Music for the moment.

[bzarcher]

Cardinal Directions

I split the atom of one second
Choosing history's lathe
Each word summons now the next
A master to his slave
Countless links
Within some silent chain
And time becomes the sediment that drifts to algae
Divorced from comets' trains
In the East a reflection
Of the Western sunset
North, South, pole to pole
Turn back in regret
And to the East I might stumble
To the West I would crawl
And if North is the winter
Then South is the fall

And if I had my way
I'd make the clock rewind
I'd live again that moment
Though I know I'll never find
The future that I missed
A parallel line
Where the world would be so bright
That it could make us all go blind
And if I had my day
There's so much I'd reclaim
The sanctity of motion
The neverending rain
The cardinal directions
All pointing to the past
Where realities converge
And for a moment, we're the same
(As always)

And magnets spin the compass
In an embryonic flame
Somewhere is the promise
Of an uncharted trail
With seven hundred branching limbs
And seven hundred ways to fail
To the East a reflection
Of the new moon in the West
Her timeless watch is quiet
Over tides of her unrest
To the North is the current
Of a man breathing out
Giving birth to the breeze
To be inhaled in the South
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Engel

Wer zu Lebzeit gut auf Erden
wird nach dem Tod ein Engel werden
Den Blick 'gen Himmel fragst du dann
warum man sie nicht sehen kann

Erst wenn die Wolken schlafengehn
kann man uns am Himmel sehn
Wir haben Angst und sind allein

Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein

Sie leben hinterm Sonnenschein
getrennt von uns unendlich weit
Sie müssen sich an Sterne krallen (ganz fest)
damit sie nicht vom Himmel fallen

Erst wenn die Wolken schlafengehn
kann man uns am Himmel sehn
Wir haben Angst und sind allein

Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein

Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein

Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein

Erst wenn die Wolken schlafengehn
kann man uns am Himmel sehn
Wir haben Angst und sind allein

Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein

Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein

Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein

Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein

Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein
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English translation
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Who in their lifetime is good on Earth
will become an angel after death
A glance to Heaven then you ask
why you can not see them

Only once the clouds go to sleep
can you see us in Heaven
we are afraid and are alone

God knows I don't want to be an angel

They live behind the sunshine
separate from us endlessly far
they must claw to stars (really tightly)
so that they do not fall from Heaven

Only once the clouds go to sleep
can you see us in Heaven
we are afraid and are alone

God knows I don't want to be an angel

God knows I don't want to be an angel

God knows I don't want to be an angel

Only once the clouds go to sleep
can you see us in Heaven
we are afraid and are alone

God knows I don't want to be an angel

God knows I don't want to be an angel

God knows I don't want to be an angel

God knows I don't want to be an angel

God knows I don't want to be an angel