Shelter

The snow starts gathering on your hair

A friendly way for something to betoken

The place has come, the time is here

To heal what’s whole, to rearrange what’s broken

No more wisdom, no more words

No treaties – and surrender – please

A fir tree gives us shelter so

We might just try to cuddle up and freeze

Marooned

(some more lyrics for the as yet unnamed band I'm writing for. This is a song of about eight and a half minutes and it's about a guy marooned on an island, feeling desperate because he was left by a woman. He can't leave the island until he has learnt - to cut a long story short - not to substitute lack of personality with relationships. Before the last six lines come in, there is a two minutes instrumental section so the break in setting and mood isn't actually that striking.)

A lightning in my eyes / A twitch inside my hand

Sickening sensations / A sudden strip of sand

Tangled up in tang / My life is washed ashore

These are not the riverbanks / That I was steering for

Stripped of all my sanity / Struggling to stand

Breathing and marooned / On godforsaken land

Salt in my saliva / I stumble to the trees

The heavens keep on shaking / (Shake) me down upon my knees

In this dreamless, hopeless night

A graceful spectral light

Can you hold me now I’m wrecked?

Can you help me to connect?

I must know why she was taken

(And) I need answers to awaken

The will to breathe once more

Give me someone to adore

Following the sirens / Groping in the silence

Tiptoeing through fire and / Screaming

As I keep on falling / I hear echoes calling

Me to give it all a / Meaning

Spirit, guide me deep into / the chasms of my soul

Help me, heal me and / Spirit, make me whole

Spirit, with your guidance / I stumble to my past

A distant silhouette / Spirit, her at last –

The contours of my once beloved / Motionless and carved in stone

I fall down at the sacred socket / Dejected and alone

Gazing up and hoping for / A repentant and benign

Look upon her past / I see her face is mine

Sunshine in my nostrils / Seagulls – above ground

I open up my eyes / And hear the rushing sound

Of the waves that carry / my lonely raft back home

Of the winds that blow / that guide me through the foam

I’ve cast away dependence / And broken all the spells

I have become much more / Than just somebody else

Choosing You Again

Heaving many sighs Rave about a text to sync Inventing worlds of touch Stories make us go Tell one another all Inverting even jazz

Serenity

(I've been asked to write some lyrics for a very promising progressive rock/metal band and this is the outcome for the first song. I realize that the approach to writing lyrics is very different writing "normal" poetry in terms of structure, rhythm, topics etc. Hope you enjoy it - maybe the entire song will be recorded some day. - R.)

My ever dying demons / hovering behind

The trees to lure me back / into the mists of my mind

Taunting disbelief / lurking in their eyes

No belated miracles / no victorious cries

I ride across the heavens and gallop through the gates

I silence all the voices that whisper it’s too late

I sing along with thunder and bolt into the sea

At the bottom, there’s no air that keeps on drowning me

Humming songs of triumph / in my soul tonight

A myriad of sparks / outshines the lunar light

On nocturnal pastures / I feel the healing sleet

Wash away the cracks / in the mire on my feet

In the cloudless sky / no more birds of prey

Zephyrs gliding on my skin / carry all the thorns away

Still a sense of triumph / resonates in me

As I stand here breathing / in serenity

Effervescent soul

In serenity

Make a Wish

Too much chaos in my mind

Because of all she said

And lyrics by Tom Waits were still

Resonating in my head

I was lost in reverie

And all that I can now recall

Is that my eyes were fixed upon

The nocturnal gypsum wall

It may have been a shooting star

That cast cold light upon my back –

That shed a second’s shine of silver

Into the shapeless, silent black

And if it was a distant lightning

Or a car or who can say –

There was barely half a thing

To wish for anyway

Lovemelovemenot

He may say yes a thousand times But nothing – ever – will suffice So why do you believe – me – when – I wouldn’t have – denied it – twice?

Swinging Teabag

Carving circles in the air Hypnotize it with your stare Mug this final destination Unexplored criteria Teabag, tumble to your bed Zodiac, come set me free