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Anna, The Fishgirl
03:51
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Anna, the fish girl serves fruit and wine
Outside the window a bloody sun shines
She’s gonna be a lawyer, she studies in Bulgaria
She’s helping her parents who run a taverna
In profile she looks like a fish from the deep sea
And here and there she throws a glance at me
She carries her brilliant tits in a yellow pullover
I imagine to touch them and shiver all over
Anna, the fish girl serves fruit and wine
Outside the window a bloody sun shines
Anna, sweet fish girl, I’ve fallen for your movement
And also my love life could use some improvement
She smells like her mothers kitchen full of fishes
She’s magic when she balances the glasses and the dishes
She knows about money, I can see it on her lips
While she carries what’ been cooked on her byzantine hips
Anna, the fish girl serves fruit and wine
Outside the window a bloody sun shines
I’ve got these emotions that will transcend your loneliness
Kiss me with your fish lips and say I’m your onliness
Please come to me and touch me with your elbow
To tear me from my dream where I don’t feel so well, you know
Let’s take a bus and go out where the salt flies
I know you’ve had enough of serving those french-fries
I know you recognize me and you like fun and romance
So let’s be courageous and kiss and go dance
Anna, the fish girl serves fruit and wine
Outside the window a bloody sun shines
Anna, sweet fish girl, with the grace of a teenager
And golden dyed hair and fingers wet with vinegar …
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2. |
Airplanes
02:29
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I watch airplanes
This is what I do
Since you’ve
Been
Gone
My dear
Sweet
Angel
I’m with you all the time
All the days
I’m
Fine
And I dream of the world as it used to be
As it turned and turned with summer trees
All around us all for free
I’ll see you in eternity
I watch airplanes
This is what I do
Since you’ve
Been
Gone
My dear
Sweet
Angel
Too beautiful!
Too beautiful!
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3. |
Stars
04:46
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If I
Could be beside you
If I
Had you
Tonight
The stars define you
Tonight
I want you
Whatever am I gonna do?
Whatever I may wanna do
With you
If I
Could do without you
If I
Were free
The wind, the sky
Is blue without you
And time
Runs out
Whatever am I gonna do?
Whatever I may wanna do
With you
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4. |
White Room
03:03
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Forty years later I’m floating like paper
I’m nowhere close to anywhere I knew
Forty years later time has much less weight
And I’m lighter than a snowflake in the blue
It’s not such a long way to go
From here to the places I know
Now that I’m all at ease, cool as the summer trees
Now that I’m holding on to none
Now that I think of you in colors white and blue
Now that the healing has begun
Now that I’m almost at home
Now that I’m not so alone
I will not look for you, I will not cook for you
I will not even understand
I will not be aware if you were ever there
Or if I ever held your hand
Hold me once more in your arms
Hold me once more in your arms
We’ll keep in touch for a while
We’ll keep in touch for a while
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5. |
Only Song In 2000
02:45
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To get out of your head
To understand what’s real
To see from every side
To get that certain feel
The mountains lose their form
And in my ears it cracks
The orange juice is served
We’re never going back
There’s a party on upstairs
And a female voice says: “Yes!”
I don’t know what she means
I can only guess
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6. |
Easter
03:19
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The stars are shining on the sea
The songs I hear are mainly Byzantine
So clear they cut the Easter sky
Up here the seagulls learn to fly
You have the suitcase and the brush
Your hair is pretty and your lips are lush
With summer songs that burn away like fire
Get lost and do what you desire
The wishes come like dogs with wings
They shine and sparkle over everything
Big waves that move like hills of gold
Blue days that are too fresh to hold
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7. |
Airports
02:23
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The body of the boat is rumbling below me
Dark diesel smoke above me blowing sideways
Shirt sticks to my skin, it’s hot, I’m not thin
A head-ache and a beer can and where am I going?
Machine-like voices echoing from neighboring boats
Seagulls and pale green water in the middle of nowhere
In Athens, in Piraeus, in summer, in wonder
What happened so far, and what after this?
