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lyrics

as I near 70 – I get letters,
cards, little gifts – from strange people.
congratulations, they tell me

I know what they mean: the way I have lived
I should have been dead in half that time
congratulations, they tell me

the doctors have no answers and the gods are silent
the doctors have no answers and the gods are silent

congratulations, death, on your patience.
I have helped you all that I can.

now one more poem and a walk out
on the balcony, such a fine night there

I am dressed in shorts and stockings,
gently scratch my old belly,
look out there, look off there where dark meets dark

the doctors have no answers and the gods are silent
the doctors have no answers and the gods are silent

congratulations, death, on your patience.
I have helped you all that I can.

I have piled myself with a mass of grand abuse, been
careless toward myself almost to the point of madness,
I am still here leaning toward
this machine in this smoke-filled room,
this large blue trashcan to my left
full of empty (full of empty)
– containers

now one more poem
and a walk out on the balcony, such a fine night there

I am dressed in shorts and stockings,
gently scratch my old belly,
look out there, look off there where dark meets dark

the doctors have no answers and the gods are silent
the doctors have no answers and the gods are silent

congratulations, death, on your patience.
I have helped you all that I can

it‘s been one hell of a crazy ballgame
it‘s been one hell of a crazy ballgame

credits

from Splintered Glass, released October 11, 2019
Music: Karl Stepan & FAIRWAY
Lead Vocals: Karl Stepan, Lilian Grof
Background Vocals: Susanne Grof-Korbel, Walter Schleger
Ac-Gits: Karl Stepan, Walter Schleger, Georg Swatschina
E-Git: Georg Swatschina
Mellotron: Georg Swatschina
Drums: Walter Kuhn
Bass: Walter Glößl

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Fairway Vienna, Austria

FAIRWAY is an Austrian/Viennese Band, founded in 1980. FAIRWAY plays Urban Folk-Rock.

"Cosmic Twig" Album Release Party: 20 Oct 2016, Replugged/Vienna

discography

Splintered Glass

Oct 2019
Fairway X-Mas

Dec 2017
Cosmic Twig

Sep 2016
Time

Jan 2014
Fairway

Jan 1996

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