@ALBUM: front.242

1981
BODY TO BODY
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EII?1982EIII»
? GEOGRAPHY ?
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? Operating Tracks ?
? With your cries ?
? Art and Strategy ?
? Geography II ?
? U.Men ?
? Dialogues ?
? Least Inkling ?
? G.V.D.T ?
? Geography I ?
? Black White Blue ?
? Kinetics ?
? Kampfbereit ?
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@SONG: Geography II


There was a soldier
War material
Under the rain
Soulkilling, complain
And life to sustain
Pain - no pain
There will be ructions
More rebellions
Looting, rout
He's afraid of such a waste

There was a soldier
Warm material
Under the sun
For old acquaintances' sake
Don't make such a mistake
Please - oh please
There will be ructions
More rebellions
Looting, rout
Drugs tell upon one in time

@SONG: U-Men


They seem to live in Panavision
On a TV screen or in a non-stop dream
UNIDENTIFIED MEN

I think it ain't just

At the first glance, I knew there was no chance
To come into contact or to find a new compact
UNIDENTIFIED MEN

I think it ain't just

@SONG: With your cries


Irrelevant questions
Queer responses with double meanings
Disordered,
Disorted voices
Coming from distant, dismal polar
climes
It makes you feel glad
It makes you take on a new lease of life
It makes you feel glad
It makes you fill the air with your cries

@SONG: Least inkling


There's no use fighting
I try to remain Unappalled
There's no use fighting
It leaves me provisionally quiet and cold

A sinking feeling
Is swiftly growing
I didn't have the least inkling
Of the plot they were weaving

@SONG: Kampfbereit


Einstein ist auf dem Strand nun
Und die Fahnen flattern
Einstein ist auf dem Strand nun
Traenenbenetzte Augen
Und der Wind laesst den fliegen
Handgranaten

KAMPFBEREIT

@SONG: Operating Tracks


Standing so tall / The ground behind
No trespassers / On every floor
A garden swing / And another door
She makes it clear / That everything is hers

A place of abode
Not far from here
Ms. Van de Veer

All that belongs to / No-one sees
Curtains that waver / When evening falls
Inclosed by fences / Smothered by wood
Who stands behind / The shadows of the trees

A place of abode
Not far from here
Ms. Van de Veer

Standing so tall / But no-one sees
No trespassers / Whan evening falls
A garden swing / Smothered by wood
Shw makes it clear / The shadows of the trees

@SONG: G.D.V.T


Where did you go?
I need to know
You always walk away
Though I'd like to stay

The place we'd meet
A distant street
And now I walk alone in vain
Wondering if you're still the same

I haven't found G.V.D.T yet
I only spoke with him on the phone
I haven't found G.V.D.T yet
I even don't remember why I've got to meet him
I haven't found G.V.D.T yet
It's an affair I will never forgat

What's wrong?

Corners I turn
Pictures I burn
I look over my shoulder
To the man who grows older
So will I find?
This search is blind
As I who cannot see
As you can run free

@SONG: Take one


Oh no don't take
This is our last order
last order

If you're (physical youth)
You say you're moving youth
So why don't you feel?
So why don't you feel the beat
Say how you could!

Give me...
Another one
My old regrets
Can't stay always (alone)
You feel the beat

This is...
One day the grounds will sway
Divine body, look right!
This is...

Give me another one
And take my old regrets
Can't stay always alone
Why don't you feel the beat?
Oh why don't you feel the beat?

@SONG: Controversy between


The time has come
To stop out old affairs
To know our neighbours
To try to learn new ways

They've gone too far
Who do they think they are
To treat us like they do
We'll change the roles and soon

Now war's declared
My lord what fools we were
To trust our neughbours
To let them share our lives

@SONG: Take one live


This is our last order
This is our last order
Last order to dance
If you're...
This is another curve
In human history
This is another curve
I taste your divine body

Science of the signs
Signs of the science

I feel it in the air
And deep inside of me
I feel it everywhere
We'll grow eternally
Within S.S.S.S. science
Give me!...

One day the mon will fall
One day the grounds will sway
This may be the last call
Of a lost world anyway

Fire!
Heat!
Power!
Time is up!

