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Shallow the Nykr
11:53
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Shalllow the Nykr
i) Urmeer
ii) Seahorse Serenades
When the poisoned waves have crossed the windparks offshore
Seahorse serenades will sound and shake the core
Law and chaos lost their ground won’t matter no more
Passage rites, northern lights
When the creatures of the sea fight ancient wars
Seahorse serenades will sound and shake the stars
Pearls and gold and tiny mermonks trapped in jars
Passage rights, northern lights
Save a soul in every town
Find the man who stole the crown
This is the Urmeer sound
iii) Nykr’s Wrath:
Come here now, turning tide
Enemy know your kind
Come here now burning sand
Coldfronts rise it’s getting’ out of hand
Gone, sun’s gone, pendulum,
To the coast waters come
A salty salute sister of mine
Coldfronts rise end of the line
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2. |
Night of the Prom
03:45
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Night of the Prom
Standing watch the lakeside burning at the break of day
Hollow inside, flag in hand, a design so grand and so holistic
Tonight is the night and you’re running scared
Standing watch the city crumble chills you as you fall
All the girls in their new dresses and they don’t see you at all
Cause tonight is the night and you are on the outside
Don’t be shy
The child in you about to realize
So much for the future now the truth has struck your heart
All the boys are celebrating and it’s tearing you apart
Cause tonight is the night and you are on the outside
There’s something wrong
The boys are on alert
Don’t be shy
The child in you about to realize
Shadows will pass you by
Cause today you are starting the rest of your life
Standing watch the lakeside burning at the break of day
Life is just a house of cards, a kiss so hot it ruins your lipstick
There’s something wrong
The boys are on alert
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3. |
Paper Monkeys
04:45
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Paper Monkeys
So your vision is still weary from constantly passing the bars
The polaroids are fading, eyes dying distant stars
Like a dance of force around a center pictures bloom and fade
Into your heart and soul you’re a panther in a cage
You can’t go now you have to go later
Confronting monkeys made of paper
And you begin to shake with rage
You can’t go now you have to go later
When iron bars become shattered glass
For the panther in his cage
Like a nightmare from the past the memories they last
With your now and soon in the passing of the bars
Like a dance of force around a center pictures bloom and fade
Into your heart and soul you’re a panther in a cage
You can’t go now you have to go later
Confronting monkeys made of paper
And you begin to shake with rage
You can’t go now you have to go later
When iron bars become shattered glass
For the panther in his cage
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Mr Genghis comes to Town
06:04
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Mr. Genghis come to Town
Place a thumbtack on the plan where the ancient river ran
Forming chaos into order red balloon flies near a border
Shady light, roses bloom, hours gone by in a secret garden,
Hiding in shadows I’m coming for you in a secret garden
Sunlight faces happy smiles
Modern landscapes funeral pyres
They fuck your brains, propaganda gone wild
No sense in running you will lose my child
Rise and Shine Kyoto
This darkest hour I make my stand
At least the champagne’s cold when worlds will end
Unleash the dogs and hordes and thunder hooves,
Hear them howling on their warpath moves
No sense in running you will lose my clown
When Mr. Genghis comes to town
Shady light, roses bloom, hours gone by in a secret garden,
Hiding in shadows I’m coming for you in a secret garden
Sunlight faces happy smiles
Modern landscapes funeral pyres
Forming chaos into order
Red balloon flies near a border
No snse in running, they will hunt you down
When Mr. Genghis comes to town
Heading west their horses cry
Neon tombstones against the sky
Matters over mind they choose the gun
Kyoto fails, you’re on the run
Rise and shine Kyoto
Champagne class
Rise and shine come shouting
Champagne class
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Kicker of faye
07:28
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The silence in this house never made me feel secure
With shadowborn on empty glasses struggling for a cure
The wind was whispering in the dunes nourishing the shore
Until the night you came along sneaking through my door
We are many, we are small and we are craving for your fall
We are your nemesis, the night, we’re made from void, we eat your light
The seasons changed, I thought that I could run away,
Your voices muted in the traffic’s noise kept the memories at bay
You started invading my nights again, coming with the storm
To end this now I have returned to the place where I was born
I’m wide awake, I’m in control, I am my guide, I have a soul
I am an angel and a punk and you’re a bunch of thoughts on junk
With all the tensions blown away I’m kicking faye
I’m learning fast
What is it in this house that the darkness brings to life
I sense a thousand eyes on me and I’m ready for the fight
Whatever it is that’s come for me it’s hiding and it waits
And I’m putting on my steel cap boots to enhance my strength
A sold out show in blood
A paradise lost for a naked god
Your darkness doesn’t hurt no more
Dare you – Come true – Feel you
Near you – Feel true - Breakthrough
I’m kicking faye, I have enough, I’m in control, I’m growing up
I’m glad I’d come back to this place to face the truth to win this race
All the tensions blown away I’m kicking faye I’m learning fast
Your darkness and my light
A sold out show in blood
A paradise lost for a naked god
Your darkness doesn’t hurt no more
Dare you – Come true – Feel you
Near you – Feel true - Breakthrough
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Berlin Ahead
03:10
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Berlin Ahead
You call me at night it’s coming near don’t wait but follow
Jesus walked into the light as far as I know
The promise of a final dance and I’m in for the showdown
Someday we’ve lost our way somewhere somehow
The message was clear, we had to run away from the fairgrounds
As the world turned upside down thoughts started to shut down
They got the power they got the might and red lights are flashing
People fading out of sight towerscrashing
Anyone out there, anyone coming home tonight
You can count on me
The city gets near Berlin ahead we call from a distance
Empty canyons skies turn red no lights in the windows
What went wrong we’ll never know and we don’t care
Who’s gone too far the cause unknown the facts so untrue
Anyone out there, anyone coming home tonight
You can count on me
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Corridors
05:34
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Corridors
Somehow we lost the way
Never let go
Late at dawn came the last winter’s snow
Corridors, elevator, staircase
Carry us through
I won’t lose my faith in you
Now the club is open
With every heart a timebomb
With every soul part of the blue
Falling apart
All the roads - have led to nowhere
I’d like to let you know that I still care
In my darkest hour not many choices
My name is Conrad, I am guided by voices
Never give up, never let go
Late at dawn came the last winter’s snow
Now the club is open
With every heart a timebomb
With every soul part of the blue
Falling apart
Now the club is open
With every heart a timebomb
With every soul part of the b
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Johnny Bob Hamburg, Germany
Johnny Bob is a neo-prog band from Hamburg. They form 2017 in memory of two school bands which disband after their members
graduate in the early nineties.
German magazine “eclipsed” rates Johnny Bob in October 2019 to become one of the “big bands in the national progressive scene”.
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