Playlist Asaf Avidan

asaf avidan - one day

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

No more tears, my heart is dry
I don't laugh and i don't cry

I don't think about you all the time
But when i do i wonder why

No more tears, my heart is dry
I don't laugh and i don't cry

I don't think about you all the time
But when i do i wonder why

No more tears, my heart is dry
I don't laugh and i don't cry

I don't think about you all the time
But when i do i wonder why

No more tears, my heart is dry
I don't laugh and i don't cry

I don't think about you all the time
But when i do i wonder why

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

One day, baby we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories
that we could have told

asaf avidan - the labyrinth song

Evening rises
Darkness threatens to engulf us all
But the there's a moon above
It's shining and I think I hear a call

Lt's just a whisper through the trees
My ears can hardly make it out
But I can hear it in my heart
Vibrating strong as if she shouts

Oh ariadne, I am coming
I just need to work this maze inside my head
I came here like you asked
I killed the beast
That part of me is dead
Oh ariadne, I just need to work this maze inside my head
If only I have listened to you
When you offered me that thread

Everything is quiet and l'm not exactly sure
If it really was your voice I heard
Or maybe lt is a door
That's closing up some hero's back
On his track to be a man
Can it be that all us heroes have a path
But not a plan?

Oh ariadne, I am coming
I just need to work this maze inside my mind
I wish I had that string
It's so damn dark
I think I'm going blind
Oh ariadne, I just need to work that maze inside my mind
For the life of me
I don't remember what I came to find

Now tell me princess, are you strolling through your sacred grove?
And is the moon still shining?
You're the only thing I'm thinking of
The sword you gave me, it was heavy
I just had to lay it down
Lt's funny how defenseless I can feel here
When there's nobody around

Oh ariadne, I am coming
I just need to work this maze inside my heart
I was blind. I thought you'd bind me
But you offered me a chart
Oh ariadne, I just need to work this maze inside my heart
If I'd known that you could guide me
L'd have listened from the start
Somewhere up there midnight strikes

I think I hear the fall
Of little drops of water
Magnified against the barren wall
Its more a feeling than a substance
But there's nobody ardund
And when I'm in here all alone
It's just enough to let me drown

Oh ariadne, I was coming
But I failed you
In this labyrinth of my past
Oh ariadne, let me sing you
And we'll make each other last
Oh ariadne, I have failed you
In this labyrinth of my past
Oh ariadne let me sing you
And we'll make each other last

asaf avidan - gold shadow

There's a gold shadow seeping through the door
There's a cold sparrow lying still upon the floor
Dead and true as lipstick
Slow as the speed of skin
There's a gold, gold shadow growing from within

There's a bent willow in the moonlight painted blue
There's a spent window silhouetting you
Deep and true as whiskey
Soft and sure as lies
There's a bent, bent willow reflecting in your eyes

But now there's a girl out in a boat
Her arms are outstretched and she's barely afloat
There's a man on the shore, a rope in his hands
It's tied to the boat, and he's pulling as hard as he can
Not to bring her to him, but to pull the whole shore
And the whole world with it to her open door
All his voices are her
All his voices are her
Has he been here before?
Nobody's sure

There's a silver distance, a luminescent glimpse
There's a river of resistance, dried to cracks upon your lips
Brittle as believing
Sticky as betrayal
There's a silver distance opening up like a trail

There was a time before all the leaves
Covered the beauty of adam & eve
And they were blind, and they were free
To be whatever they wanted to be
But now they are just a prayer in a song
And he is so sorry for all that went wrong
All his voices are her
All his voices are her
Has he been here before?
Has he been here before?

asaf avidan - reckoning song

No more tears, my heart is dry
I don't laugh and I don't cry
I don't think about you all the time
But when I do - I wonder why

You have to go out of my door
And leave just like you did before
I know I said that I was sure
But rich men can't imagine poor.

One day baby, we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories that we could have told

Little me and little you
Kept doing all the things they do
They never really think it through
Like I can never think you're true

Here I go again - the blame
The guilt, the pain, the hurt, the shame
The founding fathers of our plane
That's stuck in heavy clouds of rain.

One day baby, we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories that we could have told.

asaf avidan - love it or leave it

Long are the days
When you're turning away
From the reasons you strung
Long is the way
When you're aching to say
But your teeth bite your tongue

Loud is the wind
In your ears when you spin
As you look for the sun
Loud are the skies
As you thunder your cries
When your prayers are sung

Hard is the floor
As the waves pound the shore
Of your wounds
Roll up your sleeve
It's hard to believe
But it's you

Love it or leave it
Love it or leave it
Love it or leave it
Love it or leave it
You got to believe it

My oh my, it hurts sometimes
Oh my oh my, it hurts sometimes
I think I'm running out of time
Before I'm gonna lose my mind

Slow is the night
When you reach for the light
But the dark lingers on
Slow is the bite
Of the words that you write
When it's finally dawn

How can you swim
When the waters are streaming
In you
Roll up your sleeve
Now love it or leave it
It's you

Love it or leave it
Love it or leave it
Love it or leave it
Love it or leave it
You got to believe it

My oh my, it hurts sometimes
Oh my oh my, it hurts sometimes
I think I'm running out of time
Before I'm gonna lose my mind

asaf avidan - differen pulses

Minha vida é como uma ferida
Eu á coço para que possa sangrar
Regurgito minhas palavras,
escrevo para que possa me alimentar
E a Morte cresce como uma árvore
Que está plantada no meu peito
Suas raízes estão em meus pés,
então eu ando para que ela não possa descansar.

