Light of my life
(lyrics: Dirk Hermans)
Free as a bird on the wings of the sea
Happily you come running to me
My heart lights up like the sun in the sky
This is our moment, this is you and I
You jump like a grasshopper through the room
You flourish like a maypole that's all in bloom
You twitter like a sparrow in a cherryblossom tree
You don't realise what you mean to me
Chorus
You're so fragile, you're so cute
I'd like to strum your name on a lute
I wanna hug you and hold you tight
You light up my future and make it bright
I see your picture on the silver screen
The prettiest thing that I’ve ever seen
The light in my eyes, my meaning in life
My greatest treasure, my reason to survive
I wonder how you will look at me
What kind of grandpa I’ll turn out to be
When you grow to be a fine young guy
Will you still ask me for reasons why?
Be there in time
(lyrics: Dirk Hermans)
I’ve been walking down the road
feeling mighty hungry and cold
I’ve been walking down the road
feeling mighty hungry and cold
I’ve gotta hitch hike through the states
‘cause I’ve got a date tonight
Yeah
Now people don’t you understand
I’ve got to be there in time
Otherwise another guy
is gonna have that baby of mine
I’ve gotta hitch hike through the states
‘cause I’ve got a date tonight
Yeah
The road is getting to me
I think I’ll never make it in time
Roadblocks and traffic jams
My chances really decline
I tried to hitch hike through the states
Never gonna be there tonight
Cyanide
(lyrics: Dirk Hermans)
Monsters and fairies and lepricorns
Haunt me through darkness and light
I run through the woods and I could’ve
sworn
That things would never get right
But these fears really don’t make me afraid
They’re only a matter of the night
There’s a far greater beast that will wait
Untill we are all in sight
The fears in my life are great, oh Lord
The fears in my life are great
I wake up at night
I shiver with fright
The fears in my life are great 2x
It’s the more headed monster of democracy
The people we appointed to decide
They really don’t know what’s good for me
They’re devastating like cyanide
They look nice and really trustworthy
You’d trust them your mother of your wife,
Wolfs in sheeps clothing they turn out te be
You’ll find yourself in a real beehive
The fears in my life are great, oh Lord
The fears in my life are great
I wake up at night
I shiver with fright
The fears in my life are great 2x
Sirens in the night
(lyrics: Dirk Hermans)
I see the treetops, rooftops and the traffic lights
I can hear the siren singing in the upcoming night
The urge is getting stronger and the pills don’t seem to
help
I can feel the devil lashing and it really feels like hell
Refrein
Heyhoo, heyhoo , Sirens singing in the night
Heyhoo, heyhoo, Flashing blue electric light
A spiderweb pulsating in an electrifying storm
Lightning bolts are dancing, in a hurricane reborn
A man in white says “I’ve got lousy news for you”
And I really try to focus, but the message won’t come through
Refrein
Heyhoo, heyhoo, Sirens singing in the night
Heyhoo, heyhoo, Flashing blue electric light
I wake up and I’m staring in a canyon wide and deep
It’s a canyon in my chest, am I in my twilight sleep?
I feel the devil reach out, he lost me on the way
Then suddenly I realise, in this world I’ll stay
Refrein
Heyhoo, heyhoo, Sirens singing in the night
Heyhoo, heyhoo, Flashing blue electric light
Heyhoo, heyhoo, Doctor will I be allright
Heyhoo, heyhoo, Sirens in the Night!
Refrein
Heyhoo, heyhoo, Sirens singing in the night
Heyhoo, heyhoo, Flashing blue electric light
Heyhoo, heyhoo, Doctor will I be allright
Heyhoo, heyhoo, ………. Night!
