Born to survive

 we came out of the distance

struggling across some difficult times

and yes, we can take on any attack of any kind

on our metal cast minds, surrounded by those  walls

built to last endless times, drawing  a line protecting our lives 

we were born to survive

nothing can effect us, no cruelty can hurt us

we have a mind of the toughest kind

with it comes living the hard life, in a world

that only takes without any fair shakes

this world it was never meant to be kind

we, we were born to survive

we won't alwys be tough, there's a willl to give

if time changes as it is and seizes being the hard life it gives

 being bred and born this way was the only way 

not going down not giving into rough times

our  mind is set on living and we will walk 

that long road time after time

we were born to survive

(c) JR. 2021 herschreven van uit 1980 

No man's land

I've been there for so long
time flies into my yesterdays
must be years ago I came in a land
that never knew hay

no beauty as far as I can see
here an' there the odd appletree
no homestead at all only two walls
to guard it all

it's hard to believe, I here did find my peace
from a world forever at war, this place to me
is unigue

a place where the odd stranger comes running
before a storm bringin' bullets and rain, I help
him beat this storm

help him to a place out of the rain, where he thinks
home is not far away, where he thinks it has a bed to
sleep, where its stairs do not run steep

just I know where he'd rather be, safest place on earth
is right here, in 'no man's land' an everlasting peace
where the occaisional bullet is released

where nobody wants to be and the skies are clear
where I drink a quiet beer, I'm at ease here, livin'
close to those walls, where they can't see me

can't get me into their sight, where I live, stay
alive, I love my 'no man's land', a land nobody
claims, in my heart it has no rain

(c) JR.  eightees

Stone cold

I'm cold desperately cold
does it show I really don't know
but I'm cold desperately cold
does it show I really don't know

since she's gone I'm kickin' doors
runnin' into walls placing lost calls
and I'm cold lost my feelin' and hope
I'm not he same man since she left

and I'm cold desperatly cold
keepin' my head up but the heat
doesn't hold it burns out grows old
leavin' me the ashes

guess...I'm stone cold

(c) JR. 2019

Committed

somewhere at a certain space in time
walls were brought down and its emotions
became loose cannons firing all up and down
the line

they were connecting souls, something rare
with commom sense out of controll, and yet...
we did commit, we became a union a beginning

stretching as far as we would see fit, what we
didn't know, didn't need was I coming back out
of a nothingness, in trouble knee deep

it cost me my happiness, she wanted me to leave but
in the end she made me a promise I couldn't keep
my hurt was that deep

and the fool in me rejected her last plea, laying
her and mine excistence on the line and yes I
payed the price for letting it slide,

many years now have gone by I not lost her only
then but my entire life, I've looked for her, I tried
and what I found made me realise

there was no going back, she'd gone out of my
days and time but my commitment is still there
is all I've left

and will still be there when times collide

(c) JR. 2018