Unfold (EP)
01 August 2012
All tracks written, recorded and produced by Fran Taljaard

© 2011 Fran Taljaard
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I’d rather be everything you need 
Than be everything you want 
If I were everything you want 
You wouldn’t need me anymore 

When you have something that you need 
You want to keep it with you always 
I want you to keep me with you always 
I want to be there by your side 

If I could keep you with me always 
Would you be everything I want 
Would you want me to keep you with me always 
Even if I didn’t need you anymore

Everything You Want

Unfold (EP)
01 August 2012
All tracks written, recorded and produced by Fran Taljaard

© 2011 Fran Taljaard
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See me reaching toward you 
See me over on the lake shore 
All the distance between us 
That gravity can’t overcome 

With a touch I remember 
How it was to be with you 
I built these walls for a reason 
Every stone a part of you 

A kiss is a lovely trick 
To seize control of the senses 
A way to distract my heart 
While you weaken my defenses 

Tell me why should I love you 
Tell me why should I love you 
Tell me, tell me, tell me this 
Tell me why do I love you 
Why do I love you… 

Dreams of us are nothing more 
Than empty wishes to cling to 
They beckon towards us 
And display their illusions before us 

Could we make them real like we used to 
Relive the moments like we used to 
Could we believe like we used to 

A kiss is a lovely trick 
To seize control of the senses 
A way to distract my heart 
While you weaken my defenses 

Tell me why should I love you 
Tell me why should I love you 
Tell me, tell me, tell me this 
Tell me why do I love you 
Why do I love you…


Why Do I Love You

Unfold (EP)
01 August 2012
All tracks written, recorded and produced by Fran Taljaard

© 2011 Fran Taljaard
These tracks may be freely downloaded, copied, redistributed, shared and performed as long as proper credit is attributed. Tracks may be used for personal, non-commercial and promotional purposes only.
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In every whisper there's a hint
Of something new
Something that reminds me
And hints ever of you

Captured by the winter
And frozen in the earth
Safely, till the heart has thawed 
And recognised its worth

Buried deep beneath the ground
Under the falling snow
Kept there till the heart unfolds
Allows itself to grow

Rising in the farthest distance
A hint of arctic gold
Melting the frozen shell
To let the soul unfold

Unfold

Unfold (EP)
01 August 2012
All tracks written, recorded and produced by Fran Taljaard

© 2011 Fran Taljaard
These tracks may be freely downloaded, copied, redistributed, shared and performed as long as proper credit is attributed. Tracks may be used for personal, non-commercial and promotional purposes only.

Unfold (Instrumental)

Love Is In The Water
13 July 2014
Written, recorded and produced by Fran Taljaard

© 2014 Fran Taljaard
All Rights Reserved

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Love is in the water
Love is in the way you breathe
Love is in your arms
The way your body sighs and heaves

Love is in the water
Love is the colour of your blood
Flowing through your heart
It is the endless flood

Hold me
Hold me till the moon falls from the sky
Hold me
Never say goodbye

Love is in the water
Love is in the way you breathe
Love is in our tears
The greatest of all our fears

Hold me
Hold me till the moon falls from the sky
Hold me
Never say goodbye

Hold me
Hold me till the moon falls from the sky
Hold me
Never say goodbye
Own me
Until the ocean fills the sky
Own me
Be mine until we die

Love Is In The Water

Before The Fall
21 April 2015
Written, recorded and produced by Fran Taljaard

© 2015 Fran Taljaard
All Rights Reserved

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The shadows stole you underneath
The trees that day
Still became the hour
Still the moment before the fall

I always wondered
Were you waiting for me
Did you know the reason
Know the dangers beyond the wall

Your fingers pulled me onward
Through the undertow 
Still your touch I remember
Still the moment before the fall

You brushed your face along my hand
Your breath that whispered on my skin
Secrets come and secrets go
But where I take you no one can ever know

Then I could hear your footsteps
As you ran between the trees
Still the look you gave me
Still the shadows frozen tall

And as the sun descended
As the world began to fade
Still became the hour
Still the moment before the fall

Before The Fall

Nights And Rivers
18 June 2015
Written, recorded and produced by Fran Taljaard

© 2015 Fran Taljaard
All Rights Reserved

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Nights and rivers
Cold in the icy winter
Nights and rivers
Froze my heart at the sight of you

Nights and rivers
Warm in the wild midsummer
Nights and rivers
Gone are the days when I was the one

Nights and rivers
Wolves in the deep dark water
Nights and rivers
Lost my heart when I drowned in you

Nights And Rivers

I Never Listen
30 October 2019
Written, recorded and produced by Fran Taljaard

© 2019 Fran Taljaard
All Rights Reserved

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I knew from the start
Your waves would break my ocean
And tear it apart
Every drop in my heart

Do you ever believe them?
The lies I tell...
Do you ever believe them?

A shot across the bow
Set everything in motion
Arrows that pierce me now
I never listen...

Don't you ever believe them
The lies I tell...
Don't you ever believe them

I Never Listen

Futile Devices
28 September 2013
Written by Sufjan Stevens
Recorded and produced by Fran Taljaard

Original: https://music.sufjan.com/track/futile-devices

Futile Devices

Futile Devices (Sufjan Stevens Cover)

Vespertine Moon
13 February 2021
Written, recorded and produced by Fran Taljaard

© 2021 Fran Taljaard
All Rights Reserved
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the moon, she sees with her silver eye
all beneath the vespertine sky
the joys and sorrows
the yesterdays, tomorrows
the hidden worlds in you and I

Vespertine Moon

Classically trained musician with a love for creating music and lyrical poetry.

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