Solar Axion

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11 februarie 2024
De nieuwste single, Comfortably Me,  is te beluisteren op   https://open.spotify.com/album/7t92jOieqNxubNRs3jnUwE?si=ybou8mFDSIWWvEER-V_iKQ

14 mei 2023
De eerste 2 Swentibold nummers hebben > 1000 hits op Spotify: “De laatste keer”/”Abschied”. Een mijlpaal! De Nederlands/Duitse nummers doen het goed en er zullen dit jaar nog meerdere Swentibold singles verschijnen en eind van het jaar een compleet album met 10 nummers.

Songteksten ‘Just Love Songs’

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • acoustische gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort
  • gitaar solo: Wim van Hecke

Dusk is quickly kicking in
And the bad news is sinking in
Our love turned out to be a cul-de-sac
This time there ain’t no coming back

Chorus

In the aftermath of this love of ours
All I can do is count the hours
Until I finally fall asleep
Yeah these cuts are way too deep

I’m so cold although the heating’s max
My mind can’t handle the flashbacks
Can’t figure out what the hell went wrong
I find it hard to be strong 

Chorus

The walls are closing in on me
The way ahead is hard to see
This life will be so empty without you
Right now I don’t know what to do

 Chorus

Not sure I’ll ever love again
Keep thinking about way back when
Never thought that I could feel this sad
Can hardly drag myself out of bed

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • twelve string, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Walking through this empty room, still sensing traces of your perfume
It’s so unreal you’re no longer there, I gaze around in wild despair

Chorus:

I guess I should let go, that’s what you do I know
Trying to move on, trying to move on
But there’s just no getting over you
Life is no fun since you’ve been gone
The light has lost all hue
Our flings were not a winning streak, love was finally turning bleak
All our efforts led to naught, eventually all hope was fraught

Chorus

Every day you’re on my mind, my love for you is still unfeigned
Even though we untied the knot, you’re still my first and final thought

Chorus

Looks like there’s no happy ending
Who will be the last one standing
This is tearing me apart
Time must staunch my bleeding heart

I know I should let go, that’s what you do I know
Gotta move on, I gotta move on
Someday I may be over you
Life may resume when love is forgone
The light must find new hue

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • twelve string, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

So there you are again
Been a while since way back when
Where have you been all your life
Being someone else’s wife?

Kind of feels like time stood still
A little older if you will
The attraction is the same
Tell me is that such a shame?

Chorus:

Like a moth to the flame, I’m drawn to you I know it’s no game
It’s a risky flight: happiness or emotional suicide

Well I am a different guy
Doesn’t mean a better try
Maybe you have also changed
And are we too estranged

Would it work this time around
Or would we be destruction bound
Would love be here to stay
Or hearts get broken on the way

Chorus 

Should we try no strings attached
Or do we better let it rest
The stake may be too high
To just give it another try

Chorus 

So here you are once more
Wonder what you came back for
Do we deserve another chance
Or do we better stay just friends

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • acoustische, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Sitting here beside you I try to not give in
This door must stay secure, can’t let my feelings win
Will keep denying that this is more than just attention
This is a just a case of  erotic tension

There is no room for this infatuation, in this delicate situation

Chorus:
 

Don’t break the silence, don’t cast a curse
Don’t say that you love me, cause you will only make it worse

I tell myself that this is, nothing more than flirting
Innocent meaningless, just play that won’t be hurting
My friends keep saying that I, shouldn’t play with fire
Is this just fun or is it, reflecting love so dire
This desire is just to inspire, can’t be allowed to go haywire

Chorus

Even though there is a, tangible attraction
I come with good intent, invite no chain reaction
This is just a case of, human interaction
It’s not nearly love it’s, just an abstraction

There is no room for this covert obsession, so this is not a confession

Chorus

I’m not in love I can’t be, all we are is friends
But don’t you poke too hard, I might lose my defense
Although perhaps at times, it may be pretty tough
This precious friendship must be enough

