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Oct
07

70 Favorite Songs: 59. Stella Maris

Ich träum’ ich treff’ dich ganz tief unten
[I dream that I meet you deep under]
der tiefste Punkt der Erde, Mariannengrabenn, Meeresgrund
[the deepest place of the Earth, Atlantic trench, seafloor]
Zwischen Nanga Parbat, K2 und Everest,
[Between Nanga Parbat, K2 and Everest,]
das Dach der Welt dort geb’ ich dir ein Fest
[the roof of the world, there I'll give you a celebration]
Wo nichts mehr mir die Sicht verstellt
[Where I can no longer see forward]
Wenn du kommst, seh’ ich dich kommen schon vom Rand der Welt
[If you come, I'll see you come from the edge of the world]
Es gibt nichts Interessantes hier. Die Ruinen von Atlantis nur
[There is nothing interesting here. Just the ruins of Atlantis]
Aber keine Spur von dir
[But no sign of you]
Ich glaub’ du kommst nicht mehr
[I believe you come no more]

wir haben uns im Traum verpasst
[We have passed each other in dream]

Du träumst mich ich dich
[You dream of me, I of you]
Keine Angst ich weck’ dich nicht
[Don't worry, I won't wake you]
Bevor du noch von selbst erwachst
[Before you wake yourself]

Über’s Eis in Richtung Nordpol dort wird’ ich dich erwarten
[Over the ice, directly to the North Pole, that's where I'll wait]
Werde an der Achse steh’n
[I'll stay on the world's axis]
Aus Feuerland in harter Traumarbeit zum Pol
[From the Pacific Rim in hard dream-work to the Pole]
wird alles dort sich nur um uns noch dreh’n
[will I hurry and wait again]
Der Polarstern direkt über mir
[The north star is directly over me]
Dies ist der Pol ich warte hier
[This is the pole, I was here]
Nur dich kann ich weit und breit noch nirgends kommen seh’n
[Only you can search far and wide until we see each other]

Ich wart’ am falschen Pol
[I was at the wrong pole]

Wir haben uns im Traum verpasst
[We have passed each other in dream]

Du träumst mich ich dich
[You dream of me, I of you]
Keine Angst ich finde dich
[Don't worry, I'll find you]
Bevor du noch von selbst erwachst
[Before you wake yourself]

bitte, bitte weck’ mich nicht
[Please, please don't wake me]
solang ich träum’ nur gibt es dich…
[As long as I dream, you exist...]

Du träumst mich ich dich
[You dream of me, I of you]
Keine Angst ich weck’ dich nicht
[Don't worry, I won't wake you]
Bevor du noch von selbst erwachst
[Before you wake yourself]

Lass’ mich schlafend heuern auf ein Schiff
[Let me sleep the year away on a ship]
Kurs: Eldorado, Punt das ist dein Heimatort
[Course: El Dorado, Punt, that is your home town]
Warte an der Küste such’ am Horizont
[I was on the coast, searching the horizon]
bis endlich ich sehe deine Segel dort
[until I finally see you, I'll sail there]
Doch der Käpt’n ist betrunken
[But the captain is drunk]
und meistens unter Deck
[and mostly under the deck]
Ich kann im Traum das Schiff nicht steuern
[Even in dream, I can't steer the ship]
eine Klippe schlägt es Leck
[The clipper hits something, we take on water]
Im Nordmeer ist es dann gesunken
[We sink in the North Sea]
Ein Eisberg treibt mich weg
[An iceberg drives us down]

Ich glaub’ ich werde lange warten
[I believe I am stranded]
Punt bleibt unentdeckt
[Punt remains unexplored]

Wir haben uns im Traum verpasst
[We have passed each other in dream]

Du träumst mich ich dich
[You dream of me, I of you[
Keine Angst ich weck’ dich nicht
[Don't worry, I won't wake you up]
Bevor du noch von selbst erwachst
[Before you wake yourself]
Du träumst mich ich dich
[You dream of me, I of you]
Keine Angst ich finde dich
[Don't worry I'll find you]
Am Halbschlafittchen pack’ ich dich
[Halfway through this dream, I'll seize you]
und ziehe dich zu mir
[and draw you to me]
Denn du träumst mich, ich dich
[then you'll dream of me, I of you]
ich träum dich, du mich
[I dream of you, you of me]
Wir träumen uns beide wach
[We dream of each other until we wake]

Composer / Performer: Einstürzende Neubauten
First Released: 1996
Album: Ende Neu [Ending Now]
Genre: Experimental Music
First Heard In: Berlin – it was played in one of the events in the Berlinale Talent Campus
Why I Love It: I just love depressing songs, and this is quite a depressing song about two people who keep missing each other…but don’t worry, the song ends in hope
Also Listen To: haven’t heard any of their other songs yet.




ah ahm vahmpyrrr!

"Vous m’avez dit “Je t’aime.” Je vous ai it “Attendez.” J’ai Presque dit “Oui.” Vous avez dit “Partez.”" (You told me “I love you.” I told you “Wait.” I almost said “Yes.” You said “Go away.”) ~ from Jules et Jim by Francois Truffaut

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Bittergrace is derived from the hebrew variants of her first names: hannah loosely meaning "graced" and miriam loosely meaning "sea of bitterness".

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Recent Songs

Wicked Girls Saving Ourselves
by Seanan McGuire
(2008)

Wendy played fair, and she played by the rules that they gave her;
They say she grew up and grew old -- Peter Pan couldn't save her.
They say she went home, and she never looked back,
Got her feet on the ground, got her life on its track.
She's the patron saint priestess of all the lost girls who got found.
And she once had her head in the clouds, but she died on the ground.

Dorothy just wanted something that she could believe in,
A gray dustbowl girl in a life she was better off leavin'.
She made her escape, went from gray into green,
And she could have got clear, and she could have got clean,
But she chose to be good and go back to the gray Kansas sky
Where color's a fable and freedom's a fairy tale lie.

Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane,
Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names,
All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain
And chose to go back on the shelf.
Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree
You have to break rules if you want to break free.
So do as you like -- we're determined to be
Wicked girls saving ourselves.

Alice got lost, and I guess that we really can't blame her;
They say she got tangled and tied in the lies that became her.
They say she went mad, and she never complained,
For there's peace of a kind in a life unconstrained.
She gives Cheshire kisses, she's easy with white rabbit smiles,
And she'll never be free, but she's won herself safe for a while.

Susan and Lucy were queens, and they ruled well and proudly.
They honored their land and their lord, rang the bells long and loudly.
They never once asked to return to their lives
To be children and chattel and mothers and wives,
But the land cast them out in a lesson that only one learned;
And one queen said 'I am not a toy', and she never returned.

Mandy's a pirate, and Mia weaves silk shrouds for faeries,
And Deborah will pour you red wine pressed from sweet poisoned berries.
Kate poses riddles and Mary plays tricks,
While Kaia builds towers from brambles and sticks,
And the rules that we live by are simple and clear:
Be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear --

For we will be wicked and we will be fair
And they'll call us such names, and we really won't care,
So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes,
There's a place they can go if they're tired of chains,
And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost,
But we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost --
We won't take our place on the shelves.
It's better to fly and it's better to die
Say the wicked girls saving ourselves.