Thomas Wiegandt – The Poet
Since I was 17 I have been writing hundreds of songs and poems, some of which I used to sing in the anonymous setting of busking in the streets of foreign cities. It took me a long time and a lot of courage to put some of my poetry that had not been lost over ... Read more
Poetry
special words – poetrysacred words – poetryscared words – poetrydaring deeds – poetrylanguage of the soulno aim – no goalnot making sense – poetryno wall – no fence – poetryout of the ordinary – poetryno tomorrow – no yesterday – poetrylanguage of the soulno aim – no goalyou and me – poetrypure and free – ... Read more
Today
The little wisdom we acquiredalong the way yesterdayseems to drift awayif we don’t apply it todayand might be lost tomorrow but tomorrow never comesthat’s what they sayand anywaytoday is the tomorrowyou worried about yesterday Don’t subscribe to the yestermorrowit causes you pain, it brings you sorrow It’s Here! Right Now! And It’s Enough!no need for ... Read more
A New Start
(Chorus or harmony vocals singing: “today and everyday”) Unfulfilled dreamsso many it seemsneed livingand some giving …today and everyday …it always needswhat it takesand more …today and everyday …more dreamingno more dreamingand no confusionless illusiona new solutionand no mind pollutiontoday and everyday …know your heartplay your partmake a new startit’s in your charttoday and everyday
Poet Looking For a Publisher
I have been writing for a whilejust on impulse – I burnt my filethere isn’t much to itsomehow I just do itI admit as a poetI often blow it.It doesn’t really mattersurprisingly it makes things betteras each and every poemconsists of a flexible foambut I’m guilty of the one crimeto try too hard for a ... Read more
CV of a multi-artist
1955 Thomas Wiegandt’s birthon a spaceship called planet Earthlives in Ballydehob near Bantrytravelled to many far away countrieslived high and lowalmost kicked the bucket a few timeslast time survived a brain hemorrhagebut it wasn’t yet time to go(thanx for all the good wishes from here and there and beyond …)travelled to inner and outer spacedropped ... Read more
Searching for Words
I’m still searching for the wordssearching for a songa song that makes sense after alla song I can singsacred, scared and daring wordsfor peace of mind my heart is beating fastand I just can’t stand it anymoreto be misunderstoodeven one more timeso please be generous please be kindforget to judgejust for this one timeand try ... Read more
Poetry #2
Words drenched with feelingAnd saturated with meaningon a palette reaching from joy to needinessNot to mention all the other ingredients The heavy and worrying onesThe light and playful onesMolten into one new artefactstill hurt but more intact Hoping to communicate the unsaidnow less afraid, yes, less afraidfeeling almost rebornspeaking the unspeakable to someone unknown hoping ... Read more
Ocean of time
Loveis an ocean of timethe joy to be hereto be free without fearTime – time is mineno one can take it awayno rush – no delayeverything will be coming my wayTimeis an ocean of lovesent from the spirit abovemore than enoughLove sweet lovesent from heaven aboveno one needs to starvethere is more than enough.
Changing – Again – Forever
again again againbirth and death are the same transitionwe are just on a different missionforever and ever and everchanging changing changingthe hourglass is turned upside downagain again againtrickling grains of sandfirst unnoticeably slowchanging changing changingat last mercilessly fastagain again againthe hourglass is turned downside upchanging changing changingsqueezing throughinto something newagain again againupside down downside upforever ... Read more
Sound Healing
(slow drum song in 6/ 8 with call and response) Flow river flowsound healingfeel the feelingsound healinggo slow – go slowflow river flowheal the feelingfeel the healinggo slow – go slowflow river flowhere and theresound healingfor all to sharesound feelingplants and animalsgo slow – go slowand you two legged animalsgo slow – go slowearth and ... Read more
Some Sunny Day
(slow dreamy song) I used to watch us dancing,our cold feet touching the ground…our naked souls soaked with soft raindripping from the trees into our brainsthe leaking gutters are still filled with leavesand the water is still pouring outflowing to the west, disappearing into the grey mistthat hides the turquoise sea of the sunny dayswith ... Read more
Relate
(Funky rap song with roots reggae drum) Relate and connecttreat everyone with respectLets be one tribespread a happy vibeEveryone isyour sister or your brotheryour father or your motherwe are a treeone big familyjust dare to careand care to dareto share what’s thereand play it fairand if you’re alertno one gets hurtit’s the way to beone ... Read more
Poet
amen – as a poetI often blow itand it doesn’t matterit makes things actually betteras each and every single poemseems to consist of some kind of foamto be blown in unpredictable random patternson the sands of crowded and deserted beachesmuch much further than the mind reaches
1 – 2 – 3 – again
(ascending guitar riff E-G-A-C-D-E)
Mantra Song
(to be sung repeatedly with layered voices, musically between an Indian chant and a Gospel song, with both calm and lively parts) Child of the Earthchild of the Universelive lovelove lifebe alive and happy!
