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ordinary day

by the karlheinz cluster

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1.
someone else's dreams 05:09
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i saw her there in the cartoon singing about herself she looked down from there ran her mouth to the ground and though the weave is tight there's a lump in her head both of them were nervous as they started to shout i couldn't help but thinking she’s just a drop in the ocean out of the water out of sight she could see right into me now so bright you're good looking she was soft she was danger how could it be the cats are alright without you and they don't get on my nerves you're like a bad pun on fried eggs and the clock is out of order 
there’s something very wrong 
i'm not sick enough to be tossing up on someone else's dreams 
 so step aside step aside we can just have fun stop the clock it's just too late there's no need for alarm if it’s four in the morning and there's only one queen it's been a month since i've come alive come on baby don't get upset we’ll drink some beer i saw my ma with her hair in curlers on a tangled bender before the fire welcome to hollywood or heaven 
it's just shit like that sticks like glue through a screw nailed through a daisy chain 
 the cats are alright without you and they don't get on my nerves you're like a bad pun on fried eggs and the clock is out of order
 there is something very wrong
 i'm not sick enough to be tossing up on someone else's dreams
2.
terrible sad song 04:20
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your words are like magic that no one can wear and they're not like mine i've been walking around here with garbage in cans ribbons and bows i couldn't stop them walking on an elephant's tattered nose the panic stopped the clock i shut down the night i emptied ashtrays on my face made my mouth add insult to industry i grabbed a baseball bat shedding their ears clear off put my head in the clouds stomped it at the devil's place i should have dragged it on the chin instead this is a terrible sad song that I want you to hear i know you're missing it so please listen up while I pluck your brain out what the hell is it worth when the day comes on the night stands still there's nowhere else to go i swear the sky stood still i saw the metal detector when I stepped in the entrance and I sat beside the head of his bed on the side of the road so it seems to me as we're passing by but our voices fade from sight on the edge of the wall my heart breaks as we're stumbling through this fog i turn my head back on the horrible pain as he kicked me out screaming this is a terrible sad song that I want you to hear i know you're missing it so please listen up while I pluck your brain out what the hell is it worth when the day comes on the night stands still there's nowhere else to go, i swear the sky stood still
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burn the buildings 04:22
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this is the first day this is the last hour i don't want what I might get all the things I want to be when you come my way i’ll understand my walls tumble over i’m a prisoner in the doorway of your thoughtless greed you can’t say no i don’t belong inside it you do that is a mind full of dread hold the tongue and laugh i’m a prisoner inside the doorway of your thoughtless fear you can't say no i don’t belong inside it you do 
this is your mind full of dread i know i don't know you not even from now 
so climb out and hold on i want no one to feel the pain or feel the shame turn this world around burn the buildings down 
turn this world around burn the buildings down 
want no one to feel the pain to feel the shame 
turn this world around burn the buildings down

 with nothing to say
 with nothing to do so I gotta get on my own before the clock is dead
 the afternoon is uninvited 
 by something that isn't there someone’s speaking in another tongue 
 speaking through your eyes 
i want no one to feel the pain or feel the shame turn this world around burn the buildings down 
turn this world around burn the buildings down 
want no one to feel the pain to feel the shame 
turn this world around burn the buildings down

4.
welcome home 05:44
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i live inside the small 
 i live outside the wall in living or in dying 
 each day is so long make no great mistake 
i'm not afraid of heights 
 strangers come and go my spirit keeps sinking my face is made of stone for the lack of love shake the world away let me fall 

 on your face there are no words in your mouth there is no meaning the sky that you seek is out of place the moon has left no trace i was like a child thrown back into the rain i had to walk on the ocean all these words i have to say this is not the story of my life 
i keep a mask on every day is filled with metaphors 
that teach me nothing when everything's worn out by war so stop looking for answers there's no hiding place i have holes the size of buckets in my world
 i walked through the doorway into temptation's face i looked deep in the eyes of everyone 

the fire’s still burning so slow it fell to the ground is it still alive or will it be found on one way to reach this i'm still living i'm still breathing the sky was green on my face

 on your face there are no words in your mouth there is no meaning the sky that you seek is out of place the moon has left no trace i was like a child thrown back into the rain i had to walk on the ocean all these words i have to say this is not the story of my life 

i live inside the small 
i live outside the wall in living or in dying 
each day is so long
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out of the fire 04:57
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I see the noise
 of a distant time 
like a storm 
in the night
 to find you there on the day 
of my surrender 
and it's okay whenever I'm down 
 i need comfort from the ground the sound of bells
 comes ringing through my window wind flows down my back again 

i hear the sounds 
of long lost stars 
 that shine at night 
 when the sun is dying
 you can hear them 
in the frequencies and the secrecies

 circling through
 the darkest streets alone 
 i have waited for you i have stepped on 
the rainbow's end i must return out of the fire and find the strength 
that i left behind the night has turned to night again the sky is black before my eyes when we're looking for something in the world to see i hear the sounds 
 of long lost stars 
that shine at night 
 when the sun is dying
 you can hear them 
 in the frequencies and the secrecies

