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Founded in 1993, Donots have made a name for themselves as one of the top punk bands not only in Germany, but throughout Europe. Well-respected in the international punk community, Donots have shared stages with the likes of Blink 182, The Hives, Green Day, Sum 41, Iggy Pop, NoFX, The Offspring, Weezer, Linkin Park, Anti-Flag, Jimmy Eat World, The Cure, and many others. Not to be content with success at home, Donots continued to expand their punk prowess into other countries, releasing ‘The Long Way Home’ (2010) with OK! Good Records in the USA & Canada. ‘The Long Way Home,’ reached the Top 20 on the German Pop Charts just after being released, and was later released in England, Australia, and Japan. This special OK! Good USA edition not only features the 11 tracks from ‘The Long Way Home,’ but also six bonus tracks of the best on their previous album, ‘Coma Chameleon.’

• Changes

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    We're getting better day by day
    We grow and rise up when we fall
    So let the changes stay the same
    And someday we'll be ten feet tall

    Is it the world or is it you?
    Is it the world?
    Is it the world or is it you?
    Is it the world?

    Is it the world or is it you?
    Is it the world?
    Is it the world or is it you?
    Is it the world?

    Nothing changes
    Changes

    We're strangers again
    Well, we could have known
    We should have known
    This is not the end
    Nothing changes
    Changes
    We're strangers again
    Well, we could have known
    We should have known
    There ain't no end

    We're getting better day by day
    This is not the end

• Calling

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    All I want is everything
    Is that too much to ask?
    All want is the here and know
    The future and the past
    This is the moment
    This is tried and true
    Being lonely ain't no fun
    When I'm not with you
    I'm calling you

    Calling, calling
    Calling your name

    All I want is one more chance
    To prove myself to you
    All I know is I am best
    At what I do not do
    This is the moment
    This will see me through
    Now all that's left is to pretend
    I'm calling you
    I'm calling you

    Calling, calling

    Calling your name
    Calling, calling
    Now I'm calling your name

    And I keep on holding on to you
    But I can barely hold my own

    I keep on holding on to you
    And I can't even hold my own

    Calling, calling
    Calling your name
    Calling, calling
    Now I'm calling your name
    All I want is everything
    Is that too much to ask?
    All want is the here and know
    The future and the past
    But I can't even hold my own
    Calling, calling
    Now I'm calling your name

• Forever Ends Today

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    I gotta go
    Cause what goes around, doesn't come around
    And I know
    The time is never now
    I told you so
    It's a long way to the top, it's a long way down
    So what now?
    We feel a lot more lost than found

    Too much, too late to lie and hesitate
    Nowhere to go, forever ends today
    Don't know what we got until it's gone away
    We're the last to know, forever ends today
    Forever ends today

    I gotta go
    Cause we never read the writing on the wall
    Yeah I know
    Everytime I slip, you fall
    I told you so
    It's mathematics, it's not chemistry
    So right now

    The numbers kill you and me

    Too much, too late to lie and hesitate
    Nowhere to go, forever ends today
    Don't know what we got until it's gone away
    We're the last to know, forever ends today
    Forever ends today
    Forever ends today
    Forever ends today

    I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go (Forever ends today)
    I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go

    Too much, too late to lie and hesitate (I gotta go, I gotta go)
    Nowhere to go, forever ends today
    Don't know what we got until it's gone away (I gotta go, I gotta go)
    We're the last to know, forever ends today
    Forever ends today

• High and Dry

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    Light up the sky just like a beacon in the night
    Shine your light down on me
    Just rock my boat, bring back the storm and let me ride
    Come, chase the clouds away
    And set my sails

    And set my sails

    Cause you're the best things about me
    Everything that I can't be
    Tell a lie if a lie gets me by
    So carry me, I'm giving in
    Hear me sing my requiem
    Tell a lie if a lie gets me by
    Don't leave me high and dry

    Light up the sky just like a fire in the night
    Ignite and light my way
    Burn all the maps, bring back the storm and make me ride
    Just be the wind and waves
    And navigate

