Songaweek.org Week 31 
Theme: LOL



C
Most of the things I say
        Em
are only partly true
Am
which you don't know yet
F                          C
but I will try to sway you 
            G
to bring me home to you

C
Most of the things I say
        Em
are in the evening right
Am
in the morning they are wrong

F                          C
but I will try to sway you
            G
to bring me home to you


F
when you laugh out loud
E7
and see through my game
Am7 G F
these words still prove true:
C                               G
there is one thing I don't feign
C        F 
I love you
C        F 
I love yououououou
C        F 
I love you      

All that I do is
imposturous make believe
which you don't know yet
but I will try to sway you 
to bring me home to you

All that I want is
that you're in love with me
you may know by now
and I will try to sway you 
to bring me home to you

2x
F
when you laugh out loud
Bm7, E7?
and see through my game
Am7 G F
these words still prove true:
C                               G
there is one thing I don't feign
C        F 
I love you
C        F 
I love yououououou
C        F 
I love you

Sway you

Week 32 (For me it's week #2)
songaweek.org Theme: No uncertain Terms
r/songaweek Theme: Road Trip

A7           B7
Firing up the engine
on a sunday night
i know where I'm headed
everything's alright

Fm                       E7             A7
There is nothing but the way on my mind
it's the road myself the time and the light

The radio is playing
The best bloc party song
the steering wheel is dancing
fingers tap along

the road marking is glowing
a sign shows I went far
but I don't care bout traveltime
I love it in my car

Fm                       E7             A7
There is nothing but the way on my mind
it's the road myself the time and the light

         D              E7
It's the warm and fiery morning sky
        A7              A7->
that's guarding my goodbye
I am coming please don't wait
I'll take my time


A7           B7
Leaving home is easy
with cuuuriousity
I think the world is waiting
a concrete fantasy

Fm                       E7             A7
There is nothing but the way on my mind
it's the road myself the time and the light

The truck drivers are greeting
Am I now one of them?
I feel like I am flying
smelling gasoline

The towns that I am passing 
have names I can't pronounce
but I don't need coordinates
I am straight southbound

Fm                       E7             A7
There is nothing but the way on my mind
it's the road myself the time and the light

         D              E7
It's the warm and fiery morning sky
        Fm                A7->
that's guarding my goodbye
I am coming please don't wait
I'll take my time

         D              E7
It's the warm and fiery morning sky
        Fm              F#
that's guarding my goodbye
        A7               C
I am coming please don't wait
E7              A
I'll take my time

The Road, Myself, the Time, and the Light

Songaweek Week 34
songaweek.org theme: Shape of your shadow
r/songaweek theme: Reverb

Aren't we peculiar 
Aren't we estranged
Aren't we indifferent
Aren't we unchanged


The look on your face 
The shape of your shadow
A twisted projection of your soul
The gestures you make
The sound of your echo
A twisted projection of your soul


2x
Please tell me 
what you think  and
Please show me
what you got
I'm on the
brink of losing hope

For gooo_ooood


Aren't we audacious
Aren't we afraid
Aren't we imprudent
Aren't we astray

Shape of your shadow

Week 35

Theme r/songaweek: Theme Song
Theme songaweek.org: Batter up

Inspired by the true events that are reported on reddit.com/r/legalcatadvice every single day. This was a lot of fun. Puns intended. I'm on vacation and only had my laptops built-in microphone to record, so please excuse the noise and record quality. 

