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Who is the elephantom? (08:46)

(first version: "Elephantoms and horseas", 1995)(from "The best (I can do)")

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The heart of the city - the night has come -
it's not healthy to be there if the sun is gone
Elephantoms resound with their fog made trunk
Horseas babble, the tide is coming in
An empty bottle lies overturned,
the only phone-box left has been burned
The street is empty, no one around
A poor cat's remains lie on the ground...
It's a shadows world, and you must be one of them
if you keep on walking, or you must be out of your head
hear the silence... watch the darkness...touch the air...
smell your thoughts...taste your spit...
Are you the elephantom?
Waving in the air your foggy trunk
you take a walk around the place
you walk through walls and doors
as they were made by air
You shake your big ears to drive out those mosquito
shadows flying around your head to try and taste
your shadow blood
Where d'you think you're going, where d'you come from,
whose son are you, where do you live, how old are you,
what do you eat, are your nails neat?
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, speak to me!

"I'm so glad for you are here,
'cause you never spoke to me once right through your life"
"How could I have spoken to you,
if, you know, I hardly knew you lived out of my dreams?"
"Yes, I know you forgot a lot of the things
that you knew before your birth,
it was not all your fault, I heard they call it...
...growing up"
"So, I knew you before my birth...
and what else did I know before that day?"
"Of course, you knew why children laugh and cry,
and of course you knew just how to fly
you just have to blow a balloon up,
and it will bring you back to the sky"
So he takes out a red balloon, and begins to blow it up,
and the more he blows, the more he rises into the air
and disappear...
Through the clouds of my old city, my elephantom lives
When you think that all is ending, your elephantom lives
If they say you are dismissed, if your girl don't seem to care,
if your world is to be broken, your guitar is out of tune,
remember that time when you were not born yet
Your elephantom will never die
clutch the balloon and fly!

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