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Anyway

by Ste van Holm

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1.
Parcel 05:05
Wrapped in paper sealed and glued a label written goods included changing hands paying fees status checked "sign here please" And off off it goes it's out out of my hands By trains and planes by boats and roads all stacked up among heavy loads from port to port from gravel to tar at your destination that's where you are out out for delivery stripped showing what you have inside subject to measurements and tests then packed and send right back again sometimes I fear you'll never getting here sometimes I fear they'll never bring you here tripping the streets on careful feet avoiding the headlights keeping discreet anxious and weary of what you might get will it be allright or disaster instead
2.
Sleepwalking 04:26
I saw you standing there on the threshold of you sleep dazed and confused you seemed staring into the deep close both your eyes and see it all becomes so clear just walk on straight ahead be aiming at the pier Into the void you face your fear you're screaming you lungs out but noone will hear your world is a beauty but it isn't real you're sleepwalking baby on a tightrope of steel there was a little man at least that was his name he had a crazy plan that made him rise to fame Above the big apple he was walking in the air From the ground he looked so small as if he wasn't there Into the void you face your fear you're screaming you lungs out but noone will hear your world is a beauty but it isn't real you're sleepwalking baby on a tightrope of steel Phillipe didn't fall to his death but I saw the towers did
3.
The Trench 04:14
Should I take these tablets that make things go away Should I be pretending my nerves doesn't fray Should I smile politely Should I really care I lock myself away I am going there We're going down together Descend into the darkness this deep is vast and unseen we'll be the first ones there And as the ship submerges Anxiety emerges the pressure's building up and the vessel's going down the trench is deep and wide but noone else has gone inside and now we're off the deepest dive a man has tried down to a place so unknown Swallowed up completely the blackness of the sea Like falling into sleep the undiscovered deep down and down I'm sinking like a stone I'm gently hurled beyond abyssal depths to the bottom of the world We're going down together Descend into the darkness this deep is vast and unseen we'll be the first ones there And as the ship submerges Anxiety emerges the pressure's building up and the vessel's going down the trench is deep and wide but noone else has gone inside and now we're off the deepest dive a man has tried but I've succeded And I Return again Return again to the surface like bubbles of air I'm ascending Return again to the surface Relieved of all my worries
4.
Before the nightfall Before we surrender to sleep We have to remind ourselves Of what it is we're doing here Vast is the desert Lonely the dunes A crowded bus with myriads of people in different moods Bumping past an endless scenery A deserted desert village or what it appears to be On and on from dune to dune We'll get to nowhere fast we'll be there soon Yes on and on from place to place for no apparant reason to embrace Drinking tea from ornamented cups served by men in kaftans or djellabas by the Atlas' Music is played on every corner of the street the rhythm makes me dizzy in this unbearable heat Mercenary troops are marching by with their epaulettes and kepis determination in their eyes We're off to a plateau to see the full moon rise this garden of exile appears before our eyes We lay in the Moroccan sand doing things we know they have banned And underneath the sheltering sky you asked me the devastating 'why' The coldsweat's darkening your shirt your eyes have turned red And your panting is hard to endure A desert bug is digging in it lives in your blood And the dust is not much of a cure A desert rose in perpetual bloom A sun scorched remedy for gloom
5.
Why won't it work Why won't it ever work I got to carry on I got to carry on I'll try again I'll try and try again Until get it right Until never get it right I know I can create light without spark and without flame a type of light that's burning bright and lasting long oh so long Got this picture in my head of a day it would be said 'electric light is just so cheap that only rich folks have candles lit' Ok let me see what have we got here a coiled up filament connected to some wiring all is placed within an evacuated bulb I will make it shine illuminate this lab of mine for this experiment I'm using platinum it should be working right it's melting point is very high I switch the current on the metal starts to glow but evaporates I still can't make it work So I'm here again testing filaments this time using strings of carbonized cotton wool it sounds improbable that this could make it work but I have to try every possibility my incandescent dream has put me to the test but if I don't succeed I won't be getting any rest a glass bulb standing on my desk with carbon coiled within I switch the current on and now my room is ablazed Look at the light Look at the light
6.
Cloudberries 04:43
The dawn will never come if the sun refuse to set there's daylight round the clock there's diamonds in the stream tinkeling in the breeze way beneath our feet Don't you walk too close the cliff is much too sheer you should watch your step And as we're climbing here the scenery unfolds I will come to you I'll find you I'll find you I'll find you whereever you might be In marshlands and in bogs in rain and wind or fog through the gate to the wilderness I'll walk Tomorrow brings another day to sweep the yesterday away and maybe then I'll make it all the way But time flies (and I struggle ahead) Yeah time flies (there's only you my head) But time flies (Away) in a hidden valley surrounded by mountains I found what I came here for in amber like fashion in numbers of thousands just waiting to be picked the fruit of my efforts is worth all my trouble now I'm here and on a cloud
7.
Euphoria 04:28
I feel so excited now that all this weight is off my shoulders I feel like a new born child in mothers arms filling the lungs with air for the first time And I was blind so blind but now I see I got this feeling of no boundaries And from here it can only get better The world's my oyster and I can do anything I want I want it all I want it all Today the sun is beating down and not a cloud up there to shade this town and I will walk around in sunlit streets and when the nighttime comes I'll stay outside to watch the starry sky until the sun comes up again and then I know that from here it can only get better The world's my oyster and I can do anything I want I want it all I want it all all aligned in perfect symmetry come along set me free
8.
I've dreamt of this for ages gliding through the air Above the clouds in sunlit blue sky a stratospheric fair At the tar pitched runway I've got sweaty anxious hands waiting for the winch to fling me up into the heavens Fly The thermals and the lee waves will keep me soaring here As a ridge lift takes me higher I'm sheding all my fear The altimeter settles Up here the world is bliss towards the open ending my dream is made of this Fly the wind will take me high into the open sky my mouth has all gone dry the thrust will make me fly the wind will take me high into the open The sky is blue I'm flying through
9.
Day turns into night night turns into day then night again Haven't had alot sleep haven't had alot food just water there must be more than this this pitchblende mystery is really exciting me and while I'm at work Raindrops are falling from the leaking roof of the shed I worked for days months and weeks in the smallest quantity of matter was where I seeked finally my work was done and like a fairytale a blue light now vaguely shone kept on working without knowing that this faint glow had a shadow that this substance from a distance changed the concept of my being What is this What is this this this feels so strange shooting out of light now the path is clear now I'll cry no tear now I'll leave you here now It'll disappear
10.
where are you now where have you been I've been looking for you everywhere I have been sailing all the seven seas I've climbed all mountains in the world but what have I found? what have I found? where are you now where will you go where should I be searching for you now should I go to all four corners of the world should I cross the deserts in my search and then what will I find what will I find Eyebrow goes up turns into frown so much searching what have I found

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released November 30, 2009

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Ste van Holm Copenhagen, Denmark

Ste van Holm (born Stefan Holm, 1977) is a Danish musician and composer.
His musical upbringing came from British rock acts of the 70s like Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Genesis and Peter Gabriel, Alan Parsons Project, Brian Eno and King Crimson, but also from electronic acts like Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Vangelis and Klaus Schønning and more contemporary names like Massive Attack. ... more

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