She's a cat with a legal degree
She'll help you out for just a tuna fee

She's a champ and wins every case
she will always smell a fishy trace

Did your servant step on your tail late at night
have you been catnapped and injected by some guy
Advocat
your purrfect legal catadvice
Advocat
the pawyer with cute disney eyes

does your human not appreciate dead mice
or is your cardboardbox of improper small size
Advocat
Ad vo cat


She's a well educated miss
She'll stand by you in conflicts with the pawlice
She's a smart legal buff and cares 
She'll try your lazy human if it dares  

Did your foot start to hit you in the face
have you been drugged with catnip don't be ashamed
Advocat
your purrfect legal catadvice
Advocat
the pawyer with cute disney eyes

is your human an encroaching disgrace
than better batter up and call for the safe:
Advocat
Advocat

Advocat

Im in Berlin for a workshop. No instruments with me and only three hours overall to work on something. :)

Songaweek Week 37
Theme r/songaweek :Anything but 4/4
Theme songaweek.org: No one but you

All Heading Lost

SongAWeek 2025 Week 1
Theme: The passing of time

Lyrics (see below for english translation):

Ich tropfe,
seit du weg bist,
Sekunden,
auf mein gebrochnes Herz

Zeit heilt alle Wunden sagt man,
doch neun von zehn der Schmerz

Geh geh geh Zeit vergeh,
Zeit vergeh

Unser Zeitgeist,
sitzt neben mir,
und nagt,
an dem was einmal war

Zeit ist der beste Lehrer sagt man,
doch gute Schüler rar

Geh geh geh Zeit vergeh,
Zeit vergeh

---

I drip,
since you’ve been gone,
seconds,
onto my broken heart.

Time heals all wounds, they say,
but nine out of ten the pain.

Go go go, time pass,
time pass.

Our spirit of the times,
sits next to me,
and gnaws,
at what once was.

Time is the best teacher, they say,
but good students are rare.

Go go go, time pass,
time pass.

Zeitgeist

SongAWeek #3 2025

Ich starre oft in den Spiegel,
und seh mich doch nicht von hinten.
Ich weiß nur wer ich bin,
weil mich andere finden.

Zwischen Baum und Borke,
In der schaukelnden Krone,
Sitz ich warm und geborgen,
weil ich hier bei mir wohne

Ich hör die Stimmen im Kopf
und mein' Kopf in den Stimmen
Wellen tosen in mir
und ich tos in den Wellen

Ich bleib ruhig in der Angst,
und die Angst ruhig in mir,
ich lass mich nicht mehr los
denn ich bleib
hier
mit mir

Ich kann den eigenen Kopf,
mit meinen Augen nicht sehen,
doch ich glaub er ist da,
weil so viele mit ihm reden

Zwischen Baum und Borke,
In der schaukelnden Krone,
Sitz ich warm und geborgen,
weil ich hier bei mir wohne

----

English translation:
Verse
I often stare into the mirror,
and yet I don’t see myself from behind.
I only know who I am,
because others find me.

Between bark and tree,
In the swaying crown,
I sit warm and secure,
because I live here with myself.

Chorus
I hear the voices in my head
and my head in the voices.
Waves crash within me
and I crash in the waves.

I stay calm in the fear,
and the fear stays calm in me,
I won’t let go anymore
because I stay
here
with myself.

Bridge
As long as I am here
I am here
with myself.

Verse
I can’t see my own head,
with my eyes,
but I believe it’s there,
because so many talk to it.

Between bark and tree,
In the swaying crown,
I sit warm and secure,
because I live here with myself.

Chorus

Kopf

Song A Week #4 Theme: Dorian

Ohne Dich  
bewegt sich nichts  
Ein Punkt ohne Veränderung

Ohne Dich  
bemerkt man nichts  
Ein Traum ohne Erinnerung

Um dich  
ändert sich die Welt im Takt  
die Stille weicht,  
der Boden bebt

Geh mit mir  
wenn du sie neu erschaffst  
die Welt zu deinen Füßen  
und

Reich mir deine Hand

Nimm mich mit ins Besondere  
Nimm mich mit ins Besondere

Denn was uns jetzt fehlt  
ist jemand der geht                    

Nur mit Dir  
sehen wir  
in eine Welt mit Zuversicht

Nur mit Dir  
bleiben wir  
im Herzen weich, im Stand noch fest

---

Without You
nothing moves
A point without change

Without You
nothing is noticed
A dream without memory

Around you
the world changes to the beat
the silence gives way,
the ground shakes

Come with me
when you create it anew
the world at your feet
and

give me your hand

Take me into the unusual
Take me into the unusual

For what we lack now
is someone who leads
 

Only with you
do we see
a world with hope

Only with you
do we remain
soft at heart, still firm in stance

Ins Besondere

Song A Week 5/52
Theme: Unconventional choices

Verse 1 

Die Koffer gepackt,  
hysterisches Lachen,  
(sind) dem Wahnsinn entflohen,  
(haben) den Schreck noch im Nacken.  