Always new and already outdated
(guitar G-F) Always new and already outdated (repeat some lines for building up intensity)like a butterfly drifting bydrunk from the morning dueand it still makes me wonder …Sometimes I awakepale and nakedafter another soul quakeand I am glad about that I actually feel safeMy awareness is the only mirror I got to go bywhen I ... Read more
Death Of A Hero
You put me thereand it wasn’t meand I told you so oftenthat I didn’t agreeand you still insistedand things got twistedand I became an illusionin your world of confusionor was it the other way around?anyway – I couldn’t be foundand I was nowhere to be seenand I don’t know where I’ve beennowhereeverywherein an empty dreamin ... Read more
In Our Dream
I’m living in a world that doesn’t feel rightan alarm clock wakes me from the peaceful nightI never care to know where I amand I don’t even seem to give a damnI’m programmed to rush around everydayI’m busy all the time and hide my feelings awayletters and numbers on paper, clocks and screensare almost killing ... Read more
Change
comradesI wonder where are you tonite?to be honest I have lost touchare you at home somewheredo you have central heating now?I must admit meanwhile I’m thinking about it toodo you feel comfortable inside now?or are you still on firelike in the dayswhen we were convinced that we had no homelike in the dayswhen it was ... Read more
Through The Mist
When I walk back through the mist of timewhen I walk back through the mist of minewhen I dare to visit these scary placeswhen I find the ancient and painful traceswhen I look the demon in the eyewhen I finally wake up and crywhen I see the candle still burningmelting the mist and pain of ... Read more
Actually
(guitar song) why should I live on the edgewhen I can be happy at homewhy should I be happywhen I can live on the edge (chord bridge)I feel like a commutera commuter with a laptop computerliving in a real virtual worldliving in a virtual real world (chord bridge or solo)but actually I would like to ... Read more
Eventually
if I look into the lightit is blinding meand I have to look awayclose my eyes eventuallyI’m a mole, I’m a molelocked up in the dungeon of my soulbut everyone will seewill be free eventuallysomeday I will step outsideand will float with the tidefrom the dark into the lightand I will be youand I will ... Read more
Time is a joke
(Jazzy Blues in F#m: | F#m C#7 | B7 A E F#m | AE DA EF#m |) Where has youth gone so fastthe endless nights of love and laughterreplaced by a little wisdomand an aching bodyand the days are getting shortereverydayLive today, young peopledon’t die as yet, old folksenjoy yourself, don’t work too much,and if ... Read more
Music of today
(ancient sounding tune) I just can’t listen to the music of todayit ain’t no music anywaybeauty, magic and passionhave gone out of fashionI think I will follow my own instinctbefore I’ll find myself all extinctbut that just can’t beI’m gonna set myself freepainting beautyweaving magicexploding with passiondon’t care about fashionI know what feels right is ... Read more
L-Imitation
L-Imitation (rhthm phrases)Imi-Limitation (rhthm phrases)let them leave us behindwe don’t mindwe are not blindwe can free our mindjust listen to yourselfyea-a-eahh! Yeah!I can feel my body moveto a new kind of groovejust listen to yourselftaka dun ka – taka dunthe L-Imitation generationcreates the Imi-Limitation nationI belong to no onebecause I belong to everyoneI belong to ... Read more
Enjoy Life
(guitar song A – Bm -Em – A) Enjoy life, enjoy life todayEnjoy life in every possible wayEnjoy life, each and every dayand remembertoday is the tomorrowyou worried aboutyesterday
Play The Game ?
