Road of my misfortune

as I'm walking down, this road of my misfortune
where I lost that touch, where my heart once was
I ask myself, 'when will my future decide, to take
a hold of me again', as it did so many times before

as I know it will, as it always does, easing my pain
caressing my soul, soothing my weary mind, stroking
my hair against the winds of time, on this road of my
misfortune

and yes, the times they will be better, my eyes will
shine that new born light and my laugh will clear
the sky, yes, my happiness will strike me again

(c) JR. 2019

Allways

I'll always be thinkin' of you
even if you don't of me
there'll always be that touch
you left behind

it was more than kind
yes you spend time with me
time our own

'cause we came so close
and you were lost in me
as I was in you

yet you didn't come through
you came
an' went in the same way
I found you

struggling for you
as I was all the time
tryin' to save me
an' you

I wasn't used
I really couldn't say
whose to blame

we played the game
which I would recognise anywhere
in it were you

why couldn't you keep me
as you should

(c) JR. eightees

Lifted me up high

there's nothin' in this world
that can bring me down only
love can

and yes, I fought my battles
with love it did bring me down
it did not make me win

it brought me unto my knees
but in the end lifted me up high
so again I could touch the sky

(c) JR. 2018

A Silence

all I wanted was to think come
to terms with my surroundings
where

I didn't find a will to listen to
the silence I bear, a silence is
in me

keeps me out of touch, out of
reach, guarding my secrets a
silence is in me

so I struggle on, fighting
contradiction in a process of
regaining

a balance in my soul, I need
'cause a silence is in me regaining
my security

is all I need to get by, this silence
will leave me in its retreat, free, on
the mend

I'll step into life again, a silence is
in me, keeps me out of touch out of
reach

it will always leave, a silence is in
me

(c) JR. lyrics eightees

There was thunder

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
a woman can kill
with so much

as a gentle touch
feel the coldness
of her arms
see the chill in her eyes

the hate when she smiles
still she speaks of love
wich she promissed
but easily forgot

whatever the reason
took her love
it wasn't completely lost
like a disease some of it

never leaves
a faint feelin' remains
disturbin' in fact
'cause it doesn't rest

always a stir
a movement is there
she knows it all too well
it leaves her in despair

'cause strong the hate
it's done in passion
love its name

she came in for the kill
loved so deeply
couldn't afford it

her strenght weakening
close to totall surrender
there was thunder


(c) JR.  2018

We don't touch

we look, an' see what we haven't got
we laugh, but there's no smile in our
laugh 'cause...we don't touch

our days are empty, nights shortly lived
and a lot, we cannot fill them with what
we haven't got...we don't touch

and ev'ry morning is not a new day 'cause
our yesterdays are gone and won't come
again

and when we talk our words are caught
in their hollow silence 'cause... we don't
touch...we're not in love


(c) JR. 2018

Statements

it doesn't touch
it can be tough
it can hit hard
the hand of a woman

kickin' dust is my life
I sleep in it I weep in it
'till it's mud for a while

kate, hell of a lady
took me down memorylane
took me into the past
there were children
a house, rent
she just didn't see
it my way
I left


not an empty head in the room
they were so intelligenr, they
weren't all born with a broom

she's like a leather bag
full of skin and a lot of class

she's like a paperbag
full of air and nothingness


a whisper's in the air
going through the galleries
keeps hangin' there

sometimes walls do hear
and carry it through to
the house most near

a whisper in the galleries
has destroyed many fears


I have no tears
for eyes that see
yet are blind

I laid my hand on the tombstone
as I had done so many times
out came a cry you spoke to me
from beyond the skies

ev'ry conversation a battlefield
ev'ry word a sword into the heart
how can you expect any love

wees nog één keer onstuimig
zeg nog één keer
het is te gek geweest
wat je vind is iets
wat je altijd al bent geweest

'Lost in disbelieve'

I wouldn't know
I didn't believe
you were happening to me
yet I saw
I was led like a horse
with no destination

I was lost
lost in disbelieve
this was happening to me
what began so sincere
was merely a fairy tale
you were happening to me

it shouldn't be it never was
what it showed to my eyes
I had it made you made it
a lie

(c) JR.

should I let it come to me
it came in a flash
for an instant I was happy
for an instant I was there

I tasted it it was sweet
with a sour taste I knew
it couldn't be real


'Hot Summer Love'

those hot days of sumer
they're here again and I'm walking
trying to catch the shade
where I know you'll be lying
waiting impatiently

one always is
Hot summer love
waiting to be caught
at the right moment
at the right time

in the right place
passion in the shade
will it stay
don't think it will
'hot summer love'
a thrill

(c) JR.

my soul is dying
my heart does not know


she's in doubt
doesn't know what to choose
happiness, a home,
but freedom too

it isn't for me
to shed some light
in this chaos going on
in her mind

not for me to decide
if she'll have me by her side
she's in doubt, so am I
if we'll ever be

a chance of a lifetime
nobody's there to make us care

(c) JR.


'LINES'

your still the girl
I took home
twenty years ago
I wouldn't have missed a day
for the bad times, sad times
good times

we sailed along
arrived safe in
this day and age
with an experience
no one can take
still the same
still together
with you

something strikes me
I've seen it coming
showing some lines
don't care a dime
I see beauty
surround your eyes
nothing can take away
your soft embrace

(c) JR