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spare parts

by my sister grenadine

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    Covered in papersleeve with beautiful illustrations by Anais Edely and with poster-booklet including more drawings and all lyrics.

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1.
anthem for 03:32
the pills in my mouth and the furniture in your house should i swallow them the new clear energy and the private property are they better than the genuine approach and the blood on your torch it could be anything are the pictures that i see windows made for me by the or the the flowers on tv and last night´s referee would you trust in them those men in uniforms and the daily thunder storms they will come and then a five years warranty and the so called history what would happen when are the windows that i break the happiest mistake i´ve ever made i won´t repeat what is written on the receipts and you won´t get through with injecting more solitude i won´t repeat what is written on the receipts and you won´t get through with injecting more solitude imprecision of position position and decision decision and condition condition and collision collision and condition condition and decision decision and position and this place is that place so displaced a dead place it displays that this place and that place are screenplays this place is that place so displaced a dead place it displays that this place and that place are screenplays but how to call them and how not to fall into despair oh this procedure of positions and decisions decisions and conditions conditions and collisions collisions of positions of positions and decisions decisions and conditions conditions and collisions collisions of positions and me
2.
survival kit 02:45
so how long since she managed not to break your nose and how short until that day is long ago i took the stairs up while you waited for the elevator to come down could you please calm down and how long since she dropped no coins on a kitchen table some water was boiling you took the long way through the bathroom door i stood there on a window sill trying not to look down could you please keep still so how close to the orange suburban skies and how far from her pulse running out of time you stayed in the refrigerator without a survival kit i focused on the map to get where they are selling sleeping bags could you please stand in line could you stand in line could you please stand in line could you please could you
3.
the island 03:06
arriving at your grandparents house we could see three horses between the clouds let´s go and discover the island let´s not waste our time you would show me the way even though it´s not mine through seventeen syllables we will be connected to the world there´s some european tourists they are wearing multi-colored raincoats better leave your hands on the railing cause you never know i could take you to the habour you could tell me where the ships go far below the mountain there´s a hallway where we put up our tent boiling home grown vegetables and mix them with the traces in the sand once there were drums in the distance it´s been a while do you feel safe living alcatraz style arriving at your grandparents house we could see three horses between the clouds
4.
a tree 02:48
are we lying underneath a swimming pool full of leaves and are our ankles covered with glass appear our hearts like a collage of bits and pieces which maybe once were falling from a tree into that painted hole we used for going round and round like ghosts and are the animals we´ve trapped still in those places that are kept quite separated from the rest by fences and guards and kind requests and tell me is it just the same for all those humans who might gain a chance for changing how things go how i wish for them that they can do so but i am still lying underneath that painted hole it´s filled with leaves my ankles are broken my heart came undone and the century has just begun i´d rather be up in a tree so i could tell you all that i see not a single ghost but hopefully all kinds of beings living free
5.
they say your father surely was ruined by green lemons and cartoons and his mother she swam out of her old neighborhood again her high-school teacher was featured in a wild life documentary on tv i have seen it with my own three eyes his tax advisor he had heard about a man who likes wearing blue skirts rickety rackety rickety rackety rickety racket t-rex rickety rackety rickety rackety rickety oh wicked t-rex they say your uncle used to live in a cabin on a mountain top near a cliff one of his aunties she had gone long before the war and everything else was won her favorite cousin had a crush on a nun who helped teaching geography and was fond of seeing the whole wide world beyond her pond or a book well it took her quite a while to get around the globe she was traveling with a couple they directed daily soaps rickety rackety rickety rackety rickety racket t rex rickety rackety rickety rackety rickety oh wicked t rex my boyfriend's girlfriend always longs for election posters and late-night copy shops she´s from that patchwork family of marathon runners and strangers raising bees some older sister was assisting the vice president of a bank they had made & lost a great fortune on a black friday but it´s hard to say how that story would end in the end they signed a lot of papers with a pen from the last century that was when they succeeded in flying to the moon and back with a hacky sack kind of machinery kind of machinery kind of machinery rickety rackety rickety rackety rickety racket t rex hacky sack moon and back hacky sack where it´s at rickety racket machinery oh wicked prehistoric t rex i can sense that you were a vegetarian now i know that we all misunderstood you rickety rackety t rex
