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Hello Neighbor

from Illusions by Ste van Holm

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I've never been interested in writing about sex. It's not that sex doesn't interest me, because it does, but I've never thought of it as a topic for lyrics. Nikola Tesla, however, was asexual and when I wrote the lyrics for 'Tesla', I was very aware, that I couldn't write anything remotely connected to sex. And that somehow provoked a desire to do a song about it. When I began writing 'Hello Neighbor', I remembered a couple of friends who lived on the third floor in central Copenhagen. Across the street a couple had regular, but very short intercourses and never closing the blinds. And I thought, wouldn't it be fun, if such behavior became the evening pastime watch instead of TV? And what if they invited their watcher over?

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over there
across the street
there's a flat
I've no idea who lives there


there's a girl
with long blond hair there's a man
bald with tribal tattoos


every night
nine o'clock
they'll forget
to close the blinds


They'll become
affectionate
Intimate
but do they know I'm watching?


oh
watching from across the street


I check the time
and then I wait
for the show
it has become a habit


to end each night
by watching you
acting out
your private performance


I'm
watching from across the street


Suddently
What is that
standing there
Something meant for me?


"We know you're there, come over here"
said the note
In their bedroom window


Oh
Should I cross the street?

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from Illusions, released November 2, 2016
Vocals performed by: Josefine Malmkjær-Andersen & Nicoline Asmussen

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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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