A keresés eredménye

The Survivors

Another year that I didn't get sick
That I was loved
That I didn't get poorer
Another year that I have my home
And my people
That I dream...
That I make plans.
 
Another year that I went to the theater
And listened to records,
And watched movies that moved me.
Another year that I traveled
And worked
That I wrote and tore up
And didn't despair
 
Another year
That I found people
That inspired me.
And I kept them.
And they let me.
That I didn't lose my way.
And I accomplished -
At least one goal out of the many.
That I observed
And I reflected
And I wondered
And I understood
For however long I could,
Whatever it was I understood -
In whatever way I understood,
As much as I understood it.
 
That I opened my eyes.
Even if I lost pieces of me
At borders and seas...
And the losses helped me grow
Even if my hopes turned into
Part of the seas
- one with the seas.
 
Another year that I can
Count the blessings with certainty
Another year that the little things
Are the most important.
Another year that was full,
that in my own writing,
I record myself in the survivors list.
 

If Everything Was Fair

If everything was fair
My brothers and I
Would plant lillies
In the military camps
 
If everything was fair
Blood would spill by kisses
And the curbs would blossom
By love's blood
 
We would have songs
To rouse the crouds
Without hidden thoughts
 
We would have banners
With all the colours mixed
Even the misunderstood ones
And reasons to make anyone believe
 
We would have children
That would grow taller
Day by day
That would grow taller
Day by day
For each day
And flying dogs
To hunt birds
Among the clouds
-Don't laugh, I dream of that quite often
 

Stillness

May the wind start blowing
In this dry part of the world
We've had enough of burned hugs
And dried-out glances
 
May the wond start blowing
To bring seeds
To green the mountains
To blossom the fields
 
We've had enough lies
We've had enough lies
 
May the wind start blowing
To smell like sea again
Even if it takes the weak,
The rootless away
If it sends us to other places
Untrod and unknown
 
We've had enough lies
We've had enough lies
 
The earth is big
 
May it take us away from here
And let others enjoy the wind
 

Look at Me

As the soil drinks the rain
Look at me
Writing my name from the beginning
Look at me
 
Look at me letting myself loose
Being poured like a torrent
Falling, getting up laughing
Look at me rising, transforming
Learning the world by touching
 
Look at me aflame
And call me love
No matter how I'm called
Look at me aflame
And call me love
No matter how I'm called
 
As if I'm breathing for the first time
Look at me
Water running from my eyes
Look at me
 
Look at me standing
Look at me getting tangled
In the unexpected nets of the world
Becoming wind, being solved like a riddle
And you being my only complicit
 
Look at me aflame
And call me love No matter how I'm called
Look at me aflame
And call me love No matter how I'm called
 

In Blank

Versions:
My white luck and my white life
Why do you keep hiding in greyness at nights
I see my reflection in your white
And I keep learning after from after
Had I been brave enough to say 'come'
I wouldn't be having fire in the blood now
If madness had a colour it'd be white
If it had a body it'd be another lie
 
Look how the hand turn towards the wall
As if they're dancing with my silence
And me, that I've been searching for years for the lyric
That can explain my silent life
I'm disguising silence into a word
And am gifting it to whoever can explain
To have to choose for my future
Which of my pasts will return
 
Nothing important
I only live in blank1
 
My white luck and my white life
My coloured friends are right
My problem is my exaggeration
And everything that is late to respond
Had the reason been brave enough to present itself
It wouldn't have been fire in the blood right now
If fear had a colour it'd be white
If it had a body it'd be like me
 
If they love you they should learn to say it
And if they don't you should steal it
And if you want to see everything real aflame
You should rise to the height of fire
 
And they feel sorry for you cause you haven't felt it
And you feel sorry for them cause you where the first to know
When no one cognized
That your yearslong silence had been a bang all along
 
It's my right to bet few
It's my right to revoke
And when they say I never did so
I hadn't managed to forget yet
And whoever asks me why I always leave
With a trace of white in my glance
I tell them a phrase as if I'm evading
With a hope they're like me
 
Nothing important
I only live in blank
Nothing important
I only live in blank
Nothing Important
I only live in blank
 

• 1. Can also be translated as 'I only live in white' or 'I only live in carte blanche', depending on how it's interpeted

In the white way

Versions: #2
My white luck and my white life
Why do you hide in the greyness in the night?
I see my vision in your white
And I know the after of the after.
If I had courage to say the 'come here',
Now I wouldn't have the fire in the blood.
If the craziness had a colour, it would be white.
If it had a body, it would be again a lie.
 
