The words

Ιf the future is now then

who is this ghost whistling a tune

I used to sing, when heroes lived

second lives and chances

 

People sound like buzzing noise in void

Lives unbind like stray asteroids

 

If the future is now then

why does the light of dawn feel

like acid water on my skin;

a minor death and waking

It’s on the news: the queen’s a whore, the king is mad

The conquered quench their thirst with war and royal blood

 

It’s on the news: the troops approach like acid flood

The conquered fight their fear with feasts and royal blood

 

It’s on the news: the moon is fake; device of God

The conquered bleach their lives in dreams of royal blood

 

It’s on the news: the skinny saints are breaking bad

The conquered settle their faith on flesh and royal blood

She walks the room like sudden breeze, like shadows by moonlight

Across the space between the days she gravitates like mad love

Will dance her way through thousand thoughts, like lioness in jungle

Cut loose from fears, old saints – new tears; joy resonates like mad love

 

You validate my love

 

She speaks with ghosts, a baby girl alone on an island

Imaginary dialogues that echo like mad love

She fights for life against my drives with kindness and beauty

While sonic bombs break through the walls exploding like mad love

Some will think that I am strong; and

Some that I just play along

Some will say that fate’s been cruel; and

Some that I’ve just run out of fuel

 

I switch the TV on

While another day is gone

Life fits inside the box

Like a perfect paradox

 

Some will think that I am strong; and

Some that I just play along

Some will say that fate’s been cruel; and

Some that I’ve just run out of fuel

 

What is this hum I hear?

Feels like another death is near

How much does time present cost?

I bet my life on black and lost

 

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight

Soldiers march to meet their fate

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight

Gamblers saved by a twist of fate

My youth is already dead; a price was put upon my head

My hands are now covered in blood; the dreams I built are buried in mud

 

Time feels like savage thirst; the nights are white, our days rehearsed

The place I am from I can’t recall; my heart is safe inside the wall

 

My friends are already gone; our laughs echo against the dawn

Their hands are now covered in blood; the dreams we built are buried in mud

Flashlights blinking like thoughts in a trance

Light travels from the edge of the night

Blindfolded bodies in a ritual dance

Search for a world beyond sight

 

Run for your life, boy

Run for your life

 

A child jumping away, roof-to-roof

Afraid of death and scared to live

I dreamt of boy who used to be bulletproof

All my sins are hers to forgive

 

I wait for the sadness that waits for us

Past loss becomes future pain

Lying on the asphalt watching airplanes pass

Will all those drugs be in vain?

The night is ruled by the masters of d.o.g.s., the cynical gods of Athens;

The bohemian queen, the heartless machine of fame.

 

The dealers gather every year, with bow ties on and fake smiles.

And they decide, with tongues in gear, who are the artists and who the exiles.

 

The night is ruled by the prodigy girl, who’s purer than pearl and light;

My whining excuse, daydreams that seduce my mind.

 

The dealers gather every year and train our hearts through monkey trials.

An inner voice bribed to cheer, these are the artists and these the exiles.

Strip off your clothes,

I am back to take some more.

A quick dose of lust;

Blood flooding down my throat

While I possess

Your pixel soul and smiles,

You dominate

My slow-beating heart and mind

 

How long before it transpires

How long before her love expires

 

I’ve memorized

Every detail of your skin,

The way you place

Your body against the light

Don’t stare at me.

Separation hurts for real;

One day I will

Escape through her hollow eyes

Young hearts beating like fish out of water

While night is filling the space between

Strobe lights crashing against wet faces

High on spirits and reviving pain

 

Dwelling out of a time that’s drying out

This is my place; a blurry memory of your face

 

Young hearts bleeding like rain on asphalt

Flowers blooming in a vase of clay

Tongue-tied creatures, numb slaves of reason

Share the cold air by the Regent’s Canal

Sun carves my face, summer ends

Fireflies and seashells, rides with friends

Air is filled with love, the night is near

Boys count to ten and disappear

Ambitious scams with porky eyes

Immune to hate they fertilise

Their voice is louder than the truth

Born and raised in your wasted youth

 

You know, you’ve seen,

You’ve heard, you’ve been…

You’ve been the crowd, the absent one

Conveniently bowed, a hired gun

 

Pretentious, fancy parasites

They enjoy the fruits of missed fights

Persistent like a viral lie

Survive the storm and multiply

The ghosts I grew up with

Persistent like the plastic flowers that I used to water

Oh, what a beautiful slaughter

 

The dreams I woke up into

Narcotic like the fear of God, his evil daughter

Oh, what a beautiful slaughter

 

Bring me back to life

 

The girls I fell in love with

Abandoned like the faceless bodies of Bernhard, Ruth

Oh, what a painful truth

 

The scars I learnt to live with

Defining like the moist and bitter kisses of youth

Oh, what a painful truth

Bring me back to life

All the pictures of you, blur impressions of your smiles

Underexposed emotions, intentions framed in black and white

They stare at me; street lights that dive into my eyes

They talk with me, like friends do carried away in summer nights

Am I a stranger to you?

