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Drown

from Hotel Messerschmitt by BAAN

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If you lose yourself in the water
You might drown in your own tears
If you fly too high, find yourself in the sky
You become the sum of all your fears

It’s too hard, the ground is too hard
Frost has driven a spike through your heart
There is no love, nothing above looking down
Cry an ocean and then drown

Just drown

And when you cannot breathe
You spend a long time dreaming
It’s easy to believe
There’s a Kingdom gleaming
In the hidden deepening
Neptune’s Golden City
And all your secrets lie there sleeping
Here they come, it won’t be pretty

Things you missed when you were young
Flick of the wrist, slip of the tongue
Some carried you, some of them died
You knew them too, that’s why you cried

Nature red in beast and man
Hatred disgust part of the plan
Here’s a window straight to Hell
Why not defenestrate yourself
Jump right in!

As you fall from heaven’s grace
You fall through time you fall through place
And then you’re back again
Beside the tenement

A field of daffodils runs
By the river under suns
You haven’t seen for sixty years
A child, his face all streaked with tears

He’s covered in coal dust
Did all the things he was told he must
Only three years old
Digging in the dirt for gold
And all he found
In that cold ground
Broken shards of steel
Rusted, were they even real?

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from Hotel Messerschmitt, released October 10, 2023

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Like all musicians I wished I had the same number of limbs as an octopus. My wish was granted, but not in the way I had hoped for. My cephalopod partner is an enthusiastic volunteer from the worldwide animal charity Save Humans From Themselves. We share a special kind of love. ... more

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