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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
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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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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5. |
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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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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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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Carl Mendes Alcácer Do Sal, Portugal
CARL MENDES is a musician from the portuguese south coast.
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