DE SONGTEKSTENPAGINA
UNHEAVY
ZIE IK JE MORGEN
SUCH IS TREASON
SHALLOW WATERS
SLEEP & FORGET
DRIVE ALL NIGHT
A PLACE TO CRASH
TWO FOOTSTEPS
EXPROPRIATION
REFUGE FROM THE DELUGE
WHAT'S LEFT OF ME
AFTERGLOW
MASKAWAY
FLY IN THE GALE
VAINSONG
WAILS UPON THE WAVES
LYRICAL SPRING
KEY TO FREEDOM
FIRST IN LINE
UNDER THE BLUE
LET IT IN
BRIGHTEN MY DAY
UNHEAVY
Sun of spring
Warm my skin
Drive the winter
From my bones
Face ablaze
So amazed
That blood still flows
After she's gone
Chorus:
And the days go by
Without names or rhyme
Or reason for this
Prison isle in time
Like a broken leaf
Or a twisted mind
I should spiral down
But not today
- unheavy -
And I fear no God
And I fear no man
But I fear to see
Your face again
Like a leper's look
At his waterface
I would shy away
From what I've become
Chorus
Sun of spring…
Chorus
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ZIE IK JE MORGEN
Ik sta op
En lees de krant
Hier een moord
Daar een brand
Doet me niets
Dringt niet door
Niets dat ik zie
Niets dat ik echt hoor
Chorus:
Want een dag zonder jou
Is een leegte zo zwart
Is een reis zonder aankomst
Zie ik je morgen?
Ik heb zoveel te doen
Zo weinig zin
Ochtend is voorbij
Zonder begin
Middag is al binnen
En staart mij nu aan
Nergens wil ik zijn
Maar wel hier vandaan
Chorus
En de avond valt
Het licht verdwijnt
Straatlampen en hun weerschijn
De nacht gaat komen
Maar geen slaap
Totdat ik jou zie
Blijf ik hier en waak
Chorus:
Ik ben klaar voor de afgrond
Ik ben klaar voor de redding
Als ik jou daar zie
Wordt het tijd dat ik spring
Is het al morgen?
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SUCH IS TREASON
Chorus:
Rocky was the road
And all around was black
No place left to go
Only miles of track
I stepped upon the gas
And drove into the night
'Cause I couldn't bear to be
Within your sight
For you told me you had been with another man
And it wasn't just a stranger
It was my friend
Could you help me through this trial
Could you help me see the point of this
Could you help me redirect
The anger of my fist
Well, such is treason (4x)
Chorus
I found myself down in the corner bar
Of some old sloppy forgotten border town
Noone listened and noone cared
It was the safest place to drown
You couldn't help me if you were a god
Because you don't have the power to save me
All these lies have cut me up
And they will drag me down gravely
Well, such is treason (4x)
Amatory days are over
No more living life in clover
Gone is all the golden glory
Just another sob story
No more lies, please no more lies
No more lies, please no more lies (2x)
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SHALLOW WATERS
I have seen my love alive
I've seen it shine
Through shallow waters
And I was blessed
By light possessed
Just to have loved
If only once
Once sweet summer set aflame
This tameless heart
Through your soft body
And time let slip
Its stifling grip
Released my gloat
Set me afloat
We rode rainbows overnight
As lite as kites
We flew the welkin
And we forgot
Our coming lot
Of ages stale
Of mirrors pale
- Then came that eve
Of the falling nightjars
And your broken glass scream
Upon the mirroring pond -
And if we meet years from now
And we have changed
Both so much older
I'll still love you
I will love you
Like it's Day One
Like it's Day One
Like it's Day One
'Till life is done
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SLEEP & FORGET
Rest my weary head
From the turmoil of today
From the thoughts that run astray
I will rest my weary head
Lie here for a while
In the umbrage of her secret lap
Say farewell to want & grasp the gap
Lie here for a while
Bitter is the taste
Of the spoiled food & garments left
How Auld Hornie in the corner laughs
For bitter is the taste
Pre-Chorus:
And all to bring to this altar
Is lack of love & scarlet scars
The captive hand that wounds & heals
An arid reaper of the stars
Chorus:
Wish to sleep under the slab
(Sleep & forget)
First you dance across the cairn
(Sleep & forget)
