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open your eyes my friend and look around
i'm afraid that i must tell that both of us are grounded
so now i walk in darkness and i cannot find the way
speak for i've got nothing more to say
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i'm going to the loo and I am not coming out
i feel like a scream but I ain't willing to shout
life is but a moment still it's perfectly loud
created by the edges of doubt
hey mr. Daniel's will you burn down my throat?
it may help me to find exact the right notes
if i won't succeed tonight i'll run to the goats
where dull and empty sheepiness floats
hey man cool it you're losing your grip
listening to the rain falling down with a drip
never push me you're pushing me still
i'll look just if my eyeballs will
i'll look just if my eyeballs will
i'll look just if my eyeballs will
i'll look just if my eyeballs will
a final sip and i'm going to bed
i guess i'll takke a second and a third one instead
i think i've hurt a woman and i'm full of regret
hiding all the tears i ain't shed
hold on fellow you're going to fast
it's time to face the future and forget 'bout the past
i don't feel like going yonder downtown
because mean old jack has got down
mean old jack has got me down
mean old jack has got me down
mean old jack has got me down
mean old jack
creates asocial behaviour to get them off my back
he know what reason is and makes sure that it always lacks
when will i hate you more than love you
bottled mean old jack?
mean old jack
mean old jack!
met a girl and she looked alright
blond hair grey eyes through the night
she could give me goosegumps if she tried
but sometimes i feel that i struggle with my loyalty
we went out one day and once more i wished to be free
'cause another pretty girl was standing there alone
she gave me shivers to the bone
i kissed the other girl and my lady got mad
in her opinion i was just a dirty old rat
i must admit that i felt only little regret
but at this moment i sure feel bad
mr. Daniel's is my therapy
he brings my way of thinking to a different degree
when he fills with me with his delicate flames
i lose the will to play them games
i lose the will to play them games
i lose the will to play them games
i lose the will to play them games
mean old jack
creates asocial behaviour to get them off my back
he know what reason is and makes sure that it always lacks
when will i hate you more than love you
bottled mean old jack?
mean old jack
mean old jack!
on the table stands a bottle that stares
he's empty but he's telling that he doesn't care
the whisky house has got some brothers of mine
if you buy one of those it's fine
if you buy one of those it's fine
if you buy one of those it's fine
if you buy one of those it's fine
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the prophet sat on his wooden chair but today the people didn't seem to care
he sang about the good and bad but the people laughed and all started to chat
the prophet stopped the singing and he looked upon the crowd
he said why don't you listen to what i shout?
i don't sing because i wish to entertain
i'm warning you before the rain
the people stopped the laughing and saw the man
who helpfully warned them for the rain
they saw him cry and as he weeped again
they understood that they had to explain
they sang
we don't want no complications they only cause an aching head
if you make music make sure it's simple so we won't forget
we don't want nom modulations we don't like music that takes too long
we just want a nude girl on tv who sings a sing along song
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i like the lullabies of lazy little lightbulbs living lonely in a lane of lies leaving lasting lives
we wake the weaklings working wonderfully wineless without wearing what the wise will whine off whirring waves of woe
dust is on the tree
is my heart the moon?
soon the faster flees
bees buzz afternoon
ruined ideas so low
over rivers row
no increase of trees
people made of snow
no increase of trees
people made of snow
no increase of trees
people made of snow
no increase of trees
people made of snow
can they understand how dirty birds behave?
will they pray to save the wave whom they sent to where he went?
there flows a scarf its colour's blue
it will not land on something new
and as we listen to the lull there sings an echo born to fall
and as we listen to the lull there sings an echo born to fall
and as we listen to the lull there sings an echo born to fall
soon the dreary fear made the doubts disappear
i stopped the wishing to cry with the fish
no-one said that all would be finished in the fall
he who bashes through the wall shall be waiting for a call
when will we travel through the dirt?
it seems that it might be unheard
that the opinion of the lot and the trouble that it brought
in the end was nothing but a talking bird
walking through the woods to my house
the clouds that on my FOURHEAD douse
whispern secrets in my ear which i cannot hear
so i call the apple tree and beg her give your fruits to me
but she laughs and calls me names
and vanishes in flames
so i fall down right to the ground
where people once have found
a skeleton who moves in silence wandering around
call my name and i'll travel home
the sandy dirty sky's torturing my eyes
which over the pastures roam
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congratulations child
you make my heart run wild
when i look in your eyes
you seem an angel in disguise
you are my puppeteer
it's your beatuy that i fear
if you'd ask me for the moon
i would make sure you'd get it soon
and so the beast in me is slain
why do you play this aweful game?
do be in love's to run in vain
and so the beast in me is slain
why do you play this aweful game?
do be in love's to run in vain
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somewhere in the clouds above the room where morals sleep
a new technique of romance being easy fast and cheap
is discovered by a guy who dislikes sweet romantic stuff
and he writes a song about it which he titles hazy love
wainting on a line waiting to fall off
some gloomy feathers shine and draw me hazy love
never meet me for you would walk out on me i can tell
foggy streets sing stories i remember when i try
speak again my friend i understand your dreams
out of my backdoor came a howling echoed sound
flying past the spiderwebs in dawny glitters drowned
i lived my life to see your stars ignite
but since they burn i seem so tired
seek me in desire you'll find out soon enough
i'm spitting mist to claw your fist
and change it in a dove
i'm looking through my windowpane
even sunlighyt looks like rain
so i turn around and ask the ground
to interrupt my brain
the hero you admire ain't even half as tough
i'm nothing but a liar
so draw me hazy love
my head is turning my eyes are burning
be smart and stay away
my blood's been changing i'm rearranging
my innerself melee
my legs are shaking the birds are waking
my throat is playing sand
my life is crazy my love is hazy
now don't you understand
i'm just a guy who's learning why
his parents told him not to try
i stand above romantic stuff
all i deserve is hazy love
all confessions done and lies revealed the "poet" looks around
his trembling eyes fight much fatigued to catch the true amount
of empty bottles telling him his theory was wrong
in spite of hazy love his heart was stolen through the process of this song
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the river blackens as the pelgrim nears
his food's confession and his beverage tears
what will he find inside my mind?
