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Violeta Violeta Vol. II |
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It's fucked up to wake up
every morning to a voice inside your head
that says: Get away Kenneth!
After another long night
with pumping and howling
of my wife who turns into a bride up in the attic
You have two choices: Either hang yourself in the roof ridge
or disappear and become invisible
because you become one with the world
But I won't leave on my own
I'll take one with me
And if my wife is a demon, and my daughter an angel
then the choice is easy
Jump down from the balcony, unrestrained
A thousand lights are flickering in the old town
You are me, and I am you
Together we are one, when I take you with me
out and into the periphery
There was hush hush between me
and my Violeta
as if nothing had happened or should happen
It was kiss kiss between me
and my Beatrice
Like a glossy picture we went, singing
all three of us, so here
Lo lo lai lai lai lo lo lailailailai
Explanation: Here we get a glimpse of what is simmering inside Kenneth's head at the time when everything peaks, and he decides to escape from his crazy wife and take his daughter with him. All the strange things that are happening around him boil down to one simple conclusion: Get away! After a long period of planning, a period where everything is apparently hunky dory, as if nothing had happened or would happen, the time is finally right to carry out the plan - and take ONE with him ...
There's a little devil going around, asking her way
Whether anyone has seen her ex of a man
There's smoke coming out of her mouth, there's blood on her tooth
And when she walks, she leaves a cloud of dust and sand behind
Right behind you there is dust and sand
If all that is written about prophecies in the bible is true
it might seem as if he down there has one or two things going on
You will recognize him, whether it's a woman or man
when he steps out in a cloud of dust and sand
Right behind you there is dust and sand
There are gaps in my calendar, and my trailer has a full tank
I don't look behind me anymore. Live now, and think ahead
Come come come on BB. Come come come on
I will count on you and your dust and your sand
Right behind you there is dust and sand
Explanation: Beatrice has just composed herself after having survived the attempt to blow herself up, and having saved herself from the flames with the help of her seven buckets of tears. She takes up the hunt after father and daughter, who have now been on the run for seven years. Huge forces are at work, she is like a fury, and storms come up wherever she goes. Kenneth is told by Cecilia that Beatrice is on their track, and so he must remain in constant motion and always try to stay a step ahead. Kenneth fears what Beatrice might do with him if she finds them, and hopes that he can tie Violeta so strongly to him that she will stand up against her mother on his behalf if she were suddenly to stand before them, like a devil, in her burnt wedding dress.
I see that tonight the moon is hanging low
And I know he must have seen what I saw
I run along the tracks and jump on a train
And it's just me and the memories of a bad year
And not everyone would want to be a diamond
Live forever and be an adornment for a hobo
No, you should rather lick your lips to have me for your jewelry
We speed away across the ground
I feel you breathing down my neck
It's like a death scream when the brakes show signs of life
And we shatter a thousand drops of rain
I see that tonight the moon is hanging low
And I know he must have seen what I saw
I need no explanation to understand
your business with your brother. He came out of the blue
And not everyone can go with the wind
Say goodbye and pretend it's nothing
It might look like you're waving
But I watch while you drown
We speed away across the ground
I feel you breathing down my neck
It's like a death scream when the brakes show signs of life
And we shatter a thousand drops of rain
And we shoot out of the tunnels
Children's laughter has never been so beautiful
It's like a death scream when the brakes show signs of life
And we shatter a thousand drops of rain
Children's laughter has never been so beautiful
Explanation: Violeta runs from her father and brother one full moon night in Singapore. She is 14 years now and has finally managed to develop her abilities enough to make contact with her mother through dreams and thoughts. They agree to meet outside of the highest skyscraper in Tokyo at a given time. But before she gets there, she must shake off the shadow that races after her. It cannot be her father, because he cannot keep up with her. It must be his brother, who is capable of withstanding Violeta's obstacles. She moves heaven and earth and manages to make it rain so hard that he drowns. She thinks ...
