Splunge! Songbook
Copyright 1997 by Splunge!

	Take a Chance

Take a chance now
Everybody got his life to make the world go round
Take a chance now
Everybody got his life to find the underground

Look for what you feel
That's just the way to see
That's the way you gonna get
That's just the way to be

Do what you need
Feel what you feel
Take a chance why don't you know
That your feelings can make you free

	Take a chance why don't you know,
	Take a chance why don't you know

Musik: Manfred, Hanne und Splunge!
Text:  Hanne

	Upside Down

You look me in the eye	you say I'm not to blame
				Well, that's really nicely said
And though it seems to me	it's really quite the same
I simply can't deny		the trouble on my head

	What's going on
	Leaving me breathing
	Was I ever wrong
	To go on believing
	In your faith in me
	I just can't see

You try to comfort me	you're simply growing up
				I say I never disagreed
I can't help feeling like	you're just letting me drop
I only wanted to be there	and help you in your need

	Give me reason
	Or give me a smile
	That don't feel like treason
	Just for a while
	Let me embrace you
	It's all I can do

You say you're sorry and		you hope we'll still be friends
Please understand if I'm confused
Why does it always turn		against me when it ends
Give me a chance to put it right -	What can I do?

	- Solo -

Don't want to blame you,		don't know what to do at all
My feet don't seem to touch the ground
Don't want to hurt you,		don't know how to break my fall
Just lying waiting to come round

Until one day I come to		treasure our memory
And all the tears that I have bled
Although I cannot still			believe it when I say
I'd like to thank you for		the lovely times we had

Musik: Splunge!
Text: Uwe

	Going 2 B

Some guys even need a woman
Tell them what's right or wrong
Living is just to say
Yes or no every day
Gonna stay on my own

I'm not the man you can live with
Doing what you will say
I know just what I want
See that you accept me
Gonna stay on my own

	Livin' with me is easy
	Do what you want for me and you
	Make your mind up like I do
	Then we're going to get through

Some women think it's loving
But it's only a kiss
If you won't come deeper
Better stay alone
Get me out of this

Could be the man you ought to live with
We can do what we want
If you don't hold me down
Just take a look how we feel
Gonna be my woman

	Livin' with me is easy
	Take my hand and feel free
	Make your mind up like I do
	So it's going to be

Musik: Manfred und Splunge!
Text: Hanne und Manfred

	Doomsday

The sun gets up, I squint around
Think there surely ain't no fun here to be found
What kind of war raged here? The room is in a mess
Like one of those pictures of San Frenzy in the press
Whose leg is, fully dressed and lying in my bed
It's connected to my pelvis, but it feels a good deal dead
I don't much like that lazy thing hanging 'round my place that way
So out I shove it - tumbling down to the floor and so do I

As battle's sole survivor I stagger to my socks
Trying to bodycount my limbs to learn about my loss
Have I always had four hands? I should expect quite so
And anyway, why bother when they seem to work for you?
I get some thumping noise from what I think must be my ear
Going "doom - doom - doom" Now tell me is that kinda queer?
Where did I leave my brain - at the party or the pub?
If you ask me, I guess it's throwing up right in my tub!

Doom, doom, doom, doomsday
Doom, doom, doom, doomsday morning
		  Doomsday morning

The journey out the bedroom is a middle-sized crusade
Climbing over cans and bottles right against the light of day
I cannot quite remember where this heap of trash came from
Looks like the consequences of an impact of a bomb
Struggling through the remnants I reach the loo at last
The door gives way, I swing around and smack my skull real fast
The mirror stares in wonder, saying: "Boy, you should be dead!"
I just can't tell, but still I got this throbbing in my head

	Doom, doom, doom...

Don't try to call me 'cause I don't know what to say
Don't wanna learn about my sins of yesterday
And all I can hear now is the swamp between my ears
That is bumping, bumping, bumping...

	- Solo -

Don't tell me stories that I don't care for at all
Don't give me dumb advice 'bout doctors I should call
But how about a little drink to still the pain
That's still bumping, bumping, bumping...

	Doom, doom, doom, doomsday morning...

Musik: Manfred und Splunge!
Text: Uwe

	South to North

No water now, nothing to eat
The earth so stony
What a heat

When will the rain keep on falling?
When does the water flow and flow?
When will the corn grow to the sky?

	Oh my God give us a sign today
	a sign, a sign, a sign

What do I put on?
Which colour for my hair?
The time runs faster everywhere

When does my lover come in my bed?
When am I ready from my work?
When do I make much money?

	Oh my God, give us a sign...

Musik: Manfred, Hanne und Splunge!
Text: Hanne

	Wake Up

In the calm the clock strikes midnight
As the dream slips through your hands
This is no dress rehearsal
There is no second chance
You stare into the mirror
Pour cool water in your face
You're lookin' at a stranger
And you feel so out of place

	Sometimes I wanna take you
	And shake you out of this dream
	I'm talking to you

Now don't you ever wonder
What it feels like to be free
When you stare at the future
That's not the way it used to be
You're reaching for something you don't understand
Trying to care but you don't give a damn
You're at the controls but you're not in command
And just growing older don't make you a man

	Sometimes I wanna...

