1. |
Cult
06:13
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Call it admiration if you wish
but I´ve never managed to inhabit
such a face of peace
and even less
such a mind
The pieces seem to fit
like lithospheric plates
resting against each others edges
No smile
No frown
No eyes
Even turned away
at ease
My plates are forced cracks
The eruption awaits
Calm is close, but too far
She hides underneath
pushes trough inconveniently
Bitchy manners
Twitchy expressions
Nervous cheeks
Bite marks on lips
Eyes overwhelmed
longing for sleep
I´m getting closer to the state
But close
is barely visible
A new love
A sorrow
A great loss
An entire country away
(I'll bend my head I'll kneel I'll worship if i must)
The life in that facial atmosphere
is of no worldly concern
I'll bend my head
I'll kneel
I'll even worship
(I´ll worship if i must)
I'll form a cult
(I'll bend my head I'll kneel I'll worship if i must)
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2. |
Dying to Move
07:48
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Reaching the tunnel
the one to rewind it all
and the one to move you forward too
Time moves along with my body
It’s hard to really know
how deep and lengthy it will be
going backwards
I start crawling
It’s so narrow my body barely fits
To move forward I dig with all of my hands
It's not dirt my nails are clawing at
It’s uncomfortable bones and saturated flesh
It’s grounded to one and the same
A mash, a paste, a mince
How much of it is me and my dissolving outlines?
Moving through this sinuous labyrinth
No alternative routes
Disintegrating during the course
If there ever was a mind, it’s gone
Body completely embraced
Movements are even more ambiguous now
Enclosed in the throat of time
Fluid increases as I go
Venom breaking down the volume of my torso
Excess fat and breasts
Remaking my anatomy
Body or walls surrounding it
All the same
Does time still exist?
Do I, without the parts of me?
Shoulders and hips
Does time exist
without me?
All the same
All the same
Exhilaration replaces the chunks I’m missing
In the end, the spine remains
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3. |
Being
07:31
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She is sick/well
but her sickness/wellness
is not real
as if she’s drunk/high
Her body almost weighing nothing/heavy, on the streets
floating through the streets/She wears nothing
She wears a nightgown/She is in control
She is impossible to control
or keep track of
She's singing
She loves to sing
And dancing
She hasn’t died yet/She is alive yet
but she will
She’s going/be going
quite soon
In a way her mind
is already dead
The confusion/clarity
The darkness/brightness
The vivid memories/Reality
The disorientation
Brief moments
Light and easy/Dark and heavy
Being a body
Feet rushing/dragging
along
Not/Stopping for hours
Being led/Leading
Being held/Holding
Being carried/Carrying
Being moved/Moving
Being
Belonging
Keeps track
of her voice
and her movements
The confusion
The darkness
The vivid memories
The disorientation
Brief moments
Dark and heavy/Light and easy
Being a body
Feet dragging/rushing
along
Not/Stopping for hours
Leading/Being led
Holding/Being held
Carrying/Being carried
Moving/Being moved
Being
Belonging
She hasn’t died yet
But she will
She is going/She is alive
But she will be going
quite soon
In a way her mind
is already dead
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4. |
Signs
07:27
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We hold signs in our mouths
like the skies
we figure it out
Although they look all the same
I keep losing them
like falling stars
one is swallowed
one spit out
My tongue can identify which sign
If I want to say something
I hold it out
between my teeth
to shine
One is swallowed
one spit out
One swallowed
one spit out
one spit out
spit out
My tongue can identify which sign
If want to say something
I hold it out
between my teeth
to shine
Genom nattens blå miljoner stjärnor gå
och när en stjärna faller, faller den för Dig
Och jag önskar då, att all din kärlek få
ty när en stjärna faller, faller den för dig
Varje stjärna som blänker, vishet mig skänker mer och mer
att om lyckan får råda den åt oss båda ler…
… Och jag önskar då, att all din kärlek få
ty när en stjärna faller, faller den för dig
Varje stjärna som blänker, vishet mig skänker mer och mer
att om lyckan får råda den åt oss båda ler
Genom nattens blå miljoner stjärnor gå
och när en stjärna faller, faller den för Dig…
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5. |
Outro Harakiri
05:12
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Du hade bestämt dig
Varför var det så enkelt?
som en katt som slutade äta
Jag var den enda villiga
bödeln
med ansvarsfrihet
Ditt liv står i skuld till dig
och tvärtom
Delfinen håller andan
Att fullborda din plan
skulle bli så lätt, varför?
Inte som en spindel
som låter sitt barn konsumera
kroppen
Jag frågade aldrig
hur du skulle göra
Men åsnan
kastade sig utför ett stup
Jag skulle bara
distrahera
När ekorren bröt sin egen nacke
(Distrahera, Harakiri)
Döva protester
när du biter dig själv hårt i armen
när du gör din egen vätska blöt
när du skär upp magen
när du
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