Songbook ©JaneC.Amsterdam
2016- 2019
Precious Time
A Desert song
Lifelong
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My biggest fear
Bottles in the water slowly to be filled
I’m sitting there to wait until they sink
The problems to solve too huge to oversee
He did not love me but wouldn’t hand the key
The gate was locked
The castle moat too deep
He said that I’d lose everything
The children left to weep
I was never to be free
My biggest fear would always be
That someone would take away
My children from me
Too heavy to carry was our book
The pages were thin, worn out and used
I asked to divorce him, he simply refused
Followed by his arguments he fully abused
To stop me from fleeing
He formed a bitter chain
He never thought I’d jump out
Of his high-speed train
I was never to be free,
My biggest fear would always be
That someone would take away
My children from me
I left him in the middle of the night
I can’t remember if the moon was shining bright
Couldn’t leave my children, was holding them tight
Couldn’t stop my tears this was my real fight
They loved and hugged me
And told me I was right
They trusted me and promised me
Always to be near
Suddenly I was free,
My biggest fear was just a fear
‘Cause noone could ake away
My children from me
Big & strong
How can I smile when you cry
How can I live when you die
Why did it take me so long
Before got big and strong
Oh my Mam I have so many questions
Answer please I want to know the truth
You’d always gave me the same reflections
To shelter my happy youth
Do flowers collapse in heavy rain
Does the flame attract a butterfly
How can we prevent severest pain
Eternel life does not excist but why
Does fire vanish in virgin snow
Vulcano’s ashes flood the barren land
When someone stops me how can I grow
Can someone break me when I bend
Oh my child I can’t answer all your questions
For the truth you are too young
Help me remember and ask me again
When you’re big and strong
Does salted water waste the fertile earth
Is there water enough to erase the fire
How could I know this heart would hurt
When opening to wildest desire
Oh my child I can’t answer all your questions
For the truth you are too young
Help me remember and ask me again
When you’re big and strong
Oh Here am I now
Big and strong still wondering why and how
I had to answer all these questions myself
Where are you now
Today we make the deepest bow
We owe our life to thou
How can I smile when you cry
How can I live when you die
Why does it take me so long
Before I got big and strong
Swans of hope
The young girl met a whispering man
With soft eyes and smooth hands
He stole her phone, her dignity and soul
And told her to be his only goal
She had to work from nine to nine
Pretending everything was fine
She closed her eyes and closed her heart
The man ‘s her ever watching guard
The swans of hope have flown
The woman is kept in a cage
The swans of hope have flown
The woman is kept in a cage
After many hits and blows
She almost took an overdose
She tried to escape, she ran so fast
And wondered how long freedom ‘d last
Too soon she met the brute again
With creepy eyes and slapping hands
He sold her like she was a slave
The woman is kept in a cage
The swans of hope have flown
The woman is kept in a cage
Take the first chance to escape
To stop this never-ending rape
The swans of hope have flown
The woman is kept in a cage
Paradise
A woman gazing in her major mirror
Smiling proudly at herself in pregnancy
She excludes all pain, tears and terror
The man smiling at her, so intensely
The man and a woman so tight together
Their faces bright and full of happiness
Their embrace seems to last forever
And I’m clinging to them at my mothers’ dress
Paradise,
Paradise,
Paradise,
This is paradise to me
Today I shelter the children of my own
Their love the greatest gift to me
They’re so happy I’m alive now they’re grown
And I hope for them forever to feel free
My man and I so tight together
Our faces bright and full of happiness
Our embrace seems to last forever
Hope we “ll live together the rest of my life G_D bless
Paradise,
Paradise,
Paradise,
This is paradise to me
Precious time
I was wondering about the weight of time
To put in music, rhythm and rhyme
The most precious and shortened space
You never know when it ends, too limited in pace
To live my life and experience the universe
