REV LVEL A C H E R G A

Asphalt Tango Records CD-ATR 2711 & LP-ATR 2811

S O N G T E X T B O O K L E T

1. MelahaYou think you go astray

with no return on the way

so that words can’t say

you feel like runnin’ away

so caught down

it just won‘t let you go

and you can not say no

hope drowns

still you always see it grow

doesn‘t matter where you go

slow down

listen to the rhythm now

come and dive into this sound

all around

pure energy will knock you down

just come and dive into this sound

just come and dive into this sound

the ground is no longer steady

I say you have to be ready

in the moment when fi rst desicion

knocks in your heart

you just feel caught down

but you‘re not

but you‘re not not

you just feel caught down

but the freedom is within you, all around

you just feel caught down

but you‘re nanananana not

you so feel caught down

you so feel caught down

Asphalt Tango Records CD-ATR 2711 & LP-ATR 2811

REV LVEL A C H E R G A

From musical patchwork to interwoven pop arrangement – La Cherga are back in 2011

with their new album REVOLVE! Their sound, frequently referred to as a patchwork, a

style mix spanning dub, Balkan brass, jazz, drum ‘n‘ bass and electronic, is broadened on

REVOLVE to include funk and soul, laced with a dash of pop.

by

1. MELAHA2. SUFI DUB

3. RESOLVE & EVOLVE4. ONE – FEAT. ADIS ZVEKIC „RHYTHM KILLER“

& ALMIR HASANBEGOVIC „FAST BEAST“ (DUBIOZA KOLEKTIV)

5. VOTKA DOT KOM – FEAT. MC KILLO KILLO

6. VI7. AFGAN

8. MAKE A CHANGE – FEAT. I-RAZOR (MILLIONS OF DREADS)

9. LAST TEMPTATION 10. RISE UP – FEAT. SANDY LOPICIC & NORBERT WALLY

11. VODA

All lyrics by Adisa Zvekic except track 4 by Adisa Zvekic, Adis Zvekic and Almir

Hasanbegovic, track 5 by Vojislav Malesev, track 8 by Konstantin Zwitter.

Photos by Lars Krüger, artwork songtext booklet by Diana Wesser & Claudia Heckel.

www.asphalt-tango.de

REV LVE L A C H E R G A

2. Sufi DubLonging, desire..

…where do they come from?

the beat like the drum

so loud loud loud loud

must not show it

keep it all down

feel your palms as they burn

feel no ground everything turns

look around you’re walking on clouds

there’s nothing else

but love that surrounds

one loses awarness of time

thoughts become the endless love rhyme

those who dwell against the violent stream

don’t regret they carry love within…

3. Resolve & EvolveIssues need to be resolved

or the chaos starts to evolve

you think you’re on the right way

but too many puzzles you must solve

truth awaits on the other side

it has never been an easy ride

keep your own mind open wide

stop waisting your precious words and time

I don‘t know

where i go

i just follow my heart

it always knows the most

waiting for

what hides beyond

calling me over and over again

and i just hate to pretend

i just hate to pretend

i just hate…

so can‘t you hear this song?

don‘t let me fl ow alone…

can‘t you feel it to your bone

you are never left alone

you become the reason

you dwell through all the seasons

you can fl y high high high

never stop questioning why…

I don‘t know

where i go

i just follow my heart

it always knows the most

waiting for

what hides beyond

calling me over and over again

and i just hate to pretend

i just hate to pretend

i just hate…

issues need to be resolved

or the chaos starts to evolve

you think you‘re on the right way

but too many puzzles you must solve

truth awaits on the other side

it has never been an easy ride

keep your own mind open wide

stop waisting your precious words and time

zašto moje srce glasno bije?

šta to moja duša sada krije?

close to the fear you confront

soon as you get near it starts to run

more than ever than you start to feel

the secret you’ve been trying to reveal

that war yet no one has won

game where all the warriors become

it’s the story never to be done

neverending, by itself begun

feel your palms as they burn

feel no ground everything turns

look around you’re walking on clouds

there’s nothing else

but love that surrounds

zašto moje srce glasno bije?

