1. |
Golden Days
04:09
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Golden Days (Herselman)
When they ask you why you're smiling so
You turn around and say
“well, wouldn't you like to know?''
They always think that you're up to something
Well up is the word
And its happiness it brings!
Because:
Some days they bring water
Some days they bring wine
Some days they bring music
And you're having a good
Having a good time!
Some days they bring water
Some days bring some sunshine
Some days they bring music
And you're having a good
Having a good time!
With all this jazz
And then they ask you what you're laughing about
You keep on laughing
('cause it turns them inside out)
You can smile again
('cause you're free and they're mild)
You know a playground has dangers
But you don't care
(if you're a child)
When you see them coming at you
With that wiry grin
They've got a big black box
And they want to put you in
You just smile, throw your fears away
Your troubles are gone in the wind
You're staring at a problem so old
But you're safe if you're one of the children!
Are you one of the children?
Are you one of the children?
With all this jazz
Because some days they bring water...
In all this jazz
You just go up, up, and away
Smile like a child and all your tears run away
You just go up, up, and away
You cry like a child and all your fears run away
You just go up-you go all the way
A golden year inside a golden day
You just go up-you go all the way
A golden year inside a golden day
Because: -some days they bring water...
Having a good, having a good time
Having a good, having a good time
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2. |
Dancing In Our Hearts
05:11
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Dancing In Our Hearts (Herselman)
I'm dancing in my heart
I'm dancing for the sake of time
(for the sake of time).
I'm dancing in my heart
(don't you know)
It's for your sake and mine
Let's go dancing!
Go dancing in your heart
Go dancing for the sake of time
(dancing for the sake of time).
Go dancing in your heart
(don't you know)
It's for your sake and mine
Let's go dancing
I looked for my heart –
When the rain came one day
Because i needed it so-
I looked for your heart
But clouds took it away
I couldn't find it ... Oh no!
The next day I woke up and the sun was shining
Has every heart got a silver lining?
Today I woke up the sun was shining
Surely every heart has got a silver lining?
Ohh la la hey la la...
Let's celebrate now!
Ooh la la hey la la...
Let's celebrate!
Now we're dancing in our hearts
We're dancing for the sake of time
(dancing for the sake of time)
We're dancing in our hearts
(don't you know)
It's for your sake and mine
Let's go dancing!
Let's celebrate!
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3. |
Gringo Blue
03:43
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Gringo Blue (Herselman)
Let's take out that old Django Reinhardt record
Light some candles
And uncork some wine
Let's go down that romantic avenue
One more time
Let's think we're in France
Pretend that we're in Spain
Olé
Let's go down that romantic avenue
Once again
I'll say that your perfume
It reminds me of Worcestershire sauce
And then you can say you never met a man
Who cooks better boerewors
Let's think we're in the south of France
Let's pretend that we're not insane
And then we'll go down that romantic avenue
Once again
Let's light that candle
('cause it went out again)
Let's take out those photo's that we never took
So, we could look into the future
Instead of back into that book
We've got today
Let's have a little bit of romance
Now, what do you say, hey?
I'll say that your perfume
It reminds me of your sisters'
And then you can say you'll never forget the day
That wonderful day you popped all my blisters
Let's pretend we're not on a sinking ship
Let's start thinking that we're all that counts
And then we'll go down
(with that sinking ship)
Every ounce!
Let's take out that old Django Reinhardt record...
Let's go down
That romantic avenue
One more time...
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4. |
Heart In Hand
03:00
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Heart In Your Hand (Herselman)
Nature's wild form makes you wonder and shake
Dazed and torn in the heart of an earthquake
Winds wild growl and water beating land
Blown like a seed across the barren desert sand
Between the sky and the sand
You're living with your heart in your hand
Between the water and land
Heart in hand
Try living in a vacuum and you know that nothing
Can
A liquid formation shows on the brain scan
There is no light in a tunnel dug into the earth
Something softly whispers
“death's the sole result of birth''
Shake, shake
Shake off this thing
And breakthrough the fear of the wrong thing
Wrong thing
Shake, shake, shake off this thing
And break off its sting
Between the sky and the sand...
