De teksten van de nummers op 'Backwater' (2016)

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1 The Right To Be Lucky

 

Mama she told me

To wait for the nanny

First comes the comfort

Then the arrival of many

If we would go, where would we go

What would we borrow

We don't know, we don't know

We don't know what it is

To show sorrow

 

The right, the right

To be lucky

The right, our right

That's what we're going to claim

We need someone to blame

 

O, I ask myself

Why we carry, we carry

Don't you know what we're causing

We'll never be just fighting

You were wrong, you were wrong

You were wrong but our aim is sincere

If you wanna stay

Don't look away

 

music by Verploegen

lyrics by Korten

performed, arranged, produced by Frits

vocals by Verploegen

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​2 Meant For Me

 

Remember all the writings on the wall

The letter that came floating across the sea

The words that are whispered on TV

Are meant for me

 

You're looking at the moon

What do you see

You're worried all your life

You look like me

I know I'm not fulfilling all your needs

I guess I'm just a guy who doesn't see

It's meant for me

It's meant for me

 

I could have been lonely

It turned out to be right

 

music by François

lyrics by Korten, François

performed, arranged, produced by Frits

vocals by François

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3 Bucket

 

Life is everything

Get along with everyone

Something deep still remains

Some feelings still sustain

 

Longing for some fun

Sometimes hide and run

Wonder how it has begun

 

Can't explain this feeling, deep

Had enough, it's time to weep

 

Everything is thrown in a bucket

But the bucket never empties me

 

Some feelings still remain

Deep scars, lasting pain

 

But I'm not gonna give up trying

Though I known

It's gonna take some time

Done with all the fear and lying

I only live once

This life is mine

 

music and lyrics by Verploegen

arranged, produced by Frits

performed, vocals by Verploegen

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4 Making Doors

 

I've got a mind so heavy

I'm captive, like I'm in prison

Give me some good feeling

Gotta melt my marble brain

 

When you invite me for dinner

Sweet honey, I get to chew my pillow

I guess you're fooling, just fooling

You're making doors

 

Now you know what I'm missing

Please give it, do not destroy it

You gotta make it happen

Now show me how to navigate

So you go for mining

Your eyes tell, they shine like jewels

 

Fooling around, fooling around

Fooling around, just fooling

You're making doors

 

You're gonna try mind drilling

So drill it, try to free it

I've got to stop to wake up

Under a blanket of concrete

You're gonna do it snappy,

An exit, that's what you give me

 

music by Verploegen, Korten

lyrics by Korten

arranged, produced by Frits

performed, vocals by Verploegen

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5 Eyes On Eyes

 

Last night I had a dream

You were in it and I was in it with you

Your sister and your brother too

Everyone was close around you

 

No lies could bring us down tonight

An open door, someone screams

Your eyes they look at me

Scaring me

 

Eyes on eyes

Birds are flying high

Eyes on eyes

People passing by

Eyes on eyes

Makes we wonder why I

Can fly

 

This night I had dream

You were in it and I

Was standing beside you

And everything is so real

And everything is so unreal

Dreaming on

 

And we, we take the last train home

We walk the empty streets

Your eyes they look at me

Scaring me

 

music and lyrics by François

performed, arranged, produced by Frits

vocals by François

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6 What I'm Afraid Of

 

I will confess

What I'm afraid of

There are so many things

Intruding my mind     

And all these distractions          

Are affecting my days                                  

If I'm not protected

This is a ominous case

 

I see the people being blinded

Build a high wall, go behind it

I see the people growing older

Getting taller, on my shoulder

I see the people in their rat race

They betray facts for a good phrase

I see the people make a big deal

So they don't feel like the fifth wheel

 

I have to confront

What I'm afraid of

There is so much doubt

Troubling my life       

And all my belongings

Going down the drain                 

If I don't protect them                    

They get a permanent stain         

 

music by Verploegen

lyrics by Korten

performed, arranged, produced by Frits

vocals by Verploegen

 

 

 

 

7 The Garden

 

Leaves and seeds and growing flowers

Falling down in numerous showers

Growing and flowing and always showing

The life I see

 

Greens and yellows and black and blues

Shapes and forms with ever changing news

Colors arising in multiple hues

It’s the life I see

 

Oh I’m running, I’m running free

Oh I am stunned by the life I see

 

A gentle breeze that moves all greens

Comes over to me in my face it seems

All is speckle and motion now

To hear and see

 