Aufbruch im Nachtlicht,  
dem Morgen entgegen,  
was finst’res im Auto,  
nicht zu Hause geblieben

Chorus

Wir wissen wie wir dort hinkommen,  
aber nicht als wer - zurück

Verse 2

Jede Übernachtung,  
ausländische Kunst,  
das Ziel liegt vor Augen,  
der Schatten neben uns

Wir nehmen die letzte Düne,  
vor uns der Ozean,  
das Düstre jetzt am Horizont  
immer wieder uns im Arm

Chorus 

Wir wissen wie wir dort hinkommen,  
aber nicht als wer - zurück

B - Teil

Ich lieg in der Sonne am Strand und ich weine  
dein Kopf im Dunkeln, du hier, ich alleine.

Was wir jetzt beide beide noch nicht wissen  
wir werden uns bald  
unendlich vermissen.

---

English translation:

Verse 1
The suitcases packed,
hysterical laughter,
escaped from madness,
still feeling the fright.

Departure in night’s light,
heading towards dawn,
something dark in the car,
didn’t stay at home.

Chorus
We know how to get there,
but not as who – we'll return.

Verse 2
Every night on the road,
foreign art,
the goal is in sight,
the shadow next to us.

We take the last dune,
the ocean ahead,
the darkness now on the horizon,
sometimes holding us in its arms.

Chorus
We know how to get there,
but not as who – we'll return.

B-Part
I lie in the sun on the beach and I cry,
your head in the dark, you here, me alone.

What we both don’t know yet,
we’ll soon miss each other
infinitely.

Ich liege in der Sonne am Strand

Song a week #6 2025

The distant sound of a radio
honing in on my waking mind
the day is breaking
i brace myself for impact.

Morning news and the weather
shooting stars behind closed eyes
deadlines looming
I carry every worry

My blanket heavier than gravity allows
my head is clouded by worries and old doubts

asking 
how how how
saying 
no no no
please don't go

wiggling toes under linen
an act of will on the other side
ancient debt of life
demands repayment

My blanket heavier than gravity allows
my head is clouded by worries and old doubts

asking 
how how how
saying 
no no no
please don't go

Soles touching ground
longing to hide
gone out to come back at night

How  How How

A Song A Week #7 Theme: Lydian

what if
I fail?
what if
I bail?

you cannot take a step without a ground

Could I, should I,
everything still feels the same
Could I, should I,
everything still feels the same

You cannot build a house without a wall
you cannot start a run without a halt

what if
I fail?
what if
I bail?

you cannot crown a king without a throne

Could I, should I,
everything still feels the same
Could I, should I,
everything still feels the same

you cannot hold your breath without a mouth
you cannot light a fire without some warmth

What If

Song A Week #8 Theme: Betrayal

You promised
promised your yes, to make me your man
you left in a hurry
A wake of pain along the way

the years with you were still on display in my shrine of loving memories

could you really not have meant them?
the words you said on that day?
could we really not have changed them?
the things that made you go away.
If only you had known

It's hard to,
believe that you don't, need me by your side,
you said you had tried though,
it seemed like a lie when I looked in your eyes

I'm left with a ring, that I cannot wear, look at or sell or return

could you really not have meant them?
the words you said on that day?
could we really not have changed them?
the things that made you go away.
If only you had known

Now that the ring is buried,
and the shrine restored anew
I'm happy 
and I hope you are too

could you really not have meant them?
the words you said on that day?
could we really not have changed them?
the things that made you go away.
If only you had known

If Only You Had Known

A song about quantum physics, reality and the search for a love, that’s both alive and elusive, like Schrödinger’s cat.