šta to moja duša sada krije?

4. OneMy steps are hard and heavy

I can hardly see my way

but regardless of the effort

there’s one rule:

you can not stay!

dream boy, dream girl

it‘s the one precious thing

they can never take

feel boy, feel girl

it‘s the hidden magic

they can never break

seek on, seek on!

there is something true

beyond all that fake

look on, look on!

there‘s something within you

nobody can break

all into one

3D I can see clearly

what goes wrong,

what‘s wrong with me

rage inside me,

I breath with it

recognize me

sing with it

breath boy breath girl

don‘t let them dump you into brain-washing machine

equal equal it‘s a good thing but think twice where does it lead

uniform, uniform will transform the original seed

decoy decoy is what the system is trying to breed

3D I can see clearly

what goes wrong,

what‘s wrong with me

rage inside me,

I breath with it

recognize me

sing with it

seek for, seek for

anyone who can feel what i feel,

what i fi ght for

go on go on get the right step

do something for yourself right back

give it for, give it for, keep it for all

all is one is something you should know

cause the source is infi nite

so just start to deal with it…

cool down,

don‘t back down

cause you can‘t fool around

hold to your base,

cause you‘re led in circle

get down in a trench

and it‘s not enough

look that‘d be known:

“like the rest of them“,

hand shake diplomatic,

it‘s automatic,

look like it‘s love,

but it‘s all pathetic…

I‘m against that!

I‘m a truths true addict,

I‘m running on

but it‘s all so static

static, don‘t panic

knowing you better

all into one

that nobody could sever

like shotgun seek for shelter

dive into this deep deep water

meet the place where the endless grows

like a trigger that hits hard goals…

5. Votka Dot KomNisam video Sunce

Ima vec sigurno tri meseca

Zivim u oblacnoj zemlji

Gde kisobran nose svi ko privezak

Redovno mislim o jugu

O rostilju I neradnim danima

Srce bi hitno na prugu

Al ne od metroa hoce klackanje satima.

Svu sam tugu amputiro

Ili bar se zavaravam

Imam zeludac sa chirom

Sve vise u sebe se zatvaram.

Vodka

Ispade moj najbolji drug

Domaca, jaka, sto poslo mi moj iz Rusije kum.

Imam telefon Ali niko me ne cima

Zivim u centru daleko od svega tu nesto ne stima.

Poco da pevam pesme koje sam pljuvao

Presto da duvam razdelio stek(ove) sto sam cuvao

Pricam na stranom a na nasem se nerviram

Za vikend vodkom svoju balkansku dushu rado maltretiram…

Jos jedna vodka

Ispade moj najbolji drug

Dok ne ode litra vozi me tramvaj celu noc u krug. Vodka za vodkom...

(Prvom) VODKOM – redovno nazdravljam za mir

(Drugu )VODKU-za ljubav dizem u vis

(Trecom )VODKOM – hvalim Boga sto sam ziv

VODKA ZA VODKOM pa posle djavo mi je kriv

7. AfganGot to know without

got to know without

lovin’, lovin’

got to know without

got to know without

knowin’, knowin’…

…you can not bring me down

you can not bring me down

you can not manipulate me, no, no

I follow my own road

I listen to one single mind

belonging to one single kind,

we’re now so ready to let you know

what a heart can really show…

got to know the way,

you got to know the way

…the way…

…the way…

…cause, you can,

still feel it,

don’t you call me...

…got to rock it..

