Song des Tages: Wasted Time

(Edguy: "Wasted Time", aus dem Album "Rocket Ride", 2006)

The dream is over, no-one's to take the blame
We believed in roses but only thorns remain

When I look into the rearview mirror
We create and we destroy
Put our blood into a street with a dead end
Walk up that stairway to jump off into the black

Here we go!
We go all the way - do we need the pain?
Waking up in a black tomorrow!
I've been there before - was it all wasted again?
We go all the way - do we need the pain?
Waking up in a black tomorrow!
I've been there before - was it all just wasted time?

Maybe I am different, maybe I'm a fool
And I wonder if it's worth it
Trying to find another you

And I look into the rearview mirror
Just to see how fucked I look
While I drive along that street with a dead end
Like a moth to the flame, it's gonna suck me into pain

Still we go!
We go all the way - do we need the pain?
Waking up in a black tomorrow!
I've been there before - was it all wasted again?
We go all the way - do we need the pain?
Waking up in a black tomorrow!
I've been there before - was it all just wasted time?

What are we heading for, why do I dare again?
Once bitten, twice shy and still we never learn

So here I'm lying - a leisure-poet in pain
Involuntary loner, I know that life is just a game
Where nobody gets out alive - a sedative shot for me
No happy man gets out alive - neither of us, you will see

Here we go!
We go all the way - do we need the pain?
Waking up in a black tomorrow!
I've been there before - was it all wasted again?
We go all the way - do we need the pain?
Waking up in a black tomorrow!
I've been there before - was it all just wasted time?


Anmerkung: Baby, schüttel' dein Haar für mich ... - Es gibt sie noch, die guten, alten Rocker, die noch wissen, dass eine Gitarre nicht bloß ein Begleit- und Rhythmusinstrument ist und die ihre Wurzeln bei Deep Purple, Rainbow, Uriah Heep oder den frühen Iron-Maiden-Werken in Ehren halten. Mir wird immer so nostalgisch zumute, wenn ich sowas höre. ;-) Und ganz nebenbei gibt der Text - wenn er auch auf eine gescheiterte Liebesbeziehung gemünzt sein dürfte - auch einen wunderbaren Abgesang auf unsere schöne, kapitalistische Glitzerwelt ab, von der die billigen Fassaden derzeit gleich zentnerweise abblättern und nur noch rauchende Ruinen offenbaren - "waking up in a black tomorrow".