guitar intro: rock’n’rolly C, G, then 2x rhythmic F? first we are wild (C)and then we get tamed (G)we learn to play the game (F)and we buried the child inside (Am-B7) time to turn myself ontime to sing my own songa song without endand time and time again I’m feeling completeno need to competeI got ... Read more
I – E – A – O – U — U – O – A – E – I
(the vowel wave)I – E – A – O – U — U – O – A – E – II’m chanting the vowelsas they used to dolong time agolong long time agoI’m shifting shapeas they used to dolong time agolong long time agoI – E – A – O – U — U – ... Read more
Sound Aspects of Speaking in Tongues
hi folks!Asalam!‘ola!salamat pagi!listen, listen to the soundlisten, what I founddon’t try to make senseat least not too muchleave spaceviel spass!pas de problem!akassa, akassalet it flow!listen, listen to the soundit’s all aroundand a word may have no meaning …I ate a sandwichin the restaurant of languageand that’s how it all startedund ueberhaupt: ich lebe jetzt von ... Read more
Bayefall Reggae
(dedicated to Demba Sow)(guitar reggae Em Bm Am Em or Em D C Em or Am Bm Em) la ilaha il allahla ilaha il allahakassa – let it beakassa – set me freeReggae music, love and peaceBayefall Reggae, Love and peacedjef djill – djef djill -djef djillaction-reaction-action-reaction-action-reactionchain reactiondjef djill – djef djill -djef djillwhat ever ... Read more
IDENTIFYING CRISIS!
Barack Osama and Obama Bin Ladenone alive – God bless America!the other shot in the head- deadand dropped into the sea – Allah akbar!this is not a poemthis is a cock and bull story!
The Repair Song
(an anthem for Mother Earth) care and share, we can repairwe can repair, share and carelive and let livelet live and liveall you need is lovelove is all you needgo and let things flowflow and let things go
Unwind and Unfold (the un-song)
(reggae-ish, Am C G Am, Am? F? G Am) unfinished businessunnecessary repetitionunsolicited advertisingunwanted informationRefrain:unwind and unfoldto the untold and unsung truthunwind and unfoldto the unlimited potentialundo and unconditionunlearn and re-positionunleash your own decisionunearth the unspoiled missionRefrain:undivided attentionunconditional loveunlimited possibilitiesin an undisturbed environmentRefrain:unheard voicesunseen visionsunlocking doorsto an unknown landRefrain:unbelievable futurewith uncovered wisdomunforgotten goaluntouched soulRefrain:
A Long Long Time
a long long time agoI was lost in my own worldfor a long long timeI almost drowneda long long time agoI drifted under waterfor a long long timeI swallowed a lot of watera long long time agono one was there and I screamedfor a long long timethere was rarely a replyfor a long long timeI ... Read more
Lovers
lovers, let’s have fun tonitelovers, enjoy and celebrate your lifethe fire inside is burning brightlovers can see the eternal lifedance in a trance until you shakelove is a game of give and takelovers, let’s make love tonitelovers, let’s keep the universe aliverecharge the the universal energylovers, renew your own vitalitywhat goes around comes around …a ... Read more
Funtasies Of The Thin King
the thin king did some thinkingand after burning all illusionshe came to the conclusionto take the pain out of paintingand replace it with funso that it became a fun thingwhat a fun-tastic fun-tasynot silly at allFlow River Flowflow, river flowI cannot make things happenbut I can drop my illusionsand enjoy the rideflow, river flow
Blue Morning (Blues song)
I woke up this morningand the sky was bluefuck the bluesI have better things to do!this is a sunshine dayfor me and youand I look aroundeverything is newbut actually …this is not quite truebut actually …this is not quite trueneither for menor for youhere we are stillno free willsame old storyit’s a worrybeing inside the ... Read more
New Morality
I have enough, more than enoughI can afford to give awayyeah, yeahand that can make me feel even betterall smiles!I’m sitting in a cavefeeling completely safesheltered from the stormI have a soul mate to keep warmlove is the absence of fearfear is the absence of loveit’s up to meI can decide
