Ivory Boy - The Nits

The ivory boy came to Hamburg and Cologne

He bought three one way tickets for the train

He travelled with his sister and a girl who looked like Lili Marlene

He said: «Cancer, cancer is a hurricane

Blows away my body and it tears out my brain

But the songs you play somehow ease the pain»

You’re keeping my senses awake

You’re keeping my senses awake

You’re keeping my senses awake

Awake

Sometime just before going on stage

The girl with the pale and the beautiful face

Suddenly stood next to me

Like a ghost in the house of mystery

She said: «Cancer, cancer, I’m a little flame

That started this fire and burning his brain

And I don’t know who gave me a face like Lili Marlene»

How can you fade away

Like a light on a dark highway

A million years from now

I see you when the light changes

Keeping your senses awake

Awake

So the lights went down and the crowd was dark

Like the moon that covers the sun

Except for two white faces that slowly became one

How can you fade away

Like a light on a dark highway

A million years from now

I see you when the light changes

I will be there