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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

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Tekst Sara Saxild, musik Oliver Hoiness/Sara Saxild

Well I'm Glad

RIVER OF DOUBT

Lyrics:

Man, you should have learned this lesson a million years ago 
Man, you’ve been around for ages, how could you not know?
What blinded you? Her weakness or the way it made you strong? 
How could it feel so real, when you knew that it was wrong?

You’re a good man and you’ve shown it
The evening’s ending and you're standing at the mole
You’re a good man and you damn well know it.
Don't ever drown yourself in a wounded womans soul.

Man, she fell in love, but she had nowhere else to be.
Man, she wasn’t her, you should have known, you should have seen.
What blinded you? Her beauty or the way it made you glow? 
Man, you should have learned this lesson a million years ago.

Man, she only craved you to escape her troubled mind
Man, you were around, you were a man, and you were kind
What blinded you? You knew by then, she was adrift in sorrow,
and yet you dived right into her, like there was no tomorrow!

You’re a good man who’s just blown it
The evening’s ending and you're standing at the mole
You’re a good man and you damn well know it.
Don't ever drown yourself in a wounded womans soul.

Man, she didn’t mean no harm, send her on with love and kindness
Man, she didn’t do you wrong, no wickedness designed this
She blinded you, but she was blinded, following her heart
And in the end it told her that you had to be apart.

You’re a good man and you’ve shown it
The evening’s ending and you're standing at the mole
You’re a good man and you damn well know it.
Don't ever drown yourself in a wounded womans soul.

Man, it’s always painful when a sweet illusion cracks
But man, you took the gamble, now you’ve had to pay the tax
She blinded you with fragile eyes that no man could decline.
But man, you are a man and now you’ve got to draw the line!

You’re a strong man. Overthrow this.
It is night, the fog has made it off the mole
You're a strong man and you damn well know this:
Don’t ever drown yourself in a wounded womans soul.
Don’t ever drown yourself in a wounded womans soul.

Written, composed, performed and produced by Rasmus Rønnike
© 2018

Don't ever drown yourself in a wounded womans soul

When it's quiet like this
birds have bothers,
restlessly scanning autumn trees
nervous and knowing
beady and twitchy
exposed to the slightest breeze

Elegance gone
just rats with wings
but startled they launch into beautiful things
in sketches and studies
in paintings and poems
on bric-a-brac for peasants
or vases for kings
when vermin take flight they're beautiful things

Shuffle on branches so equally bare
a synchronised process
- a gift to the air
released from their scaffolds
in imaginary slings
when vermin take flight
they're beautiful things
when vermin take flight

Music and lyrics by Jim Neversink.
November 2017
Copyright.

BIRDS  (rough demo) - Jim Neversink

Here is another track from my new album ......... i dont have an album title yet ......................  All i know is that this album will be quiet , simple , messy , real and beautiful .  
Thank you all for always listening to me and always giving me love and respect for my craft .
you keep me trying 
XXX
Felix 2019

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BITTERBESSIE DAGBREEK- Ingrid Jonker Poem with Jim Neversink

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