Two Songs

Julie Feeney – Love Is A Tricky Thing

Alas bewildered lover you’ve met love’s most famous friend
Sorrow’s bid you morning and kicks back till the day’s end
And now you’re done with love and you’re not looking for love or his boring friend
You’ve built a world without love and wonder if you’re burying your face in the sand

Love is a tricky thing and it brings you lightly
Love’s not what you think it should be then it sings to you rightly

So then bewildered lover is this ringing any bells with you
And could you really want to sing back to love if it crept up and enveloped you
Or do you still want a kind of adjustable love that doesn’t infuse and consume your being
A made-to-order kind of love for the heart that beats so weary

Love is a tricky thing and it brings you lightly
Love’s not what you think it should be then it sings to you rightly

Oh bewildered! Looking for a lover? Maybe you’ll discover a friend
A friend to play the knowing glance game, two spoons of sugar and milk
Someone to share the minute details with in your playground love-well
When all the really good and bad things happen it’s the one you want to tell but

Love is a tricky thing and it brings you lightly
Love’s not what you think it should be then it sings to you rightly

Love is a tricky thing and it brings you lightly
Love’s not what you think it should be then it sings to you rightly

A Collection Of Words

All the theories and beliefs I ever swore against were my sword and armour. But as I smiled they betrayed me one by one.

I was hungry for so long that I couldn’t smell the poison berries from the edible ones, I saw friends as foes and coldness as a virtue… I wanted to explode and in my rebirth clean my hands in the soil, becoming a humble soldier of the fucked up, helpless and muted.

An icon of stability – a glowing beacon in the night.

An insatiable beast was born within. It sprouted as a tree stood on one leg. Half basking in the fruits of the ground, half rooted in the air – grasping at a notion of wholeness.

And I tried to explain that “up for grabs” spoke about objects and not about people, but we sang, danced and drank wine in praise of these beautiful warm possessions; homes for hearts.

From Heaven

Christos Thivaios – From Heaven

Love resembles a small shell
That by chance my soul found on the sand
Trying constantly to explain it

So today your words
Seem like they are coming from heaven
In my black and white life
For a little while the colours change

I know that tomorrow you will be gone
But talk to me even if tomorrow you forget
All that you believe and all you have said

Because today your words
Seem like they are coming from heaven
In my black and white life
For a little while the colours change

Passion comes and goes
And we intertwine even tighter
From one body to the other
So we can hold on in this retreat

That’s why today your words
Seem like they are coming from heaven
In my black and white life
For a little while the colours change

Today your words
Seem like they are coming from heaven
In my black and white life
For a little while the colours change

Sell The Vatican, Feed The World

Dead Fly Art

Hilarity on your screens with eternally sleeping flies.

Water

Christos Thivaios – Water

It’s in the cloud, it’s in the well
It’s in the snow and the wizard’s fruits
It’s in the eyes, it’s in the rainbow
It’s in the ice, in the steam of the pan

It’s in the lake, it’s on the ground, it’s in the mouth
Man is water that walks
Making his way from the placenta’s waters
All the way to the water of the last bead of sweat…

Aie, water is element and apparition…

I saw towns stumbling in the dark
To fill their buckets with light
I saw Mostar, I saw Belgrade
I saw the Danube river meandering blindly

The Axius, the Achelous and the Kerkini
They are prisoner’s of war in the prices
Of the stock exchange and industry
They will throw up terrible confessions

Aie, water is element and apparition…

But some day when their wish rises up
The waters will flood, to explode
Taking from up high whatever they demanded
All the water necessary to be cleansed

Whoever dirties the waters, dirties himself too
And they say that God’s nickname
Is some big fuss up there
The “fuss of the water in the skies”

Aie, water is element and apparition…

Justly shocking the man he listens to
Loudly from the underworld’s screens
The first question “whose thirst have you quenched?”
Each of us will be weighed and judged in drops

Aie, water is element and apparition…

Homeless – a recent experience of a friend

I would like to tell you about Kevin…

I met Kevin yesterday. I had to go to the bank to put some cheques in and was walking back to the car park. He was sitting on the pavement asking for money. I stopped (hesitatingly), took out a purse to give him some change. He looked at me and said ‘I just want to talk to someone, I want to tell someone I have cancer.’ I looked at him through the eyes of a Daily Mail reader. What do they write? Scum of the earth, layabouts, good for nothing people.