Battle with the drunken dead
(Sleep & forget)
Then you lower in the coven
Bow your head low
Blind your eyes
To sleep & forget
Cosmic is the cold
Interstellar whiff of liquid night
Out to freeze the flame & fight the light
Cosmic is the cold
Dreamer do decide
Where to stir the snare & break the heart
There is no redemption from this dark
Dreamer do decide
And in Arkady am I
Final overture of all your eyes
Staring at the sky in wild surprise
And in Arkady am I
Pre-Chorus
Chorus
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DRIVE ALL NIGHT
Well, I drive all night
To a distant drum
On a heartbeat pace
To an unknown point
And the engine hums
And I'm shifting gears
Leaving all these years
Back where they belong
Pre-chorus:
The paleface lady at the window
Looked at me in deep contempt
That's when I knew I had to make a run for it
To this land's legendary ends
Chorus:
So I drive all night
Speeding out of sight
To devour the night
So I drive all night
Well, I drive all night
On the tarmac track
With a backseat gun
And my smoking lips
And I kill the lights
And I swerve ahead
Like a swarthy coach
Past the stake-out posts
Pre-chorus
Chorus
So I drive all night
To a distant drum
On a four-wheel steed
Running low on luck
And the landscape changes
In the black arm trees
With their grappling claws
At the seething sky
There's a Man waiting there for me (2x)
He will spell out my fate to me (2x)
I've got nothing to sell
But he'll take what he wants (2x)
I've got nothing to sell
But he'll take whatever he wants
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A PLACE TO CRASH
Hey old pal
Long time no smell
Still had your key
So I stayed here
It got late last night
Drank your last flask of wine
Then my eyes sank down
I was wasted
Sorry I smashed that mirror while
I stumbled to bed and I hit my head
Lost my shoe and a sock or two
But your sack was cool to my body
CHORUS:
All I needed was a place to crash
And forget that my soul is homeless
All I needed was a place to crash
And forget that my life is tasteless
Your girl came home
She dimmed the lights
Slipped into bed
It got real wild
She didn't know
That I wasn't you
She was pissed too
Hope you don't take this too personal
CHORUS
With all this said
You got some cigarettes?
I'm just dying for a smoke, man
I'm dying
Hey, don't walk away
With that look on your face
I gotta pay this guy today
Lend me a fiver?
CHORUS
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TWO FOOTSTEPS
Two footsteps and a shadow to sleep in
I'm a lucky man
I only feel homeless when I'm at home
Like only true ramblers can
Walk to wherever on a whistlin' tune
Huddled in a cloak of night
Crashed angel burning by the side of the road
Killer of pride and spite
CHORUS
All that matters has gone into the ground
Dreadful years to fuel at the lost'n'found
Soar like a sprite above your sorrows
Into this new tomorrow
Trip in the river for a quick fix
Don't slipslide into the stream
Who can say with the moon at bay
Is this real or an aquatic dream
Ten clicks north is a settlement
Hungry for your tales
They'll take you in and hear you out
Before they chase you on your way
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EXPROPRIATION
Soirée at the abbatoir
Naked mask
Pour the gore, dear
At the blossoming bower
Smell these
Roses of narcosis
Replacement
Of lost symbiosis
Beautician
Makes up
Mortician
Has to stray
Adult's play
Expropriation
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REFUGE FROM THE DELUGE
(Lost)
A shadow loses height
And swoops down over me
Its touch it is a frost
A charnelsoft caress
My carcass is a harnass
No damage can be done
It's not this parasite
But the shadow that must run
Pre-chorus:
This tinseltragic town
Ate me up and spat me out
I pause and gaze at them
Still players in the game
Forever 'lone to stray
Must I wander off
Down, down and
Away
Chorus:
All around these antibodies
Noone like me to pester or please
Voices from the void drag in my wake
