maandag 21 november 2011

Trans


A girl with a penis
or a man with big tits
a shape from myth or legend
I’d give an arm and a leg and
still I’d never understand
who inhabits that strange land

I saw you in that window
and how can I ever know
what that reality is like
my perception is on strike
while I try to understand
your nature’s odd demands

      Trans
      are you a boy or a girl ?
      Trans
      how do you see the world ?
      Trans
      will I ever have the chance
      to count your ribbons and your curls
      in some other world ?

I saw you in that movie
and somehow you move me
you are more than ever strange
that for me would never change
still I want to understand
the fate written in your hand

You are weirdly wonderful
and so bravely beautiful
oh you pretty prostitute
why do I feel destitute
as I try to understand
what I ultimately can’t

    refr.

20/11/11

Entropy tango


I’m supposed to understand
that  the universe expands
while my mind collapses
taking leave of its synapses

The fishes snatched from the seas
species can’t say “pretty please”
and my mind implodes
it’s lost its motherlode

   These are the mantra’s of the poor
   “what if, what if, what if
   we won’t get home no more
   cant’t live, can’t live, can’t live”
   Entropy tango
   tell me we can go
   entropy tango
   tell me how to go
   entropy tango

Acid rain destroys the forests
while the sun scorches the torrents
and my mind dissolves
while the endgame evolves

Social security fails
with all the sorrow that entails
and my mind just crumbles
while the politicians mumble

   refr.

20/11/11

zaterdag 19 november 2011

Communication

A dog can beg for friendship
but can you ? can I ?
a cat can covet kinship
but can you ? can I ?
so much communication
ends in alienation

     Soundbytes, texts and tweets
     nobody really meets
     anyone else no more
     we’re stranded on the shore
     of too much and too little
     and our consciousness turns brittle

A dog can just wag its tail
but can you ? can I ?
a cat just never fails
but then you ? and I ?
fruitless communication
about our destination

      refr.

A dog can beg for walkies
but can you ? can I ?
a cat can come and stalk me
but will you ? and why ?
not much communication
and just no consumation

     refr.

        Coda: Tablet, iphone, ipad
                   things we never had
                   like tenderness, togetherness
                   have now turned into otherness

18/11/11

donderdag 17 november 2011

Balkon

Daar op het balkon gaan staan
boven de lui op het plein
traag wuivend wijl zij gaan
"wie is hij ? en dan zo klein !"

Er zijn vogels in de lucht
niet veel maar niet te tellen
zij zijn naamloos in hun vlucht
en kunnen niets voorspellen

De stilte hier beneden
en daarboven is immens
toekomst, heden, verleden
onbegrijpelijk intens

De vragen zonder antwoord
opgaven onopgelost
ertslagen onaangeboord
dit heeft mij teveel gekost.

      En van hoog hierboven
      zie ik alles wat er is
      en niet is
      en ik kan niet meer geloven
      in alles wat ik heb
      en toch mis.


16/11/11

zaterdag 12 november 2011

Beautiful friend

You picked up all the pieces
my superclean dream machine
of all the nephews and the nieces
you’re the best I’ve ever seen

You made every window shine
and you dealt with all the dust
all the notes you left were fine
yes, you really had me sussed

      Beautiful friend
      you made my life easy
      beautiful friend
      knew just how to please me
      right until the end
      my beautiful friend

You  came when I was out
someone I’d always trust
head never in the clouds
oh you really were a must

I felt safe and so secure
while you took care of my place
so our friendship will endure
as I like your funny face

       refr.

               I’m the man at the bar
               staying right 'til the end
               wondering who you are
               my beautiful friend


11/11/11. Voor Kathleen van Santfoort

donderdag 10 november 2011

Tether


On a sunny afternoon
when we’re laying in your room
you hit me with the answer
why I’d never been a dancer

         There is no neutral ground
          in the feelings that are found
         when people get together
         at the end of their tether
         people always get together
         at the end of their tether


It was late in the evening
when we doubted everything
we once believed was certain
yes we got to feel the hurt then

refr.

        Coda: Life has always been a mirror
                  of what you never understood
                  love and longing made you shiver
                  but you know you never could
                  be like everybody else and
                  you would end up all alone
                  just sit moping by the phone
                  and never really get on home


1990’s

maandag 7 november 2011

Lost



You try the telephone
but there’s no one home
you want to share your sorrow
well hold on until tomorrow
and silence rules the world
its every flag unfurled

You want to send out mails
but everyone’s set sail
for strange and farflung shores
you won’t see them no more
how has this come to be
and what’s happened to me ?

         I’ll pack up and drive away
         for a thousand lonely days
         into a future so unreal
         where you can only feel
         lost and lost and lost
         tossed and turned and tossed
         lost !

repeat first verses and refr.

6/11/11

zaterdag 5 november 2011

Lyrics of loss


The pitch-black canvas of the sky
stares at me, I don’t know why
I wonder ‘bout its lack of stars
who knows how old and far they are ?

      Melancholy in everything
      and vast as all the cosmos
      so all I ever do is sing
      these lyrics of loss
      to me they sound like everything
      these lyrics of loss

So gaze into the mystery
riddle of all, you and me
and wonder ‘bout all the questions
and the answers, all the lessons


       refr.

      Coda: and all our past
                 is wide and vast
                 it’s beyond the beyond
                 no ties no bonds


4/11/11

donderdag 3 november 2011

Issues


Women got issues
they live in the past
men read the sports’ news
who’s first and who’s last

What are the issues
decisions we’ve made ?
The successes so few
our lives just rough trade

     Life isn’t easy
     love isn’t cheap
     god I feel queesy
     but I mustn’t weep
     my hear skips a beat
     to see you looking so sweet

Women got issues
they’ll sure let you know
if you paid your dues
or you just didn’t show

Life is all issues
we live and we learn
hand me the tissues
I feel my eyes burn

 Refr.

30/10/11