in this cold light

Music video for DUESENJAEGER – "Woanders Mit Dav" from their 2016 release Treibsand.

It's never quite right, he said, the way people look, the way the music sounds, the way the words are written. It's never quite right, he said, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live, they are never quite right, they are hardly close to right, these lives we live one after the other, piled there as history, the waste of the species, the crushing of the light and the way, it's not quite right, it's hardly right at all he said.

don't I know it? I answered.

I walked away from the mirror. it was morning, it was afternoon, it was night

nothing changed it was locked in place. something flashed, something broke, something remained.

I walked down the stairway and into it.

Tonight I’ll shave the mountain I’ll cut the hearts from pharoahs I pull the road off of the rise tear the memories from my eyes and in the morning I’ll be gone I drink 1000 shipwrecks tonight I’ll steal your paychecks I paint the sheets across my bed the birds will all fly from my head and in the morning I’ll be gone take every dream that’s breathing find every boot that’s leaving shoot all the lights in the cafe and in the morning I’ll be gone I bet 1000 dollars I have a french companion I tie myself below the deck I pull the rope around my neck and in the morning I’ll be gone it takes a life to win her there is a drum of bourbon 800 pounds of nitro his boots are thunder as he plays there is a stone inside it tonight his bones will ride it I’ll need a tent to hide it and in the morning I’ll be gone and in the morning I’ll be gone and in the morning I’ll be gone