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Love Tattoo
04:28
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Love Tattoo - Steve Merlin (c)2000/2013
It’s a thin thin line
It’s like walking on a highwire, strung in a stormcloud
Take it or leave it
It’s like betting your life when you know
The game has not yet been invented
But it’s painted in the skies
Burned into your eyes
Not yet been invented
Tattooed in your brain though you feel no pain
Feels like drowning in the air you breathe
Tripping on a vacuum breeze
She pours strange new words into your ears
And you feel a change as your world falls out of place
Take it or leave it
It’s like betting your life when you know
The game has not yet been invented
But it’s painted in the skies
Burned into your eyes
Not yet been invented
Tattooed in your brain though you feel no pain
You can feel no pain, you can feel no pain
Tattooed in your brain though you feel no pain
Take it or leave it
It’s like betting your life when you know
The game has not yet been invented
The game has not yet been invented
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2. |
I Listen
06:45
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I Listen - Steve Merlin (c)2008/2013
I often venture back to this building
You get in, grab a chair, and sit down
You put your left hand where your right leg meets your hip
Palm pointing upwards
You rest the elbow of your right hand’s arm
In your left hand’s upturned palm
You stretch the finger of your right hand, close your eyes
Feel the voices
Buzzing in your fingertip
Buzzing in your fingertip
Voices in your fingertip
Voices in your fingertip
Feel the thrill under your very skin
The slightest change may tune you in
To different voices
Sometimes I hear my own voice
Sometimes memories I haven’t yet collected
Sometimes I hear the ocean bubbling, rising from the ground and see
The walls like icebergs crumbling to the water
Sometimes I hear the marching of a thousand heavy boots
Sometimes I hear the sound of beating fists on someone’s body
Sometimes a little girl and little boy
And I listen to their meowing
Only rarely, when the stars are at an angle
The voices move like herring in the sea
Then suddenly they change into the body of a girl
Shimmering in the air
You find the reddest voices concentrated ‘round her mouth
I close my eyes and feel her arms are closing ‘round me
And I listen
I listen
I listen
I listen
Many weeks from now’s the time will I return again to this building
What’s the difference between sadness and craving?
The difference between sadness and craving
The difference between sadness and craving
The difference between sadness and craving
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3. |
Disappear
03:54
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Disappear - Steve Merlin (c)2005/2013
At a venue, on a rainy evening somewhere in this town
I was hiding, I was trying to slow down cause my head spinned ‘round
No one, no appointments
Opened up my mind, filled it up with sound
Then I found you, you were dancing like there’s nothing but music
When you saw me, you were smiling and it seemed like you knew me
Everybody faded, only thing I heard was your breathing
Time became an echo, future just a word from my memory
And every note felt like rain on my face
And then I disappeared with you
It must have been strange for the ones that knew you
Then I disappeared with you
I never even cared where on earth we went to
Feeling happy, are words I never thought that had meaning
But it happened, and I think it’s even better than dreaming
No one, no appointments
Open up my mind, fill it up with you
Take every day as it comes
And disappear with you
It’s gonna be strange for the ones that knew you
Disappear with you
Couldn’t care less where on earth we go to
Disappear with you
I’m feeling like a wizard everytime I’m with you
Disappear with you
I feel I own the world when I’m beside you
When I found you, you were dancing like there’s nothing but music
When you saw me, you blew me away with a smile
And then I disappeared with you
It must have been strange for the ones that knew you
I disappeared with you
You never can tell what they think of that move
I disappeared with you
I never even cared where on earth we went to
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4. |
Dandelion Stars
04:31
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Dandelion Stars - Steve Merlin (c)2009/2013
That day she lit a fire in my heart
Sparkling in fields of dandelion stars
Listening, watching, barefoot on the grass
Green she was,
Green she was
The old man playing tunes on his guitar
Silvery hair and a soul full of scars
‘d Done Peggy Sue, in about a million bars
Green I was
Green I was
The river ran towards a setting sun
Taking her time,since the day she was young
I felt my life had only just begun
Green it was
Green it was
Green it was
Cradled in my arms, she said
- I feel so free - then she rested her head
I felt a million things instead
Dandelion stars all around me
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5. |
Everyone Soon
05:45
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Everyone Soon - Steve Merlin (c)1993/2013
A shepherd’s home, a misty sun
A peaceful kind of morning comes
A shroud of snow, the world unborn
The yester-times forever gone
And with the world at dawn
You realize it’s round and round
And everything is waiting for you now
A clear-blue sky to dream upon
You look down to watch the people run
You’re wondering where they all go
Will anybody ever know?
