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 The live texts from

"Pieces for Light and Chance"

Vienna, night 1

 

BISCUIT and GREEN

 

Primarily understandable
On the second day everything changed.

on the third day both Green and Biscuit fell indeterminedly but resolvedly, to work.

'Follow me' said Biscuit
Green said 'I'm your man'
Green said 'I'm your man'
and whenever Green said I'm your man
Green lifted his leg like a man

wonderful said Biscuit 'you make me forget the strangeness of my name, I will love you forever for that,'
Biscuit was given irrepressively to promises which of course he could never fulfill longer than a decade.

 

green green green
win at cards
win
win at beer win at table
win on the high crane
win on the building site
win
'Green' said Biscuit 'buy me something to make me beautiful
buy me something to be beautiful
buy me something gold
something silver something gold'
'Green' said Biscuit 'dance.'

On the fourth day
that's the day after the third day
only the third day was one of those long days
that really stretches you like, like this
so on the fourth day,
which seemed like it could be like a really thin day,
like Biscuit was thin because he never ate enough
green kept saying. 'Biscuit if you don't eat you'll never have any energy to dance
and he said 'but I don't dance'
he said 'you do'
he said 'I don't'
'you do
you do its that you don't eat'
he said 'you do dance its just you don't eat'

anyway...

on the fourth day which was after the third fat day
fat fat like mother, mother fat
came
slowly the real realization of
death;
death, the sweet relaxing
quasi silent prospect of the break with the illusion of infinity.
Imagine this when you're 28 years old.
This is young for such a break
for such a move in the spirit;
this is young for such a realization.

Biscuit and Green were both young
if you piled their ages together they would
half
a century
make.

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Okay - its all changed, its moving on

Belief like spring,
when spring comes.

day 1 and day 2 and day 3 and day 4
marryyoulatermarryyoulatermarryyoulater
all have the most incredible
going down going
party party
beer no not winning beer not winning at cards no
just beer;

naturally
Biscuit and Green were there looking outrageously edible;

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I feel like breakfast
I feel like 2 breakfasts
i feel like here we should build breakfast
4 breakfasts
and a roof,
coffee,
and on the roof a cloud
of course something italian
of course forget country
just think.
After breakfast we go to sleep again
sleep again sleep sleep sleep again
sleep again
such a long long day
a long way
back.

we can make a map and breakfast
and take breakfast with us
all over the world
i mean, breakfast is always useful
i mean wouldn't you say breakfast is always useful
look at it - see
breakfast for three
'the unexpected' said Biscuit,
and Green was jealous of that

'oh god I'm going to climb a tree'.

(Exactly.)

So the 5th day which came as a shock
5th days always entering through the slit
which has been forgotten the night before.

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Six - don't miss it
six is small
six comes up unexpectedly behind the throat
behind the heart
before the plan gets scratched
six comes around the back of the ear
in the sharp of the night
the sharp of the knife
that cuts the apple
thats so equal;
six comes up curling
curling and whirling
up unstoppable
deniable but irrefuseable
deniable - irrefuteable.

Six comes out like steam
like heat
faithful
faithful to dancing
faithful to water
faithful to dancing water getting
ho ho ho ho hotter
under the earth where the bread bakes;
night;
Jacob Jacob - Thanks!

Coming back again
free like less
coming back again
coming back again
coming back again

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Biscuit and Green had a very long life
25 50 75 150 300 410 500 711
they saw the moving of mountains
they saw their bodies growing old and young
and old and young
they saw civilisations turning over in bed
they saw the rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall
of happy countries
sad countries
slow countries
quick countries
rich countries
poor countries
peace;
the saw all this in their long lives
they saw towns build up
they saw towns fall down
they saw towns come up
they saw town come down
they saw places arrive
they saw places go
they saw peace
and the unintelligable stutterings of young children
they saw they saw
and the older they got
the more they saw
they saw they saw
and one day
one day one day one day
they saw ....
wait for it
wait for it, wait for it, wait for it....

 

....they saw no more.

 

this text was composed during the performances in 'Tanzquartier' Vienna, Austria April 3,4,5 2003
and is here in its original and uncut version; it does not include the text and sounds from Christian Reiner