DO NOT DISTURB

LYRICS BY: TINKARA KOVAC / ANDREA F
MUSIC BY: TINKARA KOVAC / ANDREA F

Looking through the window of me
sectors of the sky I can see
shadows keep ringing my doorbell
amazing how they don't know me that well

Leaves & branches curtains swelter
a teacup laced with locks of laughter
a roof for secrets seeking shelter

home's where the heart is –
and heart's where the rest is

DO NOT DISTURB

Every touch has a sweet orange taste
sugar cane perfume the moves that we make
flicker and drift on the skin in a haze
fingers entwined bond in lines of a maze

Leaves & branches curtains swelter
a teacup laced with locks of laughter
a roof for secrets seeking shelter

homes' where the heart is –
and heart's where the rest is

DO NOT DISTURB


GNEZDO IZ LAS

LYRICS & MUSIC BY: TINKARA KOVAČ

kjer se v noči mrak najdlje sešteva
kjer žarek čez hrib najkasneje pogleda
kjer se luna potunka v morje
kot kugla zlate skorje
preden odplavam do svojih strahov
v sanje ujamem vzorec valov
spletem si varno gnezdo iz las
in se naslonim na tvoj glas

(ENGLISH TRANSLATION: A NEST OF HAIR)

right there where at night darkness takes the longest to add up
right there where sunrays are the latest to peek over the hill
in the place where the moon plunges into the sea
like a golden crusted sphere
before I swim out to my fears
in my dreams I capture a pattern of waves
and weave myself a safe nest of hair
and gently lean onto your voice


THE LAST BUT ONE TIME

LYRICS & MUSIC BY: PAUL MILLNS

How many times must you find me crying
before you turn in my direction
How many times must I catch you lying
before I learn to make connections

This time will be the last but one time
Next time will be the sign to run time
You break a heart in two
So what's new
I don't even care anymore- do you

How many stones must I throw at your window
before you see what's going on
How many nights must we spend in this limbo
before we know what's going wrong

This time will be the last but one time
Next time will be the sign to run time
You break a heart in two
So what's new
I don't even care anymore- do you

Well it's not too late to want to create
something beautiful
It's not too late to want someone
to fill the spaces where the heartaches come
a true companion that won't turn and run

How many times must you find me crying
before you turn in my direction
How many times must I catch you lying
before I learn to make connections

This time will be the last but one time
Next time will be the sign to run time
You break a heart in two
So what's new
I don't even care anymore- do you

this time - the last but one time
this time - the sign to run time
this time - the last but one time


1957

LYRICS BY: TINKARA KOVAC / ANDREA F
MUSIC BY: DANIEL MATIČ

“Skozi okroglo se okno ne vidi ničesar -
le črna praznina in ščepec luči

Daleč za mano je nekaj, kar so mi ukradli -
ne spomnim se več kako trava diši”

V majhnem prostoru sami vogali
V majhnem prostoru sama z vogali
Balada začne se o neskončnem oblaku
V temi brez teže in časa ni tal pod nogami
Kje je njen prostor še sama več ne ve

“Nimam glasu, ker so mi ga že davno vzeli -
si izmislili zame nešteto pravil

Spomnim se, ko sva preganjala ptice v parku
in se veselila, da nimava kril”

V majhnem prostoru sami vogali
V majhnem prostoru sama z vogali
Balada začne se o neskončnem oblaku
V temi brez teže in časa ni tal pod nogami
Kje je njen prostor še Laika več ne ve

 

(English translation)

“Through this little round window there’s nothing to be seen
just the dark void and a pinch of glowing lights
Somewhere far behind me there’s something they stole from me
and I can’t remember what grass smells like”

Inside a small space nothing but corners
Inside a small space alone between corners
The ballad of the endless cloud unfurls
There’s no ground to stand on in this darkness with no time or weight
And just where her place is she doesn’t know anymore

“I have no voice it’s been so long since they took it from me
and made up so many new rules just for me
I still remember when we used to chase birds in the park
and felt so lucky we were not the ones with wings”

Inside a small space nothing but corners
Inside a small space alone between corners
The ballad of the endless cloud unfurls
There’s no ground to stand on in this darkness with no time or weight
And just where her place is Laika knows no more


MPH

LYRICS BY: TINKARA KOVAC/ANDREA F
MUSIC BY: TEO KAHRIMANOVIČ

Cesta sivine
100 oči - zrejo vame
Kletka s kolesi
isti ugriz v plasteh strahu

Cesta med hribi
črni rez za luči v noč
Kje so poti zdaj
kdo raztrgal je dom

if there's no place to go
if the codeword is stay
if there's no price that we won't pay
if the dice that we roll
trades a life we can't control

Monkey skin, pig's heart
we are not so far apart
Monkey skin, pig's heart
don't think we're so far apart

Cesta v mestu
tuli luč mimo gneče
Cena utripa
kdo vzame, kdo da

če prostora več ni
če je šifra za vsem
previsoke ni cene, vem
če se kocka vrti
za življenje, ki naše ni