Free from all but I can never escape
(Hush)
There's no room for rheum
In the bosom of these ruins
The rain is a barrage
Stingin' bodkins thru my skin
Ribald sinners pass
Hailing night with shattered glass
The sane asylum laughs
And the bystanders just laugh
Pre-chorus:
The factory it glows
In a fog of toxic smoke
Grimace livid grin
Tread of the undead
Forever 'lone to stray
Must I wander off
Down, down and
Away
Chorus
Water cometh
Water cometh
Water cometh
Come
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WHAT'S LEFT OF ME
Should have seen it coming
Never make it through that door
Should have kept on running
Now I'm down to face the floor
And all that I've got coming
Whether I freeze or fry
Little sister splinter
Pick the icicle from my eye
CHORUS
Try not to confront it
Ashes & debris
I won't let it drag me down
What's left of me
Should have seen it coming
Doom's derivative
Should have kept on running
When there's nothing left to give
Should I live for laughter
When I'm the corny joke
And the punch-line won't be cracked
'Till grin adorns the bone
CHORUS
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AFTERGLOW
My only felony was apathy
When action was required
Now sinkin' misery
But for melody not quite
Fumes in threnody of throe
Wails in syllables of woe
And the right path is unknown
And ailment's crop is sown
CHORUS
Don't you know this is the afterglow
And on dredged grounds nothing grows
Nothing grows, nothing grows
My only remedy was empathy
Siphoned from the real
Their superficial smiles & small talk
Are all I need to steal
Shall I write an elegy of peace
Shall I sing a hymnody of sleeze
And the future bears the same
Buried in a graveless name
CHORUS
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MASKAWAY
Let me take you to my room
And rip off the mask you wear
To the outside world
Let me kiss away your cuirass of shame
Let me exorcize your pain
Have you ever been close to someone
I mean so close you’d want to
Hide away inside that person?
My dreams are the wildest you can find
How can you trust your own mind
When it is but a mirror
To another world?
Let me chant this litany of love for you
If your body is a temple
I am the high-priest tonight
Smouldering I shall incense
In all your sanctuaries
Pray tell, pretty peach,
How many souls do you carry
On your leash?
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FLY IN THE GALE
Enter music
Enter sound of all sight
Striking skin
Lashing lizard tongue of light
Smashing senses
Leaving audience deranged
Recognition
Déjà-ouïe of something strange
CHORUS
You can’t hold me
Not with ropes, not with cords
For I fly in the gale of an unknown chord
Open pores
Floating on intuition
Blowing scorching
Like a wind of contrition
Kissing tissue
Brushing colours into song
Recognition
Of the corpse in which you belong
CHORUS
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VAINSONG
CHORUS:
Beauty fades and time it flies
Come to terms with all these lies
The poets & the lyricists
Who the hell can they assist?
(Who the hell can they assist?)
For the world is not ambrose
It is all vulgar prose
(It is all vulgar prose)
If you cannot throw the stone
You must swallow all their scorn
(You must swallow all their scorn)
For the flock is not benign
They will flay the lonely one
(They will flay the lonely one)
CHORUS
The joglars & the troubadours
Always sleep with the poor
(Always sleep with the poor)
Play the lute, play the lyre
Businessmen are not inspired
(Businessmen are not inspired)
Money is the overlord
Come aboard or overboard
(Come aboard or overboard)
Play the game, roll the dice
One day you will pay the price
(One day you will pay the price)
CHORUS
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WAILS UPON THE WAVES
Walk along the shore
Wails upon the waves
Wind deranging hair
Sun & sea commune
Welded into one
I wend my westward way
Barefoot in the sand
Breakers to and fro
Pre-chorus:
Across the sky
A cry of gulls
Their keen repats:
Mercy!
