Topic: moods

[van helden]

  The Nightingale 

The nightingale
It said to me
There is a love
meant for me
The nightingale
It flew to me
And told me
That it found my love.

He said one day
I'll meet you
Our hearts will fly
With the nightingale.

The nightingale
He told me
One day
You will be with me.

The nightingale
Said he knew
That your love
Would find my love one day

My heart flies
With the nightingale
Through the night
All across the world.

I long to see you
To touch you
To love you
Forever more.

[van helden]

  When you're gone 

Hold on to love, that is what I do
Now that I've found you
And from above, everything's stinking
They're not around you
And in the night, I could be helpless
I could be lonely, sleeping without you
And in the day, everything's complex
There's nothing simple, when I'm not around you

But, I miss you when you're gone
That is what I do... Hey, Baby
And it's going to carry on,
That is what I knew... Hey, Baby

Hold on to my hands, I feel I'm sinking
Sinking without you
And to my mind, everything's stinking
Stinking without you
And in the night, I could be helpless
I could be lonely, sleeping without you
And in the day everything's complex
There's nothing simple, when I'm not around you
But, I miss you when you're gone
That is what I do... Hey, Baby
And it's going to carry on,
That is what I knew... Hey, Baby.

[van helden]

  Straight to number one 

Ten . . . kiss me on the lips
Nine . . . run your fingers through my hair
Eight . . . touch me . . . slowly
Seven . . . hold it!

Let's go straight . . . to number one

Six . . . lips
Five . . . fingers
Four . . . play
Three . . . to number one

Kiss me on the lips
Run your fingers through my hair
Touch me . . . let's go straight
. . . to number one

Touch and go . . . to number one.

[van helden]

  The severed garden 

Wow, i´m sick of doubt
Live in the light of certain south, cruel bindings
The servants have the power
Dog-men & their mean women
Pulling poor blankets over our sailors

I´m sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the tv-tower
I want roses in my garden bower, dig?
Royal babies, rubies must now replace
Aborted strangers in the mud
These mutants, blood-meal
For the plant that´s plowed

They are waiting to take us
Into the severed garden
Do you know how pale and wanton thrillful
Comes death on a strange hour?
Unannounced, unplanned for
Like a scaring over-friendly guest
You´ve brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all
And gives us wings
Where we had shoulders
Smooth as raven´s claws

No more money, no more fancy dress
This other kingdom seems by far the best
Until it´s other jaw reveals incest
And loose obedience to a vegetable-law

I will not go
Prefer a feast of friends
To the giant family.

[van helden]

  Charlie big potato 

I awake
From blood thick dreams
Washing blame
From my knees

Softly done
So secretly
I'm awake
As Charlie sleeps

A lone brother
A lone sister
A home cover
Alone

I awake
Dry the scream
Spit the vile breath
'Till my tongue bleeds

Thinks it's all gone
Famously
Broke the hard girl
Good to please

A lone brother
A lone sister
A home cover
Alone

Tell it like it is
Tell it like it is
Tell the sordid truth
Tell them

Tell it like it is
Tell them

A lone brother
A lone sister
A home cover
Alone, alone
Alone, alone, yeah.

[van helden]

  C'est presque ça

[van helden]

  Common people 

She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College
That's where I caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded
I said "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola"
She said "fine"

And in thirty seconds time she said,
"I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people like you"
Well what else could I do?
I said "I'll see what I can do"

I took her to a supermarket
I don't know why
But I had to start it somewhere
So it started there.
I said "Pretend you've got no money"
But she just laughed
And said "oh you're so funny".
I said "yeah?
Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here".

Are you sure you want to live like common people
You want to see whatever common people see
You want to sleep with common people,
You want to sleep with common people like me.
But she didn't understand,
She just smiled and held my hand.

Rent a flat above a shop,
Cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool,
Pretend you never went to school.
But still you'll never get it right
'cos when you're laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your Dad he could stop it all.
You'll never live like common people
You'll never do whatever common people do
You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view,
And dance and drink and screw
Because there's nothing else to do.

