INFINITY IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER

by Tobias Zaldua

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1.
I've heard tales of somewhere Somewhere overseas Somewhere on the other side Of Reality Across the farthest ocean Mountains forests fields Go down the deepest valleys Cross the fields and over streams And somewhere in the distance In the corner of your eye If you look carefully You'll see the smallest country There's not too many people There's no currency 'Cause love is all they need Yea love is all they need. There's no army There's no monarchy There's no currency No – no currency 'Cause love is all we need Yea love is all we need I've heard tales of somewhere Somewhere oversea Somewhere on the other side Of Reality Across the farthest ocean Mountains forests fields If you look carefully You'll find the smallest country We can feed on wine and ice cream Fruit from a tree... 'Cause love is all we need Yea love is all we need Yea love is all we need Won't you come and join me? © T.Zaldua
2.
Heartbroken 03:41
Everyone has got a boyfriend Or a husband or a girlfriend These limitations terrify me More than jealousy more than enemies Your heart's protected by two circles That he drew for you and I can't break through I watch them spin around you Think I lost you before I found you If I fall in love, if I falter If I promise not to alter Not one thing, not one thing I I can always stay heartbroken I'll stay heartbroken. Delicate hands that work with gemstones Silver and gold embellish flesh and bones Dark silos they loom over me Skies are brighter in my memory Your heart's protected by two circles That he drew for you and I can't break through I watch them spin around you Think I lost you before I found you If I fall in love, if I falter If I promise not to alter Not one thing, not one thing I I can always stay heartbroken I'll stay heartbroken I'll stay heartbroken. Everyone has got a boyfriend I can always stay heartbroken So sit beside me And forget me I was only here Until you met me. Every girl has got a boyfriend I can always stay heartbroken If my heart ever finds The beat that it misses I'll run to you and cover you with kisses I'll stay heartbroken. © T.Zaldua
3.
Watching candles against the sky Circles of light the haze of night There's close laughter the sound of voices Was one of them yours? Beyond the hills, the dark hills are other people They're a mystery and I'm falling Staring upward for shooting stars Was one of them yours? She's a whirlwind Beautiful whirlwind And Lisbon is full She's a whirlwind Beautiful whirlwind And Lisbon is full Of impossible trees. Who's that knocking on my door? Under a full moon what was happening? There were voices under my window Was one of them yours? She's a girl with a camera Suddenly free and freedom suits her Travels the world looking for magic But the magic is hers. Looking for magic... She's a girl with a camera Suddenly free and freedom suits her Travels the world looking for magic But the magic is hers. She's a whirlwind Beautiful whirlwind And Lisbon is full She's a whirlwind Beautiful whirlwind And Lisbon is full Of impossible trees.
4.
He wants her Doesn't need her Yea he wants to keep it Like that She wants him Doesn't need him Yea she likes it Likes it like that Oh yea she wants him Doesn't need him And she wants to Keep it like that They think this is some kind of freedom And they want to keep it like that Two different paths two different journeys And they want to keep it like that But soon they'll come together It's all over everything has changed Spend all their nights in a fever And they want to keep it like that. Her bare back - the kitchen - in the morning He says I like this view of you A smile between this man and woman She stares at his mouth and hands Oh yea he wants her Doesn't need her He wants to keep it Like that She wants him Doesn't need him She wants to keep it Like that But time moves fast And life is short Can't hold onto Every dream He wants her She wants him In this crazy world that means Something Oh yea she wants him Doesn't yet love him And so She hedges her bets Complexity Complexity Is he the best She can get? Can he reach out and touch her? It's all over everything has changed Spends all his nights in a fever Chasing her shadows through the rain He sits and stares at the water Watching the boats at high tide In a world of infinite self portraits All he wanted was a lover by his side. Words and Music T.Zaldua 2017
5.
Teach Me 04:13
Teach me to be tender Teach me to be kind Soothe this savage heart and Open up my mind Teach me in silence Teach me all the time Ease the worry lines Where new hope shines and I 'Cause these hands have knowledge Tricks they want to share Eager to describe you with More than empty air Describe your face And these lips this hair Describe your smile And find you there And I... If I'm going to have my heart broken Break it after not before After night's distractions That's what broken hearts are for Grow tired of one way traffic so... So glad you came along Save me from myself and Friendships that went wrong They'd say you're a friend to me You're good company Known you far too long You're my shoulder to cry on Can't be no lover to me You're like a brother to me They want the best of me Without And I... Grow tired of one way traffic Glad you came along Finally a lover On this winding road This winding road we're on Teach me in silence Teach me all the time Ease the worry lines Where new hope shines And I... And write your thoughts Upon your lips I'll read your your mind Each time we kiss And I... Teach me to be tender Teach me to be kind Soothe this savage heart and (Please) open up my mind Every street Every sign Every trail Every journey Every little detail Summer in every season And write your thoughts Upon your lips I'll read your your mind Each time we kiss And I... So tired of one way traffic so... So glad you came along Finally a lover On this winding road This winding road we're on. Hey. Words and music: T. Zaldua
6.
Oh this mood I'm in Gonna take some discipline All these closing doors Nothing I ain't seen before Patterns that repeat Mistakes already made The discipline of skin The elegance within Oh this mood I'm in Gonna take some discipline All these distant shores Nothing I ain't seen before Tiger quickens it's pace To a shrinking cage Oh this mood I'm in Grows harder to explain Strength of mind here now Is like rainbows in the rain This season will soon be nothing but leaves Wind on cold shutters Paperwork distractions The loneliness of clutter Another problem to solve Where did this all begin? Seems there's no escaping from This mood I'm in Yea, this is not Love Lane Step in and out the gutter Just to find my way again Oh this mood I'm in Gonna take some discipline All these closing doors Nothing I ain't seen before Oh this mood I'm in All these closing doors Oh this mood I'm in. © T.Zaldua 2018
7.
My heart was broken long ago So how you found the pieces I don't know Like the fragments of the dream that I was thinking of You pulled them all together And we called it love Your heart was broken long ago So how I found the pieces I don't know Like fragments of the dream that you were thinking of We pulled it all together and we called it love. Our heart was broken long ago So how we found the pieces I don't know Like fragments of the dream that we were thinking of We pulled it all together and we called it love. Your heart was broken long ago Your heart... Your heart was broken long ago Our heart was broken long ago Sunsets in Paris Dawn in Berlin We take the last train to Lisbon Begin again, begin again Is anything an accident? Is anything coincidence? The world shapes itself around you You see distortions of the mind And I see the divine Your heart was broken long ago Your heart... Your heart was broken long ago Our heart was broken. Let's wait for Sunsets in Paris Dawn in Berlin Sunsets in Paris Dawn in Berlin We take the last train to Lisbon Begin again, begin again Don't be expressing this rage no more Step back from the forest Keep the wolf from the door Hold on from beginning to beginning Baby now hold on (no sad ending) Baby please hold on Spent so long forgiving and not living Hold on to me Let's wait for Sunsets in Paris Dawn in Berlin We take the last train to Lisbon Begin again, begin again Don't be expressing this rage no more Step back from the forest Keep the wolf from the door. © T.Zaldua
8.
Complicated 04:14
Comp-complicated You're so complicated We make love and you're gone We're so happy to be alone Com-complicated We're so complicated Casting spells building dreams We are shadows on the screen And all that was absurd We found along the way 'Cause life's a leap, it's an escape The uncertainty of fate And all that was absurd We found along the way 'Cause life's a leap, it's an escape And uncertainty's our faith So Let's talk all night And share the dream of life Who cares if it makes sense Who cares if it makes sense It's so surprising How it all turned out alright It's life that's complicated And we're searching for answers at night Comp-complicated You're so complicated We make love and you're gone We're so happy to be alone Com-complicated We're so complicated Casting spells building dreams We are shadows on the screen And all that was absurd We found along the way 'Cause life's a leap, it's an escape The uncertainty of fate And all that was absurd We found along the way 'Cause life's a leap, it's an escape And uncertainty's our faith So Let's talk all night And share the dream of life Who cares if it makes sense Who cares if it makes sense It's so surprising How it all turned out alright It's life that's complicated And we're searching for answers at night “It's the wanting, not the having” “It's the searching, not the finding” But I've got to disagree I'm so happy that you found me Giving love/receiving love All the things that we were dreaming of It's the doubts that we believe in Day to night - Night to day From a dream to real life Who cares if it makes sense Who cares if it makes sense It's so surprising How it all turned out alright It's life that's complicated Life's so complicated Talk all night Who cares if it makes no sense It makes no difference On a lost horizon We were shooting day for night It's life that's complicated And we're searching for answers at night © T.Zaldua