There is no room for this infatuation, in this delicate situation

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • acoustische gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Some decades of emotions
Implosions and explosions
Only strengthens my conviction
This is more than an addiction

A force completely inevitable
A feeling that is magical
Emerges like a firestorm
Like an inspiring art form

Chorus:

Our love is a force of nature
No attraction could ever be greater
Unstoppable undeniable
Future proof forever viable

This love cannot be denied
Time and time again been verified
Will last forever and a day
Could never be swept away

We are the perfect match
Each other’s ultimate catch
A bond that’s supernatural
Fortunately bilateral

Chorus

Feeling close even when far away
This love shows no signs of decay
Could never escape my tragic fate
You are my ultimate soulmate

We should be never be apart
United from the heart
Through love we have been amassed
We’re gonna have to make it last

Chorus 

When the magnets of our love collide
It’s so clear that it’s bona fide
Let us ride the highest tide
We know it won’t subside

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • twelve string, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

When you cast your magic spell, all I want from the wishing well
Is to be with you gazing at the stars above
A desperate man in an impossible love

Is it the smell of your French cuisine, or the vapors from your number nineteen
Can’t rule out it’s my male hormones, responding to your sweet pheromones
More than friends is a taboo, this is the best that we can do

Chorus

When you cast your magic spell, all I want from the wishing well
Is to be with you gazing at the stars above, a desperate man in an impossible love

Is it your devastating beauty, or you just being such a cutie
Is it your Mona Lisa smile, that makes me wanna run the extra mile
Being just friends is hard to do, I hope that we can pull this through

Chorus

Your royal presence is fascinating, captivating intoxicating
Permeating enervating, desire and love are detonating

Being just friends is hard to do, I’m not sure we can pull this through

Chorus

Is it the way you play with your hair, or that you always seem to walk on air
Is it your mesmerizing sexy voice, or your excellent clothing choice
Being friends is what we pursue, I know we have to pull this through

Chorus

 

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • acoustische gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

A love long forgotten buried deep inside
Has suddenly awoken and is becoming amplified
Picking up where we left off like no time passed at all
It all feels so natural just like I recall

Chorus

I reach out and you vanish into thin air
I’m not quite sure that you were ever really there
Cannot escape my tragic fate always too early or too late
This is more than I can bear

The story of our love is hindered by circumstances
They always seem to stand in the way of our advances
Think about you all the time wonder how it would be
To really have a life together just you and me

Chorus 

I know I can’t be sure but I sense that you feel the same
If chemistry’s so easy who is there to blame
Having you so close surely fuels the flame
Why can’t we make this real this is not a waiting game

Chorus 

Why can’t this be it just feels so good
We seem to match so well I never understood
Is there really no way ahead no way we can make this work
Just help me to find the way to come out from where I lurk

Chorus 

The timing of our flings may always have been bad
But did we really take the chances that we had
Are we ever gonna get yet another chance
To really make this love work under the right circumstance

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • acoustische gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

This earthly life is complicated, often feel so inundated
Shackled and incarcerated, I need to be extricated
What if I leave this all behind, trade it for peace of mind
True love is there to find, the one of a kind

Chorus

If there is a heaven I’ll meet you there
We can be together and start a love affair
And forever we’ll be the perfect pair   
With endless love to spare
What if we dare to live the dream, and choose to simply float upstream
Let’s be the perfect team, our love may start to gleam
Not bound by obligations, or held back by limitations
No longer unreachable, or unapproachable

Chorus
 
Heaven is the place to be, it’s gonna be just you and me
With no one else around, it’s easy to be found
Disconnected from this life, where you would never be my wife
My dreams may now come true, if you finally let me love you

Chorus 

Maybe comforting to say, the afterlife is just a breath away

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • electrische gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

 

Chorus

You can always amuse me, seduce me, reuse me
You will never ever loose me, confuse me, or bruise me
I will always be there if you choose me, so don’t excuse me
I’m a fool for your love, so don’t write me off

If you’re pushing me away
If you’re keeping me at bay
I still wanna be your prey
Still wanna be your fiance

