With love from the Golden Cage

By Christian Bass

Life is a constant battle between good and evil, success and failure, happiness and unhappiness; no matter if all our decisions are right or wrong, they all will lead us and guide us on the path we have to create and walk down to become the human being we deserve to be. This book is about the beginning of my path, my struggle, my love and my inner demons. This is where my journey has started!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: May 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9783748703013

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CHRISTIAN BASS

With love from the Golden Cage

1992 – 1999

Christian Bass asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this lyric collection.

Life is a constant battle between good and evil, success and failure, happiness and unhappiness; no matter if all our decisions are right or wrong, they all will lead us and guide us on the path we have to create and walk down to become the human being we deserve to be. This book is about the beginning of my path, my struggle, my love and my inner demons. This is where my journey has started!

These lyrics and poems are a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

2018 - POETIC THOUGHTS

With deep love from my Golden Cage

Poetic thoughts – no more, no less

A past life – let us turn the page

With deep love from my Golden Cage

Once I was young but grew in age

From happiness to inner stress

With deep love from my Golden Cage

Poetic thoughts – no more, no less

THE NINETIES

In many ways it was a very interesting decade that has brought all of us a lot of wealth and progress. Personal Computers became affordable for everybody, the internet connected us to people from all over the world and introduced us to every available information, Social Media platforms began to fill the emptiness of our lives and we should not forget even the most beneficial invention of all times started during the nineties: our mobile phone – just a cable free phone at the beginning and meanwhile a small smart portable computer from which our modern life and welfare depends on for it opens us doors to still unknown freedoms.

This last decade of the century also had a lot of different musical possibilities to offer that we don’t want to miss nowadays. The rise and fall of unnumbered boy-bands and girl-groups like Take That, Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls bewitched our feelings; the first rappers made Hip-Hop chart-friendly, created bad boy heroes which annoyed our parents; techno, rave and house music united the thrilled youth on the dance-floors all over the world.

Janet Jackson brought us more or less radio-friendly sexual beats for the ears, Whitney Houston enlightened us with one of the most successful movie soundtracks of history and we could watch her fall from grace and predicted her doom; Michael Jackson made us face the dark side of wealth, before he got lost in a world of scandals and two unsuccessful marriages, nevertheless he rewarded – or cursed, depends on our views – us with three successful records and the news about his fatherhood.

Not only the music industry created one new trend after another, the film industries did the same, especially Hollywood compulsively changed which led to new unimaginable TV and movie experiences. Series and blockbusters were produced, more expensive and more extravagantly than ever before. The film companies started in the digital age. Movies like Titanic, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List and the beginning of the Star Wars franchise first three episodes documented this progress. At the same time the TV shows and series changed the society. Sexual temptation was no more a taboo, thanks to Baywatch (for example) and more and more people gathered together to watch reality talk shows as well as the return of the Star Trek franchise.

Everything got more realistic and influenced our lives as never before – at least as far as I can give an opinion on it. Of course I cannot say how the decades before worked for those who experienced them. I know the Eighties and the last years of the Seventies because I was there, but still too young to recognize how those decades might have influenced me and all the other ‘survivors’. However, I do remember the Nineties.

May it has been the internet, the media news or whatever, we suddenly got aware of many problems and diseases. We started our mission to ‘heal the world’, to make our planet get a better place to live. We stood together as one world when the two German nations united, when the cold war broke away from our daily life; we laughed out loud when the President of the United States of America almost fell from grace thanks to a sexual affair he had in the Oval Office. In many states around the world homosexuality became legal and human rights spread out to women rights and children’s rights. The world changed to the better.

Certainly not everything was good, it never is, however the negative events of this decade has not settled permanently in my mind. I still can remember the devastating Earthquake in Los Angeles, 1994, or the burning Asylum Homes in different German cities, 1991. Apart of those small negative experiences, the worst should come after the decade ended. During the Nineties the world was still good!

2016 - With LOVE from the GOLDEN CAGE

(Version 1)

Sent with love from a golden cage

The mind of someone underage

From a boy with a loving heart

Who’s longing for his skills to start

No acting in film or on stage

But his words will cover your page

Intelligent and perhaps smart

From the golden cage…

One day he left his home in rage

To escape what should have been his stage

He tried all to find his own part

May it be easy or damn hard

Adventurous life fills the page

Sent with love from the golden cage

(Version 2)

Family values

Forced into an unloved life

No chance to break out

They chose, they decided

What my life would be about

They locked me inside

They said it’s the best for me

‘Cause I’m underage

Sad will be my words, but sent

With love from his golden cage

(Version 3)

They tried to prepare me for entering the stage

Gave me no choice, trained me from a very young age

I fought in despair, I fought day in, day out

My skills are given with love from the golden cage

Parents can be cruel, they had made their decision

It doesn’t matter that they woke up hateful rage

They never understood what my rage was about

And my future would never be on their stage

However, I managed my path with precision

My skills are given with love from the golden cage

Forgotten the times where we all fought very loud

My skills are given with love from the golden cage

1992 - PARADISE FOR EVERYONE

It is winter now

And everywhere is snow

Children are building snowmen

Christmas Eve in front of the door

A Christmas tree is covering the floor

And the children are excited

Merry Christmas and a happy new year

May be peace and freedom be everywhere

Let there be paradise for everyone

1992 - AROUND THE WORLD

Around the world

Let me fly with you that’s all I wanna do

Around the world with you

Let me go with you that’s all I wanna do

Around the wild wide world with you

Around the world

To see new places that’s all I wanna do

Around the world with you

To meet new faces that’s all I wanna do

Around the wild wide world with you

1992 - GHOST SHOW DANCE

(Ghost Story, unfinished musical)

Little ghosts are dancing everywhere

Because the big band’s playing there

Ghost-Show-Dance

Little ghosts are running in the hall

And they’re dancing through the wall

Ghost-Show-Dance

Ghost kids are happy

Ghost kids act sappy

Bring joy to every party

The big ghosts aren’t dancing everywhere

They prefer sitting around there

Ghost-Show-Dance

The big ghosts are dancing in the hall

Or resting up on the wall

Ghost-Show-Dance

Ghost kids are happy

Ghost kids act sappy

Bring joy to every party

1992 - WAKE UP! STAND UP!

