@ALBUM: II - The Final Option BAND: Die Krupps TEXT FROM CD BOOKLET: Produced by: Juergen Engler & Chris Lietz Mixed by: Kirk Yano Recorded at: ATOM H Studios, Duesseldorf Mixed at: SOUNDTRACK Studios, New York Studio Engineers: Chris Curran, Bryant Jackson, Etienne Roch GIANT Recording Studios, N.Y. Studio Engineers: Steve Neat, Dominick Barbera Mastered at: MASTERDISK, New York Mastered by: Howie Weinberg Coverdesign: Mary Buck Collage: Mary Buck Bandphotos: Achim Kroepsch Coverphotos: Andreas Jung THANKS TO: [There is a LOOONG thanks list here, but you'll just have to buy the album yourselves to get it...] Hi to: METALLICA BIOHAZARD (Evan and Billy) VOIVOD (Snake and Away) ACCUSER The Band: Juergen Engler: Vocals, Keyboards, Samplers Lee Altus: Guitars Darren Minter: Drums Ralf Doerper: Samples Ruediger Esch: Bass Guitar Contact: Die Krupps c/o Westworld Karlstr. 20 40210 Duesseldorf Germany [The band have terminated the cooperation with the old fanclub Work Machineries, due to some unfulfilled promises and lies on the fanclub's part. The new fanclub is: "Rings of Steel" fanbase: c/o Frank Becker Geilenkirchener Str. 356 52134 Herzogenrath Germany Repeat: PLEASE DISREGARD the fanclub address on the "I" album.] @SONG: Crossfire Gunshots fill the air - salute our bliss night bursts into flames - greets the final kiss death comes without a sound - rings the wedding bell target hits the ground - honeymoon in hell shot - shot by both sides in a war that won't cease they gave their lives unheard cry for peace cities under siege - where the snipers strike lovers out of reach - yearning in the night take your lover's hand - meet your destiny down in noone's land - for eternity ..... CROSSFIRE! CROSSFIRE! Music: Engler, Altus Lyrics: Doerper @SONG: Language Of Reality Do you know the ABC survival guide in real life put it down in your dictionary anger, boredom, conformity, danger, exhaustion, fake, greed, hunger, injury, killings, lootings, mad this isn't poetry this is the language of reality did you learn your ABC survival guide in real life gotta learn your vocabulary nothing, obscene, pain, queers, rampage, shame, terror, useless, vanity, wounded, x-rated, why? Music: Engler, Altus Lyrics: Doerper @SONG: Bloodsuckers Bloodsuckers you suck out the oil for the salt of the earth you ravage the soil strip mining mountains you gauge out the face you suffocate life in an asphalt membrane don't eat your own heart 'cause you can never win bloodsuckers you steal from the earth you'll kill for the riches and decide what it's worth bloodsuckers got your values out of whack you've been selling your soul for a greenback stack Music: Engler Lyrics: Engler, Buck @SONG: Fatherland I see houses burning I'm ashamed before you close your eyes denyingly you'd better ask yourself did I choose something I could regret did I do something I should regret Is this the place I used to call - Fatherland Is this the place I used to know - as Fatherland the silence is illusion stay awake I hear children crying in fear and pain do cowards ask themselves? Music: Engler, Lietz Lyrics: Engler, Doerper @SONG: To The Hilt Woke up - still in a dream nothing's the same can't pronounce my name I open my mouth words come out that make no sense for a stranger's ear in a foreign language in a foreign land now I'm an alien on a different planet it makes it clear - I understand we are all strangers - in a foreign land burn the bridges forge ahead to the hilt back home I feel insane nothing's the same except for my name I open my mouth words come out that make no sense for my lover's ear in my native language in my native land I'm still the alien on a different planet it makes it clear - I understand I am a stranger - in my own land burn the bridges forge ahead to the hilt Music: Engler, Altus Lyrics: Engler, Buck @SONG: Iron Man Go shed the old skin - for the new skin transgression let the old flesh - rotten to trash resurrection seize the old laws riddled by flaws perfection open your mind don't stay behind progression weakness - these days are over old flesh - replaced by shiny armour new thoughts - the mind expanding real tasks - that are demanding this body is invincible perfection is the principle feel the clockwork of the new heart precision feed the engine of your bloodstream recondition move your muscles like a machine direction give your life a new dimension extension Music: Engler Lyrics: Doerper @SONG: Inside Out What happened to my life what happened to my pride I'm a victim of your love I can't cope with this world no longer you have my fate in your hands I'm on the verge of self destruction I don't see a way out if this was your intention to turn me inside out what's the reason of my life there's no pleasure in my heart now I'm disillusioned and I had so much more in mind Music: Engler, Altus Lyrics: Engler @SONG: Paradise Of Sin In-a-gadda-da-vida baby God is dead he lost the battle the devil rules over life and death feel his power, feel his wrath hell - this is the paradise of sin fail - and you will suffer in pain nail - that son of disaster sell - your soul to the master in the garden of evil, baby the bible's title is helter skelter take a ride on this rollercoaster live for sin and die faster wake - your evil twin live - your wildest dream let - the demons in let - the madness begin Music: Engler, Altus Lyrics: Engler, Doerper @SONG: Worst Case Scenario What is happening to me no one could foresee I was living on the edge of catastrophe thrown off the system nailed and bare fish out of water jumping for air stranded with no help outlawed and shunned luck turned against me thousand to one some call it fate what's my reality world allied against me fatal conspiracy I can't take it, I can't take it I can't take it no more Worst case scenario in the elevator to heaven I'm stuck on the lowest level run out of luck a downward spiral is sucking me in my plans for the future a case for the bin no glimmering hope brightens my night at the end of the tunnel there is no light some call it fate what's my reality world allied against me fatal conspiracy Music: Engler, Altus Lyrics: Doerper, Engler @SONG: Shellshocked Like a hermit - unfounded solitary but proud I was hiding - behind fences shutting myself out crossed my arm - disarmed loss of self-defence wouldn't fight off - haunting memories crimes without a sense closed my eyes - blind folded images of hell caught inside a vicious circle retired in my shell shut my mouth - lips sealed there's no need to tell wouldn't share with you the secret that could break the spell shellshocked - no escape from dreaming shellshocked - there's no escape from dreaming Music: Engler Lyrics: Doerper @SONG: New Temptation From me to you from you to me speaking flows and thinking seems free from me to you from class to class speaking ways differ and chances pass different speech makes different minds separation into different kinds words do express words do possess the power of temptation supporting success there is new creation in mind there is new temptation in mind words can distort words can deceive brought to perfection they change belief words can control first thoughts then soul help to prepare for the final goal a nation did rise a nation did fall a leader created new ideals for all there was a word there was an idea there was a belief that thinking is free Music: Engler, Altus Lyrics: Engler, Schnekenburger