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How comes that every time I’m close I’m bound to lose?
A shadow drops, secure belief turns to mirage,
Manifest dreams just to succeed crumble, collapse and rise
To dust.
How comes that every time I’m close to you one moment stops a heartbeat.

And then it tumbles and descends, can’t climb again but here I’m,
I’m bound to climb again – I’m damned.
And you, evasive little threat, fugitive thief, escape again, escape forever more,
Once more, just one more step

To nowhere.
And suddenly I’m nowhere. Talk to silent walls. Catch glances in the mirror.
A world collapses while you fly, fly off again
But I remember every spell I hoped in any spring.

I aimed at you, I stumbled through, aimed at my Missing Target,
Each step you take seems closer but takes you far away.

A star is glowing, bursting thousand lives, remaining far away.
How comes that you hold on to this? Your lonely walks, your wanderings.
How comes that time, that consciousness has got one straight direction?
Too stray to stay on ancient floors on quiet nights like these.

It ain’t no long until your voice grows on again,
Until the beat goes on again, goes on again for sure.

I aimed at you, I stumbled through, aimed at my Missing Target,
Each step you take seems closer but takes you far away.
But suddenly time runs, time binds, time makes you feel you’re lost.
Cause nothing happens besides hope, a teardrop ready to explode.
To tears, to stars, to ashes.
To tears, to stars, to ashes.

There’s nothing certain but this, each step you take on solid ground
Will take you to a place where there’s nothing you can hold on.
No grip that lifts you up, nothing is but certain: with one step you will fall
But will it be your last?

I aimed at you, I stumbled through, aimed at my Missing Target,
Each step you take seems closer but takes you far away.
But suddenly time runs, time binds, time makes you feel you’re lost.
Cause nothing happens besides hope, a teardrop ready to explode,
A sinking ship, a dive into the cold, dark night.
To burning air, to fading light,
To drowning breath in endless dreams.
To tears, to stars, to ashes.
To tears, to stars, to ashes.
To tears, to stars, to ashes.

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from Why Do You Hate Me With Your Love?, released March 31, 2023

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Nilo Crow Munich, Germany

"Where were you when the Thunder came, the everlasting storm? And when they disappeared again, this nothingness was born.
Your days are dark, your nights are bright – but mine they are both grey."
And so a man walks down the road, with nothing on his mind.
"So who are you?" – and he replies: "I told you, I don't know. I've lost my voice, I've dropped my words, the melody of rain." ... more

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