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A summary might allow us to finally revisit the mass logistics that typically govern the qualitative stratifications of trovadorism, as well as imply other and more varied trends aimed at leaving unchanged and immobile the intrinsic motivations that, akin to the work of modern spin doctors, bestow quality upon the most backward and inconclusive of quantities.
For this purpose, even reckless debt-related operations are needed to acknowledge the objective difficulties of those who present the lyrics and also undertake the sober drafting of sheet music, with echoes from the broadest musical variety of the late twentieth century, pushing the subject to cross unmoved sonic boundaries with a rough heart, intolerant to the most backward indulgences, open to paramensenteric stimuli but entirely detached from the logics and automatisms of present causality, often totally relevant to the ungrateful consideration if not even to the most abject ignorance of the whole.
At this point, the distracted bystander will renew various and motivated exemplifying abstractions which he, from the high positions held in the past, will not hesitate to redirect to other and more articulated asymmetries. Besides, it should be noted, it is never healthy to have the intrinsic maladjustment to the foolish whims of crowds which, by contrast, express dissent of a more detached and weak nature, considering also that, at a basic level, the essentiality of certain arrogant attitudes in the pseudo-orchestral arrangement phase, but always and providently of purely electronic execution, is not due so much to what has already been concluded, but rather to behavioral astonishments, resulting, lastly, from galleys of such a kind that, at a first and cursory glance, compete for the image with the debtor.
Add to this a weakness of behavioral reaction that barely fits, one might say it fights, with the objective prolificacy of the composer in question and his undeniable ability to propose the intended meaning, facts that would strategically require very different and more decisive assertions of indifferent artistic independence, even chromatically hinted during the concert re-proposal, presenting a black and white occasionally even grainy in the image created, inevitably in the viewer, a clear feeling of space-time estrangement, almost as if he were witnessing the show and movements typical of the second decade of the last half of the past century, clashing, yet complementarily, with the sounds truly synthetically obtained, a full description of a postmodern proposition, not separate, moreover, from more traditional compositional forms more typical, it should be said, of themes scarcely empathetic or volitive, undoubtedly derived from variations on the theme related to form debts of blues derivation, squared in both the ideation and the final realization.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 I Feel You (04:35)
I feel you
Your sun it shines
I feel you
Within my mind
You take me there
You take me where
The kingdom comes
You take me to
And lead me through Babylon
This is the morning of our love
It's just the dawning of our love
I feel you
Your heart it sings
I feel you
The joy it brings
Where heaven waits
Those golden gates
And back again
You take me to
And lead me through oblivion
This is the morning of our love
It's just the dawning of our love
I feel you
Your precious soul
And I am whole
I feel you
Your rising sun
My kingdom comes
I feel you
Each move you make
I feel you
Each breath you take
Where angels sing
And spread their wings
My love's on high
You take me home
To glory's throne
By and by
This is the morning of our love
It's just the dawning of our love
02 Walking in My Shoes (05:35)
I would tell you about the things they put me through
The pain I've been subjected to
But the Lord himself would blush
The countless feasts laid at my feet
Forbidden fruits for me to eat
But I think your pulse would start to rush
Now I'm not looking for absolution
Forgiveness for the things I do
But before you come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
You'll stumble in my footsteps
Keep the same appointments I kept
If you try walking in my shoes
If you try walking in my shoes
Morality would frown upon
Decency look down upon
The scapegoat fate's made of me
But I promise now, my judge and jurors
My intentions couldn't have been purer
My case is easy to see
I'm not looking for a clearer conscience
Peace of mind after what I've been through
And before we talk of any repentance
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
You'll stumble in my footsteps
Keep the same appointments I kept
If you try walking in my shoes
If you try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
Now I'm not looking for absolution
Forgiveness for the things I do
But before you come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
