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Artwork: Sarah Morris

These are two songs in one:

Nocturnal Air and Window
Music K. Todorov, Lyrics by Federico G. Lorca
Arrangement: Hervé Arroyo, Sylvain Palpant, K. Todorov

Swing Seat
Music and lyrics by Konstantin Todorov
Arrangement: Hervé Arroyo, Sylvain Palpant, K. Todorov

…
Nocturnal Air and Window 

The moon rides high
the wind runs low
an arm of night comes through my door
moments wounded by the clock
my sweeping gaze explores the sky
there today in the pond
a water girl has found the death
from her head and to her thighs
a fish crosses and calls her name
Two girls voices approach easily
I'm turning into silver, turning into water
Moon on water and moon below the sea
sew me into your pillow, into your pillow.
…

Swing Seat

I loved you for your body
but loving you for life
was not the kind of love that
that body could ignite

I loved you in a bubble
and I loved you as it broke
I loved you for the wine
I loved you in the smoke

So what's that sound so far away
the wind on the panes my love
as you walk out and as i sway
in the cradle of your love
 
I loved you in the dark
to love you in the light
it would have been traiter's act
it wouldn't have felt right

Nocturnal Air And Window / Swing Seat

Lyrics and music by Konstantin Todorov
Arrangement: Hervé Arroyo, Sylvain Palpant, K. Todorov
Artwork: Sylvain Palpant
…
your eyes once made me certain
of the hardness of my soul
back then we had no curtains
in our aquarium home 

now i’m stateless and i’m loosing
the shape of my youth's charm
the languages i'm using
contain no words of harm

I’m stateless and i’m fearing
the touch of my young man
the house we used to live in
I sold to wind and sand

your eyes once brought me knowledge
of the multitude of ways
i picked one, you didn’t know which 
i was the guest, you stayed 

fields of poppies, clouds of anger
my heathen ancestors must know
how easy to surrender
to memory’s open jaw

your eyes once brought me knowledge
of the multitude of ways
i picked one, you didn’t know which 
i was the guest, you payed

fields of poppies, clouds of anger
my heathen ancestors must know
how easy to surrender
to memory’s wide open jaw

Aquarium Home

Lyrics and music by Konstantin Todorov
Arrangement: Hervé Arroyo, Sylvain Palpant, K. Todorov
Artwork: Sylvain Palpant

Three Moons

Lyrics and music by K. Todorov
Arrangement: Hervé Arroyo, Sylvain Palpant, K. Todorov
Artwork: Sylvain Palpant
...
I'm heading straight to your heart but not like arrow
the silent shadow next to you is my shadow

the night is coming hung on its stars

Thorns

Music and lyrics by Konstantin Todorov and Markus Eronen
Arrangement: Hervé Arroyo, Sylvain Palpant, K. Todorov
Artwork: Sylvain Palpant

***
You've been on a long trip
have a rest
You've been in a war.
The days now will be bluer
quieter and cooler
no more little voices
screaming out

You take the morning 
take the evening 
take the night 
you take the light
you take the song 
take my own song 
you take it wrong

Lots of things I didn’t do with you
You were fun
But it was more fun without you
That’s why you're gone
Your shirt hangs outside, a memory
I pull it inside where it’s safe and dry
How can anyone be 
happy anymore

It takes the morning 
takes the evening 
takes the night you take the light
it takes a song 
it takes too long 
you take it wrong you take it wrong

If only I could let you in 
and let you eat my heart again.

Happy Anymore

Music K. Todorov, Lyrics Markus Eronen
Arrangement: Hervé Arroyo, Sylvain Palpant, K. Todorov
Artwork: Sarah Morris
...
Windows are fun if you open one
The air is incredibly smooth
You lift up your face and touch my cheek
After so much dust and sleep

Luckily I'm in the air
The loneliness is filling me with bliss

There are more guests on the way 
if they dont get lost in the courtyard 
Between the windmills and fake trees
They might pass out in the staircase

But we keep a bottle open for them
The loneliness is filling me with bliss

Sounds are getting week
no hope for further trouble
our lonely asses down the road

You’re just a fool if you let me stay
You don’t see how i make you weak
You’re just a fool when i go away
You wipe your tears but they will stay

Thunderclouds and gathered doubts are making me uneasy
The airport sails
Tonight i see an end that is not warm under the sheets
We don't go home
Sky is only changing and the noises your voices changing
As tears go by
I want you
Not to be mine

Over Ancient Rainy Rooftops

Words & music by Atomheart (2017). Drum samples by Hervé Arroyo

—— 
There are no elephants to slaughter on the road between you and I
there are still crimes we did not commit

The miles of rails and states now twist and dance before my tired eyes
the landscape changes and we don't fit 

While I was worrying about my rhymes
While I was strengthening my arms
While I was busy wasting time
you've been drifting away my love

Was I the guy who left his suitcase and guitare and silence behind 
and hopped off the train to take you in his arms

We needed a foreign language as a shelter where we could tell
je t’aime and all the rest and tell je t’aime from hell

Elephants

- sound disorder
- non-existing soundtrack
- false hope

Shuggetude

words and music by Atomheart (2018)

--- 
not before your voice has shrunk
to useless human sound
not before you couldn’t stab
and after you have tried
then you will surrender to 
the sirens and the ghosts

did i dream 
that i’m home
with your heart
at its throne

you won a war but you did no harm
and it was not God’s doing
and now you see her lift her arm
and take you to the ruins
of what was once a lighthouse and
a harbour and a dawn

and your heart
will grow dim
can you feel 
chilly breath on your skin?

Oh the wind will howl with fury
the years the skins will change
her stain of breath enduring
on memory’s window panes

Golden boys with golden touch
walk in perfect lines
well you know they’ve come for us
their lips and their minds rhyme
it’s the time of guessers now
and time to kill and mime

did i dream
that i’m home
with your heart
at its throne again

Oh the wind will howl with fury
the years the skins will change
her stain of breath enduring
on memory’s window panes

Wind Will Howl With Fury

words and music by Atomheart (2018)

---
How do you brake
a heart that is willing to ramble
how do you track
a road that awakes from its slumber

How do you catch
a heart astray 
fighting its way through your shelters
A storm awaits 
to bring them all down as if none of that really mattered

There was a room 
with yellow walls and august storms
The naked moon
was gliding its glance at their night dance

Who will take, who will take, who will take the strain
of a heart, of a heart at the dying day
and no land attained, and there ain't no way 

to bring back home
a heart astray 
fighting its way through your shelters
a storm awaits
to bring them all down as if none of that really matters 

You leave me in a place where there are no ports
a place from where no poem can be torn.

Heart Astray

Atomheart is the singer-songwriter Konstantin Todorov, based in Montpellier.
This a sketchbook. The songs featured here are mostly original demos of songs that are now part of other main projects of Konstantin. Check, for example, konstantinmusic.fr.
On other clouds: 
The Pipes of C: https://soundcloud.com/the-pipes-of-c
Body Electric: https://soundcloud.com/body-electric-band

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