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This song is actually much older than the rest of the material here. It was written in 2015, when I had a brief but violent crush on a girl who was in a happy relationship. I was torn apart between desire and respect, feeling I had no right to bring confusion in her life, and that it would be pointless anyway.

Looking back, this is not a song about love, it's a song about obsession and infatuation.

I didn't release it earlier because I felt it didn't fit with the other tracks on previous albums. But since "The gods..." is an album entirely devoted to torment, feeling broken and the hell our hearts can unleash upon us, if I didn't release it now, then when?

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This is the greatest love that’s ever been under the sun
Too bad it’s an unrequited one
Another man, he’s making happy
Another man, he’s slowly killing me
Though I do my best to hide it all behind casual schmooze
There’s nothing I wouldn’t give to be in his shoes

You know I wouldn’t spend a drop of sweat for no God and no king
But I would smile in the line of fire if that would save your skin
So many times I felt on the brink of breaking all the levees
Of giving myself up to your mercy on my bended knees
But I can lay no claim, I have no right to burst into your world
And disturb it no matter how sincere would be my words.

I can’t help it
You and I, we would be so beautiful
We would simply be magnificent
There would have been nothing quite like us
No other story would ever match us
O why such a waste of glory?

All of you watch me heads up, playing the cynic
Profess with arrogance that love is just an antic
A spasm decked out with the rags of a dead god
A lie that will be gone as swiftly as a storm cloud
But my arms are aching with the longing to hold you dear
My eyes are stinging as they fight against the bitter tears
The thrill of a first kiss that will never ever be
Feasts on my soul and tears it off from me

This is the greatest love that’s ever been going down the drain
Its ashes washed away by an unsuspecting rain

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The Imaginary Suitcase Nivelles, Belgium

Folk/singer-songwriter duo led by a grumpy Belgian guy voicing his considerations about life, death, and the confusing bits inbetween.

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