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(Consider the Lilies - lyrics)

1. A Lily and a Frown

Composed by Janssen, Hamerpagt.

Lyrics by Janssen.

 

Clock ticks and I am running out,

I will have to leave this town..right now

 

I´ll take a lily and a frown

a broken heart, a candybar,

I cannot stand to see you drown

Even though I won´t be around

 

You used to hold me like no other

Now you´re gazing at the sky

I´ve become your foreign lover

I will wave my sad goodbye

 

Will you come with me tonight

Let us sail the seven seas

You know I can be your guide

I will wrap you up, my dear

 

Rules & Regulations

Composed by Janssen, Hamerpagt, Warmenhoven, Klumpers.

Lyrics by Warmenhoven.

 

You have this funny way about you

when you turn me down (do you only think you do?)

And I know where you live,

but I´m not allowed in so maybe that´s not even true

 

Our romance is a change in fact

from the rules and regulations that I´ve come to neglect,

so without hesitation I will never want you back

 

You turn your head, you like me

Not to gaze or stare at you

I like that you´re not questioning my interest

There´s no words in the air

No boundaries to respect

No reason for this conversation not to last

 

It´s a change in fact

from the rules and regulations that I´ve come to neglect,

so without hesitation I will never want you back

 

Our romance is a change in fact

from the rules and regulations that I´ve come to neglect,

so without hesitation I will never want you back

 

Two Kinds of Pain

Composed by Janssen, Hamerpagt, Wichers, Warmenhoven, Hoogendoorn.

Lyrics by Wichers, Warmenhoven, Janssen.

 

There are two kinds of pain

Mine I can´t explain

The only thing I know

Is the day that it began

40 days ago

When I lost my mother´s mom

She sleeps when I´m awake

She´s too young to have a name

 

There are two kinds of pain

Pending post and planes

A simple plan failed

You both sat down in tears

Now she´s changing names

To never stay in place

I need you to be

Just as much as I´d like you to stay

 

(chorus)

And I´ll be the hand that keeps you warm

On this journey through your loss

These are heavy times indeed, but

You can carry on, you can carry on.

 

Gold

Composed by Janssen, Hamerpagt, Fisher.

Lyrics by Fisher, Janssen.

 

Do you believe in miracles

All of mine have turned to stone

Do you believe in acts of kindness

Currency changes everything to gold

 

I guess you hear just what you´re told

Or do you believe all you touch is gold?

 

What´s gone is lost, there is no trade

A population as sad as rain

As wrong as it is, noone feels ashamed

The same license to kill is a license to blame

 

We seal our fate, we share our pain

With little to lose and nothing to gain

 

Vulnerabelle

Composed by Janssen, Hamerpagt.

Lyrics by Janssen.

 

I can´t heal like you, it´s strange but true

Been stuck in this feeling for a while

I can´t heal like you, it´s sadly true

I´ll be stuck in this feeling for a lifetime without you.

 

With Childlike Wonder

Composed by Janssen.

 

Lithography

Composed by Janssen.

Lyrics by Janssen.

 

This is the place where the ships sail by

One by one

This is where my father will die

 

This is the place where my mother has cried

Lonely tears

Till father came home to an empty house

She found her way

 

(chorus)

She flew away, flew away

 

Our history´s black but the traces will fade

One by one

We will find new lovers, find new friends

And watch the river flow

 

(chorus)

Watch the river flow, watch the river flow

 

External / Eternal

Composed by Janssen, Hamerpagt, Warmenhoven.

Lyrics by Janssen, Warmenhoven.

 

Do you remember when we laid under a tree

Our minds connected, even our bodies would agree

We were too young to understand what this would mean

But wise enough to embrace such a charming scene

We stared at the branches hanging right above our heads

No need to stress, no need to get up on our feet

We sat there talking about what we would become

You said a swan, I thought maybe a musician

 

(chorus)

when you return from the other side of the world

will you recognize my honest eyes

or speak in solemn terms

 

Another time, another light, another place

Will you still belong to your memories, are they a part of your face

Oh I know how love is returned only to those who know

How to lose and to give all those times a place

There were days when I´d get up, not think of you even for a little while

There were nights when I felt I was travelling myself

And now a yellow sign says you´re showing up before your time

And as we touch the ground, I walk away

 

I´ve been longing for today

now you´re two footsteps away

I forgot the words I´d like to say

But this is what I feel

 

Circus Street

Composed by Janssen.

Lyrics by Janssen, Van den Boom.

 

Friday night we came to town

Bought some tickets from a clown

He said: I want you to come with me

He took us down to circus street

Lots of faces, friends to meet

He turned around and suddenly

He said:

 

"These are my hopes and these are my flaws

These are my highs and surely my lows

I give you my all in order to show

The one that you see is not who you know"

 

We stepped into a mini-van

There we met some mini-men

We shook their teeny tiny hands

They made us drink some strange blue wine

And put a cherry on a pie

They said: come on, let´s have a little dance

 

Dance, dance, dance

 

"These are my hopes and these are my flaws

These are my highs and surely my lows

I give you my all in order to show

The one that you see is not who you know"

 

It´s time to leave Circus Street

We started walking to the beat

Of the lady with the drum

 

You Forced a Smile

Composed by Janssen.

 

All I Know

Composed by Janssen.

Lyrics by Janssen.

 

I close my eyes and write it down

My feet are stompin´ on the ground

If freedom is inside of me

Why is it so hard to see?

I´m trying harder every day

To keep the negative away

Reasons are still the same

I´ll never win this crazy game

 

(chorus)

"Because all I can see is all I know I have"

 

Seasons come, reasons go

Friends for life till I say "no"

I live and learn and hope to grow

Try to see the beautiful

I know you want to put me down

Though I´m still safe and sound

You may touch my skinny me

You´ll never reach the heart, you see

 

I close my eyes and write it down

My feet are stompin´ on the ground

If freedom is inside of me

Why is it so hard to see?

I´m trying harder every day

To keep the negative away

But no matter what I say

Is just another shade of grey

 

Such a Cliché

Composed by Janssen.

Lyrics by Janssen.

 

(chorus)

We are the stars in the sky...you and I

 

Chemistry is not a state of mind, you know, it´s nothing rational

It´s just there or it´s not, as simple as that

People are just thinking too much anyway

Don´t you believe we forgot about the most basic things in life, like... we were told how to eat and drink and stuff like that, they did tell us that, you know, but who told us how to love?

 

We stay up late, we´re all alone

We sit in front of the sacred stone

Blinded by its weary light

We forget everything right

We forget everything

And drag ourselves to bed.

 

An Hour with Calmer Wings

Composed by Janssen, Hamerpagt.

 

Change the weather

Composed by Janssen, Klumpers.

Lyrics by Janssen.

 

Someone who is happy has feelings of pleasure

Someone who is happy has a happy life

Usually because of something nice

Something nice has happened

 

(chorus)

Change the weather

 

I´m sorry to say, but you will get hurt

It´s hard to believe, but you will get hurt

O how I hate to say this, but good friends go too

It´s hard to believe, but good friends go too

 

(chorus)

Change the weather