Monkey skin, pig's heart
we are not so far apart
Monkey skin, pig's heart
don't think we're so far apart


(ENGLISH TRANSLATION)

A dark road of greyness
a hundred eyes - staring at me
A cage on wheels
the same bite in layers of fear

A road between mountains
a black open wound for lights in the night
Where are those paths now
who has torn up home

if there's no place to go
if the codeword is stay
if there's no price that we won't pay
if the dice that we roll
trades a life we can't control

Monkey skin, pig's heart
we are not so far apart
Monkey skin, pig's heart
don't think we're so far apart

A road in the city
lights wail rushing by the crowd
The price of a heartbeat
who will take, who will give

if there's no place to go
if the codeword is stay
if there's no price that we won't pay
if the dice that we roll
trades a life we can't control

Monkey skin, pig's heart
we are not so far apart
Monkey skin, pig's heart
don't think we're so far apart


JAGODNE OČI

LYRICS BY: TINKARA KOVAC
MUSIC BY: ROČKO

Kot da je mesto iz plastelina
trava so lasje, stopnice tipke v noč
Luna je iz papirja obroč nad streho
s temo se odpre košara njenih sanj
In njene jagodne oči

Ko vrtele so se
plošče cvetja vse
je želela miren life
Ko verjel je še on
v december in dom
je želela miren life

Kot da so vrata na široko odprta
dlan popisana, preveč znanih stvari
Tla preblizu, dan zrcalo je za črte
in obzorje misel, ki ne vrne se
V njene jagodne oči

Plošče utihnile so
listje padlo je vso
je želela miren life
In verjel ni več on
v december in dom
je želela miren life

(ENGLISH TRANSLATION: STRAWBERRY EYES)

Just as if this town was plasticine
grass for hair, and stairs like piano keys in the night
The moon is a paper ring over rooftops
as darkness falls her basket of dreams opens wide
And her strawberry eyes

When the records still spun
of the flowery age
all she wanted was a calm life
When he still did believe
in decembers and a home
all she wanted was a calm life

Just as if her door was now ajar
her palms all scribbled with too many things unveiled
The floor far too close, her day a mirror for those lines
and the horizon is a thought that won't come back
Into her strawberry eyes

Records now spin no more
leaves all fell to the ground
and all she wanted was a calm life
And he believed no more
in decembers and a home
and all she wanted was a calm life


ORANŽEN DAN

LYRICS & MUSIC BY: PETER DEKLEVA

Včasih temne misli mi preplavijo moj svet
Življenja krog v črno je tančico ves odet
Čutim, da se v meni noč budi

Moč v meni izbira čustva, da jih ohromi
Telo se zdi močnejše in po hrbtu me zmrazi
Čutim, da me k dnevu ne pusti
Nekdo drug v meni zdaj živi

Všeč mi je, da me imaš
Naučiš me vsega, kar znaš
Da kažeš mi nove poti
Zapelješ me, ko se ti zdi

Pogum je črni lev neustrašni kralj zlobnih strasti
Strah je tujec, ki ga zdaj nikjer videti ni
Čutim, da v meni noč živi
In da me k dnevu ne pusti

Všeč mi je, da me imaš
Naučiš me vsega, kar znaš
Da kažeš mi nove poti
Zapelješ me, ko se ti zdi

A vem, da se v temi živeti ne da
Stvari- le obrisi, ki oko jih spozna
K soncu me vleče srce
Telo mu verjame, ker ve

Všeč mi je, da sem to jaz
Duša srce in obraz
Da utiram si nove poti
Se ustavim, ko se mi zazdi

 

(ENGLISH TRANSLATION: AN ORANGE COLOURED DAY)

sometimes dark thoughts flood my entire world
the circle of life is all covered in a black veil
and I can feel night waking in me

a force inside me is choosing feelings to mutilate
the body seems much stronger and it chills me down my spine
and I can feel I can't run to the daylight
someone else is now living in me

I like it that you have me
teach me all that you know
show me new paths to walk
seduce me whenever you like

courage is a black lion a fearless king of evil thoughts
fear is now a stranger who is nowhere to be seen
and I feel that night now lives in me
and it won't let me run to the daylight

I like it that you have me
teach me all that you know
show me new paths to walk
seduce me whenever you like

but I know I can't just live in the dark
things seem just shapes that my eyes don't recognize
my heart pulls me out in the sun
the body believes it and knows

I like it because this is me
soul, heart and face
probing new paths to walk
and stopping whenever I want to


THE PLACE 2 B

LYRICS BY: ANDREA F/TINKARA KOVAC
MUSIC BY: ANDREA F/TINKARA KOVAC

Hey how’s it hanging?
Is it some rule I am breaking?
Who is in and who’s not
Strange new routes you follow
Always seem to take you to the same spot

