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OUT

by Rob Gehrke

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1.
FLOWER 02:28
FLOWER Please don’t let the failure Failure of my quiet face and tongue To arrive at what my thoughts Thoughts have always wanted to have done Discourage you I have come with nothing Except the fear of life Which gives men the strength to die And I’ve found a flower beautiful and young
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PREDICTABLE 06:14
PREDICTABLE (to America) You are so predictable I thought you were special, but now I know what you’re about Even so, I know it’s my fault My face won’t betray what I’d like to say even now And you wouldn’t stay for just one day to hear me out Still, everything’s my fault, I’m sorry for it all Please don’t be so sure that I don’t want to have your … You are so statistical Like everyone else, without being offered you take Even so, I know you are right Of my inability to plainly see my mistake Of wanting to be other than the me you would make Still, everything’s my fault, I’m sorry for it all Please don’t be so sure that I don’t want to have your … You are so beautiful I’d gladly give myself for sacrifice at your feet Even so I’d like to say I’m sorry my words fell down to the earth silently And for what it’s worth I offer this birth up to thee Still, everything’s my fault, I’m sorry for it all Please don’t be so sure that I don’t want to have your … Your thieves steal away every day Ships sail away, how can they stay They’re just like you, they’re just like me Small on the water beneath the dark sky Their course is fixed, they just don’t see Hold on the water, black as the night Look for the captain, nowhere in sight
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STONES 06:09
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RUSSIA 05:51
RUSSIA The branches cold With snowfall thick You were so impatient To show me The eyes of a child Whose pride is stirred to the quick When I touched you I knew that you were sick The smell of death Ran through every vein But you were sure to start again, The next day become sane The eyes of a child whose pride is stirred to the quick When I touched you I knew you were sick And when the clouds come over you The child becomes assassin too Matchless beauty In a pure heart Killed in the womb Before it could start Forced to tend a land so vast, Heavy, it would hold you down Your voice in the silence drowned It curved the Earth, without making a sound, Swallowed by the forest and the rocks in the ground Innocent, you push your hands through the poisoned soil That will one day bury you, there are so few who stay
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CHAINS 06:13
CHAINS (Vietnam, Cambodia, Bagdad, Fallujah, Lebanon, Gaza...) Tendrils Bring out some vague image to the light of day And push back the curtains, another victory We close our eyes to breathe The warm sand from the desert there Cut like the flesh around the prize The master tethered to it where His faithful servant lies Constellations Thrown like gems, are locking heads, as deaf and dumb As tattoos lingering above the canopy We watch it from beneath The planes give through the severed air Necklaces of fire from the sky That fall down to our hands laid bare To scatter them like grains That grow to be so high Everything’s pulling to break these chains
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INITIATION 05:04
INITIATION Like a ghost, I move through you And I hover over the withered fields I no longer remember the words that brought me here They have, like me, disappeared And left these empty shells to take their place Scattered groundstars, mirrors to hold up to your face Limbs have slowly dropped away Detached from me, the things that would not stay Peeled like wings or scissors to open the inside Memories were rooted out And knots undone to let dark ribbons fly - A window pane, a blank slate that cracked beneath the fire, I was broken to receive The bitter lessons beauty could inspire But I recall no visions, and nothing to believe Mended in the brightness there, The path was light, behind the shadows burn The yawning bridges shattered, impossible return
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MON ETOILE 05:04
MON ETOILE Ô mon étoile Tu as brillé si fort Tu appelais le désastre Précipitant ta mort Ton rythme si rapide Tournoyait dans un vide Et à t’approcher Nous nous sommes brûlés Ô mon étoile Tu as brillé trop fort Tu as provoqué le désastre Précédant ta mort Ton rythme trop rapide Tournoyait dans un vide Et à t’approcher Ils se sont brûlés Une dernière grimace pour sauver ta face abusée Tu as trop donné, pas assez pris Ça passe ou ça casse, trop d’audace déchaînée Un triste spectacle pour aujourd’hui Ô mon étoile Tu as défié ton sort Tu appelais le désastre Précipitant ta mort Aussi vite que venue, Tu es partie vaguer Et de la tribu Tu t’es séparée
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ARCHIPELS 06:41
ARCHIPELS (à M.) Tu as placé avec soin ces îles Pour que je découvre lentement, Sans me lasser des charmes et prodiges Et tous les temples t’appartenant Et chaque fois je risquai la mer Juste pour le plaisir de revenir Me retourner guetter le danger Auquel j’ai une fois encore échappé Et voir tes yeux briller Ô ma guide adorée Ton flanc coupé pour révéler Tes secrets à l’initié qui attendait, Impatient de désir, de découvrir Et sur ses terres transformées J’ai trouvé mon pays véritable Dont je serai à jamais partisan, Même si disparu maintenant Les messagers était en violet Ardents, ils éclataient page et mot Un été sans fin nous étouffait, Blanchissait les rochers comme des os J’ai vu la nature vers toi se tendre Même l’eau nous jetait ses bouquets Cette corde que j’ai crue incassable A cédé à force de trop tirer Mais ces terres-là étaient si instables Et ces catastrophes si vite venus Après les rites je suis remonté comme un diable Retrouver un terrain inconnu Où j’ai tout dévasté Ô ma guide adorée Ton flanc coupé pour révéler Tes secrets à l’initié qui attendait, Impatient de désir, de retrouver Nôtre sommeil lié En attendant l’heure redoutée Et de ses terres transformées J’ai fait mon pays véritable Dont je serai à jamais partisan, Même si disparu maintenant
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PARIS, 2008 03:21
PARIS, 2008 They were waiting Flowers in their hands But you said nothing They’d understand Just empty papers It ruined your mouth Now they move their lips, muted And filth comes out Surrounded by thieves, A good man is a dead man, So hard to find So take up your blade And thin the fields They’re only waiting To drink the blood On tender footsteps The nightmare becomes the day, The rage inside Will begin to fade This bright red flower Will wither unless You pick it now Another day gone, Forfeit your resting eyes to The masquerade Of a thousand lies Their suits and ties Shed for the night as They lay their heads Gently sleeping
11.
I WONDER AS I WANDER (trad./J. Niles/arr. Gehrke) I wonder as I wander out under the sky How Jesus our Saviour did come for to die For poor orn’ry people like you and like I I wonder as I wander out under the sky When Mary birthed Jesus 'twas in a cow stall With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all But high from the Heavens a star's light did fall The promise of ages it then did recall If Jesus had wanted of any wee thing A star in the sky or a bird on the wing Or all of God's Angels in Heav’n for to sing He surely could have had it, 'cause he was the king
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SNIAHC (free) 03:24

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The title (OUT) comes from a dream, in which a short song was verbatim dictated to me.

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released October 30, 2010

All lyrics and music written by Rob Gehrke (except "I Wonder As I Wander", American folk song).
Performed, recorded, programmed, mixed and mastered by Rob Gehrke.
Additional recordings made at Cobalt studio, Marseille, France.

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