[LIEBESGERÄUSCHE AUS DEM WALD BEI NACHT] [A Soul Jazz Nocturne] [slow, heavy, brushed drums — contrabass] [pizzicato — muted trumpet far away] [INTRO] mmmmh — mmmmh — mmmmh — mmmmmmmh shshshshsh… tsss — tsss — tsss — tssssss mmmmh — yeah — mmmmh — yeah [VERSE] every leaf a whisper, every branch a sigh — hhhhhh — hhhhhh — hhhhhh [The owl says:] whooo — whooo — whoooo [the river says:] shhhhh — shhhhh — shhhhhh and the night says nothing, just mmmmmmh — yeah. 🎷[ HORN BREAK]🎷 wa-waaaah — wa-wah — waaaaaaah [VERSE] tss-tss-tss-tss — tss-tss-tss He waits like roots wait, deep and still and warm — mmmmh — mmh — mmmmmmmh [The crickets counting:] tsri-tsri-tsri-tsri-tsri-tsri-tsri don’t stop, don’t stop, don’t stop — The fireflies spell nothing. Nothing needs spelling. oooooh — ooooh — yeah — ooooh [REFRÃO] oooh — the night is soft oooh — the leaves are slow oooh — the forest knows what we don’t say out loud — mmh-mmh-mmh-mmh-mmmmmmh oooh — the branches hold us oooh — the dark is warm oooh — we make the sounds the forest always makes at night — yeah — yeah — yeaaaaah 🌙 [SCAT BRIDGE]🌙 doo-wah-doo — doo-wah-doo bwee-bwee-bwaaaah — doo-dah-doo shka-doo-wah — shka-doo-wah beeeeee-yah — doo — mmmmh tsss — tsss — tssss — yeah doo-wah-doo-wah-doo — mmmmmmmmmmh [VERSE] [The frogs begin:] rrrumm — rrrumm — rrrumm — rrrumm low and patient, low and patient, low — and — pa-tient — [Something rustles in the fern] shhhhhhhk — shhhhk — shhhhhhhk [Something calls across the black water:] whu-whu-whu-wheeeee and the echo gives it back: whu-whu-whu-wheeeee… softer — whu-whu-wheee… softer — whu… wheee… gone. mmmmh — yeah [REFRÃO] oooh — the night is soft oooh — the leaves are slow oooh — the forest knows what we don’t say out loud — and we don’t say it — no we don’t say it — no we just — mmmmh — mmh — mmmmmmmh yeah [VERSE IV] hhhhh — hhhhh — hhhhhhhh the bark against the shoulder, the moss against the palm, tss — tss — tssss the night bird asking: hoo? — hoo? — hoooo? nobody answers. mmh. nobody needs to. ooooh — oooh — ooooooh The forest has heard this before. The forest approves. mmh-mmh-mmh — yeah — mmmmmmmmmmh [OUTRO] oooh — oooh — ooooh (oooh — oooh — ooooh) mmh — mmh — mmmmh (mmh — mmh — mmmmh) yeah — yeah — yeaaaaah (yeah… yeah… yeaaah…) oooh… (oooh…) mmh… tsss — tsss — tsss… shhhhhhhhhh… mmmmmmmmh… . .. … yeah. [CODA — nur Kontrabass, vier letzte Töne] bumm — bumm — bumm — bummmmmmmm.