Hey am I dreaming?
The uniforms I am seeing
Fashion store for a clone
Even ice can shine like silver
But the chill will get you right to the bone

The place to be
The place to be
The place to be
Where May lights with kisses
With bonfires and crosses
A promise down a cell-phone
And a tattoo on your backbone
For a life
In the place 2 B

Hey where’s the action?
But can I choose my direction?
Or can you pull up and stop
‘Cuz I ain’t takin’ rides from strangers
And the road is going nowhere I thought

The place to be
The place to be
The place to be
Where May lights with kisses
With bonfires and crosses
A promise down a cell-phone
And a tattoo on your backbone
For a life
In the place 2 B


REASON WHY

LYRICS BY: TINKARA KOVAC/ANDREA F
MUSIC BY: TINKARA KOVAC/ANDREA F

Three times around Devil’s tower in slow motion
To the coral reef to sink my life in the ocean
Down to the delta on a trail almost fading
To the sound of the city with the name of a maiden

And I can see your razor gaze
Shimmer in that valley’s cracked salt glaze

‘Cause you’re the reason why
I know
I faded like a shadow
You’re the reason why
I know
I traded a smile
For tears on my pillow

Everything sweet vapourized in a mist
Anything bitter I still clench in a fist
And all that I am left with are memories in splinters
A stone painted yellow and a sunbeam for winter

And I can hear poison words you’ve spoken
Shatter like the ice the night cracks open

‘Cause you’re the reason why
I know
I faded like a shadow
You’re the reason why
I know
I traded a smile
For tears on my pillow

I’ll build myself a castle
High up on this mountain
Flowers from the ruins
And the pieces of your city

‘Cause you’re the reason why
I know
I faded like a shadow
You’re the reason why
I know
I traded a smile
For tears on my pillow


SPEZZACUORI

LYRICS & MUSIC BY: MASSIMO BUBOLA

Le parole son finite
le ferite son guarite e ti vedo andare giu
Dai miei occhi fino al buio
tra le lacrime e il diluvio
io ti vedo andare giu

Spezza un angelo la notte
piena di bottiglie vuote e di cuori truffatori
E le donne danno pace
e le donne danno amore alle mie canzoni vuote

Spezzacuori hai gia deciso col tuo ultimo sorriso
vuoi vedermi andare giu
spezzacuori batti il tempo del tuo strano marchingegno
puoi vedermi andare giu

Dentro il cinema fa freddo
e l'attrice dice: «E tutto!»
poi comincia a venir giu
Tra i ragazzi c'e qualcuno
che conosce il suo profumo
e la prende per la mano

Dietro i bar lei si inginocchia
e lo copre con la bocca lui comincia ad andar giu
Dama bianca addormentata
dama bianca inconsolata vuoi vedermi andare giu

Spezzacuori hai gia deciso col tuo ultimo sorriso
vuoi vedermi andare giu
spezzacuori batti il tempo del tuo strano marchingegno
puoi vedermi andare giu

(ENGLISH TRANSLATION: HEARTBREAKER)

All the words are now over
all the wounds now are healed
I see you, you’re going down
From my eyes’ gaze into the blackness
in these tears where it never stops raining
I can see you’re going down

Night rips an angel to pieces
a night filled with of empty bottles
and betraying hearts
And women give love
women give peace
to all my empty songs

Spezzacuori with your last smile you’ve decided
you wanna see me going down
Spezzacuori keep the rhythm of your strange weird device
and you can see me going down

It’s cold inside the cinema
‘this show is now over’
says the actress and then she comes down
In the crowd of boys
someone knows her perfume
and takes her by the hand

Behind the bar she kneels
and covers him with her mouth
and then just starts going down
Sleeping white lady
Desolate white lady
it’s me you now want going down

Spezzacuori with your last smile you’ve decided
you wanna see me going down
Spezzacuori keep the rhythm of your strange weird device
and you can see me going down


STUCK BETWEEN

LYRICS BY: TINKARA KOVAC/ANDREA F
MUSIC BY: ANDREA F/TINKARA KOVAC

Stuck between sleep
and the wings of a raven
I dreamt I was leaving
and I woke up still waving

I walk through the night on the cold of a sidewalk
to soak up the colours and life in a leafstalk
painting away till the shadows go dimmer
let this moon shimmer

»Just let it be« voices preaching
but I hear them screeching
and now I know

Stuck between the earth and heaven
my dreams the firing line
Stuck between was not worth living
but baby now I'm fine

A trail in the sand and my footsteps to follow
all that I hold is a handful of hollow
a ring made of ice and a ghost overdue
melt into the blue

»Just let it be« voices preaching
but I hear them screeching
and now I know

Stuck between the earth and heaven
my dreams the firing line
Stuck between was not worth living
but baby now I'm fine

I'm fine – I walk down a road that is mine
you're wrong – sadness is not set in stone

stuck between the earth and heaven
my dreams the firing line
stuck between was not worth living
but baby now I'm fine