Chorus 

It’s so frustrating
If you keep me waiting
Still I find you fascinating
And all I want is dating

Chorus

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • twelve string, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Nothing is beyond repair
I wanna show you that I care
I hope for lots of love to share
Anyplace anytime anywhere

Chorus

You’re starting a new life, leave behind all the strife
Finally step away from all your troubles
Celebrate your restart with champagne bubbles
I‘m proud that you dare, I just wish I was there
When you seek new love take your time
Don’t mind waiting that is fine
Just as long as I’m first in line
So I can finally make you mine

Chorus

I guess you need time to settle
But don’t forever test my mettle
Even though I will hold on strong
Please don’t contemplate too long

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • twelve string, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Life is passing by, so let’s give it a try
Let’s give love a chance, and start a new romance
You are so pretty, so full of joy and witty
Think you’re very cute, so don’t put me on mute

Chorus

You’re the one, you’re the one
The one I’m thinking of, the one that I love
I’m the one, I’m the one
What do I have do to make you feel that too
I’m a decent guy, won’t leave you high and dry
Will be a family man, and be your greatest fan

I’ll always have your back, and keep our lives on track
I will always be-he there, for any love to share

Chorus 

If you’re the one for me and I’m the one for you
Let’s shake off old debris so we can start anew

Chorus 

Well I am a passionate guy, so don’t just pass me by
Worth consideration, and regular flirtation

Much to your surprise, you’d come to realize
We’re good together, through happy days and stormy weather

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Chorus

I miss you with all my heart
I can’t bear being apart
It ain’t easy but let’s strive
Real hard to keep this love alive

 

Living love through facetime calls
Our savior when we climb the walls
But only texting and some email
For love that’s not the holy grail

 

Chorus 

 

With every app I hope it’s you
Expressing that you miss me too
Using words nicely undue
Nothing verbal is taboo

Chorus

Nothing like the real thing
Closeness is the lover’s spring
Longing for your physical presence
Inciting lover’s coalescence

 

Chorus

Oh please tell me tell me when
We finally can meet again
This divine spark may not vanish in the dark

 

Chorus

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drums

Dark and rainy, headlights hurt my eyes
Resonating painful goodbyes
Had to leave you both behind
Another fortnight with no piece of mind
Although I know I could not stay
I know there is a price to pay

Chorus

Will you ever understand
That love is difficult
Things don’t go like you planned
Will you ever understand
Sometimes love comes to an end

The house is quiet, empty rooms upstairs
Empty beds and deserted bears
Feel the tears behind my eyes
Realizing just how much I miss you guys

Although it’s really hard to say
hope to explain some future day

Chorus

The hole in my soul will never heal
Won’t get used to this ordeal
Longing for another Friday
Get the car and I’ll be on my way

And though there is a price to pay
I’ll live to die another day

Chorus

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drums

Things look bad when you find that love is over
The misery can make you mad
Don’t drown your sorrow in your worst hangover
Just try to look ahead

Chorus

You may not see it now
You may not feel it now
But soon you’ll find out
There is life after love
There will be love after love

Just live your life remember don’t look back
Don’t reminisce about things said
When you feel your life is in a wreck
Have no regrets just look ahead

Chorus

When you’re down and out just don’t pull back
Just live your life the way you should
Get your messed up feelings back on track
Try things you never thought you would

You may not see it now
You may not feel it now
But soon you’ll find out
There is life after love, believe me
There will be love after love

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drums

Living in a slender bubble it’s a continuous struggle
Even though it’s worth the trouble now
It has been a lasting nightmare, sometimes hard to bear
Moments of despair it’s so unfair

Chorus

I’ve seen you at your worst but still you rank first
Knowing where we came from the best is yet to come
So open up and let me in

Every now and then you think of, way back when
I guess you wanna do it all again
Now you’ve won the fight the future looks so bright
It’s time to see the finest brightest light

