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Nothing

from Koffer by Ian Fisher

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Back in the US people really love their Jesus stuff. A friend of mine told me about a book in the Old Testament that he thought even a heathen like me could appreciate. I took his word for it because apparently Pete Seeger had written the song “Turn, Turn, Turn” after reading it. If it was good enough for Pete Seeger, then I thought it’d be good enough for me. He was right. The Book of Ecclesiastes was really inspiring in a non-traditional Christian way. It inspired me to write this song. I’ve performed it with several of the ninety three bands I’ve played with in the last few years. I played it with The Nowhere Train and with the Tour of Tours. We usually used it as the show closer. What better way to end a concert than with a song about death and rebirth. You got to tell the people the show is ending, but could go on if you ask nicely for an encore. That’s the basic gist of the Bible too, right?

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CHORUS: “from nothing to dust and from dust to stone and from stone to plant then man and from man to plant and from plant to stone then back to dust again” - from where did nothing come where will nothing go and where will i fit in to a circle around me a circle through me and a life that starts and ends CHORUS sons and daughters killers lovers mothers fathers friends born with nothing dying with nothing living lives think they possess CHORUS skin and bones do come from those who’ve come before and these skin and bones will one day die and be born into another form CHORUS what I can not see in you and me has no name or place it’s neither here nor there nor anywhere but is yet in everything CHORUS we can look we can search with eyes made of earth for things we can’t hold in our hands but that one thing we name and that one thing we claim ist genau was man nie verstehen kann CHORUS

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from Koffer, released November 18, 2016
Ian Fisher - Lead Vocals / Guitar
Ryan Thomas Carpenter - Guitar / Wurlitzer
Simon Bauer - Bass
Ollie Samland - Pedal Steel Guitar
Andreas Laudwein - Electric Guitar
Max Andrzejewski - Drums
Roy Knauf - Engineer
Ben Majchrzak - Mix

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Ian Fisher Vienna, Austria

A modern songwriter born in rural America and living in Europe, making what Rolling Stone calls "Half Americana & Half Abbey Road-Worthy Pop".

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