Walking Zschopau, by Peter Piek

Walking Zschopau

by Peter Piek

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1.	Intro 00:06		buy track
2.	Home 03:14	lyrics	buy track
home is it day? or is it night? i can‘t tell cos i‘ve only seen the darkness i‘ve been locked up in a cave / they told me it‘s the only pretty place to be i wanted to give to you / for real wanted to show you how i feel my babe / i‘m coming home i dreamt of you / last night i‘ve never been so happy i was a flower / you were a bumblebee looking for me / looking for me it‘s true / i‘d go anywhere for you i wonder if you do too my babe / i‘m coming home if life is like a line and we are points on a circular canvas can you paint your life like that it looks confusing can you move without moving got love to give to you i wonder if you do too my babe i‘m coming home
3.	Binoculars 04:32	lyrics	buy track
binoculars everyday digging a hole / until water would show establish castles of sand / with jellyfish in my hand slowly slowly slowly slow / until water would show slowly slowly slowly slow / waves coming up from below lets move on to pastures new all the things we‘re about to do for i‘m just a child / i want to grow wild we only live twice i see the want in your eyes sounds of water contrast / to rounded pieces of glass salt in the air sand on the ground / seagulls gliding around the amber with entrapped mosquito / hidden treasures of the lido slowly slowly slowly slow / border patrol marching to and fro lets move on to pastures new all the things we‘re about to do for i‘m just a child / i want to grow wild we only live twice i see the want in your eyes yeah i can look far with my binoculars want to break through the wall wreck borders once and for all nobody‘s free my body‘s not free can‘t think my way out. can‘t conquer the sea. nobody‘s free
4.	Blood 03:55	lyrics	buy track
blood i am the teardrop i am the river i am the cloud the floats the sky i am the life inside of you i am the morning leaf dew i am the moment that you keep i am the blood inside of you i lift up to blue sky and no one ever questioned no one ever wondered why i am the iceberg i gift you cold i am the one who never disagrees here i wash your face here i break the rock here i rain into the sea i am the blood inside of you i lift up to blue sky and no one ever questioned no one ever wondered why
5.	Human 04:14	lyrics	buy track
human save me from the fear that will last wake me up when all this is past don‘t stop dreamin the future‘s alive i‘m just a human imprisoned at home i‘ll be going nowhere / nowhere to go this is the place to be save me from this deadly disease give me love and put me to ease so hard dreaming i don‘t wanna die i‘m just a human carving his tombstone i‘ll be going nowhere / nowhere to go this is the place to be save me from the end of your end stay alive my dearest sweet friend don‘t stop breathing you‘ll be ok don‘t give up there‘s one thing you should know you‘ll be going nowhere / nowhere to go this is the place to be you‘ll be going nowhere i‘ll never forget the precious time we had leave me to the wind and the rain just leave me to the wind and the rain i‘m just a human and so are you lets help each other there‘s one thing we should know we‘ll be going nowhere nowhere to go. this is the place to be we‘ll be going nowhere no heaven no hell this is the place to be!
6.	Silence 03:34	lyrics	buy track
silence draw a line make a mark maybe make a mark by erasure all around everywhere i‘m awakening on the big blue this is life death it means inside my head be the one save me the orange blue the yellow hit a drum drum a hit i can say what i want but no one listenes white the stars black the sea blue the lips be the one save me and if you enjoy the silence life is a leaf fallin‘ from a tree and if you enjoy to see i‘ll be you and you‘ll be me
7.	Interlude 00:45		buy track
8.	Let Love Begin 05:13	lyrics	buy track
let love begin i‘m feeling so free i could cry there‘s nothing to lose but the sky my bike and me are ready to fly we‘re riding into the darkest night no monsters and culprits in sight even the wind is on our side and if the rain pours down like waterfalls open your mouth put your head back and if you‘re not here soon i‘ll just stay here open my mouth put my head back let the rain in / let love begin life is a missouri sometimes but today i leave it behind we‘re out on the street my bike and me we‘re feeling the speed we‘re rolling faster then the sun oh yeah / we‘re having fun the chill night air is running through my hair and if the rain pours down like waterfalls open your mouth put your head back and if you‘re not here soon i‘ll just stay here open my mouth put my head back let the rain in / let love begin oh yeah the summer in your hair the wind in the clouds where i feel so alive the sky is true blue i‘m trying to reach you i‘m trying to wing you i‘m only alive because of you
9.	I Want You 03:44	lyrics	buy track
i want you i was lying awake / thinking a night a day and a night i was waiting for you / to call my name there must be many here among us / who can‘t sleep at night being trapped in their problems but this place is lost anyway / life is fading away why does it feel like there is no we i want you i was facing the sky watching a night a day and a night wishing stars were passing by / heavy clouds to come i was wondering why / we only feed what we want to eat but this place is lost anyway / life is fading away this place is lost anyway / don‘t move further away if this is now then its forever i want you let me tell you the truth / a night is a day is a night is a day i was waiting for you / to be with me these houses so old and grey they‘re falling apart so beautifully filled with silence and rain but this place is lost anyway / life is fading away this place is lost anyway / don‘t move further away and it‘s you / and it‘s me / and it‘s now
10.	First Song 03:51	lyrics	buy track
1st song no other place to be come and change with me this whole world we‘ll change our days and nights know you don‘t have to fight against me see how the river flows being at all times new yet the same stream as sunlight hits the ground darkness comes around for someone like a rising sun you are the one you‘re the first song i‘ve sung everyday could be the last time is running too fast see how the sky would change waiting for each one to come well nothing lasts for long but i know we‘ll be strong together like a rising sun you are the one you‘re the first song i‘ve sung everyday could be the last time is running too fast
11.	Blue 03:54	lyrics	buy track
blue everybody feels the rain let it wash away the pain everybody feels the rain slowly down the drain / my love i can‘t explain you do it again and again / everybody feels the rain tomorrow i‘ll lose my mind the sadness i can‘t leave behind sometimes love is so hard to find so blue in this need for you i drive my car to spain / i‘m so sick of the rain you do it again and again / everybody feels the rain everybody feels the rain let it wash away the pain everybody feels the rain a rain to drown all rains a hard a long rain it‘s like living underwater i‘d give everything for hat how many years since the rain stopped raining one more day and i‘ll go mad rain drops heavy like sunsets tomorrow i‘ll lose my mind the sadness i can‘t leave behind sometimes love is so hard to find so blue in this need for you
12.	Blue Flamingo 03:24	lyrics	buy track
blue flamingo when i think of you my love a blue flamingo flies for me and i‘m overcome with longing, with longing carry me far my train never left and i‘m stil here saying hello i want the whole world to travel with me across the sea endlessly i‘ve looked death straight in the eye it is no one‘s friend drugged in the river of love deeper then an ocean did i come here to forget everything my train never left and i‘m stil here saying hello travel with me across the sea endlessly i wanna love you how much i love you oh you will never know