Sing along with the common people,
Sing along and it might just get you thru'
Laugh along with the common people
Laugh along even though they're laughing at you
And the stupid things that you do.
Because you think that poor is cool.

Like a dog lying in a corner,
They will bite you and never warn you
Look out, they'll tear your insides out
'cos everybody hates a tourist
Especially one who thinks
It's all such a laugh
Yeah!

And the chip stains' grease
Will come out in the bath
You will never understand
How it feels to live your life
With no meaning or control
And with nowhere left to go
You are amazed that they exist
And they burn so bright
Whilst you can only wonder why
Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
'cause when you're laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your dad he could stop it all
Yeah!

You'll never live like common people
You'll never do whatever common people do
You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
And then dance and drink and screw
Because there's nothing else to do
I want to live with common people like you...

[van helden]

  E lucevan le stelle (Tosca) 

E lucevan le stelle,
e olezzava la terra
stridea l'uscio dell'orto,
e un passo sfiorava la rena.
Entrava ella, fragrante,
mi cadea fra le braccia.
Oh! dolci baci, o languide carezze,
mentr'io fremente le belle forme discogliea dai veli!
Svani per sempre il sogno mio d'amore...
L'ora e fuggita e muoio disperato!
E non ho amato mai tanto la vita!

[van helden]

  Perfect day 

Just a perfect day,
Drink Sangria in the park,
And then later, when it gets dark,
We go home.
Just a perfect day,
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later, a movie, too,
And then home.

Oh it's such a perfect day,
I'm glad I spent it with you.
Oh such a perfect day,
You just keep me hanging on,
You just keep me hanging on.

Just a perfect day,
Problems all left alone,
Weekenders on our own.
It's such fun.
Just a perfect day,
You made me forget myself.
I thought I was someone else,
Someone good.

Oh it's such a perfect day,
I'm glad I spent it with you.
Oh such a perfect day,
You just keep me hanging on,
You just keep me hanging on.

You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow...

[van helden]

  Life's a beach

A wave hello
A wave goodbye

The way we live
The way we die

Life's a beach
Life's a beach

The way we live
The way we die

A wave hello
A wave goodbye

Life's a beach
Life's a beach

A wave hello
A wave goodbye

Life's a beach
Life's a beach...

[van helden]

  One of these mornings

One of these mornings
Won’t be very long
You will look for me
And I’ll be gone.

[van helden]

  Close to me

I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought that this day would end
I never thought that tonight could ever be
This close to me

Just try to see in the dark
Just try to make it work
To feel the fear before you're here
I make the shapes come much too close
I pull my eyes out
Hold my breath
And wait until I shake

But if I had your faith
Then I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream

I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought that this day would end
I never thought that tonight could ever be
This close to me

But if I had your face
I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door
Was a dream.

[van helden]

  Hasta siempre Comandante

Aprendimos a quererte
desde la histórica altura
donde el sol de tu bravura
le puso cerco a la muerte.

Aquí se queda la clara,
la entrañable transparencia,
de tu querida presencia
Comandante Che Guevara.

Vienes quemando la brisa
con soles de primavera
para plantar la bandera
con la luz de tu sonrisa.

Aquí se queda la clara,
la entrañable transparencia,
de tu querida presencia
Comandante Che Guevara.

Tu amor revolucionario
te conduce a nueva empresa
donde esperan la firmeza
de tu brazo libertario.

Aquí se queda la clara,
la entrañable transparencia,
de tu querida presencia
Comandante Che Guevara.

Seguiremos adelante
como junto a ti seguimos
y con Fidel te decimos:
!Hasta siempre, Comandante!

Aquí se queda la clara,
la entrañable transparencia,
de tu querida presencia
Comandante Che Guevara.

[van helden]

  Spente le stelle

Quel cuor perdesti
Per un miraggio
Quel cuor tradisti
Odiar di più, non puó!
La mia voce, senti
Il suo dolor... o no?
La tua sparí
E io, pazza, t'aspetto!

Dimenticar...
O non più vivere
Ormai, salvo...
La notte... la notte... la notte...
Ah !...

