Peter-Jan Willems

Wildlife

Animals we are
Disposable, collapsible and raw
In you go into some crowded room
And animals that climb
And they're climbing over you until you say
"Off you go, off you go"

Animal I am
And I'm looking for an answer just like you
But I should know which way to turn
An animal that runs
And I ran away from you because I'm scared
"Now off you go, off you go"

If you're gonna go, go now
I forgot to tell you how
So if you're gonna go
Go now

(lyrics: Animals - Coldplay)

Black & White

I have only two emotions
Careful fear and dead devotion
I can't get the balance right
Throw my marbles in the fight
I see all the ones I wept for
All the things I had it in for
I won't cry until I hear
Cause I was not supposed to be here

I'm tired, I'm freezing, I'm dumb
When it gets so late I forget everyone
I need somewhere to stay
Don't think anybody I know is awake
Calm down, it's alright
Keep my arms the rest of the night
When they ask what do I see
I see a bright white beautiful heaven hangin' over me

There's a time to leave, there's a time to think about
What I wanna say to the girls at the door
I need somewhere to be
But I can't get around the river in front of me
Come down, it's alright
Lead my arms the rest of the night
When they ask what do I see
I see a bright white beautiful heaven hangin' over me

I'm not alone (too seriously)
I'll never be (don't swallow the cap)
Into the bone (pat yourself on the back)
I'll never grieve (too seriously)
And if you want (too seriously)
To see me cry (don't swallow the cap)
Play "Let It Be" (pat yourself on the back)
Or "Nevermind" (too seriously)

(lyrics: Don't swallow the cap - The National)

Clouds

I was ridin, I was ridin, oh
The sun, the sun, the sun was rising from the field

I got a feeling I just cant shake
I got a feeling that just wont go away
You've got it, just keep on pushing, keep on pushing
Push the sky away

And if your friends think that you should do it different
And if they think that you should do it the same
You've got it, just keep on pushing, keep on pushing
Push the sky away

And if you feel you got everything you came for
If you got everything and you dont want no more
You've got it, just keep on pushing, keep on pushing
Push the sky away

And some people say its just rock n roll
Aw, but it gets you right down to your soul
You've got it, just keep on pushing, keep on pushing
Push the sky away

You've got it, just keep on pushing, keep on pushing
Push the sky away

(lyrics: Push the sky away - Nick Cave)

Ocean

The dark sea is a careless host
From north sea to pacific coast
Pure blood is the viking's toast
But his heart will cry if it goes without it

The sweet call of the distant shore
They don't know what they're wishing for
If they knock on the devil's door
They better make sure they got something to say

Everybody has a life to fill
They hate waiting and they can't sit still
And what is time but something to kill
Until it's nothing left and the night has the last laugh

They all know when it comes to you
The lucky ride only takes a few
why have a soul when it's yours to loose
you gotta pick your fight you got work to do

Pale riders in a lonely nest
I bet their spanish doesn't work for this
And a banner that they can't resist
But they're not so tough I heard things about them

Some say that they're running away
From what or where now they wouldn't say
On a road trip you cannot stray
But you can get lost trying to find your way home

A virtue and a sin
The sails will shiver
The promises will burn
And underneath the skin
The heart will quiver
of those who roam

And the sirens always sing
The chants from heaven
Not expecting to be heard
But the love that it won't bring
Will make hearts sever
Of those who go...

(lyrics: Sirens - dEus)

Slide Away

Are you gonna wake again?
Are you gonna take it down?
Oh babe, I don't wanna deal it
Oh, make it alright
Gimme some, my love
Away, away, away

I just wanna slide away and come alive again
I just wanna slide away and come alive again
I will see that love again, and find a life again
I just wanna slide away and come alive again

I wanted to let it go
Just couldn't let it go
I wanted to let it go
Just couldn't let you go

I would catch you
(Just couldn't let you go)
I'd catch you as you fall
(Just couldn't let it go)
I would catch you
(Just couldn't let you go)
I'd catch you if I heard your call

But you tore a hole in space
Like a dark star, falls from grace
You burn across the sky
And I would find you wings to fly
And I would catch you
I would catch your fall

I just wanna slide away and come alive again
I just wanna slide away and come alive again
I will see that love again, and find a life again
I just wanna slide away and come alive again

(lyrics: Slide Away - Michael Hutchence)

Color

Granted I might be a little bit lazy
But you`ve gotta trust me
I`m finding the balance
between the hearts of fire
and loss of desire
understand how much I think it`s
needed for us to be romantic
I put my feet down on the ground
ground me and then shelter me
with your cool cool embrace
your warm congratulations
the testament to your grace

ground me and then shelter me
with your loving and warm embrace
time will never be distant
time can never erase
love and never forget that I
just got off and forgot to fly
meet me under the spirit
cheer me up till I cry

