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Brink
05:23
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BRINK
Warm up all the muscles in my body
There cannot be cold feet
Warm up all the muscles in my body
There cannot be cold feet
It’s a good morning
And the time is coming for me to do something
It’s a good morning and the time is coming even if Sunday is boring
I can feel the urge, my will is strong
There is something good about it
I convincingly stare at myself in the mirror
I choose the right clothes to wear
I decide to roll up my hair and my sleeves
Tie my shoe laces I shake off all anxieties
Warm up all the muscles in my body
There cannot be cold feet
It’s a good morning
And the time is coming for me to do something
It’s a good morning and the time is coming even if Sunday is boring
I can feel the urge, my will is strong
There is something good about it
I convincingly stare at myself in the mirror
I choose the right clothes to wear
I decide to roll up my hair and my sleeves
Tie my shoe laces I shake off all anxieties
Warm up all the muscles in my body
There cannot be cold feet
I am ready now...I know I’ll begin tomorrow (x8)
I am ready now...I’ll begin tomorrow (x2)
I am ready now...I know I’ll begin tomorrow (x4)
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Fireflies
03:04
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FIREFLIES
Fireflies
Sparkling in the corner of my eye
Fireflies
A thousand little twinkles in the night
Like many urban fireflies
The windows of the city light up
When the sun makes way for the moon
And behind the curtains the lamps turn on and off like a nighttime dance
And I’m walking and I’m going through these nameless lives
Fireflies
Sparkling in the corner of my eye
Fireflies
A thousand little twinkles in the night
Wait for me I’ll come to you
The sound of the rolling shutters saves all the memories within
Who lives in here? Who hides in there?
So many looks, laughs, tears, fears behind the doors
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Spiral
04:00
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SPIRAL
My limbs are asleep
My thoughts are fixed
There is no way
To wake me up
So shake me
If you think you can
And my frozen eyes will be open wide
These times trap me in a spiral (spiral)
And I’m sorry but I’m loosing myself
These times trap me in a spiral and I keep twisting
Upside down 'n' loosing my bearings
Up up up and down I don’t know where the ground is
This is a trap for me I don’t know where I’ll be
I’m in a bubble
It doesn’t blow up
So please be my needle
So please just let me out
I wiggle
Yet I’m stable
And the vertigo
Is unbearable
These times trap me in a spiral (spiral)
And I’m sorry but I’m loosing myself
These times trap me in a spiral and I keep twisting
Upside down 'n' loosing my bearings
Up up up and down I don’t know where the ground is
This is a trap for me I don’t know where I’ll be
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Lapse
04:31
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LAPSE
Sleep tight
I’m singing 'cause you’re tired
But your mind doesn’t want to rest
If the noises of the city get too loud, dear, please don’t mind
I can feel the tension, tension in your thoughts,
until you’ll let, let them go
When the sleep will knock
And suddenly the colors fade away (x2)
And suddenly the colors fade away and your breath beats the time of the world
Of the world....of the world
A break when everything is suspended
And everything is still changing, changing
“Sleep tight”, they say, but it’s just the last goodbye
Before you gently leave the lights
Sleep
sleep tight, sleep tight (sleep)
Dear goodnight
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Origami
03:53
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ORIGAMI
Suddenly I heard a crackle
My cup of tea started trembling
Ding ding tinkling glasses all around
Until I saw something like a gremlin
All the paper that I collected
All that paper defeated me
All the paper that I collected
All that paper defeated me
Written pages became too many
A giant monster on the sofa
So I searched among the folds
Round the corner
Flatten to square
Turn over and
Fold in a half
I followed the instructions
And those few moves were enough
All of my life was put down in black and white
All of my life can be leafed through just in one night
All of my life was in front of me
Good and bad choices creased in my memory
Written pages became too many
A giant monster on the sofa
So I searched among the folds
Round the corner
Flatten to square
Turn over and
Fold in a half
I followed the instructions
And those few moves were enough
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Zero
03:41
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ZERO
When the ceiling seems too low
And the hours follow one another
I collect my thoughts and pack my things
Get a ticket, change the scene
When the ceiling seems too low
And the hours follow one another
I collect my thoughts and pack my things
Get a ticket, change the scene
Get get getting away
And the past vanishes into a plume of smoke
While I’m painting this good view
Using only some brushstrokes
Forget the plans I learnt from you
I’ll follow my way and go on and on
While the wind messes up my hair
Reshuffles my limits and blows hard until my lungs are full.. are full
Station by station by station
Wheels turn faster than worries
By station by station
Wheels turn faster than worries
