Out On A Limb - Drowned

Out On A Limb
Drowned
2011

chronicles
you're just a dream
you're nothing but a dream
you will all be alone in shoreless space
to wander it's limitless solitudes
without a friend forever
without a friend there is no god
no human race
no earthly life
no heaven or hell
you are just a thought
a silly thought
a vagrant thought
a homeless thought
you are just a dream in someone elses head
you're nothing but a dream
you're just a dream
wasted in time
you are nothing but a dream

peking man
he walked the forest without haste
he thought of his wife and his breed
the stone hit him from behind
he slipped off
they found his skull
deep down in a cave
evolution will sweep us away before we understand a cause
teilhard put on a smile
he slipped away
they found his broken skull
deep down in a cave
thousand years of sleep
deep down in his cave
they took him into light and put him under glass

bottomless pit
these days were recorded on poorly mixtapes
all laughter and tears gone by like a flu
depressed and frustrated with too much to prove
piles of pretty ambition were flushed down the drain
stuck in the past
walking a thousand miles without leaving this place
solid procrastination to avoid any decision
stuck in the past
time is collapsing
hopeful in a desperate way
drugged without surprise
the gravity of blown up dreams in their orbit of demise
looking for something else to fill the void within'
run climb and crawl
but life is a bottomless pit

just regrets
no time for lame excuses
it is going downhill straight
pretend to have lost control
something you never had
no time just regrets
no time for expectations
nothing is offered
nothing is served from that thousand books you have read
no answers are revealed
false attempts and wrong decisions
a deadend street in every way
until one is left that you can blame
you will go on with tunnel view

identity
just when i thought i have got a clue at last
i was as far off from it as i could be
words stumble from lips sound strange to me
they don't fit at all what they are meant to be
i can't control who i am
fear captures my mind paralysing me
i am hiding behind sarcasm and stupidity
i can't control who i am

competitive eating
there is a fridge of hope in a sea of misery full of all that things we like to stuff in our little throats
maybe we've lost our taste
but we still have our appetite
empty your plates
this could be your last meal
bite chew and swallow
this could be your last meal
our swollen bellies ache
but that is no reason to stop to eat

what's left
you take the book from the shelf and you are afraid of it
there is a premonition and a feeling of shame you turn page after page with a frozen smile
and you want to tear them out of your memory
you can't believe what s written down
you can't believe what you've wrote
you've taken everything too seriously
you take of your clothes and creep before the mirror
you touch the colored skin and you wonder why these lines mean nothing to you anymore
why this grinning ghouls seem to laugh about your life what's left of all these years

drowned
the golden age has risen
we are fed up to the throat
life is summed up to jokes that no one gets
scratch the shiny surface there's bitterness beneath
dive into still waters
get drowned in mud
a store of bad ideas is put in front of us
we're shoplifting and throw it away
scratch the shiny surface there is bitterness beneath
there is emptiness beneath
there is loneliness beneath

out on a limb is rené, stefan, jim, zomber & marcel.
recorded in berlin, june 2010.
engineered, mixed and mastered by christoph bartelt.
all songs by out on a limb.
outonalimb@web.de
cover design by kevin puech.
photography by kay eckhardt.
thanks.
narshardaa records
hasselkamp 112
24119 kronshagen
germany
taken by surprise records
klenzestra8e 89
80469 münchen
germany