Nina Hagen Shrine

Performed with Lene Lovich
Submitted by Eduardo Simies

Are you ready to rescue the animals tonight?

Don't kill the animals
The animals are free
don't kill the animals
the animals are free

We all want to see through life's mistery?
The quest for knowledge is a natural activity
But science be careful – science be kind
You can't go on pretending to be blind
Animal testing is a dangerous game
All systems are different – we're not the same
Hey, hey doctor – reincarnation
Would you like to come back as a laboratory rat!

Don't kill the animals
The animals are free
don't kill the animals
the animals are free

Love and peace and light and life
What you gonn ado with your butcher's knife?
Life is for living, the animals agree
If they were meant to be eaten, they'd be growing on trees
Abuse yourself of your own free will
Live dangerously and make yourself ill
Get hurt, get high, get in distress
But don't drag the animals into this mess!

Don't kill the animals
The animals are free
don't kill the animals
the animals are free

Hello. Hello. This is No One calling No Name.
I read you. No Name reading No One.
Okay, you know why we're here tonight, don't you?
Sure, have you heard what they're doing to those poor animals?
Yes, it's horrible and someone should do something about that.
Yeah, someone should, and that someone is us, and tonight's the night!
Okay. let's be careful.
Which way do we go?
I think our best bet is going through the side door.
Oh! What's that funny smell?
I don't know. Ssssshhhh, someone's coming!
Okay, it's all clear now. Let's go!
Right. I'm gonna open the door…
Push!

Don't kill the animals
The animals are free
don't kill the animals
the animals are free

The pressure is on, make your decision
Be vegetarian, be anti-vivisection!

Don't kill the animals
The animals are free
don't kill the animals
the animals are free

I think you could say we had success tonight.
Full beam! Brifitte Bardot's taking the dog, so I keep the monkey.
We should have done this a long time ago.
Oh, we gotta do it again. How 'bout you?

Rosenstolz featuring Nina Hagen
Submitted by Silke Langner

Schwarzes Kleid
Und tödlich ist mein Blick
Bring Dir Leid
Vernichte jedes Glück
Bringe Stück für Stück das Unheil
Immer näher rückt Dein Urteil
Denn mein Leib
Lässt Dich zu Stein gefriern
Stund um Stunde
Warte ich in meinem Netz
Bis die wilde Leidenschaft
Den Willen besetzt
Nächtelanges Warten
Hat mich unruhig gemacht
Hab zu lange Zeit schon
Deine Unschuld bewacht
Und dein Leib
Wird ungeahntes verspürn
Schritt für Schritt zum Seidenreich,
Du klopfst an die Tür
Ob dein Glück am Faden hängt
Das liegt nun an dir
Meine Liebe macht dich glücklich
Für kurze Zeit
Du musst dich entscheiden
Denn so schwarz ist mein Kleid
Willst du mich
Wirst du für immer vergehn

The Black Widow

Submitted by Kaeruzukin

The Black Widow
Black clothes, and my gaze is fatal,
brings sorrow,
destroys all happiness,
brings the evil bit by bit,
always closer to your thoughts.
Then my love,
leaves you as a frozen stone.
Hour after hour,
I wait in my spiderweb,
until the wild passion takes charge.
I am then restless.
You've had a long time
to protect your innocence,
and your love.
Although it was unexpected,
you find yourself stepping towards
my kingdom of silk,
then knocking at my door.
Your luck that has been
hanging by a thread, lies by you.
For a short time, my love
brings you happiness.
You must decide for yourself.
Black is the color of my clothes.
Do you want me?
Or do you want me to go away forever?

From the album "Die Erben der Scherben" – Keine Macht für Niemand
Submitted by Anders Sandvei

Ich hab geträumt, der Winter wär vorbei
Du warst hier und wir war'n frei
Und die Morgensonne schien
Es gab keine Angst und nichts zu verlier'n
Es war Friede bei den Menschen und unter den Tier'n
Das war das Paradies

Der Traum ist aus
Der Traum ist aus
Aber ich werde alles geben
Daß er Wirklichkeit wird

Ich hab geträumt, der Krieg wär vorbei
Du warst hier und wir war'n frei
Und die Morgensonne schien
Alle Türen waren offen, die Gefängnisse leer
Es gab keine Waffen und keine Kriege mehr
Das war das Paradies

(Chorus)

Gibt es ein Land auf dieser Erde
Wo der Traum Wirklichkeit ist
Ich weiß es wirklich nicht
Ich weiß nur eins und da bin ich mir sicher
Dieses Land ist es nicht
Dieses Land ist es nicht

