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03:26
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...so i keep still ´cause a deep boundless feeling is deprived of its force when one tries to express it through limited words.
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Inspired by a poem of Khalil Gibran.
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Bottle Your Laughter
04:09
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Can i please bottle your laughter?
So i can take it anywhere i go
And in the moment i drown in concepts
I´ll take a few sips of your jokes
The entire world will vanish in the joy of your presence
I´ll fly up to the spacemen and water their flowers
´Cause nothing in this world is as important
As the enjoyment we conjure up for others
Nothing is as important.
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The power of positive words and the power of a positive attitude of certain people can change your whole life. Of course it is a strong statement to say nothing is as important. But what are we afraid of that we dont share all the good things we think about each others? I just wish there would be more of those kind of people who are not afraid to do so.
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01:30
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Everything in this universe has a unique purpose.
So line up in rows
Dont you dare tapping outside our time
A risen fist equals blasphemy
Do you really want to risk going to hell
For a glimpse of freedom?
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It seems to me that political leaders or people in power over others have always tried to use the peoples need to find coherence in life, that this life has a purpose. So people need to follow certain groups or beliefs to find coherence in life one might also find in himself or in other things than ideologies. To overcome the fear these leaders spread and use to maintain their power over people might be a key to freedom from opressing systems.
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Fear
03:15
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You´re born
Then you die
Its the space in between
Whatever it takes
Just to live life
And I am not afraid anymore of the fire inside of me.
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The quote in the beginning is from Alan Watts. Not much else to say.
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Ten Years
03:32
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"I´ve come to terms
Maybe i really deserved the hardest thing to learn:
That one has to give his life to pull the enemy on his side.
It took me years to realise
That i spent ten years of my life
To watch my friends ears fall off
To starve my way out of my mind
It took me years to realise
That i cant take all the guilt
Of a generation lost in fear and fraud
That i was just a little drop
Caught in a river raging six feet under the ground"
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This one is written in quotation marks as it is trying to express what I think my grandfather might have thought about the time he spent in war and as a prisoner of war in russia. I spent quite some time together with him telling me about his expieriences and his regrets from the time of second world war. This song does not want to make any excuses for my grandfather for participating in that horrible war. It is simply a way to encounter this difficult time on a personal basis. This is a very important thing to do for me, as the generation of witnesses is about to pass away . Just to mention: we are antifacist, antiracist and against all forms of war.
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