Lilablau [English translation]

Hook:

lights shine into my face

kaleidoscope colors turn into your face

you're not here, into my haze

kaleidoscope colors turn into your face

Part 1:

And suddenly everything violet,1 the rapture of the deep

again, staring the fever dream in the face-- dead on

strobe-light flashes outline everything for miles-- close

thick fog palpable, no fear, alone through squadrons of spotlight beams2

on every side, seemingly lost together in the finding

blinded at once, I drift in the sea of faces

drown in that place

and suddenly everything violet

Hook:

Lights shine into my face

kaleidoscope colors turn into your face.

You're not here, into my haze

kaleidoscope colors turn into your face.

Part 2:

Strobing from violet to monochrome

see-sawing3 from odd to elecrified

pictures flicker for only seconds, so that every boundary

blurs, infinite depth

together4 alone in bittersweet epilepsies

Away from the beat, just tear loose from the whirl5

bathed in sweat, along endless corridors

the crush of the crowd

hectic press6, squeeze by with hands on the wall

and suddenly everything violet

Hook:

Lights shine into my face

kaleidoscope colors turn into your face.

You're not here, into my haze

kaleidoscope colors turn into your face.

1. Colors are hard to translate. I searched google images until I found an English keyword that looked like pretty much the same colors as came up for 'lilablau.'2. I think the German phrase is a little more figurative and vague than this, but I'm not sure how to translate it into anything that doesn't sound silly-- who actually ever says 'the army of cones of light?'3. Literally, having one's poles figuratively reversed4. Literally 'as two.'5. Literally the action, but it has so many connotations... 'whirl' is definitely a free translation though.6. I hear 'Enge' to rhyme with 'Gänge' and '-gedränge,' not 'Engel.'

• Artist:Casper
• Album:XOXO