6.
porcelain 03:04
when the sun is up when the days are bright when we sleep beneath the traffic lights when my eyes they turn from green to red is it of your concern what is in my head there´s cemeteries there´s public life there´s governments suggesting lies i wish i was made of porcelain that´s what you said with a stupid grin and if i hold my hands upon my knees and if we had a chance to move our feet can you find the right words to fill the gap can you make that happen do you understand here i am with my objective decisions here i am producing hollow bones here i am in my cozy perfect prison here i am drinking fair-trade orange juice you should go prepare yourself a proper meal you should go and think of good fortune you should go and come up with a better deal you should go and sign a resolution you should go and find out how to fix yourself you should go and live with the pollution you should go no matter what the forecast said you should go and be part of the solution but since we forgot our enemies and since we changed our batteries and since we have talked it all through and since we believe in the same news but since they repeat themselves obviously and since we agree not to disagree and since this is all just made up and since we adopted the anonymous part
7.
so i can see you at the center of the periphery with some middle-aged hipsters suffering from their recipes how come they know your best friend´s nicknames and i swear i could hunt that great onion down it seems tough it seems crucial and it makes us frown would you notice which spring keeps spilling kerosene so his arms they were tied to a white plastic chair and his traveling pillow keeps flying through a concrete air while they suppose that´s how things should be a boat a whale a person in a walnut scale i know that there is life beyond this balcony so i could meet you on the corner of that circle at high noon to where some former volunteers escaped from their storage rooms now one of them would like to give a speech about our cherry-flavored bruises constant oxygen abuses all those narrow-minded diseases and his doctoral thesis let´s stir them up he said and spread them among the beasts and did you find out that for years i lived on a shelf in your garage a swallowed tiny glimpse of precious sabotage that doubted you not to mention your beliefs electric birds eclectic trees a roller-coaster you or me
8.
i can hear them call me the birdwatcher´s wife and they say that i got the most beautiful eyes so tell me why do i ever feel so blue since i came across all these things that are worrying you and the sky has wrinkles and the sky it could fall why do i always bring death to everyone i know you can hear them call me the birdwatcher´s wife and they say that i got the most beautiful eyes
9.
modern art 03:15
put your swimsuit on we are going to the museum of modern art and western decay please put your helmet on we are heading to the parliament on our bicycles packed with guilt and i am a terrorist a human terrorist i work for free i work forever and a day since this is an advertisement that is the reason for buying and selling for thinking and telling for spending and stealing your precious time again you can take a one-way ticket you can choose your currencies you prefer the beautiful landscapes they represent that we are free you can stick to your own ideas you can fit in a team you can sing all the recent love songs and the national anthem when the salary is right and the salary is right and since the salary is right everything seems quite fine here please put your lampshade on we are visiting the embassy of ancient hearts and constant betrayal from the outside of the building we might adore several paintings from the inside of the canvas everything looks blurry and blue we keep our legs at a certain distance we feed our mouths with our tongues we sweep the dust into our old pockets no one will stay here for long once upon a time once upon a time once upon a time in the contemporary future please put your best smile on we are returning to the aquarium where we tattoo boats on our metal chests
10.
scissors 01:52
follow me to the store where the goods are waiting for kaleidoscope people like us we book the planes and we might miss the bus now take all your random interviews and send them out in silver envelopes to the main office or a person that you adore if i could only recommend it and among your favorite cakes we found everything it takes is this a suburb or a park and how to kill that paper shark
11.