    And navigate

    And you're the best things about me
    Everything that I can't be

    Tell a lie if a lie gets me by
    So carry me, I'm giving in
    Hear me sing my requiem
    Tell a lie if a lie gets me by

    And set my sails
    (Don't leave me high and dry)
    And navigate
    (Don't leave me high and dry)
    And set my sails
    (Don't leave me high and dry)
    And navigate

    Cause you're the best thing about me
    Everything that I can't be
    Tell a lie if a lie gets me by
    So carry me, I'm giving in
    Listen to the violins
    Tell a lie if a lie gets me by
    Don't leave me high and dry

    Who-oh-oh
    Who-oh-oh

• Let It Go

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    First things first
    Nothing lasts
    So don't settle for second best
    Mend the hole
    In your chest
    Cause what you see is what you get

    So get on with your life when it's over
    Let it rest, leave the past in the past
    Reconsider yourself when you're sober
    Save the best, make it last, make it last

    Just let it go, make it fade, let it slide
    And forget what you know
    Take a break, make a change, take your time
    Let it go, let it go
    Let it go, let it go
    Take a break, make a change, take your time
    Let it go, let it go

    Keep the songs
    In your head
    And put all the white noise to rest
    Songs about
    The times you had
    About all the names you won't forget

    So get on with your life when it's over
    Let it rest, leave the past in the past
    Reconsider yourself when you're sober
    Save the best, make it last, make it last

    Just let it go, make it fade, let it slide
    And forget what you know
    Take a break, make a change, take your time
    Let it go, let it go

    Reconsider yourself
    Forget what you know
    Leave the past in the past
    Let it rest, let it slide, let it go

    Just let it go, make it fade, let it slide
    And forget what you know
    Take a break, make a change, take your time
    Let it go, let it go
    Let it go, let it go
    Take a break, make a change, take your time
    Let it go, let it go

• Dead Man Walking

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    Wake up my dear
    Today is your last day on this planet
    Darling

    I'm breaking up, ain't coming home
    Cause the same shit every day really got me down
    Another place, not sure which town
    I don't need your advice, I like it on my own

    I'm never coming home

    I know that you never thought that I could break down the walls
    I'm never looking back, no!
    I know that you never thought that I could break down the walls
    Watch me now!

    I breaking up, show me the door
    Just let me pick my teeth up from the floor
    Burn my remains and bless my bones
    Sell the memories cause everything must go

    (Cause he's a dead man walking
    A dead man talking
    A dead man getting in the zone)

    I'm never coming home

    I know that you never thought that I could break down the walls
    I'm never looking back, no!
    I know that you never thought that I could break down the walls
    Watch me now!

    Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh
    Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh
    Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh
    Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh

    I know that you never thought that I could break down the walls
    I'm never looking back, no!
    I know that you never thought that I could break down the walls
    Come, watch me!

    Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh
    Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh
    Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh
    Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh
    All it takes is patience
    All it takes is patience now
    All it takes is patience
    All it takes is patience now

• Make Believe

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    Find a name
    Make it stick
    While we're chasing the exit
    Be everything we cannot be
    Don't take no blame
    Throw the brick
    Gonna dig out the hatchet
    We gotta make new enemies

    Because
    We're outta sight
    We're outta mind
    We're make believe and
    We're all out of hate
    We live a lie
    We can't just let it die

    We're make believe
    We're make believe

    Against the grain
    Only for the sake of it
    We'll stop the gears of
    This machine, this machine
    Find a name
    Make it stick
    Make believe, don't take no hostages
    While we're running for the exit
    (We're gonna find ourselves)

    Because
    We're outta sight
    We're outta mind
    We're make believe and
    We're all out of angst
    We live a lie
    We can't just let it die

    We're make believe
    We're make believe
    Just make believe
    We're make believe
    We're make believe

    We beg to indiffer
    We are nothing new
    Gotta make new enemies
    Like me and you
    We beg to indiffer
    We are nothing new
    Gotta make new enemies
    Like me and you

    We're make believe
    We're make believe
    Just make believe

• Who You Are

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    A second skin, a new agenda
    A brand new beat for the same old heart
    You live a life you can't remember
    Tell me do you still know who you are?

