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once upon a time…

by Neat and Nailproof

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    Neat and Nailproof's debut album "once upon a time…" in 4-panel digipack with lyric booklet.
    Album artwork by Megawati Triadiani, photos by Jens Schrage.

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1.
Medicine Intoxication 05:16
lyrics
Medicine Intoxication We are young and we are free In the fangs of democracy You and Me In a modern slavery Medicine intoxication Just awake to work for nation Need my hands but not my brain Turn off the light and put myself in chains Medicine takes the symptoms of suffering But death still waits inside The main thing is to be controlled by the pills Sick of life but still dressed right Working like a machine Sell your time This is daily routine Your routine Swallow your medicine Keep us calm Like its juice or something Pay the price for nothing Medicine takes the symptoms of suffering But death still waits inside The main thing is to be controlled by the pills Sick of life but still dressed right Under the pressure of the meritocracy We all forgot about our right to feel ill. Dominated by the fear of loosing quality Make us swallow the pill “We don’t need the green, There is something I can invent! A tiny thing, blue pink, purple or white! No sickness, no headache anymore The tablets and pills are the solution I have the problem for!” “Take this pill and you’ll be stronger Take this pill and you’ll go bonkers Take this pill and you’ll be smaller Take this pill and you will smell colors” “Take this pill for being a unicorn Take this pill for being a frog! Take this pill, it´s for free! Take this pill to fit in society!” The fear permits it Greed is in need Don’t stay in bed Take a tablet The fear permits it Greed is in need Run like a mill Take this damn pill The fear permits it Greed is in need Working like a machine Sell your time This is daily routine Your routine Swallow your medicine Keep us calm Like its juice or something Pay the price for nothing I am sick of heteronomy I don´t need your symptoms to feel ill Throw the pills and tablets in our throat But I missed the point where medicine starts to taste good
2.
Bridges Down 05:37
lyrics
Sometimes the path is deep And bridges are build in strange forms They´re formed for different reasons Roaming to paradise over thorns To tide over differences But bridges can detain us They can lead us into false freedom Because of wrong intentions and reasons Now Bridges are built over rivers of blood They are build of dead bodies and lies Build with closed eyes Things are going on nobody seems to realize Does the world go insane or does the world make me go insane? Things generate to storms but you still treat it like rain. Investigate your money to save the borders of a nation Why is there money for war, but not for education? We take it back! Without a compromise We fuck the world and tear their bridges down Tear them down Capture borders own the place behind Struggle the good things with closed mind Can’t you see what they’ve broken Please stop ruin this world A few words left unspoken Please fuck you Don’t let hate be part of your heart Don’t let your mind get tricked Tear their bridges down Left no stone untouched We don’t need their bridges when humanity is not the priority Tear their bridges down Tear their bridges down We don’t need their bridges when humanity is not the priority Investigate the money to save the borders of a nation Why is there money for war, but not for education? We take it back! Without a compromise We fuck the world, we tear their bridges down We fuck the world and tear their bridges down Tear them down Don’t let hate be part of your heart Don’t let your mind get tricked Don’t let hate be part of your heart
3.
The Shapeshifters 04:19
lyrics
We fake our ways to betray our aims Please sell the empty words you’ve said to me Show with a smile your empty hands But when I turn my back points a gun on my head I’m not - No I´m not - I’m not the fool who will trust you blindly You point - With your Gun - You point with your gun at the wrong head my Friend. Shapeshifters are everywhere Masters of disguise, truthful lies. Preserve the cheerless world order True faces hidden, forgotten in dark corners This world is a graveyard for the good mentions. Here, I´ve got some flowers for you Climb the wall of the maze Time to make my own way The shapeshifters are such a big family No you can’t be sure in which face you see Use and exploit the good souls There’s no other way to fight and reach for oneself Is it the fear? Or missing ability? Look into my eyes through the mask, what can you see?! [Chorus] Take and fake it The shape will make it everyone else doesn’t care Betray everybody with your wrong shape - aware Change your shape like your underwear Mindless about your own behaviour but grumbling about life’s not fair The Shapeshifters are such a big family The Shapeshifters
4.
Fairytale 05:03
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I eat the crown I beat the queen I bite the hand The hand, that feeds I give a fuck ´bout the society cause they treat us just like fools I give a fuck about the society cause I don’t care about their fu*kin rules Don’t knock me down, when I’m trying to talk to the unicorn Don’t push me away, when you wanna be part of the fairytale Don’t knock me down, when I’m trying to talk to the unicorn Don’t hold me back, when I’m trying to give the story a happy ending Call me Robin Hood or call me Snow White, Cause I have to fight Against lies And corruption I can see in your eyes If you are an evil guy And when I know who you are, I’ll lay under your bed and come out when you’re sleeping So, come on, close your eyes I’ll lay under your bed and come out when you’re sleeping Everybody has to write his own story I know my life wouldn’t be a fairytale [Chorus] Don’t knock me down Don’t push me I know my life wouldn’t be a fairytale Don’t knock me down Don’t push me
5.
[Gnosis] 01:35
6.
Teachings of a Yeti Part I: Silmplify and Think 04:50
lyrics
In the transition, there is was The world was gone Morphing shapes of being As I gave all away and surrendered to life „Save and sound, now rest your shell Come with me but do not tell I will show you where the demons dwell“ These words formed a hairy creature Guiding me with its soothing voice „The lands we travel, wide and vast The destination hard to grasp, As much of it lies in the past“ I don’t know what i am I don’t know how to be I’m here between the worlds In realms you never see I then glimpse myself suddenly, clarity Relief and I drop back As I deem the circle mad I then glimpse myself suddenly, clarity Relief and I drop back As thoughts run from my head „Just keep the blinders up and stay under the dome, As you feed of theirs lies, so gratefully“ „One has to take seriously the notion, That understanding the universe is your own responsibility Because the only understanding which will be useful to you, Is your own“ Simplify and think for yourself I feel like thousand years have passed, Though the loop was just a second „It’s been a while, so welcome home I’ll soon be gone, but you’re not one your own For everything is one, united under mother’s crown“ Simplify and think for yourself
