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Love And Truth And Death And Dancing

CD/digital
Release: May 14th 2010
Label: Riptide Recordings
Distribution: Cargo Records

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Trackist:

01 Hold it in
02 Moonlight Smile
03 The Darkest Of All Places
04 House By The Sea
05 Little Letter
06 Ticking Clock
07 This Will Last
08 Recognize
09 Heart Of Our Museum
10 Sea Of Sadness

Credits:

Vocals, guitar and violin by Anna Roskinski
Guitar, synthesizer and additional vocals by Philipp Schwartz
Bass and additional vocals by André Tietje
Drums and percussion by Jan Frederik Vogt

Synthesizer on Heart Of Our Museum by Jan-Frederic Goltz

All songs written and produced by The Roskinski Quartett
Lyrics by Anna Roskinski

Recorded by Jan Frederik Vogt and Philipp Schwartz at Doppelkarten Studio, Braunschweig 2009
Mixed by Simon Beizai at Ballsaal Studios, Berlin 2009
Mastered by UE Nastasi at Sterling Sound, New York 2010
Artwork by Anne-Katrin Ahrens

Lyrics:

Hold it in

There´s a time to hesitate
Concentrate on that
Lay down at the side
Hold your hands too tight

There´s a time to concentrate
Never looking back
Lay down at your side
Then hold it in there in there

All the moments that we share
Share it all inside
Leave it all behind
Then hold it in there in there

As you turn to consequence
Late the other day
More than all the light
Then put it in there in there

Moonlight Smile

I´ll stop the night,
To make it right
Make last a while
Your moonlight smile

It´s not too bright to reveal your teeth
Your teeth look so fine
No, it shows me the light that shines underneath
Which I´ll never, never dare to make mine

I´ll stop the night,
To make it right
Make last a while
Your moonlight smile

Could anyone prevent the sun from rising
And I feel, and I feel
The world becomes a different place by now
And your heart changes to stone.

The Darkest of all the Places

How many days has the week
The children play hide and seek
Searching for the new
Who are you, who are you

And the garden becomes a maze
The darkest of all the places
We have seen before
Show me more, show me more

I´m caught in my head
Save the good from the bad
The black from the white
Inner and outside
I tried really hard
to keep things apart but see:
That it´s all in me

House by the Sea

There´s a house
By the sea
Look inside
What you see
Is a room
You once knew
When you thought
Thoughts were true

Throw the past
Over board
What you were
What you thought
You forget
You forgot
Who you were
What you´re taught

The waves are rolling into town
Water falls, I´m gonna drown
It´s over now, over now
The waves are rolling into town
The place we knew is going down
It´s over now, over now

Little Letter

Late at night
You are at my door
Counting days
Tell me what´s the score
And all I see is your eyes

Four days back
Or the day before
Saw you there
Lying on the floor
And all I hear is your voice

Well, can´t you see
It´s all in me
And every little letter has a word
Then its sound is so whole
And once spoken
Then it´s alright, alright, alright

Late at night
The town outside my door
I hesitate
Then take my chance to grow

Well, can´t you see
It´s all in me
And every little letter has a word
Then its sound is so whole
And once spoken
Then it´s alright, alright, alright
This town is even bigger than our world

Ticking Clock

Where´s the end and where´s the start
When I ask I ask a lot
Will I ever get replies
To so many why´s

Cause the ever ticking clock
Becomes a little louder
It´s the ever ticking clock
You hear

All about the other side
More than you should know
Seasons change, we´re in the loop
People come and go

More than you, more than I
It lurks in every space
Something that we can´t define
That never shows it´s face

And the ever ticking clock
Becomes a little louder
It´s the ever ticking clock
You hear

This will last

Whatever comes between us
You should know
There´s a reason
For that all
More than that
More than all
Saw it rising
Now see it fall

Whatever comes between us
This will last
There´s a column
On that we rest
From the south
From the north
We are coming
To take it all

All, it´s all between us
All, it´s all between us
All, it´s all between us

Recognize

It´s time to take my seat
On the train of compromise
Following the beat
And leave behind the good advice

The landscape doesn´t change
More like a change in my own sight
With putting glasses on
Shapes will make a sense in time

There´s a time to recognize

You got me on your knees
All the way back down again
And pulled me off my feet
Twenty seconds back in time

There´s a time to recognize
Twenty seconds back in time

All the way back down
All the way back down

Heart of our Museum

Two rooms
Orphaned and old
Naked
Their soul to be sold

It seems like someone else is
Living here instead
The heart of our museum`s dead

The windows
Are opened to shout
That all of
Her life has gone out

And all of our plans have been changing
In the war
And all of our plans they
change

Sea of Sadness

Beautiful thoughts invade my heart and touch my soul
You say a storm will come and cover them with snow
And on that day I wonder how the snow will smell
I guess, there ain´t nobody who can tell

Our conversations used to end up causing pain
When every word you said was like a drop of rain
Flowing along my veins invade my heart an so
Letting the sea of sadness grow

But still you´re heaven send
And you´re my confident
And everyone who´s living life as acting on a stage
Shows me how the world still loves its cage

Beautiful thoughts invade my heart and touch my soul
You say a storm will come and cover them with snow
And on that day I wonder how the snow will taste
I guess, that thought was born to die and waste