This is our last order
Last order to dance

This is another world
That smells organic life
This is another world
Like the edge of a knife
One day the moon will fall
One day the grounds will sway

Take One!
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?N.O C.O.M.M.E.N.T?
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? Commando Mix ?
?S. Fr. Nomenklatura ?
? Deceit ?
? Lovely Day ?
? No Shuffle ?
? Special Forces ?
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@SONG: Special Forces


Mental wires are sucking our bones
See how tha insect hooks
Towers open fire
Burning the records
Please enter the garden
The green garden of delights
No more trouble
No more answers
No mer songs of joy
The sugeon plies the steel
If we do well, we shall
Drink the juice and eat the pill
From red insects we dissect
From dark ah ah we reject
Descend lower, descend slowly
Find your own conception
Descend lower, descend slowly
Find your knife construction
Mental wires we must freeze
Lethal fires burn our knees

Garden of delights / Green garden
Garden of delights / G.O.D.

@SONG: Deceit


Walking around the shadow
Shadows of emotion
I can sense your glow
And your limbs in motion

I need immediate contact
You can be that one
Come on girl
Let me touch your hands
Let me take your hands

Feel the warmth
Take me in your arms
Can you keep this heat
Oh please don't make me wait
Let me touch your lips
Your body is so sweet
Feel my fingertips
Why is your skin so wet

TOUCH

I know you face
Hot pleasure ways
Desire burns me up
Come on take me, girl
Hot pleasure ways
Behind your face

Deceit
Retreat
And another D-Day
In vain
Again
People in close array

@SONG: Commando Mix


I wanna survive..
This is the warning
Principles are dead
Morality can wait
You've got to survive in this jungle
Stick it in your mind

This is the warning
Enemies are watching

Open the window
Jump on the roof
Danger can come
From everywhere
My skin is damp, I'm shivring
Am I scared or am I cold
The tension rises

You've got to survive
Stick it in your mind
It's your Leitmotiv

THIS IS AN EMERGENCY

@SONG: No Shuffle


There is no shuffle
There is no shuffle here
Here on the North Pole
On this quiet dome
Sunshine on crystal
And milky walls of ice
All seem so fragile
Under the polar sky

Cold in head
But warm in the heart
You could find pleasure
You could find displeasure
There is no sound here
But the rumbling waves
Of the polar sea

I know this anger burning inside of you
And I'm afraid I can feel it too
I know this anger burning inside of you
There is an ice-floe between you and me

This is the place
This is the only place
Cold in the head
Warm in the heart

There is no shuffle
There is no shuffle here
Here on the North Pole
On this quiet dome
Remember what they said
You've got to go ahead
Always ahead

@SONG: Lovely Day


It will never be like before
Lovely day
He never expected such a lovely day
Be sure he'll find you back someday

It was a lovely day
The day you walked away
Revenge came out to play
When you refused to stay
He walks through empty lanes
Cold anger, bursting veins
Now that I've lost your track
How could I bring you back

Be sure he won't forget
'coz the last words you said
Dissect his heart like golden scissors
Disrupt his head with morning quivers
Make him regret each moment spent with you
Make him regret what he intended to do
Too late to stop this agony

Please/Dont/Ask/Me/For/More
Lovely day
He never expected such a gift

It was a lovely day
The day you walked away
There's too much on my mind
To leave it all behind
Just hoping that I find
There's too much on my mind
Wait now for the night
The prey, the kill, the flight
Return then of the light
Won't reveal any displeasure

Don't ask me for more
It will never be like before

See the clouds gather low
He's walking in the lanes
His new life is so cruel
When there's sun it still rains


@SONG: Funkahdafi


We who are oppressed love those who
fight against oppression and the
oppressors...
Brothers and sisters, it is with great honor
and privilege that I present to you the
leader of the El Fatah revolution...
From Libya, our brother Muhammar El
Kahdafi.


@SONG: Don't Crash


Days of no horizon
Claustrophobia
Conditioned air

Don't crash - no flowers for you
Don't crash - no regrets

Gushing waters
Forcing it down
Days stars final flicker urging on the break of dawn

Stand fast - voices screech below
Stand fast - no clemency

Panic stricken faces
Diving further down into hell

Don't crash - no flowers for you
Don't crash - no regrets

Timeless terror is taking over
Throbbing hearts and restless bones - melted into one

Stand fast - voices screech below
Stand fast - no clemency

Breath slowly fading
Partly anger - partly stress
Stand fast - air is sparse below
Stand fast - no clemency
Been detected
Losing power
Deeper down we grovel on our sweating bending knees

Don't crash - no flowers for you
Don't crash - no regrets

Last moment cries on the radio
It's so hot down here
Crushing metal bloody waters
Same faces everywhere
Now the anger is fading
Now the fight can't go on
We'll always be remembered
We'll always be dismembered

Days of no horizon...

