
As another king topples and hits the ground

Banana Republic Blues

Text:
Verse 1
Scrollin’ down the holy feed,
Plastic wisdom, viral creed,
Truth replaced by dopamine,
The cult of likes — the new machine.

Pre-Chorus
Every pose a prophecy,
Every lie a fantasy,
Echo chambers light the stage,
Dancing smart in a digital cage.

Chorus
Influenced by the void,
Empty hearts, destroyed,
They sell us dreams in filters and smoke,
The world’s on fire — and it’s just a joke.
No, there’s no man on the moon,
I’m Kimmy K from TikTok’s room,
I don’t know science, don’t need a clue,
I’ve got fame — that makes it true.
 
(solo)

Verse 2
They preach from screens with hollow eyes,
Faith in trends, not in the skies,
Science whispers, “Don’t you see?”
But reason lost to vanity.

Bridge
Algorithms raise the fools,
Teaching madness, breaking rules,
When all that’s left is viral fame —
We forget who lit the flame.

(solo)

Final Chorus
Influenced by the void,
Lost in what they’ve employed,
We traded truth for noise and fame,
No one left to take the blame.
No, there’s no man on the moon,
I’m Kimmy K from TikTok’s room,
I don’t know science, don’t need a clue,
I’ve got fame — that makes it true.

Influenced by the Void

Text:
Verse 1
Lesch asks, “Do we have a soul?”
I laugh — maybe just a role,
Ash to dust, to root, to bone,
We break apart, but never gone.

Chorus
I’ll be a tree, I’ll be a stone,
I’ll be a signal through your phone,
I’ll burn, I’ll melt, I’ll drift, I’ll freeze,
I am the echo in the cosmic breeze.

This is a Song of a Wonder
This is a Song of the true
Without a God without a Soul
but the true to the end

(solo)

Verse 2
Atoms dance, they never die,
Just change their mask and wave goodbye,
I’ll be your glass, your blood, your sea,
And still not know what “I” might be.

Bridge
When suns explode and worlds decay,
I’ll still be light, just far away,
No heaven, hell, or final tone —
Just matter finding matter’s home.

(solo)

Final Chorus
I’ll be a leaf, I’ll be a byte,
A spark, a code, a satellite,
We’re all just stardust, looped in time,
No death — just shift, sublime.

This is a Song of a Wonder
This is a Song of the true
Without a God without a Soul
but the true to the end

Outro (Wisper End of time)
Billions of years from now,
when the stars have gone quiet,
when space stretches so far
that no light remembers its home —

we’ll drift,
lonely particles of what once was thought,
dreams without bodies,
waiting…

Until the breath of gravity sighs again,
pulls the curtains back,
and everything —
everything —
falls home.

Then the fire is born anew,
the circle smiles,
and the old souls whisper:
“The Indians were right —
nothing ever truly ends.”

Starstuff Loop

Text:
[Intro – spoken, deep, calm]
Yeah…
Nine people hurt.
No glory in pain.
You break the world, you lose your name.
Listen…

[Verse 1]
He ran like fire through a crowd of peace,
no reason, no mercy, just a twisted release.
Nine hearts stopped — for what? For fame?
Now nine souls cry in the echo of shame.

The world scrolls fast, another clip, another face,
but behind that headline — empty space.
No god, no fight, no reason to cheer,
you hurt the weak — you disappear.

[Hook / Chorus – strong, slow]
No hero here — nah, no crown, no fame.
Just broken lives and a ruined name.
No hero here — we don’t clap that sound,
you bring pain, you get shut down.

(solo)

[Verse 2]
You think rage makes you man, it makes you small.
You think fear is control — it breaks us all.
Real power’s when you don’t strike back,
when your soul stands firm, and your heart stays intact.

They say “he lost control,” I say “he quit,”
he let the darkness drive his spirit to split.
We’re all built from the same old spark,
but some let it die, some light the dark.

[Hook / Chorus]
No hero here — nah, no crown, no fame.
Just broken lives and a ruined name.
No hero here — we don’t clap that sound,
you bring pain, you get shut down.

(solo)

[Bridge – spoken, cinematic drop]
Violence ain’t power, it’s fear in disguise.
Strength is in healing, in tears, in the eyes
of those who still stand, who still try —
they’re the heroes.
Not you. Never you.

