LYRICS: I will tie one end to my place of living I will tie this rope to my body Then I’ll tie it to this stone I will fasten this hemp tightly around my sustenance And I will secure this properly around the people who make me feel at home I will press my fingers to your lips I will place my hand over my mouth and tighten my grip It’s my fault; it’s my fault; it’s my fault, I opened up to you It’s my fault I told you the truth I will tie one end to my place of living I will tie this rope to my body Then I’ll tie it to this stone I will fasten this hemp tightly around my sustenance And I will secure this properly around the people who make me feel at home I will press my fingers to your lips I will place my hand over my mouth and tighten my grip It’s my fault; it’s my fault; it’s my fault, I opened up to you It’s my fault, I told you the truth Those privileged – they like to pillage My body – it’s just a cavern of gold Left to harbor these treasures For those – who don’t know what is precious They don’t know So privileged – they like to pillage So privileged – they like to pillage Only whispers left without promise Only utterance, unkempt Anticipate the fog that follows I can only regret Now that this has been addressed You cannot ensure this pledge would be kept So I can’t, No I can’t - I can’t let you in I can’t, No I can’t - I can’t let you in My body – it’s just a cavern of gold Left to harbor these treasures untold Those who don’t know what is precious So privileged You had my forgiveness under your control And you threw it deep in the distance So privileged – they like to pillage So privileged – they like to pillage So privileged – they like to pillage Those privileged – they like to pillage

LYRICS: Fool moon! What cryptic secrets does it bare In the paleness of its face? Annoying look of a dead body A look so empty, stark and flat Oh, please don’t look at me like that My glowing look is all I have Full moon… It laughs hysterically at ignorance And confidence, which we attach To ourselves and which eventually Will be erased without a trace The moonlight cuts in half my face Its silver light – a ghastly knife

LYRICS: On the steed of patience I seek my Beloved With longing, traversing this homeland of dust If I strive a hundred years and fail I will not falter I will soar in the air even as I walk Upon this sand And I will move over this water even as I run Upon the land In thy soul, build thou a fire And burn all thoughts and words entire In thy soul, build thou a fire And burn all thoughts and words entire How can a fleeting shadow Reach the everlasting sun Love is a veil Between the lover and the Beloved I have taken my heart away from this world And the world to come In all their desires I see this search for the Desired One Majnun sought purest Layli in the dust While learned men shook their heads in disgust He replied, “I seek her everywhere, I seek her everywhere And I shall find her…” In thy soul, build thou a fire And burn all thoughts and words entire In thy soul, build thou a fire And burn all thoughts and words entire Split the atoms heart And within, thou wilt find the sun Love is a veil Between the lover and the Beloved

LYRICS: Walked around All the broken glass Seven years to wait Would have wasted anyway Pulled a lash Sent it with a kiss Off into the wind The lash returned alone Crossing paths Frozen in a state To avoid the truth Moving forward is harder than it seems The rain got in And yet i let it flood For shelter here Would sink us both Luck cant last forever When its lost to love and other luck Love can last forever Who needs luck when love is lost itself The numbers matched They lined up in a row for A moments time And then moved on I spent the time Counting all wishes That I wished I had And missed it all I kept the time Over in a jar tightly sealed Yet time escaped and ran off with my youth Checked the lights Exactly every time Til the science of Superstition reinvented Checked the lights Exactly every time Til the science of Repetition reinvented Luck cant last forever When its lost to love and other luck Love can last forever Who needs luck when love is lost itself

LYRICS: Great is the day when you wake up in the morning without an alarm clock. You don’t have to get up and you can lie there for about 15 minutes listening to noises of your surroundings. And among them you discern that very peculiar one of water dripping from the kitchen faucet. Your ditch is hollow. So much space but nothing to fill it with! You yourself now lie on the floor with water dripping on your forehead. Great is the day when you still have your forehead and nothing is dripping from it. You stand up and walk to the bathroom; your bare feet step on the freezing tile. If it wasn’t so unbearably hot, it would be winter. If you weren’t covered in sweat now, you would be shivering. Great is the day when you’re not shivering. You met a friend for lunch. Both of you ate; he shook your hand and left. You stayed behind and sat among the leftovers. Great is the day when there are leftovers and great is the day when there are spaces to fill. But you feel distressed because what you see is shallow beauty – fictitious, intentional and forced. Great is the day when there are still remains of beauty. And so you want to go on living even though your lunch didn’t satisfy your hunger. Then you come home and even though your ditch is hollow at least it’s familiar. At least the space in it belongs to you and even though right now you have no clue of what to do or how to act you have a funny premonition that perhaps someday in the future you will be able to figure it out. Great is the day when there will still be future.

LYRICS: Gravely night casts a shroud Calming those who are worn out Days drown in oblivion But we must live; we carry on Below the ceiling; above the floor Smooth walls and a door A rotten feeling on your soul What binds it all… A yellow slit in the gloom The only source of light What hides beyond the bounds of this room Behind the door, on its other side There life takes its normal course But here time as though froze The air tears, the darkness spears And silence rings in your ears You’d like to peacefully fall asleep But thoughts rush through your head Close your eye and concentrate But don’t forget… That you should know (over pause) That when you sleep Stars fall From the sky And did you know that when you bleed Blood’s washed away but pain remains inside And every time across the plains night slides on the sly It covers fast the earth with dreams Before again it has to die Maybe a little monophobia Maybe a little claustrophobia Most likely a bit of both And night flits like a moth The emptiness fills in the space It presses on your tender face And the only source of light Cuts through your sight

LYRICS: It’s not the setting of the sun that sparks in me that all-embracing sadness. Only a strange, sustained moment, a tearing tension, a near pain with which the sun would slowly sink. Its strength escapes; its energy subsides. Disarmed by time it can easily be punctured by sight. After it’s gone, only the glow hangs resonantly still against the evening sky.