And with the world at noon
You realize their time comes really soon
And everyone is waiting for you now
I’m waiting for you now
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6. |
Electric Light
04:22
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Electric Light - Steve Merlin (c)1999/2013
I took the empty silence
And filled it with some words to hear
Something to talk about
I learned to fight the darkness
Got electric light to spend the night
Forget that I’m here alone
My fear for loneliness dries up
I found some friends to keep the water out
It’s only temporary
You give some kind of meaning
Such a comfortable feeling
But I must have been dreaming
Because I’m losing you again
On my own again
I used to freeze without you
Put the heating on to keep me warm
It’s fake but kind of friendly
Got a brand new miracle machine
That takes my mind away from here
I play my music through the night
Under electric light
You give some kind of meaning
Such a comfortable feeling
But I must have been dreaming
Cause I’m losing you again
Because I’m losing you again
Girl I must have been dreaming
I used to freeze without you
Put the heating on to keep me warm
It’s fake but kind of friendly
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7. |
Clockwork
06:08
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Clockwork - Steve Merlin (c)1992/2013
The hands fell off this morning, from my favourite clock
Time stood still this morning, all my senses were locked
Up in deep-frozen skies, up in faces of ice
And the sun wouldn’t rise
When I looked up this morning, no one moved no one tried
A world at peace this morning, everyone seemed to hide
Down in beds made of clouds, down where silence cried out
At the end of a sound
Chronical hands, the guards of the plan
As long as they turn around
Chronical hands will run the race of man
As long as they turn around
My watch has stopped this morning, though the battery’s ok
Oh my life began this morning, as my mind melted away
All my cares did explode, into fragments of cloth
On a wide open road
The chronical hands have been taking their time,
The waves of our history roll down my spine
A flash of insanity brings back my mind
The morning just woke me from falling behind
Chronical hands, we’re made out of sand
Chronical hands, one way to the end
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8. |
Between Air And Wing
10:14
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Between Air And Wing - Steve Merlin (c)2008/2013
I’ve been seeing an angel
She came into my life for a while
There was an hour-glass full of sparkling things
Entirely ours for a while
Time was another dimension
Too non-existent to mention
We walked across the universe
We had apple pies in the clouds
There were waterfalls, stars, a thousand things
In that little room in my house
It was a story ever expanding
There were so many happy endings
Then in the brightest blue of her eyes
I saw a burning secret
She whispered ‘Tell me, what’s the time’
I said: ‘I don’t know where they keep it!’
Then a voice cried out from within her
The hour-glass cracked into splinters
Time slipped away every minute
And everything vanished within it
And she just vanished out of my life
Back to her garden of angels
And I just have to get on with my life
How do you forget an angel?
An angel, an angel, an angel
And what should I do when I meet her down town?
Whereto now with my love
I’ve just no use for this love
I’ve just too much of this love
To keep focus
I stroll around in this town
Keep my eyes to the ground
But there is no-one in this town
To notice
I’m torn
Between my head and my phone
I’ve got to leave her alone
I’ve got to leave her alone
She’s torn
Between her love and her home
Between the dream and the known
Between the dog and the bone
I know
I know I know I know
We took a ride on a jet boat
And this was going to happen
The waves short-circuited the dashboard
And I feel cold
And weightless in a wide, wide ocean
If I’d be asleep and I dreamed, could I see her?
Cause when I’m awake I just stay here and hide myself
She’s lightyears away but it seems, she’s so near to me
The universe was bent in a minute, and put on a shelf
I’m torn
Between my head and my phone
I’ve got to leave her alone
I’ve got to leave her alone
She’s torn
Between her love and her home
Between the dream and the known
Between the dog and the bone
Torn, between the dog and the bone
Between the dog and the bone, between the dog and the bone
Torn, between the waves and the boat
Between the wheel and the road, between the dream and the known
Between the ash and the heel, between the chrome and the steel
Between the yang and the yin, between the air and the wing
Between madness and love, between madness and love
Between madness and love, between madness and love
Between madness and love, between madness and love
Between madness and love
Love
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9. |
I Listen (reprise)
01:02
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I Listen (reprise) - Steve Merlin (c)2008/2013
I’ll never get used to this building
I walked in years ago, called it home
And now the whispers of the voices in the walls
Fill the empty space
And I listen
I listen
I listen
I listen
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10. |
Green Summer Morning
02:02
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Green Summer Morning - Steve Merlin (c)2008/2013
Sleep well, my darling
Got a box full of dreams
Some I can give you
Some I will keep
For the moment you wake up
And your eyes touch the light
Of the green summer morning
Softly mirrored in mine
For the moment you wake up
Only one dream will do
Of lovers, slowly waking
One is me
One is you
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Steve Merlin Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Over 9 years dutch prog rocker Steve Merlin has been working on a story-based double album, to be released in 2025. In 2008 Steve launched his experimental album Closer To The Moon. Between Air And Wing (2013) and prog album Crash Course For Earth (2015), were both recorded with a band: Tom van Veldhoven (drums), Sjef Poels (guitars), Freek Helsper (keys), Rick Weren (bass) and guest musicians. ... more
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