You used to be the love of my life
And you could be the father of my son
Why couldn't you stay here with me
And see all that's sacred's right here

You're free to go to stay
With your imaginary friends
But im not there
So I will keep my doubts and ill be ok
Cause i believe in this life and I wanna live it while i am

I used to be the love of your life
I could be the mother of your son
They told you we were living in sin with me
Cant you see thats a lie
That this crushing guilt has tore us apart

You're free to go to stay
With your imaginary friends
But im not there
So I will keep my doubts, ill be fine one day
Cause i believe in this life and I wanna live it while i am

music & lyrics by Laura Zitna

Guilt

Garbage - You look so fine (cover by Laura Zitna)

you're disturbing in my sleep
and I'm falling into deep
like the northern star,
you occupy my night
while I run away.
you're disturbing in my sleep
I'm falling into deep.
While you hold her hand, not mine
I am frozen back in time
I should turn away, turn away, turn away.

Would you stay for a while?
Would you face the unknown?
Under the velvet sky
We're on our way back home
Would you stay for a while?
Would you face the unknown?
We're gonna rise and shine
On our way back home

You're disturbing in my sleep
No more promises to keep
You're hiding from my arms
While preoccupied with lies

Would you stay for a while?
Would you face the unknown?
Under the velvet sky
We're on our way back home
Would you stay for a while?
Would you face the unknown?
We're gonna rise and shine
On our way back home

music & lyrics by Laura Zitna
guest on vocals: George Mitter: https://soundcloud.com/george-mitter

Sleep (featuring George Mitter)

I will see you one day 
when you dare, when you dare 
to come out of the shadows and the pain.
Looking forward to meet you one day
when you dare, when you dare 
to come out of all the riddles and the games.

Then would you, would you, oh would you throw away the fear?
And would you, would you, would you point your love at me?
Oh let's get away.

We could become lovers in a wider space,
waving at the others from our hidden place.

I will see you one day 
when you dare, when you dare 
to come out of the shadows and the rain.
Looking forward to meet you one day
when you dare, when you dare 
to come out of all the riddles and stainless frame.

Then would you, would you, oh would you throw away the fear?
And would you, would you, would you point your love at me?

We could become lovers in a wider space,
waving at the others from our hidden place.
Oh let's get away.

music & lyrics by Laura Zitna

Let's get away

IAMX - I Am Terrified (cover by Laura Zitna)

Tori Amos - Winter (cover by Laura Zitna)


My love, look at me, you’ve got your father’s eyes
Say goodbye to our world as we’ve known it here
But there are people there
They say they’re welcoming

They say the world should come as one
yet still some might have closed their door
Christians say: “we should love one another”
The violence breeds violence

We’ve come here to this faithful ground
to educate our kids, to have a decent lives
One last time we have crossed the rivers 
to run away from bombs, to run away from guns

while you’re watching from your beds in your homes
while I’m running from the fields of war
you’re judging from the pubs, endless talks
while my children’s feet are cold and sore
you’re judging on your Facebook walls
while my children’s feet are cold and sore

while you’re watching from your beds in your homes
while I’m running from the fields of war
you’re judging on your Facebook walls
while my children’s feet are cold and sore

are there people there?
are there people there?

music & lyrics by Laura Zitna

A mother's cry

I met a man, an old man in a park
talking about his work with more than 1000 animals
about the empathy he felt for everyone
his spirit, his words, freely flowing,
his uncontrolled behaviour scared me so
but made me feel jealous and sore
he made me feel so alone

I envy you your freedom, Mr.Unknown Man
I envy the way you’re talking freely to yourself
and how you paint the sounds and visions in your head
it all sounds wiser than all those lessons learned at school
are we all deceived fools?
you’re beautiful and I'm drawn to you

True stories have not died
I feel tempted to tell you mine
I wanna share the secrets of our life
in a castle built of words so honest
and adventures that force my eyes to stay open wide
and look around and just feel and just breathe everything
until I hide again at home
behind my selfish pain
at home

we live like this, sheltered, protected
we’re easily emotionally blackmailed
yea, we live like this, falsely connected
bored and scared, passion ejected 

but..