(lyrics: Lotuk - Arsenal)

Down South

No, nothing but my best, not good enough for you
'Cause nothing much is still too much to feel
Remember to forget, pretend you never knew

To beat the best and you don't leave a clue

No, nothing but the best was not enought for you
You wouldn't buy my pretty lie was true
But actting at the curtain fool is nothing new
Those little things that never leave a clue

If nothing but the best means nothing much to you
Don't count on me, just count me out, please, do
I'll never be your second best as others number two
One litlle thing that just won't let you choose

No, nothing but the best and nothing less will do
It's more or less that loneliness I knew
But you, you had me market initials black and blue
Those little things that never laid a clue

If nothing but the best means nothing much
Don't count on me, just count me out, please, do
I'll never be your second best as others number two
One litlle thing that just won't let you choose
One litlle thing that just won't let you choose
One litlle thing that just won't let you choose

(lyrics: Those little things - Carla Bruni)

Motorcycle

You know Norm de Palma?
A local grocery clerk
With an opinion
About this town

You've got to be a self-righteous
Man or a clown
With an ordeal
That you'll be a bigger man in a bigger town

The roads promise everything
But the elderly say
The only thing they do
Is steal away your fuel

Her infrastructure
Designed by the devil
Boy if you toucy her
You'll be living on a level
Of safe and sexy solitude

The fears for tomorrow
Regrets of yesterday
Twin thieves that rob us, girl
From the joy of this moment

This is my moment
This is my joy
But the angels spread out their wings
Mother Earth is pregnant

There are few people in this town who believe
That these roads can take you somewhere
There are few people in this town who believe
That these roads can take you somewhere
Take you somewhere
Back to the ever present

(lyrics: Ever Present - Admiral Freebee)

Flobecq

The office door closed early
The hidden bottle came out
The salesman turned to close the blinds
A little slow now, a little stout

But he’s still heading down those tracks
Any day now for sure
Another day as drab as today
Is more than a man can endure

Dreams flow across the heartland
Feeding on the fires
Dreams transport desires
Drive you when you’re down –

Dreams transport the ones
Who need to get out of town

The boy walks with his best friend
Through the fields of early May
They walk awhile in silence
One close — one far away

But he’d be climbing on that bus
Just him and his guitar
To blaze across the heavens
Like a brilliant shooting star

The middle-aged madonna
Calls her neighbour on the phone
Day by day the seasons pass
And leave her life alone

But she’ll go walking out that door
On some bright afternoon
To go and paint big cities
From a lonely attic room

It’s understood
By every single person
Who’d be elsewhere if they could
So far so good
And life’s not unpleasant
In their little neighbourhood
They dream in Middletown…

(lyrics: Middletown Dreams - Rush)

Streetart

Took her clothes off
Laid 'em by the bed

Switched her phone off
But her mind instead

Was about one thing
One thing she said

Everybody loves repetition

Say
One two one two one two
Got you where I want you
Keeping count and keep you
Repeating what we know to be
The same all night

So the night passed
So slowly

And I asked her
To show me
Why everybody loves repetition

It's the third time
I see her
It's the first time
I need her

So I wonder why
I should free her
Everybody loves repetition

The rest is noise
I'm keeping count
No, not really
Same difference, same healing
A thousand times that feeling
Repetition is
Saying it over and over again
With different meaning
The rest is noise
And just being

(lyrics: Everybody loves repetition - Magnus)

Portrait

Complexities Treacheries
We watch through glass we see nothing
Latex on the fingertips we touch through glass feel no fear
Out of care out of all scattered like stones
Out of mess
We could take these stones we could build something
We could try forever try the same
Survival lord
Show me everything
Show me everything we came for
So many new moons colours around
So many new stars guidance
You show me everything thing we care for
Get back together, separate Take these stones, build something
Find a wall and get rid of this glass we believe we taste

Everything we could have had
Everything that belongs to us
Would...
Take these stones, throw something
We could separate, we could drop the bomb
And it makes no odds whatever side you're on
Back again, hesitate
The price that holds the very air we breathe
There's you,
you show me everything I care for in you
You show me everything

(lyrics: Show me everything - Tindersticks)

Nature Morte

You are sent to take
Every time I fall
Every piece of me

You are my faith
You are my faith
Every sign you've made
To tell me who I am

Sometimes you're the crowd
Screaming too loud
Telling me what I'm not

When tugging me all the time
I know you're out there
Every sun that breaks
Is a ticket to the show