Have you heard about Schrödinger,
a pretty smart guy,
he put cats in tiny boxes,
let them live and let them die

that's actually not what happened,
but I'm tryin to prove a point,
the world is pulled into existence,
by observations of our minds.

What I'm telling you,
is I don't have a clue, girl,
how I'd go about finding you.

We haven't even met, 
baby let me detect 
if you're dead or alive
let me tunnel you to my side

We haven't even met, 
baby let me detect 
if you're dead or alive

If you won't like me, then I can guarantee,
more than a wavefunction will collapse


What is it a detector does?
maybe it's quantum love. 
a gentle touch of decoherence,
there's nothing else I ask

And if you like Copenhagen,
we'll visit it in time,
bye bye superposition
you are past your prime.

Please entangle me, so that we'll always be,
in a steady phase of love

We haven't even met, 
baby let me detect 
if you're dead or alive
let me tunnel you to my side

We haven't even met, 
baby let me detect 
if you're dead or alive

If you won't like me, then I can guarantee,
more than a wavefunction will collapse

Song a Week #9 2025

Quantum Love

Song A Week 2025 #10 Theme: Phrygian

I sang love songs,
they were all so wrong.
What they promised,
never came along.

I sang melodies of love and truth,
waiting for the day that I'll meet you.

But love is a game,
that I can't seem to win.

I wait and have faith
and I try and I smile
and start again.

I'm quiet and I fight
and I lie and I cry
and fail again.

If love's all we need,
then I'm incomplete.

I chased longings,
they all led me wrong.
What I yearned for,
never came along.

I made wishes full of love and truth,
waiting for the day that I'll meet you.

But love is a game,
that I can't seem to win.

I wait and have faith
and I try and I smile
and start again.

I'm quiet and I fight
and I lie and I cry
and fail again.

If love's all we need,
then I'm incomplete.

I'm still wishing for a chance
to try someday again.
It's fairly hard to cope,
but I'm naive enough to hope.

I wait and have faith
and I try and I smile
and start again.

I'm quiet and I fight
and I lie and I cry
and fail again.

If love's all we need,
then I’m incomplete.

If love's all we need,
then let us repeat.

If Love Is All We Need

Song A Week #11 2025

Anxious Kind of Love

Baby you and me
We are meant to be
But we've got some anxious kind of love

It cautiously awaits
Every step we take
Yeah we’ve got some anxious kind of love

Please let’s set it free
Let’s talk you and me

You and me darling
Tend to overthink
Yeah we’ve got some anxious kind of love

It's feeding off our fear
Listen close my dear
Yeah we’ve got some anxious kind of love

Too quick a move
Too loud a word
It flees away alone and unheard
Yeah we've got some anxious kind of love

Too rough a stroke
Too long no kiss
It runs away all scared by the risk
Yeah we’ve got some anxious kind of love

Please let’s set it free
Let’s talk you and me

Anxious Kind of Love

Nach dem Gedicht von Rainer Maria Rilke (19.1.1898, Berlin-Grunewald)

Vor lauter Lauschen und Staunen sei still,
du mein tieftiefes Leben;
dass du weisst, was der Wind dir will,
eh noch die Birken beben.

Und wenn dir einmal das Schweigen sprach,
lass deine Sinne besiegen.
Jedem Hauche gieb dich, gieb nach,
er wird dich lieben und wiegen.

Und dann meine Seele sei weit, sei weit,
dass dir das Leben gelinge,
breite dich wie ein Feierkleid
über die sinnenden Dinge.

Translation available here:

https://lyricstranslate.com/de/vor-lauter-lauschen-und-staunen-sei-still-be-quiet-consumed-listening-and-awe.html

Song A Week 12, Theme: Poetry

Vor lauter Lauschen und Staunen sei still

Hours have been passing,
but the night sky still glows blue
as if the world were shaken,
and the sea hurled up onto
the heavy dripping aether

And from there falls salty rain,
until the heavens drained,
and I can swim again.

