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Beat of the Whale Heart

 

Deliver the codes take this road but take the other one also

Just go you’ll never know anyhow which one will be better

 

Auto-explode on a sailing boat in your sailing coat

Contemporary state of the art sailing coats with nothing underneath

Are never ever made of leather

 

I just don’t know why life hides away I got to go

I just won’t throw my bright lights on the streets in the heat

Of the beat of the whale heart

 

Don’t be picky make your lips look sticky

Get a lover called Ricky make that quickie it won’t be tricky

Be witty be pretty

 

Flow go slow so you won’t get thrown over board of this littly shippy

Do it but don’t do it out of pity

 

I just don’t know why life hides away it’s got to go

I just won’t throw my bright lights on the streets in the heat

Of the beat of the whale heart

 

Everybody’s falling sometime in the nighttime

Men and women falling for you into the deepest blue of the whale heart

 

A while ago in a microwave oven in Mehico or is it Mexico

A girl told me so she said just let go I didn’t know how

She said right into the beating of the whale heart that’s where lovers go

 

So undercover daddies bad-ass Betties get yourself ready

If you don’t know where the bed is your head is right where you led it

Your legs you spread it

Fingertips tiptoe they go below slow oh no

Feet thighs arms ass back shoulders elbows

 

I just don’t know why life hides away that’s got to go

I just won’t throw my bright lights on the radio

Right into the beating of the whale heart that’s where lovers go

If we two get by that well we could swim into the ocean just a little bit further

So You Run

 

They tie your shoestrings tidy your little butt and the wilderness in your face

They say cheer up a bit cause only if you cheer up a bit

Sun has a slight chance to show

 

Feed you provisions the size of ping-pong balls

But your mouth is busy rearranging the common image of sheer loudness

You dear loudness must go

So you run

 

The toilet bowl a castle that is guarded by a master thief

Who when talked to is so fast asleep if you only tell a good joke

 

The tree outside your window a cathedral

The night a graveyard as you awoke

Most birds are evil but one probably isn’t

It says hey you gotta go

So you run

 

You arrive at the egde of a river you can’t swim so you’re trying it with fly

But you die but another life has been given to you this time

 

A whole fleet of pirate ships a captain with your face but only with one eye

The other one he threw at the queens and the virgins

The princesses the carpenters‘ wives

 

The way they looked at the world simply became your way including all their fears

Including their twisted love for one another

Love is the mother love is the father love is the bother

So you run

 

So as you showed up with a new lover you looked trapped with a wild animal’s eye

And this eye scanned the room for emergency exits

While the other one undeniably smiled

 

And when the two eyes looked at each other they watched as each one started to cry

One said I forgive you the other too said I forgive you

Forgiveness is all that matters in the second you die

 

It’s a peculiar thing to say your lover said but you’re not dead

As a matter of fact you’re currently alive

So let’s run a bit together if you want to

But let’s have an eye on it that we get back in time

Every Living Thing

 

You came out of the water you came out of the water again

You came out of the water you came out of the water but then

 

When the time’s right when the time’s right you begin

When the time’s right when the time’s right

 

She was the world when you saw her she was a light from within

She was the world when you saw her she was every living thing

 

Cause the time might time might begin

Cause the time might step into your skin

 

Might you fight yourself till you’re brighter

Than the sun that in the first place showed up to light you

And sometimes even guide you like any living thing

 

Okay you came from nothing you return to nothing

You’re as clever as that but is it enough then

Love isn’t nothing love isn’t nothing

 

She was nobody’s daughter just beauty and sin

She was nobody’s daughter oh boy she’ll never let you in

 

This is your night with its sadness within

This is your night and your day ready to begin

 

Cause when the time’s right when the time’s right you begin

When the time’s right when the time’s right you begin

 

Worlds might crash and galaxies collide sometimes

And for a little while you get sight of your life united

With all the love that’s been provided by every living thing

Housing Parties

 

Your cigarettes you lost them in the sofa you look under it

You find a picture of yourself as a fully-fledged lover

You’re trying to cover it

Sometimes you just don’t know what you’re afraid of

Especially at housing parties

 

You’re introduced to a friend of a friend

About whom you before heard the intimidating story that she had seduced

An alleged half-millionaire from France

And over a spilled glass of tomato juice

You hear the jokes you get the news that the final Bloody Mary

Has gone missing at sea

Oh tragedy

 

A full millionaire now that we need one

Paying for the better part of the rescue mission is not seen anywhere

Or is it the guy rolling joints in the rocking chair over there

Oh that is not a joint

It’s the artillery

 

Who could be so quick-witted so flirty so committed

To the art of not-comparing so kind so warm so daring

So endlessly relentlessly attracting our sympathy

In my case even an apathy disguised as modesty

In the face of all this majesty

 

Some free divine hand

Must have directed our feet ´round the living room table as we all danced

Our moves half robot-style half worshipping a death metal band

We all held hands why not be friends

Even two of us kissed

One was you and the other was me

 

Who could be so quick-witted so flirty so committed

To the art of not-comparing so kind so warm so daring

So endlessly relentlessly attracting our sympathy

In my case even an apathy disguised as modesty

In the face of all this majesty

Row Row Row

 