6.
human costume 04:45
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pink magpie sitting in his glass eye shrinking closing down and moving every-when you go 
 there comes another comes a shadow echo in a zone sing a day so high as the night starts to cease dream across the court particular visions of hilarity no way to satisfy the deeds cause you're my macro-scope piss away all the ice 
 and the thing upon you you never let me tell love is on the ceiling and you hang boy and real 

 you have reached up 
 and found a remote control at the point of no return
 you have sealed words on the back of your hands only so much left to say oh yeah as your body closes in on you there's a tear in the fabric
 of the human costume shop 
this is you say hello as you leave the rocket's eye remember it as the first day the dark woke you into laughter I know this isn't just a dream some words are slap in the face we hung up our fingers in the laughter and the tears i feel so deep in danger won't let this last for long we'll never look back i left the ice coming off the walls you came in with a warning didn't stop until the fire started you have reached up 
and found a remote control at the point of no return
 you have sealed words on the back of your hands only so much left to say oh yeah as your body closes in on you there's a tear in the fabric
 of the human costume shop
7.
just keep dancing 04:57
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these are words that go together
 we’d do well to understand this is really a moment 
 that's lost and not long in this special shroud of sleeping you can hear the laughter through the foggy dawn 
 like an empty prayer
 soiling all that is bright in the misty day like an ember he holds his breath as he nears the fire and every stain you might find 
 is a dark face waiting to be seen the tiger is on his way
 he wants blood for china cake the beast shines its teeth 
it looks less like tears 
 and it left a hole in my heart 
 no one else could ever tell when I'm back on my feet 
i’ll just keep dancing 
i’ll be drowning by myself 
through the holes in my roof 
 as I walk backwards 
 to where I came from 
 all I need is a sign one word off the tongue go toward the morning light let me see you smile i need to breathe in your eyes i want to feel your heart on my sleeve
 there’s no denying that my life is bleeding
 couldn’t stand the pain so I picked a time to tell myself a lie
 don't want to see another face

 and it left a hole in my heart 
 no one else could ever tell when I'm back on my feet 
 i’ll just keep dancing
 i’ll be drowning by myself
 through the holes in my roof 
 as I walk backwards 
to where I came from
8.
doing fine so far 04:21
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i have a taste for destruction and just one good move when I'm laughing when I'm lying here on this floor then I say could you please stop this ache and i am a liar too this can't be love like no one has loved when we met someone last night and then we all said oh oh but it's not love oh no it’s just a reaction as I lay here on this floor just too lonely to wake touch my face 
and go back for my bones just a moment to remember one more moment to forget

 i look at you and the color's almost too bright and blue i look at you 
and the color’s almost too long i don’t know where I’m going to but I’m doing fine so far you can wear your shirt 
to cover a broken heart the danger that’s in you 
is far away In the sky everything is wrong in this world it’s not so easy when everybody’s crying babies like you are only brought up to die i’m holding a place where there is nothing wrong

 but it's not love oh no it’s just a reaction as I lay here on this floor just too lonely to wake touch my face 
 and go back for my bones just a moment to remember one more moment to forget
9.
house on earth 05:01
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she wore an unmade prayer tender words that would reach the heavens the wind touched her face i never worshiped such a sacred thing i watched the sunrise get bright all around me someone watching feeling like I’m in on the right side all around me and by yourself i hear someone whisper death is like lying in a meadow 

there's a house on earth 
 where everything is blue there's a magic rising in the sky above though my heart is sad my soul keeps singing sound of light shining through in the colors all around me 
 sing the bells of love and the voice of shadows 
 i met myself down across the way thinking i was nowhere else cause the streets were blind so I left that place behind no way to know if I've been depressed 
 or maybe just in love wish I could go back just for one more day and find emotion in my veins 

there's a house on earth 
 where everything is blue there's a magic rising in the sky above though my heart is sad my soul keeps singing sound of light shining through in the colors all around me 
 sing the bells of love and the voice of shadows
10.
gone tomorrow 04:56
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I see the ocean 
I see the trees of green i watch the clouds as they sadly fall the moon above my head 
 it holds the colour of the night in the stillness of my eyes there’s a child a heart so strong and free my longing for what is meant for me the clouds look full of fire 
and the sun begins to shine it’s here i know that i should stay but i’ll be gone tomorrow

