December

Throw a well-aimed stone and the ripples in the proverbial pond outline the frame of a coherent picture. I think I have been played. Now, enter the repercussions.

Cielo e terra

Birthday: the unfortunate event of entering this time and space, and this god-forsaken rock of a planet at the ass-end of the galaxy

Independence Day

Taken from the tower of the Villa Sirk'aho, 6th December 2010

Anima

Today sunrise is godlike,
the last spirit to fall is coming home
The hardwood floor feels like marble,
so cold, so empty, and without soul
Your head against the window,
you wish for the night to fall
The light burns your tired eyes,
you feel nothing at all

Silence comes to tell you why the moment never came,
the rest is different loneliness, it has no name

And I wonder if it rains in Paris tonight,
like it rains down in my hemisphere
I wonder if this all remained the same, remained undone,
should I board a plane for an easy out here

The beauty of the old world, the towers and walls of stone
a church to heal this hurt in, or a Christmas all alone
And I don't speak the language, I can't understand a word they say,
right now it doesn't bother me, I am a ghost here without a name

The soundtrack for this evening,
through the laughter and smoke comes her holy ghost
Shining through all the annui, all the broken dreams
and all the perished thoughts
"Get out of my heart", I cry into the night,
but there is nothing but rain and remand
I can almost touch this flame withering, with trembling hands I can

Tonight I take it to the streets, let the cruelness of sidewalks disappear,
for they are broken, broken like everything in my heart
In a world where it always rains, each night is like a demand,
no, "no one, not even the rain, has such small hands"

Written gradually during 2000 and 2001. Edited and revised on the 5th of December 2010. Out of everything I have ever written, both musically and lyrically, I feel "Anima" has always captured, at least to me personally, something significant. After ten years I still find it relevant and worth a form of evolution.

The Distance to Here

Oh desert speak to my heart
Oh woman of the earth
Maker of children who weep for love
Maker of this birth
'Til your deepest secrets are known to me
I will not be moved
I will not be moved

"Don't try to find the answer
When there ain't no question here
Brother let your heart be wounded
And give no mercy to your fear"

Adam and Eve live down the street from me
Babylon is every town
It's as crazy as it's ever been
Love's a stranger all around

In a moment we lost our minds here
And lay our spirit down
Today we lived a thousand years
All we have is now

Run to the water
And find me there
Burnt to the core but not broken
We'll cut through the madness
Of these streets below the moon
These streets below the moon

And I will never leave you

'Til we can say,
"This world was just a dream
We were sleepin' now we are awake"
'Til we can say

In a moment we lost our minds here
And dreamt the world was round
A million mile fall from grace
Thank God we missed the ground

Run to the water
And find me there
Burnt to the core but not broken
We'll cut through the madness
Of these streets below the moon
With a nuclear fire of love in our hearts

Yeah, I can see it now lord
Out beyond all the breakin' of waves
And the tribulation
It's a place and the home of ascended souls
Who swam out there in love!

Run to the water
And find me there
Burnt to the core but not broken
We'll cut through the madness
Of these streets below the moon
With a nuclear fire of love in our hearts

Rest easy baby, rest easy
And recognize it all as light and rainbows
Smashed to smithereens and be happy
Run to the water (and find me there)
Run to the water

--Ed Kowalczyk

Absolute

I am a railroad track abandoned,
with the sunset forgetting I ever happened,
that I ever happened.
-- Jeff Buckley, "Opened Once"