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Music: Gebr.K
Guitars, Synthis, Bass: JayK
Vocals: Xian3
Text edition: Xian3
Lyrics: Franz Kafka
Homecoming is a narrative in the form of a parable from the estate of Franz Kafka. The narrative, which is only twenty sentences long, begins with the words: "I have returned" and occasionally appears under this title, was written down by Kafka in 1920 in a quarto notebook.
I have returned,
I have passed under the arch and am looking around.
It’s my father’s old yard. The puddle in the middle. Old, useless tools, jumbled together,
block the way to the attic stairs.
The cat lurks on the banister.
A torn piece of cloth, once twisted around
a stick in a game,
flutters in the breeze.
I have arrived.
Who is going to receive me?
Who is waiting behind the kitchen door?
Smoke is rising from the chimney,
coffee is being made for diner.
Do you feel you belong, do you feel at home?
I don’t know, I feel most uncertain.
My father’s house it is,
but each object stands cold beside the next,
as though preoccupied with its own affairs,
which I have partly forgotten, partly never known.
What use can I be to them, what do I mean to them, even though
I am the son of my father,
the old farmer?
And I don’t dare knock at the kitchen door,
I only listen from a distance,
I only listen from a distance,
standing up, in such a way
that I cannot be taken by surprise as an eavesdropper.
And since I am listening from a distance,
I hear nothing but a faint striking of the clock
passing over from childhood days,
but perhaps I only think I hear it.
Whatever else is going on in the kitchen
is the secret of those sitting there,
a secret they are keeping from me.
The longer one hesitates before the door,
the more estranged one becomes.
What would happen if someone were to open the door now
and ask me a question?
Would not I myself then behave like the one
who wants to keep his secret?”
- Genre
- Alternative Rock