HOME N E W S JAN HELLRIEGEL DISCOGRAPHY L Y R I C S P I C T U R E S ARTICLES S O N G S PAST TOURS R E Q U E S T S REVISION HY L I N K S		IT'S MY SIN 1. The Way I Feel (3.51) 2. It's My Sin (3.43) 3. Richmond Rd Revisited (3.35) 4. I'm Alive (4.28) 5. Viva Voca (3.16) 6. Waves (3.47) 7. Surprise (3.33) 8. Jumping (4.25) 9. Wings of Steel 3.48) 10. All The Best Thoughts (3.54) 11. No Idea (4.12) 12. Westy Gals (5.27) and 13. Stupidest Thing 14. Burger Generation 1. The Way I Feel It's surprising what you will find there When you look on beyond the facade There are criminals posing as gentry Reality surrenders to farce And it's real You can feel it You can see it And hold it in your hand It's the way I feel It's the way I see it A fatted lamb take control of the wheel Build a hole that's bigger than Hell itself And blame it on someone else It's surprising what you will find there When you walk on the banks of the quagmire And the stench of it all overcomes you The legacy is a swift reminder And it's real You can feel it You can see it And hold it in your hands It's the way I feel It's the way I see it A fatted lamb take control of the wheel Build a hole that's bigger than Hell itself And blame it on someone else Oh what drives you What's behind the motive To change everything as we know it For you yourself to live in But what about the rest What about the rest You're not the only one, not the only one It's the way I feel It's the way I see it A fatted lamb take control of the wheel Build a hole that's bigger than Hell irself And blame it on someone else Why don't you blame it on someone else Go on and blame it on someone else 2. It's My Sin All that is left for me now Is nothing And too many choices The feeling that one gets After hearing too many voices I've left the trail, that millions before me Have worn right down to the bitter core It would take a truck To pull me back To the track I don't want no part of it all! And I'm warning you Don't you let in, don't you let in It'll get you into trouble yes it will! It's my sin It's my gin It makes me win when I don't know where I'm going I never ever know where I'm going I'm back at the place where the sun never gets a chance To burst it's head through the clouds It never does when I am here anyway I loved this place, I loved the people But the people are gone and they're all overseas They're laughing at me That is where I want to be right now! And I'm warning you Don't you let it in, don't you let it in It'll get you into trouble yes it will! It's my sin It's my gin It makes me win when I don't know where I'm going I never ever know where I'm going I want to go home I know when I get there Straight away I'll want to leave I can't help this urge to squander It's my sin That's what I feed That's what I feeeeeeeeeeeeed And I'm warning you, warning you Don't you let it in, don't you let it in It'll get you into trouble yes it will It's my sin It's my gin It makes me win when I don't know where I'm going I never ever know where I'm going It's my sin 3. Richmond Rd Revisited There's a cold wind Down the side of the bed Makes me want to walk and walk and walk So very far away It's these changes Don't come quick enough for mw I have sat in this chair and I've stared the same stare For what seems an eternity I would give it all Even shed a tear I would live a lie For some return The cold is getting colder Every day I stay The moss has grown and the seeds have been sown I'm still here in this place Common becomes foreign Distance means a plane I couldn't reach you now dear You've become so far displaced I would give it all Even shed a tear I woudl live a lie For some return I have made my bed Let me sleep in it I have made my choice Let me live with it Ignorance is bliss It is bliss How long I would give it all Even shed a tear I would live a lie For some return Nothing stays the same No one stays on ice But I could for now! For some return For some return 4. I'm Alive Have you seen that I'm alive That my heart beats as loudly As anyone in this room Would it be bold of me to try To secure your attention To make you look this way Shall I stand up and yell it in your ear? Are you receptive to the things you fear? I'm alive! I'm alive! I'm alive I'm the centre of this universe I'm alive A living, breathing, thinking curse I'm alive But you'd expect me not to be Well I'm a shadow of what you could see A Phantom or a Cipher A nothing of nothingness A number totalling zero Just wipe it off the ledger It means nothing to you Nothing might remind you Shall I stand up I'll yell it in your ear? Are you receptive to things that you fear? I'm alive! I'm alive! I'm alive I'm the centre of this universe I'm alive A living, breathing, thinking curse I'm alive But you'd expect me not to be Well I'm a shadow of what you could see Seeeee oooh! A shadow, shining I'm creeping around your conscience The nightmare, it's coming, you won't get away Give up it's too late I'm hovering