True stories have not died
I feel tempted to tell you mine
I wanna share the secrets of our lives 
in a castle built of words so honest
and adventures that force my mind to stay open wide
and look around and just feel and just breathe everything
until I hide again at home
behind my selfish pain
at home

music & lyrics by Laura Zitna

Connected

Belinda Carlisle - La Luna (cover by Laura Zitna)

put your doubts down on a paper
with your shaking, passionate hand
write your story that you wanted to forget
but once it’s out 
no one’s ever going to forget
and it’s scary
it’s scary

the song you’ve heard is too sad 
to take you anywhere but far away
from your friends, as they seem strange
and their talking sounds so trivial
you feel like they all have forgotten
no chance left to connect
so you’ll get home to sing along, to sing to yourself

pain in his eyes is too deep to be taken
by your weak hands and just thrown away
or washed away with your kisses
and you know that his beauty made of pain will stay

love in your eyes is too devoted
to be given back
love made to love and get lost on a one way track
in an obsessed flame, hanging on a string
on a string that has no name
but you’re lost and found
among these walls
and they’re not so ugly when they resonate
with music
with music
with music
with music

music & lyrics by Laura Zitna

Walls

I can hear you screaming out so loud.
Your rage is unified and strong,
down there in a mass of a faceless crowd
you’re finally noticed, you feel at home.

Find me on my own,
But I am not alone,
and you can’t keep up with my song
while your hate keeps growing strong.
I may be on my own,
But I am not alone
and you can’t keep up with my song, song.

The echo of your heavy boots is loud,
you’re walking proudly in your (brown)coat, 
erasing human parts of who you are
you’re finally noticed, you feel at home.

Find me on my own,
I’d rather be alone
than to join your lowest low.
I am choosing to stay strong 
in humanity and love,
while your hate keeps going on.
I may be on my own,
but at least I am my own.

I can see you on a battle field, 
screaming for blood that’s what you want, 
that’s what you want,
while society keeps watching silently.
You feel like someone. 
but do you feel, do you feel your own? 

And find me on my own,
I’ d rather be alone
than to join your lowest low.
I am choosing to stay strong 
in humanity and love,
while your hate keeps going on.
I may be on my own
but at least I am my own.

Music and lyrics by Laura Zitna

Lowest Low

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHA5lWEboK8

And if you’re gonna cross my mind tonight tonight
And if you’re gonna play around with my mind tonight
And if you’re ever going to cross my life again, 
you will never see my heart cry for you again

Look at you, you’re burning out
And i’m still standing
Look at you, you’re fading out
And i’m still standing

Healed, strong, lying underneath the sheets of gold 
and warmed by the sun that whispers of the lost allies  
there’s no way of returning back
I'm not enslaved by love anymore
forgetting who am I.
and here am I
still standing

And if you’re gonna cross my mind tonight tonight
And if you’re gonna play around with my heart tonight
And if you’re ever going to cross my path again, 
you will never see my heart fall for you 

music and lyrics by Laura Zitna

Healed

I dedicate this song to all the beautiful, artistic souls, especially to those who left us, like Mr. Bowie who I am sure, travels now among the stars..to all star wanderers here and there..and everywhere :)

Lyrics:
Please don’t go, this world needs you
please don’t go, oh I need you
you’re the beauty, you’re the truth
for one last time, this world needs you

Heavy thoughts dwell within you
but they won’t stop you from living your dream
they drive you to pick up the brushes,
to sit down at your piano
and sing:

“Do I need to be very beautiful 
in order to be forgiven for being sad?
Tonight’s the night when the past is forgotten
and I can finally sleep like I’ve never been insomniac before”

You have died surrounded by soulmates
Looking back at your work of art you shared with us, with the world.
When I die who’s gonna understand my world?
When I’m gone who’s gonna understand the songs I wrote?

And you sang to us abandoned
And you sang to us alienated
You saw through our lonely, isolated souls
You saw our hearts craving 
for the touch of a magnificent sun

And when the the sun goes down in times of destruction
we choose to talk about creating art, you and I
we still can grow, we can burn with passion 
and move on
and run towards another star 

music & lyrics by Laura Zitna

Undefined

You say you love the words I write
So why so terrified?
Find me in my place where I hide
So why so terrified?
Find me in my place where I hide

You say you adore the way I love
But then you run away and hide,
you take my life and leave me fed with lies
But then your run away and hide,
you take my pride and leave me fed with lies

But you will see
One day you’ll see it from the other side 
And you’ll see
You will see it from the other side
And you’ll see
One day you’ll see it from the other side 
And you’ll see
You will see me from the other side

We’re building walls
the more we say we’re open
Our innocence is stolen
Will we end up lost and broken
in our times we’ve fallen? 
They're singing songs of hate, our dreams are broken.

music & lyrics by Laura Zitna

From the other side

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWQdA-miAE&feature=share

Lyrics:
Silent fire and books on a shelf, and us
reading all those wise words once told and
our, our quiet love, has become old as 
the paintings on the walls
I’ve been turning the pages 
since you’ve been gone 

Hold my hand and watch me grow old
stumbling, taking the hardest road
I’m thinking of you
thinking of all the lovers I’ve loved
I’m forgiving you
remembering only the best in life

Looking at the sky
looking at my life
leaving all behind
Are you having fun
are you still alive
are you giving up?
Don’t let go

Looking at the sky
looking at your life
leaving all behind
Are you having fun
are you still alive
are you giving up?
Don’t let go

Music & lyrics by Laura Zitna (2016)

Don't let go

Be patient, every line, every question
the layers scraped away one by one
can you read the answer?

