Jenseits – Cioran II – Lyrics / Notes – English
Emile Cioran
Thinking:
It means
Doing the void around yourself
Erasing reality
Considering the world just as a pretense
Around The Corner
It’s just around the corner
A. Ferrara’s “The Addiction” in the end of the song…
Another Day (The Cure)
Creature Remnants
(I relit the cigarette… what a shame…)
Potties, adolescents, wimps
Metaphysical menopauses
A creature remnant
A wild eyed puppet
My Anesthesia
Circulate, blood
Go through your flexible way
Customized for your running
Circulate, blood
Go through your flexible way
Blow up the temples and heart
Give me a good mood
Going On With Cowardly
I’m entering
Going on with cowardly
The innermost being of things
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Jenseits – Cioran – Lyrics / Notes – English
It’s Worth It
I painted the terrace,
The walls, the railings
For four hours
During which
I didn’t think about anything
It’s worth it.
Text taken from the memoirs of Emile Cioran. On the lines of: “I don’t believe that my total lack of adherence to the world is a matter of pride, I don’t have this alibi. It just belongs to all my being, everything I am not”.
Serotonin
My gray substrate is irrigating
My material substrate
My pineal gland
With large drafts
Neuroses are cleared away
And full
My cave silences
With fitter simpers
A little jingle (as it seems in Italian) by the author.
Voices in the last part are taken from “The Driller Killer”, the first non-porn movie by Abel Ferrara. A girl wants her boyfriend to finish and sell his painting to make some money.
Sufferings
I was made for futility
And for frivolity
But sufferings
Pounced on me
Emile Cioran again. From his “diary”, where this lyric goes on to end like this: “… Condemning me to seriousness, for which I haven’t got any aptitude.” And again: “I am not a writer, I can’t find the right words to explain what I feel, what I suffer. ‘Talent’ is concerned with being able to fill the distance that is between life and language. For me, this distance is always there, empty, and it’s impossible to fill or to avoid. I leave in an automated sadness, I’m an elegiac robot”.
The Eye Tail
Behind the corner – in the eye tail
Behind the corner – receving nervation
Behind the corner – darkling admixture of possibilities
Behind the corner – something like dreaming energy
Behind the corner – in the eye tail
Wrote this song several years ago…
The Roosters
This is from “The Driller Killer” again: The killer and a girl are in a pub where a punk group called the Roosters are making their exhibition…
The Tenant
This is for “The Tenant” by Roman Polanski. The voices are from the Italian edition of the movie.
As If In A Dream
I’m always playing
My
Absence
I’m always playing
Your
Absence
It’s Worth It [reprise]
Sadness
You’ll never be full of that
You will always be looking for that
Preferably where there is not
Because without sadness
Everything will look futile and cloudy
These last lines are from Cioran, who simply wrote as an aphorism: “I hesitate”.
