Tag: smoke

By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across–each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip–is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

– Rabih Alameddine – The Hakawati

And I was in a shuttered room …

alone inside the story

waiting for two to be you …

That is not supposed to keep you warm …

It could be a fire on the snow

I will always think of how to count off the hours

I could be the sonar

reading all of the sound …

Winter is so hollow

in the month of snow lion …

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VbQ0p9VMri4

Readymade FC – Snow Lion (feat. Feist)

Art : Sasha Samsonova

It doesn’t hurt me.

Do you want to feel how it feels?

Do you want to know that it doesn’t hurt me?

Do you want to hear about the deal that I’m making?

You, it’s you and me.

If I only could,

I’d make a deal with God,

And I’d get him to swap our places,

Be running up that road,

Be running up that hill,

Be running up that building.

If I only could, oh

You don’t want to hurt me,

But see how deep the bullet lies.

Unaware I’m tearing you asunder.

Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts.

Is there so much hate for the ones we love?

Tell me, we both matter, don’t we?

You, you and me.

It’s you and me won’t be unhappy.

If I only could,

I’d make a deal with God,

And I’d get him to swap our places,

Be running up that road,

Be running up that hill,

Be running up that building,

If I…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x5GuBa4Bbnw

Placebo – Running up that hill