1. |
Time Can Tell
08:52
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Time Can Tell (Lyrics)
Please keep smiling and hold me tight
Leave I must – you know why
Indeed it’s an honor to take the fight
Yes it’s hard to say goodbye
War is coming we must hold the line
Swift attack, surprising move
We are ready and right on time
First be worse and then improve
Tears are rolling and touch my heart
Time has come to let you go
They can’t kill us can’t take us apart
Tensions high and chances low
Have come this far
We must go to war
When they’ll ring the bell
Only time can tell
Have come this far
We must go to war
When they’ll ring the bell
Only time can tell
Holy prayer shall give us some calm
Looking deep into the things
Bow my head when the battle calls
Give myself to safe the king
Morning come they will burn to learn
Some of them will give their life
After the fight they will make a turn
Peace will be my sacred wife
Mighty soldiers will soon be home
No more war but peace instead
Flowers purple all clouds are gone
Golden sun above your head
Have come this far
We must Go to war
When they’ll ring the bell
Only time can tell
Have come this far
We must Go to war
When they’ll ring the bell
Only time can tell
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© 2020 Gen Atem
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2. |
Past This Romance
04:39
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Past This Romance (Lyrics)
Can you bridge the distance
May you give up resistance
Will you deny my existence
After we past this romance
Can you bridge the distance
May you give up resistance
Will you deny my existence
After we past this romance
Can you bridge the distance
May you give up resistance
Will you deny my existence
After we past this romance
If you will take this way there is no coming back
All points in one direction, this you have to accept
No turning around like a mystery train on the track
You may not like it but you must deal with the fact
But let us be honest now at this point my dear
Not for real there could be any train to fear
No direction, no goal and no being truly here
It had to be stated to be seen very clear
Can you bridge the distance
May you give up resistance
Will you deny my existence
After we past this romance
Such facts make you feel better for some time
To regain your strength to stick to the very line
Don’t you worry about nothing because it’s fine
In the end they’ll put your remains on the shrine
Just keep on going until all doubts are gone
Even blinded minds will catch a crack of dawn
Afraid you shouldn’t be when going on your own
The way of resistance one must face alone
Can you bridge the distance
May you give up resistance
Will you deny my existence
After we past this romance
After we past this romance
After we past this romance
Such facts make you feel better for some time
To regain your strength to stick to the very line
Don’t you worry about nothing because it’s fine
In the end they’ll put your remains on the shrine
Just keep on going until all doubts are gone
Even blinded minds will catch a crack of dawn
Afraid you shouldn’t be when going on your own
The way of resistance one must face alone
Can you bridge the distance
May you give up resistance
Will you deny my existence
After we past this romance
After we past this romance
After we past this romance
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© 2020 Gen Atem
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3. |
Today I Lost
10:21
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Today I Lost (Lyrics)
Today I lost my trust, I can see
Because I woke up it came to me
So one last surprise it had to be
But feeling strange is feeling free
Today I lost my friend, I can tell
And I can understand it so well
Being with me indeed must be hell
Nobody here to bear such a spell
Today I lost all my traditions, too
Crowns without trunks, sky so blue
Floating above the world looking new
Charming and disturbing such view
Today I lost my time on that way
Suddenly but properly it swept away
A memory hazy and its traces gray
Now just an empty vessel to stay
Lost it seems to be
Once so precious to me
Yesterday a hero and today all alone
You know I do care but you don’t
I do care but you don’t
Today I lost my heart my dear
It is kindness and love I must fear
Frozen and cramped standing here
Such an old boy so lost and queer
Today I lost my breath, indeed
Laced up sack, nothing to feed
Only a dark chamber, full of greed
Accumulation of doomed in need
Today I lost my mind for sure
Had to be some slip on my tour
How shall a blinded be secure
For such arrogant will be no cure
Today I lost myself no doubt
At least no remains to care about
It's the memories they shall scout
Glad in the end, time is running out
Lost it seems to be
Once so precious to me
Yesterday a hero and today all alone
You know I do care but you don’t
I do care but you don’t
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© 2020 Gen Atem
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4. |
Your First Battle
02:00
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Your First Battle (Lyrics)
You were just a child when I handed you your first sword
And I told you a true warrior must always praise the lord
And you understood it right away
Since then you pray every day
And today we‘re standing here
Two men talking about fear
You now have your own son waiting for you to come home
And a wife of your own taking care of the land on her own
Questions of meaning arise
But silence would be wise
