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When the child was just a child
It did not know what it was
Like a child it had no habits
No opinion about anything
Maybe I will get a job
Get a job as a waitress
Maybe waiting tables in a diner
In some remote city down the highway
[Chorus]
After all that we've been through
I know we'll make it after the wait
The question is a truth
There is nothing we can't do
I'll see you along the way baby
The stillness is the move
On top of every mountain
There was a great longing
For another even higher mountain
In each city longing for a bigger city
After all that we've been through
I know that I will always love you
From now until forever baby
I can't imagine anything better
[Chorus]
Isn't life under the sun just a crazy, crazy, crazy dream?
Isn't life just a mirage of the world before the world?
Why am I here and not over there?
Where did time begin
Where does space end
Where do you, where do you and I begin?
[Chorus: Repeat x2]
It did not know what it was
Like a child it had no habits
No opinion about anything
Maybe I will get a job
Get a job as a waitress
Maybe waiting tables in a diner
In some remote city down the highway
[Chorus]
After all that we've been through
I know we'll make it after the wait
The question is a truth
There is nothing we can't do
I'll see you along the way baby
The stillness is the move
On top of every mountain
There was a great longing
For another even higher mountain
In each city longing for a bigger city
After all that we've been through
I know that I will always love you
From now until forever baby
I can't imagine anything better
[Chorus]
Isn't life under the sun just a crazy, crazy, crazy dream?
Isn't life just a mirage of the world before the world?
Why am I here and not over there?
Where did time begin
Where does space end
Where do you, where do you and I begin?
[Chorus: Repeat x2]
Lyrics submitted by sheilafitzgerald
Track duration: 05:20
"Stillness Is the Move" as written by Amber Coffman David Longstreth
Lyrics © Domino Publishing
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The line, "isn't life just a mirage of the world before the world?", suggests, hearkening back to the theme of a mutable identity and worldview established in the opening verse, that we are constantly adjusting our phenomenal views of the world and that these "mirages" we continually build up and break down collectively comprise life itself.
Regarding the title, I think "Stillness is the Move" suggests that when in love, the optimal "move" in the sense of doing something to ameliorate one's life is "stillness"; quite simply, enjoying the moment and appreciating the company of a loved one.
On this song, I see it as being about being totally in love and feeling weird that you're feeling all these intimate things like love and desire, which all feel so real and intense, in a world which is so loose and based on pure coincidence.
"why am i here and not over there?
where did time begin
where does space end
where do you and i begin?"
It's the great interior battle between a kind of existential confusion, which makes you feel meaningless, and the great chemical rush of love, which despite being entirely illogical and an illusion, gives you a purpose.
Maybe I'm reading too far into it, but I love the song so I don't really care :P
The original German:
wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/wingsofdesire/…
And the English translation:
pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~eh644893/…
at least if you are going to "appropriate", you could d worse. Bottom line, i would expect that some kind of acknowledgement be given somewhere by Dirty Projectors.
nice groove tho...
Still, only moderately disappointed, because it's such a wonderful song.
And it is a damn fine song, whether you get the reference or not!
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