Darling Blue (read flag turns up black)

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‘Darling Blue’, (red flag turns up black)

words / music Bert Smeets

https://bertsmeets.bandcamp.com/album/hole-and-corner-album

  • ‘Darling Blue’, is een van de vele liederen met een paralelle ‘boodschap’ het laat, zoals het kubisme toont en meer vormen aan zich bind dan slechts een reële voorstelling. Het laat meerdere gezichten zien, een houvast zonder boei, gelijk een rivier buiten haar oevers treed.
  • het verhaalt een liefde die zich begeeft van het uiterlijk naar het innerlijk en vice versa. Een spiegel die niet gelijk haar gezicht toont maar handig gebruik maakt van het licht dat oplicht en tegelijk het masker verduistert.
  • Een vorm die terugkeert en verandering opslaat terug neemt als mee buigt.

DARLING BLUE (red flag turns up black)

I woke up this morning at six o’clock
the day in hours, the night unlock
no more bad luck, I better wake up
I gotta ease myself my heart knocks ‘aw aw’

Soon is a long time, it’s been hard, cool and dark
darling blue I wake up because you tell the news you had to leave, the red flag turns up black (red flag turns up black)

You and I been through quiet a mess, oh honey, it’s all attached, anything immortelle, find someone, someone else,
A red flag turns up black
Love is the way I won’t give up
the light in my head, is burning me flat
come on Darling Blue, all those talking brave, dreaming strange who’s in the shade what to do, I didn’t know how to be one with you, a red flag turns up black,
(red flag turns up black)

Somebody, can’t you hear, she’s making love the way death comes near, so any time she will do this crime, it fuddles my mind, it cuddles for a while, red flag turns up black

Every morning I gotta face the world
I belong to you so don’t hurt
Come on darling blue life’s never secure oh I’m searching for you and me, oh when ever I’m wrong you know it will come
you know my baby it won’t be very long
a red flag turns up black, red flag turns up black

Demo version for Si (the river won’t flow)

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WHEN THE  RIVER WON’T FLOW

Far is the way from home

when the river won’t flow 

When the river won’t flow wow wow wow

when the river won’t flow 

I call up my girl, it’s been too long

living in a world love won’t grow

too much living you won’t regret, after all

talk to the river but it won’t go back, you once belong

Children play in dead-end streets

win the day, make ends meet

Losing time on to-morrow’s feet

now that it’s gone oh boy!

ai ai ai

Far is the way from home….

Look around your world, look up in the air

maybe we’ll share mmm some day

some day when the river calls your name

still babe,  look to Heaven it won’t complain

your prayer

You are like space, around me babe

seeing you, I face

without love I can’t go on

don’t let it slip away….

ai ai ai

Kiling Butterflies (singer-songwriter Bert Smeets)

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https://bertsmeets.bandcamp.com/track/killing-butterflies-7

KILLING BUTTERFLIES

Oeh, my baby you cry for a little help

Whoops I see you, please help yourself 

money does it mean everything

money doesn’t play all instruments

you got flesh, breast a beautiful laugh

I do believe you sacrifice 

Loving experiences for God and science

ah I’ve seen the light 

Whoops, I lose, you win the battle again 

I am a friend in your nymphomania brand 

Take care when a woman practise her smile  

too many scorpions bet for a bite

you got flesh, breast a beautiful ass

oeh oeh oeh…

God is not my father

mother, not my mother

no sister no brother…. 

Ah! I gotta see the light

Too many lovers hang around your neck

Take the backseat you’re never coming back

Better look around you will pretend

all fake conditions, in the end

Mm you can dane all romance 

I do believe you satisfy

loving experiences kill butterflies 

Don’t kill…butterflies…