débâcle (2016)
Ordinary day
I’m leaving the city ‘cause I don’t care
Divinations, incantations, are inadequate
From inside my car my suit is glowing with a spark
My glory is a story clutched by a breeze
Sets of pictures about libido and the silver screen
Now that I’m old I’m even told where I belong
Don’t want another ordinary, don’t want another ordinary day
Tenuous and imaginary, the world is a vapor anyway
Miss Swanson made agreements to drag evil away
Hand-shaking with soldiers for cigarettes
But the magic is sprawling off the walls like an avalanche
Time lapses, the motion, ghosts in town
They’re droning, electronic, they swarm around
The paper birds on the barricades are shaking their heads
Don’t want another ordinary, don’t want another ordinary day
Tenuous and imaginary, the world is a vapor anyway
Tonight it’s extraordinary, what a charade to display
Old revolutionaries on the job in the edit bay
trouble me
No one else I ever met
Is so special, unpredictable like you
Everyone else, facing the facts
Is a little, just a little bit different from you
And I hope that you’re wanting me tonight
Call me anytime, wake me up
Please, trouble me tonight
And I know that you’re wanting me tonight
Look for me around, ask the people
Trouble me tonight
In the neighborhood
Hobos talk about you
They say in your alley they heard
Some rhythm ‘n’ blues
The deeper the pain
The longer I stay
Right at your corner
Scouting the streets
For your trace
And I hope that you’re wanting me tonight
Call me anytime, wake me up
Please, trouble me tonight
And I know that you’re wanting me tonight
Look for me around, ask the people
Trouble me tonight
play with me
Here it comes, as a pure event
Cool thinking in the pangs of romance
Why today? And now,
Won’t you just play with me?
Halfway from another cliché,
In full swing we have
A fate to celebrate
Keeping on swaying further
You hurt me and bless me too
All my wishes realign
Then again, it’s you,
Who finds out my days that are gone blue
From their niches, where they hide
Shall we dance this Russian ballet?
Now keep the tempo
Of this weird minuet
Speeding up without measure
The interplay of command and betray
A fuzzy form of love
Finds a way
Keeping on moving to the beat
lovers
What is wrong with you?
Still wondering if this is true
You looked nonchalant as the ship went down,
And you know
Now that you’re safe you feel alone
We could go out
A drink and some fun tonight
We’ll read your lines and meditate
And I hope
You’ll find my jokes to be in good taste
And why don’t you wake up?
You can’t just stay in bed
And your sleepy eyes
You’re always wearing around – I know
You’re fond of notions which make no sound
Meet me at the bazaar
Let’s grab me a new guitar
No, we’re not going to buy another samovar
You know, tonight I feel
Just like a shooting star
And sometimes in the night
You wake me up to check if I’m alright
I guess it’s no wonder that
I start a fight, and deep down we hold
Another story to unfold
Hey my lover – look at the sky
With its charming stripes
lady madness
Lovely Lady Madness
Charming like a murderess
Passions play along with your disorder
Let me in your asylum
Our love won’t be denied
Wandering all around as a tiger
Your wavering widow eyes don’t
Seem to catch light outside
But in your padded cell you desire
Your stare as cold as ice
While holding my hand so tight
In this whole débâcle you’re a survivor
Live all your dreams, Lady Madness
From euphoria to sadness
Aching to be real, aching to see
Aching to be nearer to me
Lovely Lady Madness
Charming like a murderess
Passions play along with any disorder
Let me in your asylum
Our love won’t be denied
Wandering all around as a tiger
Live all your dreams, Lady Madness
From euphoria to sadness
Aching to be real, aching to see
Aching to be nearer to me
Crime and a love affair
Crime and a love-affair
breaking away because you’re so rare
but nothing to hold on tight
a weapon, and no alibi
You never were so resolute
you thought it all through en route
then under a full moon
you killed reality, didn't you?
Me, and my thing about time
my favorite gods, they all live and die
while lovers rarefy
all confined to words that rhyme
So past, now, give us life!
a phantom as a guide light
and memories of the other side
to comfort you all night
Slipping away
reappearing as language and joy
hatching in wide contour
And on the way
primitive patterns come forth
wild things smile too bright
It’s not the same
since you walked into the frame
disorder feels almost right
escapade
Draw away, for an escapade
scoot up the stairs. How will it end?
oh the grand fandango
on ashes that glow
Footle away, in a grand jeté
leave without a trace, so it doesn’t really end
oh the transitory courts of love
all the way with the days and the nights
we’ll launch satellites
drag me out and tie me to a kite
abandon me up high
oh the festive arrows and fireworks above
tango away before they call your name
elude the entrée.. pursue this affair
and your high spirits on plastered toes
fool away this vacuous banquet
lose the attaché we’ll ride the snow on a sleigh
oh the loosened ends of ribbons in the fall
all the way with the days and the nights
we’ll launch satellites
drag me out and tie me to a kite
abandon me up high
let the rumba escalate, don’t hesitate
chandeliers sway, maids go astray
oh the festive arrows and fireworks above
in the light
Once again, it tries to bite
Do you remember? Well it’s been a while
No shame no pressure no sound
At some length, its madness is kind
It stands in the light. It opens its mouth. It’s on me.
It feels loose, vague, and somehow bright
Its moral stature is the greatest tonight
Can’t tell if it’s hollow or profound
I’m not used to its dark delight
It enjoys all the credits; and breeds fantasies about me.
It stands in the light. It opens its mouth. It’s on me.
Once again, it tries to bite
Do you remember? Well it’s been a while
No shame no pressure no sound
At some length, its madness is kind
It enjoys all the credits; and breeds fantasies about me.
It stands in the light. It opens its mouth. It’s on me.
dreamcatcher
I caught the lover’s dream,
Caught it in my web of beads
I sew withstanding seams,
And make time stop when I sew my seeds
I let the nightmares drip
Down from my fingertips
Soothe all the cares with crystals
From my feathered ships
I am the dreamcatcher
I make it snow
My magic is quite simple
I fascinate your sorrow
I let the nightmares drip
Down from my fingertips
Soothe all the cares with kisses
From my beaded lips
My tears are snowflakes
And my fingers are beads
I sew great snow banks
When I sew my seeds
I’ll steal time for you
I can make it stop
But I am fragile
Please don’t let me drop
I let the nightmares drip
Down from my fingertips
Soothe all the cares with crystals
From my feathered ships
I am the dreamcatcher
I make it snow
My magic is quite simple
I fascinate your sorrow