Puzzles

Do It So Good

Slaughterhouse

"Over the Rooftops" is a raw 1980s German post-punk style anthem capturing the desperate yearning for freedom amid urban oppression. Vivid verses paint gray streets, pale uniform faces flickering in illusory windows, and the city's scars on skin, building to explosive choruses demanding to soar like a bird above concrete—shattering chains, doubts, and confinement. A tense bridge of falling through time and space leads to a triumphant reprise where the world below remains intertwined as the narrator escapes unbound. Defiant backing vocals amplify the punk rebellion.(see the generated image above)

English Lyrics 

[Intro]  
I dream my way out – from concrete and rain,  
through window bars, cloud paths.  
Somewhere up there,  
there must be light.  

[Verse 1]  
You say the sky's too vast,  
for someone like me – in street dust.  
But my shadows,  
learn to fly tonight.  

[Verse 2]  
The street is cold, breath gray,  
the city carves lines into my skin.  
But over the rooftops,  
lies open blue.  

[Pre-Chorus]  
I feel the wind calling me,  
built from wishes and fear.  

[Chorus]  
Be free – like a bird,  
(Fly! Fly!)  
over rooftops of concrete.  
(I wanna break out!)  
I wanna see the world from above,  
(Always higher!)  
no more just from below.  
Be free – no chains,  
(No chains!)  
no "stay here," no "where you going."  
I fly away –  
(Alone, alone!)  
no destination, just feeling.  

[Interlude – instrumental approx. 50 sec.]  

[Verse 3]  
I see faces – pale and same,  
illusions flicker in windows.  
But up above,  
sparks dance through my heart.  

[Verse 4]  
Maybe I lose myself in the light,  
but finally I know who I am.  
No cage anymore,  
no looking back.  

[Bridge]  
I won't hold on anymore,  
to the rusty dream railing.  
I fall – and fly at once,  
through time and space.  

[Chorus – Reprise]  
Be free – like a bird,  
(Fly! Fly!)  
over shadows, noise and asphalt.  
(I wanna break out!)  
I see the world from above,  
(Always higher!)  
everything stays, intertwined.  

[Outro]

© 2025 Martin Oliver Beinersdorf. All rights reserved.  
Lyrics and concept by Martin Oliver Beinersdorf. Do not reproduce, distribute, or adapt without explicit permission.



Über den Dächern (Over the Rooftops - english version)

Fall Better

Violent Minds

Bye-Bye Borderline

Lcyd

„Bye-Bye Borderline“

Kiss your loved ones goodbye, turn around one last time and burn down the bridges to your old life. No one can join you on this way. No one but this very special band from Norway who deliver the finest soundtrack to your very own apocalypse ever since they started playing in 1999. More than once, the music for your dying world, the symphony of your self-destruction came from ZEROMANCER. Now, they are finally back. And sound more intense, more stricken and determined than they did in a long time.

First a double strike, then the big hush: After “Sinners International” and “The Death Of Romance” were released with barely a year between these two masterpieces, Norway's Electro Rock connoisseurs vanished from view. Except for their unforgettable live appearances, the ZEROMANCER camp fell silent, a whole three years had to pass until a new album was finally born. “Bye-Bye Borderline” is its name – and sounds like a perfect embodiment of the title: Melancholic, bipolar, in one moment brimful with positive energy, in another falling into a bottomless depth. Sure, pleasure and pain share the same bed. Yet, nobody knew until now they were really that close: With the trained eye for pain and sorrow that made hymns like “My Little Tragedy” to milestones of melancholy in recent years, ZEROMANCER advance with new determination, armed to the teeth with the biggest of emotions. Love, hate, desperation or sacrifice are not only empty words for ZEROMANCER, but razorsharp songs for the next breakdown. Electro Rock mysticism in the purest sense of the word – sensual, highly erotic and altogether much too dangerous.

Songs like “Auf Wiedersehen Boy” or the biting title track prove just how much anger and bitterness piled up in the last three years. They drag a raw Industrial Rock edge back into the ZEROMANCER sound that finally stands for all things dark, infamous and forbidden again. But ZEROMANCER are more than that: The slow-motion serenade of self-destruction called “Manoeuvres” would even stir emotions in a rotten heart. Ambivalent, layered, passionate and abysmal is the guise of “Bye-Bye Borderline” – beginning with the title itself. Do ZEROMANCER sing about healing or disease? About life or death? “Ash Wednesday” certainly is on death's side, although hope seeps through some of the wonderful melodies like the sun through thick clouds. Dance, cry, hush or hope – no matter what it is: ZEROMANCER have just the right music for it. More intimate, more intense Electro Rock has yet to be invented.

Lcyd

Zeromancer