I've got bees coming through my eyes
I've got dreams too hard to realise
sometimes these dreams
are not to be
but I've got bees
and they won't leave me


rough demo
words & music Jim Neversink 2013

BEES Part 3- Jim Neversink

I don't care if you live or die
I don't care if you're in the sky
I don't care if the sun is high
I live in a bunker away from your lies

I don't care about your latest mood
your neighbour's job
or your dinner for two
your protein tastes different now
I live in a bunker away from your skies

I made a doll with wood and glue
I don't turn her on 'cos she looks like you
she rests her head on a cold flat stone
changed her voice-box for a sweeter tone

I don't turn her on
I don't turn her on

She looks like you.


music and lyrics - Jim Neversink
rough demo

I Don't Turn Her On - Jim Neversink rough demo

Runaway Girl:

Wouldn't it be nice to stay up every night
do the things you want to do
way more fun when there's two

be like in the movies
do the things that lovers do
fall from balconies
and land in hotel pools
take amphetamines 
to rev up at 11

and I'll teach you all the English you'll ever need

it's the best I can do
for my runaway girl
I know you're torn
you deserve much more

you can join a cult or become a whore
or run with me
my runaway girl

and I'll teach you all the English you'll ever need

See social services
and stand in a queue
will they send you back
for more abuse

become a Scientologist
and marry Tom Cruise
or run with me
my runaway girl

music and lyrics Jim Neversink

RUNAWAY GIRL Rough Demo -Jim Neversink

The snow comes down so softly
it always comes so softly
but sometimes it is carried in the night
like geese in the sky
a mother's lullaby
it's all carried over when we die

Their DNA deserts her
such nature doesn't nurture
but every cell can feel it when she cries
to geese in the sky
she can't leave the ground
not even in a hundred years from now

There'll be geese in the sky
and another dog called Rover
somewhere in a hundred years from now

She sees her face in water
forgives the dreams that taunt her
and slips between the reeds to say goodbye
from the warm rising tide
to her friends in the sky
they'll find her in a hundred years from now

There'll be geese in the sky
and another dog called Rover
somewhere in a hundred years from now

Rover 
oh Rover

music and lyrics: Jim Neversink 2022

GEESE  rough demo - Jim Neversink

music Jim Neversink.
Rough demo, copyright.

Dagga - Jim Neversink

Bitterbessie Dagbreek-

Bitterbessie dagbreek
bitterbessie son
ŉ spieël het gebreek
tussen my en hom

Soek ek na die grootpad
om daarlangs te draf
oral draai die paadjies
van sy woorde af

Dennebos herinnering
dennebos vergeet
het ek ook verdwaal
trap ek in my leed

Papegaai-bont eggo
kierang kierang my
totdat ek bedroë
weer die koggel kry

Eggo is geen antwoord
antwoord hy alom
bitterbessie dagbreek
bitterbessie son

ENGLISH:

Bitter-berry daybreak
Bitter-berry daybreak
bitter-berry sun
a mirror has broken
between me and him

I try to find the highway
perhaps to run away
but everywhere the footpaths
of his words lead me astray

Pinewood remember
pinewood forget
however much I lose my way
I step on my regret

Parrot-coloured echo
tricks me tricks me on
until I turn beguiled
to retrieve the mocking song

Echo gives no answer
he answers everyone
bitter-berry daybreak
bitter-berry sun
© 1961, Ingrid Jonker Trust
From: Rook en Oker
Publisher: Afrikaanse Pers, Johannesburg, 1963
 
 
 
 

© Translation: 2007, Antjie Krog & André Brink
From: Black Butterflies
Publisher: Human & Rousseau, Cape Town, 2007, 9780798148924

Music and Vocals Jim Neversink 2014. Unmixed Version.
Original recording of Ingrid Jonker's voice, 1961 Copyright.



BITTERBESSIE DAGBREEK- Ingrid Jonker Poem with Jim Neversink

My friends were more mysterious when I knew them in real life
Now they've found Instagram and taken her as a wife
they use filters
to kid me that they're young - nightclub saturation, all bleached by Insta sun

I see their restaurants and the people they tag
but I knew them better in real life
by the people they shagged
we'd sit on the balcony drinking coffee or tea
now we never talk apart from virtually

Filtered ghosts of friends 
All lost at sea

Hey Johnny hold my camera
how does the water feel?
I'm jumping from this bridge
we're gonna make a reel
but pass me a beer
I must first imbibe
and if I die
just tell them all to hit like and subscribe

Filtered ghosts of friends all lost at sea

Sorry I can't talk now 
I'm with a client
I have a deadline

Instagram took the friends I loved from me

Filtered ghosts of friends
Filtered ghosts all lost at sea


Jim Neversink 2025.

