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The return of The Cassandra Complex after 6 long years of having a real life… And what a great record it is! The cover art is by the amazingly talented and beautiful Kathy Capri – that’s actually her on the cover photo. She originally took it as a test shot, intending to use another model for the final artwork, but we liked this picture of her so much we insisted on keeping it.

The record took a while to make, it was the first one Volker and Rodney had made without Juergen around, so it was a bit of an adjustment. But in the process we really rediscovered what The Cassandra Complex was to us. Several people have said that it sounds almost like a Greatest Hits album, it’s got so much of the whole history of the band packed inside it, but it still manages to sound really modern. It’s a fine record, one we’re very proud of.

VALIS
(Orpheus/Zacharias)

Everything I’ve always wanted…
All the dreams that come to haunt me
Are right here now
I close my eyes
And from the skies
I feel the presence of a
Vast And Living Intelligence

Vast And Living Intelligence System
Source of energy, source of wisdom
Vast and living
Vast And Living Intelligence System
Information of life insistent
Vast and living

Vast and living
All-forgiving
Immanent and transcendent
Intelligence
Vast and living intelligence
Filling my brain, my every sense
With ecstasy
Of VALIS

Vast And Living Intelligence System
Source of energy, source of wisdom
Vast and living
Vast And Living Intelligence System
Information of life insistent
Vast and living

Twice as Good
(Orpheus/Zacharias)

I have the most beautiful girl in the world
But I still want another
You’re not the best, I know that’s true
But you’re here right now and I want you
Lay your hand upon my thigh
Look into my changing eyes
Cause someday we are going to die
So tell me now you will be mine

Tell me now, I’ve never understood
Why love should be between just two
When another would be twice as good
And both could love me as they should
Another would be twice as good

I still don’t know if it’s really true
But what’s more true than to be with you?
What’s more true than the fire of desire?
What’s more true than desire for you?

Tell me now, I’ve never understood
Why love should be between just two
When another would be twice as good
And both could love me as they should
Another would be twice as good

They tell me love is only real
When two people meet and share what they feel
But if love’s so good…
We should do it all the time

Tell me now, I’ve never understood
Why love should be between just two
When another would be twice as good
And both could love me as they should
Another would be twice as good

N.U.D.
(Ivancic/Orpheus)

Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo
Death, destruction, cities dying
City streets, cruising city streets
Black cities, dying, dying

Drugs, blood, sex, death
Drugs, blood, sex, sex sexsex

Naked, Uniformed, Dead

Cruising cities
Death streets
Life, crying
Life, dying

Naked, Uniformed, Dead

Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo

Naked, Uniformed, Dead

Bad Faith
(Jansen/Orpheus/Zacharias)

I’m drowning in the sea and I’m holding my nose
I just can’t see where anything goes
My life’s been stolen away from me
I’m locked up tight and I haven’t got a key
Cause I’ve got bad faith

So give me money, give me sex
Give me something I can respect
Don’t give me stories, don’t give me lies
Just give me something that is real so I know that I’m alive
Cause I’ve got bad faith