Jinjer - album lyrics: "Duél" (2025)

"Tantrum"

What a magical world ball!

Candles flicker in the hall

Party of the century

Anticipation takes its tall

I am entering the ballroom

I have walked a thousand miles

Shiny shoes and lightweight skirts

Should part when I arrive

Aristocracy

Petty bourgeoisie

His majesty

Squeaks in agony

Aristocracy

And petty-bourgeoisie

Rustling in tense commotion

His majesty

Squeaks in agony

As I show my motion

My rules are mine

I'll show you how it's done

My dance makes chandeliers shake

The song I scream makes ladies faint

Floorboards creak, midst the elegance chaos speaks

Aristocracy

Petty bourgeoisie

His majesty

Squeaks in agony

Aristocracy

And petty-bourgeoisie

Yeah. Rustling in commotion

His majesty

Squeaks in agony

As I show my motion

My rules are mine

I'll show you how it's done

My rules are mine

I'll show you how it's done

It's avant-garde against extravagant

It's a new term in the canons of taste

It's a beauty mark, a bold beauty mark

On the personal freedom's face

My voice drowns out the orchestra sound

I cancel minuets, I turn you upside down

Such a loud premier will never happen again

Do not send me invitations anymore

"Hedonist"

Oh what a point in postponed joy?

In grand refusal of all the pleasures, right and wrong?

I crave all pleasures minus pain

Let's have it my way: let it be no pain, all gain!

Drowning in wine, my cup I refill

Indulging in desires, I crave all the thrill!

Life is so momentary, love is so brief

I bask in delight. My opulence! My gift!

Let it let it be no pain

Let it let it be no pain

Oblivious sleep from dawn 'til sunset

Just indolence and peace. I feast on all of that

Awakening brings hunger, desire's so intense!

Unquenchable thirst for pleasure minus pain

Deprivation in exchange for immortality

Or unlimited resources of ecstasy?

I've killed the fear of death and God

But I am far from standing next to De Sade

I'm not a theorist, I'm an expert

In the science of agitation

I'm a stranger to restrictions

And my purpose to existence

Is to taste all the delicacy of life

The cult of happiness, of pleasure quintessence

Bottomless delight is a natural human right

Of pleasure quintessence! Forget the consequence

Deterrent is an enemy of life

My cup I refill, but the hunger remains

Beyond the thrill a yearning sustains

Now sadness of satiety is bread I'm feasting on

I've been searching for something new

But the margin's never grown

A blessing! A grand curse!

"Rogue"

Their bread tastes like rock

Joining circles of the dead

As I am drinking all the sewage

Of the damage they call help

In the land of the blind

The one-eyed is a king

He plants in their empty pots

Ugly rotten seeds

Ugly rotten seeds in their empty pots

Collecting blood is his ambition

He sets so light the value upon lives

Each despicable decision

Activates his dreadful knights

Their bread tastes like rock

Joining circles of the dead

As I am drinking all the sewage

Of the damage they call help

And his order has become their thought

Take a listen, their mouths

Are fully loaded with his words

No thought of their own arose

Collecting blood is his ambition

He sets so light the value upon lives

Each despicable decision

Activates his dreadful knights

Shut up! Take a listen, take a listen!

Fully loaded

Shut up! Take a listen, take a listen!

Fully loaded

Fully loaded

There's nothing left in his stone chest

Just rogue and endless battles

Rogue

We are forcefully put on his map

War-drum always rattles

Rogue

"Tumbleweed"

Fallen asleep between roses

Opened my eyes among thorns

I don't recognise, I don't realise

I was pushed away where I belong

Here I am just like a little beetle

Carried by the storm into a lake

Oh dear caterpillar! Or darling Mr. Toad

I'm a stranger to you all. Is it my fate?

Have you heard of the storm

That uprooted my home?

