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Dusk
03:01
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It's always dusk here on the shore, a sort of infinite twilight. The stars are beautiful; just visible above the sea.
We know it's out there, out beyond this curtain of half-night. You are there too, we can feel it. Why can we not see you?
I imagine you, always asking the same question.
It's always dusk, here on the shore.
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2. |
Frankfurt Kitchen
09:13
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We’re outside now.
Outside there was always the wind,
But we didn’t know then
sometimes you have to leave —
leave to remain.
We fled across an ocean
then over a sea —
what was I looking for,
chasing security.
Don’t want to return,
but will someone someday
find me somewhere in between
imaginary homelands?
I saw a reflection —
yes, yes that was she —
Speaking like an actor
playing a scene
in half-remembered countries
and cities,
outside.
Outside,
there was always the wind,
but no rain got in
our little Frankfurt kitchen.
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3. |
The Multitudes
02:48
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Turn these pages with care
for they contain multitudes
look there
are these my own
two hands burning
folded down in the leaves
we see
the duchess of waves
moving to plunge again
into teeming stars
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4. |
Daughters of Harmonia
05:07
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Bone serpent mother
where has father’s sister gone?
Years to raise and moments to ruin
poor Aunty Europa
Some people say she rode a bull out west
(but we know east is best)
Our father’s father cried to the wind
“hie you home”
and to his boy screamed
“get you gone” now
find my daughter son
Mother Harmonia
don’t you know they’ll say
“In the beginning was the word”
ah but we know better
Daddy made an alphabet
before all that — he brought it here
yeah daddy soon gave up his quest
he brought us here
Now they’re getting old in the old world
not keeping the peace in the new world
Oh Mother Harmonia
Bone serpent mother
Hollowed out by prophecy
we keep the feast in this new city
with too much wine and violence
we’ve torn our sons to pieces
oh mother dear
can you kiss them better
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5. |
Procession
04:18
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6. |
Metaphysical
01:50
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A warm, quiet fullness
of absence —
lamplight
in a small empty room.
The soft, quickened stillness
in evening hours —
they were occupied
only a moment before
There are a billion billion rooms contained
in your body and mine.
Each one touched and touching —
Weightless. gravitational.
Unpredictable attractions —
transformations unexplained
complex interactions
The eternal union of We,
the fallen-into-one-anothers
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Just one drop spilled from the river of a million million melodies. Every melody that has ever been, or ever will be; we've collected them all. Here, they flow forever...
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8. |
Film Star Oracle
03:51
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Can you tell me one more time
I want to believe
I choose Ava Gardner
I choose one two three
Digging down in the cellar deep
She said
“You fled across an ocean
then over a sea”
A Crystal cave, a reptile garden
Oh petrified forest, rising before me
My desperate attractions
both human and god-made
so natural and manufactured
a-v-a g-a-r-d-n-e-r
1-2-3
I know that tomorrow
I’ll forget to remind myself
that yesterday this worked so well
yesterday we worked so well
We imagine love
we don’t see that it’s there
cool and smooth to the touch,
in the sweep of her hair
A memory of a scent
of a sound of a feeling
I’m digging down in the cellar deep
I still want to believe my tiny little film star
my film star oracle
got to check my paper film star
little film star oracle
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9. |
Sant Pèire Gothic
14:21
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