Use time in dignity for better and for worse
Oh my precious time
I wish you were completely mine
I ‘d prefer never to wait
Open my mind and contemplate
So rare
To be fully aware
Of all the flavors and the taste
Nothing left to waste
My precious time
People are the strangest creatures
Their business and crowded features
Sprinkle time like it’s abundant
The only thing not for sale or rent
I just want to be aware and profound
To touch and taste feel every sound
Oh my precious time
I wish you were completely mine
I ‘d prefer never to wait
Open my mind and contemplate
So rare
To be fully aware
Of all the flavor and the taste
Nothing left to waste
My precious time
Waiting in an endless queue
Is never of any use to you
People seem to be so bored
Lost time can’t be restored
People want topass me by
I don’t see the reason why
Their time
Is of more value
Than is mine
Tell me all about her life
After you buried her in the dark ground
You buried her in your heart as well
No stories about her life left to be found
I didn’t dare to hurt you or ask you to tell
You loved her deeply with everything you had
Living without her was way beyond that
You couldn’t say something about her at all
Some of our loves in life are just too tall
Tell me, shout me yell me, cry me all about her life
All I want to do is to keep her memory alive
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Once I pushed you to please let me know
Did mamma like chocolate, swimming or snow
You told a few memories after a quarter of an hour
You said: please stop now, I can’t take no more.
Tell me, shout me yell me, cry me all about her life
All I want to feel is her heart beating here inside
Oh it still hurts so
You don’t really want to know
Tell me, shout me yell me, cry me all about her life
All I want to do is to keep her memory alive
Oh oh oh
Oh it still hurts so
Eve
Eve was deceived to eat from the tree
Had to flee out of paradise
Was as a bird so free
Her fictional sin was just to convince
Adam could treat women
Like-wise since
How to survive without fresh fruits
To hunt your prey a terrible pursuit
The struggle for life hard to understand
How to tame the ox to plough the land
To plough the land
Adam doesn’t feel regret, guilt or shame
He knows so much better:
Eve is to blame
Eve is to blame
Don’t you ask who’s to blame for this
Adam doesn’t put his soul to risks
Too many tears were spoiled
Because of the womens’ so called fault
So cold fault
So cold fault
Eve was to blame for every fault as such
The woman is guilty,
But who is to judge
Who is to judge
Eve never listened to the snake again
She wants to eat apples as much as she can
Too heavy to carry this responsiblity
How ‘s she supposed to be the source of all evil
Eve’s ill
Eve’s got rid of regret guilt and shame
She knows so much better she’s not to blame
Eve’s not te blame
Eve’s not te blame
Not to blame
Hold me
The sun was fading from the sky
Father with his bike at hand came walking
Strange, he didn’t look me in the eyes
The grown-ups ‘round the table calmly talking
There and then that evening
I think I saw you leaving
HOLD ME, hold me
Nobody told me
Mary was there next morning just to hold me
She looked at me, sat down next to my bed
She whispered a few words and then she told me
Your mam is dead, that’s what she said
Your mam is dead, that’s what she said
Hold me, hold me
Hold me, hold me
I remember your tears and your pain
When you realized you wouldn’t hold us again
Let me remember about your dance and your voice
Why didn’t we have the choice
To hold you, hold you
KEEP YOU
Hold you
Hold you
NOW
Guidance
My father always told me when I was far away
To wait until the night fell after a sunny day
Look at the moon in the mysterious night
I will look at the moon as well
We felt so close together
No one could ever tell
Father and daughter
Father and son
Close to each other
From sunrise until next dawn
The love my mother gives me although she’s far away
Still shines her light upon me every cloudy day
Pick up the needle and make a new dress
I ‘ll be there to guide you at my very best
We feel so close together,
No one could even guess
Mother and daughter
Mother and son
Close to each other
From the moment life ‘s begun
Today when I’m far away
I’m gazing at the moon
I sense their love, I feel their smile
They’re coming to me soon
Every difficult thing in life
They ‘ll be there to guide me as well
