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every seaman's got a favourite spaceship

by binoculers

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1.
Lions 03:51
I am in tears I am in deep water when I come up, I’ll be sober and walk along the roads next to my house with leaky shoes on my dripping wet feet In a corner I lie in wait for my lions they’ll surely cross my way then I’ll invite them to stay I will not turn away because lions are good when they’re in their right places beat time to my trips and my chaos creations and I’ll walk along the roads far from my house, my habits, my loads take me to somewhere new and when finally I’m out of this town no excuses will be around and when finally I’m out of this country every possibility will be here with me
2.
I live inside a snail’s shell and one day I’ll grow together with it I’ll never be conflicting with my home no “should I stay or should I go” my house is my companion someday I’ll not be separated from it I’m gonna furnish it with my defects they’ll be repaired by a “do-it-yourself-effect” I live upon a hillside underneath an aerial passenger line and when I need some farsightedness my house turns into a gondola I live inside a snail’s shell and when you walk by When you walk by to meet me I’ll hide in the chimney so please keep your voice still and drop your eyes pretend not to see me, like I was disguised I’ll put a warning at my front door "this is collapsing, don’t come closer”
3.
dear, rambling eyes let me take you by surprise I wanna take a ride with you wanna see as far as you do. if we landed on the top of a hill would you please stand still? I know you rather travel fast but would you please at last stand still upon this hill? dear, roaming mind let me share in what you find I wanna take a ride with you wanna know as much as you do. and in the evening when our needs are too strong we’ll be supplied with our inventions as long as we are asleep and the secrets that we keep will be easy in the morning sun
4.
Stones 02:08
I catch myself as a balloon easily, but very soon I’ll be come a ball, every time I fall closer to the ground at last I will become a stone stones are lazy, stones are grey hard to carry, never change their way as I can’t move you don’t stand still I’m hard to carry but you will sweep away my stony shape I’m only numb until I break
5.
On the sun 02:00
in my eyes the sun will play she’s a planet you are gonna stay on build a house which will not burn on her safe and solid ground and her fire is pleasing you never strong enough to kill you keeping you warm, keeping you still and I will take care of you while you’re sleeping you are placed in one of my eyes on the sun
6.
Snakes 04:08
when will my thoughts mellow? they crawl like snakes upon my pillow I cannot fall asleep I sing along with his breath to find my own quietness but I don’t fall asleep of all the nights of all dark nights I’ve never been that small I walk on a thread then I count every step but I don’t fall asleep I lock the doors but still the snakes come through the cracks surround me crawl up the walls and start to hiss my mind is placed inside a ball I try to kick it through the wall the ball is heavy, hurts my feet this is my way to fall asleep
7.
now I wish your house is open where I stamped my feet where I smashed your windows scratched your memories I chew my words but I don’t tell you why I always change instead I paint your favourite spaceship you say “it’s not the time for habits when you want to be free” I try to put myself in your place but I fall back into mine all the time you say “tt’s not the time for habits…” instead I paint your favourite spaceship
8.
Seaman-like 02:10
seamanlike with the high-tide away from here I stay on the shore wave a good-bye dressed in a narrow dress like a rag-doll and all my needs -not sure if they are mine- put them under a watch glass so they’ll be taken away by the time I fly a kite into the night I hide my eyes in the black sky where they go blind seamanlike with the high-tide away from here
9.
Mirrorball 02:52
talking fast you are sight-reading your thoughts write them down on the carpet, on the ground put them up on the shelves and in the washing machine where they get clean I’m far behind where your phrase on a fast train just passed me by but at the end of this conversation at the end of all attempts at an interpretation I am painting the wallpapers white again and your thoughts in the middle of a room like the lights of a mirror ball they turn me around they turn me around then I fall asleep
10.
Chestnuts 03:25
I spend my night in a box with stars in the lid sparkling and feeding my eyes underneath my mattress is a submarine that keeps me awake with its motor-voice I listen to the quiet sound of suitcases carried by my window let’s leave in the night to be far from home when the sun is rising but I travel in the math of my mind every step is unreal in prefabricated situations the people I meet never say what they think I wanna find flowers and leaves and chestnuts and take them all home
11.
Paintbox 02:41
once our love was like a generous paint box we were doing fine for a long long time we fixed ourselves inside the colours and never made a difference as we liked them all the same but we could not maintain this colourful feeling the colours started to blend we are placed in grey but still we pretend to see their great variety I was never sure: “which colour is the one that you adore?” that’s when I lost it and I became as white as a wall and as black as a fly
12.
in your dream you own everything twice you have super-sized eyes stretched once around your head so unweary you are blooming in the day and gleaming in the night like a tree of wax you never sway in your dream you are enabled to get in every splendid building every secret cave and your eyes grab what they see your hands take it away your grape-shaped dream wriggles on the screen behind your eyes will it ever be ripe? in my dream your eyes are in their right place focused on mine modest all the time in my dream your eyes are in their right size focused on mine not distracted by the night my grape-shaped dream wriggles on the screen behind my eyes will it ever be ripe?

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released November 11, 2009

all songs written and played by nadja rüdebusch, except violins on "easy in the morning sun" and "snakes" by karsten deutschschmann; recorded, mixed and mastered by karsten deutschmann at gentle art studio, hamburg june 2009; artwork by hanne frank, cover construction by walter welke

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binoculers Hamburg, Germany

a binoculer is a person whose inner side can be looked at through binoculars.
(if you meet one:) just put the two glasses right up against his or her eyes and look through them from the other side. from the binoculer's point of view you are miles away now.
for safe operation of the binculer it is highly recommended that the binoculars be changed around regularly, allowing both perspectives. ... more

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