remember when there was nothing to do all we drank was earth lovers shampoo cause it contains the best ingredients for you and me and society no sulphates no parabens even soap free and no colourants and everyone who knew it would take another sip or two then all of them would never ever go to work or go to school again remember when there was so much to do we hardly ate we had no time for such a mood that only takes the attention from the good and necessary things so no lunch breaks and no belly aches no left overs on old dinner plates everyone could constantly catch up with their priorities and every minute would include a chance for you just to improve even more remember when we were remembering that was when there was a name for everything but how to know if i remember it right or wrong what´s right or wrong is there soap plates or any sulphate breaks is there attention aches or a society all that i can think of is a bottle that is blue the only words still in my mind i am sure that they would go: earth lovers shampoo
12.
plans 03:00
steal some spoons from your long-term memory i can make things rust or shine point a direction with your delicate fingers i can make things go that way none of your plans sit upstairs waiting none of the money you earn makes them right from my grey-eyed window i am still observing how from your face the sorrows rise so you try to phone all your late-night numbers you try to stitch my mind with your lullabies keep your carpets clean and bleach the rainbows i thought i saw you with a payback smile and do we all just keep on looking at and are we all just being looked at and do we all just keep on wishing that we are all just wishing well and do we all just keep on looking at and are we all just being looked at and do we all just keep on wishing that we are all just wishing well that we are all just wishing well that we are all just wishing well that we are all just wishing well well we are all just wishing
13.
theories 03:30
dear mr and mrs efficiency i wrote you a letter the other day five thousand words of pure genius five hundred thoughts on something hilarious parachute parachute would you keep falling i´d like to know will we land in the sand i bring it on i can bring it all home i got some weapons with me dear mr and mrs i have never seen how to dress up your reputation you could kiss and embrace three technical engineers you could copy and paste me for anything more severe astronaut astronaut would you keep breathing i´d like to know your point of view we get along we can explain it so well i got some opinions with me dear mr and mrs hypocrisy your pleasures are running out of date two million light years of such great scenery a fews little steps from all of this poverty parallel parallels i keep my fingers crossed who would want to know what lies ahead they bring it on they would like to take us in i got my theories right here
14.
stairs 02:02
stairways i have never climbed you but i know you well standing right in front of my eyes and creaking while i sleep if there is a top then there is a bottom things are as easy as this if there is a bottom then there is a top it´s easy with things like this stairways have you ever noticed me since i do so great running around in a single apartment with no doors to break i stole from my own blood i won´t do it again a crack in the wall is what i aim since the virus is strong catching a cold won´t bother me stairways we would never agree on how the world does turn they say you are protected to a certain degree but i think you have to burn i see you coming down slowly coming down it makes a lot of sound and there is smoke all around i see you coming down slowly coming down it makes a lot of sound and there is smoke all around stairways this is maybe just a dream but i will keep it up until the day i quit the routine and make the fire start
15.
bring all your spare parts we can put them in a row and figure out how they would work out before we let go and the longer it takes the better it gets i wish i could tell you so and a matter of fact is a matter of lack adrenaline help us through spend all your spare time hours and minutes in years let´s see how they would run out some of them end right here and the closer it gets the faster it turns didn´t you tell me so and a matter of fact is a matter of lack our temperature fell below and what´s on your spare mind fragments and flickering lights imagine all you would dare to do with them if you could decide and the better it gets the faster it turns the longer the closer the most is a matter of lack a matter of fact or is it simply a sight bring all your spare parts we can put them in a row and figure out how they would work out before we let go

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released March 1, 2013

all songs arranged and performed by angelina kartsaki, felix koch & vincenz kokot

with: vocals, ukulele, violin, trumpet, pocket trumpet, percussion, piano, glockenspiel, keyboard, melodica, musical saw, typewriter, plastic bag, words

recorded and mixed at echoplex studios berlin by nikola jeremic & vincenz kokot, mastered at 0db studios hamburg by dirk simmig // artwork by anais edely (illustration) & richard rocholl (typography)

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my sister grenadine Berlin, Germany

My Sister Grenadine lives at various places. These places are songs, these songs are people. Let´s meet and walk for a bit while listening to each other.

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