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?OFFICIAL VERSION?
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? W.Y.H.I.W.Y.G. ?
? Rerun Time ?
?Television Station?
? Agressiva Due ?
? MasterHit ?
? Slaughter ?
? Quite Unusual ?
? Red Team ?
? Agressiva Angst ?
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@SONG: Slaughter


The slightest contusion becomes a lethal wound
You know how to lie, you know how to take a hint

Resorting to proper measures to stop the trend
Previously unyielding but now compelled to bend
but now compelled to

OFFICIAL VERSION
OFFICIAL VERSION

The calling of forces from which I can't recoil
Previously unyielding but now compelled to bend

It's a carnage


@SONG: Rerun Time


Take our time
Hold the line
Is it important
Such a mess
Tenderness
This is my secret

I'm so glad
You go mad
We're on the cover
You won't dare
Just entertainment

You say yes
You say no
Remain indifferent
I'm so scared
Unprepared
It makes no difference

I'm so glad
You go mad
Is it important?
That's enough
Leave the time
And watch the future


@SONG: Television Station


Hey man
You'd better move aside
Or I'll run you over
I warn you
I'm on my way to the top
And I'll reach it alone
I know I can't fail
No threat
No Hindrance on my road
Will deter me
I'm on my way to the top


@SONG: Quite Unusual


The sun went down and the ground started sort
of grinding
A blinding light tore across the sky
A cyclone swept the landscape out and left it
completely flattened out
And several twirls of smoke unfolded like gigantic
flowers

The way the morning broke was quite unusual

I should have wakened up at once, but this was no
concern of mine, so I kept on dreaming

My eyes roamed over the burning ruins

In less time than it takes to tell

And I felt like
And I felt like being numbed,
I felt like mesmerized

The way the morning broke was quite unusual
More than words can say

In less time than it takes to tell


@SONG: Agressiva


It's up to you to decide
Are you prepared to slave again?

Let's get down to work
It's up to you to decide

With all their courage they face
The enemies and guns who took the place
Where the freedom never appears

It worked so well before
Let's use it once more

It's up to you to decide
To preserve the power on your side

In their eyes rush and charge
Let's get down to work
Let's get down to combat


@SONG: Agressiva Due


IT'S UP TO YOU TO DECIDE
YES, WE DID HIT HIM AGAIN
WE TRIED QUITE DIPLOMACY AND
DEMONSTRATIONS OF MILITARY FORCE


@SONG: Red Team


I am the next stage
I am the next stage
Are you able to follow the Red Team?
Are you able to follow the Red Team?

Death can take a thousand faces
They all look familiar to me
I live in a world of paradox
My willingness to destroy
Is your chance for improvement
My hate is your faith
My failure is your victory
A victory that won't last
A victory that won't last

O.K.
Electronic jamming?


@SONG: W.Y.H.I.W.Y.G.


Oh, please
Get away from me
Are you crazy?
Nobody can hear you

THEY'RE COMING DOWN
THEY'RE COMING DOWN
THEY'RE COMING DOWN FOR YOU


@SONG: MasterHit


YOU KNOW ME AND I SURE KNOW YOU
EVERYONE

You seem so... Tender

Give me some more of the warm little beasts
I'm so fond of

Master, I'm so glad to feel your presence
But you don't seem to share my impatience
I relied upon you to break the silence
I cannot understand your reluctance

Master, I feel so warm and I'm so happy, oh master

Give me some more of the warm little beasts
I'm so fond of

You seem so
I could melt the frozen wall you raised between us
and now I'm on the other side, you seem rather surprised

Constricting viscous rings around your warm body
Holding you tied, holding you tied... and I feel so happy

You seem so tender
As the warm little beasts
I'm so fond of

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?FRONT BY FRONT?
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? Until Death ?
? Circling Overland ?
?Im Rhythmus Bleiben ?
? Felines ?
?First in / First out?
?Blend the Strengths ?
? HeadHunter ?
? Work 01 ?
? Terminal State ?
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@SONG: First in First Out


You like the body, move the body,
You like the body, move the body.

Full force, full force ahead

Don't stay aside - I mean to be obeyed
Don't switch off, switch on the power

You like the body, so move the body

I GO DOWN THERE EVERY
NIGHT...
JUST TO FEEL THE BEAT


@SONG: Welcome to Paradize


Hey poor, you don't have to be poor anymore
Jesus is here!
In the name of Jesus (Alleluiah!)
Feel like your life is going nowhere
Ten seconds... Standby
Jesus is the Son of God
Come in Jesus (Alleluiah!)
Oh God I'm a sinner!
I deserve to go to hell (Alleluiah!)

NO SEX UNTIL MARRIAGE!

Oh God I'm a sinner, I deserve to go to hell
The bible said you keep him out in the lie
In the name of Jesus
Jesus is the Son of God
In the name of Jesus (Alleluiah!)
Hey poor, you don't have to be poor anymore
Jesus is here! (Don't tell the devil)
Hey poor, you don't have to be Jesus!


