Wim Mertens Songtexte
Iris And hit the bitter water Struggle for Pleasure Bassin d'attraction Close Cover

Sources Of Sleeplessness (I. Mein Leib Ist Mude + II. Venerandam)

1. Geschuifel
2. Lenige spieren
3. Katachtig op hun gemak
4. Kronkelen de armen
5. Kruislings
6. Gerekt geding
7. Fore-Hatch
8. Feline-Leisure
9. Pad-Foot
10. Little Sinews
11. Twisted Arms
12. Cross-Hold
13. Seafoam

Sources Of Sleeplessness (III. Sub Rosa + IV. Le Bref)

1. So That:
2. Limes
3. The Ship
4. Tiresias
5. Verses
6. To Be Done
7. Later Life
8. Song and Story

Vita Brevis I

1. Part I
2. Part II
3. Part III
4. Part IV
5. Part V

Vita Brevis II

1. Part VI
2. Part VII

Alle Dinghe I

1. Zo
2. Of
3. Ook
4. Al
5. Et

Alle Dinghe II

1. Tot
2. En
3. Met

Alle Dinghe III

1. De
2. Te

Gave Van Niets (You'll Never Be Me I)

1. No-men
2. Wo-men
3. Chasms

Gave Van Niets (You'll Never Be Me II)

1. Leaps
2. Laidback

Gave Van Niets (Divided Loyalties - Daily Duties)

1. It Serves You Right
2. What's Mine Is Yours
3. Letter Of Intent
4. Quotable Lines

Gave Van Niets (Divided Loyalties - A Battle Of Wits)

1. How About It ?
2. How About What ?
3. Now You See, Now You Don't

Gave Van Niets I

1. De blik omhoog
2. Ofwel daar, ofwel hier
3. Van wie je alles verwacht
4. De komst van een ander
5. Buiten het oog

Gave Van Niets II

1. Zie niet
2. Hoor niet
3. Wees niet
4. Altijd haast

Gave Van Niets III

1. Waar ik heers
2. Schillen
3. Schorsen
4. Alles gisteren
5. Het lied
6. Retorica

Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter I

1. Plus grandes les part de mort
2. Plus grandes les part de vie

Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter II + Les Saisons Qui Apportent Tout

1. Trouver le repos
2. Ce qui arrive
3. Ce qui se produit
4. Ce qui a lieu

Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter III (Le Souffle Du Destin)

1. Le vrai
2. Le héros
3. Le cas
4. Le propos
5. La mesure

Poèma I

1. As A Rule
2. Blank Versus
3. Leap In the Dark
4. Relatively Spoken
5. In Line With
6. Desert Love

Poèma II

1. Under The Trees
2. In Terms Of
3. White Boats
4. To Stand For
5. No Darkness
6. Their Writings
7. As A Golden Eye

Kere Weerom I

1. 't is tijd
2. O weerzien !
3. Van Hot naar Haar
4. Dat scheiden
5. Wederom verdwenen
6. Zij zingt en wenkt
7. Overal, altijd
8. Waar wij niet zijn
9. Een eigen dagindeling
10. Amper beschut

Kere Weerom II

1. Zoet licht
2. Wat zegt het ?
3. De enige troost
4. Elke belofte
5. De afmatting
6. Achter me niets
7. Wat ik doe
8. Het oude deuntje
9. De dwarreling
10. Onderlinge onmin
11. Tenslotte...
12. Wat ik zeg
13. Voor me niets
14. Waarheen ?
15. De krater
16. Nooit genoeg
17. In u

Kere Weerom III

1. Altijd Winnen
2. Dit zegt alles mij
3. Van eeeee
4. Olie op het vuur
5. Zo Was het
6. Een hoger doel
7. Tel je polsslagen !
8. Met natte schoenen
9. Men schommelt
10. Een stomme streek
11. Later het vervolg
12. Als muze
13. Gretig vuur
14. Nieuwe dwalingen
15. Zo gaat het voort
16. Het kortstondige
17. En aaaaa
18. Dronkemansliedjes
19. De wil van één
20. Weinig meeleven
21. Heimelijke bijeenkomsten
22. Maak dat de kat wijs
23. Egels
24. Een sierlijk zakdoekje
25. Een veilge plek
26. Je hebt van die uren !

Decorum I

1. Anéantir
2. Bienvenir
3. Cadastrer
4. Dépasser
5. Empêcher
6. Fatiguer
7. Galoper
8. Honorer
9. In situ

Decorum II

1. Jubiler
2. Kss ! Kss !
3. Laudes
4. Monter
5. Nier
6. Orémus
7. Posséder
8. Questionner

If Five Is A Part Of Ten (If And Only If)

1. If And Only If
2. Which Connects Them All
3. Smooth Manifolds
4. Twice Falsified
5. Possible Width
6. Benevolent Murmuring
7. Unlimited Returns
8. As Bait
9. Red Heat
10. Diagrammic Traits
11. Nous Sommes À Venir
12. Secret Of The Stammerer
13. Whimsical Curiosity
14. The One And The Many
15. Still Unbroken

If Five Is A Part Of Ten (Carried By The Tide)

1. Comme une sonde
2. Uneven Halfs
3. Answerless Riddles
4. Obedience Into Command
5. Urdoxa
6. The Throw of the Dice
7. Level of the Membrane
8. More Grandiose
9. One Before Two
10. Incompossible Worlds
11. The Breaking of the Shell
12. With Zones of Clarity
13. Series of Hungers
14. From the Whole to the Parts

