Chameleon

Principessa

Wrote this mid-90's and recorded around 2005. Just dusting it off now as I build out my studio. 

6/8 feel, Alternate 6 and 7
Capo 1st fret

All my friends say
Let it go
I should be over it by now
Wisdom so easy to give
Still I just don’t know how

Dreams are ephemeral things
Palpable only to the mind
But their memory lurks incessantly
In the void they leave behind

So tell me
What am I to do
With a memory 
Just a memory of you

Chorus (in 6/8)
I think of the words  D Em   (roads)
Behind all your fears   B7 Em
Won’t you	Bm 
Spare me	B7/C C 
The monotony    Am  
Of not being ready for love	D sus7		(resolve to G)

There was a time
I thought I could die for you
If only I could be with you somehow
But it’s more insane 
To make myself a living martyr for you now
And not have you notice me at all

Some may call love that survives its use
An obsession—an unrequited desire to belong
But right or wrong, I long for you 
And wish you thought of me sometimes, too

Chorus
So many words
Too many tears
Won’t you spare me
The monotony
Of not being ready for love?

(Minor chords)I
Spring is here and I sing for you 
You’re not ready for my love 
Autumn arrives and I fall for you
You’re not ready for my love 
Summer’s here and I burn for you
Still, you’re not ready for love
Winter comes and I pine for you 
You’re still not ready for love 

Now I’m tired of the tears 
And I’m sick of the fears 
Won’t you spare me 
The monotony 
Of not being ready for love?

Over It (1st take ca 2005)

Also from the 2005 collection, I recorded only two thirds of this song. It ends in a better tone. But I got frustrated with the recording and cut it off here. I didn't record the whole song--the lyrics here complete the set. 

(Intro chords)

Gmaj7 	G6(b5)  Em6 E9 (x2)
Em2		Cmaj7


6/8 feel in 7
Verse: G  Em  Am  D9/F#

“you are cursed,” she said, “to repeat your past
that’s how I know your new love won’t last
just like the man who dreams he eats his fill
you’ll wake up to find you’re hungry still”

And I said

Chorus (straight 4) 
	C	Em	Am	D	
		“What if I tried my best 

G	Am	C	D7
To understand your point of view

C			Em
Was it wrong to love you
Am		Am/G	D2/F# 
When all along I knew

(Intro chords)
I could survive without you?”

“you are cursed,” she said, “to repeat your past
that’s how I know your new love won’t last
Seas surround you, but not a drop to drink
The fruit above is just beyond your reach"

And I said

“What if I
Gave myself to ease your troubled soul

Was I wrong to love you 
When all along I knew

(Intro chords)
I could survive without you?”

“You are cursed,” she said "to repeat your past
That’s how I know our new love won’t last
You’re like the nomad wandering in the past
You see your home, but never enter in"

And I said, 
		“But what if I
Denied my place, and had a dream of you 

Was I wrong to love you 
When all along I knew
I’d have to survive without you?”

Cursed (2005 partial take)

Wrote this one in the early 90's, originally as "Vegas Night" based on my first trip to Vegas and seeing the lights from the hillside as the bus drove into Vegas. But then I realized the desert sky is way more interesting than Vegas, so there you go. Experimental in the sense it throws in an extra beat here and there.

Move over sunshine
You’re standin’
In my lady’s light
In a midnight noon
Feel her comin’ 
Like the dawn
She lights up my life
Like a desert night

Where the sky
is so bright
you can see eternity
with the naked eye

Step aside spring time
Can’t you see her walkin’ before you?
Can’t you spare one moment’s reverence
Beside your foolish cares?

Quiet as December snows
Covering my soul
She stills my heart
Like the answer to a silent prayer

And I’m so glad
When she is there
To remind me 
Of a secret shared

You know
I love everything about her
But it’s taken time for me to see
To see how nature
Imitates her beauty
And takes its meaning from her hand

Goodbye, Elysian fields
It’s time I set myself to walkin’
I have no need now
Of your visions for the blind

There was a time
I could only imagine in my mind
But now night has come to my darkened world
Covered white all over me
And there can be no doubt that a prayer is heard
Because hope has become my reality

Desert Night

unRest

unStern

unErwartet

unBalanced

unStet

(New version)
This song is about the feeling of dancing. A poem with a Balkan bass and Capoeira drum.
Poetry: Lotte Asveld
Bass: Virgil Rerimassie
Drums: Chris van 't Hof
Picture: Ingrid Geesink
Location: Daltonschool de Margriet


1. Een oerlijke dans

Just started my own studio and dusting off some old tracks, creating new ones, and looking for local collaborators. 

I'm no one's vocalist, more of a songwriter. Could use some help here. My kids are all fantastic musicians (way better than I am), so check them out! (see preemptive painkillers)

The 2005 stuff was recorded on a Yamaha workstation (that could cut a CD--remember those?) and 2 microphones, which made recording drums (my main instrument) a total nightmare.

#crowded_house = yeah, Neil Finn is possibly the best song writer ever. #respect

Cursed (2005 partial take)

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