Got to take off my shoes, it’s been a long walk
With a guitar on my back and a bag
But I don’t think it’s romantic anymore
Feels ill, somewhat broken, and I don’t see development
Ship begins to move sideways ever so slowly
See its rear glide across the buildings in the background
Good-bye Piraeus, you stinky old haven
Good-by Athens, your morbid old desert of heat and trash
The houses get smaller now, become slush in the distance
While foam rolls away from both sides of the ship
Sweat chills in the hard breeze from starboard
Girls throw glances, curious to meet someone
Tobacco caught in the laces of my shoes
Normally I don’t sit in the sun but at the moment I do
What’s the thing called where smoke comes out on a boat?
I see one in the distance with a long tail of smoke
So many years ago I was lying on the deck
Looking at the sky when the first light was coming up
Between then and now many things occurred
An old girl walks by in an orange t-shirt
It costs 10.50 E to buy three hours of sea-glitter
A sandwich costs 3.90 E so I didn’t buy one
Out there light and dark blue meet, I have fun
Money is a problem, I don’t care, I have none
It’s hot, it’s oily, it’s fishy and salty
I don’t have a cell-phone so nobody called me
Greek islands in the summer haze
One after the other
I miss you, I miss the ones I love, I miss being whole
I smoke one cigarette after the other, I’m out of control
A girl walks by with “glamour” written on her ass
It was printed on her thin pants, in case you were gonna ask
There’s a war going on inside me and all around me
The more I grow the less I know
There’s another Greek island coming up behind me
I could tell you where I am but I don’t think you’d find me
I’d like to say “please!” and utter a wish
But I have none, that’s all, everything is, I’m fine
A Greek island comes up and disappears
I have no cell-phone, just a plastic cup of tears
Let me take a break and stop talking
If I’d leave the boat it would be on water I’d be walking
All the best to you and everything for love
For the fish in the sea below and the universe above…
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9. |
A Tree Or A Sky
04:19
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I never found out why you don’t want me no more
Never found out what made you cry
I can’t see why you’re so through with me
And it’s all so over and good-bye
And every time I see a tree or a sky I think of you
And every time a cloud comes floating by I think it’s you
And every time a bird comes and sits on my balcony
I wonder if it’s you with wild blue eyes
In feathers and disguise
It never made sense that you don’t love me no more
Whatever you say sounds like a lie
I can see that you’re in love with me
But you just can’t stand the butterflies
And every time I see a tree or a sky I think of you
And every time a cloud comes floating by I think it’s you
And when you say you love me
In a deep and beautiful way
Is it just because it sounds cool
Or cause it makes you feel like an emotional person?
And we’re all so very sad
Because you’re sad
And the cosmos loses faith
Cause you can’t believe in it
When you’re actually so safe
Here in my loving arms
Honey, please get happy
It’s easy
I never stopped dreaming that you’d want me again
I never stopped thinking you’d appear
There ain’t no one who could stand to be with you
Except the person singing here
And every time I see a tree or a sky
I think of you
And every time a cloud comes floating by
I think it’s you
And every time I wonder
If you’re feeling worse than me
Or if you feel at all
Cause if you did
Maybe you’d pick up the phone and call
I can feel you thinking of me
I can feel you in my sleep
I can feel you thinking of me
I can feel you in my sleep
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I walked across the market
Fish were bleeding in the sun
The earth was young
The day was fresh
Rabbits hung
And sheets of flesh
I walked across the market
Women offered taxless goods
From neighborhoods
With rivers gold
And woods
Where herbs were sold
I walked across the market
Bought a burger dressed in bread
Children sang
And life was long
Knives rang
And chopped a song
I walked across the market
Drank a glass of ouzo
The sky was blue
So I was too
Big deal
It doesn’t matter what I feel
I walked across the market
The coins I owned had all been spent
But on I went
To see the day
To blow the night away
I walked across the market
I had nothing else to do
I watched a cat
Explore a can
It was fat
When I approached it ran
I walked across the market
Fish and meat and fruit and wine
I stood and saw
Sun shine
On meat
So raw
I walked across the market
Drank a glass of ouzo
The sky was blue
So I was too
Big deal
It doesn’t matter what I feel …
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11. |
Out Of Reach
02:50
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Call your number
Overseas
Over coast-lines
Over trees
Over all I
Want to be
Where you are now
Out of reach
On a door step
Out of time
I can see you
Doing fine
While the world is
Breaking down
In a moment
Without sound
No one answers
Your machine
No conclusions
Just a dream
Was it worth it?
