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Can’t come to grips with the total
eclipse
just a slip of your lips and you’re done.
Fallout, nobody left to crawl out
if someone calls, we’re all out,
turning into French fries
Last dance, let the entire cast dance,
do the dismembered blast dance
as we get atomized!
Total eclipse, it’s a total eclipse,
it’s a total eclipse of the sun.
Can’t come to grips with the total
eclipse
just a slip of your lips and you’re done.
—
Song 6: «Awake from winter»
Musik: Henry Purcell («What power
art thou» aus King Arthur or The British
worthy / Text: John Dryden, 1691)
What power art thou, who from below
Hast made me rise unwillingly and
slow
From beds of everlasting snow?
See’st thou not how stiff and
wondrous old,
Far unfit to bear the bitter cold,
I can scarcely move or draw my
breath?
Let me, let me freeze again to death.
—
Song 7: «Can’t help it»
Titel bei Nomi: «Falling in Love
Again» (1982; Musik und deutscher
Text [«Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß
auf Liebe eingestellt»]: Friedrich
Hollaender, 1930; englischer Text:
Sammy Lerner, 1930)
Falling in love again,
never wanted to,
what am I to do,
can’t help it.
Love’s always been my game,
play it as I may,
I was made that way,
can’t help it.
They cluster me,
like moths around the flame,
and if their wings burn
I’m not to blame.
Falling in love again,
never wanted to,
what am I to do,
can’t help it.
—
«The Yonghy Bonghy Bò»
(Musik und Text: Edward Lear, 1876,
arr. Olga Neuwirth)
Though you’ve such a tiny body,
And your head so large to grow,
Though your hat may blow away,
Mister Nomi, Nomi, oh!
Though you’re such a Hoddy-Doddy,
Yet I wish that I could modify
The words I needs must say!
Will you please to go away?
That is all I have to say –
Mister Nomi, Nomi, oh,
Mister Nomi, Nomi, oh!
Through the silent-roaring ocean
Did the Turtle swiftly go,
Holding fast upon his shell
Rode our Mister Nomi, oh!
With a sad primeval motion
Toward the sunset isles of Boshen
Still the Turtle bore him well.
Holding fast upon his shell,
Dear crazy world, farewell,
Sang our Nomi, Nomi, oh,
Sang our Nomi, Nomi, oh!
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