Chorus

Leave all the sorrow far behind you, that’s what you need to do
So much joy to find time to unwind
No more sitting tight and find your appetite
Let me be with you tonight and reunite

Chorus

Everything is gonna be alright
Life will be so full of new delight
For too long you felt like being on a ridge
But all the misery is water under the bridge

Chorus

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische, klassieke en 12-snarige gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drums

The alarm’s ringing, but I hardly hear it
Should go to work but I deeply fear it
I’m so tired, can’t get out of bed
Sleep on says the voice inside my head
I can’t do anything at all, my world has never been so small

Chorus

I feel bad and I don’t know where to go or what to say
I feel sad and the worst is I don’t care much anyway
Sometimes I feel I should just cry out loud
I guess I’m pretty stuck in this burnout

Sometimes it feels like, life is a funnel
Still see no light at the end of the tunnel
Gotta grab my bootstraps and lift myself up
And show the world I’m still part of the club

I can’t do anything at all, my world has never been so small

Chorus

It feels like I’ve been sucked in way to deep
But life looks better after a lot of sleep
Maybe I’m improving day by day
And soon I will feel much better than today

I couldn’t do anything at all, my world was never quite that small

I felt bad and I didn’t know where to go or what to say
I felt sad and the worst was didn’t care much anyway
Sometimes it helped to just cry out loud
I guess I’m getting out of this burnout

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en  klassieke en gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drums

Living your life through happy days
Solutions to minor problems finding their ways
And then a touch, an image, a core
Places you in the middle of a war

Taking everything for granted
Now all securities are slanted
Changes your whole perspective
Into a fear and anger collective

Chorus

If you let me in, together we can win
Let’s be a fighting twin
If you let me in together we can win so please let me in

Earth is shaking below your feet
On and off come waves of heat
A monster eating you up inside
Until all your blood has dried 

Your whole life is shaken up
All your nerves have woken up
The insecurities, the fear
From your life you loose a year

Chorus

Losing sleep, and losing hair,
Feeling sick it just ain’t fair
Sometimes even losing your sense
But worst of all is losing friends

What does the future have in stock
Recover from this terrible shock
Take fate into your own hands
Time for love, time for plans

Chorus

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke  gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drums

Deserted buildings and quite streets, restaurants with empty seats
Closed hairshops and bars, parking lots with hardly any cars

Few people in the park, but only until the dark
This town is like a ghost town, under corona lockdown

Chorus

The invisible enemy closes in day by day
The one you can’t feel, can’t hear and yet so real
And yet it may kill you it takes your breath away

Crowded supermarkets with people hoarding, deserted airports no planes for boarding
Experts saying stay at home, keep inside this is no time to roam

Parents with attention soaking toddlers, trying to be the perfect coddlers
Adolescents showing forbearance, with their irritating parents

Chorus

Going viral gets its old meaning, not enough tests for wider screening
Sick people flooding the ICU, and dying by thousands, it’s not just flu

Hospital staff working day and night, fighting this never ending fight
We need a vaccine that’s for sure, scientists everywhere working on a cure

Chorus

So many people out of work, from blooming to recession with a jerk
So many companies down the drain, no more sports and arts, hard to explain

This crisis is hopefully not all bad, even though it makes so many people sad
We learn that we can do with less, that in itself is a success

Chorus

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke  gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drums


Chorus

My sweet femme fatale
You are my blessing and my curse
You are my better and my worse
Bonjour au revoir
You run and then decide to stay
You make and then you ruin my day

This love is overwhelming
Deniable and compelling
Hollow and fulfilling
Conceiving and yet killing
It’s numbing and it’s thrilling
It’s burning and it’s chilling
Reluctant and so willing
Thrifty and yet spilling

Chorus

Seeing you is daring
Not seeing you is scaring
Struck by moon and lightning
It’s calming and it’s frightening
You are my black you are my white
You are so dark and yet so bright
You make it hot and make it cold
You are the iron and the gold

