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Winter Songs

by Carl Mendes

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1.
Existential Feet 03:47
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Wings have broken Left unspoken were the words That wouldn't speak So the bird fell Into a cold hell Bird fell right inside of me I was lonesome I was coldsome I was drifting in my dreams Wings have broken Left unspoken Were the words that wouldn't speak But deep inside I know this walk Won’t take me much further than this Wounded bird Soon your feathers They will turn into my quills I will write down Words they will come But they will have no meaning Heart it beats slow Blood will not flow Veins will flood with misery And me I’ll go Where to don’t know ‘Till I find something to be But deep inside I know this walk Won’t take me much further than this But if it don’t The world won’t stop turning, I know And if it don’t The world won’t slow down And if it don’t The world won’t stop turning, I know The world won’t hold on For my existential feet
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Elaine's Song 03:40
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Sweet Elaine, I’d be yours if I could Your Clark Kent, I’d be your Robin Hood Romeo let it go Poison will be drank alone Sweet Elaine, My skin craves for your touch As I crave for Elaine all this much But Elaine didn’t come And me, I had to go I don’t want to let it go Though it was so long ago For long roamed Romeo Having not a place to go A long, long time ago Sweet Elaine, my heart broke Love and pain Are the same all along Love can heal The pain will only harm What I felt for Elaine I won’t feel anymore I don’t want to let it go Though it was so long ago For long roamed Romeo Having not a place to go A long, long time ago Sweet Elaine, my heart broke
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Hope (a tale of uncertainty) 05:21
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Hope Hope lets you live no more Hope will wound and hope will scar But be sure hope won’t come Hope Hope is only a word Hope is just like a bird Flies away from us all And hope Hope does not live here no more Hope has flown out through the door Hope does not live here no more... Man Try to run if you can Run away lonesome man Any day you’ll return ‘Cause the world World is round, so they say So you may run away Running won’t take you far ‘Cause hope Hope does not live here no more Hope has flown out through the door Hope does not live here no more... Cold Oh so cold is your heart Your emotions will part Then you will feel no more Bored You will live like a stone You will not be someone Body’ll turn into corpse ‘Cause hope Hope does not live here no more Hope has flown out through the door Hope does not live here no more...
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Thunderstorm (a man at Münster) 05:05
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There’s no need for all that sorrow There’s no need to lay down and quit There’s always hope for tomorrow So don’t waste your tears on today This rain may soak all your feathers But soon sun will dry them again And then, with dry wings, you’ll fly better And go to the place where you want to be There may be some angle you overlooked Or maybe something you might have done wrong ‘Cause life can’t be only shaded with gloom There’s always some hope to keep moving on… There’s no need for all those candles ‘Cause darkness won’t do you no harm Don’t wait for the dawn to sleep better You might end up sleeping ‘ forever-long’ There may be some angle you overlooked Or maybe something you might have done wrong ‘Cause life can’t be only shaded with gloom There’s always some hope to keep moving on There’s no need for you to wait for the dawn…
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Gone Out Of Light 03:55
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Call me up Will you call me at five in the morning? I’ll be glad to reach the phone and pick it up Call me up If you ever end up feeling lonely You can call me any time you want to call ‘Cause I’ve been longing you to call me up Yes I’ve been longing you to call me up… Call me up Please call me up You know that I’ve been longing you to call me up So call me up Please call me up My nights are only days gone out of light ‘Cause I’ve been longing you to call me up Yes I’ve been longing you to call me up… The room is dark ‘Cause I don’t want no light to come Don’t want no light to light these things while you are gone The room is dark I left it all like it once was Because this way things won’t seem odd when you return ‘Cause I’ve been longing you to call me up Yes I’ve been longing you to call me up… Call me up Will you call me at five in the morning? I’ll be glad to reach the phone and pick it up…
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Here (the self-caged man) 02:06
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Oh, my body’s getting old My heart is beating even slower Than it was beating before Oh, these tears just won’t let go These tears that never roll They are weeping in my soul ‘Cause here is where I stayed And here is where I laid But my brain was drifting all along And here I did remain Here but far away Were my dreams And they never returned So, here and since that day Here I … Oh, my blood’s run out of hope So please just close the door Do not let me in no more
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Rise & Fall of a Grown Man 05:56
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On the day that I was born The beginnings of someone Were still pure and I was poor So I cried ‘till I could no more My tears washed away the blood The beginnings of a flood That would never ever fade Not if only for a day In the dawn there came the child Another useless animal that made it’s way I grew strong and I grew wise Bursting through this world of lies They would only laugh and say “You won’t last another day” But I did last more than that And I must say with some regret I’m not proud of what I became Résumé is but a stain Couldn’t choose among the crap I could only choose among what I could aim My skin turned to shades of grey The grown man was now afraid So unsure the man he wept Afraid to face another day But the days they never back Useless to deny the fact That somehow the days still turn Unaware of your concerns You may cry, but not today ‘Cause this time your tears won’t wash the blood away

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released March 1, 2010

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Carl Mendes Alcácer Do Sal, Portugal

CARL MENDES is a musician from the portuguese south coast.

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