    Why don't you mean the words you say?
    Even if only for a day
    I don't know who you are
    Why don't you stay the same today?
    Even if only for a change
    I don't know who you are

    Another skin, a new agenda
    A brand new beat for the same old broken heart
    Every letter written marked "Return to sender"
    You can never run from who you are

    Why don't you mean the words you say?
    Even if only for a day
    I don't know who you are
    Why don't you stay the same today?
    Even if only for a change
    I don't know who you are

    A brand new beat for the same old heart
    Tell me, do you still know who you are?

    A brand new beat for the same old heart
    Tell me, do you still know who you are?
    Tell me, do you still know who you are?

    The walls you build, they don't protect you
    They keep you locked inside forever

    Why don't you mean the words today?
    Why don't you mean the words you say?
    Even if only for a day
    I don't know who you are
    Why don't you stay the same today?
    Why don't you back up what you say?
    I don't know who you are

    A brand new beat for the same old heart
    Tell me, do you still know who you are?
    A brand new beat for the same old heart
    Tell me, do you still know who you are?
    A brand new beat for the same old heart
    Tell me, do you still know who you are?
    A brand new beat for the same old heart
    Tell me, do you still know who you are?

• The Years Gone By

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    Here's to the years gone by
    To rivers running dry
    Where have you been all your life?
    Time takes too much time
    A bitter kiss good-night
    Where have you been all your life?

    How can you say you've come a long, long way?
    You only wait for yesterday

    Here's to the years gone by
    To rivers running dry
    Where have you been all your life?
    Time takes too much time
    A bitter kiss good-night
    Where have you been all your life?

    How can you say you've come a long, long way?

    You only wait for yesterday

    Let the truth be told
    Heaven knows you got hell to pay
    Let the truth be told
    You wait for yesterday

    Here's to the years gone by
    To rivers running dry
    Where have you been all your life?
    Time takes too much time
    A bitter kiss good-night
    Where have you been all your life?
    Where have you been all your life?

• Hello Knife

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    Hello knife you look sick and tired
    I wanna be your alibi
    You've always been a perfect liar
    You cross your heart and hope to die
    Hello knife you're so sick and tired
    Let me suffer for your sins
    Nothing but a tool for hire
    I'll take the blame for everything

    Rusty knife sleeping in my pocket
    Come alive and wield you blade
    Scare away the hungry vultures
    Before it is too late, too late
    Hello knife safe inside my pocket
    A clean slate and a dirty mind
    Take my hand every time I falter
    Never cut the tie that binds

    So if you want to live, just not survive
    And if you need a place to run and hide

    Hello knife, hello knife, hello knife
    So if you find that things don't look so bright
    When you're at the wrong end of the knife
    Hello knife, hello knife, hello knife

    Hello knife you look sick and tired
    I wanna be your alibi
    You've always been a perfect liar
    I wanna be ...

    If you want to live, just not survive
    And if you need a place to run and hide
    Hello knife, hello knife, hello knife
    A clean slate, dirty mind
    Too late, too late
    Hello knife, hello knife, hello knife

• Parade of One

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    I drag my shadow around
    But I wear my head like a crown
    I got a mouthful of songs
    And I got a storm in my lungs

    And I'm on my own again
    All by myself
    Parade of one
    So bring on the fireworks

    I'm on my own again
    All by myself
    Parade of one

    I wanna be a parade
    Hear the call me the jack of all trades
    I'm passing by your house today
    So cheer for me, I'll be okay

    When I'm on my own again
    All by myself
    Parade of one
    So bring on the fireworks

    Don't ever get too close to me
    I'm out of bounds, just let me be

    Don't ever get too close to me
    Understand that there's no "U" in team

    I drag my shadow around

    Solitudes's my company
    She's so bitter, so sweet
    I'll never be going to sleep
    You don't need to wait up for me
    Cause I drag my shadow around
    I'm a one man band and I'm a clown
    The circus is coming to town
    Just let the confetti rain down

    When I'm on my own again
    All by myself
    Parade of one
    So bring on the fireworks
    Just bring out the fireworks

