Mi Dimandas Lyrics

(Text partially based on Gershom (Gerhardt) Scholem's intro to the Moscow Diary.Scholem was Benjamin's good friend; he disapproved of Asja and didn't understand their relationship....Read Full Lyrics

(Asja)That capitalism sucked, we didn't even have to discuss.He was against capitalism and had lost faith in the Tolstoyan idea of moral self-development.He was for a violent overt...Read Full Lyrics

(imagined Asja)(In the diary, Walter and Asja walk by a Siberian fur suit in a store window.Asja wants it, and Walter can't afford it.)W:Well, 250 rubles seems like a lot for an Es...Read Full Lyrics

(Walter)Whether I achieve the secondary purpose of my journey - to escape the deadly melancholy of Christmas - that remains to be seen....Read Full Lyrics

(Walter)If I am still holding out fairly well, it is because despite everything, I recognize Asja's attachment to me.The long gazes she directs at me - I cannot remember a woman gr...Read Full Lyrics

(Asja)One time, Benjamin was carrying a Hebrew textbook.He said his friend Scholem was trying to talk him into moving to Palestine, where he would have a steady job.So with that in...Read Full Lyrics

(Walter)Asja lay down on the bed.We kissed at length.But the thing that excited me most was the touch of her hands.I placed my right palm directly against her left one.And we staye...Read Full Lyrics

(Asja)Benjamin accompanied me to a festival in Capri.I was with Daga on the piazza.Tried to buy almonds, he helped with Italian.Escorting me home, the packages fell from hisHands w...Read Full Lyrics

(Walter)Will I always look at the moon and think of Asja?...Read Full Lyrics

(imagined Asja)(Susan Buck-Morss, in her book The Dialectics of Seeing about Benjamin's Arcades Project, describes Asja's frustration with Walter's nebbishy behavior.She suggests t...Read Full Lyrics