We feel so close together,
No one could ever tell
Father and mother
Daughter and son
Close to each other
From the moment life ‘s begun
Guidance
Guidance
Guidance
I don’t want to
I was always in your slipstream
At the backside of your hand
Had to vanish behind the curtains
Your attack without defense
I was always one step behind you
I wasn’t supposed to cry
Too many emotions too close and true
My life a delicate lie
I don’t want to, want to be
I don’t want to, 1-2-3
I don’t want to, want to be
In the shadow
Shadow of your tree
Anymore
Your friends always took me for granted
They never asked me why
I didn’t drown I didn’t die
O my, I was so blind
My friends always told me to leave him
It was just a matter of time
I tried to save everybody’s skin
Until I realized my life is mine
I don’t want to, want to be
I don’t want to, 1-2-3
I don’t want to, want to be
In the shadow
Shadow of your tree
Anymore
A desert song
There are no birds there are no sounds
You’ll never accept this as your grounds
The endless extensive colorless banks
Your water supplies delivered by tanks
Sometimes you whisper your tales of youth
Your restless dreams can’t touch the truth
The cloudless soundless frozen sky
The sheep-less shepherd passing by
The land of your cradle still occupied
The fata morgana’s wavering light
There are no trees near the walls made of stone
It feels like a prison but you’re never alone
Your tent as your shelter the sand as a seat
During day time bothered by sweltering heat
Stars are your compass during the night
You always must be prepared to fight
The cloudless soundless frozen sky
The sheep-less shepherd passing by
The land of your cradle still occupied
The fata morgana’s wavering light
Life can’t be rooted in a minefield
You can’t find shelter without a shield
To live without hope under the desert sun
To be born without the prospect of a horizon
How could this happen what went wrong
Unfold your carpet and hear my song
The cloudless soundless frozen sky
The sheep-less shepherd passing by
The land of your cradle still occupied
The fata morgana’s wavering light
Fragile twilight
The moment precious life is about to start
The turning world seems to fall apart
Just before the sun rises to start a new day
The moment between living and passing away
The space between the narrow path and the fence
The journey that took some weeks finally ends
Why do people always have to cause a war?
Let love live and shout out to say: no more
Fragile twilight
Fragile twilight
You don’t know if you’re at the right side
The world changes too fast we’re insecure
A huge part of mankind has to face a war
Families have to flee the country they were born in
Children die in trucks or in boats which are sinking (sinking)
A little boy has been washed ashore during low tide
A little boy has been washed ashore during low tide
The moment of silence before there is an end to the fight
Why do people always have to cause a war?
Let love live and shout out to say: no more
Fragile twilight
Fragile twilight
You don’t know if you’re at the right side
Fragile twilight
Fragile twilight
Shut up
Who are you to tell me what I ought to do
Who are you who never knew the truth
I may not leave the house
Must wait until the kids are older
I cannot leave my spouse
I must carry the world upon my shoulders
But you don’t know how it feels when he slams the door
You don’t know the blow of I don’t want you no more
You don’t know how it hurts to be so lonely
You don’t know the endlessness of sailing in the mist
You don’t have to listen to his stories
Everything’s my fault G-D I’m on my own
Please don’t push me towards the ground
I’m already down
So if you don’t want to help me to stand up
I scream at you I beg shut up
Because you don’t know he dictates to me to stay abroad
you don’t know how he hates me when I say I won’t
You don’t know how it cuts to see him drink so much
You don’t know the emptiness of being out of tough
You don’t have to cope with his anger
Everything’s my fault G-D I’m on my own
Please don’t push me towards the ground
I’m already down
So if you don’t want to help me to stand up
I scream at you I beg shut up
Secret Space
Today I’d like to open the door
Which no one ever noticed before
It leads into my secret space
Where nothing ever left a trace
I could do there whatever I wanted
Live the life I thought I’d abandoned