See how the hands are rolling on the wall
Like they are dancing with my silence.
And there I were searching for the lyric
That would explain my quiet life.
I turn the silence into a word
And I give it to anyone who explains to me.
My future will have to select
Which one of my pasts will come back again.
 
Nothing important.
I live only in the white way...
 
My white life luck and my white life,
My coloured friends are saying good.
My problem, my overstatement
And everything that is late to send an answer.
If the cause had the courage to stand up,
Now it wouldn't be the fire in the blood.
If the fear had a colour, it would be white.
If it had a body, it would be like me.
 
If they love you, let them learn how to say it
And if they don't tell, learn how to steal it
And if you wanna see the real things burning down,
You have to stand up to the height of the fire.
 
And they are sorry for you, because you haven't felt it.
And you are sorry because you knew it first
And because no one had learnt
That for years your silence was a noise.
 
It's my right to bet for a little things.
It's my right to go pass.
And the place they are saying I have never gone to
I didn't even had the time to forget it.
And to anyone who asks me why I'm always leaving
With this tone of white in the look,
I tell a phrase like I'm evading
With a hope that he would be like me...
 
Nothing important.
I live only in the white way...
Nothing important.
I live only in the white way...
Nothing important.
I live only in the white way...
Nothing important.
I live only in the white way...
 

In this world

What can I do in this small world
I have no power, my dear heart, I can only
open my hands to you
Wait for another world next to me
What can I do in this small world
 
What could I fill into our empty life
Where can I find the color to paint everything you deserve
I will only hide the shadows when you return back
And I will describe the darkness as if it was a painting
What could I fill into our empty life
 
In this forlorn corner where we were born
Where can I find the place to build up Paradise
Which nightmares should I knock down firstly
You can only live in my body
In this forlorn corner where we were born
 
NV

The Beauty in Athens

I know this town
her every hidden corner
I have flirted with strangers
I have gotten drunk at her bars.
 
I have played in this town
and I have hidden in her shadows
I have been into troubles
and I have been glad for her happiness.
 
This, her grey color
(it's) the step of my every dance
because the music in Athens
it's not silent yet.
 
This, her grey color
it's only the showcase
because the beauty in Athens
hasn't frayed yet.
 
This devious city
Has left scars on me.
In the walls, I read words
that have explained everything.
 
I will always owe her something
because that's where the boys live
who called me love
in my biggest difficulties.
 
This, her grey color
(it's) the step of my every dance
because the music in Athens
it's not silent yet.
 
This, her grey color
it's only the showcase
because the beauty in Athens
hasn't frayed yet.
 
And if this down is demolished
I will stay at the substructures (foundations)
to water her root
with my children's laughs.
 

Little Ships

A white page
how can I get there
with what words
if only I had a thousands voices
so that you could hear to whichever one you wanted
to choose
 
Two white pages
I have more for you to burn
I'm helpless, look
noone can catch you
one is a little ship
the other is a paper plane
 
Little ships and paper planes
they set off on a journey
how many wins, that many losses
if you can withstand they'll find you
 
And if you learn the truth
to what the kids say
if a paper plane catches you
pinch it on your heart
 
A paper page
who is missing from you and what
so that I can send you
what you are asking in life
and to see if it will get
in a sheet
 
Little ships and paper planes
they set off on a journey
how many wins, that many losses
if you can withstand they'll find you
 
And if you are learning about love
on your journeys
inside a little ship
get inside, and learn to love