Helloween - Pink Bubbles Go Ape (1991) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Kiske - Lead Vocals Roland Grapow - Guitars Michael Weikath - Guitars Markus Grosskopf - Bass Ingo Schwichtenberg - Drums Studio Bubbles: Recorded at PUK-Studios in Gjerlev, Denmark. Mixed at Battery Studios in London, England. Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Chris 'Mega Straf' Tsangarides. Sound Engineering by 'Das Meega' Pete Iversen and Lars 'Lobby' Laversen. Additional Engineering by Paul Wright. Keyboards by Pete Eversen and Phil Nicholas, Puk and Birte, 'Cooking' Lars and 'Clean' Marianne. "Heavy Metal Hamsters" and "I'm Doin' Fire CRAZY Man" Recorded at Sound House Studio in Hamburg, Germany. Produced by Helloween. Engineered by 'Dicke' Dirk Steffens and Mixed by Chris Tsangarides. Creative Bubbles: Sleeve Design and Photography: Storm Thorgerson and Colin Chambers. Photographer: Tony May Mega Friendly Bubbles: Frederick Moulaert AND TO YOU, our Fans and Friends all over the world. Thanks for keeping the Faith. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Pink Bubbles Go Ape (Kiske) 0:37 2) Kids Of The Century (Kiske) 3:52 3) Back On The Streets (Grapow / Kiske) 3:23 4) Number One (Weikath) 5:13 5) Heavy Metal Hamsters (Weikath / Weikath, Kiske) 3:28 6) Goin' Home (Kiske) 3:51 7) Someone's Crying (Grapow) 4:18 8) Mankind (Grapow / Kiske) 6:18 9) I'm Doin' Fine CRAZY Man (Grosskopf / Kiske) 3:39 10) The Chance (Grapow) 3:47 11) Your Turn (Kiske) 5:38 12) Shit & Lobster (Grosskopf) 4:04 - Japanese bonus track ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Pink Bubbles Go Ape (Kiske) 0:37 Some people are much too smart They know everything before it starts Eating wisdom with the pail No wonder when it sticks In your darkest hour I will sing this song for you Cry and tell and slander yell and grumble well So loud for heaven's sake Pink bubbles go ape! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Kids Of The Century (Kiske) 3:52 We poison our hearts We poison our seas We burn down the paradise We're stoppin' good waves We're losin' our trees The future looks bright ahead I don't wonder we'll go under in this river of lies We're lost in this time, we create so fine The future we already fear Seems like no way out, seems like there's no doubt The future looks bright ahead Chorus: We're the kids of the century, we're lost in our games No time for the memories we look in the haze We're the kids of the century it wasn't our fault Ev'rything's done mum, we fall Let's keep on crying But sometimes I don't wanna fall Solo: Grapow / Weikath Ev'rytime when you look around things will smile at you Ev'rytime when you turn around you smell the truth But you run away from the lies you can't say Don't run away from the lies you can't say Chorus (2) I don't wanna fall No I don't wanna fall Sometimes I don't wanna fall ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Back On The Streets (Grapow / Kiske) 3:23 I've been told in the name of something I've got to know what it means to play the game Too many faces around they're talking They play their parts oh, so well but who's to blame Chorus: Back on the streets, that's where we are Building a fortress of power Yeah! We're coming You know better than me the rules are: Getting better or fat in the mania It's good to know who is who in our game The speed is faster, it's harder to see where we are Back on the streets, that's where we are Building a fortress of power Yeah! Solo: Grapow / Weikath / Grapow Please Mister Know-how just bring me the news I'm waiting so long for you telling me all you can tell There's one thing about you, you're dying to prove The master plan is yours and living with knowledge is hell Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Number One (Weikath) 5:13 Each time when one more year was over You refused to hear heaven's bells sound And the happiness in you heart's been set lower You were searching for friends but no one seemed to be 'round You merely should think of the good times 'Cos there are so many ways you can go Take a look at yourself, you're still very young And big aims always take very long Chorus: Now it's time for happiness, stay hard and trust your fate Don't forget you're something else you'll never be too late Trust your fathers' mighty spell you'll never be alone Fate will always turn out well and you'll be number one Shout at the world don't care what they say 'Cos your life is now, here and today Luck is there, ev'rywhere Go on, reap its goods, that's the way You wanna have truth, relief from your pain But life takes its toll again and again Don't fear the night--your future is paid And the tracks to your aims are laid Chorus Solo: Weikath Chorus (3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Heavy Metal Hamsters (Weikath / Weikath, Kiske) 3:28 There are some fellows soft and mellow Sitting in the field and play like hell No one knows the way it goes But all the songs they play they sound so well Well, they sound so well Tonight we go to see the Heavy Metal Hamsters Heavy Metal Hamsters - Heavy Metal Hamsters It must feel nice to be a Heavy Metal Hamster Heavy Metal Hamster - Heavy Metal Hamster Nothing sets you free like the Heavy Metal Hamsters A 20th century Fox came by A gold tipped cigarette high in his jaws Contracts, PDs, Nose-Bags, TV-shows And everything with no remorse Things are settled now for our Heavy Metal Hamsters Heavy Metal Hamsters - Heavy Metal Hamsters Fame up to your brows, oh Heavy Metal Hamster Heavy Metal Hamster - Heavy Metal Hamster A previously unknown lifestyle Heavy Metal Hamster Solo: Weikath / Grapow / Grapow / Weikath / Weikath / Grapow The sweet taste of success is strong And everything inside goes wrong you see With coloured furs, sunglasses Tons of nuts to eat, they don't feel free What is wrong with our Heavy Metal Hamster? Heavy Metal Hamster - Heavy Metal Hamster Look what they have done our Heavy Metal Hamsters Heavy Metal Hamsters - Heavy Metal Hamsters Where is the field to run for our Heavy Metal Hamsters Some things are left undone for our Heavy Metal Hamsters ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Goin' Home (Kiske) 3:51 You think I could be the one to look inside your mind I don't think we'll have the time, so let us get in line Another town another bed, another thing to go By now I learned to take it cool, but I don't wanna know My