SURROUNDBAD SEASON?
1 . Dragon Lady2. Bad Season?
3. Let Go4. Scars & Holes
5. Things I Have Seen6. Drive Me7. 300 Days
8. Troublemaker9. Opposites
10. In My Name11. Tension
vocals: Franz Josef III, guitars: Daniel Zach, bass: Jiří Kopal, drums: Jan Martinproduction/mixing/mastering/additional guitars: Boris Carloff
www.soundevice-studio.cztrack 3 – music: Daniel Zach/Jiří Kopal/Franz Josef III, lyrics: Franz Josef III, Jan Martin
track 7 – music: Daniel Zach/Jiří Kopal/Franz Josef III, lyrics: Franz Josef IIItracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 & 11 – music: Daniel Zach/Jiří Kopal, lyrics: Jiří Kopal
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BAD SEASON?
1 | DRAGON LADY
Verse 1:Dragon Lady honest or shady?Dragon Lady my feelings are hazyDragon Lady why don‘t you stay hereDragon Lady I’m not going crazyDragon Lady inspiring baby?Dragon Lady definitely, maybe
Chorus:transforming the power high-achiever naïvetransforming the power high-achiever naïveand beautiful
Bridge:she is in the near her eyes moving deepshe is in the near I feel what she feelsshe is in the near I’m afraid she’s madshe is in the near dreaming ‘bout that
Verse 2:Dragon Lady ambitious not lazyDragon Lady smells like flower DaisyDragon Lady please don‘t blame meDragon Lady integrity saves meDragon Lady this story is racyDragon Lady I’m not at your mercy
Chorus:transforming the power high-achiever naivetransforming the power high-achiever naïveand beautiful
Bridge:she is in the near ideals or career?
she is in the near half confused half clearshe is in the near so close to my chest
she is in the near I am on a quest
Music: Daniel Zach & Jiří KopalLyrics: Jiří Kopal
2 | BAD SEASON?
Verse 1:On the road to Coney Island Riprap on my mind Ray, Ferling and Japhy Ryder found out how to writeblues, rock & roll, grunge and breathing that‘s my poetrynature, freedom, lines from I Ching roots in Earth and beats
Bridge 1:two rainbows now at one moment what a noble viewBible + Koran in German scary overview
Chorus 1:I’m not above aware of fallen treestrying grow too high pursuing their dreamsI’m not above learning tame the smallpatience modesty deep trust harmony
Verse 2:wilderness civilization absurd connectionsexhausts city manure country brain’s resurrectiontravelling then finding my home growing familywhy grill parties without meaning good manners, really?
Bridge 2:valley with a river flowing floods for centuriesHarley brand of simple meaning highway, cemeteries
Chorus 2:I’m not above regretting the deaths
of the rising stars with incurable scarsI’m not above choosing special path
to learn in this life imitate Swiss knife
Verse 3:trains are cozy what a feeling some fresh
memoriesevening air I’ve found the meaning of my history
legs on earth enjoying walking over long bridges
dharma bum in this century? please don’t be rigid
Bridge 3:certain mountains command respect climbing’s
not allowed! stupid men that have been too proud paid the
highest price
Chorus 3:I’m not above aware of low degrees
winter avalanches frost and broken branchesI’m not above mindful of mindless minds
they know just bad season emotions hide reason
Music: Daniel Zach & Jiří KopalLyrics: Jiří Kopal
3 | LET GO
Verse 1:Hey man gonna change the worlddreaming how to get that girlyou know how it endsshe says you’re just friends
Pre-Chorus:let go enjoy this time a little longerlet go what doesn’t kill makes you stronger
Chorus:hold it tight it nearly breaks let go enjoy the sound it makeshold it tight it nearly breaks let go enjoy the sound it makes
Verse 2:surfing my brotherfeeling Californiasunset kissing the beachmy wave is all I need
Pre-Chorus:follow the stream it will take you downletting the ocean swallow you
Chorus:hold it so tight it nearly breaks let go enjoy the sound it makeshold it tight it nearly breaks let go enjoy the sound it makes
Bridge:I know you don’t like itgot no way out tried it
there’s no time you can’t findroad not taken in life
Chorus:hold it tight it nearly breaks
let go enjoy the sound it makeshold it tight it nearly breaks
let go enjoy the sound it makes
