Echo Builder

I caught myself fooling to
be a fool for you
You caught yourself a real catch
and turned the page 2

Oh, there´s so much to see
and roll between the fingers
and to roll your eyes for
Warm city nights
with never ending lights
Eyes to dive into and adore

Remember what it felt like?
To gasp air because of someone,
heart to jump over one beat
Wait for the surreptitious touch,
warm skin next to another and
to crack up to someones feet

Me neither

´Cause I live for the warm waters
and watch the newborn lovers
Listening to the cars purr,
thinking about mothers and fathers,
wondering wherever my god is
I feel like my heaven is this
Since 1986
echoes built me up like this

Oh, there´s so much to dream of
and so many ways to touch
and time to slide through
The sound of an engine
and the smell of gasoline
Is there anything that´s more true?

Endless possibilities to fall in love,
for holding hands
to roll in the soft sand
To laugh eyes closed
but mouth wide open
to have a taste of a salty man

I don´t think so

´Cause I live for the warm waters
and watch the newborn lovers
Listening to the cars purr,
thinking about mothers and fathers,
wondering wherever my god is
I feel like my heaven is this
Since 1986
echoes built me up like this

I caught myself fooling to
be a fool for you
You caught yourself a real catch
and turned the page 2
When the sun in the sky shines real bright
I don´t even seem to notice you

I´m just kidding though

´Cause I live for the warm waters
salty skins and messed up hair
Freedom and messed up dreams
Since 1986
echoes built me up like this
Summer´s in me ´til the autumn leaves

Front Seat View, Back Seat Love

I like the thing that you gave me
even if I don´t know what it really is
I like the way you make me feel
even if my lied up words turn out to be bliss

I hate it when you know you´re looking good
it makes me feel I got no control over myself
I feel like you know exactly what I´m hiding
maybe you´ll find it out before myself

You have your black leather jacket on
and your white cotton tee
While you´re kicking small rocks on the ground
I´m looking at your feet
I´d say your eyes are looking divine
but my tongue´s just rubbing my teeth
I´d like to throw a line or two
if I could take my eyes off from your cowboy boots
You haul your hair like you´re up for a fight
Looking good and lonely really seems to suit you

I have the thing that you gave me
as my secret for all to see
I can´t say what it symbols for
or does it really mean anything to me

My mind works funny like that ´cause
there can be moments dedicated to you
but a fast forward and a fast rewind
can make me dazy, hazy, blurred out
and wave away from you

You have the front seat view to the world in your car
you might tell a little too much whilst you glare
While you´re watching you start to feel like tar
and I can´t make a break from your stare
Maybe you´d like me to take a dip into your world
back seat love or the passengers side
I don´t know if you believe every word
and I don´t know anymore have I lied
You bite your thumb nail like you´ve given in
and that´s exactly what makes me want you to win

I like how those nights turn out to be
urban legends of languor and ardour
and how the bright mornings seals the deal
and there´s no need to wait for any longer

I feel like we´re playing with fire
raising false hopes to grow into daydreams
So we need to thrash through the mire
so we could see what this really is

But I like the feeling you gave me
I´ll treasure it deep and safe
So when the cold tries to hold me
I got the warm heart beats, heat and need
to be crawling back to you

Costa Rica or Anywhere Else

I got a race in my heart
and my soul yearns for more,
like it beats only twice a week
but it needs so much more
There´s always something I´m waiting for

I want to win these games I already hate
I never tell anyone but I´ve cheated all the way
I´m saying I got it when I´ve already lost
but the trick is in the eyes
and licking lips is the cost

Costa Rica or anywhere else
french kisses on the shores of Nice
I´d like to think I got the streets inside,
sidewalks that I already miss
dreaming doesn´t mean I´ve lied

My stupid heart cheers for my mind,
it encourages it to run, wint the time
"get faster so you´ll win the round
or if you won´t, then why try"
Just hand over the price

We were never meant to be
neither to play hide and seek
In the ancient Greece,
play time for 5,4 or 3
Us two, we just dont fit that well
ain´t it easy to see?