Did you ever know
There's a light inside your bones?
The hope that you can't hide
And it teases you every night

And you don't understand
Glaring at the light
Sitting like a dog
In your ordinary life

Why you're so paralyzed?
Why don't you spit it out?
Coming on your face, oh yeah

Feel you, feel me
One life, one shot, one love

Now you're a mannequin

Candy, cane gun
Micro brain waves
Remote controlled white man

High speed
Defcon, mental
Gang bang, black out
You're not dragster man

Would you tell me
Who you are right now?
Don't tell me you don't know
'Cause I know

Every piece of you that breaks
Every time you lie
Every time you say you're fine

I guess it's time for you
To get use to you

Don't tell me you don't know
'Cause I know, 'cause I know

Please take me somewhere we can hide
Somewhere we can dance the boogie
Please bring me something
Please give me something

(Lyrics: Blow - Hinzu)

Forrest

come closer and see
see into the trees
find the girl
while you can
come closer and see
see into the dark
just follow your eyes
just follow your eyes

I hear her voice
calling my name
the sound is deep
in the dark
i hear her voice
and start to run
into the trees
into the trees

into the trees

suddenly I stop
but I know it's too late
I'm lost in a forest
all alone
the girl was never there
It's always the same
I'm running towards nothing
again and again and again

(lyrics: A Forrest - The Cure)

Up North

Ada don't talk about reasons why you don't want to talk about reasons
why you don't wanna talk
Now that you got everybody you consider sharp

Ada put the sounds of your house in a song
try to be speechless for a minute
if you think you gonna faint go out in the hallway
let them all have your neck
Ada don't stay in the lake too long
it lives alone and it barely knows you
it'll have a nervous breakdown and fall
into a thousand pieces around you

Stand inside an empty tuxedo with grapes in my mouth
waiting for Ada
Ada hold onto yourself by the sleeves
I think everything counts a little more than we think
leave it all up in the air

Ada Ada Ada Ada
Ada I can hear the sound of your laugh through the wall

Ada don't talk about reasons why you don't want to talk about reasons
why you don't wanna talk
now that you got everybody you consider sharp
all alone, all together, all together in the dark
leave it all up in the air

Ada Ada Ada Ada
Ada I can hear the sound of your laugh through the wall
Ada Ada Ada Ada
Ada, I've been hoping you know your way around

(lyrics: Ada - The National)

Seaside

Alors il parait qu'un jour comme ca, on va mourir,
comme ca, on va partir,
et le monde, va continuer a tourner.

Les gens ne vont rien faire ils vont juste rester, chez eux.

Alors il parait qu'un jour comme ca, on va revivre,
oublier le passé, et ne plus y penser,
une autre histoire recommencer.
Certains disent que l'on vit
plusieurs milliers d'années,
d'autres que l'on s'envole au milieux des nuées.

Alors il parait qu'un jour comme ca, on va mourir,
comme ca, on va partir, ne plus se reveiller,
de notre corps se détacher.
Et on sera tout nu, on aura un peu froid
on se sentira seul, un ange viendra nous réchauffer.

Alors il parait qu'un jour comme ca,
on va dormir pendant, des milliers d'années
peut etre un instant pour se reveiller.
personne ne nous verra,
on sera tout perdu
tout le monde sera là certains vont pleurer,
c'est pas grave
ah si grave

J'ai la tête, dans les nuages
j'ai le monde à mes pieds.
Je n'ai que faire de mon âge sauf au mois de juillet
J'ai le coeur sous les étoiles et ne sais faire que râler
Je pourrais bouger d'avantage mais personne n'est parfait.
Mais personne n'est parfait

J'ai la tête dans les nuages j'ai des fourmis dans les pieds
J'ai la tête dans les nuages et personne n'est parfait, sauf le bon Dieu...Il parait

(lyrics: Personne n'est parfait - Mickey 3D)

Far West

You can't fight a war with nobody to fight back
But if we get to digging to the bottom of the stack
We'll sell it to the youth and you never know, maybe
You'll get back home and you'll see your baby, oh

We'll just act like we care

All we're needing is a reason
It don't need to be clear
Singing songs to the news
It can play to their fears
Someone's gotta' die and you don't have to love him
But the military's still got more in its budget, oh

We always need more next year

When you don't bring them home and the war hasn't ended
There's still money there and that money needs spending
The powers that be, we gotta' do what we do
If they never know it than they'll never feel used, oh
Like I often do

To all the pretty girls out there looking for heartache
Crying, "All I wanted is to be your baby"
And all the pretty girls out there living with heartache
Crying cause they're never gonna' see their baby, oh

