A song I wrote to commemorate ten years of close friendship. I took parts of the very first song I ever composed, all those years ago, and made it into something new.

Do you remember my first song?
Back when the years felt long
All of us searching for where we belonged

And as I look around us now
when all the dust has settled down
it suddenly hits me: we've found our place somehow

We've made it, we're here, we're safe and sound
and I cannot believe you're still around

Can you believe how much we've grown?
We've come into our own
Familiar faces made into a home

We've shared the highs, the lows and more
We've seen it all before
We're ready to handle whatever lies in store

After all of these years it still seems strange
how both everything and nothing's changed

And I can't wait to see 
how much more we'll do
Cause part of the person I am today
I'm because of you

Should've known from the day I wrote that song
You were always the place where I'd belong

First Song

My personal tribute to the Dragon Age franchise! I've worked on this arrangement for well over a year, and I'm very happy to finally be sharing it with you! I took 14 songs from the scores of Dragon Age Origins, 2 and Inquisition and blended them into one.

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Dragon Age Medley

I bought an Irish bouzouki this year and have been slowly practicing. To keep my motivation up, I challenged myself to record a carol at the end of the year. "In the bleak midwinter" is my all-time favorite one, though I can't really even explain why. 

Recorded with piano, a home-made Low D whistle, three layers of vocals and my beautiful new Irish bouzouki. You can clearly hear I have a lot to learn, but I'm still glad I made this! Happy holidays everyone!

In The Bleak Midwinter

A letter to my younger self

_____________________________
Lyrics:

Where shall I begin, sweet daughter of Spring
If only I could tell you everything
Wanting to take on the world
But never believing you could
I know you’re uncertain, but oh if you knew
What these twenty five Aprils could have in store for you

You can do more than you ever believed to be true
If others can make it, then why in the world wouldn’t you?
So work hard, be determined and do what you can to prepare
You’ll suddenly wake up and find yourself already there

Seasons change, as will you
But no matter how often they do
The fragile softness of spring will always feel new

Question the boundaries so often presented as rules
Find parts of yourself in words once so foreign to you
Most walls you’ve been told that exist just turn out to be doors
Find people on different trails who can help you blaze yours

Know your position but let other voices be heard
But be brave and remember that change doesn't come through just words

Seasons change, as will you
But no matter how often they do
The fragile softness of spring will broaden your view

Find something or someone worth loving and love them intensely
Enjoy things that make you feel happy and be unashamed
Embrace all the depth of your caring, with every heartbeat
But if someone takes more than you give, let yourself walk away

Feel all your feelings but never mistake them for truth
You don’t have to have all of your life figured in your youth

Seasons change, as will you
But no matter how often they do
The fragile softness of spring will always come through
And every April you'll feel just a little more you

It’s never too late to start over, redefine, redesign
So go on, my sweet daughter of Spring: you’ll be more than just fine

Twenty Five Aprils

She sits by the river, the water just touching her feet
You can tell by her gaze that there’s places that she longs to see
With a love for the ancient but always a drive towards the new
Always longing for a different view
As her paint-splattered fingers keep changing the chords and beat

Ooooh the most wonderful tunes she’ll play
And all of a sudden you’ll feel like one day she might
Sail away, sail so far away
The wind on her waves without knowing if she will
return one day, and you wish she could stay
But there’s something about her that just has to be this way

She walks down the street but her eyes they look up at the sky
where she used to build castles for fairies and witches alike
Now it seems like she knows exactly where she needs to go
And she knows all that there is to know
But deep down inside her she’ll never stop wanting to fly

Ooooh the most wonderful games she’d play
And all of a sudden you know that someday she will
Fly away, fly so far away
High in the clouds where the world seems so tiny
it fades away, but that’s okay
Cause there’s something about her that makes you feel lucky
that you got to know her today

Cause there’s something about her that tells you that she’ll be
forever around anyway

Song For A Friend (feat. Lian)

Just a little longer

It’s alright
I’ll stay inside

I’m sure the tide will turn

There’s rarely been somewhere that I’d rather be
Than here in this palace I built just for me
There’s animal crossing, I’ll learn to bake bread
There’s D&D, zoom calls and Netflix in bed

Just a little longer

Days blending unnoticed
with weeks, months, 
I know this time’s passing 
although it’s the same

October came by
In the blink of an eye
And yet part of me feels like it’s never left May

Just a little longer

It’s alright
I’ll stay inside
We’ll get the tide to turn

And there’s rarely been anywhere I’d rather be
Than here in this palace I built just for me
So it scares me that after this long even I
am starting to feel like I’m losing my mind

How much longer?
How much longer?

Time seems fake
It might just break me
Waiting to hold and be held

Wondering when
I can be me again

How much longer?

It’s alright
I’ll survive

In time we’ll heal
Can’t wait to feel
Like I’m living and not just alive

AllenVoorEef

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