Buenos Aires, London bridge
Cities of gods or just for angels
The hot & hard blow of an airport wind
I just want to breathe in, breathe in
and then out, and again in

Make love with the warm shore and sand
Kiss with the skies that never end, never began
We can try to figure it out but
I can´t promise you the promised land
Let´s start as you as my mirror
and me as your map in your hands

If I let go, you got to promise to catch me
Though I´d stay quiet I got the race inside of me
I could run for miles if I decided to do so
but being free doesn´t need to mean letting go
Swim, dive, drown, don´t fool me

Feel me
So let´s just stay this way
Gasp air just like you reached the surface,
like you´ve let go of the heavy harness
Time as my lover and space as your mistress
Feel the Earth lose our distress

So let´s go
Costa Rica or anywhere else
french kisses on the shores of Nice
I´d like to think I got the streets inside,
sidewalks that I already miss
dreaming doesn´t mean I´ve lied

Embers

Why does it feel so good?
To be remembered as somebody else
and listen to those worn up lines in my worn up speaker phones
The closer the music comes
the closer I feel to you
And that is the smallest moment
and closest to the one
when I fell in love with you

When did a moment turn up to be
a lot more important than a whole life time
I´m trying to catch a butterfly
that I´ve only read about in colouring books
Don´t you just love them
and love to leave them behind
when it´s time to play outside

It´s been my turn to play for such a long time
and now I don´t have a sign that says
"Go that way, you´ll do just fine"
So now I´m trying to figure out my own way
and I don´t know which one I´m more scared of
Is it the wrong way or is it that I´ll find my way out
Maybe I just like to be lost

I hate using that simple word that tells a bit too much
and just in case I might change my mind I ain´t doing such
I´m doing just fine watching the trains go by
thinking being alone might clear my mind
Staying still doesn´t stop the time, though,
so I should keep myself in motion to keep myself alive

Timetables are keeping me safe as they tie me down
but I´ll promise you, I would leave and gas up
if I knew I could just hide and never be found
As if that would be a game that could be played
an option of a thousand mistakes
How can a cruel joke soul have a soulmate?

Lately I´ve been forcing myself to face all the beauty
To look out for the beautiful, the meaningful and fullfilling
and I´m trying to hang in there, hang in here,
wherever I need to be seen hanging
and I can´t help but thinking
Was this ever really meant for me?

My friend is a beautiful soul but I have lost the way
to laugh inside and leave the troubles behind
to build a mellow forest inside
veil everything unnecessary with a green crown
There was a time when nothing could burn that down

Maybe there are embers still, somewhere deep inside
Something new trying to find it´s way to the sunlight
If I really try, maybe I´ll find that butterfly
and colour it with something new and really bright
Maybe if I´d really try, I could make it fly

When did it feel so good?
To feel alive and live
To kiss your neck, feel your need
and let myself weep and still be free
I don´t know who I am or need to be
But someday I´ll have the will
and already I´ve got two feet

Caterwaul

Her leg´s right beside his
she wonders if he noticed it
He felt it there all good, alright
but nothing´s mentioned about it

The dusk is turning into a dawn
They just arrived but they need to be gone
Somebody´s singing and somebody´s dancing
without knowing what the words have spawn

She´s checking every step,
watching every touch and sip
She´s pretending all the way
wondering if she´ll get any of it

"I saw you watching from afar
I´ll deny it, I´ll never ask and I´m never going to tell
You must be so afraid
You got to be so scared
but your secrets are safe with me
I´ll deny your eyes on me
I´ll swallow your lies for free
and sleep your dreams into me"

He´s nodding his head in the rhytm of the songs
and patting his fingers on the wooden board
He´s playing it cool and thinks he´s well hid
but there´s others playing it just as hard

There´s short dresses and lacy skirts
and handsome fellas and lazy flirts
He´s not trying to blend in at all
He´s giving a lot more than they were asking for

"I don´t know am I cruel or true
and I don´t know is it me or you
but my heart is racing in a rushing pace
and I don´t know are these words lies or waste
My time is limited except at nights
I like it easy without any fights
so let´s ease it up, rely on me
Your secrets are just as safe with me"

The music´s starting to be over
and somebody´s asking another to come over
It might be the hardest mistake to be done
but they know not to cross any boarders

It´s a cold night to be lonely
It would be golden to be somebody's only
but now that the lies seem to be true
dreams are going to be killed slowly

"We walk the same slow pace
to get our heads in shape
You must be thinking I´m an easy girl
though I´m just playing this easy game
I´ll bet she´d had her say
so it´s easier to walk away
How did I get here from having nothing
to bite my tongue to stay safe"

In a moment they are stray cats on their own
Alley´s all they got when they´re left all alone
Thoughts through their messy heads are thrown
but as they know
sleep is the best cure for the dreamy moan