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sopor aeternus - backbone practise lyrics

(unpleasant reminder in a subterranean pathology department)

we are entering the operating theatre of the familiar morgue:
the student nurses are making a lot of noise,
their voices echo from the bare tiled walls …-
i improvise a fainting fit: ” i cannot bare these voices anymore …! ”

the tiny spineless spider, who really is a dog,
has hurt herself – or did she get hurt? – something ’bout her back …-
oh, does she need a new one?
torso-less she only does consist of legs …-
much like a crushed little cross, a tiny crucifix.
so cautiously she’s stalking now across the palm of my right hand,
merely a thin branch in the wind,
touching the wound … where i had cut my finger.

i hand her over to the nurses, one of them – directed by the teacher –
carries out the operation, for which i don’t have the knowledge.
one day everyone here must fulfil this very task alone,
as it’s the only way to learn … and in the end become a master …-
yes, this means responsibility,
and it’s connected directly to stress and fear.

the little spider has her operation on a table
that is decorated like a forest, all with thicket and fir trees …-
and right beside the flashing lights and displays of the instruments.

so hear now of the very scene that happened right before this (here):

an elephant stands on the plane roof of a tall cathedral … very close to the edge.
“climb down his tail, as if it were a rope!
have faith and confidence, believe that he will hold you!”
but the elephant is not anch-r-d in the ground,
yes, he might have the will to remain in position,
perhaps doing everything within his power to hold me,
not to slip and fall himself …-
but in my opinion this is hardly enough.
can this be a question of trust, at all?!?

looking out of the window, while the underground moves down
into the tunnel … – a man, who has already p-ssed the elephant- test, says:
” fear must be conquered, boy!
many of what comes up are merely old fears of death!”

- sopor aeternus lyrics

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