Presence of Absence: III. The Ruin - Ensemble Klang, Matangi Quartet, Michaela Riener & Oscar Bettison

When you're alone, who cares for starlit skies? When you're alone, the magic moonlight dies At break of dawn, there is no sunrise When your lover has gone What lonely hours the evening shadows bring What lonely hours, with memories lingering Like faded flowers, life can't mean anything When your lover has gone When you're alone, who cares for starlit skies? When you're alone, the magic moonlight dies At break of dawn, there is no sunrise When your lover has gone What lonely hours the evening shadows bring What lonely hours, with memories lingering Like faded flowers, life can't mean anything When your lover When your lover When your lover has gone

It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor Matangi, Matangi Matangi, Matangi Somalia, Bosnia Cuba, Colombia Ecuador, Mexico Bhutan, Morocco Botswana, Ghana India, Serbia Libya, Lebanon Gambia, Nambia Bali, Mali Chile, Malawi Bequai, Saintt vincent Trinidad and Norway China, Canada U.S.A and UK Nepal, Nigeria Ethiopia, North K Myanmar, Panama Philippines, Nicaragua Palestine and Greece Peru and France It's so simple do the dance Pretty raw Get to the floor Came up listening to war war Weekend trips to Singapore Preach like a priest I sing like a whore Do you want more? Do you want more? Do you know what I got in store? Do you want more? Do you want more? It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor Do you want more? Do you want more? Do you know what I got in store? It's so simple get to the floor It's so simple get to the floor Do you want more? Do you want more? Do you know what I got in store? I'm ice cream You're so bait They got guns but it points the wrong way Yeah I'm on it they cirque de soleil They make big sounds with nothing to say School of fakeness I'm school of hard knocks You're here to fool us I'm here to take shots Look-alike, copycat Doppleganger, fraud They ain't got nothing on me Now I'm getting bored If your gonna be me you need a manifesto If you ain't got one you better get one presto Yeah you got money we sell bootlegs only When the shit counts our numbers way plenty We started at the bottom but drake gets all the credit Paper route or life route yeah we be ready Bug spray Bug spray Bug spray Bug spray Bug spray Bug spray

It's something about energy Position of the moon I need a way to justify unwelcome thoughts of you You showed up in the tarot cards Our frequencies in tune That's the only reason that I'm having thoughts of you I don't trust myself, no So I look for a sign An explanation, reason as to Why you're on my mind, why you're on my mind I can't stand the way You get to infiltrate I don't want you anymore, no This is now and not before, no I can't face the truth That I still think of you But it's not my fault, no It's the universe, that's all I can't seem to shake you off You're electric everywhere I light candles trying to clear you from the air I don't trust myself, no So I look for a sign An explanation, reason as to Why you're on my mind, why you're on my mind I can't stand the way You get to infiltrate I don't want you anymore, no This is now and not before, no I can't face the truth That I still think of you But it's not my fault, no It's the universe, that's all If I keep you unreal Then I don't have to feel I can't pretend that I'm alone If I keep you unreal Then I don't have to feel I can't pretend that I'm alone I can't stand the way You get to infiltrate I don't want you anymore, no This is now and not before, no I can't face the truth That I still think of you But it's not my fault, no It's the universe, that's all