Merci Chérie by Udo Jürgens [Cover]

So, how’s Pennsylvania?
Did you get that jeep?
Does your apartment have a nice view
Where you can see those sheep?
So, how’s Pennsylvania?
Where everything is new
‘Cause now you’re that big corporate guy
Black suit and neat tie

I always told you California’s in my veins
But you’re gone to where none of us remains
With our dreams colliding and smashing
You only wanna go big cashing

So, how are you?
Is your new life of value?
Is ticking all the boxes in your resume
Filling your heart at the end of the day?
So, how are you?
Wasting your best years
You text me when you had too many beers
And it’s leaving me in tears

I always told you California’s in my veins
But you’re gone to where none of us remains
With our dreams colliding and smashing
You only wanna go big cashing
​
© written by Cosima Charlotte

PENNSYLVANIA

Sitting down by the river
With my friend next to me
Talking some shit and drinking some liquor
It’s late, it’s cold at 15 degree

While I’m looking at a couple
Sitting down by the bridge
I see us and forget about our trouble
I see us smiling and laughing and all of that kitsch

​See us being together
And just feeling free
Why can’t it be like that forever?
Oh, what do you see?

​Your laugh is a real one,
Not fake or a forced smile
Dreaming ‘bout love didn’t use to be fun
And now love is my new lifestyle

​This time I have confidence
It needs to be real
Having hope is my new competence
Oh, how do you feel?

​My friend’s stopping me from my thoughts about love
She’s asking me: “Hey girl, what you’re dreaming of?”

See us being together
And just feeling free
Why can’t it be like that forever?
Oh, what do you see?

This time I have confidence
It needs to be real
Having hope is my new competence
Oh, how do you feel?

​© written by Cosima Charlotte

MUNICH NIGHT

I miss you
Do you miss me, too?
It’s clear, you’re not near
You are there and I’m here

We were kids doing nothing
Singing and drinking and laughing
Not needing any of that fuss
No responsibilities, just for us

We can either make an accusation
Or we apologize for everything
But nothing leads to detoxification
And staying away isn't working
Then what? Then what? Then what?

​Is there a chance
To see us like we did at first glance?
Giving and taking
No not-giving, no not-taking

No confession or false pride
Pushing all our doubts aside
No questions and no looking back
No more hate and no more regret

We can either make an accusation
Or we apologize for everything
But nothing leads to detoxification
And staying away isn't working
Then what? Then what? Then what?  

© written by Cosima Charlotte

KIDS

Hurt by Johnny Cash [Cover]

You remind me of a young Robert de Niro
Taxi Driver style
Always moving around with a pulse at zero
It’s also the way you smile

Your hair has gotten balder
So you like to wear a cap
Used to look cute, now you’re older
I really liked you as a young chap

It’s been a long time
That I was so obsessed
When timing mattered
We were doomed to be shattered
You’ve exhausted all of your prime
You changed for the better, I grew to the best
Yeah you've exhausted all of your prime

I remember that you are the type of person  
To hold someone tightly
A sensual and appreciative version
Enjoying precisely

I asked you how you’d define
The parts forming your identity:
Your good spirit combined
With humor make your personality

It’s been a long time
That I was so obsessed
When timing mattered
We were doomed to be shattered
You’ve exhausted all of your prime
You changed for the better, I grew to the best
Yeah you changed for the better but I grew to the best

I never thought I ever could
See you any differently
Than I perceived you in your falsehood
But I just had this epiphany

​It’s been a long time
That I was so obsessed
When timing mattered
We were doomed to be shattered
You’ve exhausted all of your prime
You changed for the better, I grew to the best
Yeah when timing mattered
We were doomed to be shattered

​© written by Cosima Charlotte

TRAVIS

​My water without the gas fellow
The orange hand cream or the yellow?
Said "don't speak academically
Or expect me to eat that sushi"

You spend your time playing dart
I pursue a life making art
You sent me that pure song (that pure song)
Through the clouds seeing the sun

On Sundays it's lingering
Our bodies mingling
I let you dance me around
But I am not a rebound
So what had changed? Time did
Time moved on and us with it

Your balcony without the view
Sleeping naked next to you
I miss sitting on your lap
Stroking your head and your back

Our chat's become empty
Pics of drinks used to be plenty
There are no photos of us snapped
And your lighter is all I kept

On Sundays it's lingering
Our bodies mingling
I let you dance me around
But I am not a rebound
So had what changed? Time did
Time moved on and us with it

Hey, I do not regret a thing
I'm in a state I'm not risking
To hurt when I'm vulnerable
'Cause with myself, I'm comfortable
But what had changed? Time did
Time moved on and us with it