Wonder if there will be a time
When war will be called a crime
Stay calm my son
All preps are done
You want me to encourage you to take your first battle
I say you must see in order to become free we must rebel
No fight has ever been pleasant
But I count on you my lieutenant
Now sharpen your blade
We must raid raid raid
You ask why this terrible violence must be perpetrated
You should have asked me before this war was created
But now you shall memorize
In this battle we will terrorize
If we want to break their own will
We shall kill, we shall kill kill kill
Be free be a rebel
And now fight your first battle
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© 2020 Gen Atem
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5. |
Ready Made Intention
03:35
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Ready Made Intention (Lyrics)
A Ready Made Intention
We found a thing to connect the cuts
Ah yeah, that’s what happened
The more I’m breaking it
The more I like the scratches
Because they’re rocking my ass
Uh-ah I got shape
There’s a symmetry in my ass-smacking
The two cheeks are symmetrically disposed man
Mmh baby, there’s an intention there
An extra bad ass intention that I’m not responsible for
A Ready Made intention
A Ready Made intention
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© 2020 Gen Atem
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6. |
Wounded
04:34
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Wounded (Lyrics)
Hasn't enough blood been shed
My children, my mother, my father
My sisters, my brothers all wounded
Good bye old memory
For a long time
You have accompanied me
But now all I see
Is an injured and broken
And wounded old family tree
Hasn't enough blood been shed
My children, my mother, my father
My sisters, my brothers all wounded
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© 2020 Gen Atem
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7. |
The Tanks You Role
04:29
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The Tanks You Role (Lyrics)
You must unfold the book just for once my dear
And open the secret pages we‘re talking about here
This ain‘t about entertainment, you misguided fool
We‘re talkin’ sophisticated to be down in this school
In digital times of confusion, language will error quick
So better inject some infusion, my lost son of a slick
But well, should I really talk to a misguided writer
Who might not be ready to become a type fighter
Observe you shall the impulse that leads to a thought
Monitor the results or the observer might get caught
The mental formation functions will elevate the sound
Without impulse no thought and no tongue to be found
Therefore it is always the performer of the notes
By catching impulse generating vocals and votes
Statements only form the letters defining the order
For a vocal sound the letter is its master recorder
When letter formation functions are about to shoot
The writers arguments shall always be ready to boot
From Wild Styles to the Grillers to the tanks you role
No oral transmission, no writing tradition, no control
You must control
The tanks you role
You must control
The tanks you role
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© 2020 Gen Atem
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8. |
Lecture On The Function
07:44
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Lecture On The Function (Lyrics)
»GEN ATEM« is A FUNCTION. THE FUNCTION is often perceived or classified as a name. THE FUNCTION has a generating, a preserving and a relativizing aspect. All three of these aspects cause and penetrate each other. THE FUNCTION is driven by the drives – the psycho-physical forces of form and emptiness - also known as the evolution.
THIS FUNCTION is creative and generative. The resulting phenomena are called cultural assets. This in turn is preserved by the conservative aspects of THE FUNCTION. The relativizing aspects of THE FUNCTION mediates and meditates the interdependence between the generating and the conservative aspects towards third parties.
All explanations, such as the statements in this manuscript, are primarily to be assigned to the relativizing aspect of THE FUNCTION. The relativizing aspect of THE FUNCTION analyzes and conveys the relationship that exists and works between the generating and the conserving aspects of THE FUNCTION.
The three functional aspects of the generation, the conservation and relativization ultimately unite in the emptiness of relativity. Meaning that not only are all phenomena, aspects and relations empty but also the performer of THE FUNCTION is crazy empty of inherent existence. The relativity of THE FUNCTION itself is thus empty.
This indeed is very important to understand because THE FUNCTION is not bound to ideas, forms and relations. Thus not only the thoughts, concepts, appearances and explanations of THE FUNCTION are empty of inherent existence but also its underlying relativity.
All visible, audible, olfactory, palpable, tactile and conceivable phenomena such as sculptures, images, writings, music and sounds, transmedia performances, concepts, manifestos and so on, which generate and conserve THE FUNCTION have the same, superior strategy: It should relativize and, if necessary, destroy and reform all those views, opinions, concepts, habits and their manifestations that negate, deny and misunderstand the ultimate emptiness of the inherent existence of all phenomena. This strategy cannot be understood and therefore is un-understandable and unreadable and known as »Meditated Vandalism«.