Musik: Ulli und Splunge!
Text: Wissen die Götter...

	Destiny

You say, listen to your heart
You say, do what you want
  Find out about what you need

Be honest with yourself
To be honest with me
  That's the only way for us to be

I'm doin' perfectly fine
In perfect state of my mind
  Easy to say what is true

But then you come along
Show me where I went wrong
  Make me reconsider my view

	It's your destiny	Yes it is
	It's your chance	Yes, I'm on my way
				Even tomorrow

You always state your case
You never fool around
  No matter what it's all about

Put my in my place
Put my feet back on the ground
  Responsible to speak out loud

Let's hear your point of view
Give my truth something new
  Destroy my illusions today

Although it could mean some pain
I'd rather try it again
  It's never too late for a new way

Whooaa - I love you...

	It's your destiny...

Musik: Manfred und Splunge!
Text:  Uwe und Manfred

	Worry, Baby!

I just heard in the news today
  There's poison in the air
And a famine down in Africa
  Starvation everywhere
  
Population growing, new diseases showing, radiation on the loose
Temperatures are rising, racial groups despising, power in the worst abuse

Don't give me no teachin', Sunday mornin' preachin'
  This is just the way it is
Don't you call me lazy, I am just not crazy
  Better learn to live with it!

	You gotta worry
	You gotta worry, Baby!

Now there's trouble with some Mid-East state
  Their H-Bombs cannot fail
And the Third World's major trading is
  Transplantation organs sale

Health keeps on declining, sunlight's deadly blinding, all-observing camera eyes
Social disconnection, nature's vivisection, thinking is cut down to size

I don't take no action without satisfaction
  I won't take no blame from you
All that guilt you're bearing - why should I be caring?
  I got better things to do

	You gotta worry...

Don't you run for cover - do you think: "Why bother
  when the war is far away"?
Don't you know it's coming, that it's no use running
  Turn and look the other way

	You gotta worry...
	You gotta worry, Baby...

Musik: Manfred und Splunge!
Text: Uwe

	I don't care

Late at night, watch my TV
I can't believe just what I see
The flashing screen tells me how to find
My inner center, peace of mind

The telly stares, it's plain to see
There must be something wrong with me
If I don't make that toll-free call
I cannot get the point at all

	Hey, hey, I don't care!
	  The market's bursting on the air
	Hey, hey, I don't care!
	  See the promises hanging everywhere
	Hey, hey, I don't care
	  if they say my life is incomplete
	Hey, hey, I don't care!
	  'Cause I ain't no dog to feed

Get up at six and read the news
The Windsors got the Royal Blues
Hear them confess their latest sins
Exclusive gossip, paper wins

Hey, newsman, what's the latest deal?
I need to know just how it feels
To have the world spy on my life
And wonder how I treat my wife

	Hey, hey, I don't care
	  what kind of socks the princess wears
	Hey, hey, I don't care
	  if they spread those rumours everywhere
	Hey, hey, I don't care
	  if the Queen is a genetic clone
	Hey, hey, I don't care!
	  Cut it short, leave me alone!

Musik: Werner und Splunge!
Text: Uwe

	Way of History

By the way the people learn to live
	and people learn to die
By the way the people learn to listen
	and people learn to cry

Tell me how can young people find their way?
Could they do something different from what we do?
Tell me do they see what's wrong with our minds?
Or is it always, always the same?

Another day, people learn to hate
	and people learn to kill
Another day, people learn to love
	and need each other still

Tell me how can young people find their way?
Could they do something different from what we do?
Tell me do they see what's wrong with our minds?
Or is it always, always the same?

	Way of history
	Way of history

After all people look around
	and see what they have done
After all people go away from us
	don't know if it's right or wrong

Tell me how...

	Way of history...

Musik: Manfred, Hanne und Splunge!
Text:  Hanne

	Fever

Another night that you are here
And I wonder just how the minutes fly
Another week, another year
Watching the time passing by

All I need is your breath		and I lose control
All I need is to stay by your side	to win it all

	Got the fever	You know I can't explain
	Got the fever	Feel it coming again
	Got the fever for you

When I recall I cannot tell
What my life ever looked like without you
And don't you think it's just as well
Though I wonder what I used to do

Don't know what I've missed		where has all that time gone?
Who put you on my list anyway?	What have I won?

	Got the fever...

When I reflect I could have been so free	I wonder why I did
Waste all my precious time with you instead	Press me into that grid

	- Solo -

But I won't forget			our wonderful way
And I know I shall never regret	a single day

	Got the fever...

Another day is coming up
And I don't ever wanna stop
Another night is falling down
I'm so glad to have you around
As I picture tomorrow's day
I can figure the narrow way
That will lead me back to you
I'm so lucky you feel it, too

Make me overcome my pride
Always standing by my side
You are certain to tell me when
I am wrong - make me look again
I don't know how to thank you, girl
Lead me to a larger world
You can always count on me

Musik: Manfred und Splunge!
Text: Uwe und Manfred