Haunted words, unspoken; the way you whispered “sun” and “will”

All time is trapped in this room; blind birds flying in circles homeward bound

You fight with me; you lick the old blood off my knees

You question me; you dig my fears up, you hide your shadows in my dreams

Am I a stranger to you?

This city is made of cables and dirty promises

Our shadows fall in love exchanging dry kisses

These walls are made of fear and concrete lies

I feel your presence near, but always in disguise

This smile is shaped by love

These scars are caused by love

This look is made of love

These wounds are caused by love

My dreams are greedy flames and a summer breeze

Silhouettes inside my mind, dancing like silent trees

Time is made of blood and unbending steel

And life sometimes is fake, but sometimes it’s for real

The air I breathe is black with a bitter taste of the past

My mind is under glass staging its final blast

The days went by like dreams, I sleepwalked another year

My life is so perfectly plastic, but I don’t belong here

This girl with the mirror eyes and the razor lips

She calls me to sail along on her acid trip

It seems that we’ve met before coz she knows my name

The rules might have changed but it’s still the same old game

 

I am happy in my prison
, I don’t recall the reason
 I am doing time or hiding myself away

 

I hate you, girl, I hate you more than I can stand

 

This girl speaks with colors, screams like love truly unconfined

She blows her secret thoughts inside my mind

It takes five steps to the door to the Purple Sky

And a bit more than a lifetime to learn how to fly

 

I am happy in my prison
, I don’t recall the reason
 I am doing time or hiding myself away

I hate you, girl, I hate you more than I can stand

Just before the break of day

Electric rays invade my eyes

While your make up fades away

Then I start to realize

I see the shape of your lips

The hidden scars under your skin

The years of playing hide and seek

And all those people that I’ve been

Nothing lasts forever

Nothing hurts forever

Just before your mind gives in

The city lights go out again

Is this real or just a dream?

Kiss me and help me to forget

I breathe in your fears mixed with lust

I run my fingers through your hair

I whisper words that I can’t trust

And count the moments left to spare

Hold me tight

We float in space

We leave no trace behind

Breath with me

Erase, rewind

We are safely blind again

Scratch my wounds

I need to feel

The killing thrill in me

Lick my wounds

Protect me from

What I’ve become

Embrace my fears

And feed my eyes

That beg for lies and love

Dry your heart

The time is here

To feel what’s real

Share with me

My glorious failures

And bitter victories

Invade my dreams

And wake me from This life in coma

Your slave I am, in love

Running, falling and back on the road

My heart is beating about to explode

I am free as a child
So carelessly wild

 

I fly in circles, I land on the sky

I float in the ocean, escaping my mind

I am feeling so high; so comfortably blind

 

I am just a feather, light as a shadow, light as a shadow

An evanescent thought, light as a shadow, light as a shadow

 

A fleeting glance, a random word I scream, the colors in my dreams

A fragile smile, a simple twist of fate, the line between love and hate

 

Laughing, feeling nothing around me

Pausing the time that speeds inside me

I am Alice in wonderland
In a submarine I dive in sand

 

Licking, scratching the wounds I’ve been hiding

I dance with my daemons, into oblivion I am sliding

The pace is unstoppable; I am feeling so vulnerable

When we met, before we plan this slaughter

Our lips were dry, the summers long and hotter

Dear Mom

She kissed my eyes, she wrapped her arms around me

While bending light warmed my heart and numbed me

Dear Dad

The Sun

The Moon

Will fade out soon

Tonight

Be still

And wait

My soul, it’s too late

Tonight

I wanna fight this war; I ain’t afraid no more

Together we dance

The life I lived; the life I spent in living

Was blessed by gods; conveniently forgiving

Dear Love

Can you explain the scars, the blood in my hands

My damaged brain is still swimming in the drylands

Dear Lust