hypocritepoet

Alphaville – 1984

I wonder when Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd, and Frank Mertens if they really understood the connection between those Sons of God who would eventually be forced to live here in the vicinity of the earth.

I wanted the song to feel like a love story disguised as an alien invasion.

The idea was that the woman really is from somewhere else—an infiltrator, a hunter, something beautiful and dangerous—and the narrator knows exactly what she is. She can read him, get inside his head, strip away every defense he has. But the invasion doesn’t work through violence. It works through desire.

He sees the danger, names it, even understands that she is taking possession of him, and still asks for more.

So the song becomes a kind of pulp science-fiction romance about surrender: first contact in a red-light district, telepathy, seduction, transformation, and a man who realizes that the most effective way to conquer a human being is to make him want to be conquered.

And THAT, my friend, is the story of the whole human race.

Conquered.

I hear those voices on the radio I switched it off because she told me so She's an investigator She's like an elevator Nobody told me we'd be all alone You know Somewhere my friend he'd left me In that red light zone You know She said: I've seen your deepest secrets, son They're just as lightning In the look of your eyes

I said: I want you, baby I said: I want some more I said: I never ever felt it like that moment before She's an assassin She's melting steel in my heart But I long for more She said: I want your body She said: I want your soul She said: A fallen angel takes it but she'll never let go She's an invader She's from another world But I beg for more and more

She's raising feelings cutting like a knife She's pouring fire into my liquid life There's no escaping from her mysteries She gives my kisses of the strangest kind

She says: I know you'll like it So come over here She says: Just let that rhythm filter Through your body, dear And then she... She always did it and she always will She'll stay that hunter 'Till the end of time

I said: I want you, baby I said: I want some more I said: I never ever felt it like that moment before She's an assassin She's melting steel in my heart But I long for more She said: I want your body She said: I want your soul She said: A fallen angel takes it but she'll never let go She's an invader She's from another world But I beg for more and more

I said: I want you, baby I said: I want some more I said: I never ever felt it like that moment before She's an assassin She's melting steel in my heart In my heart... In my heart! In my, in my, in my heart... In my heart... In my heart... In my heart... In my heart... In my heart... I said: I want you, baby In my heart... Never ever felt it In my, in my heart... Like that moment before In my, in my heart... She's melting steel in my heart In my, in my heart... Like that moment before In my, in my heart... In my, in my heart... Never ever felt it In my, in my heart... Like that moment before She's melting steel in my heart She's melting steel in my heart