This is the playlist for Birchwood songs that are made or will be made in 2025.

Songs in 2025

Andrew's BIAB songwriter favs

A story of the life of many. 
Not finding the right words when you need them the most.
But in the end it will be ok.

The Key is in A major.

(can't find) Words
(c) HWBerkhout, dec, 30 2024

Verse 1
Words, I cannot find
They’re lost inside my mind
The moment I see your face
They vanish, without a trace

Verse 2
Words, they slip away
No matter what I say
My tongue just ties itself
My nerves cry out for help

Chorus A
Oh, I love it when you’re smiling
It brightens up my day
But I can’t seem to tell you
My words just run away

Verse 3
Words, they trip and fall
They barely make sense at all
I try to sound so smooth
But I just lost my groove

Verse 4
Words, they hide from me
Like a ship lost at sea
I want to make it right
But they’re nowhere in sight

Chorus B
Oh, I love it when you’re laughing
It makes my heart go wild
But every time I try to tell you
I freeze up like a child

Bridge
I’ve practiced what to say
A hundred times today
But when I see your face
It all goes to waste

Chorus A

Solo

Chorus A
Chorus B

Outro
But wait! I’ve found them now!
The words I longed to say to you
“I love you"

(can't find) Words

'When fools vote' is a Bluesy song about the state of the world and how it began.

When fools vote
(c) HWBerkhout (15022025) 

I drive the highway, near the shore
No turning back, like times before
Harmony: Kind of lonely, this fridaynight
I've heard all the news, it made me sigh
Is seems the world has lost its mind

Still on that highway, speeding fast
Feels like I'm racing through the past
Harmony: Kind of lonely, this fridaynight
Wars are brewing, tensions rise
Look around you, it's no surprise

Chorus
You Fools, look what you've done
'We, the people' will be overrun
You vote for tyrants, creeps and clowns,
causing us all going 'down'

You let crooks destroy democracy
But you call it 'fate', so carelessly...
Harmony: Kind of lonely, this fridaynight
You might forgot they just go their own way 
You will regret it, one day!

Solo

Chorus 
You Fools, look what you've done
'We, the people' will be overrun 
You vote for tyrants, creeps and clowns,
causing us all going 'down'

I once trusted justice and the state
but that quickly crumbled and I lost my faith
Harmony: Kind of lonely, how does this end?
See them grin, grabbing all power
Leaving us a 'cold shower'!

Chorus
You Fools, look what you've done
'We, the people' will be overrun
You vote for tyrants, creeps and clowns, 
causing the world going 'down'

I drive the highway, near the shore
No turning back, not like before
Harmony: Kind of lonely, that's what it is
I pressed the gas, into the darkness
Letting my thoughts go free, think I hear the sea...

When fools vote

Almost Forgot Her Name

Bad Luck is a song about Bad Luck ;-)

Bad Luck
(c) HwBerkhout 2019/01-03-2025

Verse 1
I'm rowing in an ocean
in a leaking dinghy
I only can recall
Our plane crashed into the sea

Verse 2
I'm the sole survivor
Can't find me any land
I have no food and water
or signals to send

Verse 3
It's getting darker by the hour
Then I only see the moon
The waves are getting rougher
I must be found real soon

Verse 4
I'm rowing in an ocean
No idea where to go
We call this 'bad luck',
as far as I know

Chorus1
No, this ain't my day, though you're with me
In my heart, I see your face and you're smiling
But I'm so frightened, and desperate as can be
Still I keep saying we're gonna make it, you and me

Verse 5
I'm rowing in an ocean
The moon is my only light
Sharks pay me more attention
They're getting closer this night

Verse 6
I'm the sole survivor
No idea where to go
We call this 'bad luck',
As far as I know

Chorus2
No, this ain't my day, though you're with me
In my heart, I see your face and you're smiling
But I'm so frightened, and desperate as can be
Still I keep saying we're gonna make it, you will see

Solo

Chorus3
No, this ain't my day, though you're with me
In my heart, I see your face and you're smiling
But I'm so frightened, and desperate as can be
Still I keep saying we're gonna make it, you and me

Outro
As I row in this sinking dinghy,
so cold and so wet,
you crawled to me, yes finally.
No bad luck no more!
I feel your lips and close my eyes...