will he even like the things he'll find?
the river blackens as the light remains all white
will the days that wait for me be equally bright?
soon the warmth is gone
i look inside its eyes and finally its done
with reading everything that my future soon will bring
old values aren't heard of here
i'm overwhelmed with endless fear
i'm afraid of this desert lying low
help to forget my fatal blow
we didn't die for nothing thanks to us
decisions are made old rules are turned to dust
could've been better if we stayed alive
but the night took us as the clock struck five
we didn't die for nothing but he gives a damn?
we may be heroes but we'll never breatha gain
see the angry path what lies beyond it?
and what caused its wrath?
can you help me to find out?
can you help to kill my doubt?
old values aren't heard of here
i'm overwhelmed with endless fear
i'm afraid of this desert lying low
help to forget my fatal blow
old values aren't heard of here
i'm overwhelmed with endless fear
i'm afraid of this desert lying low
help to forget my fatal blow
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can you climb the mountain of my mind
within the time the music gives you? then begin
to interpret the following:
let the sleeping eights begin
rise old sun! shine your light upon the
early dawn 'till all drops are gone
rise old moon! enchant the nightbirds that will
rather soon sing all out of tune
i won't tell no stories for the stories tell themselves
so listen to the stories that the stories tell
have you counted all the "stories" that appear within this verse?
annoying? well it's only getting worse
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we don't want no complications they only cause an aching head
if you make music make sure it's simple so we won't forget
we don't want nom modulations we don't like music that takes too long
we just want a nude girl on tv who sings a sing along song
we just want a nude girl on tv who sings a sing along song
sing along song
sing along song
the prophet shook his head and understood
he knew his time belonged now to the past
he travelled east although he had no food
and entered a desert village as a guest
and he warned them for the rain and he told them about the pain
that people could avoid if they used their brain
and the people listened well as the priest began to tell
as he preached about the burning man-made hell
but soon the chances turned as the neon-herald burned
his torch of civilization with the plastic flame
the peddlars showed their goods as did the prostitutes
for on the horizon the western tourists came
we don't want no complications they only cause an aching head
if you make music make sure it's simple so we won't forget
we don't want nom modulations we don't like music that takes too long
we just want a nude girl on tv who sings a sing along song
we just want a nude girl on tv who sings a sing along song
sing along song
sing along song
sing along song
sing along song
sing along song
sing along song
sing along song
sing along song
and we all know the end of this the prophet turned around and ran away
the western tourists ruled the land and the sing along nude girls rule the world today
we've got muscles to show off after all who needs brains today
we've got weapons to make the weaklings move away
a small amount of the people cries for the prophet to sing again
for the world doesn't remember the rain
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when will i run away
perhaps i'll run today
but then i see your smile
again i decide to stay a while
and so the beast in me is slain
why do you play this aweful game?
do be in love's to run in vain
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and now the dreamy days are done we wave farewell to the fading sun
and under mountains far away sleeps an answer made of clay
who turned it off who let it fly? cried the old unopened eye
a window opens to the sand where the labyrinths all stand
i see that someone suffers so extremely sadful silly songs of sudden sanity sunk in several sighs
and not the nearest nation notices the news now nothing's needed nowadays nonetheless night is never known
in the dreams of men
can we stop the flow
over valleys ran
then why don't we know?
ochre horses strong
wrongness is a song
longer than a man
dancing on one's tongue
longer than a man
dancing on one's tongue
longer than a man
dancing on one's tongue
longer than a man
dancing on one's tongue
after all the laughs in lighter nights appear
the fearless nearing deer who help the endless deafs
there flows a scarf its colour's blue
it will not land on something new
and as we listen to the lull there sings an echo born to fall
and as we listen to the lull there sings an echo born to fall
and as we listen to the lull there sings an echo born to fall
now that all is gone we can see what is done
no songs have proven right so all tongues must have lied
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i have always heard of evil fires
but these stories seem absurd and told by liars
listen to the whispers floating from the house of flowered clouds
here i can sleep and leave my doubts
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released March 29, 2009
The Delicate Project is:
Gerlov van Engelenhoven: Piano, vocals, background vocals, drums
Rik Peters: Noisy & jangly guitars, bassguitar
MB: Gently strummed guitar
All songs written by Gerlov van Engelenhoven.
Rik's Parts written by Rik.
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Minderbinder studio 1, Oegstgeest, NL, between february 2007 & march 2009 by Edoardo Felici.
Cover Design by R.P. and Maaike van Kapel.
Special thanks to: Mevrouw Goslings, mevrouw van Benthem Jutting, mevrouw Cok, meneer Wenk, ouders, broertjes, zusjes, Perez, Fourhead, Sophie, Mart Boertje, Edo, Jesper's ouders.
Tante Nora Klein-Katipana.
contact:
0648071676
gerlovvanengelenhoven@gmail.com
Produced by Edoardo Felici. © 2009. All rights reserved.
www.minderbinder.nl
www.myspace.com/thedelicateproject