Einstürzende Neubauten: Stella Maris
Blixa Bargeld and Meret Becker Duet
(Live 2000, EN’s 20th anniversary concert)
Thx to Malin242
From Einstürzende Neubauten’s Ende Neu Album, 1996. EN’s website is Neubauten.org.
*Beyond wonderful. Blixa’s voice is sublime. I love how their voices reach a percussive climax at 3.56-4.23. Intense. That’s a love song! For those unfamiliar with EN, they are a German alt-industrial-experimental band, formed in 1980. See my Blixa Bargeld page, which I will be updating soon. ~ Morgan
Stella Maris (english lyrics)
I dream I’ll meet you deep deep down
the deepest point on Earth, Mariana Trench, ocean bottom
between Nanga Parbat, K2 and Everest,
the crest of the world, there you’ll be my banquet guest
Where nothing more can impede my vision
When you come I’ll see you coming from the world’s margin
Here there’s nothing of interest
The ruins of Atlantis just
But of you not a trace
I don’t think you’re coming anymore
We missed each other in our dreams
You dream me, I you
Don’t worry, I won’t wake you
Before you wake up yourself
Across the ice towards the North Pole is where I’ll expect you
Will be standing on the axis
From Tierra del Fuego in hard dream labour to the pole
There everything will revolve just around us
The Pole Star directly above me
This is the pole I’ll wait here
Only I cannot see you coming from anywhere for miles around
I’m waiting at the wrong pole
We missed each other in our dreams
You dream me, I you
Don’t worry, I’ll find you
Before you wake up yourself
Please, please don’t wake me
Only as long as I dream do you exist…
We missed each other in our dreams
You dream me, I you
Don’t worry, I won’t wake you
Before you wake up yourself
Enlist in slumber on a ship
Course: Eldorado, Punt that’s your home
Wait on the coast, look on the horizon
until I at last see your sails there
But the captain is always drunk
and mostly below deck
I can’t steer this ship in my wildest dreams
On a riff it springs a leek
In the North Sea it then sunk
An iceberg drives me back
I think I’ll be waiting for long
Punt stays undiscovered
We missed each other in our dreams
You dream me, I you
Don’t worry, I won’t wake you
Before you wake up yourself
You dream me, I you
Don’t worry, I’ll find you
Collared in a doze I’ll grab you
and pull you towards me
For you dream me, I you
I dream you, you me
We dream each other awake
