change of address

Sometimes we need to look back and hear the music of days ago to remind ourselves of the music and language still inside us.

Here is a collaboration I did with the marvelously enchanting Marina Marina:

released July 29, 2013


Lyrics
Kazim:

I’m moving again.change of address, new route.another attempt at peace.this residence i leave now is cracked. an old man once asked me “where is the place i call home”.i couldn’t help to say “my body, my body is my home”.but even as i spoke this i knew it not to be true…light splash out

secretly

swelling mouth

spills with ease

out of reach

so sink me

rush on by

city seize

yelling

“please more

handsome trees”

skip your rent

for more greenery.

Breathe, quiet leaves.

Fire, on the beach.

notice boards

scribbles sheets

heave and sigh

coffee’s weak

where to sleep?

come to me

dream of

greenery

have me please

on my knees to

pick berries

with a breeze

Breathe, quiet leaves.

Fire, on the beach.

The moon last night pushed out through a curtain of clouds and called out to me “REMAIN”.i breathed in it’s romantic shadows and fierce eye contact.this lover changes shapes each night but it never tells me to go away.

uproot songs

full of need

plant my bags

like a seed

complicate

human life

judge my face

not with sight.

please send greenery,

send greenery.

I travel beneath the plaster of earth in this construction site.and, a door opens, and birds, and…

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