Kolbe-Illenberger

Song Lyrics

All lyrics © Martin Kolbe except for
"Colouring the Leaves" © Mike Silver



What about the Nose?

Album: "Waves"

I think it was a black one
What about the nose?

What a night


Colouring the Leaves

Album: "Colouring the Leaves"

Let me see the evening sun
Fall behind the trees
Draw the night across the sky
Colouring the leaves
Let me find a place
Among the fields of my home

I would see the morning rise
And breathe the summer air
Find her sleeping next to me
The light upon her hair
Take her gently to me then
Though seed is not yet sown

Give me back the evergreen
Give me back the rain
Speak no more of winter days
Or moving on again
Travel only in my mind
To places yet unknown


Get Closer

Album: "Live KID"

Something’s going on right now
Don’t know exactly what it is
So many people
around me turning round
Leave behind all these darkened years

Long years of waiting
for a change to come
Maybe it’s the time right now
Where we’re step by step
and day by day
Getting closer to the real way

I feel it in busy crowded streets or rooms
Probably I know now what it is
I feel it in every green tree I see
Soothing away all my tiny fears

Long years of waiting...

Even if again my doubts get through
Just illusions or is it really true
I don't know at all what it’s like but strange
Anyway I'm looking forward to any change

Long years of waiting...

Wake up! Look around
It’s everywhere you go
Everywhere you are
Don’t care no longer
What it is
Just try to be here not there
Just try to be here not there
For here is where life is
For here is where you live

Long years of waiting...


Saurian

Album: "Flieger"

You’re old enough to reach it
The good side could win
if you really wanted
You’ve got the chance
to choose your way
So make up your mind
and be sure you’re right
Be sure you’re right

You’ve got so much you’ve wanted
Tools and toys and guns and fun
Your fast and neat and you’re sometimes even wise
But poorer than ever before
Than ever before

You’ve lost your most precious treasures
Your faith, your aims, your natural honesty
You stand so lonely in the centre of the void
Waiting for someone strong
To get you out there again
To get you out there again
Out there again
To get you out there

Listen! A saurian is just too big to survive
And your dimensions are getting rapidly out of control
You’ve got the chance to choose your way now
So make up your mind and be sure you’re right
Make sure you’re right


Jungle City Junk Jive

Album: "Tronic"

Somewhere
In somewhere
On somewhat

In a hurry
In a neon town

I've got MUSIC
In my head

Strange town
STRANGE!

NEW YORK
HONGKONG

Somewhere
In somewhere
On somewhat

In a hurry
In a neon...
In a hurry

Moving around
With MUSIC
Music in my head

I see (strange crowd)
Social black holes (strange crowd)
You see (strange crowd)
Human suns (strange crowd)
And strange crowds

Jungle city junk jive
Jungle city junk jive
Jungle city junk jive

Frühstück im Park

Album: "Tronic"

Saurer Regen
Die Bäume faulen
Wir machen Frühstück
IM ENTSORGUNGSPARK

Der Fluss versalzen
Der Fisch
Der ist
Schon ewig
Tot

Macht ja nichts
Macht ja nichts

MACHT JA NICHTS

Der Vogel ist weg
Der Himmel grau
Himmelgrau

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