Spente le stelle
Col pallido raggio di luna
Piange l'amore
Che si lancia come l'onda poi se ne va
Vuota, la notte
E la sua speranza breve
Ora sgorga l'amaro pianto
Un cuor ferito, disperato passa qua

Dunque fuggisti
I sogni vuoti
Dunque perdersi
I brevi vortici

Dimenticar...
O non più vivere
Ormai, salvo...
La notte... la notte... la notte...
Ah !...

Spente le stelle
Col pallido raggio di luna
Piange l'amore
Che si lancia come l'onda poi se ne va
Vuota, la notte
E la sua speranza breve
Ora sgorga l'amaro pianto
Un cuor ferito, disperato passa qua.

[van helden]

  Undenied

Your softly spoken words,
Release my whole desire,
Undenied,
Totally.

And so bare is my heart,
I can't hide,
And so where does my heart,
Belong.

Beneath your tender touch,
My senses can't divide,
Oh so strong,
My desire.

For so bare is my heart,
I can't hide,
And so where does my heart,
Belong.

Now that I've found you,
And seen behind those eyes,
How can I,
Carry on.

For so bare is my heart,
I can't hide,
And so where does my heart,
Belong.

Belong, belong, belong.

[van helden]

  Una musica brutal

Descubrimos vos y yo
en el triste carnaval
una música brutal
melodías de dolor.

Despertamos vos y yo
y en el lento divagar
una música brutal
encendió nuestra pasión.

Dame tu calor
bébete mi amor.

[van helden]

  It's a man's world

This is a man's world, this is a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl

You see, man made the cars to take us over the road
Man made the trains to carry heavy loads
Man made electric light to take us out of the dark
Man made the boat for the water, like Noah made the ark

This is a man's, a man's, a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl

Man thinks about a little baby girls and a baby boys
Man makes then happy 'cause man makes them toys
And after man has made everything, everything he can
You know that man makes money to buy from other man

This is a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl

He's lost in the wilderness
He's lost in bitterness.

[van helden]

  Adagio

[van helden]

  Tainted love

Sometimes I feel I've got to
Run away I've got to
Get away
From the pain you drive into the heart of me
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my light
For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night

Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Tainted love... oh
Tainted love.

Now I know I've got to
Run away I've got to
Get away
You don't really want any more from me
To make things right
Need someone to hold you tight
And you'll think love is to pray
But I'm sorry I don't pray that way.

Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Tainted love... oh
Tainted love.

Don't touch me please
I cannot stand the way you feel
I love you though you hurt me so
Now I'm going to pack my things and go

Touch me baby, tainted love.

Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Tainted love... oh
Tainted love.

[van helden]

  Underwater love

This must be underwater love
The way I feel it slipping all over me
This must be underwater love
The way I feel it

O que que é esse amor, d’água
Deve sentir muito parecido a esse amor
This is it
Underwater love
It is so deep
So beautifully liquid

Esse amor com paixão, ai
Esse amor com paixão, ai que coisa

After the rain comes sun
After the sun comes rain again
After the rain comes sun
After the sun comes rain again

This must be underwater love
The way I feel it slipping all over me
This must be underwater love
The way I feel it

O que que é esse amor, d’água
Eu sei que eu não quero mais nada

Follow me now
To a place you only dream of
Before I came along

When I first saw you
I was deep in clear blue water
The sun was shining
Calling me to come and see you
I touched your soft skin
And you jumped in with your eyes closed
And a smile upon your face
Você vem, você vai
Você vem e cai
E vem aqui pra cá
Porque eu quero te beijar na sua boca
Que coisa louca
Vem aqui pra cá
Porque eu quero te beijar na sua boca
Ai que boca gostosa

After the rain comes sun
After the sun comes rain again
After the rain comes sun
After the sun comes rain again
Cai cai e tudo tudo cai
Tudo cai pra lá e pra cá
Pra lá e pra cá
E vamos nadar
Y vamos nadar e tudo tudo dá

This must be underwater love
The way I feel it slipping all over me
This must be underwater love
The way I feel it
Oh oh d’água we are full

Underwater
Oh underwater love
This underwater love
This underwater love
Underwater love.