Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.
– Rabih Alameddine – An Unnecessary Woman
Pretend to feeling fine
But inside we’re crying sometimes
It ain’t what it seems
Nothing but a dream
And the faces get a void
And the lines get to thin
And the roads become uneven
So we don’t know where’ve we been …
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zm1lbSLZ4SU
Fritz Kalkbrenner – Facing The Sun
Between pleasure and pain exists a fluid line
I’ve let it happen again
To fall in love
If you break someones heart they say that you are unkind
I’ve let it happen again
To break my heart
And even though I could lose my heart
To someone wrong
I know that I’d do it, I know that I would do it again …
I guess you already know that old habits die hard
But I keep telling you though
That I’m still that way
It takes me so long to learn from mistakes
I should have known better
Before
What I tell you now is my secret
So don’t tell anyone
That I am hurt
It takes me so long to learn from mistakes
I should have known better
Before
Can’t you learn from mistakes
Enough is enough
And after a time soft hands are getting rough …
Lyrics by Sophie Schnell
She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.
– Rabih Alameddine –
I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That’s how much I loved you. That’s how much.
– Rabih Alameddine –
She would search for him.
In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
But there was no way there.
– Edith Pattou – East
I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
– Hermann Hesse –
Why do you so earnestly seek
the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the
bottom of your own heart.
– Ryokan –
satomipoema 