“For those who worked and those who waited. The music is not lost. It is just resting.”
“And the coal dust settles / on the windowsill of home / and the canary stopped singing / but we never stopped the stone.” De Schlager Box Vol. 05 - 10 CD DSM
The second disc, Volume 06, grew stranger. A duet between a man who sounded like a tired baker and a woman who might have been his ghost. The title: Betonherz —Concrete Heart. It was a ballad about a housing block in Leipzig, about walls that listen and stairwells that forget. The chorus was devastating in its simplicity: “I built you a home / you built me a wall / and now the elevator doesn’t go to the top floor at all.” “For those who worked and those who waited
It was blank.
And then Volume 10.