If Five Is A Part Of Ten (Possible Worlds)

1. Two Before Three
2. With Sensibilia
3. From Within
4. Logical Shell
5. And Yet To Come
6. Een Verlegenheidsnaam
7. Âme - Chair
8. Against All Deaths
9. This Lustful Note
10. In Its Hardness
11. Subtle Schematism
12. Large Too Small
13. At Arm's Length
14. A World Of Born
15. SouFFrance
16. With All His Might
17. Through Self-Sameness
18. With Outstretched Wings
19. Hitherto
20. The Mildest Of All
21. With A Ploughshare

If Five Is A Part Of Ten (Animal Magnetism)

1. Trouvaille
2. Obsessional Paths
3. In the Meanderings
4. Pious Intentions
5. Four Before Five
6. Withdrawn Voices
7. Diumal Rêverie
8. Incerto Tempore
9. Just As the Swerve
10. Of Theft and Gift
11. Silent Imaginings

Aren Lezen (Getrokken)

1. Of Animal Habit
2. What It Can Grasp
3. Xerophyte
4. School of Thought
5. Perpetuum Quietum
6. And Holding a Sheaf
7. Weight of the Heights
8. Whole Bundles
9. Wandelende Pijnen
10. In the Swarm
11. Reaped in Silence
12. Great Health
13. Een last over de grond trekken

Aren Lezen (Gestreken)

1. As Expansive Fluidium
2. Taille de la vie
3. Seafaring
4. Interweaving
5. Angular Momentum
6. Happy Harvest
7. Useful to Us
8. The Goose for the Fox
9. Irrational Rhythms
10. At First Glance
11. As in Wooden Wedges
12. As in a Mould
13. Over het water glijden

Aren Lezen (Geblazen)

1. Water Into Vapor
2. Selective Pressure
3. Within a Larger Ring
4. Truth on Its Side
5. Artificial Instruments
6. Returned to Its Giver
7. Like Inner Commands
8. The Stag and the Wolf
9. Working Backwards
10. As Sole Begetter
11. This Undoing
12. In Packs
13. Absolute Heteron

Aren Lezen (Geslagen)

1. Primordial Fire
2. Called Caloric
3. As Place Holder
4. Phenomenae of Heat
5. Motor - Habits
6. Quite the Reverse
7. Rapid Impact
8. Quivering Timpani
9. In the Midst
10. Always Already
11. Ideals of Quietism
12. As a Lack
13. Gensters slaan

Kaosmos (In The Making)

1. As Inmixing
2. First Things
3. At All Costs
4. Monstrous Couplings
5. Chains of Phenomena
6. Ongoing, Within Us
7. Theory of Everything
8. But Must Be Made
9. The Grain of the Mebrane
10. Pure Whimsicality
11. Undulging Wheat
12. Canons of Taste and Habit
13. Its Media Infantilism

Kaosmos (Le Grain De La Membrane De L'Organe De La Vox)

1. Initial Enthusiasm
2. Nature as Music
3. Qualitas Occultas
4. Aether Proofs
5. By Penetrating It
6. Originarie Expansiva
7. Room For Faith
8. Per Spontaneitatem
9. Innocent Enough

Kaosmos (Human Guesswork)

1. Its Maschinewesen
2. Its Long Sought Principle
3. As Instrumentum
4. Cumbrous Notations
5. Random Groping
6. The Whole of the Past
7. Such a Transition
8. Par chance, sans effort
9. Apatride
10. This Necessary Willkür
11. Without Example
12. Unless the Hand Obeys
13. Stolen Legends

ARe (Global Persons)

1. Next Nearest
2. Various Alphabets
3. For the Ausführbarkeit
4. At Every Instant
5. Methode of Intuition
6. Sine Missione
7. Benen Bol
8. Alongside and Successively
9. Arranged, Simplified
10. You Northerners
11. Fewer Refrains
12. Most Untamed
13. In Fits and Starts
14. Luxta et post
15. As a Fabulated Giant
16. Bodies Into Planes
17. Periods of Tasting
18. Far Enough
19. Within a Wider Cartography
20. Most Secure Bastion
21. Into a Bundle

ARe (Partial Objects)

1. Eerste aanzet
2. Den enkelte
3. Four Northern Mists
4. All Desirability
5. In Fluvia
6. Begerige deel
7. In the Caesura
8. What You See Is What You Hear
9. Membrane States
10. Connections Of Possibility
11. Silent Echoes
12. Featherless Biped
13. The Gorged Tick
14. Of Hand and Fingers
15. Clinamen
16. In Close Embrace
17. Of niet
18. Third Kinds
19. Essence Of Modes
20. Then, and Only Then

1. Betont
2. Matching Markers
3. The Tinter
4. Polytics
5. Earth’s Pores
6. Drenched in Zink
7. Signs of Lines
8. Marina’s Music
9. Modally Robust

1. Evenhandedly
2. Retranchement
3. As Ifs
4. Passend
5. The Paths Not Taken
6. Gist
7. Rival Sameness
8. Send
9. Passend (reprise)

1. Struggle for Pleasure
2. A Visiting Card
3. Humility
4. Birds For The Mind
5. No Testament
6. Maximizing the Audience
7. Close Cover
8. 4 Mains (von London Sinfonietta, Paul Daniel)
9. A Tiels Leis
10. To Keep Them From Falling