Oh, Querida, eu estou perdido...

Eu tento empurrar as cores através de um prisma
De volta para o branco
Para sincronizar os nossos diferentes pulsos
em uma luz ofuscante
E se o amor não é a chave. Se o amor não é uma chave...
Espero que eu possa encontrar um lugar onde seja.

Eu sei que em seu coração há uma resposta, para uma pergunta
Que eu ainda não tenho consciência que fiz
E se a árvore não tivesse bebido minhas lágrimas
Eu teria sangrado e chorado por todos esses anos
Por eu, sozinho, ter deixado todos eles passarem

Oh, Querida, eu sou seu...

asaf avidan - over my head

I'm in over my head
Dragged back from the dead
How was I to know
Just a seedling in the snow
Now I am trying
To get you on the line
?Cause baby I'm coming back home

And it's hard to believe, but there's nobody leaving
Please don't lock the door
?Cause baby I'm yours

A shattered broken pile
That could not reconcile
Darkness stared at me
A love spilled carelessly
Then you turned on the light
Like a moth in the night
Baby I'm coming home

And it's hard to believe, but there's nobody leaving
Please don't lock the door
?Cause baby I'm yours

asaf avidan - little parcels of an endless time

Little parcels of the past
Are spinning down towards
The gyre
And a sinuous truth unvoiced
Is stretching up forever
Higher
Leaves of places
Leaves of friends
Are blowing in the wind and
Falling
But my ship carves
Through the rain
To the place that I am
Going
Trepidation
You gotta be mistaken
It was an endless time ago
You gotta, gotta let it go
Trepidation
You gotta be mistaken
It was an endless time ago
You gotta, gotta let it go
Tiny particles of light
Have travelled in a wave to find me
A hundred million light-years past
But still they seem to find a way to blind me
Storms of old
I never told
Last year they were all the rages
All the sciences of motion
Cannot calculate my changes
Trepidation
You gotta be mistaken
It was an endless time ago
You gotta, gotta let it go
Trepidation
You gotta be mistaken
It was an endless time ago
You gotta, gotta let it go
Trepidation
You gotta be mistaken
It was an endless time ago
You gotta, gotta let it go
Trepidation
You gotta be mistaken
It was an endless time ago
You gotta, gotta let it go
(The end)

asaf avidan - the jail that sets you free

Lately I've been picking at the fossil in my throat
It's hard to stare into the ocean
And to try to stay afloat
Now don't upset yourself due to the changing of my mood
I'm hard to please sometimes
I'm hard to please sometimes

I'm on a staircase to the bottom of the bottom of my soul
Although my feet are still connected
They are out of my control
Now please refrain yourself from worrying on my behalf
I'm hard to understand sometimes
I'm hard to understand sometimes

Honey come with me
It's just you and me
Baby believe it's
As simple as can be
I will be the jail that sets you free
I will be the jail that sets you free

I'm shuffling underneath my pillow for the bed-crumbs of my mind
It's hard to look there for a future
When I left it all behind
Please don't condescend and say you've heard this one before
I'm hard to please sometimes
I'm hard to please sometimes

And while you're offering a handshake to a goddamn amputee
I feel my phantom heart is scratching in a train-wreck memory
Please don't try to cure me with on rectifying glance
I'm hard to understand sometimes
I'm hard to understand sometimes

Honey come with me
It's just you and me
Baby believe it's
As simple as can be
I will be the jail that sets you free
I will be the jail that sets you free

I'm hard to please sometimes
I'm hard to please sometimes

I will be the jail that makes you
I will be the jail that breaks you
I will be the jail that sets you free

asaf avidan - bang bang

I love you like the roots in the sand
I love you ooh ooh ooh like God loves his plan
I love you like death loves a man
And I love you like a gun in my hand

I go bang, bang, bang, a-bang, bang, bang, bang
I'm back, I'm back again

I love you like a scalpel loves flesh
I love you like blood that is fresh
I love you like a jew on the run
I love you like my hand on a gun

Bang, bang, bang, a-bang, a-bang, bang, sha-bang
I'm back, back again

OOh ooh ooh ooh ooh
I can't think any damn thing, anything but you
OOh ooh ooh ooh ooh
That is how I love, love, love, love, love you

(Hut!)

