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seven years ago
02:46
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seven years ago
my husband went sailing that way
I was told they were lost
to the song of the sirens
Oh not my husband
he promised me
he would came back from the sea
it was the evil sailors with him
that forced him their way
oh you mean old sirens
I do not believe in you
but if you have him
send him back to me
if you have bonded him
set him free
oh my sweet love
he wouldn't care
for the girls 'round here
he promised he would die after me
so I wouldn't be alone
send him back to the shore
with memories
of the amazing thing
you showed to him
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when you are trying to be silent
every movement counts
be it your wife sleeping or your parents
you might have just gone out to grab a smoke
or to go drinking, or to meet friends
but when you are trying to be silent
every movement counts
you try to move like a ninja
but you are just a common man
and suddenly everything seems noisier
than you'd say they'd be
so take jacks off from your mp3
you need to pay attention
'cause when you are trying to be silent
every movement counts
be it love that makes you silent
or be it only fear
you may be robbing a house
or placing Christmas gifts
but you should move like a cat
and the best way to do that
is to wear sock
gravity is your enemy
don't let anything fall
don't turn on the computer
it will make a sound
and when you are trying to be silent
every movement counts
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I trembled when I met her
and I knew the truth
and I knew what's right
playing, waging my life
my life
I've been with her talking
I've been with her silent
smiling, singing
about the day, about the love,
about the life
the life
oh I remember
I still remember
and I know it was a lie
and I know it was wrong
but I did what I could
and she did go away
taking my peace, hers
taking beauty, hers
taking happiness, hers
taking my life
my life
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a French man's love song
03:32
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down in my luck
feeling so tired
lighting the fire
of a love that past has never been
again I saw you
in the screen of gone
memory's awful
of the things I know I could have done
I'll always remember
the feeling of you
redhead lady
you're the prettiest girl I`ve ever seen
But time has passed on
and I just stayed here
far from your arms and your pretty eyes
I learned the lesson
of how life is
but I just can't grasp the knowledge of this
that I could be with you
in what came to be
the house of a dream right across the sea
where people can see you
just about every day
the thought of this place I can't shake away
I left what's yours,
and you left what's mine
but I couldn't keep you and now I could die
and when I'm old
bitter and cold
knowing I lost the touch of your heart
I'll always say
that I loved a girl
and 'cause she's a saint we fell apart
and you will forget
of what you once felt
I always loved you more and I'm to blame
my heart's not as yours
and I can't believe
that people in Bolivia need you more than me
I can't find light
though I may roam
in the dark streets of this sad 'Paris'
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when I was a child
02:41
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when I was a child
I touched the fire
I would play
with things that burn
I played with alcohol
cotton and matches
on glass plates
and stone floors
and my mother would tell me to beware of the sun
but I didn't care
and it didn't burn
and now they tell me that the sun will burn out
like other suns in other worlds
but I will not be there to see it happen
I'm just a slave with hopes to be free
my feet burning
because I walk on fire
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feeling the weak wind of this cold night
so many nights, just a few dreams
trough the empty view of a glass door
I see a shadow, a passerby
destiny is framed by a big building
and this long-built broken sidewalk
comes the bitter taste of dark chocolate
over the lights of this old street
and I think of things that are now gone
that I read once in an old book
comes another shadow, another story
I feel the weight of how slow is time
some deep music plays and cars pass by
I can see people inside a bus
my loneliness can't keep from the memory
of a gone woman and her gone love
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he had his plans
01:35
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he had his plans
for his future
and he defeated
his enemies
peacefully
he had his friends
and he loved
and they dreamed
of their future home
filled with grandchildren
but without ever doing
any of these things
or living the life intended
for every human being
he simply died
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I have crushed more souls than insanity
I have seen more men than have seen me
shields of brass and a wall of gold
covered in stones and ghosts
the shadow of facts have become facts
I can never be covered by darkness
my winter's snow doesn't melt in the summer
my enemy is a scholarly schemer
I'm just a man
I'm just a fool
I know of torture
father of liars
soul full of ashes
going to the mass of a forgotten god
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if in the music of the spheres
it still is rotten and cloudy
if in the cold the cold is cold
and keeps on cold
where once there was light and heat
if everything near me
is beautiful and meaningless
it still is, intensely admired
but if I look and I see nothing
everything is full of meaning
I look and I see nothing
the mind remembers things that it should not
remaking with the past a strange
present agony
it is all hopeless
a present that extends into death
my plans died before me, lost forever
I'm incapable of love
I curse love and I get nothing in return
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lost in yet another repeated night
I sit down to write so I feel something different
I spend my day without thinking right
and then at night I just wait for sleep
thus distracted, arguably awaken
I spend my days
and do amazing things
acts of goodwill
have conflicts of conscience
badly pray with no faith
pleasure, pain
am sarcastic
am a fool
and I fear none of this may matter
if my life is empty and I'm an old fool
I will blame others for my problems
and I will not remember how I feel today
but if I'm lucky it won't be this way
and I will know
that everything was meaningless
but taking care of her
and now, present me and old me shake hands
one knowing what to do
the other one doing it
and in moments like this
though existence is a burden
and with boredom we pay
for the miracle of a conscience
among being and nothingness
in moments like this
a truly feel at peace
and I truly, truly feel happy
cause then I know
only then I know
she is the sun that warms my world
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with the sand from this desert
I will make my build blocks
from the water that I squeeze from this sand
a new sea
my work is fruitless
I build a house I will not live in
but such is the nature of me
I use something real ti build something unreal
I use time infinite to make something finite
and I love this hard life
only having legs so they walk me to death
only having a soul so I may die
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I call her when the sun rises
she wakes up before that
she will like to hear my voice
and she will
feel loved
I can dream about infinity
and don't remember anything
in a dream I prove my love to her
all she remembers
into the night
and so a good day starts
if life started today I would bet
it would work out fine
that man would know no pain
and I would pray and ask
for life to end like this
me calling her in the morning
remembering her of me
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and then I saw the girl I love
within the fantastic lights that the sun used to make
I can't tell a man's life's worth
without this love I feel in the coldest of days
oh I know love
because I feel it now
and where I go love comes with me
and I'll love her till we're old and ready to die
so I wait to be with her, to see her face so pure
like rain's water fresh
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so I would never come home
never be free, never die
on my bed staring at the sun
I made something beautiful
that now is dead
come see me by the door
exposed to the world
talking of the lost shadows
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I have no use for reading the truth
I do not comprehend it
it was no use memorizing the truth
it was not in the phrase
it escaped my conscience
it was no use writing down the truth
the words were not mine
and the truth, for me it was nothing
and thus I was lost
but not anymore
I must find out what the truth says about me
before I know what I can say about the truth
trapped in uncertainty
not being able to find
the logic beneath the mistakes and lies
the first signs of knowledge not yet formed
show no sign of a larger conscience I could attain
having only hypotheses
maybe wrong maybe insane
there really is no logic I can devise
in the battleground of human experience
and the unforgiving human condition
certainty is a trap
and all I have is this blind machine
these trembling hands and these tired eyes
to search for an indication that
somewhere lost in this chaos of perception,
lies and lost time
exists the sublime
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