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 The live texts from

"Pieces for Light and Chance"

Vienna, night 2

 

OTHELLO

 

salut
salute
salutamos
ludo
ludamos

hah!

hola
hola
sorry hola
buen dia
que fas aqui fas aqui

othello walked in a particular manner
to work every
day
to work walked othello
and to walk to work was othello's occupation
and when othello had no walk
even worse othello with no work, othello's occupation.

i can hear work approaching.

peaches
apples apples appless apples peaches
peaches second day peaches
old apples

exactly
precisely
indubidably
day broke across his head
like the egg off a chicken
when othello walked
to work.

 

othello's work took him 6 hours each day
othello cleaned shoes for people
in the station
in that stationary way
'clean shoes clean shoes clean shoes'
he barked like a dog.
Can I what? Nothing.
oh it was nothing except....
pretty feet, pretty chest, pretty back
pretty bored..
come come hola

come hola come.

 

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Peaches
Apples and there are peaches old apples
and no chickens
No chickens saw othello
that morning no chickens saw othello.

othello just made people's shoes black.

you understand
you understand
you understand
come on, come on in
we've got peaches and, sorry, no chickens.

I have a book
tomorrow i have abook
tomorrow i will look at the book and ask othello
all about being...
should i choose blue of green should i choose blue or green?
should i choose green or blue?
should i choose to be a man or....
you understand the ease
you understand the difficulty
and that the permutations are not endless endless endless
endless endless endless endless etc

i found water
i struck oil
blacker that the boots that othello cleaned
in the station after he had walked to work

bye bye bye bye bye....(melody)

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more more more more more more
and hen more and more and then
more and more and more
and then again more.

Somebody to work for
that's what I'd like.
you're right
you're absolutely right
i said you're right i just took an early sleep
why not take an early sleep before it is needed
before getting over tired and then i thought
this would be a good momentand then i thought now was a good moment and the now which was the now then is no longer being this thought the sleep is the only way to link between the then which was now and the now now.

i would give this to you but
but it is mine.

'I'm not a jealous man' said othello
'I just adore biscuits'

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Hola, hola you remember
I was at your place
but i had no shoes
for you to clean and you made my feet black
i was soooo happy
but i didn't show it like this
i said 'thankyou'
you remember the week later
a week
you remember a week later
i had no trousers, my money was low and my heart
(high) here i suppose, they say,

but sometimes it is here
and i jump forward and i'm right in the middle of my heart
right here and i jump back
and i'm right in the middle of your heart
and then you jump forwards and you're in the middle of my heart
and then i turn around and you're behind me again and then you turn around and so -
you painted my legs black
and i was sooo happy
but i didn't show it like this
i just said 'fuck you! man what are you doing?"

I lied - i was so happy.

I went home and danced with my black legs
and i said
'someday othello's going to be my man.'

I said it like a statement - I felt it like a prayer
I said it like a statement - I felt it like a prayer

I said it like a statement - I felt it like a prayer

I said it like a statement - I felt it like a prayer
I said it like a statement - I felt it like a prayer

I said it like a statement - I felt it like a prayer
I said it like a statement - I felt it like a prayer
you get the picture
you get the picture
you get the other picture
you get all of the pictures and as you get the pictures
the pictures change and with the changes you get another picture

hotter here
more heart there
romance there
the river with its heart dappertutto
which means ......... here.

 

 

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Someday they'll take the building away
someday they'll take the glass out of the window
out of the buildiing that they take away
someday they'll take...
no they won't take the light that comes through the glass
in the window in the building which they will take away,
no that they will not take that away;

Today this makes me comforted
not comfortable but comforted
and so i walk in the light through the window
in the building which they have not yet taken away
I'll be ready when it goes
sad for the loss of building
sad for the loss of window.

Sister.

Hola
I'm no going yet.

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My money was running even lower
if fact my money wasn't even running
the next week
(i have to do a week again)..thats two weeks
there's one for later.

The next week i arrived
and othello said 'hi hypocrite'

That week i had no trouswers
no shoes no socks
and even more unusual for this city at this time, this epoch
no underwear
i said 'othello' - you'llbemymanbemymanmyman othello
could you-"
and he said 'yes'
and he did..right to here,
as black as night and i said that's not black enough
and he said 'close your eyes sweatheart.'

I was soooo... you know
and i showed it with my hand, face,..
he said 'hi bye bye bye bye '(melody)

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Its not my fault i can't understand eveything.

I'm very I'm very taken to this week
i could live in this week for a month
i could invite all my friends in this week
there would be room enough to play cards and get poor again
to win enough money to buy my clothes back
room enough in this week to drink, to dress and to eat
the most succulent
and to walk up to othello
in the way that othello
would
never
walk
while walking to work.

but
things got worse
in spite of dancing every night
in spite of a myriad of fortunes
and unfortunes found at the end of one's fingertip;
and
the next week
i arrived with no shirt
no necklace,
no earrings
give them to me i said
and soon i was black all over
except under the eyelids
so i refused to close my eyes
from that day until now,
night and day
day and night,

dream
and rubber
goat and a tragedy
voila
a day
a day i missed.

 

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