Thank you to Other Worlds Sound Studio for recording this!

The Wanderers

WORDS UNSPOKEN 
By The Graaf.

LYRICS:

There is a woman standing at the doorway
I don’t know how or when to intel her
Her secretive is killing me 
For all I know is that our hearts beat the same  
But is her head dividing and conquering her heart?
Or is she just another Siren wanting to drown me?

It all doesn’t matter now to me
‘Cause it all just matters too much for me
What do I matter to you?

There are two shadows standing at the doorway 
Oh no! I don’t know what she is hiding there
´Cause her singing isn’t telling me
For all I know is that I ain´t 
I ain’t going to be here much longer 
If I don’t realize one of the shadows is drowning me! 

It all doesn’t matter now to me
‘Cause it all just matters too much for me
What do I matter to you?

All the words unspoken
Left in voices choking
Turned dreams to tokens 
Stolen by the stealth  
And so, which cards will fold? 
In this love game that is stoking
With the Fire-door broken
Between you and me

I will never understand why you retained
Won´t accept this thief that stole our dreams
Yet I just turn my other chin
To feel the scorching pain 
Of being in love with someone 
Who doesn’t feel the same

It all doesn’t matter now to me
‘Cause it all just matters too much for me
I said it all doesn’t matter now to me
‘Cause it all just matters too much for me

Oh, now tell me 
Oh, now tell me
What do I matter to you?

Words Unspoken

Outbound
By The Graaf 

A song I recorded 4 years ago, that i now sneakily released here on Soundcloud. 

Lyrics:
Occupy the one deemed distant for us to see
An enemy of time 
Bound since the laughing jackass sang from the eucalyptus tree 
At dawn jack cut everything down
Mutated meat beings are roaming now
Pushing fragile lines of conventions into a flight outbound

I will fly high here 
I will fly to anywhere
Just to find a faith
That was not planted here 
That was not planted anywhere
Just to find my, just to find my, just to find my faith 

Philosuffocate to seek 
As we gaze upon what it left of thee 
One´s friendship occupied
Once lost but now found hunted 
To the steep edged corner in our common cage  
That greed and hatred build 
With abstractions that lacks self-control, LOL
How lowly birds are frying now
Burning away from balanced life circles
Into a Noah’s ark like outbound
 
I will fly high here 
I will fly to anywhere
Just to find a faith
That was not planted here 
That was not planted anywhere
Just to find my, just to find my, just to find my faith 

All the lessons learned from our descent 
Poached, thrown out and leaved stained 
I only found the days that sends the one outbound
I will never sell all the flowers the stains impaled
All the dreams that it instilled 
Only found the days that sends the one outbound

I will fly high here 
I will fly to anywhere
Just to find a faith
That was not planted here 
That was not planted anywhere
Just to find my, just to find my, just to find my faith 

All the lessons learned from our descent 
Poached, thrown out and leaved stained 
I only found the days that sends the one outbound
I will never sell all the flowers the stains impaled
All the dreams that it instilled 
But I only found the days that sends the one outbound

I will never hail all the verses that we  
Inhale again, inhale again
About that we all stand alone 
No, I say no! 
Oh, fight for love
Fight for the one
To come back to where we belong

Outbound

Se Gennem Os - Nanna Sofie

Children of the sun

Painting Girl

Supply The Moment

On The Day I Left: written, played and recorded by The Graaf (Alexander Noordegraaf). 

Lyrics:
 
She said
On the day I left
Nothing that I can do
To make me sing along to the songs
So I might ever fall outside her doors?
 
It is time to find another way and let go of this shrine
 
They said that my life is under theft
As long as I bind to this tainted longing core
Again I nearly came to knock on its door
To blame it all on me
It is time to turn this canon away from me
Cause it has fallen abrupt above absence
And I need to find what else I was looking for
A course that might never pass outside her doors?
 
It is time to find another way and let go of this shrine
 
I tried to save something that doesn’t want to be saved
The failure will stall upon my feet
If I don’t leave it all
Yet, wishing it all would have been so different

Today I might I have found a way and let go of this shrine

It has come to
That wherever I go
It forever follows
  
She said
In case I wander
In case I wander off
Will we still be existing?
Be existing until the end of it all?

She said
In case I wander
In case I wander off
Will we still be existing?
Be existing until the end of it all?

She said
Until the end of it all

She said
Until the end of it all

Until the end of it all

On The Day I Left

The Dry Tear In Your Eye, written and recorded by The Graaf (Alexander Noordegraaf). Home recorded in my "Hayloft-Studio". 

