Hohelied, komprimiert und kopflastig ("kind of high and bleary-eyed, just right inside the dingy cacophony")

Gedicht (2019); Ergänzungen, Audio, Video: 2024/2025 (hat tip: C. Carson Parks)

Transcript

00:00I know I stand in line until you think you have the time to stand

00:29an evening with me and if we go some place to dance I know that there's a chance you

00:38won't be leaving with me then afterwards we drop into a quiet little place and have

00:48a drink or two and then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I love

00:58you I can see it in your eyes that you despise the same old lies you heard the night before

01:08and though it's just a lie to you for me it's true I've never seen so right before

01:17I practice every day to find some clever lines to say to make the meaning come through

01:27but then I think I'll wait until the evening gets late and I'm alone with you

01:36the time is right your perfume fills my head the stars get red and though the night's so blue

01:46and then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid by saying something

01:56you

01:58okay

02:02you

02:04you

02:14Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020