Kartoffel (Meine Neiren Schrien) (Baumann) - August ’03 Chorus: I’ll take my time to button up my shirt and put on my shoes. If you had to walk the streets of downtown Hell, what would you do? My only allies are fear and erstwhile friends like my mind, and demagogue style. I pick my battles by the degree of hopelessness, Sneezing out defeats with greater ease than phlegm. Ensuring my disaster by the cards that I draw To be an entertaining show. I am a master at a kind of Russian roulette, The rewards that I gain are the lives that I bet. It’s gin rummy in a deck with no sixes or tens. Kamikaze, I rely on what I got in my head. Chorus Meningitis, I’m a rifle on safe. Protecting all the living from the violence and hate. I’m Richard the Lionheart in Kevlar and steel. Call me Caesar, call me Stalin that’s the way that I feel. I take my chances like I’m calling the shots I put on a necktie in a half-windsor knot. I’ll use that tie to hang the traitors and thieves. I see the vinegar stains when I roll up my sleeves. Chorus 2x