about

This album is dedicated to my friend Melissa May, who I met in Rochester NY during my first US tour in 2008. I played a concert in a music bar and Melissa was the only guest attending the concert. She was sitting in the back, drinking coffee and working on some papers. It was a lousy situation. I played a long set just for Melissa who seemed to connect with the songs. We became friends and I sent her all the records I made between then and now. She liked them, I think, but kept asking me about a live album. She said that I would sound better live and different and just special and more like myself. I tried to record a live album many times but failed and then failed again. It took me twelve years to finally keep my promise! Melissa, I hope you will like the album!

If you are an artist and just have one fan, one true fan, one true friend, then you will be fine. One true fan is all you really need to carry on. Zschopau is a river in the german state of Saxony. I used to wander to one particular spot, nearby a castle, a rock and a fairytale. It was quite a walk. I only managed to go to that one spot closest to my parents apartment. Often it left me wondering about the source and the river as a whole. Recording this album felt like walking the river from source to mouth. I walked, recording ten songs live in my atelier in between paintings. No audience. Just a room full of paintings to resonate with. 5 new and 5 previously released songs. The new songs form the first half of the album. Home is a song written from the perspective of a flower. Binoculars is a song about borders, freedom and beaches. Blood is a song written from the perspective of water. Human is a song I wrote in the first half of 2020. The melody really helped me to deal with the pandemic. Silence is a song about a leaf falling from a tree. I hope you enjoy this album! I want to thank my friend Michael Goller, whose knowledge about the river Zschopau helped me putting it all together. I want to thank Ari and Anton, my family and my friends.

credits

released August 6, 2021

All songs written and performed by Peter Piek

mix / mastering / additional sound design by Andreas Laudwein @FLOEROPA
photography: cover: Ari Fuchs / river: Michael Goller / with painting: Peter Piek
painting: Peter Piek „Walking Zschopau“ / ink and watercolors on cotton paper / rotatable, 26 x 31 cm, 2021

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