ROSE OF JERICHO

Lovers & Liars

Open up your eyes – Don´t sever ties
I´ll show you mine – And hold you tighter
This is our time – Our better life
Don´t close your eyes now

I make you believe, stop dreaming – start living
We cannot take what we haven´t given
This is the end, stop taking – start giving
You want to leave but please

Don´t close your eyes
Tell me another thousand lies
Don´t let me go (woahoh woahoh)

Imagine what we could do

We are alive tonight
A life with eyes wide closed

Close your eyes
Don´t tell another thousand lies
Oh let me go (woahoh woahoh)

Last September

Another year is over
And nothing seems to wake me when September ends
Summer turns to winter
Leaves are falling all around me – day by day
Another chance is gone
Again I left undone
Like every other day

I do not know how I can break through all those barriers
Holding out for a wonder
Everlasting waiting for nothing
Until the day that never comes

Another year is over
And nothing seems to wake me when September ends
I´ll hold my head up high
Not living for a lie
It all will end tonight

The Enemy

Sunshine – bullets rain around me
Bombs are falling down like heaven´s crying
Every step could be my last
On this field of mines and handgrenades
Leave your hands away – you don´t feel the same

You won´t deceive me and bring me down
Whatever we are
You´ll never hurt me or take me down
You´re in love but I´m addicted to war

I ignore what all this meant to me
You are my enemy

Lighthouse

We cannot pray for peace on earth while we are waiting for war
Out on the streets they fight and beg while we´re behind our closed doors
Where people cry but we don´t want to hear

This all seems to be far away – too far away to reach our hands
A foreign land we´ve never seen or known that others defend
The time will come we can´t hide anymore

But tonight we see the sun
When all the lights are gone
This shiny house at the horizon shows the
Way towards our long forgotten home
It´s not too late to change the course

Welcome my son
Sit down and rest
Welcome home
To your second chance
This is our refuge
A new place to be
Where we can start over
Whatever we wanted to be

Blood Diamond

Her heart cannot resist this burning wish
To hold it in her hands – But this gold is cursed
Her eyes just see all she wants to be
And what she was before – It doesn´t count anymore

And so she answers to all her desires
Taking everything for what she lusts
All the things she got don´t satisfy her
She never got enough

And her diamond shines so bright
Her eyes tell me she doesn´t mind
It´s beauty is just deep as the skin
The pain that we bring while we sit and sing
But Kimberly can´t hear anything

Her eyes just see all she wants to be
And what she was before – It doesn´t count anymore

She prays for peace on earth – then she is smiling
She´d never differ between wrong and right
Some treasure´s bought with blood and water
But who will pay the price

Antidote

Blood is pumping through my veins
And I begin to sweat
I feel the chemicals inside me
It ain´t over yet
When will this end
And I forget

I tried so hard to find
An antidote against this poison
Broken heart
I´d give it to you
But you don´t want to have it

It´s like a shadow in my neck
Like cancer in my head
But I´m addicted to it
Addicted to it

Refuge

The time has come
The time is gone
All has been burned by the afterglow

The guns are quiet
Turned out the lights
The dawn of day went out of sight

This fire burns
We know it hurts
Now we´ve found what we deserve

The fields turned gray
When silence fell
The last refuge has closed its gates

We fall from grace
We´re all to blame

Waiting for the Wave

Now what do you expect to get from me?
Caught in a web of dead-end streets
Breaking the door – it’s worth a try
Confronted with another wall behind

Want to leave behind this narrowness,
But something’s tied me to this place
Trying to cry – nothing to hear
Now I leave a mass of silent tears

As the clouds get dark, becoming rain
Think about your biggest pain again
Just written in the sand and waiting for the wave to come

This is who we are
We are the ones who make a change
We are the ones who turn the page
In a world where no one cares

It rains
I can’t believe my eyes to see
Countless drops looking at me
Cleaning the air, grazing my hand
Until they’re falling to the sand

And it drips off your skin

Home Is Where The Heart Is

I´m setting sails
I left behind my heart and home
All I´ve known
The place where I was born
Off to new shores
No land in sight
I´m far away but not afraid
You are wherever I am

At the back of beyond
At the ground of the deepest sea
But home is where the heart is
Wherever I may roam
Home is where the heart is

A heart can never feel what a mind believes
And so I´m caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
You´re so far away while I write this lines and I don´t know
If I return back home or have to say goodbye
This compass shows a rose – it doesn´t point to north – no longer
It shows the way to all the things we love the most in this world
I´m not the only one and I am not the first
Who sails so far and off the course
Oh how it hurts
A blessing and a curse

Rose Of Jericho

Love – A story of hope and tragedy
Of highs and lows
Life – Lessons we´ve to learn and to forget
There´s no right or wrong

I wait for the day I open up again
It´s hard to know I can´t change who I am

So I will wait forevermore
Tell me it´s worth fighting for
So I will wait for rain to fall
I´m the rose of jericho

Memories – Where time is standing still and nothing changed
Where hearts will never break
Time – drying all the tears, healing all the scars
Forgiving all mistakes

Land of The Sun

Do you remember the time
When we thought we never could die
Do you remember how it feels to be alive
We were so far away
And never getting afraid
We wanted to stay forever and a day
Now we´re drifting apart
From the home of our hearts

Where we´re all led to believe
Where our dreams turn into real
Oh I know those days are gone
We never return to the land of the sun

Do you remember the time
When we were not sleepless at night
And all those nightmares never came to life
It is so long ago
And we will never know
How it feels to be where our hearts belong

Where we´re all led to believe
Where our dreams turn into real
Where we cross the borderline
And we turn water into wine
Where the streets are paved with gold
Where peter pan beats captain hook
Oh I know those days are gone
We never return to the land of the sun

I can´t find it
I can´t find it anymore
With a look in the mirror

For one moment I can see
What was and is a part of me
There´s no more rabbits in our hats
But sometimes we just forget
As long as memories ain´t gone
We have never left the land of the sun