Chorus

You tell the truth you tell a lie
You make me live and wanna die
You take me low and take me high
You are so far and yet nearby
You are my heaven and my hell
My divorce and wedding bell
My bedtime story and alarm,
Bad omen and my lucky charm

My sweet femme ideale
Please be my blessing not my curse
And be for better not for worse
Bonjour pas au revoir
No more running you just stay
Forever you will make my day

 

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke  gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drums

Chorus

Save the earth, save the earth
We should better value its worth
Don’t let greed get in the way
If mankind is here to stay

We want it all, we want it now
We seem to think that’s possible somehow
We should finally admit
The sky is not the limit

Chorus

We indulge too much in mass tourism
Alas destructive hedonism
Maybe soon effectively
Travelling’s for the climate refugee

Chorus

Constant floodings and lasting heatwaves
Are going to take us to our graves
Sea level is clearly rising
Polar ice melts that’s not surprising

Chorus

Unavoidable overpopulation
May be the ultimate damnation
It is the Earth we drain
Being the top of the food chain

Chorus

There’s no escape into space
Beyond earth there is no better place

Chorus

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke  gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Paul van Diest: drums

This is not a shadow fight
I hope I know what’s wrong or right
Engaging in unfriendly fire
Chasing after vengeance dire

Chorus

Only death can set us free
No matter just how hard you try
Cause if it’s either you or me
I’ll be the last to die

As time is seemingly standing still
We both keep going for the kill
Through all the perils I will brave
And finally take you to your grave

Chorus

To cancel villains is my plight
For queen and country I will fight
And as I finally settle the score
I save the mighty world once more

Chorus

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke  gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drum
  • Sebastiaan Knoppert: Saxofoon solo

I remember all this time good lovin’ no regrets
This is as good as it gets
But if you think you need to go and leave me
So be it

If you think this does not work you should ask yourself why
Don’t you see that I’m the perfect guy
But if you think you need to go and leave me
So be it

You’ll never find another love like this
Real soon you’re gonna miss you’re gonna miss my kiss

When you fin’lly realize you chose the wrong fate
It will all be too late
Cause I’ve found a better you that makes my dreams come true
So be it

You’re gonna stay forever in dismay
I’m gonna be my happy happy me

I remember all this time good lovin’ no regrets
This is as good as it gets
If you wanna go and leave me
So be it

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke  gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drum

So now you’re gone
Love is dusted and done
You will be always on my mind
Such love is hard to find

We lost our love alliance
Now I drown in deafening silence
Am swamped in nothingness
Emptiness and loneliness

And as I look into your lovely eyes once more
This is hurting more than anything before
I realize when I finally close the door
Love of my life no more

This love is gone forever
This is the end of our endeavor
This is our curtain call
Lost the meaning of it all

Nothing will be the same
It is such a shame
No more whispering your name
I’m going solo in the game

And as I look into your distant eyes once more
This is hurting more than anything before
I realize when I finally close the door
Love of my life no more

So now you’re gone love is dusted and done
You will be always on my mind such love is hard to find
We lost our love alliance, now I drown in deafening silence
Am swamped in nothingness, emptiness and loneliness

And as I look into your absent eyes once more
This is hurting more than anything before
I realize when I finally close the door
Love of my life no more

 

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke  gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drum

 

Chorus

It’s been a long and winding road
For too long have we been remote
We should no longer be apart
Finally speaks the heart
I’m coming home, I’m coming home, I’m coming home, I’m coming home

For too long have we been flirting
But yet still love averting
What lie have we been living in
Isn’t it time for giving in

We’ve always been magnets that collide
But all this time love was yet denied
But it can’t get more purified
This is something we can no longer hide

Chorus

This feels so absolutely right
This is something we should not fight
Isn’t it time that we yield
This love can no longer be concealed

Long enough have we been waiting
Like double stars we kept rotating
After all this oscillating
This is where we have been gravitating

Chorus

This should be no battlefield
Our love should finally be unsealed
It certainly is bona fide
It’s about time that we get unified

Chorus
I’m coming home

 

