Laura Rafetseder
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The Minor Key Club (words & music: Laura Rafetseder)

1) oh just to be


oh just to be, oh just to be
i wish that i’d forgotten me
i wish i was i wish i was
a little bit of what i‘m not

bridge:
that’s not how it’s supposed to be

chorus:
and we blindly run over the ledge
as the thickening fogs hide the edge
and we really don’t know where we go
it’s something that we might never know

oh just to be, oh just to be
a little bit inside of me
i wish i was i wish i was
a little bit of where I’m not

bridge
chorus

oh just to give, oh just to give
the life that I might never live
i wish i had i wish i had
a little bit of what makes me sad

bridge
chorus

2) a matter of these two

‎in conversation with my demons and my ever bleeding heart
i quit my hunt for lasting memories and for neverending love
i dress graffiti and I sleep upside down
but i never get enough
of lonely hearts and strange encounters
they leave their traces one by one

chorus:
i wish that i could figure out
where i fail and where I drown
where i let myself down
my sad candles cry for me
they lay their ashes down
and the strange light they cast
will not fade until the dawn

nothing matters unless you make it
matter to you
a matter of trust
a matter of heart to heart
a matter of these two
lovers hold me and they lay me down
but i cannot see their face
covers blind me when they kiss me
they do not know my name

(chorus)

fill me up until i find you
fill me up with truth and lies
make me wish that i could hold you
make me wish that i could find
solace in your memories
in the stories that we write
solace in your mirror eyes
solace in our lives

3) in search of nothing i can find

the birds on my window
they wont go away
like thoughts of you
they stay forever and a day
the dead trees that i caught
are one nasty disease
they say their prayers
when they think that i‘m asleep

all i have is this song
to keep me from you
to keep me from painting my walls in blue
to keep me from missing you

i‘m running up the walls
in search of nothing I can find
no one's lost and no one's travelling
to the outskirts of my mind
not like you
not like you have
not like you will ever do


the nights are my friends
when the days are done
and the dawn is my lover
it comes and it‘s gone

all we have is this song
and we sing just the same
i‘m lost in your voice
and that's all that remains

4) Ballad of Zhanaozen


1)  Zhanaozen o Zhanaozen /
my thoughts they go out to   Zhanaozen
they lie with the oil workers' struggle there /
and   their families' troubling grief
2)  They had been on strike for more than 8 months /
for decent conditions  and  higher pay
for trade union rights and nationalisation /
so they could  control  the wealth of their creation
3) The profit making sharks could not tolerate this /
nor  could  the president's powerful clique
scared they might lose and scared they  might  fall /
they were prepared to go to all lengths
4) A unions' rep and another one's daughter /
were ruthlessly murdered and others were tortured
union men had to leave their  homes /
so  they could be safe from the goverment's thugs
5) on the 16th of december a rally was held /
to underline  the  oil workers case
as the regime planned to celebrate /
20 years of their   capitalist rule
6) the regime went on to demonstrate /
what they understood  by freedom of speech
or what democracy means to them /
compared to the  profits  they're so eager to make
7) Nazarbayev's men went into the demonstration /
to  provoke and to escalate tension
the riot police reacted with guns /
with  hundreds  wounded and dozens shot dead
8) The only thing made public bout the incident then /
was  a statement by the Kazakh regime
saying 'what is the fuss, there's just 17 dead /
and then put the blame on the oil working men
9)  They shot into an  innocent crowd /
of those who survived many were  charged
for alleged  provocation /
of a massacre they hadn't  caused
10)  So I wonder what  happened to those unaccounted for dead /
whose families still  wait for them to  come back
whose deaths had never been recognised /
and  whose lives might  never be mourned
11) Its only been lately   that rumours grew loud /
of unnamed tombstones and graves in the yards
they  grew by the numbers of quite a few /
i wonder if they'll ever be   named
12)  Another rigged election  was held /
Nazarbayev's still head of the state
the oil workers still  fighting for their rights /
and the system still out against   them
13)  A system thats rotten, a  system thats cruel /
that calculates lives for the  money of few
the regime  must not get away with its lies /
and the system  must be  overcome
14) Zhanaozen oh Zhanaozen /
please shout out the story as loud  as  you can
the workers' names might soon be forgotten /
but we shall never   forget

5) rain rain

rain rain i can see
happyness is here to stay
rain rain come to me
my baby has gone away again

me i’m like the rain my friend
 i’m running through your open hands
wash away your burning pain
sinking in under your skin

rain rain i can see
everything looks blue today
rain rain come to me
my baby has gone away again

it breaks my heart, it breaks my mind
 it breaks everything inside

rain rain i can see
everything looks real to me
rain rain come to me
my baby has gone away again

dancing in the pouring rain
 makes me feel alive again

rain rain i can see
 everything looks blue today
rain rain come to me
my baby has gone away again

it breaks my heart, it breaks my mind
it breaks everything inside

rain rain i can see
everything looks real to me
rain rain come to me
my baby has gone away again


