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Jerry's Tango
04:04
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Jerry, welcome
Make yourself at home
Once you’ve become human you’ll be gone
Gone into the masses
Blent into the crowd
(1-2-3-4) Countdown has been done
There’s no way back
Our vows, your sins, airborne
So lay back
Far, your goal is far away
There, into the light
Cold, invincible & unconstrained
You try to be your hero
The author of the play
Never give up on your faith in lies
‘cause they’re the kind of stories
Where heroes never die
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2. |
Stakes
03:18
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A fancy dashboard in a limousine
A mash for papers and for magazines
A cheap alternative for gasoline
A cupboard or a closet or a small-value deposit or…
A pool house in a fancy neighbourhood
A poplar in an oak and maple wood
A totem pole on the spot where you stood
A toy for little children when parents think environmental
Ooh Jerry – what will you become
When the stakes are away
When the stakes are away
Ooh tell me, when the play is done
‘bout the roles you’ve been playing
All the roles you’ve been playing
A soundbox of a western twelve-string
A little box to hide a wedding ring
A box to store just about everything
A car a pool a garden and a driveway with a warden and…
Too many problems on my travel bag
Too many problems on my travel bag
Too many colors on my battle flag
Too many colors on my battle flag
Two holiday a year, one’s just to brag
Two holiday a year, one’s just to brag
I don’t know where to put it
I don’t know where to put it all
It’s not about how far you reach but it’s about where your roots are
It’s not about how your leaves and your log could expand
It’s about what lies beneath, about your wounds and your bark-scars
‘cause you know where it began might as well be where it ends
Ooh Jerry – what will you become
When the stakes are away
When the stakes are away
Ooh tell me, when the play is done
‘bout the roles you’ve been playing
All the roles you’ve been playing
Ooh Jerry
A soundbox of a western twelve-string
What will you become
A little box to hide a wedding ring
When the stakes are away
A box to store just about everything
When the stakes are away
A car a pool a garden and a driveway with a warden and…
Too many problems on my travel bag
Too many
Choices can't be wrong
Too many colors on my battle flag
Two holiday a year, one’s just to brag
When you're making your play
I don’t know where to put it
I don’t know where to put it all
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3. |
Trout
03:21
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If I could turn back the time
Turn back the time
I’d go real far
I’d live another life
Make another rhyme
Another scar
But still we are
Eventually flowing to the same old sea
We’ll see us again while feeding the same old tree
We’ll shape up the clouds
We’ll make sure the rain comes down
To clean the sheet
To make circles complete
If I were a trout
I’d let me go
Without any doubt
I’d quickly run out of food
But what if so
I’m in the flow and…
The flow never stops
The future will come to me
If it ever does
I would never end up here
‘cause we are the clouds
The sky and the mountains high
The start, the end, is in our own hands…
So keep on going
Keep on flowing
Keep on swimming
Keep on singing
Keep on drifting
Keep on lifting me up!
Keep on eating
Keep on drinking
The flow never stops
Keep on beating
Keep on thinking
The future will come
Keep on fucking
Keep on rocking me, oh!
Come to me
Keep on going
Keep on flowing
If it ever does
Keep on swimming
Keep on singing
I would never end
Keep on drifting
Keep on lifting me up!
End up here
Keep on eating
Keep on drinking
The flow never stops
Keep on beating
Keep on thinking
The future will come
Keep on fucking
Keep on rocking me, oh!
Come to me
If it ever does I would never end, end up here
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4. |
Wood for the Trees
04:19
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I am the farmer in the fable
I’m always harvesting the truth
And I decide what’s on the table
How to look back at my own youth
I am the hero in the epic
A self-proclaimed renaissance-guy
Most of my statements are prophetic
And I know what went wrong and why
Providence give me
Truth and clarity
Is there more
To explore
More wood for the trees
Now as the years go by they’re growing
All the branches north and south
The foliage caught in shining armour
Until the autumn bold and proud
What I have done to what’s beneath me
Not only fills my heart with grief
It makes the treetop grow less easy
It makes it hard to hold its leaves
Providence give me
Truth and clarity
Is there more
To explore
More wood for the trees
Providence give me
Truth and clarity
Is there more
To explore
More wood for the trees
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5. |
Is It Now?
04:09
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Is it now we are present?
Is it now we should go on?
Is it now we’re on a dead end?
Is it now like in ‘now it’s gone’?
Is it now that it will pay off?
All the vows ever made?
There’s a time I will lay those
Weapons down
Anyhow
Is it now
The current future?
Is it now
The simple past?
Is it now or is it sooner?
We will see things never last
Yeah, I know
Times are changing
You can say that again!
Save me from the day
Spare me my decay
Are we almost there or mere halfway?
Is it now we pull conclusions?
Is it all that I had got?
Is it now?
Is an illusion?
Is it now I take a shot?
Save me from the day
Spare me my decay
Are we almost there or mere halfway?
Does it snow?
Save me from the day
Is it raining?
It will turn
It will turn
Does it snow?
Spare me my decay
Is it raining?
It will turn
It will turn
Does it snow?
Are we almost there or mere halfway?
Is it raining?
It will turn
It will turn
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6. |
Mirror
03:36
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Mirror on the wall
Tell me can you see
What’s inside of me?
Hero, all in all
Your utility
Is not what it should be
Maybe heading for a fall
My brains don’t know what my hands are making
Eventually for a fall
My view is dim and my skin is breaking
Decisively for a fall
Run out of time and my head is shaking
Definitely for a fall
Seems like this room has become a waiting hall
Widow
Standing small
Will you be all right
Now I’ve lost the fight
Windows in the wall
Mountains and the sea
Mountains and the sea
Opportunities
Maybe heading for a fall
My brains don’t know what my hands are making
Eventually for a fall
My view is dim and my skin is breaking
Decisively for a fall
Run out of time and my head is shaking
Definitely for a fall
Seems like this room has become a waiting hall
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Jerry's Tango Londerzeel, Belgium
Joeri Cnapelinckx and Tom Daenens recorded the songs in Joeri's garden shed; the result is the EP “Jerry's Tango”: six songs that span the course of a life. As Joeri likes to do it, everything glides over atmospheric carpets of sound. As Tom likes to do it, it’s metaphors abound: Jerry; that's a tree, that's god, that's a trout, that's you, that's me. ... more
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