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At The Kitchen Table

from Requiem - Falling Out Of Time by Christoph Buchwald

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2. At The Kitchen Table
When the evening fell, the man stood up, left his soup on the table,
Said to his wife, Forgive me, I’ve got to leave.
Our boy, I hear him calling, in a language mysterious to me.
Can’t find no sleep, this nightmare keeps me wandering.
When she asked, Why, and where are you going?,
The silence in the room was tight.
At the doorstep the man said silently: I’ll walk into the night,
For a last goodbye to our beloved boy, somewhere in this universe,
Say a prayer for his gentle soul, wherever he may be. A prayer for his gentle
soul, wherever he may be.
The years gone by, it feels unreal, he’s not at our table,
No sound, no music from his empty room.
Our dear boy, I feel him waving across the river to me,
I’m heading for the place he loved to be.
Want to hear his humming, hear his breath, burn it in my timid heart,
As consolation when the flag goes up and his name’s engraved in a wall,
In line with all the underdogs, who’ve fallen out of time,
Our son and all the gentle souls, for whom the bells are tolling,
Our son and all the gentle souls, for whom the bells are tolling.
Ah-ah-ah.
Sometimes I think he talks to me on my speechless seeking trail,
I wake up, his name is written on the wall.
Say: he waits for me, wants me to see, no surrender to the pain,
Like all the thousand desperate, who know their hope’s in vain.
Their hope for all their dear ones in this whole wide universe,
Our son and all the gentle souls, who’re lying in a row,
In line with all the underdogs, who’ve fallen out of time,
The kind ones and the gentle souls, for whom the bells are tolling.
The soldiers, heroes, underdogs, for whom the bells are tolling,
Our son and all the gentle souls, for whom the bells are tolling.
Ah-ah-ah.

credits

from Requiem - Falling Out Of Time, released November 23, 2023
Artur Jaschke – drums and percussion, Walter Calbo – acoustic guitar and harmony vocals, Ko de Rooij – flugelhorn and trumpet, Franklin Schieman – soprano and tenor sax,

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