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While I sleep

from Before you close your eyes by Lichtenberg

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While I sleep







At night, while I sleep, I don't think.
By day, while I am awake, I think of the shadows in front of the sun, and of the moon and the stars.
About the fact that I see them.
The past is everywhere, the future is far away, the present is. I lie in the sand, the fat black beetle fights with it.
The weed is dancing out of control.
I hear the sea breathing, I see the fire burning, the chaos, the devastation, the dust and the driftwood.
Whenever I walk along the beach, I can hear you, see you, feel you.

And only at night, while I sleep, I don't think.




The sun flashes in my face.
The heaven is near me.
My gaze reaches afar into the land.
As if I would see something.
There' s a storm and I am in the middle of it.
It comes and goes.
The thunder is trapped in it, uncontrolled.
A lightning bolt is in the dark.
It is freed, arrives, goes away to come back.
Stranded. Landed. Marvelous magic. Reached. Hold on.

Silently the air passes me by and allows high and deep tones in me to sound.
Recollections and experiences of the past let me arrive in the present.
The sky is clean, almost boring.
It is not to be misled.
Like my thoughts that leave no room for unrest.
Like my freedom, which I do not let be taken.
I face the sun with the freedom I have gained.
I leave the everyday life behind me.

And only at night, while I sleep, I don't think.

The heaven is bright.
The heaven becomes dark.
In the fading light I see the finish line.
The grass flickers.
The fear goes and the seeds I have sown are ready for picking.

And only at night, while I sleep, I don't think.

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from Before you close your eyes, released February 9, 2019

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Lichtenberg SL, Germany

Die saarländische Band Lichtenberg wollte in gar keines der engen Schublädchen passen: Rock, Prog, Alternative....nichts wollte passen, so bastelten sich die drei Freunde ihr eigenes Genre: New Kraut.
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