Doe je ogen dicht

Naar de overkant

Ritme van de nacht

met jou

Tomorrow Isn't Always Tomorrow

It's All Wright Now

I wanna Believe In Me

Tekst door Jelmer van Lenteren

We zijn zomaar ergens, ergens waar het warm is 
en waar het licht naar binnen schijnt. 
Zij draagt de taal als een hoed en wordt er chiquer van. 

Ze praat over de mooiste koetjes en de liefste kalfjes
met een accent dat als een blote jurk om haar lichaam hangt. 
In haar decolleté verdwijnt wat ze niet durft te zeggen. 

Ze zucht een ketting rond haar nek, 
zegt iets intelligents als:
een mooie man is niet vereist, maar strekt tot aanbeveling. 

Dat wat ze zegt verwordt tot wollen sjaal. 

Ze stapt rond in haar verspreking als op hoge, zwarte hakken
op een witte vloer. Ik zie haar schone ondergoed
als ik haar later die avond de mond snoer:

Een setje juiste woorden.

De Juiste Woorden - ft. Jelmer van Lenteren

Picture : Nol Havens

Feel the hairs on your skin rising up. 
Standing up straight and resembling mountains and rooftops. 
And all of the things that supposed to feel calm and at ease. 
Overflowing, the sea of your thoughts.

I can't see any further. 
Any further than this. 
And I can't go any further. 
Any further than this. 

Biting my fingertips, craving the silence. 
Adrenaline finding its way to my brain in a haze. 
Nothing is ever the same, it's all blown out of contex. 
The sea of my thoughts. 

I can't see any further. 
Any further than this. 
And I can't go any further. 
Any further than this. 

It is never okay, not to be okay. 
It it's not ever okay.
It is never okay, not to be okay. 
It it's not ever okay.

I can't see any further. 
Any further than here.

Further

If you want a revolution go and start one, 
If you want to help the orphans go adopt one. 
If you're xenophobic go and help a refugee, 
Everyone can make a change, at least in some degree. 
You say a like equals a prayer, does it really?
What kind of fucked up word do we live in?
Where 45 million slaves are still working
On assets to make young girls feel less ugly. 

You and I don't know what else to do apart from
Joke and complain about it, 
And swim against the current. 
I don't see another way. 
I guess we're just some strangers with opinions. 

No consent means it's no sex but does it really?
What if she never said no and she is sleeping. 
And you paid for all her drinks and for the movie.
She put on a daring dress, what was she thinking?
If she was awake she would like it the same way as you
So you'll do no harm. 
She was the one to provoke you. 
What did she think you were gonna do?

You and I don't know what else to do apart from
Joke and complain about it, 
And swim against the current. 
I don't see another way. 
I guess we're just some strangers with opinions. 

If you want a revolution go and start one.

Doe je ogen dicht

De liedjesmaker

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