You get deceived so easily they sell you the blisters on your fingers

They are dancing around with a masterful exuberance

They have their merciful moments more in summer than in winter

First they provoke it and then steer you through the turbulence

 

And so you row

There you go

You’re only playing your part

 

We got a pain in out hearts we believe will be managed by our leaders

We got a history of captains that never really gave a shit about us

They say fast and with a slight feeling of shame we find ourselves

Really speed up but if we say hey maybe this way

They just need a blink of an eye to silence and doubt us

 

So we row

The ship has to go

So we’re playing our parts

 

Row

With a smile they show us our parts

Piers Morgan

 

I am not ready to go

Got my ideas why this is so

Started a book about it all

I hope it’s terrific and out by early fall

 

And if my love scenes gonna fail

I’ll let the guy walk into jail

He’d be on a Netflix show some time on the screen in the left corner

There’s a picture of him as a toddler with a monstrous smile

 

Life sometimes wins over the lies that lie within

And sometimes it falls

But Piers Morgan always wins

The self-righteousness under his skin just makes me crawl

 

I am not claiming to be sane

I found out mostly it’s a matter of shame

I once had a lover a dancer

She pushed all the buttons till finally I caught a glimpse of myself as a man

Love was the game

 

Life sometimes wins over the lies that lie within

And sometimes it falls

But Piers Morgan has a fabulous grin

The self-righteousness under his skin just makes me crawl

Holes in the Ground

 

I’m so attracted I am attracted to

A life not reflected a love that is plain and true

But there’s holes in the ground

 

The saber-toothed tigers buffaloes and the dinosaurs too

They wave their hellos and kiss their goodbyes to you

Left for holes in the ground

 

Sometimes I’m afraid I won’t get through to you

A whole lifetime stumbling through

And if I am too late for a sky deep and blue

From a sun that I never knew

 

The moles the sand puppies earth worms and isopods too

Are probably happy to get a share of the day through

These holes in the ground

 

Sometimes I’m delighted that I get through to you

And you get through to me too

If our love is ignited it’s always by a spark that is new

And by the holes in the ground too

Hearts Out

 

Your life is freer when you don’t have to shine

Your heart beats deeper when not linked to mine

Oh we could be dancing doesn’t have to be honeymoon romancing

One second at a time

 

Not every bystander does have to applaud

Not every citizen does have to be informed about the state of your well-being

About the sadness of your not seeing for yourself any part

 

So you tear your heart out

You tear your heart out

And you squeeze it like a plastic toy for the bathtub

 

You tear your heart out

You tear your heart out

And you dance for me partly naked

It’s even dirtier when you fake it for me

 

Out in the stone pines out in the stone pines

Out in the stone pines you hide from me

Out in the gold mines out in the gold mines

Out in the gold mines you hide from me

 

You step out of a shadow you made with your hands

You say how many ends of the world can you manage my friend

I say oh do you have another one at hand

And was it me that started the damage again

You say please let’s get out hearts out before we refrain

Can’t you see we’re stuck in this pain that they’re singing songs about

Always something with rain so hearts out

 

And I say yes that’s good actually it’s always the best

Why else should there be this storage room down in our chest

You say big talk just spit it out what’s inside

It’s important at least it’s important to me to know we are alive

And that it’s all not just a big big lie and that we are together

Cars Drive

 

A satellite

We could tell it was the nighttime

Is passing by

Like an aeroplane on a night flight

Or maybe it is a night flight

 

But anyways cars drive all day and night

Carousels fly as life goes on and time goes by

 

We took a ride

We took some time to watch the bright sky

We took a ride

A bus passenger signaled a high-five

So we did a high-five

 

Cars drive all day and night

Helicopters fly as life goes on and time goes by

 

Trains pedestrians of all these nations

Make left turns right turns abbreviations face red lights

Subway cars of newer generations

Cargo ships mobile power stations LED headlights

Of course spectacular drone flights

 

Cars drive all day and night

Carousels try a jet fighter‘s flight

Bystanders kiss why not do this

The road network booms

How I wish it gets me to you

Shipwrecked

 

You got shipwrecked in waters

Where your words were just a few more drops out in the sea

Another whisper inside the waves

 

Silence eroded your motors

And it took all your sails like the leaves from a tree

Including you noone tried so you could not be saved

 

Out in the waters you‘re drifting on drifting on to this day

First you lost your love but you were driving on driving on her way

 

At first your hands were getting number

Till they slowly became a part of the sea

Where life came from that’s what they say

 

And as slowly started your slumber

And you tiptoed into the outskirts of a dream

A little music played

 

Out from the waters it was dancing in in a beautiful array

And then you saw her she was smiling from her heart into your way

 

In the water she was diving on surly coming your way

In the water she was diving on she came to take you home today

 

All of your mistakes all your seclusions and all of your shame

She washed all that from your face

All of your heartaches all of your labyrinths and all of your hate

She took them in her embrace

 

Into the water she was diving on holding you along the way

In the water you were diving on love along your trail

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