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Alles Klar EP

by Bronze Bell

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Alles Klar 05:46
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Alles Klar I have a German cousin His name is Georg That’s German for George to you He has a brother His name's Andreas That’s German for Andrew to you Chorus We meet every couple of years And we drink crates of German beer And we talk about what life is all about Me and my German cousins Andy and Georgey have five sisters Too numerous to mention in a three minute pop song But they all have husbands and there’s a tribe of children too Their father’s name is Franz, Their mother’s name is Ursal She is my mother’s sister Repeat chorus Oh if I could only tell you All the stories to be told When we talk about what life is all about Me and my German cousins Germans have had a hard life but are doing very well thank you now Germans go to Tarragona on holiday and go shopping for their food Germans like Jimi Hendrix and smoke dope and have solid wooden furniture Germans like soup and sausages and our English mint sauce Germans are nice people to be with and nationalist and get pissed as a nation every February Germans become addicted to Heroin and have their children taken away Germans drive down the autobahn listening to Bap and Herbert Grönemeyer... And play football Germans go to the hills and the spas in their old age and go on a diet Germans like Peter Maffay and Nana Mouskouri and Truck Stop Germans are always saying that everything is clear when it isn’t Germans are always saying that everything is clear when it isn’t And I am half German and I am half English so I should fucking well know
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Mystery Girl 03:10
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Mystery Girl She walks through the night with her lights on You scream but you just can’t be heard She sings a song of emotion The mystery girl She speaks in a foreign language Has a name that nobody knows She has a strange magnetic attraction The mystery girl Chorus She can make you do things that you don’t want to And all with a look from her eyes If she wants you she’s as good as got you She’s evil, inviting, beware the mystery girl If it’s love that you want she’s not got it She’s into sadistic pleasures of the flesh And the men that she’s had weren’t heard of again The mystery girl The people can’t understand it She should have been arrested by now But she’s got the police under her power The mystery girl Repeat chorus
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Love And Learn 04:14
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Love And Learn A comedy is over, a wind of change goes by And you can do what you want now but laugh or you’ll cry I wouldn’t say that you’ve been a fool If you let your heart rule your head Some people will hurt you and make you cry Some people forget you, some memories die One of these days the sun will shine through To show you a truth you already know Chorus Love’s always worth another try And when it comes you’ll close your eyes Open your arms and learn to fly with the implications The implications, the implications A tragedy unfolded before my eyes A cloak and a dagger, a feeling disguised But maturity knows that love will rain blows Until a new feeling grows from each emptiness Repeat chorus And what if regret should hold you down? If you should forget to begin again, with who and when? Through fear and fret don’t you forget... Repeat chorus

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Bronze Bell were Eddie Cooney and Simon Pratt. They released the single Alles Klar in 1990, which was recorded as a birthday gift for Eddie's German Cousin Georg Mürau. A video can be found on Youtube. The band wrote and rehearsed around 20 songs and started to audition for other band members, but then life got in the way and the idea faded. There are some cassette recordings from rehearsals, but these tracks are the only ones recorded as 4-track demos.

Alles Klar is a song about racism against Germans, something Eddie had to endure throughout his childhood. The song is simply a celebration of his German family and German culture. An attempt to deal with the issue in a positive manner. The front cover features photos of Georg and his brother Andreas (both RIP) at one of the many early 80s drinking session when they talked about what life was all about.

Mystery Girl is a song that dates from the 1978 when Eddie was barely out of school. Simon liked the song so the band decided to work on it.

Love And Learn is a song that dates from 1990. The song is about not losing faith in love after you have had your heart broken.

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released January 1, 1990

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Eddie Cooney is a singer-songwriter from Liverpool, UK. He wrote his first song in 1974 and joined his first band in 75. He played around the Liverpool folk scene until his 20-year lost weekend 86 to 06. He then returned to the Liverpool acoustic scene with a 20-year backlog of songs to sing. ... more

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