    So bring on the fireworks
    I am my own god, my own church and my religion
    A fortress of mind, hard to climb, I'm fact not fiction
    I'm the fireman and I'm the lighter
    So bring on the fireworks
    Shining like the sun and burning brighter
    I am my own path, I'm a mess, my own decision, my decision
    I'm right as rain, ride the train without a ticket
    I bend and I break and I mend and I can take it
    I am not like rocket science
    I'm a one man band and the rest is silence
    I bend and I break and I mend and I can take it
    So bring on the fireworks

• Break My Stride

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    You fight, I win
    Say what you will, i´m not listening
    I´ll keep breathing
    So do what you want, i´m not choking
    Walk in my shoes
    Stumble and fall
    Walk in my shoes

    You say it´s black, i say it´s white
    You know i´d burn down the house to turn on the lights tonight and
    I know it´s black, you say it´s white
    But you can´t break my stride
    No, you can´t break my stride
    Gonna burn down the house
    I´ll be turning the tide

    You fail to try
    I try and fail but that´s alright
    So keep your mouth shut
    And swallow your pride till you throw up
    Walk in my shoes
    Stumble and fall
    Walk in my shoes

    You say it´s black, i say it´s white
    You know i´d burn down the house to turn on the lights tonight and
    I know it´s black, you say it´s white
    But you can´t break my stride
    No, you can´t break my stride
    Gonna burn down the house
    I´ll be turning the tide

    You fail to try
    I try and fail but that´s alright
    So keep your mouth shut
    And swallow your pride till you throw up

    You say it´s black, i say it´s white
    You know i´d burn down the house to turn on the lights tonight
    You want a kiss, i want a bite
    But you can´t break my stride
    No, you can´t break my stride, no

• Headphones

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    Lately iґve been making plans to make my way out
    Fingernails are growing short, there ain't no doubt
    Everybody wants another part of my wings
    I gotta keep you out, shut you out so I plug them in
    I got my headphones
    Me and my headphones
    Radio is killing me and TV's a bore
    All I want today is something I can ignore
    I got my headphones
    Me and my headphones
    I gotta let go
    I need my...

    Come and hear me, gotta listen
    Turn it up for my final transmission
    Come and hear me, gotta listen
    Watch me go, Iґm a man on a mission
    Do you read me? Are you out there?
    Gonna run and make my way outta here
    Come and hear me, gotta listen
    Gotta listen - Are you listening

    So this just in: my broadcast ends
    But this ainґt good-bye, this is good luck, my friends
    I got my headphones
    Me and my headphones
    I get my batteries, get my tapes, get my player
    I get up, I get going and Iґm getting better
    I need my headphones
    Me and my headphones
    I get my batteries, get my tapes, get my player
    I get up, I get going and Iґm getting better

    Come and hear me, gotta listen
    Turn it up for my final transmission
    Come and hear me, gotta listen
    Watch me go, Iґm a man on a mission
    Do you read me? Are you out there?
    Gonna run and make my way outta here
    Come and hear me, gotta listen
    Gotta listen - Are you listening (to me)?

    (She kissed me in New York City
    She held my hand in Tokyo
    She walked me down to Leicester Square
    And she found me passed out in Soho
    She showed me round in Dublin
    She even followed me to Rome
    She kept me warm in Warsaw
    And she always guided me back home
    Sheґs as good as it gets, sheґs as good as it gets)

    Can you hear me? Are you listening?
    Turn it up for my final transmission
    Can you hear me? Are you listening?
    Watch me go, Iґm a man on a mission
    Do you read me? Are you out there?
    Gotta run and make my way outta here
    Can you hear me? Are you listening?
    Are you listening? Are you listening?

