Lyrics 'We Could Wake Each Other Up'

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1. The Queen of Silence

The first thing she told me was that she'd come here to die
So I showed her the way to a death with a view
She made me see a big part of the lie, but more importantly
She cast her light on the part that is true.

Beautifully pure
She never spoke outside the song
The queen of silence
Sang clear enough to sing along

She held my hand in ecstasy
And then she killed with love my need to talk
She made me kneel down quietly
I kept my way but I changed my walk

Beautifully pure...

She talked to me and made me feel at home
And then she asked me: 'What's your biggest fear?'
Now silence doesn't make me feel alone
But I'd be scared as hell being alone here

Beautifully pure...

 

2. If you don't mind (I'm going home)

We hear you've got worries on your mind
Well everybody does so we can all go crying
Now you can keep on sighing till you rest in peace
But whether you like it or not you're now stuck here in time

I'm going home son, I'm going home

We see you've got darkness in your head
And your only solution might appear to be dead
Well you'll get there one day and then we'll leave you in peace
But don't go crooked, go peaceful instead

So leave your thoughts for what they are
The future would lead you way to far
And please breathe if you don't mind

We have an offer for you if you care for a change
No knowledge acquired it's all been arranged
Just forget who you were and be sure you don't know
All the lenghts to go through lie within range

So rise on up and face the facts
Cause your self-pity is a lack of respect
And please breathe if you don't mind

 

3. Momentary Clarity

Well everybody tends to forget

Just how strange existence is

Taking it for granted till we're dead

Waiting an eternity for bliss

 

But then there's momentary Clarity a view behind the scene

Merrily row to the source of the stream

 

Now everytime we tend to forget

Just how beautiful existence is

Postponing forever till we're dead

Waiting an eternity for bliss

 

But then there's momentary clarity a view behind the scenes

Merrily row to the source of the stream 

 

Momentary clarity hits you on the spot

 

4. Paradise Cost

Eden had walls all around
So we, in order to be free
Climbed over and out

And now we weep
We weep salty water
We weaken those walls
Until we see our father

The apple was shiny alright
But did we really realize
That it wasn't alright?

And now we pray
We pray a lifetime
With words that say
Father forgive us the passion crime

You will be so wise said the snake
Hissing in sweet-talk
Till we made a mistake

And now we work
But we gain nothing
A whole life digging our grave
Till we sleep in our coffin

Eve was so naked before
We dressed her, invented porn
And made her a whore

And now we burn
In our self-lit fire
We crave and we yearn
Ever burning desire

Eden had walls all around
So we, in order to be free
Climbed over and out

 

5. Au fond de l’impasse

Au fond de l’impasse

Entrappé en toi même

Commence la chasse

L’ attrappement de la bête que tu aime

 

In the deep of the dead-end

Trapped in your own frame

Starts the hunt

Stalking the beast you can’t tame

 

Le combat commence                               the battle begins

Et les deux dieuw ils dansent                    and two Gods they dance

L’horrible et l’ eblouissant melange         a luminous and horrible interchange

 

Indistinctible l’agresseur et la defense      indistinguishable offence and defence

Inseparable qui parle et qui pense             inseperable who talks and who thinks

Les insultes criés dans une lange etrange  the insults cried out in a language so strange

 

At the end of the dead-end

Trapped in your own frame

Starts the hunt

Stalking the beast you can’t tame

 

A la fin de l’impasse

Toi t’ es seul sur la scene

Tu trouve le carcasse

Du monstre que t’as tué sans haine

 

 

6. Cardiac Pounds

Before the uptight incrowd

Free thought wiped out

Ideas inbred, ideals sold out

If it’s not a familiar sound then

Sing it loud

 

Before the business beehive

Worked up, stressed out

Working shifts till fired or burned out

Money makes a deafening noise so

Sing it load

 

Make ‘em sound, your cardiac pounds

A heart’s too strong a muscle to fight without

And beat ‘em load, your cardiac pounds

A heart’s too strong a muscle to live without

 

Before the jaded junkie

Senses passed out

Trapped by a fix, caught in his playground

His eardrum’s numb so please

Sing it load

 

Before the coward cynics

Breathing black clouds

Choking feelings and joking their way out

A soft voice is hard to hear so

Sing it loud

 

And make ‘em sound with your cardiac pounds

Your heart’s too strong a muscle to fight without

And beat ‘em loud with your cardiac pounds

Your heart’s too strong a muscle to live without

 

7. Right to remain silent

I asked them sincerely "Is there a needle in the haystack?"
They gave me a chair to stand on to see through the crack
While I peeked they pushed me, a rope around my neck
They returned my question and I took it back