I could meet my secret lovers
Without someone to discover
I could swear and beat
I could swindle and cheat
I could gamble and drink
I didn’t have to think
I could lie all day
And laugh my pain away
Secret
Secret hidden space
I realize that I’ve had enough
I truly can’t stand the sight of myself in my mirror
I realize this must be an error ‘cause
I could swear and beat
I could swindle and cheat
I could gamble and drink
I didn’t have to think
I could lie all day
And laugh my pain away
Secret
Secret hidden space
This terrible revealing secret door
I don’t want to open it once more
What I did was a huge mistake
I saw more of myself than I could take, ‘cause
I could meet my secret lovers
Without someone to discover
I could swear and beat
I could swindle and cheat
I could gamble and drink
I didn’t have to think
I could lie all day
And laugh my pain away
Secret
Secret hidden space
My 10 days holiday
How I love my 10 days holiday
My 10 days holiday to the sun
Before you get the chance to wave
I’m on the back of a swan
I’ve been longing to be flying
With just a pair of wings
For so long
When we reach the clouds
I no longer worry about
The end of life
I just want to have fun
‘Cause my 10 days holiday’s just begun
We aim at all planets from Mercury to Mars
The chance to run into company is scares
I sing out loud and play
The ukulele all day
Oh.. could we forever stay
From far we gaze at the long lost world
From this distance it seems just
A little pearl
How I love my 10 days holiday
My 10 days holiday to the sun
Soon the moment’s bound to come
To start to worry about what’s to be done
I wave at the sun and return home
I can’t fly forever with the wings of a swan
I can’t live forever this close to the sun
How I love my 10 days holiday
My 10 days holiday to the sun
As we speak
My love I never told you life would be easy
I did not pretend I could protect you when you’re weak
My love I never wanted to be bold to you but
Time is slipping through my fingers as we speak
When my picture’s getting pale
As if the sun had erased me
When my life had turned into ashes in a can
And no longer I can put my arms around you
You’d always have my song my love to dance
You’d always have my song my love to dance
My love I always stated I’d do anything for you
I’d listen to your stories about your valleys and your peaks
I know I could solve small things and I must admit it’s true
Time is slipping through my fingers as we speak
When my picture’s getting pale
As if the sun had erased me
When my life had turned into ashes in a can
And no longer I can put my arms around you
You’d always have my song my love to dance
You’d always have my song my love to dance
Love my love I never loved someone as much as you
Someday I won’t be able to hold you as we knew
I hope you feel the power oh the strength of my song
So that you can smile lightly when everything feels wrong
When my picture’s getting pale
As if the sun had erased me
When my life had turned into ashes in a can
And no longer I can put my arms around you
You’d always have my song my love to dance
You’d always have my song my love to dance
Time is slipping through my fingers as we speak
Time is slipping through my fingers as we speak
Empty handed
I’m standing here before you empty handed
I’ve got no roses to give but I’m full at heart
When I wrote you that I love you I sure meant it
I didn’t tell you I just wrote it it’s a start
A year ago you were ill all of a sudden
I was so afraid that you would die within a week
I was carrying a way too heavy burden
I had to write down, write down
The words I ‘d never speak
I had to write down, write down
The words I ‘d never speak
Sunday morning I picked up my fountain pen
And the finest golden notebook I could find
It took so many words to say thank you Ma
But I wrote down, I wrote down
Everything that crossed my mind
I wrote down, I wrote down
Everything that crossed my mind
I’m standing here before you empty handed
I’ve got no roses to give but I’m full at heart
When I wrote you that I love you I sure meant it
It’s a song, it’s just a song but it’s a start
The history we share was tumultuous
You can’t replace a mother who had passed away
Not every child of hers could accept this
I remember her, remember with joy your wedding-day
I remember her, remember with joy your wedding-day
I’m standing here before you empty handed
