utterly love this tune!! and the youtube movie is just killer!!!

Love this song Matthew! Cannot stop listening to it

rad song! and also really nice to hear a good saffrican "can't"

Have done a fair bit more work on this since i put it up here

Apt & Audio

Dream of you

Jy Sal Moet Op Staan

From our forthcoming album 'Dust'.

Boom & Bust
There was a time I was young and thin
I had more hair and a cocky grin
Me and my mates would drive around the town
Something was up if there was nothing going down

Our glory days, the cut, the thrust
I’d dust my broom through boom and bust
Jim drives an Uber, a software CEO
Me? Who knows? I’m always on the go

Some people spend their lives tethered to the ground
And others tumble down from the hills they’ve climbed
Me, I don’t know, as long as I’m bound
someplace else, well, I don’t mind

Someone passes, and whispers in your ear
It’s a ship of fools, there’ll be one less next year
the sirens wail, a sailor cries
on an ocean becalmed everyone dies

Live your life like you sail into the sun
Live it hard like there’s more work to be done
Who cares how, what will be will be
If it slips away, hold on to me.

Dust

Boom & Bust

Boom & Bust [Single]

Leave Right Now 10 Nov

PrettyVacant!! Sokk Pupptz

why is it we only consider only the poor the truly impoverished at the expensive of acknowledging other struggles as valid reasons for similar losses in motility? Why is taking a day off work due to a cold less frowned upon than is, say, missing a day due to burn-out?

Also, credit to the anonymous artist that through google gave me access to her haunting vision of art...

Storms

Search-and-Destroy!!

Ngonyama My family bars: load shedding

The Leather Omnibus lo-fi recording on audience cassette - Jameson's, Johannesburg, 1989

Live at Jameson's 1989

Grahamstown Fever

Afrikaans language song called "Familieruïne". A draft mix, I wrote and recorded today. About families translated from Afrikaans the title means "family ruin".

Familieruïne

Matthew van der Want is a South African singer and songwriter.

Dream of you

Matthew Van der Want

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