16 November 2007: Gebaude 9 (Koln, Germany)

Call off your witch hunt
This time the french are not to blame
Your justice is heaven sent
I bid you farewell I'll see you in hell

This town is burning down
This town is burning down
This town is burning down

You've consumed and consumed and consumed
The very soul of this city
It's a sin
Will you be surprised when the flames
Consume you as God claims his retribution

This town is burning down
This town is burning down
This town is burning down

This town is burning down
This town is burning down
This town is burning down

They said it couldn't be done
And so it seems
I proved them all wrong

In spite of them
I have become
The chosen one

This is the devil's game
This is a holiday
This is the devil's game
It turns me on

All I ever wanted
Is a little revolution
But here I sit
With my head in my hands
Lost in a sea of deception

And this ship won't let me sink
And the wind won't talk about
England expects
England expects

If you feed them a lie
They will take it and run
And who could blame them

This is the devil's game
This is a holiday
This is the devil's game
This is a holiday

they've made mountains out of molehills
let them climb
they can chase me to the end of the earth

and if they find me, let them indite me
i just don't care anymore

they've pushed me too far, too far
they've pushed me too far, too far

all this talk of war but it's only a game

all i ever wanted to do is play chess with you
but if they find me, they will indite me
i just can't fight anymore

they've pushed me too far, too far
they've pushed me too far, too far
we'll build this rook house here for bobby
we'll build this rook house here for bobby
we'll build this rook house here for bobby
we'll build this rook house here for bobby
we'll build this rook house here for bobby
we'll build this rook house here for bobby
we'll build this rook house here for bobby
we'll build this rook house here...

This is a breakdown

You are a cancer

This will be the death of me
I'll never live this down
You will never
An amazing fall from grace
No more or less than I deserved
A gentleman a liar and a cheat

And all that's left for me
Is to usher in the death of a broken man
And the birth of another
We all seem safe in the knowledge
That you are watching over
Everything that we do

This is a breakdown

You are a cancer

You've got a lot to answer for

It took a blow to the head
And I realized what I
Was put on this earth to achieve
It showed me the way
So make an example of me
Hang me up from the tallest tree
Make an example of me

This is not the voice of reason
It's the cross I was chosen to bear
This is not the voice of reason

My time has surely come
I'm as guilty as can be
This is treason
In the first degree
Now the gallows tree
she calls to me my name
There can be no reprieve for me now
In this lifetime

This is not the voice of reason
It's the cross I was chosen to bear
This is not the voice of reason

Make an example of me
Make an example of me

We play a waiting game
And we play a waiting game
We play a waiting game
And it won't be long now

The tailor was the first to go
We burnt his clothes
And we burried him low

The tailor's next of kin
And the tailor's neighbors followed him
And so it is
And so it goes
Save our souls

We play a waiting game
And we play a waiting game
We play a waiting game
And it won't be long now

The fossor refused to dig
And who could blame him if he did
We bury our own now
We bury them deep

When the doctor followed suit
Knew our plight was set to worsen
So it is
The fear of God now is in every person

With heavy hearts
And other hands
We build a wall around this town
Now no one comes and no one goes
Save our souls

We play a waiting game
And we play a waiting game
We play a waiting game
And it won't be long now

When you said the air smelled sweet
I knew it was only a matter of time
And we all fall down
And we all fall down

You pulled the wool
Over our eyes
You stole the wind
From my sails

I pushed her too hard

I dreamed too big for my
Landlocked world to contain
Here I sit with head in hand
I sing elegies to lessons I will never learn

I pushed her too hard

All men will be
Sailors until the sea
Shall set them free
I close my eyes and

All men will be
Sailors until the sea
Shall set them free
I close my eyes and

All men will be
Sailors until the sea
Shall set them free
I close my eyes and swim

How could I,
have led these men to their demise,
and they just follow?
Exploration's last great prize,
it wasn't mine.

CHORUS:
and mores the shame
you will remember my name

Great god,
this is an awful place,
and I do not think that we can hope,
for any better things now,
oh the end,
cannot be far,
it cannot be far,
I cannot wait.
Explorations last great prize,
a saving grace,
it wasn't mine

You could have saved yourself
I gave you more than one chance
"I Am Murdered, I Am Murdered" you cried
Well, well,
You could have survived

I will rot, a broken man, in this green and pleasant land
Your position can't save you now
(Your position can't save you)
You were the finger on my trigger
And the rope around my neck
As you were as well

Your position can't save you now
You could have saved yourself
I gave you more than one chance
"I Am Murdered, I Am Murdered" you cried
Well, well,
If the truth be told
It is I that will meet my demise at your hands Mr. Perceval
I am murdered
You will hang a guilty man in England's green and pleasant land

Your position (you were the rope around my neck) can't save you now (you were the finger on my trigger)
Your position can't save you now (you were the rope around my neck)
Your position can't save you now
As the bullet flies, you cannot hide behind
Your position (you were the rope around my neck) can't save you now (you were the finger on my trigger)
Your position can't save you now (you were the rope around my neck)
Your position can't save me now (you were the finger on my trigger)
Your position can't save me now

i discharged myself today
that place did nothing for me
i let myself into your house
aren't you pleased to see me?

i'm making the news again
we're making the news again
you only have yourself to blame
you also cried on our wedding day
well, this is the last time

i'm making the news again
we're making the news again
you only have yourself to blame
you only have yourself to blame