Empty
(talk: one line ascending, next one descending)empty eyesempty spacetoo many lieshuman raceall too fastit can’t lastmust play my roleempty soulit’s all too muchI better let it govoices in my headI must feel my heart insteadI better let it go
NOW is always HERE
(I heard this song in a dream,sung by a gospel choir,to a slow 4/4 pulse with shakers and rattleswith konkelo bellsKuku drum pattern a la Moussa Camara, TTB*B*B*TT**S*and wah-wah guitar) I’m a scribewho takes no bribewho will be forgottenas change is the name of the gameand all I can tell you is this:many worlds have ... Read more
Brain Surgery
(I am so lucky, thanx everybody) I’m riding on a trainrain in my brainthings are revolvingeverything is dissolvingall runs into oneit’s no funthe unknown is scaryvery scarybut I was luckyI made it homeand I’m not alonehappy end in the endhad been just around the bendand on a unrelated matterI hear a voice in my headif ... Read more
iEverything
(inspired by Bob Allen) spoken:iPod – iPadiThis – iThatiPhone – I’m all aloneme gone – so longChorus(sung):I, myself and methe holy trinityI, myself and methe lonely trinityiSolation – iInsanitywe – that is you and me(people shouting)not enough – too much
Back Then
I walked into this garden againthe garden with a high hedgewhere we used to walk around naked and timelessyouth on our side and self forgottensometimes the farmer from next doorwould pass by sitting high on his tractorcatching a forbidden glimpse into our worldwhich was a paradise he hatedbecause he could not enterI walked into this ... Read more
Positive
Bring a bit of sunshine into the room (C-G, “R’n’R”)your smile surely could lift all the gloom (D-C-G)let’s not submit to the media doomgive happiness a chance – a chance to bloom let’s spread a good vibrationto each home in the whole nation a smile is contagious (D, “punky”)courageous – outrageous (C-G)
Cookie Suzuki
(remember the 5A Cafe in Bantry in the 80s + 90s) Cookie Suzuki – I got your cosmogramCookie Suzuki – you send a message to meCookie Suzuki – you send a message in my dreamCookie Suzuki says you can live your dreamCookie Suzuki says everyone can live many dreamsCookie Suzuki says and there is another ... Read more
Longing for the sky and beyond
I’m an eagle in captivityand you came to visit mespread your wings pretty birdand set me freeI’m in a cage I know, I knowand you are outsideand I ask you: “Are you really free?and where, where might you be?”
No more human sacrifice
We, the people, don’t need to be ruledwe, the people, can’t be controlledby these dishonest and false guysin suits and ties – telling liesand the people pay the pricefor these parasites to live in luxuryit’s time we set ourselves freeequals among equals is the waywe, the people will have our sayand the good old line ... Read more
The triangle of balance
(spoken rhythmically by many people plus some good instrumental grooves in 3s!) evolutionrevolutioninvolution(sung melodically in a free but sensitive polyphonic way)evolvingrevolvinginvolving
Playing – playing guitar
I’m playing guitar with no strings attachedI hope words and rhythm are well enough matchedI like to keep the sounds real, play what I feel,and I hope it’s not too far fetchedI hope your patience is not already getting stretchedwhile I just follow a feelingwhich I cannot namefloating around and drifting byon a rainy daywith ... Read more
Star Wipe
(have fun with this one!) let’s make a cheesy movieshall we?star wipestars and stripesstar wipethe glamorous type(never mind the less fortunate ones in them poor countries)star wipeanother stereotype(we’ve seen it all before)star wipethe prototype of HYPEHYPE -HYPE -HYPE(refrain,sung in a cheesy way)I’m so special, specialsuperspecial, uhh yeahand I don’t careexcept for my hairand there (screech)oh ... Read more
Revelation
pulsationovulationfertilisationevolutionno confusionhuman pollutionnot a solutionrevolutionnot a solutionRe-EvolutionE-RevolutionrealisationNATURE KNOWS BESTrevelationthe heart better listenswhen the soul speaks !
