One second burns for a billion years

Blood Promise

When silence falls
And light remains
And time is born
Beneath the sun
I'll hide your name.
Inside a word
And paint your eyes
With false perception
And I feel your mind
In everything
And every breath
Destroys a sound.
And I will follow
A false sensation.
And I'll always believe.
Your blood promise
And every breath.
I stole from you
And I never will see
Your perfect body
And you never have spoken
An unclear word
And I'll never betray
Your blood promise

Swans, Blood Promise
The Great Annihilator, 1995

I'll drink the moonlight from your hands

Will we survive?

I'll drink the moonlight from your hands
I'll swim an ocean filled with sorrow
No lover please don't go
We can crucify tomorrow
Let the sunlight feed the air
Let it fill our lungs with lies
We'll be memorized by shadows
But our loneliness will survive

(...)

Swans, Will We survive
White Light From the Mouth of Infinity, 1991

bleed

I used to make the children happy

Cause people grin when I come round
and kids they call me the bleedin clown
I used to make the children happy
Now little girls cry when they look at me

I'm goin down... down... down...
I'm goin down.

You lef baby you left baby
you left and i'm lonely
You left baby you left baby
you left and i'm lonely

(...)

Manu Chao, The Bleedin Clown
La Radiolina, 2007

lost, lonely, and vicious

Why are we alive?

Now I'm not a man and I don't feel love
And I don't see anything coming down from above
But this world spins slowly and I see a light
Rising up from behind the horizon up into the clear black sky
But I don't see you in my line of sight
In fact I can't remember why we are alive



Swans, Why are we alive?
White Light From the Mouth of Infinity, 1991

can't pronounce your name...

This one goes out to the one I love

This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love

Fire

Fire


(...)



The One I Love
by R.E.M.
(1987)

The River That Runs With Love Won't Run Dry

White Trash Beautiful

White Trash Beautiful, Trailor Park Queen
She slings hash at the diner from 11 to 5
She married a boy from school, thought he was oh so cool
But all he can do for money is drive
Out late haulin' freight on Interstate 5, prayin' he'll see home before his baby arrive


White Trash Beautiful, There's something you should know
My heart belongs to you
And you coulda found a better guy
I'll love you till the day I die
I swear to God it's true
I'm comin' home to you
I'm comin' home to you girl


(...)



White Trash Beautiful, Everlast

a detail

It has no future but itself

Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.

It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.


Pain has an element of blank;
by Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886)

lounge fly

away

Come with me
Into the trees
We'll lay on the grass
And let the hours pass


Take my hand
Come back to the land
Let's get away
Just for one day


(...)



Stripped,
Martin Lee Gore - Depeche Mode

blood in our veins

Hamlet

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.



W. Shakespeare
Hamlet, 2. 2

will you come to me as a fire burning?

we are still alive

(...)

will you come to me as an angel
as a man, as someone I've waited for?
will you come to me as a monster in a child's room
as a shadow at the window?
will you come to me as a fire burning
as the end of the world, as a revelation?
will you come to me?

(...)

sometimes I feel it's been a long ride
sometimes I think what does it matter
sometimes I'm glad we are still alive
the longer we've made it
the longer we've made it

(...)


Wings, Nicole Blackman
[Dead Inside, Golden Palominos,Restless Records, 1996]