Music: Daniel Zach, Jiří Kopal & Franz Josef IIILyrics: Franz Josef III
4 | SCARS & HOLES
Verse 1:Girl from the cityno humilityI feel such a pitycause you‘re still so pretty
Chorus:you are insaneyou are insane
Bridge 1:you won‘t changenever moreit‘s your faultI should go
Verse 2:you won’t be young againlast chance to stop this gamemy love starting to wanedon‘t wanna hear any new claim
Chorus:you are insaneyou are insane
Bridge 2:I can‘t changeanymoretrust is lostlet me go
Verse 3:why so futile storybitter end, no glory
be better? you are so sorrysmall lies which became boring
Chorus:you are insane
no one else‘s here to blame
Bridge 3:we can‘t change
our soulsare we strange? scars and holes
Music: Daniel Zach & Jiří KopalLyrics: Jiří Kopal
5 | THINGS I HAVE SEEN
Verse 1:Having been outside I’m looking insideBerlin and Prague I feel so proudfoxy lady with sexy babyI’ve known rather long that no God will save me
Chorus:Friday night Saturday morningAll my life visions are comingSaturday night Sunday morningall my life I can‘t stop dreaming
Verse 2:heaven is glorious I can see Siriuspeople hilarious problems notoriousfoxy lady‘s betrayed sexy baby was rapedhusbands that are weaklings they wanna meet real Kings
Chorus:Friday night Saturday morning
all my life visions are comingSaturday night Sunday morning
all my life I can‘t stop dreaming
Bridge:stand by me follow my stream
listen to me why I wanna screamplease stay here come close to meI’m gonna tell all things I have seen
Verse 3:rather than sedatives moral imperatives
laughing at narratives how to stop fanaticsladies are in danger babies feel their angermen hypersensitive or detached primitives
Chorus:Friday night Saturday morning
all my life visions are comingSaturday night Sunday morning
all my life I can‘t stop dreaming
Music: Daniel Zach & Jiří KopalLyrics: Jiří Kopal
6 | DRIVE ME
Verse 1:Long way home feeling good aloneheaven beside happiness insideall around the stars I’m not from Marspenetrating Earth escaping the dearth
Bridge:full speed go deep
Chorus:I‘m on a highway shouting screamingpreaching dreaming having the final sayI‘m on a highway driving fasterI‘ll be the master of the coming day(x2)
Verse 2:midnight dream streets on the screenpeople there are mean worse than I‘ve ever seenspreading of a smear drinking poisoned beermy heart can’t hear a small and secret fear
Bridge:full speed go deep
Chorus:I‘m on a highway shouting screamingpreaching dreaming having the final sayI‘m on a highway driving fasterI‘ll be the master of the coming day
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Chorus:I‘m on a highway shouting screaming
preaching dreaming having the final sayI‘m on a highway driving faster
I‘ll be the master of the coming day
I‘m on a highway shouting screaming preaching dreaming having the final say
I‘m on a highway driving fasterI‘ll be the Master…
Music: Daniel Zach & Jiří KopalLyrics: Jiří Kopal
7 | 300 DAYS
Verse 1:Three hundred days I can feel the painlast time I saw you in the summer rainthoughts in my mind drive me insanecar crash comes I hear your name
three hundred ways that I kill the timelost memories when you were minelet you go but I don’t know howto keep this ring when its broken now
a soft-spoken lie that will never leaveone thing in life that I can believewritten in a book that I need to burnhalf-torn promise that I can’t return
Pre-Chorus 1:you said that love’s a gameour hearts don’t feel the samehow can I pretendthis love is at an end
the twilight fading fastthis love would never lastgive it one more chanceand resurrect the past
Chorus:walking away from one more mistakeall of these voices are stuck in my head walking away I’ll never knowall of these choices I can’t turn around
Verse 2:three hundred days and you’re back again
call me crying can let you inlosing control nothing I can do
to find out what is deep inside of you
last thing you said that I won’t forget star-crossed love hasn’t killed you yet
one more chance that you want to takelet me bend what will never break
Pre-Chorus 2:you said that love’s a game