Underdose
it’s that uncomfortable feelingno one really wants to know aboutso I better be quiet, keep it insideand don’t shout it out loudwhat is really going onat best it’s expressed in a muffled songthat’s what it isand that’s what it is all aboutit is that underdosethat underdose of loveyou and I – we never really got ... Read more
Zero The Hero
(a reworked Punk song, now acoustic)from E minor to zero and I’m your heroI play my guitarI won’t go to farjust to the next bar from noise to silenceno defense – no pretenseno more sitting on the fence can I stop my fears?and can you hear my tearswhen I unplug my earscan you stop my ... Read more
Another Day In Paradise
I was walkingI looked down the empty streetbut I couldn’t feel my feetI seemed to movebut I couldn’t feel myself movingI felt almost nothingthere was only a distant vague somethingI knew I had lost my soulI had fallen into a black holeit seemed I had swallowed myselfand still somehow found myselfsitting on the same old ... Read more
Be You
(happy Senegalese tune) Bijou BijouB U – B Ube you – be youbeautybeautifulever youthful yoube beautifulBijou
Fun Lost And Found
(to the lifelong subscribers to grayness) I tell you to shut uponce and for allyour orders are too tall and too smallyou are being non-non-sensicalin the worst way sensibleand along the way the pun got tossedtime for you now to get lost
Open Love
I love the lovely opennessof all the open loversopen loveyour key can open the door to my heartthis is why you can contact me anywhere and anytime…this is why you can connect with me anywhere and anytime…love knows no limitslove doesn’t pretendlove doesn’t need gadgets and gimmickslove leaves behind the limitationsopen to giveopen to receiveopen ... Read more
Only Once
sometimes you catch your luckwithout a plan and enjoy the momentin ecstasy just for that one time.Its unique end exquisite.It does not lastthat’s why you will remember it.Conclusion: do it, it will be real, very real.rather than securing what ever it might befor an unrealistic eternity
Play A Game For A Change
P.S. , this time not a post scriptum but a philosophical summarywell, we can leave meaningit’s our own decision and requires dedicationit’s one of the hardest things to dobecause we have to stop the flood of thoughts.we can play a gameto eliminate our resistance to a good degreewe can start to take a holiday from ... Read more
C-re-action
the poet-tree grows wild and freeif you allow it to beand in case of any doubtI better shoutshout out loudespecially when I’m in that lullwhich makes me feel dull in my skullI have to make some soundand turn around and arounduntil I drift into the queendom of randomand random will overcome the beast of boredominstantly ... Read more
Worth Trying
empty your cachestart from scratchit won’t cost you any cashand there is no catchturn things aroundupside downwhat is beneathwhat is underneaththis is the e-Revolutionthis is the re-Evolutionit could be a solutionempty your cachestart from scratchit won’t cost you any cashand there is no catchjust strike a matchand light a candleit’s worth trying
Far away vision
(intro in E)when things start closing in (G)and i have had enough of staring onto a screen (A)I finally wake up from an artificial dream by my own liberating dmore and more and more (C)I’m stranded on a virtual shore (D) things start closing inI’m still trying to catch my dreammore and more and moreI’m ... Read more
Trance Dance
you are moved by a higher forceto a higher placethat’s the space of healingfeel the feelingnever mind the mind
Feel the feelings
(Reggae?) let’s not jump to conclusionsfeel your own feelingsas an individual human beingI don’t need to follow somebody else’s illusionsI rather just check reality and see what there for me to seedon’t follow leaders (yeah Bob!)watch your parking meters
The Arsehole Gene
there is a curse on the human racewhich is in an absolute wrong spaceacting totally out of placehaving really lost their facefallen from nature and from graceand if there was some kind of a godwho had the power to change our lotI would hope he could interveneand stop the effect of the arsehole genethat is ... Read more
Back In The Driver’s Seat
Dm Am C Em? Am sometimes I feel I have to abandonthe freedom of randomand leave the kingdom of funstop eating my chocolate bunmaybe I need to jump the gunjust for a whileand even with a smileyes, I have read my fileand with a certain regretso I don’t entirely forgetfor a change follow a planthere ... Read more
Money and Time
Time is moneymoney is timenon of it is mineTime is moneymoney is timedo you get itno, you don’t99% is owned by a 1% elite1% is owned by the peoplepeople like you and meso how can we be free?and why is that so scary?there’s still only one solutionit’s still called revolutionare we afraid of our own ... Read more
Inter fear!
