Dead Friends (Around the Corner)

 
 
Everything here is unchanged
it looks like everywhere
This whole area is out of my way
so I rarely come around here







Here are those who went
and those who were made to leave
Here are those for whom I appeared
in the last film in flight in free fall
Most of them are still very hungry
and they don't even have cigarettes
so they just cling to the ideas.








There is a place around the corner
where your dead friends live...

Some drift through places and thoughts
blind passengers in subways and busses
or they simply stand around and wait
Even those who couldn't wait any longer
here they have nothing else to do
Especially at night they are bothered by boredom







There is a place around the corner
where your dead friends live...

It is nothing
It is nothing
I call you by your old names
I do not change my tone of voice
I let them fall like they always fell
now that you are just not visible not touchable
and also unassailable
It's all still the the same
only you are waiting in between
not very far you're rather close
around the corner so to speak
around the corner so to speak
around the corner so to speak
It is nothing
It is nothing
It is nothing
It is

 Einstürzende Neubauten





 

Note: The photos of the post are from Lublin and Majdanek (PL). Majdanek or KL Lublin was a Nazi German concentration and extermination camp established on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. [more]
The day of my visit there a concert of Einstürzende Neubauten was on.

You Never Can Tell

It was a teenage wedding,

and the old folks wished them well

You could see that Pierre

did truly love the mademoiselle




 

And now the young monsieur

and madame have rung the chapel bell,

"C'est la vie", say the old folks,

it goes to show you never can tell

They furnished off an apartment

with a two room Roebuck sale

The coolerator was crammed

with TV dinners and ginger ale,




 

But when Pierre found work,

the little money comin' worked out well

"C'est la vie", say the old folks,

it goes to show you never can tell

They had a hi-fi phono, boy, did they let it blast

Seven hundred little records,

all rock, rhythm and jazz

But when the sun went down,

the rapid tempo of the music fell

"C'est la vie", say the old folks,

it goes to show you never can tell

They bought a souped-up jitney,

'twas a cherry red '53,

They drove it down New Orleans

to celebrate their anniversary

It was there that Pierre was married

to the lovely mademoiselle

"C'est la vie", say the old folks,

it goes to show you never can tell

Chuck Berry

Calico

Your house was a good one

Though the yard was overgrown

And your shirts were all tailored

And my dresses were all calico

Oh, your bed was always covered

The black pants you wouldn't ware

That was part of the pattern

And it fit just like it should

When I released the spare room

I never sat in front of you

And through the thin wall

We heard our neighbors argue

But I couldn't just shut up and lie

I never let you have your last night

Your house was a good one

Though the yard was overgrown

Your shirts were all tailored

My dresses were all calico

Widowspeak

Deepest Shade

Fly...

The boy dead taked shade

Around yell down the line

His love she lost in mind.

But I....

I never flow let blind

Get through darkest wide.

They say it comes to you

My love I hope it's true

This deepest shade of blue

My love I give to you.

Take

Takes me baby

As I'm bleed

Owe love in you and me

The love unreal in me.

And I...

Love you until I die

I love you until tonight.

They say it comes to you

My love I hope it's true

This deepest shade of blue

My love I give to you.

Wait me and feel

My love for you it's real

You don't kiss me lied you did?

My love I give to you.

Mark Lanegan

The Search and Little Else

grew up in a maze where I was afraid of the moon

and in the haze of youth I went along to look for you

and it was miles and miles

miles and miles of twist and curve





 

and it was days and days

days and days with no stone left unturned

and in my younger years I thought I had for myself

an answer for everything at ready given me to help

and in the wilderness I often ran like hell

never to let give in I'm for the search and little else

Rue Royale

Marathon

Coconut Grove 

Is a very small cove 

separated from the sea 

by a shifting shoal 

we didn't realize that 

we had arrived 

at high tide, high tide 

barely made it out alive 

red over white 

fishermen working at night 

not even once 

did we see a light 

we didn't realize 

the forecast had been revised 

by moonless skies and

shifty wind that gusts and dies

on the sand our keel is heaving 

but tonight we've got to be leaving

travel through the day and into the evening 

Marathon how long we've been gone 

and still not yet set foot upon you 

your low lying shore opens welcomingly

to one who's spent the night at sea

Adrift in the shallows, a modest repose

adorn with coral, your bright colors show

ushered in through a bridge that is never closed.

Tennis