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5°
01:50
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- INTRO -
We are all drowning
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NoNoah
04:51
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- NoNoah -
The red lines on your arms tell me
how long you have been
under the sea
how your gasps for air
have remained unheard
while the water crashes in
from cracks in walls and from within
Can't see the sun from under the sea
can't feel it's heat – we are too deep
under the water, under the waves, under the ocean that drowns us all
no ark, no savior,
no ark no savior,
no ark no savior and no god to whom we could repent.
Your anger shows us,
just how strong the pressure is.
And that you're tired
because you've tried
to push the salty water out of your lungs
the rain has pushed you down
Our skin got so wrinkled and salt took all color,
my fingers ache from swimming and my eyes turned blind in the abyss.
We’re all, We’re all drowning.
You ask me why my head seems so dry
for it was floating on the surface
I am just like you, I cry,
open another bottle and drink away the flood.
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3. |
Retrofit
04:41
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- Retrofit -
Breathe in, feel the air
Breathe out, feel it leave.
Go on, cut your hair
Stick to your beliefs.
Breathe in – something dies
Breathe out – it’s replaced
Grow out your old skin
Breathe in
Like a shark you have to stay in motion
Not to drown in your stale ocean.
You turned your gaze to skies
YOu built a shelter against the storm
Advance and grow
Enforce and show
What you have become
What you have become
Not everything that you find has a place in your archive
Not everything that you find has a place in your archive
Cutting off and letting go
Sorting out and throwing out
Cutting off and letting go
Sorting out and throwing out
You crawled out of the water
You crawled onto the land
Passed are the days as a savage
Walk upright, tools in hand
Through pressure your crust has burst open again,
bringing in heat the death as expected
Although we feared the anguish and pain
We know the lava nourishes dead
From one cell to two cells to organism
The void that was left right when everything died
Is filled by the on coming generations
Their heads break through ashes and peak at the light
Growing through the ashen crust
A seed’s will to strive can’t be stopped
So if you feel like you can’t go on
Think of these plants
Spread your leaves up
Soft plants are breaking through thick and hard stone
This should be easy with flesh and with bone
Soft plants are breaking through thick and hard stone
This should be easy with flesh and with bone
You crawled from under the lava
You crawled into the sun
Passed are the days as a seedling
Walk upright, tools in hand.
Or not.
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4. |
I Am
06:38
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- I am -
I am. I am. I am.
I am here and I am now.
What I saw is what I know.
What I say and what I do
In a moment becomes truth.
I am the reader, I am the writer
I am the maker and creator
I am the seer and believer
Not a builder, but decorator.
Between my temples, under my dome
My kingdom lives – with my eyes closed
I am alive.
In the beginning
There was a word
The word was with me
And it was good.
I am the reader, I am the writer
I am the maker and creator
I am the seer and believer
Not a builder, but decorator.
Between my temples, under my dome
My kingdom lives – with my eyes closed
I am alive.
I am. I am. I am.
I am you and I am me.
We are one and meant to be.
Our kingdom is within us
We can see it with our eyes closed.
I am the reader, I am the writer
I am the maker and creator
I am the seer and believer
Not a builder, but decorator.
Between my temples, under my dome
My kingdom lives – with my eyes closed
I am alive.
Corgito ergo sum.
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5. |
Ill
05:34
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- Ill -
Warmer than blood, colder than ice
Alone there he stood, contemplating, thinking twice.
A grand day out, a grand day in
Nowhere to go, nowhere he has been.
Like a rescued kitten
Don’t know where he’s been
Just scars resembling
A story of pain
Dust is on the counter
Dust is in his heart
His humming getting louder
Too late to stay or start
This house is way too big to heat, the windows dark and tall
Like a face that forgot to eat and eyes closed to it all.
Too hungry to eat,
Too tired to sleep,
Too far to reach,
Too cold to heat,
Too much to do,
To start at all.
Too hungry to eat,
Too tired to sleep.
How far can you sail with a broken compass?
How far can you travel without a map at hand?
You can not jump with broken legs. You can not smile with your affliction.
The hill has become a mountain. Gets bigger every day that it is not conquered.
Observing the functions of others, revealing: their flawless machinery.
His introspection revealing disparity.
Caught in a loop of self rewarding masturbating gluttony.
Paralizing Panic and anxiety
Warmer than blood, colder than ice
Alone there he stood, contemplating, thinking twice.
A grand day out, a grand day in
Nowhere to go, nowhere he has been.
How do you know your face if the mirror’s shattered?
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