Die Krupps Odyssey Of The Mind[Vol.3]

1.Eggshell

I live in an eggshell - not as strong as it seems
I protect myself from the world - I don't fit in this scheme
my home is unstable the walls are wearing thin
I break under pressure - but I'm trying to endure within

Break the shell - and you will regret it
Break the shell - you wish you never did it
Break the shell - you won't like what you see
Break the shell - you won't recognize me

Your world around me is cracking my shell
the weight of your problems makes my life hell
under pressure from your house of pain
I choose to live in my shell under strain

I've tried to conform - I've tried your way
I've tried to conform - live my life day by day
this is my reality - my life is in a shell
this is my heaven - outside is my hell

I can't deny it - I reached my breaking point
I personify it - an eggshell in duress
I can't deny it - I'm at my limit
I identify with - an eggshell in duress.


2.Metalmorphosis

Weak the body and the soul
poor the body and the mind
lost the vision as a whole
shame and disgrace to the kind

drift around directionless
no clue what occured to me
got myself into a mess
swallowed down by misery

Body - Body - Body
versus
Mind - Mind - Mind
versus
Soul - Soul - Soul

This was then but this is now
find your own identity
this was then but this is now
truth lies in intensity

Time for change
Metalmorphosis - Metalmorphosis
History repeats itself
at the point of no return
decay's put back on the shelves
dying flame is back to burn

Energy is streaming back
removes weakness frame by frame
new beginning's taking shape
destiny recalls my name

This was then but this is now
regained power and control
this was then but this is now
on the edge but burning slow.


3.Jeckyll Or Hyde

Fear myself - and nobody else
Born of innocense - you and me
the struggle to know - who to be
society's forcing you to be rotten
all morals have been forgotten
Find myself - in all this mess
free myself - from all this mess
You're fighting to stay on the good side
there's no one to show you what's good or right
when desperation strikes with all its might
you turn from good Jeckyll to evil Hyde

Society's forcing you to be bad
it is the truth it is so sad
it makes the worst come out
I see where it's leading to and I shout
The world says hate - yet I still care

Jeckyll or Hyde - which will I be
society throws the dice - will I be a prisoner or will I be free
Jeckyll or Hyde - which will be my fate
society throws the dice - will I love or will I hate
Jeckyll or Hyde - which will I choose
society throws the dice - will I win or will I lose.


4.Odyssey Of The Mind

Sitting in a cage
an open cage
you're used to its measures
used to the way it feels
it gives you security
and eases your anxiety
the fear of the unknown
the fear to be all alone
the desire to leave home
the nightmare of being torn

I set my mind on something
I would like to be
and I open up the door
there is so much to explore

I set my mind on things
that I would like to see
and I open up the door
there is so much more to score

I sure could leave this cell
but I don't
I should leave this hell
but I won't
there is only one way out of this
it is to travel by mind - noiseless
the body is trapped but the mind soars free
the body is caged but the mind soars free.


5.Alive

Where's the hand that guided me
my cry within me is let me be
crossing the endless seas of pain
fighting against torrential rain
it seems pain is the experience in life
I'm sorely
tried by affliction in my life
I have to master this impossible situation
this driving force is my salvation

The world in my arms - I'm alive
Love is gain, pain is strife
In my world - I'm alive
and I can't see danger - anymore

This driving force sets me in strife
that driving force that's in my life
Whatever the pain is - I must survive
determination keeps me alive
this extreme situation makes me realize - I'm alive
it makes me realize it changed my life
Hope is the hand that guided me
secured by the hand that set me free.


6.The Last Flood

Another day in the city of pain
Sharing the life of the mad and insane
I'm closing my eyes in awe of the scenes
I cover my ears in fear of their screams

and I'm waiting

The day does not end and so does the night
that covers the streets in darkness and fright
I'm staying awake while the city sleeps
watching the low life, the pimps and the creeps

And I'm waiting
waiting in vain
and I'm waiting
for the cleansing rain

And I'm praying
praing in vain
and I'm praying
for the cleansing rain

And when I look up I can't see the sky
Stormbringing clouds are piling up high
pouring red rain
forming pools of blood
bringing redemption of the last flood.


7.Isolation

Isolation is like serving time
except in this case I've done no crime
I choose to be alone to search my soul
to see if there is good in this heart with a hole

I had no control when I lived out there
my life became a nightmare
there is no love in isolation
all you have is your imagination

I live in a world created on my own
contempt for the outside keeps me alone
Isolation is for me
the only way to be free

Isolation - is liberation
when desperation is what you feel
Isolation - is liberation
when desperation is what you feel

Isolate - myself
free - myself
isolate - myself
be - myself.


8.Scent

My brain is haunted by this scent
it takes me back to a past event
it's like a drug that I need every day
I need to preserve it, have to get it my way

Forever I'll have this desire
this scent - keeps me alive and fills my soul
Forever engulfed by its fire
this scent - consumes my mind and takes control

The feeling I get when memory comes back
gives me something in my life I lack
it takes me away to the place I seek
and my being reaches its highes peak

I follow the trail it leaves behind
boxing it up is on my mind
preserving this scent is my aim
I satisfy my senses, that scent must sustain.


9.LCD

I don't oppose
I don't confront
go with the flow
hard to control
I do conform
I follow the norm
swim with the mainstream
I'm not what I might seem

I can't be identified
Mr. Faceless personified
without reflection
there's no detection

This is my strategy
I use the LCD
you can call me an infiltrator
I'm the Lowest Common Denominator

I won't disapprove
the faceless crowd
covers my moves
I don't offend
seem easy to bend
don't have a profile
no godgiven style.


10.The Final Option

I've been with the incrowd
been on the outside too
I've seen lives many faces
seen the high and the low

I've been on the crossroad
between heaven or hell
don't need no direction
don't need no one to tell

If that's the Final Option - choose

I challenge the devil
for another game
winning or losing
it is all the same

I challenge the devil
for another game
where every bullet
is having my name.