Conventionally and chronologically, there are three phases of THE FUNCTION: first, the prehistorical phase, second, the historical phase, and third, the post-historical phase. Chronologically the prehistorical phase is located before the scraffito phase. The scraffito culture began 36000 years before 0 and marks, conventionally, the beginning and the conservative aspect of THE FUNCTION. It is the beginning of cultural writing.
This phase will last 72000 years and therefore will end 36000 after 0. While the prehistorical phase was already generative but not conservative, the historical phase is both generative and conservative. The post historical phase will be exclusively conservative. Then the cycle will start again from the beginning and the conserved phenomena and concepts will be the material with which the next generating era will generate its prehistoric phenomena until there will be un-unreadable and thus de-describable – as scraffito.
THE MENTAL LETTER FORMATION FUNCTION »GEN ATEM«, which was initialized 36000 years before zero, developed over 38000 years until it formed in this actual formation. THE FORMATION FUNCTION conceives, creates, analyzes, represents, destroys, eliminates and negates names and forms.
»Name« and »form« in the context of THIS FUNCTION refer to the Sanskrit terms »Nama« and »Rupa«. »Nama« is a more careful and comprehensive paraphrase of the term »name« and refers both to the name of a phenomenon and to the personality or identity that is designated by a name. »Rupa« refers to the physical manifestations or formal aspect. In THE FUNCTION, »Nama« and »Rupa« arise, exist and pass away.
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© 2020 Gen Atem
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9. |
The Mirror
05:07
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The Mirror (Lyrics)
When I look in the mirror I see a young man
With incredible drive and from a very strong clan
And my look is so good and I see like a wiz
Trust in the good, have no doubts about this
When I look in the mirror I tell myself now
What I feel must be true as long as I allow
Myself to be embedded in any contradiction
Staying away from gods and superstition
Come on baby
Skip the old maybe
Gimme a call
Just a call turns it all
That’s what I do
When you don’t have a clue
About me about you
Cause I always knew
When I look in the mirror I see an old man
Who’s miserable life was nothing but a scam
And my eyes are so tired I don’t wanna see
The doubts that I have are really seriously
When I look in the mirror I ask myself this
Are my feelings gone or is it you that I miss
So lonely I am when I turn out the light
Keep calling your name any day every night
Come on baby
Don’t drive me crazy
Gimme a call
Yes a call that’s all
What can I do
When I don’t have a clue
About me about you
When I’m all the way through
Look in the mirror I see an empty shell
No old and no new, no direction to tell
And no emanation no view no heaven hell
No doubt no trust, indeed just a cell
Look in the mirror there’s nothing to ask
Got rid of my feelings 'n' stripped any mask
Lonely or in good hands I better give up
Admit my own weakness and give it a shot
Oh yeah baby
You drive me crazy
One last call
Just a call to end it all
That’s what we do
Killing old, killing new
Cause both of us knew
We don’t have a clue
…
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© 2020 Gen Atem
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10. |
Most Precious Theses
06:12
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Most Precious Theses (Lyrics)
Socialees
Incrematethese
Morbidees
Cautionthese
Cyberlees
Macrodees
Stepforwardees
Tacklingthese
Macsmorphelees
Stepforwardees
Tacklingthese
Macsmorphelees
Stompswarmofthese
Extractorees
Exactorees
To cease these wannabees
We need access to the keys
Getting possession of these
Indeed most precious theses
Cautiondees
Cyberlees
Macrodees
Stepforwardees
Tacklingthese
Macsmorphelees
Stompswarmofthese
Extractorees
Exactorees…
Socialees
Incrematethese
Morbidees
Cautionthese
Cyberlees
Macrodees
Stepforwardees
Tacklingthese
Macsmorphelees
Stompswarmofthese
Extractorees
Exactorees
Any of these
Tendencies
Areallmyrockindees
Somehandlethese
Andmakethese
Onetwocalloffthese
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© 2020 Gen Atem
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Gen Atem Switzerland
In addition to musical compositions, Gen Atem's work includes political graffiti and paint attacks in public spaces, illegal works on subway cars and buildings, improvised painting actions, fine art paintings and sculptures, art performances and literature. His visual works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in New York City, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich, Bregenz, Istanbul and Tokyo. ... more
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