And now I use my right to remain silent

I studied their language, to speak in their tongue
But all I uttered came out all wrong
Then I tried poetry, communicate in song
They misunderstood my message though it was strong

And now I use my right to remain silent

I tried to share my feeling of Awe and Dread
Cause it's too big for me, too small is my head
But only the lonely understood what I said
And they hurt me by saying "We already knew that"

And now I use my right to remain silent

 

8. Everything seems so real

Everything seems so real
The way that it moves, the way it feels
Everything seems so real
Accepting its fullness ad signing the deal


I was granted permission
To get 3D-vision
And spin in the great cosmic wheel

 

9. How did you fall?

How did you fall? Tell me how did you fall?
I fell because the road raised its angle
And I fell because the stakes were doubled in the gamble
And I fell because the moon lost its meaning
And I fell cause I forgot that I was dreaming

Why did you fall? Tell me why did you fall?
Cause I confess that to lie is more convenient
And I guess that I remembered the agreement
That my map was already outlined
My road described no need to follow my own signs

You were flying so high
But now you're down and lost
I just needed to know how and why

When did you fall? Tell me when did you fall?
I fell when I traded what I gained for ownership
I fell when I claimed that those words came from my lips
I fell when I tried to tell them that I owned the ship
I started drooling on the deck, and it made me slip

Where did you fall? Tell me where did you fall?
I fell on an island of stone and dry ground
Fell in a place that had walls all around
I couldn't really see what was happening
But I hope that I hurt no one by my crashing in

You were flying on your way there
But then you changed your route
I just needed to know when and where

And will you fly again? Tell me will you fly again?
I don't know but I'll try to be prepared
Though my fall has bruised me and it made me scared
But I'm glad to know I get another chance
That they saved some room for me in their sacred dance

And I'll try not to fall, no I'll try not to fall...

 

10. Brotherly Love

   

You are my conscience

Making sure I don’t go easy on myself

And your walk so steady

Making my wandering seem like hell

 

And you made life so heavy

All my certainties they got so confused

Ah your walk so lonesome

All company equally refused

                

And I love you my brother, my love knows no end

You saved me from profanity all the time we have spent                

I love you my brother for your saving hand

I know words may mislead me but I’ll call you a friend

 

There was a love in our questions

There were tryptamines in our heads

And our quest started together

But I just couldn’t live up to the regime of a daily death

 

And I love you my brother, my love knows no end

You came into my life like you were heaven sent

And so was the wisdom in the books and in plants

They called it abuse but we knew it was sacrament

 

You staged the greatest cliché

Mixing slapstick with tragedy

Leaving me with nothing

Erasing my history

 

And I was, I was such a bad loser

While you were, you were a star

So I grabbed my flag and armor

I mounted my horse and started a war

 

And I hurt you my brother and for that I repent

You loved me so badly, all of it truly meant

You hurt me my brother but there is nothing I resent

For your love’s unconditional, I now understand

 

11. Pharmlife

Random buzzing, mooing, crowing, cackling, overtone singing, gobbling, whistling, etc.

 

12. Any Connection

She bathed you in the water

But you climbed ashore

And now you’re so godforsaken thirsty

Feeling even more dry than before

 

You sit there like a statue

In the mold you once cast

Stuck in a fixed static posture

Facing horizons of the past

 

When you look at it closely

Can you see your reflection?

Is there anything in common

Is there any connection?

 

See your building with your inner blocks

A prison founded on your fears

Imprisoned in you grey brick box

Locking up what you hold dear

 

Where’s your ideals of freedom?

Where’s your love for the show?

Love don’t rhyme with possession that’s obsession

A poet like yourself should know

 

Chorus

 

To be completely surprised by reality

And to observe that it is not at all what you thought it was

Or what you were brought up to believe

And not to be afraid when you suddenly discover the obvious

Which is that the real you is not the ego

But the eternal centre of the universe

 

 

God’s your soul

And it’s my soul too

Love is a mirror

So what makes you blue / Come on push on through

 

(to infinity, iedereen in koor)

 

13. We could wake each other up

I always have to learn the same things
Because my mind ain’t still it swings
And I always have to find the same clues
Cause my view's not fixed, it moves

And why is it so hard
To look in your eye
To see your heart

I always have to sing the same song
Till I lost the blues, until I am numb
But my bells won't keep ringing till it's done
That is why I need to finish this song

But why is it so hard
To look in your eye
To see your heart

If I promise that it would be worthwhile
Could we stare at each other for a little while
Cause we could wake each other up


 

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