I have experienced people very close to me who have had severe depression and anxiety. I myself have also had the “pleasure” to experience those two. So, for longer time I have wanted to write a song that could express it all. This came together the night before I went to “corona quarantine” myself at my parents house. I was jamming on an acoustic guitar and a riff and lyric-ideas for a new song in the caliber I wished for appeared. I took my electric guitar and recorded 3 tracks with lead- and rhythm guitars. I decided to keep the second track because of its intensity and build the song up around this. I set up a ´hayloft-studio´ at my parent’s house, where I could record drums, bas and vocals. In this dusty attic setting, the song I wished to make took its shape. Having listened to loads of ´dream-pop´ and ´shoegaze´ recently there was no doubt that I wanted a similar sound for this track - ofcourse mixed with my ´grungy´- and ´lo-fi´ influences. My ´hayloft-studio´ could set the perfect ambience and sphere for that wish. Without further ado, here it is ´The Dry Tear In your Eye´.

Lyrics:
Another day to wake up, why?
The wooden ceiling you gaze at
Cracks a dry tear in your eye
A feeling that became your home
Built in a deep black hole
Is pulling all the dreams you own
Towards the core of what you fear the most

Another day to rake back, life
But the sun went behind the clouds
You don’t know where to begin in this dark
I wish someone would have held your hand
When the storms were too strong for a child to fend
The burden inside increments
A weight you can’t carry much longer

Then you said
I am caught into distress
Every time my dreams are used as baits
And I know these walls can’t be leaned on
Cause the world has bombed them to shreds
Oh, I know I shouldn’t give in I will try
But I can’t find the silver lining in my mind
I don’t want to give up
I must try to find the silver lining
The silver lining

How much it hurts
To let go of the burden that occupie these hands
But it is the only means to crawl out of this hole
It is time to let go
Time to ask for a hand
That can help me out of this

And you said
I am caught into distress
Every time my dreams are used as baits
And I know these walls can’t be leaned on
Cause the world has bombed them to shreds
Oh, I know I shouldn’t give in I will try
To find the silver lining in my mind
I don’t want to give up
I must try to find the silver lining
The silver lining
I will try
I will try

The Dry Tear In Your Eye

Shimmering Waves

´Please Take her hand´ is an intimate song about a personal experience from my youth combined with a similar recent experiences. The song is the first chaptor of a series of songs with the same musical theme - so stay tunned for the next part(s).

The song is written and recorded by The Graaf, with help in the development process from my good friend and music partner Kasper Høxbroe Jeppesen.
 
Lyrics:

His feelings could have had
Taken her down to the bench at the sea
Slowly residing there with each other 
Melting together by the sounds of the waves singing
But he gave his illusions
The power to state he has no chance
 
Please take her hand
Please take her hand
She is standing right there
 
His feelings could sometimes
Make him think he was worth less
That she would never ever be with him
But only with the confident guys
It seemed she always was with
All these illusion
More powerful 
That states it’s over now 
 
Please take her hand
Please take her hand
She is standing right there
 
As he walks by the bench at the sea
A lonely tear falls upon the sand
And the feeling of shame
Leaves the self-worth so far behind 
Where the truth cannot be seen 
Pain strikes like waves into his heart
And now it seems  
Like there is no reason to stay
But he will stay here for the night
With a pain that will stay all his life
He will stay at the bench for the night
With the pain that will stay all his life 

Everything is floating now 
Do not know whether if he is in
The sea, sand or in the sky

Please Take Her Hand

I am a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. My mission is to create personal and honest music, that invites the listener to dive into; dreams, nostalgias, passions, acceptance, vibrations, hope, presence, and, last but not least; life!

Besides having this Solo project called The GRAAF, I am also the Drummer of the Copenhagen based rock band called; Raw Umbra (https://www.facebook.com/rawumbra ) and I was part of the duo project called Seven Millimeters  (https://soundcloud.com/user-440242066 ).

My passion is to create music and express my thoughts, experiences, dreams, emotions, past, present, and future within these pieces of art. The creations here on Soundcloud are recorded in my amateur home studio in Copenhagen or in my hay-loft studio on the Island of Bornholm, where I grew up on the rugged countryside. To get as close to a personal expression in the creations as possible, I decided to play all instruments, record, and mix everything all by myself.
 
Alternative rock and metal, Grunge, Post-punk Shoegaze and Dream-pop are the music-genres that mainly “hits me” and inspires me in my own music making. But years of playing classical music on my Accordion and the fact that I have a very broad music taste, influences the music and expressions as well. 

Best regards,
Alexander, a.k.a. The Graaf