Stars sail like dreams on velvet
don't reach for them tonight,
or ripples grow and bolster,
stir up and down to fight
from heavy dripping aether

And from there falls salty rain,
until the heavens drained,
and I can swim again.

The nightsky won't get darker,
but deeper gets the sea,
and with darkening hue they're fading,
the sinking memories

And from there falls salty rain,
until the heavens drained,
and I can swim again.

Song A Week 13 2025

Salty Rain

Dinosaurs and Meteors

Life is changing
most of the time,
but if you are near me,
I’m fine.

Hope’s not dying
most of the time.
I’ll be right here with you—
it’s fine.

Glowing fragments in the night,
we turn towards the sky,
and I’m holding your hand
while we watch the light.
We are dinosaurs,
watching meteors.
We are dinosaurs,
watching meteors,
hoping everything
will be alright.

A new era
from time to time.
There’s before and after—
it’s fine.

Glowing fragments in the night,
we turn towards the sky,
and I’m holding your hand
while we watch the light.
We are dinosaurs,
watching meteors.
We are dinosaurs,
watching meteors,
hoping everything
will be alright.

If this is what marks a new era for us,
a before and after today,
caused by a comet dividing our past
and taking the old life away—
how is it that we are the dinosaurs
and the comet at the same time?

Are we dinosaurs
or the meteors?
Are we dinosaurs
or the meteors?
Are we dinosaurs
or meteors?

Songaweek 16 2025

Dinosaurs and Meteors

You drew your dreams on my back
wrote them along my spine
I bore them, holding my breath
waiting for them to become mine

my burden took its toll
I can't hold no more

If I dreamed like you
we would still be two
If I dreamed like you
we would still be two


You brushed your hopes on my face
carved them along my eyes
I watched myself with a curious gaze
trying to hope the same - I tried

my burden took its toll
I can't hold no more

If I hoped like you
we would still be two
If I hoped like you
we would still be two


Song A Week 18 Theme: Reuse, Recycle, Repurpose

We Would Still Be Two

Written for a one person play of Alice in Wonderland

Alice

I'm a proof of concept
In general I work
The interface's not perfect
Sure has a million quirks

There're certain things that break me
The testing wasn’t great
There’s probably no manual
I’m sure you can relate

I'm a POC POC POC
A working prototype
I'm a POC POC POC
A work in progress

I'm a POC POC POC
A working prototype
I'm a POC POC POC
A proof of concept

My current project status?
No one really knows why,
Sometimes I just stop working,
Wrong button pressed – I cry

Even though I'm agile
Development is slow
Some bugs become new features
Memory allocations grow

I'm a POC POC POC
A working prototype
I'm a POC POC POC
A work in progress

Product owners cry
When they have to manage my
Requirements
And increments

Song A Week 20 2025

I'm a Proof of Concept (POC)

Lyrics:

I put my life in boxes, will be gone.
I trashed it, sold it, burned the bridges down.

Wherever I go,
I'll bring me, so
nothing means the world.

If I had to choose two things I own
to take where I'll go,
it would be the memories of you
and my guitar to play our tune.

I stripped down to the core, no more to lose,
in forward motion, head turned back to you.

I try to shake the roots
that grasp for my worn boots
and stumble blindly into what will come.

Nothing Means the World

Well great…
Now everything sucks again
When I touched your face 
I wanted to glue myself to it
And save the world, and save myself and save our fate

Well, great…
Now I won’t start to date again
You ruined it all 
by being so pretty, so funny so smart and so close


There are some things I like to remember
and some things I’d like to forget
We can’t change what keeps us sundered
Not yet


Well great,
I can’t visit the coast again
My thoughts go in tides
the flood overwhelms me, and drowns me, floats past what we lost

Well great,
Now everyone seems bland again
Say, who makes you smile?
I hope he has kind eyes, and I hope he‘s worse than I am - all at once