Hands up. Money or life
You stood there and had to count to one hundred
And you peeked through your fingers
I lay waiting in the reeds for an hour
At night you were up in the attic and sang
The moon was full, and we howled at it
The nights were short and the day was too long
Those were magical times that we had together back then
And you raised me up to the clouds, and even higher up
I was your acrobat, and I always fell right into your arms
Only butterflies could have felt any freer than we
And Dad stood and smiled and waved, down on the ground and watched
But that was back then
It's different now
We share a secret
Your dreams that we dug in
They grow out of the ground when it rains down
I see it in you from my bed
Dreams that grow like a flower meadow
And one very special and beautiful day
I'll leap over the fence with all I have
I'm going to pick your dreams until the ground is bare
You raised me higher, and higher, and higher and even higher up
I was your acrobat, and I always fell right into your arms
Only butterflies could have felt any freer than we
And dad stood and smiled and waved, down on the ground and watched
But that was back then
It's different now
I want it to be like it was
You did the impossible
You gave us the feeling that anything could happen
There were rabbits in the hat
I waited for the elephant
You took the rabbits out of the hat
I was waiting for the elephant
Explanation: Violeta remembers more and more of the past and has started to see through her father's one-sided propaganda against her mother. She also understands that she has an own extraordinary power, and has started to put her full potential into effect. She is drawn towards her mother, and the association between the two is strengthened every day. After seven years on the run, Violeta is ready. She flees from her father and his brother in Singapore, manages to shake them off, and finds her way back to her childhood home. There, she picks all her mother's thoughts and dreams. This is when she understands that she will meet her mother for the first time in seven years. She's a big girl now. Her mother promises her a life like no other. And when she has thawed the last bucket of ice, she understands what her mother wants and that they have been closer than she first thought. Violeta does like her mother told her in her dreams and travels right to the highest skyscraper in Tokyo ...
Well, yes, long since we last met
Where have you been? How was it there?
What do you want to be?
I hear the way was long
Through dust and sand
So they took you in for what your brother did
I gave you to them, and they took me at my word
Well, what can you say
The blood is running thin there with them
You can say that I have seen my share
of the dark side's commodity trade
And you can believe
Once you've started you can't go back
Once you've gotten the taste, you want more
It's not rocket science either
Because we played with the cards that had already been dealt
It was sad before, now we can laugh
like in a Greek comedy
There are a thousand things that we can be accused of
I won't deny that
But one thing I have learned about paragraphs, Sir
The smartest thing is to get away
Because no one can see us behind my daughter Violeta
She has a smile that can melt every heart
of stone
Selected from the finest family branches!
Explanation: When Kenneth was 17, he and his three years older brother committed a robbery together. The robbery went according to plan, everything seemed to end happily for the brothers, when one day, the police suddenly barged in and arrested the big brother. It turned out that Kenneth had yielded to the temptation to brag about the accomplishments to buddies during one of his frequent bar rounds, which reached the police's ears. The investigators had no other specific traces to go by, and therefore they promised Kenneth full immunity if he 1. ratted on his brother 2. promised to stop drinking vodka 3. never ever met his brother again. In the end, young Kenneth succumbed to the pressure and told on his brother, who, in turn, went to jail and was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment. Naturally enough, Kenneth was full of remorse for this, and kept secret contact with his brother through his brother's girlfriend Cecilia, who eventually introduced Kenneth to his girlfriend, Beatrice ...
When his brother many years later hears about Kenneth's disappearance and Violeta's increasing abilities, he starts to come up with a plan for the next coup, together with his brother; to sell Violeta on the market in Lahore, Pakistan, where he knows they will get a great price for a person with such abilities. Kenneth agrees to the proposal, because he owes his brother a favor, but also because his daughter is becoming more and more like her mother ...
So now the brothers are reunited, with a big plan on their hands. All the bad is forgiven and forgotten. It was sad before, now we can laugh!
If you took the devil on board, you must row him ashore
Explanation: It's boiling in Kenneth's head when he thinks about what position he brought himself into. He married the wrong woman, had a child with the wrong woman, kidnapped the child, and is now living on the run with a devil on his heels. And in addition, he basically plans outright human trafficking in Lahore with his criminal and gifted brother. Life has taken some strange twists for Kenneth. He is pretty stressed out, but still highly motivated and sharpened. To keep the fire burning, he constantly proclaims to himself that: If you took the devil on board, your job is to row him ashore ...