in your doorway A Vacuum A Cipher I'm alive I'm alive I'm anothing I'm a Cipher Just a vacuum, number zero A shadow or a Phantom I'm a Zephyr, I'm nightmare I'm in your head 5. Viva Voca (Maria Takes A Fall) If you stopped for a second You will see that you were human After all And all those people Who came to see you Were the first to cut you When you did fall No art is so timeless That it won't get washed away It may take a little bit of time But it won't be there one day Time will comfort you It will remove the jagged edges inside of you And you'll be smooth just like the mirror Judging your decay If you stopped for a second you would see That you were built for a museum And all those people Who came they stopped Look what happened then No art is so timeless That it won't get washed away It may take a little bit of time But it won't be there one day Time will comfort you It will remove the jagged edges inside of you And you'll be smooth just like taht mirror Judging your decay If you stop for a second You will see yourself through the flawless skin you wear And even skin with nothing on it can always rip and tear And I say No art is so timeless That it won't get washed away It may take a little bit of time A little Time will comfort you It will remove the jagged edges inside of you And you'll be smooth just like that mirror Judging your decay Decay will comfort you! Time will comfort you! 6. Waves City lights through the open blinds The windows are crystal clear The seediness overwhelms itself And crawls into my head Waves over me And I'm too tired to sleep And it waves over me Over me He says, "There is nothing now" There is nothing here in my brain The nothingness overwhelms itself Wrapping me in futile pain. Waves over me And I'm too tired to sleep And it waves over me Over me He says there is nothing now There is nothing here in my brain The nothingness overwhelms itself Wrapping me in futile pain. For it would be too late Would be too late It would be too late For me   7. Surprise Comes as a bit of a surprise To anyone and me That the best Prophets are found In the back streets Pushing the shit up hill Till it's coming out their ears Take away from the best years Oh I believe.... (I will believe) in nothing I could be wrong Go on and surprise me I wish it were so Go on and surprise me The sacred men with paper Who set the wheels of motion spinning Award themselves with things They think they are deserving But you don't get any medals For working on cold steel Though it bites you to the bones Oh I believe.... (I will beleive) in nothing I could be wrong Go on and surprise me I wish it were so Go on and surprise me ...surprise me Go on and surprise me 8. Jumping   Jumping Head first Into indecision With my eyes and my ears closed And I'm wailing on top of the voices Don't ask me, where to? I just don't know And what makes it worse is, What makes it worse is, And I'm holding Onto my choices Like a diplomat I run with the flow of things And I'm scaling Very high terraces Shall I stay here? I just don't know And what makes it worse is, What makes it worse is, I never got to tell you the story Of how my life's ideals Were smashed on bitter rock Oh how my belief it crumbled Oh how it crumbled And now it's lost Jumping It's a good thing It's good to never know which way You're going to land It's fickle, erratic, enticing you in If you're weary, you can't always stand. And what makes it worse is, What makes it worse is, I never got to live like I'm supposed to I woke and I was changed I'm always looking backwards Sometimes it gets so hard It's never easy It never was What makes it worse is, What makes it worse is....you. 9. Wings of Steel   Oh I! I could fly If I only had wings of steel If I wasn't constantly pinned down and stifled By the things I always thought would be so real. It brings you down Without your wings of steel Without your wings you will float down You float on down Go on and trash my ideas You think I'm crazy. Tell that I haven't got a mind I'm just a walkin' talkin' baby doll of productivity You believe the things you hear all the time. It brings you down Without your wings of steel Wihthout your wings you will float on down You float on down Shape everything that is standing Sort it all out into useful categories Let's hear it for mankind 3 cheers for the glory of mankind. Chop down the forest, foul the water, mine a big hole, Kill each other, kick the new born, gas the earth, Nuke the bastards for all they're worth. Eternal plastic, oil leaking, Killing the fish that you are not eating All up economic pressure. ...Let's celebrate the winner and we can get down. And we'll all get down We'll all get down 10. All The Best Thoughts   All the best thoughts they come when you are sleeping, Daylight arrives and your hands are all clean. The things you can do when you are sleeping I can't believe the things I've been. Don't deny what you can be. Well the best thoughts they come when