Mayday
(lyrics: Dirk Hermans)
Smoke in the cabin, the plane is going down
Pilots are in trouble, you can almost feel them frown
There’s a fire in the system, the pressure has dropped off
The crew sends out a “Mayday”, this flight’s gonna be tough
REFREIN
Mayday, mayday, save our soul
I think the pilots lose control
Mayday mayday, save our soul
I think the pilots …. Lost control
Baby’s they are screaming, their parents struck with fear
People started praying, ‘Lord have mercy’ I can hear
I reach out form my woman, I can feel her hand in mine
Se really looks terrified, she knows our chances decline
REFREIN
I think of all the people, that died in a plane that crashed
This is how they must have felt, just before they got smashed
Then I realise I’m not afraid, that death has no hold on me
I start taking some selfies, maybe someday someone will see
One shot romance
(lyrics: Dirk Hermans)
He broke your heart,
he tore it apart
You’re hurt oh so bad,
you’re bound to be mad
Hit by a stampede, you’re all over the street
Crying out loud, you just scream and shout
You believe you’ll never be happy again
Here I am, easing your pain
He had your trust
Now there’s only disgust
You feel betrayed,
love turned into hate
You’re in a rage, and feeling caged
Crying out loud, you just scream and shout
You believe you’ll never be happy again
Here I am, easing your pain
But this you should know
I am ready to throw
My heart to you
So you won’t feel blue
I’ve waited so long, feeling so strong
This is my chance it’s a one shot romance
CHORUS
You believe you’ll never be happy again
Here I am, easing your pain
Here I am, …
Rockin grandpa’s
(lyrics: Dirk Hermans)
We run the 100 metres in 45 secs
And still we have a great appetite in sex
We’ve got a sour ass and a painful knee
Which is normal when you’re born in 1953
Refr
We are a band of grandpa’s with an attitude
We don’t say “bro”, we call ourselves dude
We love to rock an audience for an hour or so
And get our picture on the cover of H.U.M.O
We may be grandpa’s but still are looking good
At least that’s what they tell us, that’s understood
We love to see our grandchild in the audience
And like to be treated with some tolerance
We happily lived through the summer of love
We watched the Beatles split and the Stones get rough
And now we are standing here to give you a thrill
And after the show we surely need a pill
See my baby cry
Lyrics: Dirk Hermans
Five leaden bullets made an end
to the life of someone who was heaven sent
He was a legend before he died
And God knows how the world has cried
Chorus :
See my baby cry
See my baby cry
See my baby cry
See my baby cry
The Fabulous shamrock has lost a leaf
Noone who could really, really believe
New York Manhattan was a dead end street
Pop music lost its early beat
chorus
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band…
Lost a member, lost a friend
The world has mourned, the world has cried
The second day, the music died
Chorus
Song for Marc
(lyrics: Dirk Hermans)
Who’s that guy in the mirror I’m forced to see
I could swear my father is staring at me
I’m all shook up, seeing that face
Did he come from outer space to me
Yesterday I knocked on heaven’s door
Really thought that I would live no more
I looked down on my body in bed
And wondered why I wasn’t sad … to leave
Oh my friend I’m coming now
And I’m already wondr’in how
We can make them have a ball
We did it so often, we shook them all
Early this morning I woke up feeling down
Feeling was strange it really made me frown
It really looks as if I’m sad
Do you think I’m going mad … at all
Dumped by e-mail
(lyrics: Dirk Hermans)
The silver screen gently smiled at me
And winked an eye with a gentle ping
I simply couldn’t wait to see
What the good news message would bring
Maybe I should have known better
She didn’t send me a letter
To let me know
that she would sail
The bitch just dumped me by email
The silver screen brutely laughed at me
And yelled to me “It was just a fling”
So I got dumped digitally
No one to yell to, no song to sing
Maybe I should have known better
She didn’t send me a letter
To let me know
that she would sail
The bitch just dumped me by email
The modern times, my father said
There’s nothing left of courtesy
It looks like good manners are dead
Your mother would never have done this to me
For now on I’m back on the street
Going out into the real
Looking for a girl to meet
Looking for an analog deal