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Last night, Bardot on the screen
running through an orchard
with a dog on her tail
Then on a porch, she'd gotten old
with her skin wrinkled in the sun
We once had a dog
that, one fine day
killed a couple of geese
"Finish him!", grandpa said,
"Kill him!"
"Now that he's tasted blood
there's no stopping him"
When my loved one awakes, I hold silent until
Her wrapped up body makes me shiver still
Wake up beautiful, faithful and true,
Do not sleep through sunrise in sheltering skies
The waste of my hunger, the sense of a smile
Your breasts in a sea of morning light, small
The smell of a moment, wherein years go by
I wish I had known you all of my life
She makes every moon more radiant than sun
The hunger returns as I touch all around,
But your childlike eyes turn in stone for a while
A sweetness so ugly, throwing love all around;
What can't she find in my willing arms?
Infinite touching in denial and tears,
While ways of a lovesick dog drive me back
A clinging to hands as these hands take a hold
Of sweet soft bloody things wrapped around my soul
She makes every moon more radiant than sun
A love so gentle can not conquer and fall
In a heart or a month, or a decade to come
Heaven cuts fragments from my hell
And sells them as jewels whenevr she can
I think of tearing mouths that kissed
Nothing, heaven or hell, makes me cold as you
She makes every moon more radiant than sun
Birds
lose their demons
by flying
But man is slow,
for man has lost his wings
long ago
Man feels the dark,
still wishing he could fly
And soon the light will be gone
First is my name (gone);
under the falling night
second come the staring eyes
that follow me
throughout the dark
Only a single thought afloat -here in my head-
I feel the waves
heaving with the sleep I cannot catch
Bodies, torn,
jammed between boards and waves
slowly taken by
the depths of the calling sea
until only the salt,
dark and slow,
crawls through their veins
My Lord, I cannot feel
your presence on this sea
and all hands slowly turn to murderous rage
My Lord, I cannot hear you
My Lord, I cannot feel you
My Lord, I cannot see your hands at this wheel
A man's cry
drowns in the waves
and I am the devil,
the pain they find
No horizon, we all will go down;
into the dark eye,
long before morning
Daylight comes as daylight goes,
burning in the heart as the fire starts slow
This tearing hide, departing from honour and from bloomz
Daylight comes as daylight goes
Dalight clings as daylight falls,
right across the heart as the pain starts slow
Nude flanks show the pale blue veins wherein darkness crawls
Dalight clings as daylight falls
Life: dark and cruel
Words tearing down life
Fear,
Fear,
Fear brings the days down
Daylight holds as daylight fades,
dawning on the hours as the mind starts slow:
Creating the world over and over from the flames
Daylight holds as daylight fades
Daylight brings as daylight calls,
a flight of crown and king as the sickness grows
Tearing the mind while the strength keeps pushing
back and forth
Daylight brings as daylight calls
Stars; wishing for a kind
sleep, masking the scars
Fear,
Fear,
Fear brings the days down
Houston, I'm calling;
Light years have fallen
and all that remains is silence and wake
Houston, I'm calling
Houston, I'm praying
All my devils are fading
for so close to God, nothing's the same
Houston, I'm praying
Houston, I'm changing
Houston, I'm sailing
close to God than ever before
Houston, I'm changing
Houston, I'm waiting:
Fear is now changing
and all that remains is courage and faith
Houston, I'm waiting
Houston, I'm falling,
my nightmares are wavering
Weaning away from trouble and pain,
Houston, I'm falling
Houston, I'm leaving
Houston, I'm floating
up to the stars, my stairway to God
Houston, Im leaving
Black lake:
dark moon, climbing,
crossing the water
Where do the black swans go that swim here?
My shadow is but a silence here
The dimmest light us darkened by
slowly rustling leaves,
my mind is a swan lake of sorrow
For this sould is black and full of dark advice;
Strange words of sleeping time
Same lake, a decade, same man,
crossing the water
All white, a winter's night
and old claws that rip the skin
All thorns and damaged
people make dangerous hands; I am
but expressionless silence
This is the silence of the darkest/blackest souls;
Soon swans will start to fly
This is the silence of the blackest/darkest souls;
Soon the last swan will be gone
New day, at dawn
I walk down streets
When passing people
I raise my head:
Faces grim as the day they were born;
My shadow long and their faces turned
I find no shelter
from their claws
for this is the danger
you bore me to,
mother
And no fear of mine
can conceive
the secret that they keep
She,
she cuts a hole in the days, sometimes
she makes me blinder than
any night of darkness can
She brings all the silence gone,
she brings the words inside
She,
she's all my world all the time
She binds this life
when all of the chaos has slipped away
She makes fear go away
She'll tear apart my heart again
Making my wish take on the lines of her face,
making all doubts fade;
She is the one that changes fate
She,
she wakes the morning and sometimes
she brings me home
and tells me to pick up my life again
She makes the time go away
She changes all the hours into coldest days
She takes the splendour
of her treasures down so deep
She makes all devils and love hide
She feels so much colder now
Still she tis the promises down,
down to this life,
my wishes and sails
Watching the waterline change;
She is the sun that brings me rain
She,
she's all my world all the time
She fills the days
and moves through my life like the sun
She is so much larger than
this life,
Water and rain;
this life
all my wishes and shame
Watching the waterline change;
She is the sun that brings me rain
This is how you are:
violet, so fine
while you stand in
need of comfort, hope,
so many, many times
Your eyes have travelled every wall
of this wishing room
You calmly walk along
edges of the same
circle of life
Yet sometimes people start to run
and unite in faith;
Their heads together, secretly
wishing for a glimpse
of the sheltering sky
The calm is gone: a kiss, a warm hold
on a cold day
In rage against the slow and lonely times;
melting the ice
cropped on the leaves
But all that's new now
will become of age;
the same old things
will this time burden both
and the common hammer
will descend upon them
And all will go by,
all goes by
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Spending the night while she waits,
rinding fear and riding pretty girls
Spending the night while she's weaving the line
that will lead him home
Prowling the night while she knows,
fools and whores cast their spell and fly
until the morning light slowly unfolds
and he stumbles in
And she always caves
so he always gets a second time
Still he alweays breaks
and she always gets him down
Lord, what have I done?