…I’m still fi ghting…

for I’m a warrior,

for I’m a warrior…

…got to check it,

you got to reach it

for you can breath in…

…still fi nd it in the end!…

I don’t want to stand in the line for my own rights,

I just want my Sun…

I want my Sun to shine

I want my Sun to shine,

just let me grow…

you can not bring me down

you can not bring me down

you can not manipulate me, no, no

I follow my own road

I listen to one single mind

belonging to one single kind,

We’re now so ready to let you know

What a Heart can really show…

6. VII just close my eyes I see no time hey

and I see the coast after long long sailing yeah yeah

doesn‘ matter the night is falling

thousand gazing stars will show me,

lead me to the right direction

while moonlight spills around it‘s refl ection

awakens the passion

awakens the passion…

…sometimes you forget that feeling

but it remembers you instead

and whole so confused between your dreaming

and what reality trys to say

not sure which road to take

sometimes you just wish to stay…

yes, you get tired of standing up

and falling down again,

just to get to know yourself

to know yourself

show yourself…

I know you hear those voices

hear them what they have to say

decide which side of the wicked game

you chose to play

better be aware of your weakness

so you could meet all your strength

let the wisdom fl ourish

no matter how hard it is

and get to know yourself

know yourself

show yourself

show yourself…

9. Last TemptationYou don‘t know why

you keep on standing alone

toward what wishful dream would you fl ow

and some things are gone

they still seem to be so undone

you just need to learn to let go…

love me love me love me

te èudne misli, ljubavne

ljubavne-opasne, te èudne misli…

where ever I go,

what ever I do,

where ever I‘d go, I‘d be hounted by you…

…and you have nothing to say

so tired of those games others play

you just seek for some right way…

and some good things are at hand

but you always seek for what you dont understand

gone all the way where dreams go…

love te love te love te

te èudne misli ljubavne,

ljubavne-opasne…

where ever you go,

what ever you do,

where ever you go,

it comes for you…

8. Make a changeMake a change fi di betta,

we haffi do it together,

make a change, make a change ya

babylon haffi rearrange

make a change fi dis world,

make a change fi di future,

make a change fi di children,

make a change fi di youths and

make a change fi yaself,

make a change yes and help,

to make di world a betta place

unu people mus rebel!

make a change fi di betta,

and we haffi do it together,

make a change, make a change ya

babylon haffi rearrange

start wid yourself, start right now, mi a tell ya.

keep ya conscience clean if yuh nah waan go to hell-ya

if dem people realise dat di yutes dem a yell-ya,

dem ago recognise how babylon a lie.

not in a week or tomorrow just right now and not later,

yes we haffi think smart, solomonic and clever,

we fi seek fi di truth, ca di tings dem a spread-a-

strictly dutty falsehood, so we bun dem up redda.

yuh haffi rememba your elders and roots,

yuh haffi rememba to care fi di youths, mi seh

you haffi rememba to plant your own food,

you haffi rememba the trees wid the fruits.

yuh haffi rememba whats right and whats good,

yuh haffi rememba the tings dat yuh could,

yuh haffi rememba-what yuh understood, so-

yuh haffi belive in the future my yute!!!

too much maddness and badmind,

too much violence and crime,

too much fussin too much fi ghtin,

too much killin all the time.-

too many politicians shout,

always lies outa dem mouth,

dem a pree di dollar sign,

jus makin money makes dem proud.

10. Rise upChange arrives when you least expect it

and new waves overwhelm your heart

so known rhyme but you‘ve never read it

it‘s the everlasting diversity of life

that wants to take you

beyond and far now

that wants to show you

right who you are now

that needs to break you

to see if you‘re fi ghting hard

if you fi ght hard, if you fi ght hard

don‘t you know you must fall

so you could truly rise up,

rise up, rise up, rise up, yeah

still fi ghting,

again on my feet,

I saw me fall down, ou

still dreaming,

still searching for the truth

to come around,

to come around,

come around…

11. Voda…rude is your nature…

I will never know why,

I can not resist your energy

as far as I stay…

…There you see,

…behind thousands of miles

of a rocky mountains

lies my peacefull plain

and there shines my rain

ljubav bi pio gdje teku vode,

i ruže miriso gdje se snovi rode…

the last dread, the past realm

who’s gonna make you hear the sound

who’s gonna make you dream out loud

the past hounts, forms what we are

but these gonna break the chain of lies

these gonna take you beyond and far

ljubav bi pio gdje teku vode,

i ruže miriso gdje se snovi rode…