1. |
Best Listener
03:21
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Faira - Best Listener
I wasn’t sure I made the right choice
Leaving you felt so wrong
And we tried the best we could
Life always goes on
Nothing here seems possible enough
To get over what we had
Noone knows the weirdness of your love
Better than the one who wrote this song
I’m not trying to forget anything
I’m rather trying remembering
That I’d already missed you
Before you were gone
Who’s ever sure to make a right choice
Even when just ordering
When the appetite is lost
Life still goes on
When I decided to see you as a bear
curled up in its’ winter sleep
Me the bird forgot to flap its’ wings
In the cold
noone keeps a mystery alive
Like you when you’re just saying hi
When you bow out you wish us all a good life
As though you’re ready for a last goodbye
I want to call you the riddle of my life
But knowing there’s no solving
I try to at least be near you enough
to receive any puzzle you’d like to
propose and by being your best listener
I’m keeping you close
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2. |
Warm Feet
02:07
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Faira - Warm Feet
Warm Feet
knee deep
in liquid fire
I take my brand new connection
to the outer world
hold it to my ear
and hear nothing
Oh, I haven't learned enough to not be sorry
for all of the feelings I have had
And my thoughts are worthy enough to be spoken
meaningless enough to stay untold
Warm Feet
knee deep
in liquid fire
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3. |
Hautensilien
03:08
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Faira - Hautensilien
Lediglichterminologisiert
Papierlichtrockennst du mich?
Magst and der Wandenwanderungenau mich
Sehennen weinen um die weißen Unberührten
Im Enthaltsamkeiterblasentimental
Angenehmeinebensächlichkeiterminologischt auf der Haut
Gischt
Gischt
Gischt
Gestrandetwasserbedeckt die Haut
Die Haut
Die Haut
Die Hautensilientdeckt
entdeckt
entdeckt
Die Wogenzlichterlohgischt auf der Haut
Der Herbst du mütterlich Schmerz?
Der Windirekt erschwert
Erschwert
Erschwert
Essche istorch Heutempel viel zu vielleicht
Eine Freundinsel neulenweiß
Geschriebendlichter macht mit
Macht mit
Macht mit
Macht mit
Die Machtsamkeitransparent
Er rennt
Er rennt
Ein Bogenzlichterlohblied auf dein Haupt
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4. |
Fireflies and Bats
05:08
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Faira - Fireflies and Bats
What a year to die
What a year to die, my friend
Have you gotten the call I never gave you?
When you wake at night
To your baby’s cry, my friend
Do you feel indifferent to the world outside?
What a year to die
What if all I try to mend
Will break in the end
What a thought to depend on
I won’t wear your shirt
I won’T wear your shirt tonight
I’m wearing Gina’s
It doesn’t make me sad
I stopped thinking today
I thought it might help
I stopped shaving when I was nineteen
Now eight years have passed
And three lovers have left
But my friends have stayed and my body hair has
And will I survive
Will I then survive this year
Like my sisters and my brothers have
(Just a little less depressed)
Have you ever been any other age than twenty-seven?
„Since a child“ you say
„Ever since a child“ you say
And will it always stay the same for you
Do you smell those nights
Dark and damp beneath our feet
Barely seeing ourselves or the other
(Fireflies and Bats)
I do smell those nights
Everytime I pass a park
Or any other place we’ve once set foot in
When I age another year
When I turn twenty-eight
Brother, please tell me
It will stop hurting and be okay
Cause I guess I won’t die
I guess I won’t die before
Can’t say I’m scared anymore
I love you so much
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5. |
Obviously Enough
02:16
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Faira - Obviously Enough
Obviously enough
you try to sell wisdom
and you don't even blush
I'd like to meet your grandmother.
Did you learn from her mistakes?
I first believed you were wise
and that fate had brought me here
to bring me your advise
But after three days I know you're not.
You might see things we don't
but there's something else you've got
I don't even think you're as close to your heart as you show.
But aren't we all just looking for a way to seem tall?