A shower crushed down

On my beautiful town

Then the lightning bolt struck

Incinerated my shack

I barely survived the flame

But wilted like a tree

Replanted in debris

I turned into nothing

I won't be the same

Then the wind lifted my dry bones

And carried away, never stopped

From shore to shore, from door to door

My roots will never touch the ground

Oh dear caterpillar

Oh darling Mr. Toad

I'm a stranger to you all

Is it where I belong?

How I miss my roses

And my little shack

This tumbling and rolling

Will not take me back

"Green Serpent"

The grapes are falling down

The grapes are falling down

The grapes are falling down

Please add some sober water

Into heady wine

Don't turn into a raging storm

This peaceful night

This peaceful night

Here it comes, the green serpent

It puts you on the path...

How deep is the mud

In this tempting vineyard?

The grapes are falling down

And you pick them one by one

The drunk stepped into the adult life

Lukewarm wine is his blood

It's not him who drinks from the bottle

It's the bottle that drinks from him

It's starting here...

You don't drink it, you absorb it

Eventually you're swallowed by the mud

Here it comes, the green serpent

It puts you on the path so unsure

The serpent gives an umbrella on a sunny day

And takes it back when it rains

It holds so much annihilating power

So it's turning

Saints into sinners in just one hour

It's starting here...

You don't drink it, you absorb it

Eventually you're swallowed by the mud

Here it comes, the green serpent

It puts you on the path so unsure

A foe and a friend

Locks you in pirouette

Shame hurts more then headache

Let the green serpent slither away

Let the green serpent slither away

The grapes are falling down...

The grapes are falling down...

"Kafka"

Hardly in the spirit of the era

Delicate and thin-skinned

One appeared in front of the jury

Face uncovered against the wind

In this life unprepared

With the script unrehearsed

Beauty of looks, beauty of faults

Frightened and offhand

Deaf to a command

Anguish in an envelope of bliss

Whom to wake up in the morning?

A Gregor or a Josef will it be?

Neglected and abused

Or wrongfully accused

Or eventually plague will catch me?

While others see to the horizon I can see just beyond

I'm micro-dosing hell staying under a blissful spell

My vision drinks up the ink I dip my eyes in

You came into the world unloved

But love has found you through a word

Cupid pierced your chest with nibs

The void will bleed with inks

The void will bleed with inks

Absurd of my existence

I'm aching through persistence

The pen will slit the heart

The pen will slit the heart

The void will bleed Das Nichts!

I showed my bare face

It was ripped off like a mask

As they stepped upon a throat of my own song

Unmasking comes in price

All that pure is compromised

In exclusion I cement myself alas!

Now I am just a ghost at the attic

Life for me is doing time

The world has shut me down

But it's more than just fine

Not everything has a purpose

Nothing happens for a reason

How absurd! What a treason for a man!

We are lonely don't feel sorry

And at night when there's no glory

Laugh without interruption to cough blood

Oh

Absurd's my existence!

Oh, how absurd!

"Dark Bile"

My servant, my master

My leash, my leash and my pet

Madam Melancholy

Set down, set down on my bed

She gave me a glass of dark bile

Her face shone with a tragic smile

I learnt to live with you

My beauty in blue

So subtly and keenly

I'm feeling

She gave me a glass of dark bile

Her face shone with a tragic smile

She fed me a piece of a pie

As black as the glass of dark bile

There is nothing wrong

It's the temperament I own

The lifestyle of anguish

Is a true phenomenon

In the school of moods

I've mastered sadness

I've examined the world

Through the lens of self-reflection

Where is my soul? It's outside

It's around me and I must claim it

I'm so glad, glad as I can be

That's not madness, I bathe in anxiety

My servant, my master

My leash, my leash and my pet

Madam Melancholy

Set down, set down on my bed

She gave me a glass of dark bile

Dark bile

"Fast Draw"

Which one will it be today?

The one that sits patiently under penalty from past raptures with endless scriptures written of regret-filled prophecies

Or the one who lives with no leader

Aimlessly passing the time between sleep

Slowly blurring the lines

Between awake and dreaming

Unrighteous and alive

Draw your weapon, just draw your weapon

Just draw your weapon

Before I draw mine!