I like to inter fearand listen to my earget out of my headplease come into my bedwe are both not yet deadwhy not throw away the gunand have some fun
The New Dawn
(Dm? Em Am?) the new dawn is daunting, in the end it can’t lastthe sun is rising fastand then there’s task after taskbut finally shortly after duskI hear the rustling of an unknown natureit disturbs my unavoidable tasksof going into the dark velvet of the nightand I feel that familiar frightmaybe I don’t want to ... Read more
In A Bookshop
getting lost between the shelvesfull of piled up booksdiscarded to be soldagain and againI cannot find humor(though you pointed it out to me!)between psychotherapy and trash canI really tried, but I couldn’t.no one canno one canput sense into a crazy mannowhere in the universeand not even in a bookshop
The Beach
place of eternityforever from here to infinityever rolling timesblue blue skies and sunny sunshinecountless grains of sandrunning through my handswitnessing impermanenceI got another leasein this place of peacenothing to dolife is new
Drum Song For Spiral Stairs
(to be worked into a video!)(drumming on parts of spiral stairs) I’m feeling so high!am I flying up in the sky?do I better go down?am I enlightened now or am I a clown?is it a dare?is it my fair share?going down the stairs?down the stairs?downstairs?to be turned around?upside down?still feeling high!still flying up in the ... Read more
Maire’s Email
Guitar Song(G Bm F Am Em Am) Haaaa!Actually its cooold. But I discovered unseen parts of the city today andits nice and wintery and street music and old books for sale (which imanaged to resist) and after doing some Spanish homework don’t seemyself spending 3plus years studying something academic in university.Been playing with clay and ... Read more
Heart On Fire
my head is emptybut my heart is on firefrom love or desirethere is all the feeling(I admit I need some healing)and no words to tell the storybut maybe I don’t have to worryas everything is changing anywayexcept of that burning feelinglow flames get higherI’m staring into my fireand my head is reelingwhat’s going onwhat’s wrongis ... Read more
A camera hanging on the wall
(good old analog days, dark rooms and paper prints)I see a camera hanging on the wallwhat has the camera ever seen at allI wonder which pictures it tookI would like to take a lookand where are the pictures noware they in the darkness of a pretty boxrarely opened, it doesn’t really need a lockand who ... Read more
Free Music
music is freeit grows like a treeand there is no feeit’s not there for businessmusic is expression and blissmusic is no egotistical competitionit’s the sharing of vibrationsmusic is truefor me and you
Samala
Ieeh Samala – uh gunovoyeeh(this chant I heard in a dream,I don’t know what it means, but its peaceful vibration calms me and others down.It is good to chant it! It is some kind of a mantra, please try it yourself)(I play it too to familiarize myself with a new situation or as a first ... Read more
Walking Bass Tune
I don’t know how far will I goI don’t know will I go thru this doorI don’t know will I dance on this floorI don’t know does it take much moremy feet are already feeling sorebut I’d like to reach another shorewhere I can explore or inplorejust playing a simple beat on the count of ... Read more
Bolon
long, long time ago in the West of Africamysterious sounds could be heard in the darksometimes near – sometimes farlong, long time ago in the West of AfricaBolon walk on – walk onBolon walk on – walk on5 strings and and empty spacelead us to the spirit place5 strings made from gut, a stick and ... Read more
The Dare Song
close your eyes and tell me what do you seeare you still scared or do you finally feel free?tell me what’s going onso we can work it into a songwell – really – I’d like to knowwho would dare to give it a go?who would dare to give it a go?maybe we could sing a ... Read more
Freedom
no one can shut up freedomwe can expose these few criminalscalled politicians and business menwho are hungry for powerwho are greedy for moneyand mostly even bothno one can stop freedomwe can stop these few criminalswho want to control otherswho make people sufferand we can get rid of these criminalswho are only out there to rob ... Read more
B flat or B sharp
be flatI know, I know – this I might regretmaybe the worst instruction I ever will getthen rather be sharpand to get out from under the tarpand dare to play that self built harpyes, I think I really prefer it – be sharp!and most of us know this is actually Cquite a simple keyto play ... Read more
Fall In Love