FILTERED GHOSTS  - jim neversink

Look how green it is outside
they must have had rain while we slept
how long did we sleep
did we even sleep

well I do remember you said slow down
there were sheep and candy bars
futuristic cars
and a runway without a single plane

look how green it is outside
will you try come back inside?

NEAR DEATH FOR ONE _rough mix

Everyone must have a gun
by the time they turn five
Everyone must die
we'll give this planet to the apes
they can read our Bibles and starve
or take our houses and drink our wine
I don't care - I just want us gone

The homeless can come or they can stay
I hope they find shelter either way
and with few of us around
this war on drugs might finally be won

I don't fear trans girl or guy
I hope Jesus heals Vanky's vocal fry 
I don't care - I just want us gone
I don't care I just want us gone

No Need to rearrange
words like could or should
we failed
and we failed so good
now we live in a petting zoo
a petting zoo

we live in a petting zoo
I'm number one
and you're exhibit number two

PETTING ZOO - Jim Neversink

ABBA cover.
Writers: Benny Andersson and
Björn Ulvaeus. 1982.

The Day Before You Came-  Jim Neversink

Peter has just gone
we can't say for how long
but someone saw him by the washing line
kicking little stones around
we must accept it's all for the best
family holidays are a test

Peter has just gone
we can't stay sad for long
we hope someone will bring him back
we hope he took a stick and a map
please send him our love
he's 35 and looks a bit like us.


rough demo
words & music Jim Neversink 2013

PETER (has just gone) - Jim Neversink

She is a hitcher
but not in this life
a sleepy fiancé
on the back of his bike
over the railings and far below
they shot out the sun
'cos it followed them home

And when you tell them
through the din of the bar
HEY! You won't believe what just happened
and they just go ja
you probably met Jean
'cos your face is so white
and let me guess
she just walked out

and you can meet her
on Friday nights
still in the raincoat she was wearing that night
and when you ask her
so hey where do you want to go?
She's already walked out

She is a hitcher 
but not in this life
drop acid on weekends 
and picnic at night
headlights in bushes
off the main road
make love on the bonnet
and never go home

and you can meet her on Friday nights
somewhere near Ramsgate
or further down south
and when you ask her
so hey where do you want to go......

Walk out
Walk out 

off the main road

WALK OUT

Vocals and all instruments - Jim Neversink

please note: this is a ROUGH demo

words & music - Jim Neversink 2019 copyright

WALK OUT - Jim Neversink  Rough Mix

Tisvilde jeg elsker dig
Jeg elsker 
DIE

Far out in the log house
with paraffin eyes
wind is up
but the sky is clear 
it's good to have you here tonight

Wood smoke from the chimney
and another icy night
Tisvilde I love you
it's good to have you here tonight

No sign of the neighbours
all snow art our own
distant cars on the highway
can never turn in here again

I speak with an accent 
but you sound in a foreign tongue
Tisvilde I love you
it's good to have you so undone
it's good to have you so undone

Far out in the log house
Far out in the log house
Far out in the log house

it's good to be so far out
it's good to be so far out

Words & Music: Jim Neversink 2020.
Copyright - duh!
Produced by Alistair McDirty
Raft Kitten Music.

TISVILDE Rough Mix 3 - Jim Neversink

Oh won't you stay a little while
just until the sun comes out
I know I said that yesterday
but that was yesterday

Oh won't you take a walk with me
teach me how people see
warmer colours like you do
I may learn a lot from you

And if you ever stand for something
remember, 
I stand for something too

Oh won't you stay a little while
just until the sun comes out
I know I said that yesterday
but I can't help that it's today

Words & Music: Jim Neversink copyright 2020

STAND - Jim Neversink

I was so bored
when I met you
that's why we started dancing
sorry if that's news

I was there to wait for someone
I'm always waiting for someone
someone

How would I know
there'd be more
I found a place to hang my coat
on your floor
I do my best to smile
'cos people love it when you smile
but
I'm so bored
maybe I'll climb you instead

You take your style from a Charlotte Rampling film
European jazz makes me want to pull my head off
and listen to the boring drums
it sounds like some machine

European jazz

You take your style from a Charlotte Rampling film

it sounds like some machine


Rough recording.
Words & Music Jim Neversink copyright 2020
All vocals and instruments Jim Neversink.

European Jazz aka Charlotte - Jim Neversink

This is not really a tribute to the King, it is more of a brief exploration into the world of the Jordanaires and their beautiful harmonies.
I worked out the vocal harmonies of each member and tried my best to recreate them on guitar.

Jim Neversink

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