Aflatoon

Tracks

1. 1

   Bloody Me

   4:20
   Lyrics

   Bloody me and this city, we don't get each other at all Like two sides of a coin, to each other we're just an illusion Me in the shape of being ugly, you in the ugly habit of denial Both of us stuck putting up with it, me 'cause I have to, you 'cause you insist Me and Nima's teary eyes, me and these ragged clothes Buried alive under the rubble of this city's stares Bloody me, who never knew a better feeling In the spotlight I made a loser out of myself Me, the hated one, who made everyone feel bad wherever I went That's the fate I was made with, I'm just a simple mistake Me and the jailer of tears, me and Parvin's regrets My death will come one day, one day after this Bloody me, this is what I am, bitter ink on the wall This is my mission, a poem of torment for this city Me and merciless Aflatoon, me and these sick-and-tired weaknesses The city and its chronic calm, me and these efforts without us Bloody me, I don't wanna be some simple happening Not if the price of being good is falling into nothingness

2. 2

   What About Me

   4:58
   Lyrics

   I know your time has come, so what about my time I know your feet are tired, what about my feet I get it, your eyes are sad, what about my eyes I see you're sad, but what about my sorrows I know you're tired, but what about my exhaustion You have to live, but what about my life Don't move, this is exactly where you're supposed to be Don't choke up, that's exactly the moment you have to get up Don't breathe, right now everyone wants air from you Don't blink, here all anyone wants from you is your gaze You did the waiting, so what about my patience I get it, you're compelled, but what about what compels me I know this is just who you are, so what about who I am And what becomes of that self of yours that turned into me I know this was your wish, what about my wish I get it, this is what you deserve, so what about my share So what about my lifetime, I know for you it's too soon So what about my share, so what about my share I see your road has split away, so what about my road The moonlight came back to your night, so what about my moon I know your season has come, so what about my season I get it, my green has passed, so what about my generation

3. 3

   Death Angel

   4:47
   Lyrics

   Come, gently pull me out of the pit above this body Take me up, take me where nothing stays Even for just a moment, take me somewhere, to a world where everything is an image, a dream, or just a supposition Come quietly, so no one knows Tempt me with a look that's endlessly cruel Come close, so no one sees Afflict me with a feeling that's endlessly sad Just a supposition, not a world where clocks have taken over and want batteries on top of it Just yesterday quantum said the clocks are watching us and until you look at them they won't even move all they want is a watcher

4. 4

   You Didn't Have To

   6:06
   Lyrics

   You weren't like me, you never did the hard things You never went far, you never saw the bad things Rain never fell on your body, your hero never died No drunken wind at night ever swept your being away You never held an imaginary lover in your arms You never kissed a fantasy every night with your eyes shut You never tasted blood and tears and wine together You never had to come back, you didn't need to come back to prove you're a man You never had to stay, you didn't need to stay to prove you can You never had to die to get your revenge Every night you kill me in your head, and it's ugly My image in your dreams has turned into a corpse You kill me just because I'm a human too, like you I touched the forbidden fruit on the tree in your garden You never swallowed a few pills together with a lump in your throat You never rotted alive in the grave of your beliefs

5. 5

   Earth

   6:02
   Lyrics

   Oh Earth, speak Oh Earth, I'm fed up Tell me why, upon your mass, I'm one body too many Earth, you soldier of the sun You planet turning cold With this tedious order how long are you going to keep turning Earth, talk to me And they cry and I don't even know what hurts so much and why I can't And I ask Aflatoon why life is hard and Aflatoon answers I won't be around that long You saw an apple and got drunk You were nothing, you came to be You became the dwelling of man You became host to the cold war You were fruit, you became a mother You were dry, you became wet You became the dwelling of woman You became host to the war of the flesh Oh Earth, from now on don't drag my body down Let go of the bitter repetition of rescue stop pulling me in Earth, you outcast shard of rock you wanderer stained with wandering tell me about that secret before we're destroyed Earth, talk to me

6. 6

   Chess

   6:16
   Lyrics

   When I was thirteen I didn't know anyone I might lose to at a game of chess I thought I was a genius, I felt like a man every time I checkmated someone with a plan I'd heard there was chess on computers I told myself, why pass up an opponent The first time I lost to a computer I threw the pieces away for good Even if that machine had lost the game to me a while later some company would build a better generation I learned there's always something smarter even when you're drunk on boundless power Just when you've settled into a good spot in the game there's a bigger game you're a part of This is no place for getting smug playing is nothing but a trap for being played

7. 7

   Fascinating Flower

   4:59
   Lyrics

   Fascinating red flower of my garden, where is the scent of your petals My love, say something, set a heart on fire, fix your eyes on weary me As the cold night breeze blows from your stem onto my face I'm still crazy about you, don't die without me, my love, don't catch the autumn Sometimes, for my absence, heave a sigh, my flower Sometimes stay awake till morning with the thought of me Sometimes, for my absence, ache with longing, like me With the sweet scent of your breath, say a poem for me The clear dew from the spring of your eyes, your cheeks full of longing are peace to me, rain, don't fall My love, don't leave me alone You and I were children in the old, aging garden There's nothing new in this season, the season of all-consuming autumn Not tree, not leaf, not root, in love with stone and with forever My fascinating flower, don't bend to the law of forever The famine of breath has driven me mad, from the pain of staying caged The fascinating ring of your laughter, a newly ripened fruit No one's heart will ever ache for our garden, my flower The bonds of my loneliness will never rot away without your scent, my flower

8. 8

   Sepehr

   5:48
   Lyrics

   Nine at night in a park, near the middle of Mehr someone calls my name, a friend named Sepehr He said, hey singer, you go way too hard you say complicated things way too slyly When did you ever study music, what do you know about poetry this was never your field, you owe it to your own science That same night at one I was thinking about what he said checking my name on Google One site had written about me: so-and-so keeps himself busy with things they say he should be ashamed of I wrote on that blog in the voice of a stranger thanks for your news, just one thing's strange O patrons of art, O creative web writer is so-and-so a singer or a moral role model Pumping up rumors is what they call being smart till today I thought you were a promoter of culture Before you write about a singer or a poet at least understand one of his poems, mister publisher No one can tell if you're a genius or a con man fame is the one thing they share, pro or amateur It doesn't matter to you what you're famous for fame is just being on everyone's lips Dress up in good sense, be a fool on the quiet put on a show of gold while the copper flakes off inside I'm not a singer anymore, Sepehr, you're not wrong I'm not ashamed anymore, I've got nothing to hide Goodbye music, goodbye song goodbye alchemy, the coppersmiths' dream When everyone wants copper, copper's the superior element gold rusts too, believe this law Alchemy goes rotten, the alchemist grows old birds crawl, the lioness is taken captive I asked myself this question till morning that night even after that, sometimes I ask it under my breath You too, once, like me, on one of those days of Mehr ask yourself one of the questions, Sepehr