Well Great

The magic spell is over
It's money that I need
I pick a lot of clover
But they're all three-leaf weeds

I asked all my friends
I asked all the banks
Every investment failed
But then wisdom prevailed

Mama said to marry a rich girl
Or I'd end up poor on the street
Yeah, Mama said to marry a rich girl
And I'd have all I need

But I think more than
Rich, rich, rich
I wish, wish, wish
Her to be

Gracious and flirty
Sporty and dirty
Kind and warm-hearted
Deep into art and,
Pretty and funny,
Clever and sunny,
Deep into sci-fi
And willing to hold my
Cats while I eat

Song a week Theme "Magic Rich People"

Mama Said to Marry a Rich Girl

Verse 1
Manchmal will ich was und ich sag’s nicht,
nuschel mich von rechts nach links.
Manchmal will ich nur, dass du herschaust,
dass wir uns in die Augen sehn.

Wir laufen und laufen
und stolpern und straucheln
dahin.

Bemerken nicht, was wir schon haben,
da, wo wir sind.

Refrain
Komm, lass uns am Deich sitzen,
das Wasser tief, die Sonne hoch,
die Augen frei glitzern.
Wir bleiben hier und leben von Ebbe und Flut.

Komm, lass uns im Wind weh’n,
die Wurzeln tief, die Krone rauf.
Wir schrei’n mit den Möwen.
Ich hoffe, du willst das auch.

Verse 2
Manchmal bin ich müde und schlaf nicht,
dreh mich nur von rechts nach links.
Reiße das Fenster auf, frag mich,
was du jetzt wohl gerade denkst.


Am Deich

Songaweek Not Themed

C														G			Am
You can't judge on first sight if you like the inside of my apple pie
C									G 			Am
It may look delicious but it maybe vicious inside

F								C
I'll cut you a peace you can try 
F								C
Don't spare me you don't have to lie
G			Am
My apple pie
G			F
My apple pie

F	 G	  Am	G         F	
Take your time before you decide
F    G    Am   G    C
Take your time apple pie

C														G			Am
You may like the crust but there's more there to touch than is shown
C											G 	Am
I stopped using recipes the one that you taste is my own
F								C
I'll cut you a peace you can try 
F								C
Don't spare me you don't have to lie
G			Am
My apple pie
G			F
My apple pie

F	 G	  Am	G         F	
Take your time before you decide
F    G    Am   G    C
Take your time apple pie


C														G			Am
Ingredients aside the whole secret to my pie is time
C											G 	Am
If we store it right it will last long and always taste fine
F								C
I'll cut you a peace you can try 
F								C
Don't spare me you don't have to lie
G			Am
My apple pie
G			F
My apple pie

F	 G	  Am	G         F	
Take your time before you decide
F    G    Am   G    C
Take your time apple pie

Apple Pie

Songaweek 2017
Theme: foreign language

Gewandert 1000 Jahr,
alte Eichen,
und was machst du jetzt?

Schleich zurück zum Start
immer wartend
auf Dein
Wort aus dem Nichts

Und wenn ich morgen vor dir steh,
dein Herz im Käfig schlagen seh,
hoff' ich das du eingestehst,
das in deinem Leben ich dir fehl.

Was immer du noch finden musst,
sei dir bitte stets bewusst,
wo immer ich auch bin,
ich warte auf Dich

Etwas in mir schreit:
"komm zurück"
und was schreit der Rest

Bin ich schon so weit,
so verrückt?
Ich brauche dich jetzt

Und wenn ich morgen vor dir steh,
dein Herz im Käfig schlagen seh,
hoff' ich das du eingestehst,
das in deinem Leben ich dir fehl.

Was immer du noch finden musst,
sei dir bitte stets bewusst,
wo immer ich auch bin,
ich warte auf Dich

Ich Warte Auf Dich

Trying to write a pop song :-p
Songaweek Theme: New School

I Want You

The one of the Bremen Town Musicians that everyone forgot.

Tim Hantel

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