  • Paul van Diest: muziek, tekst, arrangement  en productie 
  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke  gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drum

Chorus

They come back here to haunt
me
Keep coming back to taunt me
Succeed to nearly daunt me
Don’t want them here to stay
Need them to go astray
Please chase my demons away

All my eccentric dreams
Devolving into screams
My mind is cracking at the seams
My mesmerizing fears
Keep draining all my tears
Have lost the music of the spheres

Chorus

 

No sins at all abating
My failings aggravating
My world dilapidating
And in my darkest hour
I sense the slipping power
A bitter taste goes sour

Chorus

 

I simply must contain them
I must try to disdain them
Please help me to tame them
Although I cannot blame them
I must try to restrain them
Please help me to inflame them

Chorus

 

Demons, oh demons you won’tbring me down
I will fight you ignite you, you won’t cause my meltdown

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • akoestische gitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort
  • basgitaar: Clive Wells
  • saxofoon: Sebastiaan Knoppert

Having you by my side
Never felt more right
But were we worlds apart
And failed to bridge the hearts?

Just don’t know why it died
Never sure that we really tried
Made some bad choices
Should have spoken our voices

Can’t help but thinking
Since we were so much in sync
We could have had it all
We had it there right in our hands
Do you still recall
This wonderful romance


All the plans that we made
Never turned into our fate
We lost it on the way
A price so high to pay

A love that was one of a kind
Somehow somewhere got undermined
We left it far behind
For reasons undefined

Was our love against the grain
Did we try in vain
We could have had it all


We had it there right in our hands
Do you still recall
This wonderful romance


So many dreams we shared
How did we get despaired


Looking back with deep regret
How could we just forget
We should have had it all
We had it there right in our hands
If we had stood tall
We would have lived up to our plans

 

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • akoestische gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Being around you getting to know you
Made me realize just how great you are
And I couldn’t help that slowly but surely
I just completely fell for you

Maybe because of my situation
You never responded to my flirting
Maybe unsure of my intentions
Maybe afraid to be hurt again

Chorus:

Oh lady letting you slip away
May have been the biggest mistake of my life
Oh lady letting you slip away
May have been the biggest mistake of my life

Never dared to tell you how much I love you
Wasn’t really sure I could give it all up
Now it’s too late you found your love
And all I can do is forever hold my peace

Chorus

In this life it is not meant to be, there won’t be any you and me
But if there is a next life, you’re gonna be my wife

 

I’m not sure that I’ll ever be the same
I feel so low that I can’t think straight
Maybe tonight I’ll finally sleep
And tomorrow act like everything’s ok

 

Oh lady letting you slip away
Must have been the biggest mistake of my life
Oh lady letting you slip away
Surely was the biggest mistake of my life

 

 

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • akoestische gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Open up your heart
Let’s make a brand new start
Together we will find the way
This time you’re gonna stay

Leave all your demons far behind
Ban all frustration from your mind
No more sadness no more sorrow
There is only today and tomorrow

Open up your heart, let’s make a brand new start
Together we will find the way, this time you’re gonna stay

Just dare once more to take the plunge
Suck love in like a sponge
Try to give this love a chance
You may enjoy this romance

Open up your heart, let’s make a brand new start
Together we will find the way, this time you’re gonna stay

Of course it is a little scary
There’s so much left you need to bury
But if we solemnly believe (in this love)
There is nothing that we can’t achieve

Open up your heart, let’s make a brand new start
Together we will find the way, this time you’re gonna stay

Have faith and give yourself away
We’re gonna make this last forever and a day

Open up your heart, let’s
make a brand new start
This love will never go away, good times are here to stay

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • akoestische gitaar, elektrische gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

When I look into the mirror, every day I see it clearer
Through years grows the experience,  translating to resilience
Ageing means just getting wiser, it shouldn’t be an oxidizer
But rather be a fertilizer, appetizer stabilizer

They say I’m getting older,  but I still feel the same
My blood’s not getting colder, just see the burning flame
There’s an angel on my shoulder, got no one else to blame
In the eye of the beholder, age is just a frame