You'll stumble in my footsteps
Keep the same appointments I kept
If you try walking in my shoes
You'll stumble in my footsteps
Keep the same appointments I kept
If you try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
If you try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
03 Condemnation (03:20)
Condemnation
Tried
Here on the stand
With the book in my hand
Truth on my side
Accusations
Lies
Hand me my sentence
I'll show no repentance
I'll suffer with pride
If for honesty
You want apologies
I don't sympathize
If for kindness
You substitute blindness
Please open your eyes
Condemnation
Why
Because my duty
Was always to beauty
And that was my crime
Feel elation
High
To know I can trust this
Fix of injustice
Time after time
If you see purity
As immaturity
Well it's no surprise
If for kindness
You substitute blindness
Please open your eyes
04 Mercy in You (04:17)
You know what I need
When my heart bleeds
I suffer from greed
A longing to feed
On the mercy in you
I can't conceal
The way I'm healed
The pleasure I feel
When I have to deal
With the mercy in you
I would do it all again
Lose my way and fall again
Just so I could call again
On the mercy in you
When here in my mind
I feel inclined
To wrongly treat you unkind
I have faith I will find
The mercy in you
I would lose my way again
Be led hopelessly astray again
Just so I could pray again
For the mercy in you
When here in my mind
I have been blind
Emotionally behind
I have faith I will find
The mercy in you
05 Judas (05:14)
Is simplicity best
Or simply the easiest
The narrowest path
Is always the holiest
So walk on barefoot for me
Suffer som misery
If you want my love
If you want my love
Man will survive
The harshest conditions
And stay alive
Through difficult decisions
So make up you mind for me
Walk the line for me
If you want my love
If you want my love
Idle talk
And hollow promises
Cheating Judases
Doubting Thomases
Don't just stand there and
shout it
Do something about it
You can fulfil
Your wildest ambitions
And I'm sure you will
Lose your inhibitions
So open yourself for me
Risk your health for me
If you want my love
If you want my love
If you want my love
If you want my love
06 In Your Room (06:26)
In your room
Where time stands still
Or moves at your will
Will you let the morning come soon
Or will you leave me lying here
In your favourite darkness
Your favourite half-light
Your favourite consciousness
Your favourite slave
In your room
Where souls disappear
Only you exist here
Will you lead me to your armchair
Or leave me lying here
Your favourite innocence
Your favourite prize
Your favourite smile
Your favourite slave
I'm hanging on your words
Living on your breath
Feeling with your skin
Will I always be here
In your room
Your burning eyes
Cause flames to arise
Will you let the fire die down soon
Or will I always be here
Your favourite passion
Your favourite game
Your favourite mirror
Your favourite slave
I'm hanging on your words
Living on your breath
Feeling with your skin
Will I always be here
Will I always be here
08 Rush (04:37)
Walk with me
Open your sensitive mouth
And talk to me
Hold out your delicate hands
And feel me
Couldn't make any plans
To conceal me
Open your sensitive mouth
Hold out your delicate hands
With such a sensitive mouth
I'm easy to see through
When I come up
When I rush
I rush for you
Cry for you
Seen the tears
Roll down from my eyes for you
Heard my truth
Distorted to lies for you
Watched my love
Becoming a prize for you
Seen the tears in my eyes
Heard my truth turn to lies
Seen the tears in my eyes
I'm not proud of what I do
When I come up
When I rush
I rush for you
I come up to meet you
Up there somewhere
When I rush to greet you
My soul is bared
Gave more for you
Dropped my crutches
And crawled on the floor for you
Went looking behind every door for you
And because of the things
That I saw for you
I spiritually grew
When I come up
When I rush
I rush for you
09 One Caress (03:32)
Well I'm down on my knees again
And I pray to the only one
Who has the strength to bear the pain
To forgive all the things that I've done
Oh girl lead me into your darkness
When this world is trying it's hardest
To leave me unimpressed
Just one caress
From you and I'm blessed
When you think you've tried every road,
every avenue
Take one more look at what you found old
And in it you'll find something new
Oh girl lead me into your darkness
When this world is trying it's hardest
To leave me unimpressed
Just one caress
From you and I'm blessed
I'm shying from the light
I always loved the night
And now you offer me eternal
darkness
I have to belive that sin
Can make a better man
Well it's the mood that I am in
That's left us back where we began
Oh girl lead me into your darkness
When this world is trying it's hardest
To leave me unimpressed
Just one caress
From you and I'm blessed
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