For Four

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1. 1

   The Gun

   4:53
   Lyrics

   Like a dog, you practice dying in bed like Abel, you try to forget Guilty of aborting reason, a wretch, the lowest of the low the needle's more stoned than you, your blood more poison than poison The ever-growing rift, the lone beast, rife with the filth of all the I's the luckless man who wins, the cheap grief of women Like a dog, you're waiting for a chance to be loyal like Abel, you're restless to go into mourning Don't forget, the gun's still in my hand however calm I am, my pulse is still beating The tables have to turn, I'm right here, darling I owe nothing to luck, I don't throw verses from a distance How much of a stepfather's pain do I owe you and how many days are left before I close my eyes and how long, father, do you mean to keep up these torments and how many times must I say I'm tired of all these times Time and again I've snatched my being back from the wind I learned silence from the best teacher Hard to say a gun's a tool for hunting every animal I've ever seen loves the gun

2. 2

   Miss Myself

   5:26
   Lyrics

   Half of a scarecrow and half of a body were grafted together and became my frame every day the crows fear one half of me and every night the vultures dance on the other half For years I've been the guardian of your wheat my whole being has grown used to living for you You, from that cabin far away, every morning with a smile and every night before sleep, you close the window and I fought demons until dawn and every time, before morning, I swallowed the lump in my throat and you owe your life to exactly the one you've known nothing about for a long time For years I've been a prisoner of your freedom hero and victim, I'm tired of these two words for years I haven't eagerly kissed warm skin it's been ages since I saw my face in water I miss you, miss you up close I miss your breath in some dark corner I miss tears, I miss sleep I miss apples, I miss water I miss women, I miss flesh I miss me, I miss me more than anything, I miss myself and I miss myself so much and for years I've been missing myself and how much I miss myself

3. 3

   What Does It Mean

   3:56
   Lyrics

   Suddenly you've thrown off the veil, what does it mean? Drunk, you've galloped out of the house, what does it mean? Your locks in the hand of the breeze, your ear at the rival's command, you've made your peace with everyone like this, what does it mean? You're the king of the beautiful and have become the beggars' desire, you haven't known the worth of this rank, what does it mean? Wasn't it you who first put the tip of your tress in my hand? And again you've thrown me off my feet, what does it mean? Your locks in the hand of the breeze, your ear at the rival's command, you've made your peace with everyone like this, what does it mean? Your words told the secret of your mouth, your waist the secret of the middle, and from that waist you've drawn a blade on us, what does it mean? Your locks in the hand of the breeze, your ear at the rival's command, you've made your peace with everyone like this, what does it mean? Everyone is busy with some throw of the dice of your love, and in the end you've played crooked with them all, what does it mean? Poem: Hafez

4. 4

   Cold Angel

   4:45
   Lyrics

   Warm perfume, soft skin, red lips, cold tone the sense of shame, the taste of ice, drove me crazy A mind brimming with images one sentence in a few breaths the pulse of a damned sorrow so why didn't you say Right beside my heart it was as if you'd frozen nothing could help me not the warmth of any living thing You gave me cold so I'd stay alive you had seeped into my deepest depths Though I've come to believe you're not alive anymore in every cold look you stand there in front of me My cold angel speak to me for my face a warm caress of concrete

5. 5

   Postman

   4:23
   Lyrics

   I was just a postman, nothing more you were just a letter, nothing less my only choice was to deliver you you weren't mine, so I delivered you fast You were with me, not mine you were my duty, not my wings though your envelope should have stayed sealed forgive me for taking away your peace What greater grief for this drunk me than you not being mine while your heart is willing forgive me, I got drunk on the smell of ink I'm just a simple paper-eater, nothing more I crave sin and hundreds of pages for this good postman, the temptation of death Though I didn't stay a good postman you exist because I delivered you safe how hard it is to be a postman and never be the owner of a letter yourself

6. 6

   And

   3:47
   Lyrics

   You're so smart, you know everything nothing gets past you, you never get left behind you're never afraid, you act like stone you're never caught off guard, your looks are full of anger You're so cool, you laugh in crowds you've already predicted everything And of course you're reality but you're only a part of the truth and you know the whole lesson so be afraid of the things you don't know You're so mysterious, you're hard to figure out and so out of reach, you're rarely seen And you're so special and you make no mistakes and everything is in you and you never get lucky

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   Scientist

   3:47
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   Plato, who was in a sense the father of philosophy and ethics, extended the absolutism current in philosophy to morality as well so that in his testament he laid down specific patterns for behavior and after him his disciple and student, Aristotle, went on mercilessly spreading and analyzing this kind of morality to the point that, until the Renaissance, countless crimes and atrocities were committed on these grounds, with the Church at their head Today, centuries later, Platos still make good and evil absolute, and Galileos in churches are still forced to deny themselves I've read that every event in the physical world was once an image in the world of the mind If we think it through, we'll see that many of the ugly things we never did, we at least thought of once and saw in the world of the mind I'll ask a question: is the sin of seeing these scenes any less than doing them For example, if right now we removed legal punishment, guilty conscience and morality, and beliefs as well, from the world and announced in the media that murder is allowed and no punishment or blame awaits murderers would anyone on this wandering planet be left alive, would anyone survive Years after Einstein rose to fame for putting forward relativity two of his brilliant students, Heisenberg and Ohm, put forward the two principles of uncertainty and wholeness and today quantum physics, drawing on these two principles, explains many metaphysical events I was reading that since every being needs at least one perceiving being in order to exist, it's possible that when we're unaware of an object, that object doesn't exist at all I remembered that as a child I was suspicious of clocks, and sometimes, to catch them off guard, I'd suddenly look at them hoping to see them resting while I wasn't paying attention, and today I read that while I'm not paying attention they aren't there at all while I'm not paying attention, they don't exist at all They say that when Einstein's student revealed these things to him, Einstein walked all night until morning and in the morning he said, I'd rather it weren't so, because I don't want to believe the world is playing backgammon with us

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   Ending

   4:57
   Lyrics

   This is you, and these, why This is a picture of your father and mother, you were born here Do you remember this house, your grandmother This is your first outfit, here you learned to walk you're only just starting to eat The first time they started talking, how happy they looked Remember this car? Here you're a little bigger, did you like your playmates Why are you upset here, are you being punished here Do you feel lonely, is there someone you can talk to, is there something you want to say Here you're going to school, did you like school How do you see this teacher of yours, did they give you a hard time too What did you want, do you want to play, or do you want school to be over sooner Did you like school How sad you are here, do you miss someone Here you lost someone, your grandfather, your grandmother How much did it matter to you, was there someone you'd have wanted beside you, was there something you wanted to say Here you felt ashamed for the first time, remember how embarrassed you were Remember this trip? It was so much fun, yeah How much bigger you've gotten here, how much you've changed, you look a little proud How good this party was, how much you loved these people This is the first person you liked, the first person you trusted Did you love them, were you happy with them, does it even matter to you now Remember these people? Oh, remember this terrible day, how hard it was Did you ever tell anyone, was there someone you'd have wanted there beside you, you can't even imagine it Remember this? The first time they counted on you, you were proud of yourself, how much praise you got for this How calm you were here, it shows on your face How hard it is to be waiting for that bad thing to happen, don't think about it It can't be, this is you? How old you've gotten, who are these people, how lonely you look Why is everything so old, why don't you really recognize anyone Where are they taking you, why are these people crying, have you lost someone again Why are you so crushed You've lost someone, someone has lost you