Bad Luck (remix)

Lyrics: R.W. Davis
Lead vocals: D.A. Hughes
Graphic: Macrovector on Freepik.com

Gone

Song made by Birchwood, (c) HWBerkhout (lyrics and music)
Key:D, Bpm: 105. 
BGvoc: Tamar & Hans
Final:: 04/06/25

Gotta get going

I went to Russia, it looked so nice
Moscow was a paradise
Saint Petersburg, a pearl near the sea
This really was the place to be 

But then came Vlad, Vlad the weasel 
Democracy, he thinks it's evil

Chorus
So I gotta get going, be on my way
Here is no future for me to stay
I gotta get going, can't come back
I have to follow another track

So, I went to China, with people so nice
Beijing was a paradise
And The Great Wall, across the land
You'll enjoy walking it, hand in hand

But then came Jinping Winni, Xi the-Pooh
who hates Democracy too

Chorus
So I gotta get going, be on my way
Here is no future for me to stay
I gotta get going, can't come back
I have to follow another track

=solo=

Bridge
I found me a home in the US of A.
To live my life in a peaceful way.
But then came Don MAGA, Vlad's man.
Killing democracy as fast as he can

Chorus
So, I gotta get going, be on my way
Hope I find luck somewhere, one day
I gotta get going, can't come back
I have to follow another track

 I gotta get going, be on my way
Here is no future anyway
Another country I need to find
Where people are sane and kind

Canada!!!
Maybe...
We'll see


(c)HwBerkhout, 03/25/25

Gotta Get going

Lazy Daze


                   I'll Be Your Fool


    In  quiet corners of my mind
   I look for truth I'm yet to find
   That day when  you walked away
    You left behind an  empty gray

    With every year, the questions grow
    Answers fade like melting snow
    In love and life, I'm lost again
     The more I seek, the less I win

     And, as time ..... flows
    What I don't know ...shows
    I'd be a fool  don't you know what I dream
    It's your name ...I call
    It's a  game .....we play
    I'm a  fool after fool evermore

   Windows in the evening light                                         
   Reflections of my youth                            
  Thought I knew my path in life                          
   But these footsteps lead to the truth

    Over time I start to see
   The truth hiding underneath
   People come but they will go
   Marking time untill they know

    And, as time ..... flows
    What I don't know ...shows
    I'd be a fool  don't you know what I dream
    It's your name ...I call
    It's a  game .....we play
    I'm a  fool after fool evermore

    The more I live     The less I know
    I'll be your fool      be your fool
    Now and for ever
    Now and for evermore

I'll Be Your Fool

The earth shatters
and drags you down
Nowhere an escape
is to be found
Memories fade and jumble
Crossroads crack and crumble

I am here
if you’re asking
I am here
I am now
Walk away or turn around
But you must know
I am here

Your shame burns through
and scars your mind
All the good things
get left behind
Memories fade and jumble
Crossroads crack and crumble

I am here
if you’re asking
I am here
I am now
Walk away or turn around
But you must know
I am here

I might not be the rainbow
At the end of the storm
But I could be the sunlight
That keeps you warm

I Am Here

This is about the kind of secrets you don't wish to have and can't tell anybody (lighthearted)
Key: E, temp 95 bpm


My secrets
(c) HWBerkhout 2025

I can't help it.  I can't tell them
Will you ever understand?
I must hide them, no one likes them
I call them 'my secrets'.

The secrets in my life, who likes to hear them?
So they stay mine forever
You don't get it if I share them
They will blow your mind

Chorus
No, I don't want them, I don't need them
But they are mine, much too long
No, I can't take it, I don't need them
It's because I'm not that strong

I once shared them with a girlfriend
Within a week that ended
I have mentioned them in a letter
Which still hasn't been sent

Chorus
No, I don't want them, I don't need them
But they are mine, much too long
No, I don't take it, I don't need them
It's because I'm not that strong

Solo

Chorus 2x
Oh, I don't want them, I don't need them
But they are mine, much too long
No, I can't take it, I don't need them
It's because I'm not that strong

No, I don't want them, I don't need them
But they are mine, much too long
No, I can't take it, I don't need them
I know, I'm not so strong...

My Secrets

A song about people in war zones, while we watch...
Helplessly, or...(?)

A dirty white dress
(C) HWBerkhout, aug. 3, 2025, Key: C

Solo
Verse 1
I walk through a destructed land,
and a city torn apart.
The dead and wounded are everywhere,
no tree still stands in heart.

Chorus
I could only stare, as tears filled my eyes
I see a child in a devastated street
She wears a torn, dirty white dress 
And no shoes at her feet

Solo
Verse 2
No color left to witness,
just ashes, black and grey.
I hear the moans of fallen souls,
their sounds won’t drift away.

Chorus
I could only stare in disbelief
I see a child in a devastated street
She wears a torn, dirty white dress 
And no shoes at her feet

Verse 3
What kind of world I live in?
Where assholes pretend to be what we need
Why do we follow these sick minds?
Is fear-or apathy-in the lead?

Solo +
Look what they've done,
look what they've done
This world is completely mad!

Chorus
I could only stare, as tears filled my eyes
I see a child in a devastated street
She wears a torn, dirty white dress 
And no shoes at her feet

I could only stare in disbelief
I see a child in a devastated street
She wears a torn, dirty white dress 
And no shoes at her feet
And she's weeping, in her torn, dirty white dress...

Dirty white dress

I compose songs, write lyrics and sing most of them. I don't have  'one'  style. It depends on my mood or on certain issues that are going on in our world. AND some listeners can even tell which songs are genuine 'Birchwood-songs' (!)