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新 / new

自行車 / bicycle

xingqiwu_03
7eleven (it’s so convenience store)

you need some hot food? - 7eleven
you want some cold food? - 7eleven
you want some cold drinks? - 7eleven
you need some hot things?! - 7eleven

you need batteries? - 7eleven
you need a powerbank? - 7eleven 
your broke your mouse? - 7eleven
you are broke? - 7eleven 

print out documents? - 7eleven
pregnancy test? - 7eleven
pick up packages? - 7eleven
take a nap? - 7eleven

buy anything - 7eleven
pay with cash - 7eleven
or use your easyCard - 7eleven
but not your VISA-Card -7eleven

7eleven, another 7eleven,
oh look a 7eleven - open 24/7
7eleven, I need a 7eleven, 
ah, there’s a 7eleven
„it’s so convenience store“ (bruh)

x2

need a tooth brush? - 7eleven
need a toilet! - 7eleven
buy some clothes? - 7eleven (yifú)
get your clothes washed? - 7eleven

develop pictures - 7eleven 
top up your bus card - 7eleven
get a train ticket - 7eleven
you need a SIM-Card? -

Wait! They ain’t got no SIM-Card?! Yeah it’s probably just because of the language barrier, you know, long nose, white face, they just didn’t understand you, for sure they have a SIM-Card! Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it’s impossible they ain’t…

boiled eggs, spoiled eggs - 7eleven
baked potatoes, chicken legs - 7eleven
onigiri, sushi-roll - 7eleven
cigarets and alcohol - 7eleven

instant-noodle, rice bags - 7eleven
soy-sauce, meat snacks - 7eleven
gambling using the receipt? - 7eleven
chocolate-faking red beans? 7eleven
 
7eleven, another 7eleven,
oh look a 7eleven - open 24/7
7eleven, I need a 7eleven, 
ah, there’s a 7eleven
„it’s so convenience store“ (bruh)

x2

around the corner there’s a - 7eleven
down the street, there’s a - 7eleven
at the station - 7eleven
in the station - 7eleven’s

walk a minute straight, there’s a - 7eleven
opposite of a - 7eleven
right next to a - 7eleven
that’s on top of another - 7eleven

bus stop, hospital, 101, shopping mall,
in the zoo, in the park - 7eleven
up the hill, down the hill, ocean shore, mountain range,
underground, in the air - 7eleven

city-center, suburb, little village, truck stop,
freeway, sidewalk - 7eleven
everywhere you want to be, everything you want to see,
you go there you’ll find a - 7eleven
 
i’ll spend my life in a - 7eleven
marry my wife in a - 7eleven
raise my kids in a - 7eleven
build a house in a - 7eleven

plant a tree in a - 7eleven
take an arrow to the knee in a - 7eleven
dreams come true in a - 7eleven
the place to be is a - 7eleven

七十一 / 7eleven

i feel like I want to write something about this one.

the music for this song originally wasn’t supposed to be used this way. actually i wrote the first version of it based on the text for „七十一 / 7eleven“. i really liked it but it just felt wrong with the lyrics. so i trashed it at first and created the music for „七十一 / 7eleven“ which you now can hear in the final song. but i still had this first version and i wanted to do something with it. so i decided to write a new text, based on that music. i have never done it that way before. at that time i was sitting in a starbucks in ximen with léa, having ordered a cinnamon roll and working on my music - and it just felt fitting. it was just a part of our somehow accomplished daily life. so i used the music to bring out some thoughts and feelings i have had for a while about our life here and just projected that day in the second verse of the track.

lyrics:

alarm ringing, waking up, watch the clock: 08:00
had a nice sleep? yep! let’s not get up late
so I put on my training clothes, daily work out
leg raises, push ups, sit ups - this helps out
quick shower, wait for the warm water,
____ , still waiting for water
breakfast: rice milk and some kind of cake,
and maybe a soup what’s the plan for today?

you’ve got work? alright I’ve got music,
creativity and motivation, won’t lose it
put effort into it, don’t finish on time,
2 songs behind schedule, not really alright… well
now it’s lunchtime. what would you like
to eat? (yeah) ramen or rice?
a little more work and I don’t want to stay
here at home anymore i’ll go down to taipei

through the parking lot, down to the bus stop,
bus 棕7 going down from the hill top
pass villages, rivers and exit at xindian,
mrt green line twelve stations to ximen
出口六, pedestrian zone,
it’s only been 2 hours since leaving home
people and music and lights everywhere
totoros and and backpacks: I’m finally there!

another day, alarm rings at 7,
got to do some recordings in 7/11
but first the workout-breakfast-shower-thing
and then down to the city, to ximending
which is technically ximen (as far as i know)
at least it’s my favorite place here to go
to miniso and to Starbucks and then
a cinnamon roll, for qishíwû yuan
which allows me to sit there and work for some time,
and if I got no ideas watch people walk by,
which is way more interesting then busses at home,
or the houses and beautiful mountains alone
not moving just static, the suburban outskirts
quite 真漂亮, but boring and soundless,
just garbage-truck-music and wind whistling,
so everyday 我喜欢去西门町

through the parking lot, down to the bus stop,
bus 棕7 going down from the hill top
pass villages, rivers and exit at xindian,
mrt green line twelve stations to ximen
出口六, pedestrian zone,
it’s only been 2 hours since leaving home 
people and music and lights everywhere
totoros and and moomins: I’m finally there!

aljoscha