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


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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


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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.

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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