Chorus:
Weightless as a dream
Fish & fowl advance
Only a man’s steps advance
Are heavier than grit
The beach a boundary
Where land & water meet
I am made of both
Yet neither anchors me
Salty nostril gust
A dulcet memory
Far away she dances
A svelte sylph in the surf
Pre-chorus
Chorus
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LYRICAL SPRING
Move closer, all is well
Shed your shadow like a shell
Shatter speculum of self
You are here as noone else
Wait in patience ‘till it’s spent
Count your talent’s detriments
Wingclipped, lie here lame
Shall I give my pain your name
CHORUS
Do you recall the lyrical spring
Where you learned to love and sing
(Winter soon pervading everything)
Move closer, do not speak
Let your eyes be speech oblique
So bleak moon paints the room
Find in silence what you seek
CHORUS
Now the war draws to an end
You and I are severed hands
Lay down soft your weaponry
In defenseless nudity
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KEY TO FREEDOM
The shawms of dawn
Open gates of consciousness
Pour in the morn
Forlorn to all happiness
Pre-chorus:
Taste the grapes divine that wither on the vine
Sing a tune of lune that ticks away the time
Wash your face abrased in a surge of light
Revamp yourself in these scriptures to the night
Marooned in my room
Maundering from wall to wall
Atmosphere blue
Level the falcon's call
Pre-chorus
Chorus:
Here they come - can you see them?
In their host lies the key to freedom
The dulcians of dusk
Seal the saffron day
Muster your strength
Everything must end this way
Pre-chorus
Chorus
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FIRST IN LINE
First in line
To be with you again
Stealin’ time
See the truth I’ve bent
Seven years
In the joint I spent
Now I’m coming home
To taste your face again
CHORUS:
Wind is blowing my way
This is gonna be my heyday
All this time
So immured I was
Cut the crime
In my thoughts I’m lost
All I had
Was your picture in a frame
Grisly nights
Screamin’ out your name
Chorus
Livin’ crypt
With the sodomites
Pallid bars
For a paltry life
Seven years
To forget my pride
Cutting edge
For a sharpened knife
Chorus
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UNDER THE BLUE
When life up here
Gets too much
I go down
Under the blue
Below the waves
Lies a realm
Calm, surreal
Under the blue
Devoid of sound
And gravity
Naiads play
Under the blue
Pre-chorus:
And when I dive
I leave thoughts behind
Sink & rise
To the heaving of breathing
Hear my heart
As it's pounding slowly
Float aloof from
Contrivance
Chorus:
Under the blue
Under the blue
Under the blue
I can lose myself / I can close my wounds
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LET IT IN
Music is the kick
The drive, the force
The thing that makes you go on
Even when the chips are down
Your frown a cloud that breaks
Into a smile of sun
To give rise to a new sky
The why & where & who & how & when
Don't matter anymore
Chorus:
If you let it in (2x)
Beat that crawls deep
Under your skin
If you let it in (2x)
Dance the act
The first of all sins
Whether a beginner
Or a three time winner
Your life is a script
That you can't read 'till it's done
It might be fun, might be queasy
All I can say is chill
Take it easy
Some people don't know
When the show begins
It's time to move it's time to spin
Chorus
You may be rockin' it, ravin' it
Or jazzin' it up
A recluse to the blues
Or a bee that makes you go bop
Don't stop if you are on a roll
Lose all track of time
And control
The twist of spine begins
& sets in like a whirlwind
Chorus
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BRIGHTEN MY DAY
After all that we've been through
There should be so much more to do
Than look back in anger on our days
We've shared instants of bliss so pure
And though the future is unsure
I know Ill have your friendship anyway
Chorus:
See, you brighten my day
And you light up my night (2x)
Now that all the smoke has cleared
Safely we allay our fears
And celebrate the day that ends carmine
We may sometimes fool ourselves
Or have doubts that we can't quell
But our bond is stronger than the scythe of time
Chorus
I'll meet you where the river bends
Where the statue calmly stands
And softly fold your muslin hands in mine
That's where I'll hand you back my love
That you will receive so suave
And accept my precious gift with knowing smile
Chorus
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