Memories and forgetting afterwards
where is that meeting point, uncertain bridge built of words
what do they mean, what do you mean?

There’s your white and here’s our black dressed pose
we all escaped just to hit another walls, 
we feel so free and we think we ‘re honest
we feel so real in a crowd in this moment
when we’ve lost our identities
when we’ve sold our identities

I’ve learnt to let go of my dreams
cause I, I had such good teachers 
and I, I’ve learned myself to flow
That’s what they say life is about
But do they know what life is about?

They say I have to protect myself
but I heard the song that made me ‘runaway’
And you’ve already failed 
so please stop teaching.

And now I'll ask, will you answer?
I wanna make you ask again 
and if I fail, who will remain to make you ask you again?
who will remain to make you ask again?

There’s your white and here’s our black dressed pose
we all escaped just to hit another walls, 
we feel so free and we think we ‘re honest
we feel so real in a crowd in this moment
when we’ve lost our identities
when we’ve sold our identities

music and lyrics by Laura Zitna

Clones

IAMX - Missile (cover by Laura Zitna)

Remember when you promised me 
the lunch under the apple trees?
then things got wrong, 
now you are over me.

You could be the one for me
to free me from my darkest fears 
to chase away the spiders 
from my nightmare's dreams.

Will you keep me part of your history
or will you stare and look through me?
Or will you finally set me free, set me free?

Look at me I’m walking on my own,
it’s a long long way back home
Look at me I’m slipping 
walking down the hardest road.

Will you keep me part of your history
or will you stare and look through me?
Or will you finally set me free, set me free?
No you can’t keep running back to me
I’m not the place for you to get healed
when you’re down, when the clouds are back in town.

Look at me, I’m stubborn every once in a while
Just because I love you and I need that fire alive.

So I will keep you part of my history
and I will write, so stay around and look at me
You are my muse, don’t set me free. 
I will keep you part of my history
I’ll sing and write, so stay around and look at me
You are my muse don’t set me free. 
Once upon a time you made a promise to me
that we would share a lunch under the apple trees
is cancelled, now it’s cancelled.

music and lyrics by Laura Zitna

Lunch under the apple trees

Video sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5QHFeZB_cY&feature=share

Kvapky, náreky, ozveny, zrkadlá
trieštia sa o sny a menia sa
na piesok, čo prekĺzne ti prstami
ako život, ako láska, 
ako vina, ako víťazstvo
zem pod nami praská
nevidíš to zúfalstvo?

Nesnaž sa ich zachytiť
len povedz mi čo vidíš, 
a či vôbec niečo vidíš
tak povedz mi čo cítiš
keď hľadíš na mňa
keď hľadíš na seba
otázky v tichu
zahľadené do seba
nechcem ti veriť
chcem ťa len vnímať
naplniť studňu doplna, doplna
deravú, deravú..

Prísľub falošný, kocky hodené,
necúvam, bežím
bolí to, bolí, ale kričím:
“ešte, ešte, ešte”
Kacíri, ktorí oslavujú život
a umierajú pre niečo, 
pre to, čo je všetkým
zatiaľ čo my ostatní žijeme pre gýč 
kričíme  v prievane
hľadíme na svet so zákalom šedým.

Bola slobodná, tak nespútaná
na rozdiel od nás všetkých
čo sme tam stáli, obrnení nudou.
nudou na recept, nedovoliac prúdom,
elektrickým prúdom vytriasť z nás upätosť
ustrnutí v čase, v zmätku, v plači sveta
infikovaným, hrdzavým príborom krájame si zivot.


