Checkpoint Endymion
This digital EP release is a companion to the State of Mind documentary of the same name.
The EP includes two live tracks from the video – “The Louche” and “Tourists”, both capturing the intense energy of State of Mind’s live gigs.
In an hommage to Kraftwerk member Florian Schneider who died earlier this year, State of Mind have included their electro-rock interpretation of Kraftwerk’s classic “The Robots”.
And the final track on the EP was recorded during an evening’s rehersal, when the band decided to switch off all electronic backing and do a stripped-down version of “Everything Comes Back Again”.
Kim Bülow Bonfils: Vocals, keyboards, guitar, programming
Morten Barnekov Johansen: Bass, backing vocals
Words and music by Kim Bülow Bonfils.
Except “The Robots”: Words and music by Hütter, Bartos, Schneider-Esleben
Produced by State of Mind
Mastered by Jan Eliasson at AudioPlanet
Cover design: Mark Toxværd from a photo by Dag Stinus
Tracks
- The Louche (Live)
- Tourists (Live)
- The Robots
- Everything Comes Back Again (Live Rehearsal)
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The Louche (Live)
Pour a drink
And make mine green
Pandemonium
At its most serene
You must taste the sickness
It will make you well
It’s the louche, she said
And it goes right to your head
It’s the louche she said
As she fell onto my bed
This emerald that you desire
Will let you taste a kiss of fire
We’ll be cursed in heaven
We’ll be blessed in hell
It’s the louche, she said
And it goes right to your head
It’s the louche she said
As she fell onto my bed
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Tourists (Live)
Take me back home
Take me somewhere
That may have existed
Before I was there
We came this far
Don’t know what for
All we have left to do is
Still ask for more
Nobody knows
The point of it all
Like tourists we pose
At the remains of the wall
And so we hope
And so we wait
To get all we want and become
All that we hate
You can be helpless
And I can be wrong
And we can be heroes
like in that old song
Nobody knows
The point of it all
Like tourists we pose
At the remains of the wall
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The Robots
We’re charging our battery
And now we’re full of energy
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are programmed just to do
Anything you want us to
We are the robots
We are the robots
Ja tvoi sluga, Ja tvoi rabotnik
Ja tvoi sluga, Ja tvoi rabotnik
Wir funktionieren automatik
Jetzt wollen wir tanzen mechanik
Wir sind die Roboter
Wir sind die Roboter
Music & Lyrics: Hütter, Bartos, Schneider-Esleben
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Everything Comes Back Again (Live Rehearsal)
Everything I know
and struggle hard to say
Was written long ago
In the most perfect way
Do we need a whole lot more
Of all that came before?
Everything comes back again
You don’t know how
You don’t know when
Everything comes back again
But you don’t recognize it
You don’t recognize it
I had this great idea
To change the world and change my ways
But then I woke up here
Stuck once more in Groundhog Day
Our triumphs and defeats
Forever on repeat
Everything comes back again
You don’t know how
You don’t know when
Everything comes back again
But you don’t recognize it
You don’t recognize it
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