Once in a lifetime
1998 WAY 168
Photos by G.W.O.
All lyrics by Wolfsheim
1. Once in a lifetime (3:42)It's getting dark... too soon... a threatening silence...
Surrounding me... a wind comes up from the islands...
Distance fades to stormy grey
Washed out from the deep of the ocean
Here I will stand to face the wrath...
While all the others are praying

Calm down my heart... don't beat so fast...
Don't be afraid just once in a lifetime

No rain can wash away my tears
No wind can soothe my pain
You made me doubt, you made me fear
But now I'm not the same
You took my wife, my unborn son...
Torn into the deep of the ocean
I don't pretend that I love you
`Cause there is nothing left to loose

And when silence comes back to me
I fond myself feeling lonely
Standing here on the shores of destiny
I find myself feeling lonely
I had a life to give... many dreams to live...
Don`t you know that you're losing so much this time
Beyond the waves... I will be free
While all the others are praying

Calm down my heart...

The love in you, it does not burn
There is no lesson you can learn
And there are sounds you cannot hear,
And there are feeling you can`t feel

Calm down my heart... don't beat so fast...
Don't be afraid just once in a lifetime

I don't pretend that I love you
And this time I'm not scared of you


2. Heroin, she said (3:49) Walking down the streets an night
I see her stumbling though the rain
A skinny figure in the dark
Her face a shade of grey

Begging here and barking there
She's swearing all the time
Her fingers fumbling with her hair
A dirty mess of grime

And she starts to cry and she's asking why
Her life's always the same
But she does not se, that unfortunately
There's no one here to blame

"Heroin" she said, "was the best I had...
No more mountains left to climb
The world so slow... all my dreams just too high
To be fulfilled in time...!"

She grabs my arm... and I feel alarmed
Her fingers gripping tight
I she her pleading eyes... so I start to disguise
And say, that everything's alright...

And the reason why I pretended and lied
Is that I don't want to kill
The poor dream that's left in the deepest cleft
Of the thing that she calls will...

"Heroin" she said...


3. Love is strange (3:48)written by Smith/Baker
4. Once in a lifetime [extended] (6:02)