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6. |
Age Old Mourning
02:30
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Faira - Age Old Mourning
I got up this morning
With more than hope in my chest
No more age old mourning
I won’t forget it
But I see through it now
I’ve always been miserable enough to write
I’ve been I love with hopelessness half of my life
I took its’ hand when I was fourteen
And didn’t let go off
My heart grew smaller, weaker with each year
I saw a grey horizon
A dried out land coming near
Lovingly I placed my head on the ground
Stared towards the nothing I had found
Mistook it for comfort cause it didn’t dare me,
because it didn’t scare me
I fixed my gaze
And I’m learning so much now from the trees
From the pain in my back, from the warm spring breeze
And what might feel like
loosing the part of yourself
you chose to be your form
But what makes you?
Who are you?
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7. |
The Falcon
04:25
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Faira - The Falcon
The falcon came and took away
The rest of the family
No escape and no mercy
No mercedes benz
incrompehensable stuttering
Irreversible change
Saliva as the last part of them
That mights still stay the same
Cameron you giant curse
Did you come straight from hell?
And what else did you create
Than regression in perfection
And how far must you have been
from any life within?
How old were you when you
began to stop acting humane?
It was green, dark green
And red, blood red
Your worked clean, so clean
They are dead, dead
You the teacher of torture
Your words are spread so wide
And falcons sang your song’s encore
Until the world seemed white and blank enough for a rebirth
Blank enough for a rebirth
The most painful and bloody one
The world has ever seen
But sadly
Not the last
of its kind
Cameron, did you forget
To play them enough tapes?
Teaching them to be
good housewives, husbands, citizens?
You the teacher of torture
Your words are spread so wide
And falcons sang your song’s encore
Until the world seemed white and blank enough for a rebirth
Blank enough for a rebirth
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8. |
In a Room
02:23
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Faira - In a Room
Mom said I’d lost all the good men
And secretly I agree
In secrecy I keep my loved one now
Far from their judgement is he
He’s not what you would call social
Talkative he may be
Friendly, polite ans well-behaved
Respectfully impersonal
My father as any father
In his generation
dosen’t know how to connect with his feeling
So doesn’t my love
And in the love I am seeking in his
I’m secretly craving my father’s
I’m throwing the petals I’m finding
Into his black sleeping pond
No sign remains
No circle is drawn
By the petals I’m lovingly throwing
I know he’s not wishing for petals
He’s not wishing for much
To be left alone in a wooden room
Not to be called or be touched
I’m keeping my love for him in a room
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9. |
My Grandmother's Teeth
03:13
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Faira - My Grandmother’s Teeth
Have you ever had a longer talk with your grandma than this?
Have you ever noticed the loss of memory closer than this?
I’d say her brain still functions well - she jokes about her death
Her smile hasn’t grown too tired yet, she talks well about her teeth
Her daughter came back to her after fifty-five years
Asking for the reason why she had disappeared
No-one will ever know why her arms were never open wide
I never liked her as a kid, I never liked her.
And my mother told me I shouldn’t even feel that
That I should love her no matter
Have you ever had a better talk with your mother than this?
The words we share couldn’t fill a book, still she understands me
She’s having dreams of us kids since before we were born
And in her dreams now we’re still children - each of us a different age
Sometimes I’d like to go back to my mother’s womb
Let me go home
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10. |
Stiffen Up
04:11
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Faira - Stiffen Up
Stiffen up! Why aren’t you scared?
Open your ears, cover mouth and eyes
Hold your breath before you come near
Check before you leave if the air is clear
Shame on you, Ignorant fool!
Seeking truth in an endless pool
Of news articles, interviews
Quiet now, I try to read!
Don’t leave the house
Don’t think too loud
Paralyzed by the length of the night
A shelter she provides
Morning breaks, come what may
Mirror, please show me nothing today
Loosen up.
Lose your fear.
Silence your thoughts
Open your eyes and breathe
What you see is so far from me
Luckily very far from me
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faira Germany
Faira is the folk-experimental project of singer, songwriter and guitarist Sophia Spies (DE). Through her understanding of songwriting, she creates a powerful imagery that finds its expression through classical and playful arrangements on the guitar and very unconventional song structures. Faira’s music is a balancing act between impelled somberness and careful glee. ... more
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