the JIP Band - Nazi Neighbour

                                                                                                    

1) Hey Nazi neighbour, you have to face the truth

You cannot tell racist stuff, then await my applause

My daughter is a lesbian, my best friend's a muslim

Don't tell me that you hate them. That they have no right to be

 

2) Hey Nazi neighbour, you can't still say that

People on their flight are not welcome, should go back

It isn't even funny, not your natural right.

We call you what you are - A nazi and you’ll never be right

 

3) Hey Nazi neighbour, it’s not the end of times

It’s not the third world war, or your fucking third reich

So proud about where you‘re born - It’s just an accident

Noone‘s better than anyone. Go and try to understand

 

R) Hey Nazi neighbour Hey

 

B) Come on, come on, come on

 

4) Hey Nazi neighbour, what if you were queer

or black, or smal, or handicapped, or even not from here

Then you would feel what it means, to be left outside

maybe then you‘ll recognize - We all are humans, with human rights

We all are humans, with human rights

 

So shut up, my nazi neighbour 

 

 

the JIP Band - Fall Silent

 

1) Peter says, we cannot save the world

Joey says, it´s just life that hurts

And I fall silent

 

2) The handmaid’s tale, it’s gonna come true

Where have our human rights gone to?

Our minds are getting smaller every day

we miss love, but love won’t stay

 

3) All falls apart and we are to blame

it’s not a Mad Max movie, not an end-time game

when kids tell the truth, we are getting tired

the world’s on fire, the world’s on fire

 

R) And I fall silent

 

B) I cannot post in black or white in facebook groups

I cannot fire words on everyone but you

I cannot stand to see, world’s crushing down on me

 

R) So I fall silent

 

4) All falls apart and we are to blame

it’s not a Mad Max movie, not an end-time game

Joey says, it´s life that hurts

that we can’t save the world

 

R) But we can, if we not fall silent

We can, if we don´t fall silent

 

 

 

the JIP Band – No War

 

1) Don´t fear the bloody TV screens, machine guns, children´s death screams

Don´t cry for cruelty at all

Don´t need no bullets in the sky, bodies in the streets to ask why

Just hurt the one you love – it´s war

 

R) No war, No war

Stop hurting, stop hurting

No more, No more war

 

2) No hate, no racism, no torture, no chains, no prisons

No more lost lives, no jealousy

Don´t ask where hate comes from How can this world be one

If even two can´t live together and free

 

 

the JIP Band - Assholes Fly

 

1) Newspapers say: there are Nazis in the parliament again

Newspapers say: we send children into death camps

My neighbour says, he needs blinds against refugees

Won´t you stop it, please?

 

R) When assholes fly and prod the crowd, we die in nuclear fall out

When human rights are gunned down, this is our time

 

When assholes fly and prod the crowd, we die in nuclear fall out

When human rights are gunned down we´re gonna stand up, stand up

 

2) Some good fall silent, others are lost in shit storms

Newscasts are shut down, tv shows beautiful dawns

My neighbour says, they should go back where they came from

Will we stay that dumb

 

B) Where is our better world?

Get free, get human, get loud, get up

Get fair, get human, get on, get up

 

the JIP Band - The Sea

 

1) roll the waves, roll the waves to carry me to my place of dreams, to where I want to be,

jump me in the water, I‘m sinking to be free, I‘m sinking to be me

 

2) take me to a place, where we may Forget any trouble, any pain, all we regret

push me under water, I‘m sinking to be free, I‘m sinking to be me

 

B) I know you can be cruel/ you can be darker than death

we may become your siren‘s fools/ you‘re the beginning and the end

 

3) from a grey sky I hear the seagulls call. how I wish to get away from it all

to the ocean‘s shore, where I will be free, where I will be me

 

R) I wish you would take me to the sea

 

 

the JIP Band - Better Me

 

1) I got you wrong, you get me wrong. Silence, tears and a sad song, a vain apology

Are we here to make mistakes? One wrong word, your heart breaks, I swear, it shouldn´t be

I´m tired of saying sorry, let´s write a different Story With who I want to be

 

R) If my better me, meets your better you, will it be a good time? Will there be love too?