you are sleeping You find out it's only a dream When it all fades away, Some things still remain. I have seen you there, Dressed in white. As saintly as you're supposed to be Caress me with that bitter shroud, There ain't no saints where I'm concerned. Don't deny what you can be. Well the best thoughts they come when you are sleeping You find out it's only a dream When it all fades away, Some things still remain. I have seen those eyes crashing Coming right through the dark. They come back to haunt me I can't get very far. Oh no I can't All the best thoughts come when you're sleeping Daylight arrives and your hands are all clean... And you're not supposed to push me away. 11. No Idea   Ohwa! You don't know, You've only heard of my name You could if you wanted to I have no idea why you feel must Sometimes the weirdest things Are so important To some of us But you do know... You will fail You will fail to see through You will fail You will fail to see through So I spend some time At a local bar Where the stares come mocking From the fake plants I don't know you I don't know your name I have no reason to want to So you can shed your light and stick it In the places that you feel it should be. You could if you wanted to I have no idea why you feel must Sometimes the weirdest things Are so important to some of us But you do know... You will fail You will fail to see through You will fail You will fail to see through You could if you wanted to I have no idea why you feel must Sometimes the weirdest things Don't mean that much. Arrrrrgh... You have no idea No idea at all In what makes my world go around 12. Westy Gals   So you see 'I had a problem' You hated my jokes So you left me standing When I found out I had to move south Couldn't speak for at least two years But now I'm up here And the Westy Gals escape their time They've got their $3.00 bottles of wine And they're feeling pretty mean towards your kind Who wouldn't be A premanent loathing Ingrained in the memory Which I just can't seem to shake off It's bitter and it's twisted It's writhing inside me It's becoming part of my make up And the Westy Gals escape their time They've got their $3.00 bottles of wine And they're feeling pretty mean towards your kind Who wouldn't be I'll never go back there But I never can leave It's like these nicotine stains Forming on my teeth But I will never do it again I will never do what I did I will never ever change my name For no man Aarh And the Westy Gals escape their time They've got their $3.00 bottles of wine So who needs your kind Who needs your kind Tell me who needs your kind Who needs your kiiiiiiiinddd 13. Stupidest Things     You never knew me Oh it must have been somebody else You never held me Oh it must have been just a sordid piece of your imagination. These things they happen Apparently it is some sort of disease Something so real Turns out to be Just a joke, or wishful thinking. It’s the stupidest thing that I ever did hear Spitting on people is less absurd You can’t strangle the air You can’t use a hole Make something from nothing You’ll just be a fool It’s the stupidest thing that I ever did hear If it doesn’t exist then it isn't there That is all, that is all. What’s all this complaining Where did all this come from? Maybe too many movies Maybe one too many lovesongs There’s a few, that’s a clue. It’s the stupidest thing that I ever did hear Spitting on people is less absurd You can’t strangle the air You can’t use a hole Make something from nothing You’ll just be a fool It’s the stupidest thing that I ever did hear If it doesn’t exist then it isn't there That is all, that is all. Goodbye, My Darling Good luck have a pleasant trip abroad What’s your name, My Darling? That is all, that is all. It’s the Stupidest Thing that I ever did hear. It’s the Stupidest Thing that I ever did hear. It’s the Stupidest Thing that I ever did hear. It’s the Stupidest Thing that I ever did hear. 14. Burger Generation   One, two, One two three go. I will not be one to take part of The Destruction of passion. And I, will not line up in rank To become part of the thirty-second Burger Generation I want, I want I want That thing so badly Give it to me I need, I need I need That thing so badly Give it to me now. Seeing is believing We believe in what we see So we do it too, If somebody else is doing it that way Don’t leave me out I’ll do it too, oh. Too, oh. I want, I want it wrapped up So nicely Spare me what’s inside To lose the edge The human condition means the thought of it While it scares my mind It freezes my bones And I don’t think my heart could take it Seeing is believing We believe in what we see So we do it too, If someone else is doing it that way Don’t leave me out I’ll do it too, oh. Too, oh. I’ll do it too. I will not be one to take part of The Destruction of passion. And I, Will not line up in rank to become part of The Thirty-Second Burger Generation. My revelation Takes dedication My generation.