What have I done to myself today?

Did I not learn my lesson or count my blessings?

I sing my sorrows once again

I made my bed and I'll lie in it

Draw, draw your weapon

Draw, draw your weapon

Draw, draw your weapon

Before I draw mine

Now that I know I cannot ever turn my back on you

I find myself thinking in spirals revealing dysfunction of what I always knew

Which one will it be today?

Who will win the draw this day?

The timeless battle has begun

Take no chances, draw my gun

Now that I know that you won't turn your back on me

I find myself digging deeper further down the hole I'll one day come to know

Draw, draw your weapon

Before I draw mine

"Someone's Daughter"

You teach me how to be a man

Though I am someone's daughter

The path of warrior was set for me

And I had to try on the armour

No it doesn't suit me

And it feels so heavy

I'm frightened and so ashamed

That I have to combat the world alone

That I have to swing my sword alone

So my gentleness is turned into rigidity

And once soft the skin is nothing but the scale

One by one I lead unequal fights, eventually

The beauty's nose is broken, and I faint

Life feeds me bullets and stones

And I stitch myself up alone

If I cry I will run my tears

Inside of my blood-stained cheeks

I've found talents beyond comprehension

All my battles are a sight to behold

Wading through the hardship alone

Translating my body to soul

Oh brutal world, I'm not your enemy

This role of warrior brings nothing but the misery

If a woman's wings are trimmed

And her radiance is dimmed

This is over! This is over!

You will see her ride a broom

With a force to be reckoned

To be no longer the second

I am no longer a daughter

I eat them for breakfast

I eat them for lunch

I have audacity

To throw the first punch

I dwell in the shadows

I sleep in the light

I am no longer a daughter

I throw the first punch

"A Tongue So Sly"

Behind closed doors, twisted endeavours

Are tangled to stain my name

Rumours soaring through the air

A clammy whisper pours into my ear

A fiction tailor-made

Exclusively for me

No given chance for truth

Nonsense came to sway

A tongue so sly!

Infectious bite!

They've been living in the woods

Praying to a wheel

The voices negatively tuned

Collecting stones to kill

Where lions become kind

Jackals grow sly

It's their false bravado

That catches my eye

A fiction tailor-made

Exclusively for me

No given chance for truth

Nonsense came to sway

They rush with muzzles off

To enter heaven through the backdoor

After breaking a nose of every beautiful thing

Their grace is the second to none

They entertain a thought irrelevant!

In triumphant tone they scream their slander

A tongue so sly

Infectious bite!

I never said it

That's where you landed

And turned their bullshit

Into the epic

What you don't know of

Pass over in silence

Why do I need their envy for free?

They give me their own stones that were meant to kill me

The stones are then turned into send

The truth will be told firsthand

Let the whispers fade

Let the truth prevail!

Make the hate subside

Through the test of time

"Duél"

In the winter's icy grip, where the snowflakes gently slip

A duel unfolds, a code of honor they abide

Two strangers face to face, a match of two collide

Revenge seeks solace, to the barrier they stride

Pistol poised, a defenseless target in sight

Cornermen whisper setting point of honor right

A banned practice, a distance of ten steps away

Where hardly ever one's aim goes astray

Barrel to barrel

Pick a side

Pistols poised

Barrel to barrel, the luck's on the winner's side

A life-threatening dance where reputations ride

Place your bets, place your bets

To win or to lose is in the duel's embrace

My excuse is to define the truth

In the battle between me and you

Reconciliation seems nothing but a dream

As we step to the fore in the winter's gleam

Pick a side, pick a side

Stakes are high, stakes are high

In the tarnished snow a dead honor will lie

The bloodier the better I say

And to the last blood I'm gonna stand

Amidst the smoke and cries of pain

A moment of doubt, a chance to reclaim

There's no way to hide, the wounds run deep and wide

The choice to heal or let revenge reside

No painkillers I need

I deserved it all indeed

Though I'm down on my knees

I have battled my old me