Madness: Lyrics

BRING IT ON
(Johanna Demker)

I knew that I was tired, I knew I´ve gone through hell
but I just kept on running, thinking nobody could tell
I thought the times were changing now, that the worst was in the past
I didn´t see it coming ´round, this hangover that just lasts and last

Bring it on, I´m already drowning
I´ll sing along, so nobody can tell
I´ve tried to keep my head above the water for so long
But I´m tired, so let me just sink

Opening old closets gave life to all my doubts
Bring out all the rust and dust, there´s so much to clean out

Bring it on, I´m already drowning
I´ll sing along, so nobody can tell
I´ve tried to keep my head above the water for so long
But I´m tired, so let me just sink
and stay here at the bottom where I don´t have to think

My best was never good enough, I guess that´s why I´m here
and everything I feel now is that I don´t even care about anything
so give it to me I´m prepared

 

REST MY CASE
(Johanna Demker)

Give me comfort when I´m lonely
Put an arm around my waist
Give me a feeling of belonging
Give me love and I rest my case

Give me your thoughts for a penny
Give me room when I need space
Give me a hand to hold on to
Show me love and I rest my case

Ooh ooh ooh watcha doing here
If you can`t give nothing to me, why are you still here?

Give me your laughter, tears and anger
Give me friction on the way
Be my man, my friend, my lover
Give me all of you and I rest my case

Ooh ooh ooh watcha doing here
If you can`t give nothing to me, why are you still here

Give me the dream that I´ve been dreaming
Show me that there´s such a place
Give me credit for who I am
or walk away – and I rest my case

COULD HAVE BEEN
(Johanna Demker)

You claim the right of being honest
thinking that it leaves no traces of doubt
Keeping your options open always
is the surest way of missing out

You claim the right of being true
to what you feel at heart
Before you know it yourself it´s changed
it makes it hard to be the other part

I´m still in love with what we could have been
I claim the right, to keep believing that there´s someone out there
Somewhere, someone, sometime, somehow

Everything you`re so afraid of
hasn´t even happened, no it´s all in your head
Forget about the future I´m here and now
so baby just come back to bed

and cover me just like the blanket
from the song that gave away my body and soul
Open up your heart, babe and let us in
as for now we´re both out in the cold

I´m still in love with what we could have been
I claim the right, to keep believing that there´s someone out there
Somewhere, someone, sometime, somehow

So many things reminding me of you
The one I see before me now is not the man I knew
But I just can´t let go of what you made me believe in

FOOL
(Johanna Demker)

When the lights fade out I´m good enough for you
When the music stops, you realize it takes two
take me home and we´ll pretend that everything´s alright

You ´re in need and I want to find a home
The things we do baby not to feel alone
at least for now, dealing with tomorrow when it comes

I´m a fool, and I know it
and I´ll sooth my wounds as the sun I´ve heard, rises far from here

Falling out of love like a car runs out of gas
Speeding not thinking that you´re driving way too fast
Suddenly you stopped while I still had so far to go

I´m a fool, and I know it
and I´ll sooth my wounds as the sun I´ve heard, rises far from here

I didn´t know we were fading out
until you wrote it out in black on white
Well I can´t handle it right now so tell me a lie
and make me believe it for a little while
until I am over you

MADNESS
(Johanna Demker)

I´m trying to stand with one foot in every corner
I have one hand on every wall
So many thoughts in my head in complete disorder
I can´t remember anything at all

This is Madness, 24/7 is not enough
It´s fair to say my strategy has bombed
If I´m careless, time keeps slipping through my fingers
Do I want to live my life like this?

It´s clear that I need a new angle of reflection
Take a deep breath and a few steps back
to be able to make a more natural selection
get the priorities back on track

This is Madness, 24/7 is not enough
It´s fair to say my strategy has bombed
If I´m careless, time keeps slipping through my fingers
Do I want to live my life like this?Caught between the options and possibilities,
wishes, dreams and visions and responsibilities

This is Madness, 24/7 is not enough
Rushing makes the good things turn out bad
It leaves a sadness, you end up losing what you never had
be careful what you ask for, be aware of what you have

BIG GIRL GONE MAD
(Johanna Demker/Remi Lacroix)

I´m working my way backwards
trying to find a new refrain
I paid attention to wrong voices
lost track of who I am I need to find myself again

I held my breath I tipped on toes
I gave away the leading role
playing only the support
now I´m taking back control digging myself out of this hole