I’ve got no roses to give but I’m full at heart
When I wrote you that I love you I sure meant it
I didn’t tell you I just wrote it it’s a start
Feathers (Door of despair)
Feathers are gathered on the pavement
The bird is dead the book’s unread
Time drags across the threshold
Slowly dripping down the wall
It forms a cobweb from the ceiling
Freezing an almost forgotten feeling
Feathers are gathered on the pavement
The bird is dead the book’s unread
Loneliness drags across the window ledge
Slowly dripping to the ultimate edge
The cobweb sticks and mixes my mind
To catch the thoughts just left behind
Feathers are gathered on the pavement
The bird is dead the book’s unread
I’m sitting in this ancient chair
My thoughts are empty and I stare
At the place where once burned a fire
To stir up my long-lost desire
I’m waiting for the time to come
When every movement will be gone
All those years I felt so sad
The threshold is worn out and flat
From underneath the door’s a breath of wind
I just don’t know where I have been
The cobweb kills the only fly
I grab my coat don’t ask me why
I open the door of my despair
I open the door of my despair
And I’ll walk I’ll walk anywhere
I’ll walk I’ll walk anywhere
I’ll walk I’ll walk anywhere
I open the door of my despair
I open the door of my despair
And I’ll walk I’ll walk anywhere
Anywhere
The sandglass
The sandglass of my life contains
A certain amount of time
I can feel the sand sinking but
I don’t know how much is mine
Who has the right to confine my time
I’m getting tangles into the tarmac
My wheels are sucked in I can’t go back
How can I prevent being embibed
When I’ll be 80 years of age
Will the people say what a waste
Toe spend so much tax income
On someone who’s not profitable
On someone who is almost gone
On someone who’s not useful al all
Who has the right to confine my time
I’m wrestling against the whirlpool
The government regards me as a tool
If a work at least 50 years it’s fine
The sandglass of my life contains
A certain amount of time
I can feel the sand sinking but
I don’t know how much is mine
Too thin air
If I could live forever with you
Find a way all through the maze
Grasp the horizon with bare hands
Travel beyond time and space
If I could meet you in the past
And tomorrow at the same time
If time is distance and distance is space
Forever our lives would last
I’d lick the sun I’d swallow rain
I’d feel the fire but sense no pain
I’d fly to Pluto by plain
Reality’s too thin
Too thin air to breath in
If I could still feel your warmth
Find shelter in your heart
Your protection against all harm
Reality’s too thin
Too thin air to breath in
I’d lick the sun I’d swallow rain
I’d feel the fire but sense no pain
I’d fly to Pluto by plain
I’d fly all over my life again
The end would not begin
Reality’s too thin
Too thin air to breath in
Doom & gloom
My lovely child with your flying long hair
The moment you leave I’m in secret despair
I always hoped you’d stay close to me
Was this the price I paid to be free
You say goodbye then you give me a hug
The sole thing for me is to smile and to shrug
I say I hope your next week will be good
I try so hard to act as a mother should
I look out of my window from the third floor
You get on your bike you don’t look anymore
Your five minutes’ journey ’s to overcome
The gap between mammy’s and daddy’s home
You say I don’t know where I left my things
It’s hard not to know what tomorrow brings
My makeup my books I’m never complete
I live in two worlds ‘cause my parents compete
One wicked moment you came to decide
I won’t split up ‘cause my parents fight
You left for his house
I shiver in your empty room
This is how a mother feels in her doom and gloom
I look from my window from the third floor
I scan the street you aren’t here anymore
I try to reach you all in vain
This cold and raw acid etching pain
Don’t waste anymore
We live like kings and queens
In wealth we’ve never seen
People want to spend and use
Until there will be no excuse
Mother earth is reaching out
To find a place in the universe
Where she doesn’t have to doubt
Whether the weather is gonna get worse
Don’t waste anymore
Don’t waste until the water overwhelms the shores
Don’t waste anymore
Don’t waste until the coral reef gets bleach
And no one can reach
To restore
The polar ice is melting faster
Fishes are gasping for oxygen
