Gone

It was a fantasy
It was a play
in all those stupid days
try to be right
try to revive myself,
you know that I fight.
You know where I am.

How does it feel when you're gone?
Everlasting sun
crumbled and stolen
by grey
It isn't right when you're gone
All the things I've done
have become pointless
and fade...
You didn't see.
You didn't see.

I've changed a world for you.
I've changed my mind.
And yet you look at me as if you're blind.
It isn't fair,
and I can't find the words
I wanted to say. And all of it hurts.

I should say that I miss you.
I don't know if that's right.
I believe you won't listen,
though I really wish you tried.
So I give back your picture,
all that gold and the wings.
I loved them all, until they died,
those sad-eyed pretty things...

How does it feel when you're gone?
Everlasting sun
crumbled and stolen
by grey
It isn't right when you're gone
All the things I've done
have become pointless
and fade...
You didn't see.
You didn't see.

More Minutes to my Night

All the streets are empty
I have the pavement for myself
the quiet cafés, the stores and bars
have closed

Oh, those lonely moments are no good for my soul, I know
and yet - I can't stop walking

All of this gives more minutes to my night
All of this gives more minutes to my night

I pass a graveyard and black stones
they are waiting for the rain
we all will go, some day

Oh, and then we'll meet the Lord and all of his angels
and yet - we fear... and weep.

All of this gives more minutes to my night
All of this gives more minutes to my night

Gesang: Nora B. Hagen
Demo und Arrangement: Kai Mekelburg
recorded 2.02.2007

Déjà vu

It's a
fearful symmetry of time
all seems to have happened before
the way my life turns wrong again, again!
The everpresent - nevermore...

Rewind and play again,
you know the story too well
and all their eyes are waiting for signs to show
Pick up the melody,
you once had learnt it by heart
a sudden change of all that's true...

The distant fear of what's yet to come
still insecurity and choked replies
seconds run by and find no end, no end!
What if this moment never dies?

Rewind and play again,
you know the story too well
and all their eyes are waiting for signs to show
Pick up the melody,
you once had learnt it by heart
a sudden change of all that's true

My Déjà vu...

Much to My Regret

How could I ever dare to trust you?
I cannot try. I never will.
You've had your ways, and I had mine
nothing to care about, that's fine
Why do you turn around and say you want my truth?

It wasn't meant to be that way
and now you try to turn back time...
A foolish game. Useless to ask,
but
would you?
would you?

Don't tell me that you've changed
I won't believe
I can't believe
it isn't true.
There's no exception to your rules.

It wasn't meant to be that way...

Demo und Arrangement: Kai Mekelburg
Text und Melodie: Nora B. Hagen
Aufgenommen am 7. 01. 2007

Stutter

I feared your sorrow
wasn't fit for the task
to meet your eyes
You stared
right into my soul

I can't even say
don't look at me like that
And I
can't even say
I didn't want it
at all

I stutter
everytime I need those words
to explain
myself
I stutter
there's a void in this brain
that empties all thoughts

A faded promise
irreversibly lost:
It's all been done.
No more
all those fearful lies

I just didn't want you
to see me
like this
and I
didn't want you
to know about it at all...
- not now...

I stutter
everytime I need those words
to explain
myself
I stutter
there's a void in this brain
that empties all thoughts...

Demo und Arrangement: Kai Mekelburg
Text und Melodie: Nora B. Hagen
Aufgenommen: 29. 11. 2006