[Final Hook – whispered, echoing]
No hero here...
No name, no fame, just silence and shame.
We heal — you fade.
We live — you break.
No hero here.

No Hero here

Text:
[Verse]
I saw the moon in the same blue sky
It winked at me like it knew my name
I walked this road but I don’t know why
Every step feels just the same

[Chorus]
Why I have a déjà-vu
Did I dream or did I do
Is it old or is it new
Why I have a déjà-vu

(solo)

[Verse 2]
The clock it ticks but it skips a beat
Time bends backward then repeats
Faces blur like a fleeting ghost
Am I here or just a host

[Prechorus]
The world spins twice in the same old way
A shadow of tomorrow
Stuck in yesterday

[Chorus]
Why I have a déjà-vu
Did I dream or did I do
Is it old or is it new
Why I have a déjà-vu

(solo)

[Bridge]
Like a movie I’ve already seen
But the colors shift and twist between
I know the script but I miss the cues
I’m the actor and the audience too

Why I Have a Déjà-vu

Text:
[Verse]
Where do socks go when they disappear
Is the moon really made of cheese
If I yell into the fridge
Does the milk hear me sneeze

[Chorus]
The really important questions
That no one dares to ask
The mysteries of life
Behind the daily mask
Why does toast land butter-side down
And why do clouds look like my hometown

(solo)

[Verse 2]
Do fish ever get bored in the sea
Do stars play tag in the night
If I dance with my shadow
Will it step left or right

[Prechorus]
I don't need the answers now
But I keep asking anyhow

[Chorus]
The really important questions
That no one dares to ask
The mysteries of life
Behind the daily mask
Why does coffee taste better cold
And why does my heart act so bold

(solo)

[Bridge]
Does the sun ever take a break
Or is it stuck in overtime
If time is a river
Why can't I find the rhyme

The Really Important Questions

Text:
[Verse]
Strings scream under his calloused hand
Lightning cracks where he takes a stand
Every chord’s a fiery command
The devil’s on guitar tonight

[Chorus]
Oh the devil plays it loud plays it mean
Riffs so dirty they can’t stay clean
You’ll lose your soul to that six-string scene
The devil’s on guitar tonight

(solo)

[Verse 2]
Ashes fall where his fingers run
The neck of the beast bends for no one
Each note’s a battle each war he’s won
The devil’s on guitar tonight

[Bridge]
Is it magic or is it sin
The sound of heaven locked within
A fiery grin a deadly spin
The devil’s on guitar tonight

[Chorus]
Oh the devil plays it loud plays it mean
Riffs so dirty they can’t stay clean
You’ll lose your soul to that six-string scene
The devil’s on guitar tonight

(solo)

[Outro]
The amp’s on fire the crowd’s in a trance
He burns through strings with every chance
No escape from the wicked dance
The devil’s on guitar tonight

Devil on Guitar

Text:
(Intro – leise, hallend)
They screamed.
But the world had the volume down.
Another day, another scroll.
Another genocide we don’t wanna know.

(Verse 1)
The sand burns, red dust on their skin,
another warlord plays god again.
Children hide under broken walls,
while leaders trade oil and protocols.

We tweet peace, but we buy their pain,
we fuel their fire, we look away.
The West looks tired, the East looks blind,
truth is — no one wants to find.

(Hook – gesprochen, fast flüsternd, mit Chor im Hintergrund)
No one heard Sudan,
no one saw Darfur burn.
A thousand screams per minute,
but silence still returns.
No one heard Sudan,
but the earth did,
and it will remember.

(Verse 2)
They say it’s too far, too complex, too grey,
but blood looks the same — every day.
We’ve learned to change the channel fast,
compassion fades like news that passed.

Where are the prophets, where’s the cry?
Who tells the children why they die?
It’s not the gods, it’s not the fate,
it’s men with guns, it’s greed, it’s hate.

(Bridge – ruhiger, fast gebetartig)
Maybe one song is not enough,
but silence kills, and words are tough.
If every voice became a flame,
this dark would never look the same.

