Murder Ballad Songtext
von The Eastern

There is no murder here
You′ve never drawn blood
You've never killed nobody
You′ve known only love
You've never known hunger
That's what I say
You stand below here
′Til the end of your days
You′ve never seen a dead-eye look
Straight through to the back of your skull
You may have read about it in books just as well
If you saw a wrist wide open in the inner city and still
You would never sing murder
You'd say I never will
If you had stabbed your best friend
In the driveway of his girlfriend′s whining street home
You would never say shit
You would lie there forever alone
If you had hung yourself in a bedsit


After a night sniffing glue
You would be fifteen
And the world would have forgotten you
If you put a bullet through your left eye
You wouldn't hear anything else
But your solo father crying
And your mates getting pissed on the porch of your house
If you had overdosed before you were twenty
Because you had never been kissed
You wouldn′t sing songs
You'd never be missed
There is no murder here
I wish to see no blood
Cold time on the darkness
I wish to know love
Cold time on the darkness
I wish to know love
Cold time on the darkness
I wish to know only love