DESERT

 

Please 

Take it all away

I am nobody I could name

 

My self I float upon 

Pearls, some songs 

They’ve been buried for years

 

My self 

I am a desert torn 

I was born on the mountain by the sea

The west rapes east 

My west disease 

I’m a little beast 

Hiding up the street

In a little room 

With a little bed

On the dusty floor

Lies human flesh 

 

Time melts out my eyes

As my heart is bleeding 

Quarter tones 

And I sail on a song

 

We’tmakhtari ya helwa ya zena

We’tmakhtari ya helwa ya zena

 

Trsn. Sway from side to side you beauty, 

(arabic wedding song sung to the bride)

 

The Dead Sea

Used to be alive 

She had a woman and a child

 

And she couldn’t live at home she said

She wandered lost

She wandered west

To the place where the bibles 

Spoke of gods

All their temples and their floods

They hung her on a cross 

She is a language no one dared 

To talk 

Sweet bleeding palms 

And the breeze of death 

They buried her

She is a roaring breath

 

Time melts out her eyes

As her heart is bleeding 

Quarter tones 

And she sails on this song 

 

We’tmakhtari ya helwa ya zena

We’tmakhtari ya helwa ya zena

 

Sweet bleeding palms

And the breeze of death 

They buried me

I am a roaring breath 

 

 

 

 

 

THE FALL

 

I’ve been strongly forced to believe 

That even if it’s the worst 

The most critical is to feel

One song that touches her

Touching you

The stars of my universe 

Are falling all the way down through

 

Faking smiles observing the times

My dear I think I am poisoned inside

This Berlin summer and purple rain

A dark blue moon 

And a bitter aching pain 

 

Two hearts I knew I always had

One baby boy in this pink bleeding land 

One’s for you one’s in a green soldier's hand 

My dear I fell I’m so sorry I could not stand

I loved the very few that you showed 

You wanted more than I’ll ever know

8 months and 9 years of passion grown 

And one shitty experience of a broken black hole 

 

Two hearts I knew I always had

One baby boy in this pink bleeding land 

One’s for you one’s in a green soldier's hand 

My dear I fell I’m so sorry I could not stand

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THE CLOWN
 

The clown could not make you laugh no more

The priest could not make you pray 

The joker hides in your deck he comes 

with a dance invites you to play 

The lovers hide in the cave practicing love,

 

Oh love,

The past climbs up the hill screaming 

your name and all that you’ve done

Entertainers they all weep so bad backstage 

And give you the show of your life 

And the audience my dear is thirsty consumes 

All the Arab milk and the orange Jews 

This is a song for all of you to cry on 

This is a song for all of you to cry on 

 

The war, yes ladies and gentlemen and everybody else,

The war. 

The war climbs up my chest 

“Take me with you!”

She whispers so gently so sexy so violently quiet sometimes

The preachers' tongues are broke I heard

They left me waiting for years

My eyes could not see them no more

And the nation is blind

“Such one of a kind you are” she said.

Don’t confuse the mirage with the black hole you see 

The walls are bending and melting from heat-t-t-t-t

This is a song for all of you to cry on 

This is a song for all of you to cry on 

 

The mother 

You see yourself in her eyes

Do you know who you are really 

Do you know where to go 

Do you know why aren’t you there

So tenderly warm and safe and numb in your nest 

Oh raven please! Spread your wings! 

Go be all ugly wherever you go 

Oh bluebird look how you fly so high

Could you please bring some clouds down here

I’ll play with them nicely 

I won’t make them rain 

I know that you know that the art people 

tend to be slightly depressed 

 

This is a song for all of you to cry on 

This is a song for all of you to cry on 

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ASHES

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Oh my dear

I cannot sleep

Are you daemons,

Calling my name?

 

Your lips they tame the flame of your tongue 

As it burns and it softens in pain as you speak

 

And your big blue eyes as oceans alive

And my ashes remain in the room as you leave

 

The floor is moaning 

From the touch of your feet

And your steps are covered in gold as you leave

 

Oh my dear I cannot sleep

And my ashes remain in the room as you leave

 

I starve under moonlight

And I hide from the sun 

In shame of my skin 

And my face 

and this soul 

 

Please just go now 

I shall allow you to keep 

Yourself to yourself

And to others 

Sometimes

 

My door will be locked

And you know where’s the key

 

And my ashes remain in the room as you leave 

And my ashes remain in the room as you leave

And my ashes remain in the room as you leave 

And my ashes remain in the room as you leave

 