If my better me, meets your better you, is there understanding, will we find peace too?

 

2) World goes wrong, she needs a change from sorrow, frontiers, wars and pain, from hate to love

Give a little more sympathy, freedom and understanding and I will start with me

I´m tired of saying sorry, let´s write a different Story, we just need to agree

 

B) We need to change now, we need to change now

 

Meet my better me, meet your better you

 

Verstehen wir uns dann? Werden wir auch Frieden finden?

 

the JIP Band - Song For Greta

 

1) Sweet, sweet life, my bitter experience

we´re doing wrong with too much information

We are far beyond the point of no return

Pretty far away from saying: lesson learned

 

R) So let´s be doers, heroes, dreamers too

Let´s be environmental activists, that’s what we all should do

Let´s be more Greta and less Trump

Let us learn from schoolgirls, not staying fat and dumb

 

2) Sweet, sweet life, what to do with our time on earth

Being part of a wrong system just hurts

There should be more than birth, school, work, death

So make a stand, don´t be more or less

 

3) Sweet, sweet life, my bitter experience

we´re running out of time, but left with perfect arrogance

We destroy it all for money, how could it come so far

But there is no second earth in the rear trunk of our car

 

R) So let´s be doers, heroes, dreamers too

Let´s be environmental activists, that’s what we all should do

Let us learn from schoolgirls who act, not only talk

Help them grab their future, so it is no more dark

 


the JIP Band  - REFUGEE

 

1) You came from far away, you left your home

When I see your people dying, our problems seem so small

The future of three families paid your way

Now you´re a refugee, Now you´re a refugee, Now you´re a refugee,

 

R) You got to go/ You got to leave/ You got to pay smugglers and thieves

I got to think - I never knew

You got to swim/ You got to die/ You got to think a lullaby

Just like a thousand men before/ Just like a thousand times before

 

2) You woke up under desert skies, or under metal shields

I feel uncomfortable, if my shower does not have the perfect temperature

Thinking of you in the dark waves of the sea

Now you´re a dead man, Now you´re a dead man

 

B) I will write songs and letters to my government

I will not accept that drowning is your bitter end

I want to open every barricaded door

 

But today you are dying like a thousand times before

 

the JIP Band - The Good Man 

 

1) I‘m the cities important person, not one of those freaks

when I‘m walking around, everyone bows

no dog would catch a fly if I don‘t agree

I bought the mayor, the court and the priests of this city

 

B) I‘m a honest citizen, why not become politician? you see, I paid for all, now take over some lives

 

R) I‘m always right, I‘m always right,

I‘m always right, I‘m a good man

 

2) my half-million-dollar-car has got the right of way

dead pedestrians are already paid

at my factories you‘ll see no shade of organized workers

cause I‘m the one who knows what‘s the best for them

 

B) don‘t need no co-determination, cause I‘m the boss and they‘re my men

you see, I paid for all, now take over their lives

 

R) I‘m always right, I‘m always right,

I‘m always right, I‘m a good man

 

3) I‘m a very important person, you‘re social inferiors

I‘m a diva, cause your hype gave it to me

If you feel small, I will make you feel much smaller

cause the only one who counts is me, me, me

 

B) yes, I‘m a star and you are ashes, once I had friends now I need them as slaves.

you see, you paid for all, let me now destroy your lives

 

R) I‘m always right, I‘m always right,

I‘m always right, I‘m a good girl

 

the JIP Band - Love Shines On

 

1) my dears, time to call it a day, quit your troubles, let them fly away

down here we‘re just Visitors to collect perfect moments on earth

but whatevers gonna make you smile, it will be alright

 

2) all‘s gone wrong, we need a Change from hunger, violence and pain

we didn‘t save the world today, but tomorrow, we will be on our way

and whatevers gonna make us smile, it will be alright

 

B) time goes by/ life dies away/ time flies/ day by day by day by day...

 

R) sun goes down a purple sky, kids are playing, it‘s the perfect time - after all only love shines on

when every colour fades away, there‘s only darkness left to stay - after all only love shines on

 

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