COLLAGE (2000-2001)

 

1.           Measures

2.           Ubiquitous

3.           Alone

4.           [I get your message straight…]

5.           Queen Of Sin

6.           The Night

7.           You

8.           Painkiller

9.           Guide

10.       Geese

11.       Rush

 


 

MEASURES

 

the doctors won't measure

what they cannot see

they won't get access

to my hopes and dreams

the maths teachers cannot make

equations of my fears

the scientists can only sum

the volume of my tears

my innermost thoughts

are not to see

but, here you are - friend

it's written for thee.

 

UBIQUITOUS

 

Stop haunting me, please!

Get out of my dreams!

 

You're in the air that I breathe,

You hold my hand when I sleep,

You whisper words that I write,

You are my sword to protect, to fight.

 

You're in my prayer to the morning sun,

In sweet white coffee that I love to taste.

You're the missing last page in a thrilling crime story,

And a fresh green morning after a night fire of glory.

 

A forbidden thought I pretend not to cherish,

Which gives me strength and ties up my hands.

You let me fly high, but you steal my wings,

Without them I cannot run away.

 

ALONE

 

Alone again--

Lovely evenings with a bottle of wine

Only favourite music, candles' dim light

Nothing to complain or worry about

Every possible deed's justified by passing time

 

Alone again--

Glorious silence of strength tells me to shut up

And swallow the words I'd like to scream out

In my empty room your absence grows like a ghost-

Nothing's, however, going to happen anyway this night

 

Tried to sleep, so tired of life

Of false happiness, of the pain inside

Never have I wanted to be a fake like that

Ignore what I say, I am not myself -- once again.

Going to survive some-

How

This another lonely night.

 

***

 

I get your message straight

but it's not me

who's stolen the key

to your thoughts and dreams

 

you've done it yourself

secretly smuggling

through words and lines

sent direct to me

 

you've always stood so close beside,

with thoughts so distant and so far away-

not close enough to read my face, my lips-

to see my hands tremble with fear-

to get the wireless message they send-

W-I-S-H--Y-O-U--W-E-R-E--H-E-R-E

 

QUEEN OF SIN

 

crowned with red hair, ruby lips,

dress as tight as second skin,

you can't get your eyes off her-

there she comes - the Queen of Sin.

 

drowned in heaven, she is yours now,

in the ballroom you are in,

dancing here within your arms,

there she is, the Queen of Sin.

 

velvet red was every step

like the blood under her skin,

swirling to the beat of hearts-

later vanished Queen of Sin.

 

saw her when she span and shone,

her smile evil, crimson, mean,

she danced- yet another one

was close to the Queen of Sin.

 

with too good a memory,

the heroin of a poor film,

in a bed too vast to sleep

cries alone now Queen of Sin.

 

won't forget you even though

your namecard is in the bin

she just cannot let you close

'cause she is the Queen of Sin.

 

stained with pride and greed for freedom,

seduces and forgets the sin,

then she tries so much to remember

when her conscience was still clean.

 

THE NIGHT

 

the world kept knocking at the shut window

first once, then twice and thousand times

when we stayed there inside your cave

as black as coal, as dark as that night

 

I confided in you my dreams and hopes,

in there I smiled, I thought, I made

my own strange self of scattered pieces;

there you had helped me be myself

 

the night so short, your room closed tight,

even the wind did not get inside,

I could not simply leave it - so I stayed-

what's gone is just some lonely phantom

 

it hurts so much not being there

but that's the feeling I wanted

so the pain is a blessing

in my mind I'm still there and the night goes on---

 

there you have my thoughts

you owe me a penny

 

YOU

 

You make me say things

I desperately wanted to hear,

You yourself say the words

I longed for for so long, my dear,

For you it was easy to let me believe

That I truly deserve my name,

And that life is to be taken as it comes,

And not to be played like a game.

 

Almost year has passed since that tumultuous day

When I forgot how to laugh,

How to react to "Cheer up!",

Going on with each and every muscle tense

Like a desperate man just before the last jump.

 

And now that I've found the stronger inner light

I ask myself quite often

How to end this stupid fight.

Then I'm going to take

A deep relieving breath,

Inhale the morning breeze,

And send my enemies to fools' paradise

To bore to death and freeze...

 

PAINKILLER

 

I'd looked in every nook and cranny

To find a painkiller for my soul;

I looked in Heaven, I searched the Hell -

I travelled so long around the world

 

I found it close - too far-sighted I'd been

And then I saw you standing there for me.

Now, watching the clouds passing, taking various shapes,

I don't expect the rain

'Cause the sun's stroking my face.

 

The moment I entered your life

You let me feel relief

The pain has gone away -

For you I live and breathe…

 

GUIDE

 

I told my heart - my guide -

Well, dear, thy will be done -

I tasted and swallowed my pride,

And celebrated what others would mourn.

 

You lit a bright torch in the dark

To show me the way, to reveal the truth -

This lonely and blackened planet of mine

Moved a bit first; then started

Revolving around you.

 

GEESE

 

little geese giggling, peacocking around

with colourful make-up and summer clothes

are showing off with their beauty yet to come

together with tears and first sleepless nights.

 

their twittering topics keep moving the air

of careless stuffy holiday flavour.

laughing and smiling are to conceal their wisdom.

that beauty is wisdom's for them yet to know.

 

RUSH

 

keep running

keep thinking

don't stop when you're so close

keep trying

keep moving

it's not gonna wait for you

keep going

keep fixing

no one's gonna do it for you

keep chasing

keep rushing

one more step closer

to the horizon ---

the peace of your mind