People keep ignoring this disaster
There’s one way to prevent
Industries plastics air pollution
When do we finally start to think
To go on like this is an illusion
Stop before the earth shall sink
Don’t waste anymore
Don’t waste until the water overwhelms the shores
Don’t waste anymore
Don’t waste until the coral reef gets bleach
And no one can reach
To restore
For your eyes
How the sun shines
How the sun shines
No matter how I try
My mind is empty
My tears lead a life
Of their own
Look at me
How I stand frozen now
I cannot move,
Forgot somehow
How the sun shines
How the sun shines
Go and shut the blinds,
Shut the blinds
There is nothing to see
For me
Nor
For
Your eyes
For your eyes
For your eyes
The princess
She walks the streets like a little princess
With her high heels her crown her lovely pink dress
She holds her fathers’ hand he shows her the way
All through fairytale land where she can dream and play
She is like crystal so vulnerable and clear
She never learned to mistrust or fear
Everyone is good there’s no evil here
Only with Halloween the ghost appears
Mammy loves Daddy and they love their doll
You could only sit and wait until she’d fall
You could only sit and wait until she’d fall
One day she finds pout the fairytale is a lie
If I’m not the princess then who the hell am I
Who can I trust if a lie is a must to survive
The princess leaves her parents the man leaves his wife
The princess hates her parents, the lies they’ve stressed
The fairytale was fake her life is a mess
She doesn’t know who to turn to or who to call
You could only sit and wait until she’d fall
You could only sit and wait until she’d fall
She is like crystal so vulnerable and clear
She never learned to mistrust or fear
Everyone is good there’s no evil here
Only with Halloween the ghost appears
Mammy once loved Daddy they once loved their doll
You could only sit and wait until she’d fall
You could only sit and wait until she’d fall
Lifelong
They left me mourning in de the corners of the deepest pit, lifelong
I could not cry I had no words to say that I was hit, lifelong
My father was gone, my father was gone
Father was gone, lifelong
His life with us was a charade
Little by little he was fading away
I didn’t know what he was waiting for
Until that dark dooms’ day
Policemen were standing at our door
Please
Be still and say no more
`I taught myself to cope with all the setbacks of my life, lifelong
To stomach the pain and the other attacks
Not to become insane, lifelong
Two steps up and one step down
If I can keep going like this
I’ll never hit the ground
Two steps up and one step down
If I can keep going like this
I’ll never hit the ground
Don’t leave me morning in the corners of my life, lifelong
No matter how deep I must dive
I will survive, lifelong
I’ll reach the surface
That’s the purpose of my life, lifelong
Two steps up and one step down
If I can keep going like this
I’ll never hit the ground
Two steps up and one step down
If I can keep going like this
I’ll never hit the ground
1884
He stands here past the crossroads
Between the harbor and the railroad
Every hazy break of dawn
His memory is longtime gone
Come snow or hail or rain or sun
He stands there with his rain cloak on
Near the grandcafe grandcafe 1884,
1884
1884
Grandcafe 1884
He moves all day he’s doomed to stay
His feet keep moving in walking pace
From left to right
From one to four
I don’t know what he’s hoping for
His hood must hide his fearless face
He never seems to leave his place
Near the grandcafe grandcafe 1884,
1884
1884
Grandcafe 1884
Was he once a father of a family
Was he once a director of a company
He steps from left to right
Holding hi flowers tight
Smoking his only cigarette
Nothing else is left I bet
The rain cloak is a shield
Against hatred and sunburn
I think he’s eager to return to
1884
1884
1884
All those years
If I could write you a letter about my life today
If I could suppress some events what would I dare to say
We were yearning for love those days
We didn’t want to betray
To meet you now is to meet me who I was
All those hights and depts we had to cross
Thunder & lightning didn’t kill one of us
After you had left I was forsaken and lost
All those years
All those years ‘ve passed by
I often went to places where I had been with you
I was hunting myself I kept hunting the truth
Your absence made me feel so insecure those days
