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Sweet Breakfast · Apr 22, 07:18 AM

I’ve been working on a piece based in my memories of my first entrance into Berlin, via the Transit corridor Helmstedt/Marienborn, then the autobahn within the city snaking around the western edge, and the first place I ever lived in that had a balcony, on Kant Strasse. I’ve had a few since then, seems to be a leitmotif of my life.

It’ll be a few days yet, before the piece is finished, as it involves a lot of orchestration, including overdubs from Thomas Desisto and a relatively complex mix.

Here’s the lyric thus far:

chorus

driving east
I go on and on and on
into the morning sun
I saw her from the clouds
saw her kissed by that same sun
knew then I could stay
wouldn’t run

dismantled her battlements
mounted her ramparts
slowly entered therein
paid the price
smiled at the border line
such a time
the jokes and the laughter
this helped me pass

verse

Sweet breakfast, a lovers memory
On a balcony
Watching people
In workaday finery
In a new town my new home
Early in the spring

Feeling ready and not to roam
I’ll stay a while if I may
Today, tomorrow, we’ll see
Torn and tattered
Dreams scattered

On the floor
You’ll close an opening door
Nor for the first
Or the last
Time

Unveil for me
Time will
Unveil for me

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