7.
...and so he was able to see the pure and untouched beauty behind the monster's shape 03:52
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Once upon a time in a world profoundness is long forgotten New souls confronted with fears of tomorrow Evil magic, evil fairies Emergent faces weighted down with sorrow The magic persist Until the ban will be broken by a young soul And not through the word which is spoken The innocent mouth will defeat the wall of thorns Where the kingdom sleeps, next to the enchanted newborn A young warrior from far away Brave and dauntless. Come whatever may Conquered the thorns with power and strength Sudden obstacle disrupt the undertaking The princess abominably countenance Let the young man be forsaking More than hundred years go by Without any try to give the little miss The awakening kiss A young warrior, curious and strange Never has been seen never has been named Doesn´t fear the dark, doesn’t fear the light Endures rain and snow, beats day and night Conquered the thorns and leaves the stories behind About a princess of a monsters kind May his ears be deaf and his eyes be bind But for true love it needs heart and a pure mind
8.
Serious Inconvenience 04:13
lyrics
There are things we will regret There’s no return This is a wake up call for a sleeping nation For tired minds of an unpowered generation No sophisticated youth no reason to refuse Bloodless heads are dreamless heads, nothing to wreck Non stop input 24/7 But when sockets strike hell returns in heaven The silence gives us space for music and philosophy Only then there’s esteem for the hidden ones Everything now can be art Everything now can be art Even things created without sweat and heart It just have to be big enough Everything can be art, because art is not existent Everything now can be art Because art is not existent It´s a memory in our hearts Everything else is just a way to pretend Dumb mouth and no critical words But sometimes the truth hurts Where are you from and where will you go Where is the passion and fire, the dreams and the desire The common aims and enemy To fight against for feeling free Twinkle distraction Faces without reaction Scattered thoughts Are our detriment Nobody knows the bottom line so we lose ourselves in self-discovery It´s a serious inconvenience
9.
No dirty Hands (but work is done) 03:12
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Easy to send them away It’s so easy just to take Easy to look the other way It’s so easy to quit the fray Enslaved trees, enslaved animals Enslaved people Who sells your antidepressants? Who changes your tire? Who douses your house when it’s on fire? Who sews your clothes? Who sells them so cheap so you can buy more clothes than you will ever need? Who changes your bedpan when you are in hospital? Who feeds you when you are old and senile? The same people you abade everyday with your condescending words and acts Think they have to please everybody because you are a dumbass working for economy Does it make you a better person? Hmh?! Use the nature in favour of yourself Leave the consequences in the waste No dirty hands but work is done Everything is possible, possible without free will No appreciation in a divided generation Everything is a matter of course But characterless people makes things go worse Build your castle with coins and bills But what would be your castle without the know-how and skills From „the little people“ you shove around everyday You are a dumbass working for economy- just saying Let them do the work! Let them do the work! Let them do the work! No dirty hands but work is done Let them do your work, let them do your work, let them do your your work, let them do your work
10.
Defiant Princess 06:04
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Don’t say fuck Don’t say no Keep your mouth shut! „Yes! I do! Cause they’ve told me so!“ Reputation Something we protect like a newborn, why not take care of your little child inside your mind? Your heart would be so thankful Keep happiness and strength Let the heart beat to the rhythm of the nature and not to the noise of the clock Your thoughts are lead in circles like the circle of the clock Follow the leader, follow the king Rotating around the same numbers nonstop The pendulum swings, the clock goes tick tock My head hurts from this noise and it won't stop Contenance! Role expectation to keep the crown Twist and bow, the princess is in town crease and Straight part in the hair define the joy in life constrained manners, splendid etiquette are worth to survive 700 eyes watching out in the boondocks watch every step you take and see all the mistakes you make (and) keep track of your way false steps, one by one chivvy of aberration don’t let the princess rest in failure history is almost written all our ways are determined depending on our background where is the chance to leave behind the burned ground Rules are for losers, for the once who lost their brain Dreams are seminal Love spends power of endurance Who cares about the others Words sharp as knives Words which confines your life Educated to statistically ideal Nobody cares about how you feel And your pronounced dreams aren’t real Just talking in foreign tongues, that’s the deal But everything seems so fucking wrong Take things lying down instead of screams and stomps Swallow feelings cause they are deplored as inadequate I am the defiant princess and I quit the rate! Expectation Princess of the kingdom of slavery in a world where everyone is born the a grave Just numbers in a system expect you are the system itself Charge the battery Need the energy To stand the way Centuries, all the same Just think and speak with your heart and your eyes So innocent like the eyes of a child Dismount time in office? go wild! Freedom is not working for money which you can just owe in chains No silent suffering- time for defiance! Rules are for losers, for the ones who lost their brain No silent suffering- time for defiance!

credits

released July 9, 2016

All music written and played by Neat and Nailproof.
Neat and Nailproof are: Neele Diekmann (vocals), Jonas Sandek (guitar + vocals), Marwin Wöbbeking (drums), Yannic Rath (bass).
Additional piano on “Defiant Princess” written and played by Stefan Sell.

Recorded and mixed by Jonas Sandek.
Mastered by David Deutsch (1408 productions).

Photos by Jens Schrage.
Album artwork by Megawati Triadiani.

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