Whirl, black in black – artwork for »What remains«. A deep black spiral pulls inward from the edges of the image, drawing the viewer’s gaze toward a swirling center. The curves appear soft yet heavy, almost like they are shaped from dark smoke or velvety night. Around the spiral, an even darker border of rough, restless brushstrokes intensifies the sense of compression and downward pull. The whole image evokes a mood of depth, uncertainty, and a quiet, powerful collapse into the self.
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Credits & AI

Lyrics: Dschafaa

Produced with: Suno (AI-generated music & vocals based on the original text)

This track was created in collaboration with generative AI. Text, concept, and the choice of version are by Dschafaa; Suno generates the sonic realisation and voice from the submitted material. INT versions intentionally carry what is spoken in the German and English originals into another language, without aiming at literal translation.

Lyrics

Pensamientos que golpean.
Una decisión, deformada.
Demasiado, todo demasiado.

pen-sa-mjen-tos ke gol-pe-an
u-na de-si-sjon de-for-ma-da
de-ma-sja-do, to-do de-ma-sja-do

Thoughts that strike.
A conclusion, disfigured.
Too much, all too much.

Gedanken, die treffen.
Entschluss, der entstellt.
Zuviel, alles zuviel.

El mundo se quiebra.
el mun-do se kjeb-ra

The world shatters.
Die Welt zerbricht.

Ido, sin dirección.
Allí — sin mundo.

i-do, sin di-rek-sjon
a-ji — sin mun-do

Gone without direction.
Nowhere — without world.

Hinfort ohne Richtung.
Da — ohne Welt.

Una presencia enfrente,
lejana, no reconocida.

u-na pre-sen-sja en-fren-te
le-xa-na, no re-ko-no-si-da

A presence — across, wide.
Präsenz gegenüber,
weit, unerkannt.

Un remolino congelado —
oscuridad en la oscuridad.

un re-mo-li-no kon-xe-la-do
os-ku-ri-dad en la os-ku-ri-dad

A frozen whirl,
darkness in darkness,

Eingefrorener Wirbel —
Schwärze in Schwärze,

una chispa de interés,
un compartido
“¿qué eres tú…?”

u-na tschis-pa de in-te-res
un kom-par-ti-do
ke e-res tu

a spark of interest,
felt, shared: “What are you?”

Ein Funken Interesse,
ein geteiltes
„Was bist du?“

Atraviesan, leen, juzgan.
Inmutable — hasta la médula.
Un parpadeo, nada más.

a-tra-vje-san, le-en, chus-gan
in-mu-ta-ble — as-ta la me-du-la
un par-pa-de-o, na-da mas

Pierced, read, judged,
unyielding,
through marrow.
A cosmic blink.

Durchdrungen, gelesen, beurteilt.
Unbeirrbar — durchs Mark.
Ein Wimpernschlag, mehr nicht.

[Cosmic Solo]

Luego, el envío,
relámpago, cuerpo.

lwe-go, el en-vi-o
re-lam-pa-go, kuer-po

Dismissed into body.
Dann Entsendung,
Blitz, Körper.

Mundo ahí, yo ausente.
mun-do a-i, jo au-sen-te

World there, I gone.
Welt da, Ich weg.

Voz en la cabeza.
Inevitable.
¿Burla no solicitada?

bos en la ka-be-sa
i-ne-vi-ta-ble
bur-la no so-li-si-ta-da

Voice in my head.
Inevitable.
Unbidden mockery?

Stimme im Kopf.
Folgerichtig.
Unerbetener Hohn?

Voluntad peligrosa, afilada como cuchilla.
Sudor frío — ¿era yo?

bo-lun-tad pe-li-gro-sa, a-fi-la-da ko-mo ku-tschi-ja
su-dor fri-o — e-ra jo

Dangerous will, razor-sharp.
Cold sweat — was that me?

Gefährlicher Wille, messerscharf.
Kalter Schweiß — war das ich?

Mirada hacia afuera.
Extraño.

mi-ra-da a-sja a-fwe-ra
eks-tra-njo

Gaze outward.
Strange.
Stranger.

Blick hinaus.
Fremd.

Nada es seguro.
na-da es se-gu-ro

Nothing is certain.
Nichts ist sicher.

Algo permanece.
Sin nombre.
En la estática.

al-go per-ma-ne-se
sin nom-bre
en la es-ta-ti-ka

Something remains.
Nameless.
In the static.

Etwas bleibt.
Ohne Namen.
Im Rauschen.

¿Quién soy?
kjen soi

Who am I?
Wer bin ich?

τρόποι

a quiet side room
for those who wish to linger with the song

Notes on Resonance and Tradition

The song speaks in proximity to ways of speaking that hold questions without requiring answers. Fragmentation functions less as rupture than as protection. Negation keeps the field open rather than closing it.

Identity appears only at the end, and only as a question, not as a theme developed or resolved.

In this way, the text stands in company with traditions that allow not-knowing to remain present, without invoking lineage, authority, or depth, and without asking to be placed within a canon.