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I know it's obscure, but it is one of the most haunting, beautiful songs I've ever heard. It is sung in German, which is so very beautiful to hear, but here are the English lyrics:
Stella Maris I dream I'll meet you deep deep down The deepest point on Earth, Mariana Trench, ocean bottom Between Nanga Parbat, K 2 and Everest, The crest of the world, there you'll be my banquet guest Where nothing more can impede my vision When you com 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 cmoing 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 won't wake you Before you wake up yourself Please, please don't wake me Only as long as I dream do you exist... 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 down 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 Before you wake up yourself 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
A close second has to be "The Day I Tried to Live", by Soundgarden:
I woke the same as any other day Except a voice was in my head It said seize the day, pull the trigger, drop the blade And watch the rolling heads The day I tried to live I stole a thousand beggar's change And gave it to the rich The day I tried to win I dangled from the power lines And let the martyrs stretch Singing "One more time around Might do it One more time around Might make it One more time around Might do it One more time around" The day I tried to live Words you say never seem To live up to the ones Inside your head The lives we make Never seem to ever get us anywhere But dead The day I tried to live I wallowed in the blood and mud with All the other pigs I woke the same as any other day you know I should have stayed in bed The day I tried to live I wallowed in the blood and mud with All the other pigs
And I learned that I was a liar
Just like you
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