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"How Long (Have we known each other now?)" by Die Haut (from "Head On")
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Music by Jochen Arbeit, Christoph Dreher, Rainer Lingk, & Thomas Wydler
Words by Blixa Bargeld and Anita Lane
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How long have we known each other now? Five, ten years, and I
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guess we've changed, and we'd
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run into each other in the subterranean
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world... With the extras in their fright wigs and fins
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on their way from funkhole to dugout... and
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one night would keel over into another,
and there never would seem to be a day, and
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hey, you used to say you were polishing up on your survival tactics
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(techinques) for the end of the world... and
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you, you used to dig your beak into my ear and say "nothing"
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like a secret...
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How long have we known each other now? Fifteen, twenty years maybe, and
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certainly we've changed... and we'd
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run into each other in the subterranean
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world...
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And before I knew you or before we met
oh yes, way before then I was
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itching in the cradle, making my way to the slime pits & the sludge traps
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looking for love... and
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all the bushy brats turned out from the western burgs
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minced in the powdermills, noctambulating around
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nowheresville
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and some were so desperate for sleep the only retreat was the
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sad dormitory... yes, one would go for a rest (or a test?)
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How long have we known each other now? up to thirty years I guess, and
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maybe we've changed... and
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didn't we see each other in the subterranean
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world?
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You, did you really have your headress? - Hmmm.... yes
I used to dress up
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like a girl, and how did you ever make it back home? I... I...
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I'd leave a trail of pearls. Did you ever see a doctor - or a priest?
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oh yeah - a priest
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do you remember the guy with the sign "the end is nigh"? That was
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me (do you remember what was written on the back?)
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and
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Do remember the guy with a boxful of wind? or maybe it was a cassette
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I don't really... I don't know either - or was it me?
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How long have we known each other now? I've never seen you in my life
(forty years?)
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How long have we known each other now? I've never seen you in my life
(fifty years)
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How long have we known each other now? I've never seen you in my life
(sixty, seventy, eighty three years)
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I hope that we've changed... and
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we've never seen each other in the subterranean
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life...