Lord, what have I done?
Lord, what am I still doing here?
Spending the night in her arms,
raising hell filled with pitiful girls,
retrieving the secrets he thought he had lost
and redeeming all
And she always caves
so he always gets a second time
Still he alweays breaks
and she always gets him down
Lord, what have I done?
Lord, what have I done?
Lord, what am I still doing here?
All in Change as Change is all
that leads and holds my wired single World;
All is Words in writing stopped
All weighs from the body of Change;
All clings to the body in vain
and
all hides
at the bottom of a Heart
Loneliness; count your blessings until I'm gone
Loveliness peels my thinking to the bone
Liebling come by, and all the sudden thoughts find
this tired man
Happiness flings by, sleeping men escape her dim shine
and awake on the cold side
Loneliness, we were kindred for so long
Loveliness, keep me melting until I'm gone
Liebling come by, and all the sudden thoughts find
this tired man
Happiness flings by, sleeping men escape her dim shine
and awake on the cold side
Strange how the water keeps fleeing away from my own two feet
Strange how my heart seems to wither and fade in her hands
Twisting and turning, my world only whispers of light and life;
if only her arms would surrender and close in my wish
Caught, and my wings clipped; I am cold and blind
Bring me my lantern, I will try and find her
Holes in my soul only she can fill, and
traces of steps leading light into night
Strange how the light seems to change the shape of her face each time
Strange how my head seems to function apart from my heart
This waiting and waiting just clusters the nights into one black star;
stealing her light, still I cling to this life
Caught, and my wings clipped; I am cold and blind
Bring me my lantern, I will try and find her
Holes in my soul only she can fill, and
traces of steps leading light into night
Every soul that waits up by the gates
of a gateless world
will get lost inside the dreamer's mind,
no miracles found in a gateless mind
Every soul
with no other life
and no fate found
is stuck here
Can you have your whole life filled
with the timeless gaze of stars ?
And a sailboat rocks,
tossed by the waves
but the sailor's gone
to another world;
the sailboat floats
towards harbour
but the sailor's gone
Can you wish your whole life filled ?
Can you wish your somewhere here ?
Way down, rising, this desire crawls
Way down, drowning, my convicted faults
Hands down, way down, let my world explode
Head down, way down, lets my world explode
Her legs, parting, is the sea that calls
Her mouth, soothing, is the veil that falls
Both fear and sin
let the devil in
Left to my own dismay,
all will has fled and His hand
feels so cold these days
and
Spellbound and torn by shame,
she is the one vow I cannot change
She sleeps in me,
she screams and wakes
my demons
She lures and waits,
won't let me sleep,
pulls me down
Here comes our call,
here comes our silent judgement day
He weighs our souls,
He sees me trying until I fall
Boy, ghost of mine
and born with a devil's mind;
Boy, take your time
and be gone with the tide
Boy, when you find
all the world's strange and secret lies;
Boy, have no fear
and be true to me
Boy, reap all you can
but be born still whole again
Boy at my side,
be your own God tonight
All I have for you is words and more words
from a life that begins to lose body and faith;
All I have for you is words and more words
from a life that begins to lose faith
On Saturday she left me;
on a Monday she returned,
dragging all her luggage out of a moon-lit house
Tuesday's she told me all her plans lay down:
I should find another way of losing love
She chose a Friday for bringing back her keys
and on a Wednesday I heard of her new-found love
It took me a Sunday to gather all my things;
I buried them in heaven, under a Thursday's rain
Were you but lying cold and dead,
And lights were paling out of the West,
You would come hither, and bend your head,
And I would lay my head on your breast;
And you would murmur tender words,
Forgiving me, because you were dead:
Nor would you rise and hasten away,
Though you have the will of the wild birds,
But know your hair was bound and wound
About the stars and moon and sun:
O would, beloved, that you lay
Under the dock-leaves in the ground,
While lights were paling one by one.
I'm flying high, it's in my blood, always has:
a high flying bird
Stranded and crashed, away from my haven,
this save harbour
and gone;
I hurt myself, damaged goods
reaching the shore of yet another coast
Framed between there and here
And I'm kissed by sunlight as I slowly drift
on waves and dreams I've dreamed before
Loose, but am I really free ?
Am I really here ?
All hawsers loose, I stumble and fall;
the salty sea, weeping with me
It feels and moves and sounds like music
when it rolls and rolls and
run back into the sea;
the ice-cold water brings the silent longing
I take back with me
Framed between there and here
And with me all these stories from overseas;
I carry all of them to you
and love, so lovingly I love, my love
and weep and weep and weep
Loose, but am I really free ?
Is this really me ?
Am I really here ?
Am I really here ?
She invites you tonight,
up where her tears flow
in your heart
She invites you
to all the things you need
She invites you tonight,
up where her tears flow
in your heart
and she promises
all the things you need,
everything you need
Show me the line of your life,
see where the road leads
tonight
Show me the way to go,
see where the roads turn
tonight
Marianne,
harbouring souls with your mind
She invites you tonight,
up where her tears flow
in your heart
and she whispers
of all the things you need
Marianne,
harbouring souls with your mind
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