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lyrics

i had a dream when i was young
on a lightfield in consonance we were building
a tower of glass
a mountain of windows
and we knew our name
human kind

we each had a tongue of our own yet
we all spoke the same language
communicated through
the rushing of our blood
the beating of our hearts and
the yearnings of our minds and souls

but when i woke
i found myself trapped cornered
locked inside a box of two-way mirrors
feeding on the reflections of my own imagination

in reality there was no dream language
during all that time i'd only been talking to myself
and for the first time in my life
i felt completely numb
naïve disgusted voiceless empty and alone


sometimes all i want is to sleep
forever
never again
i've long reached that point where
i stopped counting how many

how many times
i've felt like this is my 1921
and i'm sitting on a train to nowhere
fleeing the ruins of my greatest truth

how many times
i've felt like this is my 1999
and i'm just finished writing my last play
ready to stage the epilogue
before the premiere

but every time i lapse back into that mood
every time i bang my head against that wall
and wish for my skull to burst into a thousand pieces
there is always one more song that keeps me
some noise
created by someone else
in the same predicament
at some other moment in time

a reminder
that whatever i may feel
will always have been felt before
and that i'm not alone

a reminder
like a tune that comes suddenly out of nowhere

out of all the great lines i've heard
this is one of the best
this is one of the biggest to me right now

because i want to

i'm sick and tired of being called a utopian
for daring to believe
in what everyone so readily claims to be
good people
and i refuse to be branded a fundamentalist
for demanding full unconditional and immediate
realization of all the basic human rights
all the ethical principles
this our civilization pretends to stand for

i'm no longer afraid of ruins
cause every fall's just one step on our way
forward
we must strive
and if words are really nothing but words
we must create new noise
to express
reassess
dismantle
and rebuild
for in this culture of elevators and trapdoors
we will never be truly human

i want to be truly
human
humane
that's why i'm staying

i'll always be a builder
come what may
i'll keep going
as if nothing ever happened
sing sing

credits

from Soundtrack for a sleepless night (Studio recording), released June 8, 2007
Music and lyrics written by Jeff Hemmer aka afurnishedsoul.
All instruments played by Jeff Hemmer, except:
drums - Arno Eschenauer
beats, choirs and soundscapes (except for the middle part) - Emre Sevindik
guest vocals - Raph Altmann

Recorded and mixed at LMB Studios, Medingen, by Ben Claus; mastered by Marko Schneider at Skywalk.
Physical release: Grand Duchy Grooves, 2007.

Cover artwork by Mishka Valente.

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