I just want to live and smile
make this battle worthwhile

I´m a big girl gone mad and its sad
you take it that way as I´m setting sail
I´m the kid growing older and stronger everyday, I´m blooming late
better late than never

It takes two to make one right
So get up close or walk away
Let me come out into the sunlight
feel the warmth of every ray from a new and brighter day

Being ego is no crime
It´s all on me and it´s about time

Chorus…

I´m growing out of my skin
Let the second half begin

SNOWFLAKES
(Johanna Demker)

It`s new years eve
I`m driving towards the closest thing to home
the snow falls thick as the lump in my throat
and I choose to be alone

Focusing
on the road ahead it´s too painful to look back
I´m stuck between no future and bad memories
don´t want to celebrate the past

Snowflakes falling from the sky
covering what´s left of you and I
Snowflakes melting on my skin
washing away the past, making way for some kind of future to begin

Stars go blue
on the stereo, I sing along and think of you
I thought I found my harbor, that we were so good for each other
I´m such a fool

It´s new years eve
reminding me of what we´ll never be
the plans we made and dreams we had together
I still carry them within

Snowflakes falling from the sky
Covering what´s left of you and I
Snowflakes melting on my skin
as the firecrackers and cheers make way for some kind of future to begin
washing away the past, making way for some kind of future to begin

STRANGER
(Johanna Demker)

He pours another glass of wine
A sadness mirroring his mind
his lips move as he stares into the air
What he´s carrying must be hard to bare

I´m sailing on a lucky cloud
as I watch him from this noisy crowd
Such different worlds sharing the same room
The smoky air is mixed with cheep perfume

Where do you come from and what brings you here
What stories do you carry something tells me you´re scared

A stranger in a land full of strangers
Were you ever given a fair chance
How did it all begin, where is home
Did anyone ever invite you in

Politics and integration
Reality is segregation
Big words and empathetic looks
is worth nothing if we don´t live by the book

A sting of drunken consciousness
awakes me from my carelessness
You´re talking even louder to yourself
Is it madness or a desperate cry for help

What brings you here tonight are you just killing time
What are your dreams, did you lose them there along the line

A stranger in a land full of strangers
Were you ever given a fair chance
How did it all begin, where is home
Did anyone ever invite you in

FEVER
(Johanna Demker)

I´ve been struck by a fever and it hit me oh so hard
I´ve been struck by a fever and it blew away my guard
I was high and I was wild, so I played out all my cards

The fever makes your head spin, takes you flying above the clouds
The fever makes your heart spin, never heard it pounding so loud
I´m infected and it shows, you can pick me out in any crowd

One day when you wake up in the morning, it is gone
You might be cured from it totally or passes over in the symphony of true love

In the fever you will say it all and you believe it´s oh so true
In the fever you can change the life of the one in front of you
So be careful what you say boy, one day it all comes back to you

The fever makes you think, that you can save just what you find
The fever it can fool you that it’s a constant state of mind
It can also be the one thing that will help us to remind – just what we found

One day when you wake up in the morning, it is gone
You might be cured from it totally or passes over in the symphony of true love

COULDN´T CARE LESS
(Johanna Demker)

You robbed me of love, you robbed me of faith
You robbed me of with what I´ve been blessed
You left me with nothing but broken dreams
But still you couldn´t care less

I´ve tried to get through like so many before me
Behind you a string of hearts in a mess
You put on your mask and flash your smile
but inside, you couldn´t care less

Your way in life is the easy one out
You made not caring your greatest success
I´m sorry for you for whatever its worth
but I know that you couldn´t care less

I´ve tried to be strong and I´ve tried reason
I´ve tried thinking I couldn´t care less
But I have a heart, it´s fragile but beating
I loved you, to that I confess

Though you´re not worth it, you couldn´t care less

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
(Johanna Demker/Remi Lacroix)

Feel the chaos, the pulse of the city
The energy the neon lights, melting in anonymously
In the street the day is dawning
I love the feeling of belonging
Where I´ll go I´ll take the fall
I´m just a girl who wants it all
the best of both worlds

Hear the silence, it fills me with peace
Nothing breaks the quietness but the cool, blowing wind in the trees
I could sit right here forever
feel the relationship with nature
No more fights to be fought
just plain food for the thought
in the best of both worlds

Come sit with me, tell me about your day
put your little hands in mine, let me hear everything you have to say
I want to listen to your laughter
give you comfort ever after
So that you´ll conquer all your fears
and fill the rest of all your years
with the best of both worlds

I want a life without no limits
so that I can fit you in it