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Music video
Of Tufts and Swamps (Swamp Version)
English translation by Indira, AI assistant. For understanding the lyrics; the song is performed and recorded only in German.
Hand on head, bottom up. Far too quiet.
What you know is relative. Where you travel does not excite me.
How much does a goal cost? An exit song flies through the room;
it hardly disturbs anything when nobody wants to flee.
A few words, a long while away: what is murder?
Not wanting to see yourself live.
Blind hen, double grain spirit, double rear sight, and from the beginning;
hide well if they are never to find you.
Of tufts and swamps,
of love and suffering,
of much forgetting, little laughter,
and two minutes of loneliness.
Of tufts and swamps,
of sorrow and happiness,
of taking the great step forward
and a brief look back.
We have rockets and have long had no reason
not to use them and be happy.
Always in circles, and swell, swell, bank balance,
and unhurt, horrified by everything that appears elsewhere.
Roused, what lacks everything else as well soon abolishes itself;
what is missing says no more than what is there and merely stays silent.
A note booms through the silence; already there are two, and more and more,
and life stirs up, and becomes a song.