But you must remember the many things
That love brings
That love brings
Yes, you must remember the many things
That love brings, love brings
On the upper air currents
Where hopes go to meet
Faith is a pedestrian
With feet on the street
But it is only love that can point out this way
A spiraling dewdrop on a golden sunray
A spiraling dewdrop on a golden sunray
A spiraling dewdrop
On a golden sunray
Between the sky and the sand...
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5. |
On The Lazer Beam
02:24
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On The Lazer Beam (Herselman)
Does anyone got twenty cents?
To give to me I'm pleasure bent
Living on video
Johnny's got a gun
And with only twenty cents
He's going to blow us into kingdom come
We're living on machines
Johnny's got a button
And with only twenty cents
He'll turn sheep into mutton
Watch out for that lazer beam!
One laughs
Another screams
Johnny's got a supersonic and subsonic
And somehow-bionic-plastic dream
On the video screen
Watch out for that lazer beam
Just watch out for that beam
Has anyone got twenty cents?
To give to me I'm pleasure bent
It's quite obscene (not pornographic)
It's just atomic in the nude
And that's extremely rude
Now we're living on lights
Johnny's got a free game
With only twenty cents
He'll turn the walking into lame
Watch out for that lazer beam!
One laughs....
There's buttons and screens
We caught in between
The clicks and whirls and lazer beams-
And it's all on the video machines
Johnny's got a button
Johnny's got a gun
Johnny's hooked on video
And it's such fun?
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6. |
Slang
04:15
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Slang (Herselman)
Ek sê “pa”
Hy sê “ja, my seun”
Ek sê “pa, ek is bang”'
Hy sê “hoekom my seun,
Is jy bang vir daardie slang?”.
Ek sê “ja, pa!”
Ek sê “pa”
Hy sê “ja my dogter,
What is dit wat jou nou pla?''
Ek sê “pa, is dit te laat?''
“want ons is nie bang-
Vir sommer enige slang
Maar die slang wat jy nie kan sien nie pa,
Vir daai slang is ons bang!”
Vertel ons waar-
Waar is daardie slang (pa, pa, pa vertel ons waar)
Vir wie ons
Vir wie ons
Pa, ons word so bang!
Pa kan sien
Maar pa së niks.
Ons sê "ma"
Sy sê "ja"
Ons sê "ma, waar is pa”
Maar ma sê niks nie ... Ah!
Ons sê “ma, pa, ma, pa-
Ma, waar is pa?''
Maar ma sê niks nie ... Ah!
Soek iemand 'n dogter?
Soek iemand 'n seun?
Daar's 'n nasie op die stasie
Wat weet nie waarheen...
En ma is aleen om te wonder
Oor die volgende dag
En vandag se donder
(herhaal koor: vervang pa met ma)
Ma, ons is so bang-
Ma kan sien
Maar ma sế niks
Sy is te bang
Vir die slang
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7. |
Jol
02:35
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8. |
Unexpectedly
02:44
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Unexpectedly (Fishwick/Herselman)
Unexpectedly
You came on in
And irrespectively
You went and ruffled up, you ruffled up my skin
Now consequently you worry me some
Yes, you worry me some
Introspectively
I ended up looking in
So dejectedly-at my ruffled skin
Since your consequence came
And you tickled me some
Yes you tickled me some
And I know, we've got a long way to go
I can feel this is real "(it's oh, so real)
(but what do you say?)
Then casually
I just wandered in
You didn't look at me
And you didn't wonder where I'd been
So, I got the feeling that I should run
Yes, I should run
But I know
When you run you've got a long way to go?
I can feel that this is real (it's oh, so real).
(but what do you say?)
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9. |
Bend Me, Shape Me
04:25
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Bend Me, Shape Me (Herselman)
I hear now you've got
Some new devices
For slicing up men
And for splicing their licence
You're turning my circles 'round
But there is nothing to be found
You're just making my strength so weak
It's just to find out what you seek
What is it that you seek?
What is it that you seek?
You're sticking (small' shocks
Into the skin
You're making quite sure
Your message gets in
I've got no information
I've got nothing to hide
When you're finished with my deformation
I'll have nothing inside...
Some form of recreation (would you say)
This indoctrination
Some form of deformation (would you say)
This indoctrination
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to hide
So, take at your jack and hammer inside...