Drown your sorrow in a bucket of water
and fold your hands as hard as you can
The entire ocean rises and looks towards the land
and towards you and your castle of sand
Father to daughter says, come to Daddy, come
Sit down on my knee and tell me about
when I'm not here, are you lonely?
You inherited your mother's smile, fuck!
One such smile is enough
Explanation: There is a psychological power struggle between father and daughter. She rattles off doomsday prophecies to her father, while her father complains about his daughter's growing independence. Not only that her personality grows more and more like her mother's, but as she gets older, it also shines through that she has inherited her mother's facial features, and for him, one such smile is enough ...
I want you as an ornament
I want you to join me in my dance
Don't take it so hard
Better hold around my neck
You are my art and you are my flower garland
Say what you want
I sprinkle with compliments
When is it enough?
When is it enough, what do you think, darling?
You purr like a kitty that paints it black
I cannot count how many kisses
the wind has taken
or rabbits that jump out
of your top hat
You shine, oh like silver, around my neck
But one thing. One last thing
Did you take your heritage off your ring finger
Or was it stolen by a raven
right off your finger
First it was mine
then your mother's
then yours
and now a raven's
But you still shine, my Violeta
Pick the sun down like an orange praline
Bury your dreams
perfect in a shrine
You can be in my dream
If I get to be in yours
You shine, oh like silver, around my neck
Explanation: Kenneth and his brother adorn themselves with beautiful Violeta. She captures all the attention and they hide behind that. It's a delight. Kenneth is intoxicated with pride and convinced that this plan is as airtight as the one that he and his brother performed 14 years ago was. But does he actually have full insight into what his brother's plan is all about? And why doesn't Violeta wear the precious ring that she got from her parents anymore? Was it really taken by a raven, as she claims?
Like a fire under a heretic
Like a shark you can never saturate
Like an error you can never fix
Like a rocket once it has lifted off
The pieces fall one by one by one
Soon they all fall
You are my domino
I love your effect
Rotten stories through cracked lips
Whatever went wrong, we've swept it under the carpet
You are my booze buddy
Without you I'm defective
You are my domino
I love your effect
Explanation: The same power and influence that Kenneth's big brother had over him when they were younger is revived after the brothers' reunion. Kenneth is now totally committed to his dominant brother; he's happily reunited, and he convinced himself that all the bad things are history and that the wound he inflicted on their relationship through his betrayal 14 years ago is now healed and forgotten. He feels that he's finally complete again, and that he's finally the owner of the enormous power again that togetherness ideally can generate.
The doors slide up, get in
You may press the button
The whole way up into the blue
Welcome to the thousandth floor
We have all the time in the world for us now
You have so many questions and you shall get answers
While you pass every floor to the ground in ecstasy
Hold my hand firmly, stand with your toes
like your mother, right at the edge
And don't be afraid, since you have permission
It always stings a bit with a lump in the throat
Oh, if your father could see us two now
You are so brave
And you have never been as beautiful as now
Dry your tears and then
You lean forward
Just a little bit more
You lean forward
You lean forward
I know that you can
You know that you can
1000, 900, 800 ...
Do you feel how it's getting better now?
It's like nothing is behind you
Everything is in slow motion and
all you have is right in front of you
It's just a matter of seconds now
Hold my hand out of this life and see
that you and me still hold hands in the next life and
You lean forward
Just a little bit more
500, 400, 300, 200, 100
I've always wanted to be like you when I grow up mom
Do you think now that I've grown up mom?
Explanation: Violeta is reunited with her mother. Father and brother are left at a safe distance. Beatrice promises a better life after death, but that's only if you want it. It will be fabulously great only if Violeta herself decides to jump off the skyscraper from the 1000th floor and down to the ground. Violeta has always wanted to be like her mother when she grows up. She leans out and joins her mother, hand in hand in the air, towards eternity and asks: Do you think that I have grown up now, mom ...?