Hudba a text: Laura Zitna

Abstraktná

Text tejto krásnej, hravej, milej vianočnej pesničky napísal môj otec, keď som bola malá. Napísal ju vtedy pre Dana Junasa, ktorý ju zhudobnil veľmi pekným spôsobom, je čarovnuá, krásna melódia, prevedenie, detský zbor. Je to moja najobľúbenejšia vianočná pesnička, pretože je taká iná, nie je to každoročné otravné vianočné patetické klišé, ktoré sa na nás repetitívne valí z rádií vo vianočnom období, až toho máme už dosť, táto pieseň je taká "neokukaná", hravá so slovami, milý príbeh, plný fantázie a čarovnej predstavivosti, v dospelosti som si na ňu spomenula a chcela som ju urobiť tak po svojom. :)

Mráz má dlaň prstov päť
Na každom inoväť
Vyhnal ich do ulíc
Zinovovať pár líc
Aj nám dal autogram svoj
Na nose máš ohňostroj
V mori bielych závejov
Svieti tvoj nos
Nádejou

Sme iba ty a ja
V tichej hre na maják
Tak šepkám poď nech ti
Zaleziem pod nechty
Do prstov premrznutých
Vkĺzne môj horúci dych
Pre tú službu náročnú
Anjel vzlietol na nočnú
Aby strážil túto chvíľu
Vianočnú

REF:
Mráz belasý
S tým súhlasí
Sám odletí
Cestou píska pieseň v mol
Kdesi tiež vraj má svoj stôl
Prestretý

text: Milan Zitny
Hudba: Dano Junas

Dano Junas - Vianočná pieseň (cover by Laura Zitna)

Welcome home, stop hiding
welcome home and see the lights
I can feel the weight of the years
Take off your shoes and walk with me

Simple life? Never, never, never.
Look how high we have climbed the trees
Look how hard we've been trying 
to reach beyond our bravest dreams

And then you smile while sipping your red wine
And you recite that favourite poem of mine
And you describe the world through art
And I’m alive

You and I not made to take
the usual pathways, you see 
You are the one who once found me
under the rose, smiling through thorns

Simple life? Never, never, never.
We are the ones craving to touch the stars
So walk with me and never, never, never leave me
This is our home, our rebirth
It's beautiful and dangerous

And then I smile while sipping my red wine
And I recite that favourite poem of mine
And I describe the world through art
And I’m alive

Music & lyrics by Laura Zitna

Alive

CHVRCHES - Downside of me (cover by Laura Zitna)

Love stream running in your veins
flushed by unexpected waves
the lights have faded out

Days are passing slowly
I see you dreaming only
have you ever come to life
where is your blood?

Are you going home
as the sadness of it all is naked
and the truth it doesn’t shine like gold? 
The low desires,
ordinary fires
offering so much less 
(but) demanding all yout life

And we are here, just flesh and blood

And if my voice will ever sound so empty
and you’ll hear me say that its ok
you’ll know im coming back to join
their day by day survining
in their silence, drowning in their silence
no more blood

Love me as I love you 
don’t stop let’s turn into 
memorable beauty
Let’s feel our flesh and blood

music & lyrics by Laura Zitna

Blood

My mind is fast, my thoughts are galloping
while my body does not reflect the storm, it lays still.
You can’t see on the outside, no you can’t see from the outside
my racing thoughts calling me to take unexpected journey.

I own the world tonight, I’m gonna ride
wildest horses, my wings unfurled, no you can’t keep up
I need to go to experience life
with my racing thoughts calling me to take unexpected journey.

Racing thoughts and you can't keep up.
Racing thoughts and you can't keep up.

That look in your eyes, like you are really scared.
No you can’t share the beauty of this cycling pleasure and pain.
Your pitying smile and caring hand 
won’t stop me from taking the unexpected journey.

And if I get tired, I know you will be there
when I crawl on the floor I know you will be there
to carry me to bed of my fears and doubts
and I won’t wake up for 7 days, no I won’t wake up,
and I won’t brush my hair and my mind will be dark
for quite some time I won’t be myself,
and my life will be dancing on the edge of a knife
with racing thoughts calling me to take an unexpected journey

music & lyrics by Laura Zitna

Unexpected journey

Sometimes I wish there was heaven
or some other place of eternal bliss
where we could just flow
or stand in silence
forever weightless
screening our memories
that we could have built together
if everything was different,
if only you and I have had 
actually met, actually met.

Sometimes I dare myself to fall in love
and feel the magic of momentary bliss,
and I feel so brave 
cause I think I've grown so wise
swearing I won't let it break me 
this time or ever again
Cause this time I have it all 
so well planned in my head
only waking up to face the pain
cause love is never enough,
there's always something else 
I don’t seem to get, I don’t seem to get.

