Morning Without Your Smile

The ice-cold edge of the pillow burns fiercer than a flame,
Stale black coffee at the bottom of an empty cup.
A heavy morning hangover trapped inside this frame,
The mirror cracks in silence as the shadows swallow up.
I pull the collar tight against the freezing air outside,
A shattered glass of whiskey on the wooden floor below.
Nobody has an answer for the tears I had to hide,
When everything I lived for turned to sorrow.


(Hey! Hear the screaming string!)
The clarinet laments the fall,
(Pain!) Rising between us like stone,
Leading straight to the canyon wall!

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Morning without your smile is a violent slap in the face!
I drank the fury down to nothing in this empty place!
Let my ribs rattle loud, let pride refuse to die —
Morning without your smile... Under an asphalt-less sky!
(Opa! Everything paid in full!)


Thick tobacco haze hangs heavy in the frozen room,
The slamming of the entrance door still echoes in my chest.
I chased you through the tempest and drowned inside my gloom,
You used to be my shelter, now an open wound unblessed.
Don't pity me at sunrise, throw your mercy to the street,
I will pay the bill alone for this final defeat.


(Hey! Blood boils inside my veins!)
The bouzouki cuts the dawn in two,
(Stop!) Keep walking through the storm,
The smoke burns down for you!

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Morning without your smile is my lifetime debt to bear!
Across the shards of broken glass, an ocean of despair!
I stood like granite stone while tumbling in the dark,
Morning without your smile will leave its fatal mark!
(I chose this execution myself!)

Bloody knuckles against the wood.
The silence lies heavier than a boulder.
If I burn - I burn standing tall!
If I fall - with wide-open eyes!



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Morning without your smile tears my battered soul apart!
I break these iron bindings straight out of a wounded heart!
Let the floorboards splinter underneath my heavy tread,
Morning without your smile... I will remain unbent, undead!
(Opa! Until the bitter end!)