I love fallI love to fall in loveI see colors everywhereand that’s not allI breath the sweet airlove is all aroundit’s everywhere – everywhereI also love springgiving birth to everythinga new song to sing alongI love all the seasonsI need no reasonslife is freeto do what it pleases
Slam
slam – the door closed – bangdamn – I have been dosed back thena phone rangI didn’t answer it – instead I sangin a somewhat slurred slangthat I myself strangely could not understandnobody couldand no one would even bothereverybody rather blames the motherwho had screamed at the fatheras he walked out of the living roomslam ... Read more
Refuse to follow
mothers and daughtersfathers and sonsfollow the spirit lightwith a light spiritand let’s be onedon’t follow leaders and politiciansstrange people you even don’t knowyou cannot trust their decisionsbut you can trust the good people you knowso just say “No!”I refuse to followwe alone can look after ourself and our own
Modern Daze
(spelled D – A – Z – E) endlessly nowherenever somewhereI can sense ityou play music to calm yourself downin order not to hear the voices in my headand not to be bored anymore or frightenedwhile I sing a new song and tap alongthat way tuning into what’s going onas I don’t want to hear ... Read more
Too Much – Not Enough
I don’t need it – but I want itthat’s what they tell methat’s what they sell metoo much – not enough (monkey chant = kecak style choir)original man is a 2 legged animalas far as I can telloriginal woman is a 2 legged animalas far as I can tellit’s good enough to surviveto enjoy a ... Read more
Jammin’ In Heaven
jamming’ in heavenfrom eleven to sevenoh Lord – have mercyso many have gonejamming’ in heavenand sometimes I wonderthat I still can be foundthat I’m still aroundafter all the hurt and abusecrazy drugs and all that numbing boozefinally I won’t refuse to cut myself loosebefore I leave – before I have to goknocking on heaven’s doorjamming’ ... Read more
Shine
(descending chords, minor – major in half tone steps) I hear the voices of the pastI really don’t want them to lastany longer – no, not any longerI need to get much strongerI’m still too fond of herI’ still like to hear her purrall dressed up in that velvety furthat really needs to stopthat bubble ... Read more
Inclusive
being lazy is not at all crazybeing crazy is not at all lazyI hope that’s not all too hazyand not too elusiveit can be all inclusive
Smile
sun is shininglet us have a good timesun is shininglet’s all wear a smileit’s not too courageousbut it surely is contagiouseverybody wear a smilelet us have a good time
La Defense
(true memories of a visit to the French capital)Am Dm Em Am On y va, (H)iggins!Higgins is a dog with the usual sad look in his eyesbut he doesn’t mind and that’s no liethough he finds it only remotely amusingto other beings it would be at least confusingbut after all nobody knows youand no one ... Read more
Bird Of Paradise
(kind of Highlife tune GCD) I’m a bird of paradiseI fly low and highand let my colors shineI celebrate this day – I feel fineI enjoy being alivein this beautiful paradise
A chant in time – into space
(waltz C Am F D7 – C Am D7 G7) (this is my chant into spaceI hope you all can hear me callingit’s very important to connectI can hear the timeless waves rollingeveryone needs some time to reflect)Oh Mama, MamaWhere have you been so longtoo many misunderstandingsnot a happy song, things went so wrongOh karma, ... Read more
Pleasure Of Creation
the 3 pearls of unimaginable pleasureare the love goddess’s divine treasurebeyond linear logic and male measureoblivion is the nature of fun and leisure it’s an open secretso it is no secretyet it somehow is –hidden right here and out in the open(time to sigh followed by a short pause)I’m eventually coming to some sort of ... Read more
Why wondering at all ?!
why right – why wrongit’s all part of the songwhy right – why leftwhy left behindwhy out of my mindwhy stuck in my mindwhy write – why write anythingfor myself or anybodywhy not just to be – be quietand leave everything behindno need to seek as long as I can findwhen I can find you ... Read more
Magic Happens
You turn me onYou get me highYou have me floatingUp in the skyYou’re out of sightYou’re all I seeSometimes Im not sureAm I you or are you me?Without that I noticedI lost all controlAs magic just happensTo our bodies and soulsAnd I really hopeit will be always like thisNo beginning – no endJust eternal blissOr ... Read more
Mainstream Scientists
I enter numbers into a list, I’m a scientistas far as I recall I really know it allI test on mice, calculate the rise and the sizebut rather ignore the inevitable fallI’m intellectual and superiorinside I’m small and feel inferiorI can’t see the earth – I can’t see the skybecause I always have to ask ... Read more