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SHOUTING AT THE MOON

In former days I used to stand on a high steep rock,
at any kind of noon
where they could find me, shouting at the moon
because it makes you realize that you’re alive
instead of falling and thinking that you dive

I want to be standing on that rock again,
the roof now, the roof soon
I want to be standing there,
standing there and shouting at the moon

Using all your lungs for that seems so much more okay
instead of all that breath-taking bullshit every day
because its soul reaches up to the skies
and the light of those skies touches your eyes
and it penetrates your head
where those brains are so twisted that you
need a lot of light to make that twilight situation bright
you gotta reach for the sun, gotta reach for the stars
for all the higher sources of light
and sometimes you might need to kill a lion
just to keep an eye on the earth

We have forgotten about the skies
and we’ve build ceilings instead
and more ceilings underneath
and we walk on high heels
and the space above our heads
gets smaller and smaller instead

The space above our heads
gets smaller and smaller, and instead
of looking up we’re looking straight ahead,
to the TV or the clock
and we don’t reach out for a dream anymore,
we just grab
but only in the vulgar plain we grab
we tried so hard to make this whole world round
and now we make it flat again, and that’s a fact
that’s the fact we have to face
we have lost all sense of space

So I, I want to be standing on that rock again,
the roof now, the roof soon
I want to be standing there,
standing there and shouting at the moon

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from N​.​O​.​W​.​H​.​E​.​R​.​E, released April 23, 2012
Words & music by Sok/Lafourest.
Words inspired by a Ko van den Bosch text.

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G.W. Sok Amsterdam, Netherlands

G.W. Sok co-founded The Ex in 1979 and was their singer and lyricist for 30 years (www.theex.nl). Since 2009 he is involved in various other projects, such as Action Beat (UK), Zoikle (NL), Cannibales & Vahinés (F), King Champion Sounds (UK/NL), Coddiwomple (F), Oiseaux-Tempête (F), L&S (F). And there's some solo stuff as well. ... more

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