An elaborate story is told it seems

Atomic movements make magical dreams

With sounds whispering and shining beams

To feel and see

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music and lyrics by Anderson

performed, arranged, produced by Frits

vocals by Anderson 

 

 

 

 

8 Take It Easy

 

Stupid as I am

I did it, did it again

I'm sorry, so sorry

Words I never meant

Take it easy

Please please please my baby

Take it easy, easy

 

Words I should have said

Take it easy

 

 

 

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9 Something Good

 

It happens tonight, tonight

Had so many tries

Lived my favourite lies

I'm infected by

Some kind of reason

 

And if there is something good

To cling to I surely would

There has to be someone, so

Be sure you let me know-ow-ow

Ah ah ah

The girl comes pretty close

 

And if there is something good

To cherish and hold, I would

 

Her skin and coat are oh so white

Some of us will bleed tonight

Bring me sanity

And fuel my identity

 

music by Verploegen

lyrics by Korten

performed, arranged, produced by Frits

vocals by Verploegen 

 

 

 

 

10 Backwater

 

You told me a story

My ears are open

My eyes can see

My heart is beating

Why are you waiting for me

 

I can hear you now

And the moon is climbing high, high

While the sun came down

You were waiting

As the sun came down

Oh where are we going

Where are we going

 

music and lyrics  by Frits

performed, arranged, produced by Frits

vocals by François 

 

 

 

 

11 Another Town

 

Winter tries to shape your face

in an open smile

You can smile 'cause all is gone

in a little while

Try to beat the time

You live and sleep

When the wall was weak

You didn't know that the wall was weak

When the winter came

 

It's a funny road between here and there

It's straight ahead, you are aware

You're leaving now your worried home

In the Northen part, you're not alone

And what you seek, you do not know

Maybe you're looking for another place

as your home

 

It's a game in your brain, it's a game

You used to drive away to another town

Gone the day you drove away

To a different town

See the way you stray in another town

 

Is it the traveling, to be on your feet

Once a week you really need

When you arrived you did not know

That the wall was gone to another home

What you really seek

You do not really know

It's just a game, there's another city

In your brain

 

music by Frits

lyrics by François

performed, arranged, produced by Frits

vocals by François

drums by Toine Hagemans 

 

 

 

 

 

12 Fish Bag

 

Is it time tomorrow

Is it time to go

I'm taking part from now on

In the migration show

 

Fish bag, pick it up

Mute fish, no back up

Cold eyes, that's a lie

Even a fish can make me cry

Fishbone in the tar

Made by a brutal star

Children on the flight

Out of the dark into the light

 

Is it time for sorrow

Is it time for hope

O I see this morning

The nothingness of soap

 

Is it time tomorrow

Is it time to go

for me, for me, for me

 

music by Verploegen

lyrics by Korten

performed, arranged, produced by Frits

vocals by Verploegen

 

 

 

 

13 Wonder Why

 

I wonder why no one sees it

The world is like a big balloon

The party ends for a reason

I'm thinking how about the moon

 

These are moments of confusion

We're lost in the chambers of the heart

We hurry in a dead end alley

I knew right from the start

 

When we expect to be rewarded

The tasks are all well done

I know instead we have it coming

The seats will all be gone

 

music by Verploegen

lyrics by Korten

performed by Verploegen

vocals by Korten

 

 

 

 

 

14 The Things

 

You were in my care

Now you're the unknown

You're the one who dares

You're on my throne

 

Many temptations

That were denied

Hopeless devotions

Our love seems a lie

 

We, we are the lovers

Who never did it all

Never expected

That things would change

Even needs

 

The things we always had

So many things unsaid

You're released

 

music by Verploegen

lyrics by Frits

arranged, produced, performed by Frits

vocals by Verploegen

 

 

 

 

 

15 Jackie

 

Spring is coming, sunshine

Intense color, just like Klein

The doors are open, early heat

Known desire, hearts beat

 

Jackie drinks a glass of water

With lemon and ice

Jackie thinks about another

While looking so nice

 

And she puts on gloves

I totally surrender

She loves, she loves, she loves

She laughs

 

music by Verploegen

lyrics by Frits

arranged, produced by Frits

performed by Verploegen

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16 No Show

 

Stow, show

No show

 

music and lyrics by Verploegen

arranged, produced by Frits

performed by Verploegen

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