Smile

I am a man of taste, style and a smile

I laugh at society, 'cause,...I will never comply

to their sense of taste, style and a smile

(c) JR. 2025

Smile

Sometimes all you have to do is smile

to make someone else's life worthwhile.

(c) JR. 2023

Lost in a smile

an' I see her comin' with a smile
on her face a laugh in her eyes
and I, I was lost inside

so when she left I was lost, lost
in a smile I knew never would be
mine now it's been many years
an' ev'ry mornin'

standin' on the porch I see her
comin'  hear her laugh in the wind
see that smile on her face

stoppin' right in front of me lookin'
at me with her famous laugh an' smile
sayin' to me

'I've come to see you again' and
she sees me smile but that's just
me dreamin'

starin' into the distance lookin'
for something that will not be
an' ev'ry mornin'

I see her comin' hear her laugh
see that smile upon her face and
yes I know I'm only dreamin' lost
in a smile

(c) JR. 2019

Shadow of our desire

she's lyin' there, lyin' in wait
her seductive smile passin' behind
the darkness of her eyes

and her moist an' tender lips are
waitin', to unleash her passion on
my mind

as I know she will, as I am waitin'
stirrin' my fire with her emotion,
showin' me the flesh

of her history inside my time and her life,
where we are waitin' playin' an' teasin'
as she's pleadin'

closin' in as slowly as she can into
somethin' we both know all too well
yet it has to be played

along the lines of that shadow of desire,
that had remained when we first met and
only time

can reveal or tell, how long we will play
this game, how long we will go on, it will
be untill

our history is satisfied and has nothin' more
to burn then it will become the lie of our
thruth

cast aside, by the shadow of our desire
when... it fell

(c) JR. 2018

Ev'rytime

waitin' for Sophie, more than an hour 
Sophie's like a flower, showin' of her
colour, but not around here

so I wait an' wait, ít's startin' to rain
water in my shoes, feel like an idiot
but still I stay, waitin' for Sophie

a second day, suddenly a taxi swings
'round, out comes Sophie with a smile
that's what I do it for for that smile

I can't resist it that's why I wait...

ev'rytime

(c) JR. jawel nr. 210 Dank aan alle trouwe volgers

Love can hurt

it's been a while love found me and
left me behind, years have come and
passed me by, it's been a while love
found me and gave me its smile

sometimes, sweet an' kind, rough
or smooth 'round the edges an' then
again maybe just a smile

love can hurt an' leave over night,
it's been some time love found me
and gave me its smile

it's been a while, love came to town and
spend with me some time, then leaves,
its time over due, lost inside, it's been
a while, love smiled and gave me some
of its time


(c)  JR. 2018

Scent of a woman

just two people passin' by in a lonely room
full of happy people, she was leavin' with
a smile

a scent of a woman lookin' for somethin'
she just couldn't find and I saw her go off
into her dark cloak of the night

wondering, would I have stopped, would
I have paid attention to that faint scent of
a woman

so close, so near waitin' for me to take her
away into the still of this night, would she
then not have passed me by

I failed, I wasn't prepared we were just
passers by

(c) JR. 2018

It's been a long time

I am happy
since a long time
I am happy
one with the world
it's been a long time
I am happy
it's been a long time
I knew

a restless time
has come to an end
I am content
I'm ev'rything
I could ever be
it's been a long time
since I knew

I haven't changed
still the same
still that smile
It's been a while
since I knew
there was a you

I'll never know
who you are
a face in a frame
a face
without a name

it makes me happy
to look at you
one I never knew
but you're there
all I do is stare
at you
in that frame
without a name

(c) JR. 1985

Statements

the wonder that love is
makes me smile
makes me sigh
makes me cry
the wonder that love is


toeteren, bellen en blazen
gebeurt allemaal ineen
want ze hebben je te grazen

blaas je en hij knapt
is dat verdacht
dat doen ze goed
want je was onder invloed

I can write about love
and all the rest
yet never went to bed
imagination is what I have

was je wel eens in Drunen
kan je kilometers turen naar
wat er niet was

wat kost meer
een pond liefde
of een pond verveling

remembering the past
is not my way to spend an evening
'cause you're it and I don't want to look
back

ze was bijna mooi
ze kon lachen als een verzopen
vlooi

zo klein oh zo teer
was die luis in je hemd dit
keer

a woman can kill with so much
as a breath of love
a woman can kill with a look
love with an embrace cry
in the shade

lips so moist an tender
so in love again
I can feel you comin'
in your own special way

as it has always been
ev'ry now and then
she takes a drop of water
and drinks it

tastin' the  purity
and simpleness she needs
now comin' my way
purity reaches me
promissing me its seed

de zon had de aarde geaait
een ras werd weg gevaagd
de bol herstelde snel alleen
de mens was uitgeteld

a song has been sung
will never be sung again
its words are on my lips
someday I might whistle it
somebody might recognise it
and sing it

je was er niet bij
je zult er nooit bij zijn
want we zijn je kwijt

twintig jaar in het huis
waar je word bewaard
heeft een vreemdeling
van je gemaakt

in de luwte lach een schip
gek van blijdschap dat de
storm dat niet wist

a house with seven rooms
slept in ev'ryone of them
never saw dust swept by
a broom

love is a sacred thing
it is not easy to find
and harder to keep

night's like a cloak
wrapping 'round my body
taking me away, angels can fly

I'm waiting for the morning
I know it comes...sometimes

Love's something you get
with your sigarettes, on the
side the government tells you
it's bad

your tongue is like a sword
cutting in all the wrong places

it was a rose that took away my love
and left her thorn...in my heart

a soul is like a flower in the but
a  soul is like a flower opening up


(c) JR.

I see sunshine

lookin' into the distance
I see a shape vaguely comin' towards me
with each step, it becomes more an' more familiar
an'... I realise what it is

her smile touches my mornin' sky
her eyes lock into mine,,,I see sunshine
an' we talk an' talk, all those things of the past
our thoughts aline...we're fine

somewhere distant...I hear a clock beckoning me, rise
I wake up an' really...I see sunshine

(c) JR. 2018