First, it's not a digipack but packed in a jewlbox with transparent disc bay.
The artwork has been compiled into an 8 page booklet and completely copied with all credits and references. The art director made a small mistake: page 2 and 3 are left- and right aligned, but pages 4 and 5 are both right aligned and page 6 and 7 left aligned.
The disc is a copy of the original but not as sharp as the original. Alse, the print on the disc is 'distorted' by a thin line in the disc.
Your poetry describing me It doesn't come close You work the handle You smear and turn But you come no closer to meaning
It's your vanity That's obvious It embarasses Those that adore you But who's gonna talk Oh how it'll hurt You were always unstable But you've gotten worse
You looked into mirrors Where death was at work Of that you were certain But it was all surface And surface is numb
Something to wake us From cultural slumbers You fucking sleepwalkers Go on and sleep
Oh honey take me out I’m a deadman Oh baby bake me something sweet Oh honey take me out I’m a deadman Oh baby give me bread to eat
There are places in the damp Northwest where The bodies lie down head to feet There were losses in the California sunshine Tell you stories that you can’t repeat
In the winter when the valley’s flooded Those were times where the rooms were cheap The summer dirt lines the corner’s of your pockets I’m still buried there ten feet deep
Papa don’t place this curse on me Heaven knows I can’t use it Papa don’t place this stone on me Mama there’s no future in it
We travel on the back roads lightly Through Castle City and through the hills beyond Me and Joan on the Sacramento Me and Joan this is where we’re from
Oh honey take me out I’m a deadman Oh baby bake me something sweet Oh honey take me out I’m a deadman Oh baby give me bread to eat
Papa don’t place this curse on me Heaven knows I can’t use it Papa don’t place this curse on me Mama there’s no future in it
Oh honey take me out I’m a deadman Oh baby bake me something sweet Oh honey take me out I’m a deadman Oh baby give me bread to eat
Oh honey where’s the colours of the springtime? The pale green of an organdy dress Her shadow grows in the California sunshine But nothing else in the south south-west
Great track featuring Joan Wasser (Joan As Policewoman). On the Sleepwalkers re-issue, the voice of Joan Wasser is far more distinctive than on the Slope version.
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Angels
High in the architecture Something’s moving Unrecognisable spirit Dislocated
It’s the wrong climate No humidity Humming humidity
It’s fate belongs to another time Another place
Projections on fallen masonry Ghosts of a once pagan place Standing empty I stand empty
Dead echoes don’t come back His stopped cut out Fuck you
Nothing ever happens Unbelieving no one’s receiving A vessel filled Held and spilled Nothing
A trace from another time Another place
It’s simple You don’t exist You can’t possess me You lose on a technicality
World Citizen - I won't be disappointed / looped piano
What happened here? The butterfly has lost its wings The air's too thick to breathe And there's something in the drinking water
The sun comes up The sun comes up and you're alone Your sense of purpose come undone The traffic tails back to the maze on 101
And the news from the sky Is looking better for today In every single way But not for you
World Citizen
World Citizen
It's not safe All the yellow birds are sleeping Cos the air's not fit for breathing It's not safe Why can't we be Without beginning, without end? Why can't we be?
World Citizen
World Citizen
And if I stop And talk with you awhile I'm overwhelmed by the scale Of everything you feel The lonely inner state emergency
I want to feel Until my heart can take no more And there's nothing in this world I wouldn't give
I want to break The indifference of the days I want a conscience that will keep me wide awake
I won't be disappointed I won't be disappointed I won't be.
I saw a face It was a face I didn't know Her sadness told me everything about my own
Can't let it be When least expected there she is Gone the time and space that separates us
And I'm not safe I think I need a second skin No I'm not safe
World Citizen
World Citizen
I want to travel by night Across the steppes and over seas I want to understand the cost Of everything thats lost I want to pronounce all their names correctly
World Citizen
World Citizen
I won't be disappointed I won't be.
She doesn't laugh We've gone from comedy to commerce And she doesn't feel the ground she walks upon
I turn away And I'm not sleeping well at night And while I know this isn't right What can you do?
I won't be disappointed I won't be disappointed I won't be.
World Citizen - I won't be disappointed / looped piano
Originally found on Ryuichi Sakamoto Chasm album
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Five Lines
Five lines
Five lines
With which he marked time
Five lines flared from the ovens
He pulled the ribbons from their hair
With melodies beaten from the sheets of his mother
Songs for the end of time
Five lines
Return the birds to their singing
The sun fell, should we leave it to the foxes?