• Stop the Clocks

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    Lies
    Demand another lie
    No matter how i try
    Wish i could disappear
    I know myself
    I know myself well enough
    Down
    The only way is down
    My face down on the ground
    What am i doing here?
    I know myself
    I know myself well enough

    And if i could stop the clocks
    If i could make this moment mine
    I´d make the most of a bad time
    I wish i could stop the clocks
    And wash away those lies
    It´s all that i could wish for tonight

    Down
    The only way is down
    My face down on the ground
    What am i doing here?
    I know myself
    I know myself well enough
    And now my angels need angels
    To help me get out of this hell
    I know myself well enough
    To know that i don´t know myself

    And if i could stop the clocks
    If i could make this moment mine
    I´d make the most of a bad time
    I wish i could stop the clocks
    And wash away those lies
    It´s all that i could wish for tonight

    And if i could stop the clocks
    If i could make this moment mine
    I´d make the most of a bad time
    I wish i could stop the clocks
    And wash away those lies
    It´s all that i could wish for tonight

• The Right Kind of Wrong

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    Can´t get my feet back on the ground
    Can´t sleep, the silence is way too loud
    Can´t think of anything nice to say
    Can´t say i want it any other way
    Don´t call, don´t speak, just leave me be
    Cause you wouldn´t quite like me when i am angry
    Don´t heal my wounds, they´re all i got
    Don´t pull my teeth, can ´t you just leave them to rot?

    No matter how long it takes
    I will be waiting here
    Whatever you say
    I just don´t wanna hear
    No matter how wrong i am
    I will be waiting here
    For the right kind of wrong
    I´ll be right here

    I´ll cut the heart out of my chest
    I´ll trade the handshake for the fist
    I can´t be the life of the party
    Spare me your smile
    Your kindness kills me

    No matter how long it takes
    I will be waiting here
    Whatever you say
    I just don´t wanna hear
    No matter how wrong i am
    I will be waiting here
    For the right kind of wrong
    I´ll be right here

    No matter how long it takes
    I will be waiting here
    Whatever you say
    I just don´t wanna hear
    No matter how wrong i am
    I will be waiting here
    For the right kind of wrong
    I´ll be right here

• Anything

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    Tell me something i haven´t heard before
    Gimme what i need, something worth dying for
    Nothing´s
    Ever
    Good enough
    For me
    I´m always
    Complaining
    A set of lungs
    A pair of fists
    A pointed finger

    So gimme gimme gimme anything
    It´s not enough when it´s for free
    So c´mon c´mon gimme everything
    I gotta have it all, i want it all, just for me

    One way ticket, have it all or nothing,
    Watch me take off, i´m leaving you all for good
    Someday
    I´ll be
    Good enough
    For you
    You will
    Comprehend me
    No one could ever
    Bear the weight
    That´s on my shoulders

    So gimme gimme gimme anything
    It´s not enough when it´s for free
    So c´mon c´mon gimme everything
    I gotta have it all, i want it all, just for me

    Just for me, just for me...

    So gimme gimme gimme anything
    It´s not enough when it´s for free
    (It´s never quite enough)
    So c´mon c´mon gimme everything
    I gotta have it all, i want it all, just for me
    No one could ever
    Bear the weight
    That´s on my shoulders

    No one could ever
    Bear the weight
    That´s on my shoulders, my shoulders

    No one could ever
    Bear the weight
    That´s on my shoulders

• New Hope For The Dead

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    Calling
    The fallen
    It´s a brand new morning
    For the dearly departed
    The stone cold hearted

    Calling
    The undead
    Don´t call it a comeback
    From six feet under
    Forever we shall wander
    Stop pretending
    Don´t wait for the ending
    We´re taking you back
    Taking you back
    To the life you never led

    Get up, all you broken backs
    Don´t mind the bullet in your head
    New hope for you
    New hope for the dead
    We came to take you back
    To the life you never ever led
    New hope for you
    New hope for the dead

    Calling
    The undead
    Don´t call it a comeback
    From six feet under
    Forever we shall wander
    Stop pretending
    Don´t wait for the ending
    We´re taking you back
    Taking you back
    (A new hope for the dead)

    Get up, all you broken backs
    Don´t mind the bullet in your head
    New hope for you
    New hope for the dead
    We came to take you back
    To the life you never ever led
    New hope for you
    New hope for the dead

    Get up, all you broken backs
    Don´t mind the bullet in your head
    New hope for you
    New hope for the dead
    We came to take you back
    To the life you never ever led
    New hope for you
    New hope for the dead

    Wake up, all you dead!
    (A new hope for the dead)

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