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Bees make honey, 'cause they are honey-bees. Cows give milk, 'cause they are the milk-cows.
Birds often fly just for the fun to fly. They are so well built to live up in the sky.
There are a hundred reasons for a hundred things - and I am your lover, because that is my thing.
Because I love you, I love you. I love you, because I love you. That's why I love you.
Swimmers swim, because the water feels good - no matter warm or cool or in between.
Runners often run, just 'cause they like to run
and me, because I just can't wait to reach your house and buns.
There are a hundred reasons for a hundred things
- and I am your lover, because that is my thing.
Because I love you, I love you. I love you, because I love you. That's why I love you.
Melons contain water, because they're watermelons - almost like coconuts, but they are coconuts.
Chocolate tastes good, because it's chocolate
and because it wants to get into my body really quick.
I know a hundred reasons for making love to you
- main reason is that this is just the best that we can do.
Because I love you, I love you. I love you, because I love you. That's why I love you.
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And every morning I led you into my garden.
and introduced you to flowers who love to live here with them.
And in the warm evenings we met new butterflies
and I showed you bats at the pond who hunt them down to their death.
We lowered the music so the birds would sing.
I went to the fields and brought you marigolds.
You thanked me sincerely and smiled: "Nevermind,
I always like them no matter dead or alive."
Dead or alive, you like them dead or alive.
Death after life, you hope for death after life.
There's only death after life for you.
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For Home
06:22
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Me to clean the dishes and move all that's heavy,
you to kill the vermin and us to burn what shouldn't grow here,
what else do we need to live here, what else do we need at home?
- Walnuts and ice-cream, camomile and sage, guitar and amp, kisses and sheets.
That's what we need at home.
That's what we need and a home.
That's what we have as a home.
That's what I need and you.
Good and dry beech wood, a hole in the sky, records and tapes, butter and fly,
good soil and soap and a shop nearby – for tools and gas, bread and bulbs,
our bodies and hearts, hands and heads, tears and oranges that came all the way from China.
Enough water in the pond – besides that any weather is ok and will surely do,
a farmer's wit, a doctor's word, dancing and the chance to dance,
plates, cups, some cuttlery and flesh and my axes, yeah, my axes!
That's what we need at home.
That's what I need – and you.
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Kisses by the River
04:07
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I feel her lips. We shiver of sweet kisses by the river.
She takes my hand and shivers of the touches that I give her.
Kisses by the river is all I ever found.
Kisses by the river - I slowly lost my ground.
She feels my lips. We shiver of sweet kisses by the river.
Heaven's gorges had given her to get devoured by the river.
Kisses by the river is all I ever found.
Kisses by the river - she said they never count.
Kisses by the river is all we ever found.
Kisses by the river - we slowly lost our ground.
Kisses by the river - so sweet, they never stay.
Kisses by the river - her waters washed our love away.
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The Massacre at Kiss #10
05:28
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For 10 long kisses she was all mine.
Oh, how I wish they were only nine.
For 10 sweet kisses she belonged to me.
For no more than 10 we lived just free.
The first kiss I gave her on our way back from town
in the quiet sunny pond as we started to drown.
The next we shared on the firebreak,
the third in a forest and for its own sake.
For 10 long kisses she was all mine.
Oh, how I wish they were only nine.
For 10 sweet kisses she belonged to me.
For no more than 10 we lived just free.
In the water she kissed me for the fourth time.
She kissed me again, as if it was no crime.
Kiss six I received, when she received me.
Number seven came with sex and it came with me.
For 10 long kisses she was all mine...
At kiss eight our bodies were covered in sweat.
That one was really, really wet.
Same with kiss nine, it came with the morning,
oh, our very last morning.
For 10 long kisses she was all mine...
Oh, then she kissed me the last time and so full of longing,
when her husband, my brother, appeared on the porch.
He returned from the war. He found us in the kitchen.
He took her back without any word.
I left our farm without any fight
never to return again.
No more will I kiss her, watch her, but miss her,
never feel the warm wind in her hair.
For 10 long kisses she was all mine...
It's fair as it is, but love's stronger than this
and I hope for the eleventh kiss.
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Don't Fear
03:26
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Down, when you're down, you can call her. She will come running to you.
Hard, when it's too hard, she will soften her body for you humming:
Take my body.
Down, when you go down, she will love it, when you go down on her.
Fear, don't you fear anyone. You're save now humming:
Take my soul.
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Will we breathe in heaven? Will we shiver, when it’s cold?
Is it warm in heaven? Is there a shining sun?
I don’t know. But, my dear, I know I love you and life is where you are.
Will we be naked? We will have bodies to make love?
Will won't eat, will we? Will we see stars from above?
I don’t know. But, my dear, I know I love you and life is where you are.
Will we sleep in heaven? – I don’t know.
Will we dream in heaven? – I don’t know.
Will we bleed in heaven? – No, I don’t think so.
I don’t know. But, my dear, I know I love you and life is where you are.
Life is where you are.
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