Your lips they tame the flame of your tongue 

As it burns and it softens in pain as you speak

 

Oh my dear this could not be 

And my ashes remain in the room as you leave

And my ashes remain in the room as you leave

 

 

 

CAT LADY

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I am the cat lady touching children after school

The moroccan knife I cut your fingers little fool

I am the witch in Berlin keep you near yet from afar

I’m the one abandoned in the back seat of your car

 

I am the big man loving women away from home

The mistress giving life and dying slowly on my own

I’m the drunken boy in a body of a man 

I’m the tree you ripped from the heart of this land

 

My heart is a lullaby I can never sing in tune

Andmy soul is a flood on a lonely afternoon

And my guide is a French Bulldog! Oh she came!

He’d never been to France, he’s too young to know his name

 

My love is a poet lost lonely on the road

My love is a child begging on your door

My love is a rabbit sneaking from your hat

My love is the magic, the prayer and the curse

My love is a white wind burning in your eyes

My love is the silence only you could have 

My love is a beauty hiding in the sheets 

My love is a dancer falling freely on her knees

My love is tornados, earthquakes and an ark 

My love is a boy walking fast in through the dark 

My love is a candle melting on your cake 

My love is a wish you should never wish to make

My love is a girl with a twisted little jaw

My love is the world this pair of eyes saw

 

I am the man you never learned to trust 

I am the woman bleeding every month 

I am the girl no one asked to dance

I am the little lion roaring on the grass 

 

 

 

A LONELY SNAKE DANCE

 

I have your blood in my veins

And your shame on my shoulders

 

All the tigers in the cage 

Are acting pussies on the streets

 

All the rebels are running away to the shores

Waiting for the ark to free their souls away from home

 

And I can speak of longing and belonging forever

And I can tell you all about the crown of thorns on my head

 

I can hide up on the branch and wait for it to break 

And I can make the lonely snake on the tree of sins dance

 

I’ll take a bite from the apple

And spit it in your face

Patience has commited suicide in ‘48

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LOVER, LOVER , LOVER

 

I asked my father
I said, "Father, change my name"
The one I am using now is covered up
With fear, filth, coward decisions

Lover, lover, lover
Lover, lover
Come back to me
Lover, lover
Come back

He said, "I loved you in this body"
I meant it as a kind of trust
You can use it for a weapon
Or to make a woman smile

Lover, lover, lover
Lover, lover
Come back to me
Lover, lover
Lover, lover, lover
Lover, lover

"Please let me start again, " I cried
Please let me start again
I want a face that is fair this time
I want a spirit that is calm

Lover, lover, lover, lover
Come back to me
Lover, lover
Lover, lover, lover, lover

It was you who covered up my face
It was you who covered up my face

Lover, lover, lover
Lover, lover
Come back to me
Lover, lover
Lover, lover, lover
Lover, lover

May the spirit of this song
May it drives you and free
May it be a shield for all lovers
A shield against the enemy
May the spirit of this song
May it rest

 

 

 

 

TEA SONG

 

Some days I feel I’m out of words

My language broke to three

My prison cell is very nice today

Why don’t you come for tea

And we’ll go

From here

And we’ll go 

From here

 

How will I know how to feel

How we felt

When we felt 

What freedom feels like

Numb I grew, I see too much 

It is never enough you will see 

 

When the silence is loud 

It’s too cold to go out 

I long for the love of thee

I gave two of my hearts 

The moon kept me awake 

Wondering where I’ll go from here

And I’ll go 

From here

And I’ll go 

From here

 

I’ll go I’ll fall again I yell

I always felt misunderstood

Oh words I wrote 

I sang a few songs 

It’s been way too long for this

It’s been too long 

For this 

It’s been too long 

For this

 

Tell me my love

Why don’t you speak?

Do I talk too much?

Should I listen?

Don’t weep I am too young to know

How love must grow, you know I ache 

Don’t you know?

I ache

Don’t you know? 

I ache 

 

Some days I feel I’m out of words

My language broke to three

My prison cell is very nice

It is very nice…

 

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HEY

Did you see me 

By the water today

My body is cold now 

My heart is old

 

Are you coming to my hiding place

I’ll sing you songs in wonder

 

Hey 

Where will I go 

My love?

 

Can you touch 

Can you touch my skin 

Will you let me go now

 

Did you look through 

The window today 

Time is not waiting 

For any of us 

 

Hey 

Where will I go

My love?