The sun fell from the sky
Leave it to its wits and its devices
The sun fell from the sky in the form of a stag
Buried deep in the forest
And that’s where he felled it
A blow to the head
That left it unconscious
Nothing further was said
We’ll set a place for him
We’ll set a place then
For he had tried
Blood, bone, feathers to the sky
Even in flight
Nothing could have spared him
Five lines
Five lines flared from the oven
Five lines with which he marked out time
Leave him for the foxes
Leave him for the foxes
lyrics provided with kind permission by brokensky.net
On the dvd of COIEDA, the video Exit/Delete_first_sight features an instrumental version of this track.
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Pure Genius
oh, the lights are blinking here’s the great deceiver bling, bling all bets are off it goes unnoticed if not for me it goes unnoticed
find another record play another record it could be anything I play the jukebox I play the dj I could be vice, FBI I played the imbecile And no one noticed And no one noticed
oh boy, come see the plans they’re pure genius pure genius oh boy, come see the plans
oh, you wouldn’t notice here they come see them tumble my lucky numbers here they come i’ve got lots of secrets man, I’ve lots of secrets you’re my number one and you’re my number one
oh boy, come see the plans they’re pure genius pure genius oh boy, get with the program, man come see the plans they’re pure genius you understand, you understand
oh, the lights are blinking turn off the stereo it wears the batteries they’re double A’s come morning I’ll sleep like a dog And dream of numbers My lucky numbers
The second colaboration between tweaker (Chris Vrenna) and David Sylvian.
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Wonderful World
It’s a wonderful world And you take and you give And the sun fills the sky In the space where you live
It’s a day full of dreams It’s a dream of a day And the joy that it brings Nearly sweeps her away
It’s a wonderful world As the buildings fall down And you quicken your step ‘til your feet leave the ground And you’re soaring above All the sorrow below And you’re falling in love With those you don’t know
And your heart feels so wide And your heart fills so strong It was never a place That you felt you belonged
It’s a wonderful world Full of wonderful things And the people fall down And abandon their dreams
(I hear him, he’s talking out loud Sometimes he whistles while walking How could he know any better? I weep for him, I weep for him now)
It’s a wonderful world It’s a real crying shame Cos she’s hurting herself In a violent way And there’s people she knows That won’t even try And they’re trapped in their lives Feeling terrified And it’s in times like these That she promised to call But the scale of our love Is diminished and small
It’s a wonderful world And she doesn’t know why She wakes up each day And continues to cry
(He’s sleeping his troubles away He’s finding it too hard to bear I’m with him every step of the way I weep for him, I weep for him now)
It’s a wonderful world And you take and you give And the sun fills the sky In the space where you live
David's first commission on a Fennesz album after Christian's marvellous textures on Fire In A Forest.
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The World Is Everything
The world is everything The world is everything And I move close But you move closer And out of the spring And into the summer And out of the dark Into the blessing of others The table of goods The bright bolt of lightning And she loves him there once But she's still not through fighting
And you can't swallow it But you can't spit it out It's there in her hair It's coming out of her eyes To taste her is bitter But the world is alive And the world is everything The world is everything The world is everything
Bonus track on the The World Is Everything 2007 tourbook sampler.
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Thermal
Morning, you lay sleeping
Your small body clinging tightly to mine
With frightening dependency
Life defining, impossible to betray
And with that…
The mattress rose
Set adrift on the burgeoning emotional tide
Colliding with the once stationary objects
Of an uninhabited life
What had been concealed
Was exhaled from god knows where
Colour-drained, unsalvageable
Shape shifting
And, with function relinquished
Resigned from service
Two blue sleeping bags
Nudged against one another
Bearing the once warm imprint of our bodies
The sun-baked stone garden
Retracted its promise
It was cold in that place of perpetual summer
If you were afraid you didn’t show it
You who were born bearing the face
Of irrepressible grief
So as not to disappoint you
I lay motionless
Rapt by the rise and stall of your breathing
Your fingertips and thighs
Quietly affirming my place at your side.
There are many rooms and many faces When you're on the run, you run out of places I'm on your side I am your sugar fuel
I'll find where it hurts I'll be the wound in you I'm on your side
When the drugs take hold I will touch you I will touch you When the words fall short I will kiss you I will kiss …..
I'm on your side So let me punish you I'm on your side I'll be your sugar fuel When all your thoughts are dark And all your dreams are blue
I'm with you You're on your stomach You can't speak You're suffocating in this heat Well if we suffer is that wrong? What doesn't kill us makes us strong
Were you pushed or did you slip? I'm tasting blood upon your lips The door is locked The floor is greased And if your screams should break the peace I'm on your side So let me finish you
I'm on your side So let me punish you I'm on your side I'll be your sugar fuel When all your thoughts are dark And all your dreams are blue
I'm with you I'm with you Sugar When all your thoughts are dark And all your dreams are blue
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