Heiko Lehmann, DE

 

 

The News    Heiko Lehmann / The Hazi Bros. CD "Culture to the People!" available at iTunes. com etc.   Great expectations grow older and older No one is fighting, no one dares No one’s crying on nobody’s shoulder The girl’s wasted wish that someone would hold her But nobody holds her ‘cos nobody cares. Occident’s brave old God appears The God of the Young, The Lord of Today Next week’s adults gain yesterday’s fears Yesterday’s youngsters yearn for young years Incomprehension ‘bout their decay Eye-catching mirrors measure conviction Diversity’s just a brand name for meat For them boredom is fancy addiction Publishers publish audio fiction No one would write, no one would read The past is passé, Today is the rule There ain’t no truth, so no one lied Yesterday’s sage improved to a fool His speechlessness is hip and cool And Shakespeare’s reincarnated soul just died The souls of our forebears commit suicide.     American Boys  Heiko Lehmann / The Hazi Bros. CD "Culture to the People!" available at iTunes. com etc.   I sat in a bar in Berlin with the guys When a couple of Amis entered the place One yelled 'A coke,' and the other likewise And the keeper got that look on his face And he went where they sat and leaned over their table Politely saying, 'If you, God forbid, Be able to read that sign on the cable O'er the bar that says I don't sell this shit Would you call for military action and bomb My bar by keeping U.S. interest Well, my friends and I got a Cola Stomp For you and your fellow American rest: Oh American boys, you're welcome (to leave Our countries in case you dislike our ways Of life) and be sure we will not forgive The misuse of our lands as American base You are welcome to learn and to party with us We'll share ev'ry drop of our brandy with you Slivovitz, calvados, grappa, arak Just don't try and take our souls with you.' The poor boys left in a horror and I asked alarmed What's wrong with the day, did his girl-friend break up He said ev'rything's cool and no one got harmed He's just sick of the shit and to keep his mouth shut About stupid Americans killing the chilling Horny for power, their own objects of drool I said, they've got a lot of sane people there Yes, he replied, but these guys don't rule My bar and myself are independent and special It's pretty easy without pepsi or coke I turned my arm around his shoulder and we Started the Stomp full of vodka and hope: Oh American boys...     Diogenes   My cradle was an empty barrel With only me and Dad in there I got no Mum, I got no sister A spring of mind and unaware A model of a perfect human Dad had drawn out in his head His own shit dropped in and mingled And I emerged a mental pet He sold the lantern to a slave So I have never seen the light I am a good boy, blind and brave I’m perfect, he is right Dad had modeled me to help him Boy, follow the bell as soon it tolls When I am big I go and kill him ‘cause he himself ain’t got no balls His bursting skull will be the most intense Orgasm he’s ever had Then I’ll crash upon his body When Dad’s dead I will be dead Oh people take the dreadful warning And don’t give birth to brain disease ‘cause when we kill you we will die It’s an ongoing genocide You squares

 

Heiko Lehmann is a musician, singer, composer, producer, actor, translator and writer. He was born and grew up in East Germany and lives in Berlin. With Toronto-based writer Michael Wex he founded Golus Storytheatre (Toronto-Berlin) in 1994; he translated Wex’s plays and stories and wrote the music. He is also running a children’s theatre in Berlin for which he performs, plays and writes. For his band THE HAZI BROS. he has written most of the songs of their debut CD “Culture to the People!” (2008). The lyrics for this collection are all published on this CD which is available at all major internet music portals. This is his first appearance in Sketchbook.