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You, My Twisted Signpost
07:26
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When I saw you the last time
You said farewell without a smile
I turned my back and ran away
I couldn’t stand your blank emotionless face
And now I am back here, alone
Without you now and on my own
And now I have to stay at home
Forever waiting for the hopeful sounding phone
Driven mad from inside by my own heart
Gone insane I cry your name, we’re apart
I can no more smile with ease
I can no more cry to be free
I can no more smile honestly
I can no more be…
Waiting, lingering, looking back
Cannot turn around on life’s one-way track
With my eyes closed I see the bifurcation
While you’re in control to lead me left or right
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Maybe
03:57
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So I cry
But the tears can’t tell me why
And I fall
Down on my knees I have to crawl
Leave me here
Deep in the darkness of my self
Hold me down
You gave me up and you won’t help
In the memories
I’m lost and far away
I can no more breathe
As I can’t bring back the day
In this empty space
My only home has fled from me
I’m left here in disgrace
A foreign land where I can’t be
Falling deeper
Drowning in your
Smile and in the
Beauty of your
Eyes
You take my
Hands and hold them
Gently then you
Leave them cold and
Empty
You feed me
With the promise
Again you leave me
Starving me in
Hope
I don’t mind
You control me
As you told me
“Maybe yes or
No”
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Utopian Poetry
11:20
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Five candle flames
The only life inside this room
Flickering light
Cannot warm my frozen heart
Have I grown up
Just to become lifeless?
Was I once born
Just to be aware of sleep?
A stone of human shape
Filled with the wish
To know how it might feel
Not to exist
Walls so bare and naked
Just like my hands
In which I’ll never hold this life
Like a chance
With certain death in mind
I hear my heartbeat
So loud inside my ears
A silencer I need
In astral dreams beside
I may find you
When lights grow pale and harmless
I will blind you
I lay in your arms so close to me
You are the peak of my poetry
I reach for your name unknown to me
O love, you’re my bleakest poetry
Now I fall asleep
The nightmares left behind me
This is my way to flee
From those visionary dreams
Which haunt me every day
When I seem to be awake
My soul’s unending plague
For I have no path to take.
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Sonnensturm
07:46
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In der Nacht
Scheint ein Atemzug zu schwach
Für all die Traumgewalten
In der Nacht
Scheint ein Herzschlag viel zu kurz
Das Leben zu erhalten
In der Nacht
Scheinen Träume in der Lage
Sehnsucht in Erfüllung umzugestalten
…Lights escape from new worlds
To blind my thirsting eyes
Reaching for my heart,
Tearing me apart
Ich gebe zu
Ich atme tiefer wenn ich träume
Und sauge Hoffnung ein
Ich gebe zu
Mein Herz schlägt stärker als es müsste
Es will lebendig sein
Denn in der Nacht
Scheint jeder Funke wie ein Stern
Welten tauchen ein in seinen goldnen Schein
…Lights escape from new worlds
To blind my thirsting eyes
Reaching for my heart,
Tearing me apart
Nach diesem Licht zu greifen,
Diese Welt mit einem Blick zu streifen –
Ein Traumbild das mich hält
Es ist als wollt’ ich fliegen
Mit diesen Flügeln, die am Körper liegen –
Gebunden an die Welt
Die Augen jetzt zu schließen,
Während Worte in die Bilder fließen
Und jeder Zweifel zerfällt
Es ist als wollt’ ich glauben,
Mir die schönste Illusion erlauben
In einer hoffnungslosen Welt.
…These lights that shine within your world
They bind my wishful eyes
Pouring through my heart,
Tearing me apart.
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Exhaling the Fire
05:49
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More and more
We adored
The voice that spoke to us alone
And touched our core
When we saw
The eyes that shone
Just for the reason we were there
Our souls merged into one
And the yearning dripped
From every word we spoke
To turn our paths towards
The feelings that awoke
Now that we
Get used to be
Together in this newborn world
Created in a dream
More and more
The grief will grow
When maybe one bleak day we have
To cut our strongest seam
But this creeping fear
Today shall not be more
Than a wise whisper that
Reminds us of the fire in our core
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6. |
Of Landscapes Unchanged
08:55
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From the highest peaks of joy
Where I found the life in me
I looked back over that vale
A foggy landscape, so barren and bleak
From where I climbed I saw the sun
Its pleasant light to warm my heart
And in the depths I tried to leave
I recognised the pattern structures
that tore me apart
Clouds crept high above my head
The winds from valleys brought them back
And as they swept their shades about
I knew that upwards is not a one-way track
For where the mountains reach the sky
The dusky vales are never far
– just a single move
I still can lose all of my faith
Except for one, and that is you
And even here –
I can’t cry / I can’t hide / I can’t fly
Free from clouds that blur my sight
Now the fog is getting dense
To enclose me once again
The stalking shadows of my mind
Try seduction, well-known whispers of the end
But there’s still sunlight in the mist
To take my hand and guide me home
Again my feet feel far too weak
To walk this unreal path
my eyes can’t even show
And even now –
I can’t scream / I can’t see what’s real / I can’t sleep
Free from stirring, chaotic dreams
Which sometimes feel more plausible
Than this world surrounding me
Whose colours fade to formless nonsense
Breathless, never-ending scenes
To scare me into withdrawal
And alienate me from myself
My new resistance weak and bruised
Held only by my love for you
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Sidetrack Walker Kiel, Germany
Sidetrack Walker is an independent music project focusing on atmosphere and honest, emotional songwriting. Headed by German
artist Dominik Sonders, it draws on genres such as Art Rock, Trip-Hop, Drum’n’Bass, Dark Folk and Modern Classical.
(Photo: Nikita Mädge)
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