We didn’t betray but then I felt betrayed
If I meet you now we feel like before
All those years are no burden anymore
All those years
All those years ‘ve passed by
Who
I always wear Mams’ wedding-ring
She hoped she could teach me everything
Although I forgot I’ve got her smile on my face
I cry her tears with a lifetime trace
But who would I have been
Who without your love
I’m glad that you wanted to be
Fathers’ second wife to embrace
You hoped you were like mother to me
But a mother is someone you cannot replace
But who would I have been
Who without your love
You lifted me up and let go of me
To fly on my own
Without an embrace until I was grown
Straight bright and honest and shy
We never said thank you but why
So I’ll try to find words with an single embrace
A mother is someone you cannot replace
But who would I have been
Who without your love
Heavy head
He looked at me sore eyes and said
I’m sorry that you’ve lost your Dad
But he was glad that it wasn’t his Dad instead
I ‘ll hide my burning tears and bow my heavy head
I was standing in your doorway with your coffin
He was waiting to put it in his car
I know a stranger can say mean things such as:
There will be nothing but ashes in the jar
We don’t know what breaks our heart
Not when we meet but when we part
The bonfire keeps burning her tongues towards the sky
The donkey keeps barking its dinosaurs’ lie
The pigeons keep asking why o why
Is the world still turning after you died
He looked at me sore eyes and said
I’m sorry that you’ve lost your Dad
But he was glad that your soul lives on instead
I ‘ll show my burning tears and raise my heavy head
I was standing in his doorway with your ashes
He was offering you a throne and called your name
I know a friend can say something meaningful as:
Without you nothing would have been the same
We don’t know what breaks our heart
Not when we meet but when we part
The bonfire keeps burning her tongues towards the sky
The donkey keeps barking its dinosaurs’ lie
The pigeons keep asking why o why
Is the world still turning after you died
Your soul lives on
You’re never gone
Springtime
Springtime
My daddy ‘s planting apple trees it’s springtime
Ask my daddy how that feels it’s springtime
After five years of war
Not to hide anymore
He loved her like no other
And foresaw his love would hurt
I know that life’s a miracle
But take care ‘cause life is vulnerable
Springtime
Life is short and vulnerable
Springtime
My daddy smells the blossom it’s springtime
Ask my daddy how that feels it’s springtime
He is the one who can enjoy
The purity of life
After all these years of waiting she became his wife
Why did you wait until fall
‘Cause life is short and vulnerable
Springtime
Life is short and vulnerable
Springtime
Before we moved
Dad had to uproot his apple trees in springtime
He cut off all branches in springtime
Every white pink blossom
Falling to the bottom
Nobody knows how that hurts
To cut your trees in springtime
Like my Daddy does
He said: now you know
How it feels to feel low
Springtime
Life is short and vulnerable
Springtime
Life is short and vulnerable
I miss you
The reed whispers your name
Nothing has changed, nothing is the same
Where are you now
Can I reach you somewhere somehow today
I miss you
To picture how it hurts
It’s like a sentence without words
Like a song without a tune
Like a summer without June
I miss you
Like an eagle without feathers
Like the climate without weather
Like a clown without a smile
It’s like Egypt without the Nyle
I miss you
The reed whispers your name
Nothing has changed, nothing is the same
Where are you now
Can I reach you somewhere somehow today
I miss you
You’ll live again
In silence I will keep talking to you
I will go on to lighten every candle for you
You have to trust me you know you can
I’ll always keep singing for you Amen
You’ll live again, will live again
As long as I keep singing for you Amen
Tell me did you meet someone you love
Can you still see us from above
Tell the loved ones who have passed away
Tell them that we think about them every day
Every time I think of you, you’ll live again
All the love you gave me you will give again
Every time I speak of you, you’re part of me again
I’ll think of you my whole life trough Amen
I’ll always keep singing for you Amen
You’ll live again, will live again
As long as I keep singing for you Amen
Amen