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Vlasman's Last English Songs

Love shows you the way 
Love shows you to play
And not to judge

Love is just a game 
Watching other’s pain
And understand

And when you calm, then you’ll be true
It’s good for you, observing you
Promise me that, you’ll understand
The words I say, just for today, you’ll keep it dry

Love is just a laugh 
Love is all you got
Until we die

Love spreads everywhere 
In you and everyone
That you will touch

And when you see, what we will be
Then you’ll be free, remember me
And touch yourself, to calm the pain
It’s just a game, you have to play, in every pain

Love

On a snowy evening
I’m again alone
I’m trying to forgive me
For escaping from myself

I’m sad but I won’t die
I’m glad you told the truth
Didn’t want to hurt your feelings
On a snowy evening

So, keep on snowing to the world I know
Never go where you don’t wanna go
So, keep on snowing I feel warm inside
Get off crying you could laugh again

On a snowy evening
I gave myself away
She did not believe me
As much as I tried

I’m feeling like a pussycat
A thief that is been caught
Forgiveness is for men I know
Childhood is for God

So keep on snowing in my heart is warm
I know a place that we could both go
Keep on snowing if my heart is wrong
I’ll stay here where is cold

On a Snowy Evening

On A Snowy Evening

As I stand inside my cell
Nothing is back to sell
Please help me to get
To the point I always forget, to the point that I forget

As I watch outside my window
Only that I see is trees
A thousand leaves that are so free
Why can’t I also be? Why can’t I also be so free?

Only trust me like a man that I have been
Only give me what really belongs to me

As I watch the rain falling on this tree
And these leaves are getting wet
Help me God, I can’t forget
The last, the past, the future comes, new life begins

I see people around me that they can’t speak
They can’t look, they can’t resist
Why this prison should exist?
And maybe out they would be free, if they had the will, if they had the will

Only trust me like a man that I have been
Only give me what really belongs to me

Prison Song

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Amsterdam

Bear in mind that this is fictional as well as firmly autobiographical all at the same time.  Because that's the way with human experience - we make up a story that we tell ourselves until we believe it.

There was some inadvertent manipulation by the educational system which was real, but I was also guilty as hell of being stubborn about individuality and also a pretty hardcore video game addict right back to the Atari 2600 and this extended into online addiction in the 90's before they had a name for it even.

So people that I may have felt were less than helpful, also rolled out the red carpet for me more than once -- just on terms I refused to swallow.

So mainly this is an anti-bureaucratic piece.  The footsoldiers in the faculties doing the teaching, and my fellow classmates both have my sincere sympathies.  A distinction has to be drawn between making music just to get the ick out of my system and what I truly think upon more sober reflection.

Also: well aware this kind of whines like "Allentown" re: 'vote with your feet dummy'

my main website:
http://exedexes1.com

itch.io page:
http://exedexes1.itch.io

Lyrics:

When the H.R. folks say that i irrationally resent
But then the merit raise was two percent
Then let's review the course of the gradual descent
That got all of us where we are now

At the start they said well then, we'll skip you one grade
But hem you in by constraints that we already made
You'd be better adjusted if you only had stayed
Where conformity's all we allow


As I traversed past grade school to the stuff above
The real shock came when, push came to shove
There came things I didn't particularly love
Like rejection from the occasional cow

I escaped from that scene seeking resolution
But the worst place to do it was an institution 
Playing redistributive games
I pushed my way through it
Though my hope was diminished
If no other result, well I proved I could finish
But they were bitter returns all the same

Getting out in the world from the ivory tower
I found that things out there were not much less sour
The retail grind at five eighty five an hour
Doesn't cause you to climb to much fame

I needed the time, to heal, to mend
But the length that it took seemed to really depend
On chewing through this or that online crutch
And that seemed to drag on for far too much

Advancement comes slow when your job doesn't match
The inclinations which are your true path
When suppression has become the order of the day
A lot of time gets burned away

And then came a shift in the mood of the nation
Making it tougher to alter your station
Where even if striven with all your might
They'd just have said, can't promote the budget's too tight
If you were lucky they'd come at you with euphemisms
If not they'd tell you the stark reality 
That you just don't fit intersectionality

I only seemed lazy because in this domain
The only way to stay remotely sane
Was to ignore that they ignored me
While dreaming of where I really should be
Pointing out that my worth's in arrears
Perennially falls on deaf ears

If they get an abrupt shock one morning
Well, they've only had forty-five years of warning
Playing games with people's lives 
Is bound to end in a nasty surprise


I only seemed lazy because I missed the basic rule
Not to wait for someone else's say 
And so I no longer play the fool
As I breach the walls of the cage
And take control of my own way

And so folks then herein lies the rub
Just like don't wait for a corpo to cook your grub
Don't wait for prefab lesson plans
Take destiny back into your hands

301 : I Only Seemed Lazy Because released June 11, 2024

Feature.fm link to this track:
https://ffm.to/only-lazy-because

SoundCloud for this track:
https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/i-only-seemed-lazy-because

Spotify for this track:
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mEe56bLN8QKY2W4mqz9Ah

Douglas P Stoothoff main site:
https://exedexes1.com/

Artist page on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7EuvIQRQESX9WFtwI6GqWB

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I Only Seemed Lazy Because

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Too Long feat Colby Gray

Nothing Something

The Underground 03:57
Vocals & Guitar (Martin Acoustic): Mark Henes
Keyboard/Synth: kb brown

I am traveling,
Toward the north country
I ain’t afraid to take the underground
I ain’t afraid I am north star bound
I ain’t afraid to take the underground
I am heaven-bound

Father won’t you surround me
While I stand in your sanctuary
Father won’t you surround me
While I stand in your sanctuary 

I am traveling,
Toward the north country
I ain’t afraid to take the underground
I ain’t afraid I am north star bound
I ain’t afraid to take the underground
I am heaven-bound

Father won’t you surround me
While I stand in your sanctuary
Father won’t you surround me
While I stand in your sanctuary

Crystallized Reflections

30 Oct 2020

The Underground

The build up to Mark Henes’ debut album ‘Crystallized Reflections’ has been a journey across the scope of American music, filled with soaring anthems, somber reflections, and a lifetime’s worth of memorable melodies. His latest single, ‘Tennessee Hills,’ is a rollicking country free for all, laced with old time fiddles and nostalgic banjos.

“It may be nice if we took the car out for a ride,” Mark sings to open the song. What starts as a simple suggestion turns into something much more, as Henes reflects on home, life on the road, and what’s really important in life. While it’s a fitting ending to an ambitious album, it works terrifically on its own, as Henes brings out the pleasures of everyday life with his breezy melodic storytelling. As Henes’ artistry continues to blossom, songs like this are guaranteed to win him fans as he continues to build his career.

‘Tennessee Hills’ is available everywhere May 27, 2022

Tennessee Hills

Singer - Songwriter (Rock / Blues / Country / Folk / World)

Better Than Ever

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