Box of Echoes Songtext
von Nadine Khouri

Walking these streets I don′t know who I am
Another life, I'm another man
I walk to the Good Mother and I breathe the city in

The seagulls are gliding, sometimes they laugh
The laundry is dancing, each day I pass
This guy looping a mantra for counterfeit cigarettes

I traded everything to be here
I left everyone I held so dear
My body a box of echoes
With a broken song

Walking these streets I don′t know who I'll be
I saved my skin, but I don't feel so free
My shadow leaping a few steps ahead of me
A million others across the same blue sea


I traded everything to be here
I left everyone I held so dear
My body a box of echoes
With a broken song

I left everyone I held so dear
Here to the shore with the water so clear
My body a box of echoes
My body a box of echoes
My body a skin of imprints
My body a burning sunset
My body a haunted number
A dream I can′t recover

Maybe they too carried this song
A thousand sunsets to which they belonged
Their body a box of echoes
Their body a box of echoes with a broken song