(Hook – kräftig, verzerrte Vocals, Chor steigert sich)
No one heard Sudan,
no one saw Darfur bleed.
But we can break the silence now —
it’s not too late to speak.
No one heard Sudan,
but we are here,
and we will remember.

(Outro – flüsternd, mit entfernten Trommeln)
They screamed.
Now we do too.
Sudan —
we heard you.

No One Heard Sudan

Text:
(Intro – flüsternd, über dunklem Beat)
Yeah…
Ich weiß, du hast Angst.
Ich auch manchmal.
Aber… von nichts kommt nichts.

(Verse 1)
Ich seh Gesichter auf der Straße, leer wie der Staat,
Menschen zählen Münzen, fragen, was ihr Leben noch hat.
Die Reichen speisen Gold, der Rest kaut Staub,
und jeder Tag, der kommt, fühlt sich gleich wieder taub.

Ich war da unten, Bruder, ich kenn den Geschmack,
von Sorgen, die dich nachts wach halten, jeden verdammten Tag.
Doch weißt du was? Wir leben, wir brennen,
wir sind die, die’s trotzdem beenden.

(Hook – langsamer, fast gesungen)
Von nichts kommt nichts,
doch wir geben nicht auf.
Wir fallen, wir stehen,
wir halten’s aus.
Denn wer kämpft, der lebt,
auch wenn alles zerbricht —
Bleib bei mir, Bruder,
von nichts kommt nichts.

(solo)

(Verse 2)
Ich hab zu viel gesehen,
zu viele Lügen im Lauf der Welt,
zu viele Träume verkauft,
zu wenig Herz, zu viel Geld.

Sie reden von Werten, doch zählen nur Zahlen,
bauen Mauern aus Angst, während Kinder verhungern in Dramen.
Doch ich bleib echt, kein Filter, kein Glanz,
mein Mikro mein Schwert, mein Wort der Tanz.

(Bridge – leise, fast geflüstert)
Und wenn’s vorbei ist,
dann will ich sagen können:
Ich hab’s versucht.
Nicht für Ruhm,
nur für uns.

(solo)

(Hook – Final, mit Nachdruck)
Von nichts kommt nichts,
doch wir geben nicht auf.
Wir fallen, wir stehen,
wir halten’s aus.
Denn wer kämpft, der lebt,
auch wenn alles zerbricht —
Bleib bei mir, Schwester,
von nichts kommt nichts.

(Outro – spoken word)
Also steh auf,
zieh deine Angst an wie ‘ne Rüstung.
Die Welt da draußen ist kalt —
aber du,
du brennst.

Von nichts kommt nichts

Cathedral of Sound

Text:
Verse 1
They see the wheels, I see the road,
I carry dreams, not just a load.
Yeah, life hit hard, I felt the pain,
but I still dance inside the rain.

They talk about what I can’t do,
but they don’t see my point of view.
My fight is quiet, but it’s real,
I don’t need legs to chase what I feel.

Pre-Chorus
The world spins fast, I roll slow,
but every inch is where I grow.
I’ve been down, I’ve been stuck,
but I rise — ‘cause I don’t need luck.

Chorus
I don’t give up, I don’t break down,
I’m still here, still in town.
Every day’s a hill to climb,
but I make it, one push at a time.
Every way is hard to go for me,
but I try to go,
because I like to come to my goal.

(solo)

Verse 2
They stare sometimes, I let it slide,
I’m not ashamed, I’ve got my pride.
I’ve lost some fights, but not my soul,
I’m still chasing my rock’n’roll.

No shortcut, no easy win,
but I’ve got fire deep within.
The road is rough, the view is wide,
and I’ve got my dream as my guide.

Bridge
So if you fall, don’t stay down,
there’s a heartbeat in the ground.
We’re all just rolling toward the sun,
different wheels — same run.

(solo)

Final Chorus
I don’t give up, I don’t break down,
I’m still here, still in town.
Every day’s a hill to climb,
but I make it, one push at a time.
Every way is hard to go for me,
but I try to go,
because I like to come to my goal.

Outro (spoken, calm, almost whispered)
Sometimes I fight my way up,
like a turtle flipped on its back.
Now I understand her struggle —
and I smile, because I rise too.

Every Way Is Hard

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Every Way Is Hard

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