I love you like chisel and stone
I love you ooh ooh ooh like needle and bone
I love you like (a) God loves his son
And I love you like my hand on a gun

I go bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang
I'm back, back again

asaf avidan - my tunnels are long and dark these days

You, my friend
Have nothing to fear, my friend
You have nothing to fear, my friend
Except for love
We're moles my friend
We are just moles my friend
Blind against the dark
That's where we belong

The hungry crocodiles are dancing in the light
But what's up there besides the darkness of the night?
The hungry crocodiles are dancing in the light
But what's up there besides the darkness of the night?

Forget them, friend
You better hear, my friend
Where the tunnels never end
To love is to pretend
Don't try to love yourself again
That is the worst kind of pain
We're not those kind of freaks, amen
We're a different site and breed of men
Up there they're drinking down the day
They mix it with the chardonnay
They try to keep the dark at bay
Down here the darkness stays

The hungry crocodiles are dancing in the light
But what's up there besides the darkness of the night?
The hungry crocodiles are dancing in the light
But what's up there besides the darkness of the night?

asaf avidan - let s just call it fate

Tears are clouding up a sunny day
And I wish I'd turn up
Any other day
But I don't think that you'd care
If I stepped out of your hair
And you'd find me anywhere - but here
I wish it wasn't so
I'll say it again - I wish it wasn't so
But I don't think that you'd mind
If I left this room behind
And I'd step outside to find
Some other place
Let's say that it's ok and just leave it at that
Things are different than they seem
Everybody's looking from the outside
But we're both stuck within
And I wish that you would say
That you wanted me to stay
And we'll find some other way but this
Let's say that it's ok and just leave it at that
Maybe I could wait
But I think that it's too late
So let's just call it fate - from here

asaf avidan - ode to my thalamus

The clouds are gathering in the sky above
I know this one's gonna hurt my love
Birds are shouting through the mangrove trees
They know the difference between a storm and breeze
I too have felt this once before
I hear that pounding and it's at my door

Outside it's boiling, but the water is cold
All signs point to that I'm getting old
The waves are rising and I take that dive
To hold a breath is not to be alive
I felt it then, I feel it now
I know its coming but I don't know how

It's taking us apart
This helicase of love
We're nothing but post-modern art
What were we thinking of
This is how it has to be
This is how it has to be
This is how it has to be
I'm constructing but I shouldn't be

My blood is boiling and the callus is hot
My veins are twisting in a sailor's knot
My thalamus is growing down into my tongue
And all I taste is pain in every kiss and song
I know this story, and I know it well
The cracks are showing in my pearly shell

Outside I'm shaking and I feel them chills
There go both of my achilles heels
I fall down naked waiting for the storm
My arms are open, waiting to transform
The birds go flying, I hear them cry
I know it's coming but I don't know why

It's taking us apart, this
Helicase of love
We're nothing but post-modern art
What were we thinking of
This is how it has to be
This is how it has to be
This is how it has to be
This is how it has to be

This is how it has to be
This is how it has to be
This is how it has to be
This is how it has to be

This is how it has to be
This is how it has to be

asaf avidan - these words you want to hear

Don't you think it's time
You get on over that?
Don't you think you had enough?
I mean, I know you had it rough
But that pansy-fancy way of looking grim all through the day and night?

Is something wrong my dear?
Have I said it way to clear?
Then let me whisper in your ear
All these words I know are wrong
But for the sake of writing song
Here is what I guess you want to hear

Somewhere up there
The sky is blue for you
Somewhere out there
There's something new to do
Somebody loves you
Somebody loves you

Tell me do you think
You have some exclusivity
On every shadow of regret
That's lurking in proximity
To what you think your life should be?
But if you close your eyes you'll see
That there is nothing for you here
Still the only words you wanna hear

Are somewhere up there
The sky is blue for you
Somewhere out there
There is something new to do
Somebody loves you
Somebody loves you

Now tell me how about we maybe
Switch things for a change?
I will lie down in denial
And you can have this page
Its condescending and its sad
You're not the only one that's had
A life like this, I'm sorry dear
But it's what everybody wants to hear

asaf avidan - fair haired traveller

On a train ride from some place bad
To some place little better
In-between my youth and manhood
Was the place I met her
She was just a skinny brown-eyes girl
A hunger for tomorrow
And I was then obese by pain
I had all thta I could swallow

Oh fair haired travelling girl
Keep on travelling on
Oh fair haired travelling on
It's just the seat that you have is wrong

Her eyes were packing passed regrets
In her lips there was redemption
And she mistook my coat for love
As she wore it for affection
As she took the seat beside me
I inhaled all of her laughter
And she forgot there is a past
While I forgot there is an after

Oh fair haired travelling girl
Keep on travelling on
Oh fair haired travelling on
It's just the seat that you have is wrong

On a train ride from some place gone
To some place almost certain
In-between my flesh and bone
Was the place I met her
And wrapped up in my coat of shame
She laide there sleeping tightly
And as the train pulled to another stop
I knew that she'd go on without me

Oh fair haired travelling girl
Keep on travelling on
Oh fair haired travelling on
It's just the seat that you have is wrong

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