@SONG: Felines


They come to track down the sobbing
They come to sully the sorrow
To see the bloody insides
To eat their fill of dispair
They come to track down the sobbing
To pulverize the most intimate pains

Let's feed the felines
Bury your head in the sand or go round
in circles

Deeply caught in their conceit
They gather to check their luck
The vultures sweeping down upon the
street
To eat their fill of despair

Let's feed teh felines...


@SONG: Head-Hunter


FREEZE! SHOOT TO KILL OR DIE
Today he has no means, he's alone and anonymous
But written in his cells he has got the marks og the
genius
I'm looking for this man to sell him to other men
To sell him to other men at ten times the price at least
I'm looking for this man who knows the rules of the game
Who's able to forget them to realize my aim
I'm looking for this man to make us rich and famous

One - You lock the target
Two - You bait the line
Three- You slowly spread the net
And four - You catch the man


@SONG: Circling Overland


1-1-2029, the stars are shining bright

Nerves connected to the center, we are tied to the machine
Invisible and silent, circling overland
The planemakers designed us to outturn and outmaneuver
Intruders in the skies, intruders in our skies

1-1-2029, tonight the stars are shining bright

Backbone of the fighter force, of the defence industry,
Devoted tools of the power, warrants of the order

1-1-2029 tonight the stars are shining bright

Silicon advisers leading the way
We reach our cruising altitude
1-1-2029, West Europe, midnight
Invisible and silent, circling overland
Scanning, taping, filing, instantly checking
Every human, car and plane of the quarters we survey

CIRCLING OVERLAND

CIRCLING OVERLAND


@SONG: Work


IS THIS THE KIND OF WORK YOU'D LIKE TO DO?

Tonight I meet my friends
Together we celebrate...
THE BODY MUTILATED
ANOTHER MUTILATED BODY
WE HAVE AGREED TO TRY HYPNOSIS
HAVE YOU GONE COMPLETLY MAD?
I wake up freezing bleeding in the basement
O my head, I don't remember anything
I guess the night was exciting

LISTEN CAREFULLY!­

When I'm clear I happen to regret
All the losses I will never retrieve
Hey you, hey me, carcass in the mirror
As hard as a rock and selfish to the core
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
I've been waiting for the good times

I NOSTRI SOGNI SONO SEMPRE PRESENTI
ALL THE BODIES MUTILATED IN THE SAME
OBSCENE MANNER


@SONG: Im Rhythmus Bleiben


Einatmen, ausatmen, einatmen, ausatmen
Im Rhythmus bleiben, im Rhythmus bleiben
Was soll ish tun?
Im Rhythmus bleiben, im Rhythmen bleiben

ALLES WAS DRIN IST

DUE / QUATRO / DUE

RAUS! RAUS!


@SONG: Until Death us do part


Now you have me
Now I'm there
Now I have you
Now you care

Now I got you
Now you care
Now you have me and
Now I'm there

Now we're tied - Until death us do part
Now I'm making my way inside
Now I'm feeding myself with you
And the more I grow, the more you decline
Now we're tied until death us do part

L-O-C-K
L-O-C-K-space-T-H-E-space-D-O-O-R-space-
F-O-R-E-V-E-R

Now it's time for you to be sure
That the life we share will be long
That what can't be cured has to be endured
Now we're tied until death us do part

L-O-C-K
L-O-C-K-space-T-H-E-space-D-O-O-R-space-
F-O-R-E-V-E-R


@SONG: Terminal State


What about the figures?
What about the facts?
What about the outbreaks?
What about ourselves?
What about the figures?
They don't stop climbing
What about the outbreak?
It keeps on spreading
See it gaining ground
Digging in the wound

We're in the doldrums

Quantizing is frightening
The facts are blinding
Time is dragging
The facts are blinding
We're a party in a suit
Now the worm is in the fruit
See it gaining ground
Digging in the wound

We're in the doldrums

You could make it just around the block
It's able to sneak in any lock
On your shoulder there, is it a pock?
Will the scales ever fall from your eyes?

What about the figures?
They don't stop climbing
What about the outbreak?
It keeps on spreading
Now the lines are converging
To the point of no return
See it gaining ground, amplifying the wound
A disaster (You name it!)
A disaster occurs
Under your very eyes
See it gaining ground
Digging in the wound

We're in the doldrums

THE DOLDRUMS...
THE OUTBREAK...
DISASTER... THE FACTS... THE LINES

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The text above comes from the 'book' "Front 242 Words 1981-1989.
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