Certainly!
Now there’s nothing
Now we’re free
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12. |
Christmas Song
02:28
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Well, it’s Christmas again and the sky is so blue
It’s practically empty, a void
And I did the evil thing last night once more
And I woke up destroyed
There’s a chicken leg chilling on the balcony
Left over, friend, one day old
Well, the pan didn’t fit in the fridge
Bout out there it’s certainly cold
There’s a pain and a rage than can only be ill
And I live it in silence and grace
I’m waiting that they come and pick me up
It can only be a matter of days
Only heroes die young, I’m a painter
I specialize in birds
Single and determined under winter skies
It’s hard to express that in words
There must have been something wrong with my family
But now that’s all long gone
Only me I’m left blinded by sunlight
Humming this summer song
Woe, most of the others have already checked out
But me I’m always late
In abject nothingness and nothing after this
I wait …
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13. |
Cut Something Up
04:20
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Sitting in the darkness
Trying to place a phone call
On an imaginary phone
Circling the sun
I wanna cut something up
I wanna be somewhere else
I know it just ain’t like me
But I’ve changed for you
I’m dreaming of the desert
On the dunes frozen glass
And the snowflakes are falling
On the desert made of ice
I wanna cut something up
Something sweet and helpless
I know it just ain’t like me
But I love you too much
The neighbors are crying
The neighbors are screaming
They’re so out of touch
With love and their dreams
I wanna cut something up
I wanna see you again
I wanna be your friends
I wanna do something bad to you
Oh, these tender feelings
Broke everything apart
You will never understand
You will never even notice
I wanna cut something up
I want a slice of the sun
I wanna come to your house
And give you a present
There’s blood on the wall
From when I was sad
My nose kept exploding
When I was crying
I wanna cut something up
I wanna hit you in the face
I wanna take part in love
But I’ll never come back
And an ambulance will come
And take me to heaven
And there I’ll walk around the corner
To where you used to live
I wanna cut something up
I wanna be reconnected
To the flow of life
But I just don’t care
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14. |
All Alone
04:11
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Winter’s dragging on
And it’s been so long
Since I’ve been anywhere
Count the stars, stars, stars
All alone
Nothing to do
So far from home
Without a clue
Like the river flows
It goes on and on
It just rolls along
And it has no meaning
All alone
Nothing to do
So far from home
Without a clue
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15. |
Girl In The Park
04:02
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Girl in the park
Barefoot in the dark
Spreads out her cloth
Hoping to get lost
Girl under tree
Making pee-pee
No one around
Wind makes a sound
Girl on a holiday
Home is far away
No one takes her out
Moon behind a cloud
Girl in the world
Dyed red hair curled
Thin cream white shirt
Doesn’t want to flirt
Girl in the park
Across the sky a spark
Shooting star fades
But I still hesitate
Girl on holiday
Her boyfriend couldn’t stay
No one there to kiss
Did she imagine it like this
I go talk to her
I’m no shock to her
She knows I know
Nothing will remain
It’ll never be the same
I’m all alone
I don’t have a mobile phone
And when I go to sleep
I can never sleep
Girl on holiday
The past is blown away
Nothing is secure
Nothing’s ever sure
And when it starts to rain
She looks at me again
She throws me a glance
That I don’t understand
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16. |
Mafeking Blues
06:47
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BIG SLEEP Athens, Greece
Singer/Songwriter Stefan Schwerdtfeger spent his childhood in the U.S.A., and later moved to Germany, from where he began
his lifetime project BIG SLEEP.
BIG SLEEP's debut album EVERYTHING FALLS INTO PLACE immediately became a surprising and great success in Greece. The single "Looking For A Girl With A Washing Machine" is still being played in rock radio and rock bars alike.
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