The song deals with 2 of the worst crisis of our times: neo-fascism and climate change. (It’s funny that these two words "neo-fascism" and "climate change" sound alike. As if language itself strives to warn us that the fear of and the deepened social injustice produced by climate change will drive people into the arms of dictators.) In the chorus I use Dylan Thomas' everlasting words. Thanks!

Goldilocks
Words and music Rolf Heitmann June 2021

Oh behold strong men are on the rise again
The desperate multitudes worship a man
They deny what they see with their own eyes
That 2 and 2 is four, that change is at the door

But I will not go quietly into the night 
I’ll rage against the dying of the light
I won’t go quietly I’ll rage against…

Not too hot, not too cold, not too hard or soft    
Just right for a strange kind, a strange kind of life
Sweet Goldilocks (that) you may burn you may drown 
That’s simply too much to wrap one’s head around

But I will not go quietly into the night 
I’ll rage against the dying of the light
I won’t go quietly I’ll rage against…

Goldilocks (Demo)

The song deals with 2 of the worst crisis of our times: neo-fascism and climate change. (It’s funny that these two words "neo-fascism" and "climate change" sound alike. As if language itself strives to warn us that the fear of and the deepened social injustice produced by climate change will drive people into the arms of dictators.) In the chorus I use Dylan Thomas' everlasting words. Thanks!

Goldilocks
Words and music Rolf Heitmann June 2021

Oh behold strong men are on the rise again
The desperate multitudes worship a man
They deny what they see with their own eyes
That 2 and 2 is four, that change is at the door

But I will not go quietly into the night 
I’ll rage against the dying of the light
I won’t go quietly I’ll rage against…

Not too hot, not too cold, not too hard or soft 
Just right for a strange kind, a strange kind of life
Sweet Goldilocks (that) you may burn you may drown 
That’s simply too much to wrap one’s head around

But I will not go quietly into the night 
I’ll rage against the dying of the light
I won’t go quietly I’ll rage against…

Goldilocks DEMO No Bass And Drumm

Astronaut
(For my mother)

Verse 1 
An astronaut between the stars
My tether broke
I’ve never felt more alone
All my friends have headed home

Verse 2
I never walked on thinner ice
She who carried me has died
I hear it crack and through the cracks
The void comes up black

Chorus 1
All the love I got
I owe it to your heart
Greater than space, longer than time
Now this sweet love is all we got

Verse 3
I’m floating here in weightless fear
Transmitting in the blind
I’m upside down I’m spinning ‘round
But somehow you are near

Chorus 2
All the love I got
I owe it to your heart
Greater than space, longer than time
Now this sweet love is all we got

Bridge
And tomorrow when the sun comes up
It will shed its warm rays
Right there on the kitchen chair
Where you’re supposed to sit
In the garden where you loved to walk
The leafs will rustle gently
Right there by the winding path
As if the ghost of you just passed

Chorus 3
All the love I got
I owe it to your heart
Greater than space, longer than time
Now this sweet love is all we got
Now this sweet love is all we got
All we got 

Music and lyrics Rolf Heitmann 2019

Astronaut (Demo)

King Of Peace (Live)

Recorded live at Fermaten, Herning (DK), 15.11.2019

Oh No Not Me (Live)

Recorded live at Fermaten Nov. 15 2019


Teeth Grinders
Music and lyric (c) Rolf Heitmann 2013
 
The water’s rising
We don’t live by the sea
Soon all the people from all around
Run for the high ground

So far we’ve been lucky
We don’t sleep where the rain gets in
Mansion on the hill
Your walls can’t withstand the avalanche 

War is far away
I doubt it will ever come here
But every time I turn on the news
Death has grown shoots

So far we’ve been lucky
We don’t sleep where the rain gets in
Mansion on the hill
Your walls can’t withstand the avalanche 
So far we’ve been lucky
We don’t sleep where the night ain’t blessed

I get into bed
My wife and my daughter
Are grinding their teeth
I rub down their cheeks carefully
And I whisper in their ears
My darlings you have nothing to fear

Chorus

Teeth Grinders (Live)

Recorded live at Fermaten, Herning (DK), Nov. 15 2019


Summer Rain
Words and music © Rolf Heitmann 1990&2014

Just don’t ask me a thing
‘Cause I don’t know 
The answer to anything anymore
And stop your crying
‘Cause you’ll always be a
Ripple in my blood 
Until the day I must sleep
Under the ground
The day I must sleep in the sweet ground

Now I go out
Out in the rain
And I take the water I need

Out of the summer rain
Out of the summer rain

Stop your crying
‘Cause you and I
Can do no good no more
Please don’t ask me a thing
‘Cause I don’t have 
Answers to anything anymore
Never said I was wise
But now I’m dumb
Never said I was wise but now I’m dumb

Now I go out
out in the rain
And I take the water I need

Out of the summer rain
Out of the summer rain
Out of the summer rain
Out of the summer rain

Summer Rain (Live)

Genrerne er folk-rock, americana og alternativ country, når HEIT (Rolf Heitmann) indtager scenen. Han går uforfærdet i clinch med de store politiske temaer såsom krig, klima, ulighed, 9/11 (”The towers that fell and rose hell”). Lige så ofte er det dog den 52-årige familiefars mere intime tanker om ægteskab, børn, religion og døden, der skaber fortællingerne. 

"Sjældent velkomponerede sange”
                     Henrik Øster-Jørgensen, Herning Folkeblad

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