​© written by Cosima Charlotte

SUNDAYS

A thousand kisses, teenage sweetheart
Should have recorded us from the start
Your dms are the only ones I check
I can easily recall our message thread

Can't focus when my mind is making up
Imaginary conversations non-stop
Usually I need a book to fall asleep
Now I dream of how we sweep

​My body shakes all day long
Wanting to dance to our song
Butterflies moving through my spine
Just walking past your neon sign

​When I'm not with you I miss your scent
So when you gave me your jacket to lent
The smell of your aftershave it evoked
I didn't even mind that you smoked

​Your imperfect body and your lips
Your eyes closed and your open hips
Though nothing beats your gaze
Your sexual sense is taste

My body shakes all day long
Wanting to dance to our song
Butterflies moving through my spine
Just walking past your neon sign

In your maroon shirt you made me swoon
But when I told you that I like you
You weren't able to say it back to me
But I knew you did when you called me Chérie
Which would become our goodbye song
So I'm saying "merci" and "so long"

​My body shakes all day long
Wanting to dance to our song
Butterflies moving through my spine
Just walking past your neon sign
​
© written by Cosima Charlotte

CHÉRIE

You are sitting in the sun
Floral shirt, Yves Saint Laurent
When conversations dramatize
Matching the dark circles under your eyes

Talk so much, tons of cigarettes
Discussing our different mindsets
Your revolutionary extremes
While you are writing dystopian dreams

The softness in your gesture and your tone
Though for your mind you want to be known
Desperately trying to prove your intellect
Your looks the only thing they ever respect
So you'd give everything for them to see
Your true spirit instead of your beauty

Wine and melon mint ice tea
Walls shaped like the Observatory
On your shelf cameras analog
On your hard drive your music catalog

Beautiful man, sad blue eyes
Listening to Marvin at sun rise
Merging in the magical morning
Transposing what we have given forwarning

The softness in your gesture and your tone
Though for your mind you want to be known
Desperately trying to prove your intellect
Your looks the only thing they ever respect
So you'd give everything for them to see
Your true spirit instead of your beauty

Romeo on the balcony
Pouring my gold right down to me
'Cause you didn't want to leave a trace
That was the last time that I saw your face
​
© written by Cosima Charlotte

​Walking with an aristocratic audacity
You are coolness royalty
Casually dropping capital vocabulary
Owning the most desirable discography
But you don't have any good people in your life (and are you good?)
But you don't have any love in your life (and can you love?)​

I am sitting on your bed
Psychedelic art on the shelf
While you're recording your set
And I'm watching you be yourself

The hipster glasses on your nose
Cigarette in your mouth's nook
Headphones on, a DJ pose
It's a whole Raoul look

The limelight on you seems to be a fixation
There are always moths sticking to your sculpture
You got used to bathing in their admiration
But then each one of the moths turned into a vulture

They cut your wings, turned off your light
They devoured your heart and smashed your soul
They fooled your body and ate you alive
Still you just can't, you just can't let them go
You just can't let them go
You just can't let them

You are breathing negativity
Your energy is on a low level
Kicking it high synthetically
Still you can't seem to shake off the devil

I'm not sure you are even aware
That I am here, dressed all black
Merging with the darkness of your flair
You are lost and your mind is a wrack

Emotionally, I'm detached through and through
Never thought I'd ever feel sorry for you
'Cause I used to be one of those moths
But then I made myself turn into a dove

They cut your wings, turned off your light
They devoured your heart and smashed your soul
They fooled your body and ate you alive
Glad that I could, that I could let you go, you go, you go
That I could let you go, you go, you go
That I could let you go, you go, you go
That I could let you go, you go, you go
You go ...

© written by Cosima Charlotte

THE DUKE

​Always saw myself as someone up above
You hated how I walked with a crown
And that for me, where we lived wasn’t enough
I can’t keep my feet on the ground

Now you are off overseas
Far away from what you believe in
Where you’re from used to put you at ease
But now you decided to break through the ceiling

I’ve seen many parts of the earth
And it opened up my horizon
Now I want to go to my place of birth
Which took me quite a while for realizin’
Can we go together?

Admitting my true self may have me losing friends
I’m not sure I’m strong enough to take that route
I search the meaning of my dreams’ essence
It all comes down to accepting my inner truth

It seems to me I have to decide
If I rush back to where it all started
Or I remain in the city with some guy
I do not want anything halfhearted
​
I’ve seen many parts of the earth
And it opened up my horizon
Now I want to go to my place of birth
Which took me quite a while for realizin’
Can we go together?

When I hear a love song you come to mind
Reading poems it’s us that I find
When I hear a love song you come to mind
Reading poems it’s us that I find
Can we be together?

© written by Cosima Charlotte

DREAMS

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all songs written by me (unless otherwise stated) and performed in one take (no editing or post-production)

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