I let the noise grow over the voices over thoughts over all there is
This noise repeats on loop and its vibrations measure my time
Let the noise be the only thing left
While this train brings me to you
Forget the plans I learnt from you
I’ll follow my way and go on and on
While the wind messes up my hair
Reshuffles my limits and blows hard until my lungs are full.. are full
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Parallax
04:39
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PARALLAX
I was looking for you but you were lost in your past
You were looking for me but I was lost in my future, future
We were like two parallel lines
And we didn’t know if “everything would be alright”
Like two parallel lines
And we didn’t know if “everything would be alright”
Alright
[Fear was my limit and it was so vivid
Fear was my limit and it was so vivid] x2
I was looking for you but you were lost in your past
You were looking for me but I was lost in my future, future
I was looking for you but you were lost in your past
You were looking for me but I was lost in my future, future
I was looking for you but you were lost in your past
You were looking for me but I was lost in my future, future
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Tear
03:32
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TEAR
Comforting thought at the center of it all
the air cools down for miles around
fast scenery stops spinning
a marble of stability pulls in everything
in everything
in everything
[tilt your head
watch me sideways
straighten your back and find some quietness] x 3
tilt your head
watch me sideways
straighten your back and find some quietness
shallow waters I've been avoiding
suddenly surge stick to my skin
keep me down
limbs grow mangroves
Comforting thought drops
at the center of it all
adds weight and purpose brings me focus
[tilt your head
watch me sideways
straighten your back and find some quietness] x3
tilt your head
watch me sideways
straighten your back and find some quietness
a marble of stability pulls in everything
in everything
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Drop
03:47
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DROP
Comforting thought lost forevermore
lost forevermore
A marble of uncertainty pulls in everything
a marble of uncertainty pulls in everything
Air galvanizes down to every speck of dust
air galvanizes down to every speck of dust
[tilt your head watch me sideways
straighten your back
find some quietness] x 3
shallow waters I've been avoiding
suddenly surge trip me over
upside down
my limbs feel numb
[shallow waters I've been avoiding
suddenly surge trip me over] x2
and upside down
my limbs feel numb
fast scenery spins furiously (x8)
one last calming thought slips
through the cracks
on the wall
my breathing once steady gets heavier and heavier
through the cracks on the wall
my breathing once steady gets heavier heavier and heavier
tilt your head
watch me sideways
straighten your back and find some quietness
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Weightless
04:35
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WEIGHTLESS
When you left me here
I heard your steps getting away in the fog
And now I’m standing with all of this blue
And some footprints in the sand
Staring at the sea when it’s calm when the waves come quietly to the shore
I used to float and let the currents take me away
Away, so far away
Away, so far away
Drop by drop relentless like a leaking sink
But now it’s easy there’s a lighthouse over there
Have you walked the cliff alone
Have you seen the break of dawn
When the sun seems still and cold
And not a living soul’s in sight
Drop by drop relentless like a leaking sink
But now it’s easy there’s a lighthouse over there
Take away all of myself and leave me weightless take away all of myself (x6)
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Eleven
02:30
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ELEVEN
Postcards on my wall
a uniform surface
for the eye to wander
to embrace boredom
Annihilate emotion
till something differs
grabs my attention
transfixed I stare at a piece of paper
hanging on its side
the sword of Damocles
dangling over my head
time slows down
time slows down
[Time slows down
stops alltogether
collapses on itself
absorbed by one detail] x2
A white hair on a stranger’s head
A freckle in his iris
One untied shoelace
An out of place tile
The one fragment standing out
becomes your horizon
fleeting obsession
fleeting obsession
time slows down... slows down....solws down
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SPIRAL
My limbs are asleep
My thoughts are fixed
There is no way
To wake me up
So shake me
If you think you can
And my frozen eyes will be open wide
These times trap me in a spiral (spiral)
And I’m sorry but I’m loosing myself
These times trap me in a spiral and I keep twisting
Upside down 'n' loosing my bearings
Up up up and down I don’t know where the ground is
This is a trap for me I don’t know where I’ll be
I’m in a bubble
It doesn’t blow up
So please be my needle
So please just let me out
I wiggle
Yet I’m stable
And the vertigo
Is unbearable
These times trap me in a spiral (spiral)
And I’m sorry but I’m loosing myself
These times trap me in a spiral and I keep twisting
Upside down 'n' loosing my bearings
Up up up and down I don’t know where the ground is
This is a trap for me I don’t know where I’ll be
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