Sometimes I drink too much wine to feel 
the lightness of my own existence
and I find heaviness also beautiful
but it's something you don't understand.
So I pretend to be simple, oh I pretend 
to be merry and bright
I try to be happy 
over my constantly heavy heart
to please the crowd

Put on that record and play it loud for me
let's just laugh 
and avoid the dangerous game.
Let's keep the solid ground under our feet,
Let’s play it safe 
and never touch each other's hearts 
too deep.
Cause we don't know 
where it could lead us
are we cowards, are we  scared
to let ourselves fall into deep?
We know that in the end
we’ll both run away, run away

And then it hits me, it hits me so hard 
during cigarette break at the office
we’re scared to make the move 
to get closer
so I imagine our story in my head
while our bodies screaming for the touch 
it seems safe to stay carefully away
So I nervously smoke and smile 
then write down all the words
I dare not say out loud

music & lyrics by Laura Zitna

Love is never enough

from the distance
I am watching
under the stars
I am watching
you walk the earth
you’re like a ghost 
I’ll never touch

I love you, hear me out
I’m see-through, open for your knife 
I love you, hear me out
I’m see-through, I dare to die

from the distance
I am loving 
your pale cheeks
your see-through skin
you praise the earth
you’re like the statue 
I’ll never kiss

music & lyrics by Laura Zitna

See-through

In times like these will you hold my hand?
In times like these when no one else is around  
And we are still standing side by side.

Our loneliness is, it is the price
In times like these when fascists they rise 
They take over the streets of our homes
And the crowds are hungry for some heads to be chopped off
In times like these
In times of violence
We meet again

And in the end will you choose silence?
Will you be comfortable living that way?
Will I keep riding till the very end?
I want you to join me before it’s too late
In times of violance

Our loneliness is, it is the price
In times like these when fascists they rise 
they take over the minds of our young ones
and the history’s raped by the alternative facts
 
In times like these
In times of ignorance
We meet again.

And in the end will you choose silence?
Will you be comfortable living that way?
Will I keep riding till the very end?
I want you to join me before it’s too late.
In times like these
In times of violence
Where will we be?
Where will we chose to stand?

And in the end will we choose silence?
Will we be comfortable living that way?

In times like these

Under the lonely sun,
frames burned alive.
Under every fragile cloud,
forget me now.

Ooo, 
Let me go.
Ooo.

Under the perfect sky,
I don’t feel alive.
Under every rule and fight,
tonight is the night.

Ooo, 
(when)dreams they flow.
Ooo.

And I will step outside from the crowd
And I will speak my mind out loud
And if there is no common ground
Don’t shut me out, cause my voice counts

Ooo, 
Let me go.
Ooo,
I need to go.

music&lyrics by Laura Zitna

Voice

with arms outstretched I am leaning 
towards the lake, I am screaming
I will be here I will be calling 
I will be here while you are falling  
to the dark side

you’ll follow, you’ll follow them
armed with knives and axes
born in a social media world
becoming the absolute judges

you scream and shout, you are reaching the crowd
forcing your truth you are preaching
and labelling those who are not 
in line with you
and labelling those who are not 
there with you

you’ll follow, you’ll follow them
armed with knives and axes
you’ll follow, you will hold the grudges 
making friends with mad and hollowed
you will follow
you’re the absolute judges
you will cast the stones, 
you’re pathetic heroes, 
holding childish grudges

music&lyrics by Laura Žitná

Absolute judges

Vyrušuje ťa môj neprítomný pohľad
Sužuje ťa môj neprítomný pohľad
Desí ťa, desí ťa smrť na dohľad
Desí ťa, desí ťa v mojej duši poklad.

Preto udieraš silnejšie.

Nereagujem už na tvoj vreskot.
Nereagujem na denno denný treskot.
Je mi jedno, čo si myslia susedia.
Všetci sa tvária, že o ničom nevedia.

V noci ležím, unikám do diaľky.
Krvou podliate verše schovávam do šálky.
Ozveny ticha a nezáujmu, sklopených očí. 
Obete vedia, kde pomoc nenájdu, 
veď kto by dnes na to skočil?

Nič sa nestalo, nikto neverí
Nič sa nestalo, bol to len úder do dverí.
Nič sa nestalo, kde sa stala chyba?
Kde je linka dôvery? Okolo nás len pochyba.

Ukryjem stopy pod šatami
Make-up-om zatriem vnútornú spupnosť. 
Až sa raz odvážim a otvorím ústa,
Bude to len nehorázna drzosť.

Násilie sa nestalo, nikto neverí.
Nič sa nestalo, bol to len úder do dverí.
Nič sa nestalo, kde sa stala chyba?
Kde je linka dôvery? Okolo nás len pochyba.

Music&lyrics by Laura Zitna

Nič sa nestalo

music and writing songs is a great form of self-expression. escape from everyday routine. it's fun, it's feelings, it's the imagination, it's freedom, it's beauty. it's all those stories we get to hear through music. here is my little contribution, thanks for stopping by to listen.

Laura Zitna

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