6) nightside

baby you're a long way down the road from where I am
and i will miss you everytime I sleep
i speak to you in songs
and say the words that i know best
i love you and the night is all i know

Chorus:

everytime you laugh it feels like yesterday
everytime you cry my heart will weep
everytime we write each others history
something falls apart and calls me nightside

solitude's an empty place
and songs will just repeat
i can still remember how you taste
the word goodbye is hard to say
and farewell's just the same
way to many years stand in the way

(chorus)

the words have not been spoken yet
and you shall never hear
they will only make you miss me more
they will remain unsaid
and live their lifetime in my mind
and baby you're a long way down the road

(chorus)

7) trouble all around

i got troubles in this town
i got troubles there all around
i got black clouds bove my head
and i can’t sleep at night in my bed
i got troubles all around

i got thoughts spinning in my mind
i got worries when people ain’t kind
i got too much going on
when all i want is to be strong
i got troubles all around

i got pain cutting into my heart
i got pain struck by a poison dart
i got so much love to give
not a soul to share it with
i got troubles all around

8) down tonight

we’re naked on our pillows and the night is cut in half
when we invite our demons we do it as we laugh
and i love you with a blind, illfated rage that knows it’s gonna die
i lean my head against the wall to say oh fuck and cry

chorus:

there‘s clouds brewing over our heads and we will fight them like we always have
the war might be lost on our side but we will not step down tonight

the stretchmarks on my hips impossible to see
traces of a life that’s lost on you and me
you still come on to me in waves when on my own I lie
we’re balancing on borderlines unfortunate and blind

(chorus)

this love is one of fatal luck it’s not supposed tob e
we’re chained to our respective lives by this society
what will love be once chains are torn, the walls lit up in flames
we will not give a single thought bout what the people say

(chorus)

9) where are you now

i remember when i felt small
and the world was a weight on my back
you said sometimes you can't do nothing bout the hard facts of life
you might struggle you might go crazy
but you can't fight the truth and you know

chorus:

but its so hard to accept that im small
and i still bang my head against walls
that i cant stop this pain of mine
cant stop this train of time
all i can do is just wait
and i wonder wonder where
where are you now

i remember when i was blue
and i wished i had wings to fly
you said sometimes
you feel like crying
and theres nothing wrong with that
you said sometimes life seems unfair
it might look like you cant change a thing

chorus






10) autumn leaves

what is it that I long for something that is gone
something I’d forgotten, something long ago that i lost
i’m straining my mind
oh I must remember

chorus:
it’s just something that escaped my mind
it’s just something that i lost when i cried
where is that something that i hoped i’d find
autumn leaves with you in mind
 i watch them falling

what is it that i long for some feeling that is gone
some feeling i’d forgotten, feeling long ago that i lost
i’m straining my mind
oh i must remember

just some feeling that escaped my mind
just some feeling that i lost when i cried
where is that feeling that i hoped i’d find
autumn leaves with you in mind
i feel it fading

what is it that I long for somebody that is gone
someone i’d forgotten, someone long ago that i lost
i’m straining my mind
oh i must remember

it’s just someone that escaped my mind
just somebody that i lost when i cried
where is that someone that i hoped i’d find
autumn leaves with you in mind
 i watch them burning

11) the devil is a good guy

i met him on the street someday
we were preachers then
we both liked the echo of our voices way back when

we filled the pages by the hour
the rhythm of the tides
what a way with words I thought
what a way to hide

i said i‘m just a little girl
pretending to be grown
there’ll never be a prince you know
but i can save my soul

he would look me in the eye
asking wasn’t he
you should take your own advice
he said and turned from me

the growing depth of beauty would now
lighten up his eye
i never felt that much ashamed
he caught me at a lie

the windows were wide open now
the wind blew in my face
that was when he disappeared
and did not leave a trace

the devil is a good guy cos
he always tells the truth
he holds a mirror to our face
but we refuse to look

12) world in a nutshell

i close my eyes because I can’t stop looking at you
and i cannot sleep
until the morning, the morning
and i’ll never go away from you

Bridge:
for love is all I can feel
when i look in your eyes I am stirred and shaken

my hands are tied
 for the light in your eyes has caught me
and i cry at the sight of the world in a nutshell
the world in you

(Bridge)

why can’t cry for this life is the only one i got
And you shall fly mountainhigh
for the stars shall kiss you
and never go away again

(Bridge)


why can’t I cry for this life is the only one i got
and you shall fly mountainhigh
for the stars shall kiss you
and never go away again









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13) the day the night left

the day the night left
 i quit living with my eyes still closed
so i saw you far away and still i know you’re here
filling out my days
you change from day to day
the day the night left

the day the night left
 i found that i dont have to be so strong
and that it’s weakness that is giving me the strength to carry on
and so i look behind
 and see the things i lost
at my own cost
the day the night left