I sat down next to Kevin on the pavement and we talked. He used to be a very good plasterer, had his own business. Then his mum died, it knocked him out for six. Couldn’t cope mentally. Has depression, tried to top himself. Wife left him three years ago, business went down the drain, he found himself on the streets. He smelled of alcohol, had a woolly hat on with a cancer awareness badge clipped to it. A pair of sturdy hiking boots and very soft hands. Two weeks ago he was kicked in a face and had two metal plates inserted in his jaw. I wanted to know how old he was. On 5th October he will be 46 years old. I asked what he would like for his birthday present. He said ‘Domino’s pizza’. I promised to take him out for a pizza. So in a week’s time we are going out for a pizza. As I was leaving, he kissed my hands and thanked me for listening…I did not leave any change, but Kevin and I have a pizza date.

The moral of the story: stop and listen…

George Carlin – Earth is NOT endangered – WE ARE

I Set Fire To My Town

Finally, the translations to an album I hold very dear to me have been polished.
You can listen to the album here: Last.fm or individual tracks as below.

01 I Set Fire To My Town
Track: Play

I set fire to my town
Let it all turn to ashes
But it still follows me
Ashes for my hair
Asking for its resurrection

I leave behind the crowded loneliness
Fleeing to the love of quiet
To build my house anew

I left loneliness behind, I left loneliness behind
I set fire to my town

02 Fake Streets
Track: Play

Fake streets
Fake houses
Fake lights
Shining in the night
Fake actions
Where is the truth?
The night asks
What is the truth?
Where is the truth?

Fake streets
Paper houses
Vain world
Shining in the night
With a foreign light
Shining in the night
With a foreign light it shines

Fake words
Fake houses
Tearing down the day
And building in the night
Fake houses
Meaningless words
Lie upon lie
The night is being built

It snowed again
The gutters of my soul have overflowed
She watches the streets
From her balcony at home
The tears, flowing in rivers
Have drowned the greatness of the world
The mind jumps, grabs fire, asks for wings

The world is sinking, the night is endless
It burns its lovers’ houses in black flames

Your tears are snow
Your tears are snow

03 Naked Morning
Track: Play

In my dreams I saw
Fruit filled trees
Time flows like drunkenness
Naked morning
Stream by the rock
And the rock like light
Strokes the hair
On her shoulders

She offers her heart
Like a pure crown for me to wear
She looks at me and a garden lies before me
An exhilarating light, glorification
The autumn brings
It offers winters
The skies open up
When she passes by my life
My words are cheap words

04 Day
Track: Play

You’re a celebration, you’re a joy
You’re the life that wakes me from my sleep
You’re the day that breaks
Dawning in the bottom of my heart
And looking at a child in there
In love and hidden far from the world
Enchanted by a dream, awakened by a kiss
Crying, asking “where was I? why?”

You are love, you’re a breath
A forgotten morning’s dawn
The lights go out
Looking at where you were before going to sleep
They wake up where you are
You’re everywhere, you’re everywhere, and it’s a celebration

You’re a celebration, you’re a joy
You’re the life that takes me by the hand
You’re the new day
The night that awakes and looks elsewhere
You’re a celebration

You’re the day that embraces
This night too
And in pain spits me out
You’re a celebration, you’re a celebration
You’re the day

05 Bitter Kiss
Track: Play

A sparrow is dying in my palm
A ship that sunk in port
A girl cried because of this caress

A scorpion walking on my back
A look that burns all those who are scared of love
A sting dripping honey in the heart

A bitter kiss, I’ve been offered a bitter kiss
It lit a flame and stitched my heart
A bitter kiss, a bitter kiss
Lit a flame in the heart and stitched me

From now on I want your fire in my guts
A perfect hatred to fill the gap
That separates me from your embrace
A perfect hatred to sever my past
Now that the feast asks to last forever
The falling rain, the talking thunder
A ray of light illuminates the mind, demands

The flash of lightning
Ιt demands again, feast, rain, rain
It demands again, it demands again, feast, feast, rain
Talking thunder
Lights up the mind, demands…

A bitter kiss
A bitter kiss has won me over
Lit a flame in my heart and stitched me
A bitter kiss, a bitter kiss
Lit a flame in the heart and stitched me

06 Today
Track: Play

The door shut
I look in my mirror
My, my, my… I look good
I managed it again
Yesterday night, I scored
Everyone was watching me
I got the girl
And everyone was asking
How, how, how? Tell us how
How did you manage it again?
How did you, what did you say?
At what point did you realise the time was right
Where you get whatever you want
And she wants it too?
Now the wall has fallen
The wall of shame
I shook her up inside
I touch her back
I watch indifferently
I tell her I lie on the clouds getting drunk
From the wine of your youth
The awesomeness of your nature
The air’s essence
The mystical reflection in your lake
Your eyes the sea
Your lips are passion
Breeze that brings scorching heat and afterwards..
And afterwards I stayed speechless
Watching speechlessly
You showed your assets and you fell asking
How I would like us to start
What I would like us to do
You said, whatever you want today
Today, today..