We just act like we care

No one cares about the waves
At the bottom of the ocean
And at the bottom of the ocean
It's always blue
No one will remember
'Cause nothing lasts forever
And everybody's looking
For somebody to use

No one will remember
'Cause nothing lasts forever
The world is always changing
And it's always blue
And it's always blue

(lyrics: Waves - Portugal the man)

Mid Air

He could've tuned in tuned in
But he tuned out
A bad time nothing could save him
Alone in a corridor waiting locked out
He got up outta there ran for hundreds of miles
He made it to the ocean had a smoke in a tree
The wind rose up set him down on his knee

A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw
Delivered him wings "Hey look at me now"
Arms wide open with the sea as his floor
Oh power oh

He's flying
Whole
High wide, oh

He floated back down 'cause he wanted to share
His key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere
But first he was stripped and then he was stabbed
By faceless men, well, fuckers
He still stands

And he still gives his love, he just gives it away
The love he receives is the love that is saved
And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky
A human being that was given to fly

High flying
Oh, oh
High flying
Oh, oh
He's flying
Oh, oh

(lyrics: Given to Fly - Pearl Jam)

A friend for Life

Ever since I was 16 I wished that spring would come to me
And I wished that I could dance upon the aisles.
So with rivers on the stage of steam, I let my thoughts begin to dream
I held my breath and ran into the wild.

And each night the horizon grew and all of us saw just a few
Till mornings gold would make it disappear.
It’s summer and my treasure chest has not forgotten what must forget
But that’s a feeling for another year.

A movement has a way like words,
You’re there before the ramies heard
And all that one can do is shake their eyes.
And miles of a forgotten dream
Be yours, my love, it’s where we’ve been
And maybe one day soon we will arrive.

Playing all night loud, playing all night loud
Singing all night with me
All night loud.

And we went on a world went trip
And that’s on while the records flip
And still this came like chaos in the lights.

And voices like devotion flew
Across the sea from me to you
A music that I still cannot describe.

And there were ugly times, it’s true,
Some from me and some from you
And devils have a way of digging down.

But a friend it’s not a friend for life
Unless your life it’s worth the strife
So hold on, it’ll be alright.

Playing all night loud, playing all night loud
Singing all night with me
All night loud.

There’s a speech that I know well
It’s told by Henry V,
I’ll tell a version that relates to us not one.

Who sheds his sweat with me
Will be my friend eternally
From this day till the ending of the world.

No matter if we’re on the road
Or in the sun, or in the cold,
I hope I can remember your bright eyes.

Cause I know you and you know me
At least somehow mysteriously
So thank you, my dear friends, and that’s goodnight.

I’m much obliged, I’m much obliged
So thank you, my dear friends, and that’s goodnight.
I’m much obliged, I’m much obliged,
So thank you, my dear friends, and that’s goodnight.

Mountains

The flame is melting the wax away
I'm locked in a stare
24 minutes make one day

Am i here or there

The street is filled with horses, riders
There's no single car
All the kings men in front of a neon fortress

Many moons and a single star
I'm lost in one breath
Many moons and a single star
I'm lost

New york becomes paris
And paris turns into rome
Italian girls are dancing
To the symphony
Made of one tone

A little girl with black hair
Did ask me for a cigarette
I said i can't move
I'm locked in a stare

She stole my heart and she left
Angry and sad
She stole my heart
And she left
I'm lost

Life is drawing itself
In this electic night
I'm walking sleepless
In a painting of dali
I see crying sculptures from bali
I'm chasing an old man in high heels

Bring my heart back
It's the only thing i've got
Bring my heart back
Cause without i'm dancing disconnected
It's the only thing i've got
Bring my heart back

It's beating stronger
Maybe not longer
I found a second one in my chest

Bring my heart back
It's the only thing i've got
Bring my heart back
Cause without i'm dancing disconnected
It's the only thing i've got
Bring my heart back

(lyrics: Disconnected - Funkstörung, edited)

Civilisation

A hot and windy August afternoon
Has the trees in constant motion
With a flash of silver leaves
As they're rocking in the breeze

The boy lies in the grass with one blade
Stuck between his teeth
A vague sensation quickens
In his young and restless heart
And a bright and nameless vision
Has him longing to depart

You move me
You move me
With your buildings and your eyes
Autumn woods and winter skies
You move me
You move me
Open sea and city lights
Busy streets and dizzy heights
You call me
You call me

Too many hands on my time
Too many feelings
Too many things on my mind
When I leave, I don't know
What I'm hoping to find
When I leave, I don't know
What I'm leaving behind

(lyrics: Analogue Kid - Rush)