our hearts don’t feel the samehow can I pretend
this love is at an end
you’re godless and fearlessthe pain I miss
Chorus:walking away from one more mistake
all of these voices are stuck in my head walking away I’ll never know
all of these choices I can’t turn around
Music: Daniel Zach, Jiří Kopal & Franz Josef IIILyrics: Franz Josef III
8 | TROUBLEMAKER
Verse 1:Kind of troublemaker hidden in the corridorchanging your behavior watching to the wrong mirrorprovoking reactions sitting on the dirty floorevery time I struggle finding right and proper doors
Pre-Chorus:they always say how should I playthis is not my game to remain silent
Verse 2:trying to find magic in every situationstaying open-minded hating manipulationI’m not a scatterbrain in state of meditationrecognized true feelings thanks to long contemplation
Chorus 1:deep inside my mind still one of a kinda man that truly strives to find the purpose of life
Bridge:go let’s go open that doorfaith no moreI wish I soar
Pre-Chorus:they always say how should I playthis is not my game to remain silent
Verse 3:keeping my expressiondespite all the pressure
cheeky conversation sense of humor reassures
loving above fucking because love is so precious
with more focused thinking I stopped being too anxious
Chorus 2:deep inside my mind
who the fuck am Ia man that has been found
by his purpose in life
Music: Daniel Zach & Jiří KopalLyrics: Jiří Kopal
9 | OPPOSITES
Verse 1:Foreigner in my home countrybystander in order to be free
Bridge 1:PRAGUEmatic small sinnerdramatic criminalreligious fanaticheretic lunatic
Pre-Chorus:Rock & Roll died againLemmy and Ziggy passed away
Chorus 1:within two weeks fans’ hearts bleedin just two weeks old era has gone
Verse 2:foreigner on this continentdespite this I feel confident
Bridge 2:virtuous patriot
furious idiotwhimsical schematic
sarcastic agnostic
Pre-Chorus:Rock & Roll died again
SYMBOLic Prince passed away
Chorus 2:another peek when fans hearts‘ bleed
in a few weeks new era should start
another peek when fans hearts‘ bleedin a few weeks new era should start
Music: Daniel Zach & Jiří KopalLyrics: Jiří Kopal
10 | IN MY NAME
Verse 1:I don’t wanna leave your meat tastes like beefdon’t call me a creep despite all your grief rivers everywhere I wanna go therewashing down the shame you’ve done in my name
Pre-Chorus:there are things of certain kind overcoming frozen mindthere are means of special kindslowly healing broken heart
Verse 2:never forget how behaves stupid cowI don’t wanna bow before drunken sowstill so much frustration stop manipulation no standing ovation for this conversation
Pre-Chorus:there are things of certain kind overcoming frozen mindthere are means of special kindslowly healing broken heart
Chorus:why oh why I should be silentwhy oh why I should hide my talentswhy I wouldn‘t show what’s prevalentor should I leave and find a cave in highlands?
Verse 3:my feelings are creepy I’m very sleepy
I cannot think deeply if pain repeats weeklyI‘ve changed my whole life there‘ll be no more
strifeI’ve got some advice of tremendous size
Pre-Chorus:there are things of certain kind
overcoming frozen mindthere are means of special kind
slowly healing broken heart
Chorus:why oh why oh why I should be silent
oh why oh why I should hide my talentswhy I wouldn‘t show what’s prevalent
or should I leave and find a cave in highlands
Music: Daniel Zach & Jiří KopalLyrics: Jiří Kopal
11 | TENSION
Verse 1:He lives in tension too much extensionrisk of aversion human dimension?
Bridge 1:sorry they‘re sorryfalse reasons feels beaten
Pre-Chorus 1:fly away like white cranerun away everything‘s in vain
Chorus:he loves his solitude expression of freedomman can find himself while being all alone (x2)
Verse 2:quest for dignity and serenitypassive activity cool life in rush city?
Bridge 2:searching they‘re searchingnot frozen way chosen
Pre-Chorus 2:think again there‘s no blamebreathe again not afraid of shame
Chorus:he loves his solitude expression of freedom
man can find himself while being all alone (x1, instr., x1)
Music: Daniel Zach & Jiří KopalLyrics: Jiří Kopal