And so now you use
Some drugs you've found
You can abuse
Just to turn men around
You're turning my ups to down
But there is nothing to be found
You are making my squares oblique
It's just to find out what you seek
What is it that you seek?
What is it that you seek?
You're pulling out teeth
And lifting up nails
When there's nothing underneath
Well, you just impale
I've got no information
I've got nothing inside
When you're finished with my deformation
I'll have nothing inside...
So now you've tried my angle (triangle)
(nothing to say, nothing to hide)
And now you've wrecked my angle (rectangle)
(take out your jack and hammer inside)
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to hide
So, take out your jack and hammer inside...
Jackhammer...
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10. |
U-Turn!
02:59
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U-Turn! (Herselman)
Mind the car
Mind the car
Mind the car
Mind the car
Absolutely, you're right!
There's no good going drunk into the night
Walking out of bars
And straight under cars...
Mind the car...
Before it's too late to make a u-turn
Before it's too late to learn
No no no no no
No time to make a turn
Oh no no no no
No u-turn
Oh no no no no
No time to make a turn
Oh no no no no
No u-turn
Crash and burn
Deads too late to learn...
Every teacher, tells you the same
And you get fed up
And you think, what's your game?
And then some night - you meet someone
Who shows you that they're right
And you are wrong
Mind the car...
Before it's too late to make a u-turn
Before it's too late to learn
No no no no no...
Mind the car!
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11. |
Pictures Of Parties
04:07
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Pictures Of Parties (Herselman)
If you go backstage
There's a mirror
In which you can see yourself
Or you can find
Some people hiding
Hiding from themselves
Eyes that look into others' eyes
Eyes that turn away
Some eyes just turn away
The aggressive boys are looking for a fight
They want to stick their fingers deep into the night
There's a lady with a shining smile
But just a broomstick if you want to dance
Your fantasies they can run another mile
You pay your money and you take a chance
The mirror tells the truth
While the make-up tells the lies
In this place where another smudged face
Watches the mirror cry
Watches the mirror cry
If you go backstage
There are people
That are looking for security
They've been looking so long
When they find it ... They'll say
Oh no, is it just going to be
Another lie that's looking for another lie?
Or another lay? Hey, hey!
Are they looking for another lay?
Is there anyone alive in here?
And hey where can I get another beer?
Some are pimping, pumping stimulation
Into the evening's 'up'
Waking up tomorrow
In the bottom of an empty cup
Some are swirling in confusion
They can't quite catch the sound
The more they try ... They end up
Dizzy on the ground
Duets becoming solos
Groups of friends that bash and break
There's a lady with a shining smile...
They're turning off the music
And they're turning off the lights
The doors are busy closing
We go out into the night
To the sound of keys and cars
Going to some other place
To turn into a stage
A stage that's backstage
It's just the back backstage
Of another 'nother 'nother stage
It's the back, back, back, backstage
Of another 'nother 'nother stage!
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12. |
Ash
03:29
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Ash (Herselman)
They say nothing lasts forever
But I believe they're wrong
They just say this whenever
Sometimes
Somethings
Somehow-some things they fall down
You know these things fall down
Watch them fall down now!
They say none can stay together
But that is just a song
They just sing this song whenever
Somewhen
Somewhere
Someone-if someone goes wrong
That's if a someone goes wrong
When it's winter coming down
When it's winter coming down
Someway-someway
Somewhere-somewhere
Somewhy-somewhy
We die (but it's just to pass by)
We die (but it's just to pass-
Just to pass by)
They say nothing lasts forever
But I believe they're wrong
They just say this whenever
Somewhen
Somewhere
Somewhy someone goes wrong
That's if a someone goes wrong
When it's winter coming down...
You know this winter's coming down
Oh yes, this winter's coming down
You know this winter's coming down
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13. |
The Bezuidenhouts
05:00
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The Kêrels Johannesburg, South Africa
Herselman, a prolific songwriter, has produced various albums, from tight, punkish Chrome Sweet Chrome (www.sjambokmusic.com) through star-studded Rigtingbefok (see Bandcamp Die Lemme), to his recent House for Sale, a contemporary dance-oriented album. He was founding director of Tic Tic Bang, S.A's first independent record company and part of the conscientising Voëlvry movement. ... more
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