Der Traum ist ein Traum zu dieser Zeit
Doch nicht mehr lange – mach' dich bereit
Für den Kampf um's Paradies
Wir haben nichts zu verlier'n außer unserer Angst
Es ist unsere Zukunft – es ist unser Land
Gib mir deine Liebe, gib mir deine Hand

(Chorus)

From the album Udo Lindenberg "Das Beste."  Text by Udo Lindenberg.  Recorded at the Power Station, New York, 1980/81.
Submitted by Dennis Miller

My father lived in Germany
Before the war in 1933.
He was a violinist in Berlin's most popular cabaret.
You watched the tide turn dirty brown.
Weren't you afraid that you were gonna drown?
(In your orchestra pit)
While sailor girls sang through the night,
Those silly love songs in the limelight – (how could you stand it)?

Bert Brecht had already left the land.
From cabarets so many had been banned.
The first had been killed by the crowd.
You couldn' hear, the music was too loud.
You should have sold your violin
Or traded it in for a gun…
Rather than fiddlin' the refrain
Doin' cocaine and charmin' ev'ryone.

You should have killed Hitler.
You know you would have been right.
Why didn't you fight?
You should have killed Hitler.
You didn't see behind the curtain,
You didn't try to stop that show.
Was it so nice – your Third Reich paradise –
Where the sailor girls sang…

[enter Nina]
Deutschland – Deutschland uber alles
Tra-la-la – wunderbar – no panic on the Titanic
More cocaine – more champagne – no panic on the Titanic
What a night – out of sight – no panic on the Titanic.
Tra-la-la – wunderbar – no panic on the Titanic.

Ballad of the Prisoner of Sexuality
From "Threepenny Opera"
Submitted by Anders Sandvei

Da ist nun einer schon der Satan selber
Der Metzger: er! Und alle andern: Kälber!
Der frechste Hund! Der schlimmste Hurentreiber!
Wer kocht ihn ab, der alle abkocht? Weiber.
Das fragt nicht ob er will – er ist bereit.
Das ist die sexuelle Hörigkeit

Er glaubt nicht an die Bibel, nicht ans BGB.
Er meint, er ist der grösste Egoist
Weiss, dass wer'n Weib sieht, schon verschoben ist.
Drum duldet er kein Weib in seiner Näh:
Er soll den Tag nicht vor dem Abend loben
Denn vor es Nacht wird, liegt er wieder droben.

So mancher Mann sah manchen Mann verrecken:
Ein grosser Geist blieb in'ner Hure stecken!
Und die's mit ansah, was sie sich auch schwuren –
Als sie verreckten, wer begrub sie? Huren.
Das fragt nicht ob sie wollen – sie sind bereit
Das ist die sexuelle Hörigkeit.

Er hält sich an die Bibel, der ans BGB.
Ein Mann, ein Christ, ein Jug, ein Anarchist!
Am Mittag zwingt man sich, dass man nicht Sellerie frisst.
Nachmittags weiht man sich noch eilig'ner Idee
Am Abend sagt man: mit mir geht's nach oben
Und vor es Nacht wird, liegt man wieder droben.

From the movie "Tenchi Muyo in Love"
Submitted by Anders Sandvei

Come to you across the divide
Looking out a wrinkle in time
There is nothing less I would do
Than to stand up for truth

In the cold, dark ways
Of this lonely place
I will warm you – hold you
A gold shield glistens
And your breath quickens
I stand close by over you

Two hands held strong and sure
With the power of one
Reaching out past the walls that can hold you
We are guardians, warriors
Come from somewhere to mind
What creates you and shapes
The Alchemy of Love

There is a chain of light out across the endless skies
And I see the energy that reflects me in your eyes
And keeps us both alive
And keeps us both alive

Evening and the shadows will come
To destroy what we have done
But always will the power of love
Shine a light bright as the sun

When the cold, dark waves on the shores break
I am around you – found you
A gold shield fires and night expires
Bringing light surroundig you

Two hands held strong and sure
With the power of one
Reaching out past the walls that can hold you
We are guardians, warriors
Come from somewhere to mind
What creates you and shapes
The Alchemy of Love

There is a chain of light out across the endless skies
And I see the energy that reflects me in your eyes
And keeps us both alive
And keeps us both alive

When the cold dark waves on the shores break
I am around you – found you
A gold shield glistens
And your breath quickens
I stand close by over you

Two hands held strong and sure
With the power of one
Reaching out past the walls that can hold you
We are guardians, warriors
Come from somewhere to mind
What creates you and shapes
The Alchemy of Love

Two hands held strong and sure
With the power of one
Reaching out past the walls that can hold you
We are guardians, warriors
Come from somewhere to mind
What creates you and shapes
The Alchemy of Love