Frumpy - By The Way


Side A

Goin´to the country
By The Way
Singing Songs
Side B

I´m Afraid, Big Moon
Release
Keep On Going
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Credits

Produced by Rainer Goltermann

Musicians:
Inga Rumpf: Vocals
Jean-Jaques Kravetz: E-Piano / Keyboards / Organ
Karl-Heinz Schott: Bass
Rainer Baumann: Guitar
Carsten Bohn: Drums



SIDE A

GOIN´TO THE COUNTRY
Well, i´m goin´to the country
that´s the place where i can live
Well, i pack up my things in the city
and i´ll go, yes i leave

Well i´ll build myself a farmhouse
with green land all around
And a funny little hare and birds
in the air so many you can count!

Well, i´ll give up living in the city
leave the place where i was born
I´ve stayed twenty-five years,
I enjoyed it pretty well, but i´m ruined now!

I´ll take all my friends to the country
they will cheer up in the land.
`Cause there ain´t no more fun
in the city, it´s a dead giant

Well, it could be nice to meet you
we will have a lot of fun
So won´t you come around and have a look
we will cheer up in the land
well i´m the singer of a rock´n roll band!


BY THE WAY
By the way, the only question didn´t get an answer!
Where we´re coming from and where we´re going to
or is a God leading us from somewhere?
Out of darknesswe came and land on mars these days
But who was guiding us to learn and go just these ways?

For me religion isn´t just a tale telling from past times
It tells about a meeting between us and astronauts
from distant stars if i read between the lines
Thousands of years we thought of angels wondrous doings
But if i look around, now in our world are the very same wondrous things.
why, why, why?

No, it won´t take a long time, before we see ourselves
One day when we´re flyingat the speed of light,
we´ll find a star with another human race
We´ll try to act like missionaries and teach them
"way of life" and they will be amazed
then it´s time to look back and ask
where our gods have come from

Heaven became the house of Gods
since they had come with their fiery horses down to earth
Heaven got such a shine of glory
´cause we couldn´t find an answer
but wake up, but wake up, soo we´ve got it !


SINGING SONGS
I´m singing songs nearly every night,
but i don´t know who´s listening.
´Cause you´re down in dark
and i´m up here in light
and only now and then I see a face of you.

But what´s going on behind your face,
why did you come to this place?
Is it really music, or is it something else
sometimes i can read it from your eyes
`Cause sometimes, when you´re with me

I can feel reflections of your souls
Then i´m with you and i know
all i´m doing is just feeling good

An when the show is over
i´m like everyone
I pack up my guitar and maybe
I´m satisfied with what i´ve done

Oh, it´s not easy all the time
when you´re standing on your side
and I´m on mine
Maybe you want me to act like a star
but just this night

I´ve got a completely empty heart
Lost is every word in my song

When you see my bowed head and you think
my place is wrong
`Cause though you´re strong
and sometimes wise
you´re getting angry, when your clown is crying
I know that we all need a push to live on
but you have to live your life
and i live it in my song
and if you need somebody to help
so don´t look at me ´cause I need help myself!

And when the show is over
I´m like everyone
i pack up my guitar and maybe
I´m satisfied with what I´ve done

SIDE B

I`M AFRAID, BIG MOON
Sometimes in the night when living is easy
I go out and watch the sky htat chains me like a child
Is it the moon that takes me far away?
Have the stars got something to say?

I´m afraid big moon
that they´ll come and catch you soon
and root you up in your old days!
You´re looking peaceful, sleeping stars,
but your silence will depart
when astronauts will cross your ways!

Without doubt, it won´t take long
´fore disgust will make us all think wrong
We are too young to see, what our children see
But whe are the ones to start the way out of misery!

Let they got to the stars
the scene will not change at all
If they don´t go their way together
Maybe when i´m with you, stars.
my prayers won´t be in vain
then love will cross our ways!

(I´m afraid big moon)
(that they´ll come and catch you soon)
(You´re looking peaceful, stars, your silence will depart)
(Hope that they will come together, once, in distant days!)
(Maybe when i´m with you, stars,then love will cross your ways!)

Well, i don´t want to paint the future black
but like me there are millions who desire something back
It´s not the exploring of stars that seems to be a joke
it´s just the faith in the old that broke!

While I´m standing here and I´m trying to get high
while I´m dreaming of the stars my time is passing by
I think I´ve got a lot to do before i´m loosing hope -
it´s just the faith in the old that broke!

It should be so that the old are good and wise
but when you look around the old are telling lies!
They teach us dissatisfaction and hate
if we don´t return, it could be too late!


RELEASE
It´s hard to talk about it
I´ll try to do it well
He couldn´t live without it
live without the swell.
He had not mother, no father
only friends that pined away
no girl, that was strong enough
to lead him on a better way.
He was alone in a world of confusion
He was alone in a world of disillusion.

One early morning
he looked at the sparkling sky
he packed up his things
and told the junk good bye!

He went on the road
with a rock´n´roll band

But nobody cared
nobody had a helping hand
He tried to live with the others
almost saved from the gutter
Sunglasses covered his eyes
and made them think that he was
telling lies-
"I´m so sorry, that we treat you like a crazy fool
I´m really sorry, that our hearts are freezing cold"
Back in town fixing dragged him to the ground.

There wasn´t anybody
who helped when he cried
Nothing he´d got and nothing
he left behind, so he died.


KEEP ON GOING
She´s walking down the road
in her pocket toothbrush and soap
She´s waiting for somebody
who gives her bread for her love
and sweet honey
No matter how it seems to be,
she´s maid of sexuality.

She keeps on,
she keeps on walking
she keeps on walking down the road
So keep on going
keep on going
keep on going, for i don´t mind

Everybody knows his name
´cause everybody says: he´s the king
of game!
Lots of fools have tried his magic art
but they got mad before they started
So if you play with him,
you´ll fall with a prod!
So watch it he´s got eyes like a hawk!

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