 another day another heart is broken another night
 another cloud has yet to fall i want to be with you i want to lift your heart 
just to watch you smile i want this just for you
 new born from earth and water

 when you dream there is nothing to do when you dream there is nothing to say when you dream there is only the water and the sky will be blue the universe is full of angels their shelter is the moon 
 with the stars on fire sent from above the heavens and the angels from below of thunder and rain they're storming through the open I stand with my head on down and in comes the sun a new born king 
born in the same world knocking me into your arms again 
the sound behind the tear and the laughter of love 
 another day another heart is broken another night
 another cloud has yet to fall i want to be with you i want to lift your heart 
just to watch you smile i want this just for you
 new born from earth and water
11.
always in the dark 04:11
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in a crowded room on the corner just a face we were slowly disappearing when the sun must have come 
 wash away the evening moon cause it was shining everywhere in my mouth I could taste the ship was leaving the reason I was staying i could not say and i don't care cause you’re still here 

i was always in the dark like a leaf in the storm and if that's not enough 
 just spin me around drowning in a puddle of rain and the truth is like a tear my heart will be broken love will be waiting it fell into my pocket and i won't let it go it seems there'll never be someone else to set me free 
 i was never the same too cold for words too shy to ask for help the world was never the same had a terrible face in every eye stars beating round my head and the sheets I lay upon had a terrible bridge in every spasm if you look for your own reflection it's inside of you it's on the grave the greatest pain is truth it's all beyond words all over every chord the colours run deep the lines are under dog muscles all over my feet I'm looking for an empire 
i was always in the dark like a leaf in the storm and if that's not enough 
just spin me around drowning in a puddle of rain and the truth is like a tear my heart will be broken love will be waiting it fell into my pocket and i won't let it go it seems there'll never be someone else to set me free

12.
ordinary day 04:30
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i found this face on my doorstep monkey hair low voice… pencils I could use could never understand the sadness it's just another day an ordinary day i tried to remember 
and it wasn’t quite the same maybe there were a few cracks where they pulled out and touched the sky or maybe there were lots of cracks in the road that took my mark 
it's not goodbye when you're feeling all alone again a stranger looks you in the eye i don’t know what I was looking for but i never found it
 I never… never found it just beyond that rainbow there’s a deep dark hole 

so here it is beside the sun eyes were stolen and left a spark the dawn was broken there were hours between us dreaming of new things there was never any greater than this falling away with your face beside me your faded smile it beckons and I was choking inside that clock on the wall cannot stop me i’m losing my mind i want a future a song of broken 

i didn’t know what I was looking for but i never found it just beyond that rainbow there’s a deep dark hole 
i didn’t know what I was looking for but i never found it just beyond that rainbow there’s a deep dark hole a deep dark hole
13.
cold glass mirror 05:12
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took my time in the belly of the rat I saw it all and I found out who we all were i could see 
 were you a man dressed as a fool out of all the two hundred nails rip this up and steal that we'll see you on the moon see this gleaming innocence upon your pillow past upon the cold glass mirror this life comes back to you this is really something new it’s really something old when they see your face under dirt there's nothing left to do tears of joy aren’t there 
 your life is like a prisoner 
in the deepest cage 
the greatest pain has been found in the garden so now you're on your own in all the streets they're laughing so now you're shaking your face smiles and your fingers sour you're paralyzed as the tears from your eyes rising up from the hurt inside their voices vomit wretched lies

 egyptian fire on a frosted shore it was eating it's own breath we were raised we learned to speak with the keys of desire learned how to taste what bleeds with silent words of fire 
 and roses everywhere 
 the greatest pain has been found in the garden so now you're on your own in all the streets they're laughing so now you're shaking your face smiles and your fingers sour you're paralyzed as the tears from your eyes rising up from the hurt inside their voices vomit wretched lies
14.
broken sky 04:53
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i looked at my reflection in the rain i didn't think of listening but as they would disappear and here they are without a hope their lives went that way who do you think you are? and who you decided to be? In your little breath I say look where you come from my mirror won't let me be 
 once I had a dream i lived by the ocean sounds and when the earth was void shadows on the windows i would climb the chandelier alone across the hallways oh the falling star the moon rose above me with the broken sky beyond i hungered for the darkness the tearing of its heart becoming with time i found the love 
i left behind in the icy waters 
just below i felt the anger and the pain the icy flows from my veins i knew the boundless change would be swept away saw my reflection in a crowd I thought about tearing it down so I looked around and down the avenue saw the eyes locked into my veins 
once had a dream i lived by the ocean sounds and when the earth was void shadows on the windows i would climb the chandelier alone across the hallways oh the falling star the moon rose above me with the broken sky beyond i hungered for the darkness

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released March 11, 2023

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