(Ghost Story, unfinished musical)

Wake up! Wake up

Come on, start your show

You, there in the bed

Stand up, stand up

Come on, stand up now

The sun is shining

And the moon is gone

A new day has won

Outside in the burning sun

You can have much more fun

Well…

Wake up! Wake up

Come on, start your show

You, there in the bed

Stand up, stand up

Come on, stand up now

1992 - ROCK ME DUCK

Well you were down in the jungle club

Sweet atmosphere in that heartbreak pub

You asked me if I would dance with you

I said yes and put your hand on mine

There was nothing else to do

And so we danced the whole time

We wanna rock, we wanna roll

We wanna rock and roll

Rock, rock, rock me duck

Roll, roll, roll me duck

You are the rock and roll duck

She held my hand and told me her name

Daisy like the girlfriend of my comic star

Until midnight we were hot like a flame

And the burning adventure wasn’t far

We both had crazy feeling and couldn’t see

That was made only for you and me, baby

We wanna rock, we wanna roll

We wanna rock and roll

Rock, rock, rock me duck

Roll, roll, roll me duck

You are the rock and roll duck

1992 - HELLO I LOVE YOU

Hello, I love you, do you love me too

Will you stay with me and be my baby

Hello, I love you more than my life

And would like to marry you, baby

Tell me, will you become my wife

Because I love you endlessly

Hello, I love you more than a pearl

And would love to make love to you, baby

Would you like to have a boy or girl

Because I love you endlessly

Hello, I love you I wanna scream

So darling will you marry me tomorrow

You in white, me in black, what a dream

Don’t look back; we are out of the sorrow

1992 - GOODBYE

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye my friend

Here in this land I sing this song to wish you goodbye

Our lives have to go on and on, my friend

This time with you had been so wonderful

And I hope we can see each other again

This goodbye is breaking my heart

Please, don’t forget my name

This goodbye is nothing but pain

Please, never forget me

Now I have to walk away

But with me, you have a home forever

You gave me a meal, a drink, a bay

So that I’ll never forget you

This goodbye is breaking my heart

Please, don’t forget my name

This goodbye is nothing but pain

Please, never forget me

I wish you every luck in this world

You made my life complete

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye my friend

My luck conquers your need

1993 - CHRISTMAS WITH YOU

Christmas is a wonderful time

Children are learning their rhyme

The calendar hangs on the wall

On the street we’re greeting all

And children build snowmen

It’s time for the lord and his fans

Tall and small are fighting with snowballs

And children are writing their wish letter

So summer time cannot be better

When the winter is sunny

Everybody will be funny

And feels oh so good

Because the day of god

The white city looks true

It’s Christmas with you

Christmas with you

Everybody is excited and works hard

Christmas time is the time of love in our hearts

We have to clean our home

And nobody would like to be alone

When outside is a wild snowstorm

We will cook our cookies in a Christmas form

When the winter is sunny

Everybody will be funny

And feels oh so good

Because the day of god.

The white city looks true

It’s Christmas with you

Christmas with you

It’s Christmas with you

How do you do

It’s Christmas with you

And I love you

It’s Christmas with you

Just Christmas with you

When the winter is sunny

Everybody will be funny

And feels oh so good

Because the day of god.

The white city looks true

It’s Christmas with you

Christmas with you

1993 - FATHER CHRISTMAS

It was Christmas in our town

A December where we had snow

And the candles were burning down

Poems children had to know

A white Christmas time

And a knocking on our front door

A view on the watch

And then she went across the floor

She opened and shouted for me

Her mouth wide open and a scream was free

Oh honey, stop shouting loud

Father Christmas is me

Without an angle team

Father Christmas is me

You see me in disguise

Father Christmas is me

Everything is all right

Father Christmas is there

I said in care

Billy was in his own room

And couldn’t stop his dream

‘Cause the time was gone too soon

So he couldn’t hear her scream

Smiling, I went in

And my wife fetched our young son

Christmas should begin

With the heavenly Christian fun

Billy came and began to cry

This three year old boy was too shy

Oh babe you must not cry

Father Christmas is me

I’m your dad, don’t be shy

Father Christmas is me

You see me in disguise

Father Christmas is me

Everything is all right

Father Christmas is there

I said in care

I put off my red disguise

And Billy saw his dad

And got his first big surprise

This eve no one was sad

The Christmas show was fantastic

But suddenly

A voice whispered through the attic

Remember Father Christmas is me

1993 - MICHELLE MY LOVE

Michelle, my love, you’re just too much

All night long, we couldn’t get enough

She was the best girl, a real treasure

For a lonely boy under pressure

Oh Michelle my love

With a throbbing heart we met for a special night

And the porter gave us our key, you hold me tight

Like two monkeys we danced happily through the room

Where you bewitched my heart, but it was gone too soon

What a feeling warmed my loving heart

Never wanna live apart, may our flame always start

Michelle, my love, you’re just too much

All night long, we couldn’t get enough

She was the best girl, a real treasure

For a lonely boy under pressure

Oh Michelle my love

You asked me soon, darling can we two go