Age is just a mindset, fight off the never ending threat
Young at heart is a great asset, live every second no regret

Dare to challenge your own fate, stop ageing from being 28
Pretend staying young and gravitate, towards the illusion you create

They say I’m getting older, but I still feel the same
My blood’s not getting colder, just see the burning flame
There’s an angel on my shoulder, no one else to blame
In the eye of the beholder, age is just a frame

The art of growing old is to put ageing on hold

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • 12-string gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort
  • saxofoon: Sebastiaan Knoppert

If this were the last day of my life I
Would spend it with you, and you know why?
I kind of like you, maybe love you
If you do too, together we’ll pull through

Overt adorations, but different expectations
Despite the strong temptations, too many bad vibrations
Different destinations, providing limitations
Due to remote locations, mounting deep frustrations

If this were the last day of my life I
Would spend it with you, and you know why?
I think I like you, may even love you
If you do too, one and one makes two

Undue explorations, wound up in wrong relations
All these obligations, avoiding conversations

No more deviations, live up to these flirtations
Give in to this impatience, time for celebrations

If this were the last day of my life I
Would spend it with you, and you know why?
I ‘m sure I like you, and madly love you
If you do too, my dreams come true

We wasted so much time, ignored this love sublime
Step up this pantomime this love just ain’t no crime

If this were the last day of your life would
You spend it with me, if you could?
If you like me, or even love me
Let’s find a way to be a couple for one day

 

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • 12-string gitaar, elektrische gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort
  • saxofoon: Sebastiaan Knoppert

Chorus

You turn me on, you turn me on again
Turn me on still like way back when
You turn me on, turn me on again
You turn me on, feel like I’m born again

The feeling still is so intense
All my life starts making sense
One look into your lovely eyes
Makes me lose all my disguise

Emotions are beyond control
Defenses gone unearth my soul

The tickling of a single touch
Seems like it almost is too much

Chorus

Your beauty gets me so excited
A lasting love am so delighted
And as our hormones get ignited
I feel our hearts are now united

What you see is what you get
I’m signing up with no regret
Let this night under the stars
Be the start of our memoirs

Chorus

Wanna make love to you
If it’s the last thing I’ll ever do

Chorus

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  • 12-string gitaar, elektrische gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

 

Chorus

I’m in love once again
Wonder where this may take me
This can make me or break me
Shake me if you forsake me once again

This could be right this could be wrong
But the attraction is so strong
Is this a fling or lasting long
A lover’s hymn or a torch song

Chorus

What else can I do but yield
And bravely lift my shield
Defenses have been peeled
Let’s see if I can wield

Chorus

In love and fate we should trust
Vulnerability is a must
Let’s shake of all the dust
And make this love robust

Chorus

If we believe enough we won’t fail
Let’s cherish this love so frail

I’m in love once again
I know where this will take me
It will make me not break me
Not shake since you won’t forsake me once again

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • percussie: Eelke Gort

Desperately waiting for a sign
Are we still good are you still mine
Is our love still doing fine
Throw me a lifeline

It’s Christmas and I miss you
It’s been a while since I kissed you
Wandering through the dark
Am looking for a spark to light me

I need to ask but may not dare
Just need to know you that you still care
Need to you know you miss me too
Sometimes I just don’t have a clue

It’s Easter and I miss you
It’s been so long since I kissed you
Wandering through the dark
Still looking for a spark to light me

Signs of love are dying off
Handling this is pretty tough
Not sure what I’m hoping for
Doesn’t seem to mean much anymore

Thanksgiving and I miss you
Been a year since I kissed you
Still wandering through the dark
Can’t seem to find a spark to light me

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • 12-string gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort
  • Saxofoon: Sebastiaan Knoppert

Chorus:

Can’t stop thinking about you
Can’t stop dreaming about you
Can’t stop talking about you
You’re always on my mind