head is empty, all the stories that I've known I've told The situation I escaped from, now it looks like gold Anyway and anyhow we did it, it was good But now I take the time to think 'bout ev'rything I should 'Cause after this I'm gone, the show is done No other town or bed that lies ahead I'll go home to what I know I'll go home, home to you By the time that you think 'bout it twice no spotlight makes you stay By the time that you feel you don't know, you have to go Solo: Grapow / Weikath The plane is ready in my head, so many things to do A few more hours till it's over I reach out for you A kind of peace inside is growing, thinking 'bout the shows Until the next time I'll be so much better, yes I know Now this is it I'm gone, the show is done No other town or bed that lies ahead I'll go home to what I know I'll go home, home to... I'll go home to what I know I'll go home, home to you ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Someone's Crying (Grapow) 4:18 What keeps on telling me to stay on the way I chose The way I chose What keeps on giving me all the strength to carry on To carry on Give me some time, can't sleep anymore at night I wanna show I'm here with an aim of mine Chorus: Cause I feel strong, but someone is crying, I know It's so hard to find a sign of a way to go Don't need to stone my brain, I need my head for something else For something else I wanna live and learn, step by step I'm going on I'm going on Send me a sign, don't wanna resign too soon What situation will come I can't endure Solo: Grapow Send me a sign, don't wanna resign too soon What situation will come I can't endure Chorus Well someone is crying, I know ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Mankind (Grapow / Kiske) 6:18 Here is all mankind so proud of their achievements There is a stone that is warmer than you Look how we stand in the stream of illusions No one says a word Here you laugh - here you laugh - and there you cry - there you cry All that makes you move There's no fear for anything Anything but you Animals dying for our vanity Our world is a beautiful place to be free Drinking the blood of the weak, it's so easy No one hears them cry Here you cheat - here you cheat - and there you lie - there you lie All that makes you gain One day we will face His throne There's nothin' we can say Solo: Grapow Prosperity, luxury, fast food is rising It's the rainforest that dies Here you laugh - here you laugh - and there you cry - there you cry All that makes you move There's no fear for anything Anything but you Here you cheat - here you cheat - and there you lie - there you lie All that makes you gain One day we will face His throne There's nothin' we can say ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) I'm Doin' Fine CRAZY Man (Grosskopf / Kiske) 3:39 Thunder, flash and lightening is working on my back The tables in the kitchen are tryin' to break my neck All the late night memories are leaning in my shoes My mother's old gray leather gloves are singing loud the blues Chorus 1: I can taste what's in the sun No time to waste 'cause there is none When I feel blue I see it shine But still it's true I'm doin' fine Chorus 2: You can't see me 'cause now I'm all free Now you know I'm through And all that's not new Sitting on a paperback 'cause I don't know what really cracks I'm tryin' to climb my pencil to get high No one tells me what to do 'cause no one knows what I've been through You don't know a thing but you can learn It's time to touch the sky My mind is free I fly Solo: Grapow / Weikath Chorus 1 & 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) The Chance (Grapow) 3:47 We're living in a constant fight Too much pressure everywhere and all around Don't let it pull you down Hold on tight Cling to your dreams Don't you depend on someone else Think for yourself and win the race Chorus: The chance you got comes never twice Do your best, and do it right Time will come but don't you hide You are on your way You're led by God but you're not a pawn Should live your life, don't care 'bout any scorn Just let them fool around No need to cry Don't give up Try to be as smart as you can be I know you own so much ability Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) Your Turn (Kiske) 5:38 Now there is this day, a lot of things are changing Can't just kick it away, got to get things right Sometimes it happens fast and nothin' seems to last The thing that I once started isn't mine anymore I guess now it's my turn You've got a face like a child, got a mind like a woman Your smile is warm and tender I hear the people say that I should stay away From you and all the problems you might bring They'll never know ... you Nobody ever knows what to do They'll never see you cry They'll never know why Chorus: Now it's your turn to break free When you want it all you've got to see Now it's your turn to break free When you want the life, you've got to see what it means See the little boy holding mama's hand His eyes can see the things we've long forgotten The world is easy now ... and somehow He's right Until there is this day when Mickey Mouse must go away Chorus Solo: Kiske / Grapow / Weikath This world is crying to be free This world is dying can't you see We need a turn to do it right We need a mind-revolution To get away from this selfishness Stop playing blind, break free Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12) Shit & Lobster (Grosskopf) 4:04 - Japanese bonus track Once there was a time when mankind Dreamed about reading the stars Nowadays we're almost ready Even for the wars Some told lies and they were famous Cause of making many wars One told right, they were punished With pain and crucify What is right and what is wrong Can I prevent, can I be strong Quick enough to run away Or brave enough for here to stay Chorus: Time will bring the answer Will we feed the cancer We don't give a damn at all Some get shit and some get lobster Take my ass into the sun It takes some time to realize We cannot eat a gun The fat get fatter, the poor stay poor The money maker sells the skin But you don't ask and you don't see The world you're living in Got my fears and got my doubts Tell me what it's all about Should I try a step Or should I stay and wait another day Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Endorser Bubbles: Sonor, Paiste, Warwick, ESP, Ovation, D'Angelico Strings, Engl, Cabu Sticks.