The sea now lava
Tentacles your hair
You opened your mouth, an abyss, abyss..
Darkness your embrace, Hades’ daughter
Insatiably kissing Medusa
Death, death, I asked for death
The morning doesn’t come now
The morning doesn’t come now
The morning doesn’t come now
I died in the night

07 To Have You
Track: Play

Fields that were given
We worked on alone
Wages that were not paid

The loot that rusts
Words without substance
Work that betrayed me

Demons that were offered
And the glory is a moth that ate
The clothes that were getting old

Roads that got confused
Tangled in the night
And they don’t lay out?

Eyes that become clearer
They see a reason in films
Giving a sword to the hand

The sky snatches fire
Shadow that leaves
I remained alone to have you
To have you

08 In The Park
Track: Play

I saw you in the park
In the cold of winter
Enjoying the sun
Under some trees
You were watching the people
Your face shines again
A fire reaching the sky
Has burned the clouds
You were watching the people
Lying upon the grass
Multicoloured blankets aplenty
And apple pies
They were talking about art
But you’ve been walking naked for years
On the rough road
Your legs have fallen off but how
How can you stop so I can tell you
You should love this man?

Further along on a bench
Two old men debate
Feeding the ducks
Looking at crosswords
They talk about Mars
But many years have passed
Since he lost his red light
A warm wave came
Your coffee fell
Upon the bed
It left him dead

In front of a shop window
I watched you standing
A blonde lady was passing by
But your mind was elsewhere
Her pink reflection
Her red lips
Her dark sunglasses…
Behind them, sparks
Sending flames
Her perfume was intoxicating
But you didn’t even see her
Policemen were whistling
And drivers were dumbstruck

I found you sleeping
In a little square
A lame dwarf stumbled
And kicked up a fuss
But you kept smiling, bent over
You said “tell me my man,
How can I see you?”
You took off your hood
And I wanted the earth to open up
To be lost in it, how, how?

The police will come
The modern state
Her pink reflection
On her Ray-Ban glasses
They will start asking
“Who are you?”, “what do you want?”
“Tell us what you know”
“Too bad you’re not talking”
“It makes you look suspicious, that’s all…”
But you stop them
And say, “what’s up mate?”

09 Leave Me Alone
Track: Play

The clouds of pain screech when you go by
Hot springs, my living room sweats
Changing colours
March wakes up from its frame
The night is over, perfume and make-up
I still hear her heels on the road
Leave me alone, I’m fed up with lies
I’m fed up with lies

The years raced in my mind
They danced in the rain
A desert covered the map
A wilting flower
Breaks the vase
It says beware, she’ll come
The night is coming, perfume and make-up
I hear her heels on the road again
Leave me alone, I’m fed up with lies
I’m fed up
I’m fed up with lies

Tonight, the time, the date,
The pain… the road
… Changes dresses, new shoes
Leave me alone, leave me alone

10 Oblivion
Track: Play

She drinks, forgetting the truth
Thoughts passing, notions
The city is a whore
Guides me to its dark houses
Stumbles
Slants
Pulls me so I can’t get away from her

She forgets

She forgets the truth
Thoughts passing
Growing old
She too eats from the rubbish we throw
The whore city wears dull jewellery
Looks at me slanted through one eye
She gives birth again
She holds me by the hand

She wears jewellery
Holds me by the hand
Follows me so I don’t get away from her
Whore city, stepmother
She’s got me bound so I can’t get away

She follows me

11 This World
Track: Play

He’s been hiking for years
Walking over the same marshland
There he sleeps, there he wakes

Really run, run
To what you say you love
Listen to that voice
It’s telling you, this world, has an end
And can be defeated with
Blind faith … he passes by
Doesn’t fumble in the dark
Emerges into the light and looks at it

12 I’m Fed Up With Lies
Track: Play

[Same lyrics as 09 Leave Me Alone]

On The Seashore Of Endless Worlds

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
The infinite sky is motionless overhead
and the restless water is boisterous.
On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances.

They build their houses with sand and they play with empty shells.
With withered leaves they weave their boats
and smilingly float them on the vast deep.
Children have their play on the seashore of worlds.

They know not how to swim, they know not how to cast nets.
Pearl fishers dive for pearls, merchants sail in their ships,
while children gather pebbles and scatter them again.
They seek not for hidden treasures, they know not how to cast nets.

The sea surges up with laughter, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach.
Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children,
even like a mother while rocking her baby’s cradle.
The sea play with children, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach.

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships get wrecked in the trackless water,
death is abroad and children play.
On the seashore of endless worlds is the great meeting of children.