Joerg Vogeltanz Hypermarket: The Neuromancer Songs Lyrics

Hypermarket: The Neuromancer Songs Lyrics

1. introduction (the hypermarket) 

the very last night of the
millenium
i saw mighty starships
crashed down on burning metropoles
i
saw casuals
and gothicks
deformations of the flesh
i saw the plague
and the saints returning
and dying scared
i was told: This is future
a
Hypermarket
buy or sell

2.postwar time (the watchmen´s despair)


follow the highway where beetles sleepy crawl
i know you´ve seen
all the shadows run
the world´s turned to rubbish
and now your love
has gone to Mars
the stars are so peaceful
the sun´s covered with
blood and pus 

snow fills the roadholes
biohazard along your
trail
i know you´ve seen all the soldiers march
airplanes like dead
cranes
decomposing on coalblack sand
the moon is so peaceful
brightens
up the shame of your land 

once you caught some violence
to keep it
deep inside
i know you´d like to set it free
set it free
again

3. visitors (straylight door) 

shining reflections through
the trees and branches
bodies are dancing a madmen´s twist
is this the
light? is this the vision?
ancient commands are alive in their
heads
dancing the slavery walk against heartsound 

perceive the
liquid blackened eyes
the insect skins
never been buried
forgotten no
more
they want to dance with everything
this could be the light
this
ain´t a fiction

4.burning chrome (lovers in utter agony) 

she
was a fragrant girl with skin steel-sleeky
a face of a child
with eyes
belonging to a deep sea trench
bringing death to me i felt her blackrust
hair
she told me that the stars are made of diamond ice 

she´s
burning now
changing into lightening clouds
beneath her skin there´s
ore
her veins are veins of ore 

Burning Chrome
Burning
Chrome
only love
only fate 

my credit card´s erased
i feel
no pity
there´s just curiosity coming from my listening heart 

she
built more worlds than god
and told me that the stars are made of coke and
spice
they´re glowing like my nerves 

she´s burning
now
changing into lightening clouds
beneath her skin there´s
ore
her veins oh! shining ore 

Burning Chrome
Burning
Chrome
only love
only fate
She was ascending burning
Burning
Chrome
Burning Chrome

5. wintermute 

the white cube is
stunning
what makes me feel stringy?
all flatlines tell me
i´ve
been cut away 

light snow is falling
the cold lights are
dimming
they said we won´t dream
we won´t feel the cold 

we
built a straylight fortress
to be safe in the sunset
but very
slowly
night came in
it filled our heads
with winter´s mute


two cold centuries
too much ice
too many januaries
behind my
eyes 

the freeze is carrying me away 

words: j. vogeltanz 1996