Can you help me – I’ve spent it all
I’m broke, my back against the wall
Nothing left for me to give

Can you help me – I’ve lost it all
My words, my thoughts are just too small
And there’s so much left to live

And all my friends have gone to the moon
I am afraid they won’t be back soon

I need some of myself for those meagre days
Just a bit of myself right now
Recklessly I spent my words for this whole week today
Can you give me some of all the things you want to say

Give me credit for a new personality
A new life, new stories, whoever I want to be
Oh please spare what you can

Pay me in advance for how great I could be
A proof of concept is enough – can’t you see
That I deserve another chance

Give me some of myself for those meagre days
Just a bit of myself right now
Recklessly I spent my thoughts for this whole week today
Can you give me some of all the things you have to say

Bankruptcy Blues

Felt like some melancholic music on this beautiful sunny day...

Mad World (Gary Jules Cover)

These words won’t be no more
It’s time
To leave what came before
Behind
These words won’t help no more
Get washed up on a shore
Of forgotten things
That the future brings

This love won’t feel no more
Like all
That counts, an open door
Into
A world so bright, so light
Back when we denied that the winter waits
Right at autumn’s gates

When it’s all said and done
There’s still so much left to do
Whisper memories untrue
That then fade
Is it too late
For you to wait
For me to let go

These thoughts don’t count no more
Just let
Them go, unlike before
You get
No more tries, no cards
You can pull from all
Oh from all those shards
That your mind discards

No More (live)

We open our hands
And give earth to earth
For what it’s worth

We understand
To give pain for pain
It might all be in vain

If we still can
We give love for love
It might just be enough

And when we’re done
There’s nothing to pour
Anymore

But we keep on
Going further
In search of more to give
And we keep on
Pulling harder
At each other, as we live

Open your eyes
And give dreams for dreams
For now it seems

That we might do without them, my friend
All things 
Come to an end

And if we still can
Let’s give love for love
It might just be enough

Until we open our hands
To give earth to earth
For all it’s worth

But we keep on
Running faster
In search of more to give
And we keep on
Pulling harder
At each other, as we live

Earth to Earth (live)

You were uncaring in summer
Cruel for fun in fall
Cold as ice you were in winter
Didn’t crack in spring at all

But when we first saw the sun
You laughed until I hurt no more
All the good that you have done
What has it been for

Some days
Play a cruel hand
In cold ways
I don’t understand

Now it’s time again for winter
Spring did not arrive
Give me all the warmth you spent and
Cut me up with winter’s knife

Then I’ll know that all’s forgiven
Even you can’t hate that much
Once I’m dead the hate is driven
out – where’s the catch?

I want nothing from the future
I look forward to the past
In which we worked it out – it suits you
To have been kind at last

Book of Nature

We better dance

Music is my breathing.

I felt like having some fun with a track that I love. Such great lyrics: 

'The face forgives the mirror, the worm forgives the plow, the question begs the answer: can you forgive me somehow?'

This clearly begs for background choirs.

All the World is Green (Tom Waits Cover)

Let’s learn by heart what can’t be known
Let’s memorise uncertainties
While summer warms our bones

Let’s cater to the child in us
Let’s lose ourselves, let’s make a fuss
Let’s fly like skipping stones

Touch down on the water
And what reaches the shore of my tongue
Tastes like sun, and I caught her
The horizon a line brightly done
White and red fade to blue

I saw paradise
I passed right through and waved
I opened my eyes
And lost all that I craved
Climbed higher than the peak
Toulouse or/is mine to keep

Let’s sing to what we lost at sea
Let’s sing to who we were and we
Can never be again

As summer melts my words, I say
The things that can’t be said today
When everything seems plain

Let’s jump into the water, and what reaches the shores of our minds
Tastes like sun, and we caught her
Let her go when we close the blinds
White and red fade to blue

Toulouse

In a cathedral made of rotting wood I wait
For sleep
Hide and seek
As the walls around me creak

In a silent place in nature I reside
Can’t abide
by the cold
That slowly creeps inside

I’m too solid and cramped
Into a space
Too small to breathe, I can’t
Feel the mind within
This noisy place/hall/walls and street
I’m in too deep

As the water that will sweep away this shack
Oh I lack 
All foundation
As I feel my own walls crack

And wide open are the windows
But there’s no one left within
On a whim
I walked out
Without looking back

This body that I live in
Is not mine alone
I’ve had it for a while
And in that time it’s grown
Into something I don’t recognize
The way it moves and dreams
And if it had a choice
It would ditch me, so it seems

This Body I Live In

It started out as a thought
Which became a memory in my mind
And it started out as a dream
And your voice replied in kind

It started out
As a melody in my mind
It started out
When I was feeling blind
It started out
As a simple twist of fate
When I tried to leave it was too late

And it won’t go away
It might make me stay here forever
I can’t leave your side
So much more than we might have been together
We might have been together from the start

It started out with a breath
Which then became a sigh
And the sigh turned into a word
Which turned into a cry

And the cry became a yell
And the yell became a roar
And it was so hard to tell you
How sweet we’d been before

It started out so sweet
It became something so bitter
I could end it in a beat
But I know it would not matter
I know it would not matter to me now

Something Sweet

Above the rooftops of the quaint city of Bern, we dream music and play words...
Our songs often start simple - a sentence that captures a feeling, a few notes on the acoustic guitar. Then they grow, take on a life of their own, with voices added and melodies that give them depth. We'd like for them to be catchy enough that you can hum to them immediately, yet interesting enough that you feel like listening more than once. There's always something to discover: sometimes, it's in the lyrics, sometimes in the music, or in both at once, when a harmless, mellow melody coincides with lyrics that are less than nice. No matter if they are cheerful or melancholic - we hope that glowfish's songs stay with you.
We are: Joanna Nowotny (songwriting, lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Lugi Luginbühl (electric guitar, stomp box, backings), Tobias Nägeli (bass, backings) and Martina Schönbächler (backings)

Something Sweet

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