cimorene

Elephants

They talked about you on the shortwave radio
That much I remember
and you paid me for my silence
and I forgot what I saw

You were a father-figure in a taxi
with an iron grip on my hair
you smiled at me and sighed
Driver it's your turn soon
I saw my body from above

My whole life I've waited
for someone who looked like you
how could you leave me alone
in a world that became so hard?
My whole life I've longed to be
far, farther away from here
Now you're first on my list
of people who deserve a fate
worse than death...

My whole life I've waited
for someone who looked like you
How could you leave me alone
in a world that became so hard?
My whole life I've longed
to be far, farther away from here
Now you're struck from the list
I have learned from you, all
fates are worse than death

Columbus

You've thought everything that's been said
about me
You can believe all you've heard
about me
You can ask questions about the truth
Is there one, or are there a thousand?
Answer straight from the heart, now
I can do without your sympathy
If this now is going to be all we had time for,
then hold me tight
hold me, darling, now

Stockholm wakes slowly
of drugs and of sorrow
The snow sells its innocence
to all the market square
It feels just like when I came here
way back in 93

A wrinkly row of footprints
An unknown continent

Darling, darling, let go now
I can stand, walk, or crawl
away from here
If this now is all we have time for
then hold me tight my
darling now

Wake up, city, slowly
and I am drunk again
The snow sells its innocence
so you just sense the shit
and it feels just like when I came here
way back in 93
A crinkly row of footprints
An endless continent

Stockholm wakes slowly
and I am drunk again
The snow sells its innocence
to the entire neighbourhood
and it feels just like when we came here
to the land of possibility
you can follow my tracks home
Columbus was my name

Sleep

Never look back
Never look back...

Behind me the smell of extinguished fires
So horribly long I was prepared to go
under your influence
I protect my overgrown
stupid heart
I never look back

Sleep comes like a friend
Round-trip ticket to silence
Sleep comes like a friend
It judges no one
forgets no one
just opens its arms

Never look back...
Never look back...

Some time in the future I'll
forget
How horribly far I was prepared to go
under your influence
I repeat a laughable
old mantra
I'll never look back
I'll never look back

Sleep comes like a friend
a soft warm hand in the silence
Sleep comes like a friend
It judges no one
forgets no one
Just opens its arms

Never look back...
Never look back...

View from a castle in the air

A step forward becomes a backslide
Something must have escaped my notice
The objects under the radar
are the ones which create myths that
break holes
in an unjust world
I wish you were here

but no one is there
when I turn around...

I know you're serious about this
Something must have escaped my notice
Deathly, poisonously serious
The city's brick arms reach for the clouds
Where charterplanes meet
they whisper, holes
in heaven will be the death of us
(there are almost none left any more)
but no one is there
when we turn around
I so ably avoid subjects
that lead somewhere

You're tight against my back
you're finally sleeping again
My eyes sting
when the music stops again
Have you thought about the fact that we
almost never lift our gaze
from the ground
to black space
above the clouds?

But we are no one there
when we turn around
I dance around parries,
accustomed to your pleading gaze

Your spine on my spine
finally you sleep again
I feel such a relief
when the music starts again
Have you thought about the fact that we
almost never lift our gaze from the ground

To the dark space above
the clouds
where missiles meet
They whisper holes
in heaven will be the death of us
above the clouds
where the devil lives
they whisper holes
in heaven are from his claws

LSD, anyone?

No one comes here to
go back again
You think of yourself first and
no one else
A simple rule
The circle is completed
by the ring at the train station
In the big and nasty city, oh
nowhere else
can one be so alone as
right here

The ice on the ferry
cracks just like a gunshot
Blue lights by the brick hills,
spring is here
You stand in the mirror room with
a rounders bat
Outside night is waiting
for the city to implode

I'm here for you

Everyone comes home
like ghosts return
One learns to live with oneself first,
and nothing else
That's what should be done
No one on the streets
just dead badgers
In a sleepy little town, oh
nowhere else
can one be so alone as
right here

One last bus in the rain,
and then one has to walk
Like a pestilence among the teenaged gang
the acne strikes
People begin to fight in the crush
and the holiday explodes

I'm here for you

Generation Ex

You stand at my unlocked door
in the straight razorblades of car headlights from the street
your face bleached, almost cruel
Drops from your fingers echo in the stairwell

Everything goes again, comes back
One day all debts will be paid

and you know I am right
I'm right, you are wrong...
I don't have time for all your shit
Yes, yes I know what we lost
and I know that you know
I'm right
I'm right you are wrong...
How can it matter
The future is still out of reach
for us

Say something say something now
you know I panic from your tears
Do something, do something now
Destroy something,
hit me, destroy something, I'll survive

I was supposed to always be
the one who stood behind you
I was supposed to always answer
when you called on me
I was supposed to always be the one
who watched your back
You were supposed to always, always be

The one who goes, comes back
one day all debts will be paid

and you know I am right
I'm right you are wrong...
Of course we long for the past
to all that we lied that we did
and I know that you know I am right
I'm right and you're wrong...
How can it matter
the future is still out of reach
for us