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Åh, så mitt hjärta slår
när mitt i livets virvelvind jag står.
En annan jag idag än igår,
men i samma lag vi spelar du och jag.
Vi förväntas – och ni med –
vi förväntas att äta upp med sked dessa regler
och tacka för maten.
Tacka för maten, va' mätt och belåten.
Men hjärtat sviker och hjärnan skäms...
Är vi i samma lag, du där och jag?
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Oslo. July.
06:42
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In this pink hotel room love will last forever.
With blood stains on the sheets, whispers under duvets.
And the hungry worm crawling closer.
And the pulsating Oslo blood stream behind the window.
Like images of a childhood's nest, I expected this frame
to remain untouched, for it to be frozen in time.
But too late, alas!, my brain already interfered:
–Remember you said you were using my body?
–You said you were only using my body.
And now I can't just keep the memory from falling apart in me.
My brain always reinterpreting, idealising, withdrawing, multiplying.
What's left can never be what was there, then.
What's left is just a fish-hook in my throat,
and a bitter broken heart.
***
It is mid-July.
The earth has been so dry since June, or even May...
and this is the first rain in ages.
It is also the first rain that many seagull-babies see
and many sprouts see.
Everything has been so dry for so long,
so today the rain is our saviour.
We drink you together and thank heaven
or the gods or mother nature
or pure coincidence.
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C of leaves
06:02
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hommikuhall
su pea soojus veel tund tagasi siinsamas padjal
nagu ka viiskümmend ja sada aastat
ja igavesti tagasi
ja edasi
this is a sea of leaves
a complete sea of leaves
if you lose something you can't find it – it drops down to the bottom
kask tantsib, kui sind suudlen
tule juba,
tee jahtub
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28, in flames
04:24
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I am so afraid of what's beyond my gaze.
What's beyond my knowledge I cannot be certain of.
Passionless I stare out on the world from
the fifth floor where I live with you.
But is this really life, and is it really mine?
Rise, oh fires, to the sky!
Meet my fears, oh flames, and burn them.
Light a fire inside me instead –
I know there's some old glow left there waiting.
I was so afraid, but it will be okay.
As long as you're beside me, I don't need to know
what's beyond the next horizon,
don't need to climb that mountain,
don't need to own it all.
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Juta
03:51
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Täna saad sa lõpuks voodist tõusta.
Käed panna mulda, suudelda teda.
Mul on kahju, et sind päriselt ei tundnud,
aga hea meel, et olid mu elus.
Ära karda, mine edasi – valgus paistab.
Täna oled lõpuks vangist prii –
ära karda, mine edasi.
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寿司の音楽 yesyesyes
04:02
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'I haven't seen you around for a while
what's happened?' (you all ask)
Well, sorry dear friends,
that I don't answer doesn't mean I don't care
'Sorry little crabfish –
that I don't eat you just means I love you,'
I said to a crabfish when accidentally ordering non-vegetarian sushi
And in case you (really) wanna know
I've been waiting, loving, seeing, becoming myself
and writing these songs
音楽 をしました
I'm sorry little crabfish –
that I don't eat you just means I love you.
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mundane magic
06:46
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Haven't much to say about this life.
I'm not the one to tell wrong from right.
Haven't much to sing except this line.
You mind yours, and I'll mind mine.
And maybe we'll meet some other time.
Untied, undressed, unveiled.
'Ambitions?' you ask, and I will tell:
'To be at peace, to leave no trace.'
'But don't you want babies?'
'I don't know...Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depending on which side wins, the biological or the intellectual...'
Beyond this life, beyond myself –
what's left behind? What will become?
The truth unveils, the truth undresses.
And it is not nice.
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woolgathering
02:54
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(snow melting)
(old home-made guitar)
(playing some chords and voices humming)
(sledding down a hill in thick snow)
Så!
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Liis Ring Gothenburg, Sweden
Liis Ring is a (sound) artist, photographer, bird watcher and idealist based in Göteborg, Sweden.
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