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Special thanks if you appeared in any of the following scenes:


A workshop late summer in Caldas da Rainha.
A beachside bar in Baleal.
The always crowded Bar Popular in Alvalade early Autumn 2016 – hoping it will soon be crowded again.
Watching the Perseid meteor shower and not seeing much.
Watching the Gulbenkian orchestra play a late night concert in Terreiro do Paco. Finding and adopting two abandoned puppies on the roadside, one so deep in the brambles that all I could see was eyes glittering in the torchlight.
One of 8 people squashed into a small taxi early hours Lisboa, an art collective's New Year's warehouse party at the end of the taxi ride.
A car on a long drive to Coimbra to play a gig,
Arriving late at the Walthamstow Garden Party to miss the act you came to see.
A candlelit kitchen somewhere in Portugal singing and playing guitar.
Shaping moving images in a penthouse in Antwerp.
Brewing the world's strongest coffee on an island in the archipelago Stockholm.
Staring intently at Mark Rothko's pictures in Tate Modern.
Sunsets in Paris.


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released September 22, 2021

All songs written, arranged, performed, produced by Tobias Zaldua

Music written in Portugal 2017 on my old piano.
Programmed in Portugal and UK 2017/2018
Vocals recorded at The Premises London 2019 engineered by Curtis Elvidge, assisted by Louis Milburn.
Piano recording on tracks 2, 3 and 4 engineered by Zach Zaldua.
Percussion loop for track 7 courtesy of Nave Watanabe.
The line “Lisbon is full of impossible tress” courtesy of Emma Gahan.
Backing vocals on 1,6 performed by Janet Morgan
and recorded at Magpie Cage by J. Robbins.

All tracks mixed by Blinken Misset

Artwork 'Eterno Rojo' by Gianfranco Spada

ⓟ & © 2021 Tobias Zaldua

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