Can’t stop singing about you
Can’t stop dancing around you
I loathe all moments without you
Our stars are so aligned

Exile your parallel universe
Time warp to easily traverse
Across the cold cold milky way
Into our private hideaway

Chorus

We are the brightest solar eclipse        
We challenge the apocalypse
We are a once in a blue moon
Gravitate into my cocoon

Chorus

We are stardust we are stardust
In love we trust

Chorus

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  • akoestische gitaar, 12-string gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Chorus

If only I could make you love me
If only I could make you see
We would be as happy as can be  
Life would take a different course
Just for better not for worse
There would never be any remorse

Look at this tormented soul
In an emotional sinkhole
I need a romantic stroll
My lonely heart is up for grabs
But it can’t take no more stabs
So weary of all those slaps

Chorus

My heart is lying on the table
Determined but yet so unstable
So willing but yet so unable
It’s all yours if you really like it
It’s so easy to revive it
But leave it if you yet despise it

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • akoestische gitaar, 12-string gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Astounded by this magic feeling
So compelling and so healing
When I at your pictures gaze
My mind is blurred from lover’s haze

We’re different personalities
With private insecurities
Different ghosts drawn from the past
May hunt us both down here at last

Chorus:

We’ve gotta learn to believe
We’ve gotta learn to believe
We’ve gotta learn to believe in this love
We’ve gotta learn to believe
We’ve gotta learn to believe
We’ve gotta learn to believe in this love

To yield is really very scary
Makes us act a little weary
Scared of being hurt once more
By this gorgeous love encore


Don’t know much about your moods
Your habits and your attitudes
Don’t know much about your taste
The demons by whom you have been chased

Chorus

Believe will make this love prevail
Our fate the future will unveil

Chorus

Solar Axion

The latest .........

11 februarie 2024
De nieuwste single, Comfortably Me,  is te beluisteren op   https://open.spotify.com/album/7t92jOieqNxubNRs3jnUwE?si=ybou8mFDSIWWvEER-V_iKQ

14 mei 2023
De eerste 2 Swentibold nummers hebben > 1000 hits op Spotify: “De laatste keer”/”Abschied”. Een mijlpaal! De Nederlands/Duitse nummers doen het goed en er zullen dit jaar nog meerdere Swentibold singles verschijnen en eind van het jaar een compleet album met 10 nummers.

Songteksten ‘Just Love Songs’

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • acoustische gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort
  • gitaar solo: Wim van Hecke

Dusk is quickly kicking in
And the bad news is sinking in
Our love turned out to be a cul-de-sac
This time there ain’t no coming back

Chorus

In the aftermath of this love of ours
All I can do is count the hours
Until I finally fall asleep
Yeah these cuts are way too deep

I’m so cold although the heating’s max
My mind can’t handle the flashbacks
Can’t figure out what the hell went wrong
I find it hard to be strong 

Chorus

The walls are closing in on me
The way ahead is hard to see
This life will be so empty without you
Right now I don’t know what to do

 Chorus

Not sure I’ll ever love again
Keep thinking about way back when
Never thought that I could feel this sad
Can hardly drag myself out of bed

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • twelve string, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Walking through this empty room, still sensing traces of your perfume
It’s so unreal you’re no longer there, I gaze around in wild despair

Chorus:

I guess I should let go, that’s what you do I know
Trying to move on, trying to move on
But there’s just no getting over you
Life is no fun since you’ve been gone
The light has lost all hue
Our flings were not a winning streak, love was finally turning bleak
All our efforts led to naught, eventually all hope was fraught

Chorus

Every day you’re on my mind, my love for you is still unfeigned
Even though we untied the knot, you’re still my first and final thought

Chorus

Looks like there’s no happy ending
Who will be the last one standing
This is tearing me apart
Time must staunch my bleeding heart

I know I should let go, that’s what you do I know
Gotta move on, I gotta move on
Someday I may be over you
Life may resume when love is forgone
The light must find new hue

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • twelve string, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

So there you are again
Been a while since way back when
Where have you been all your life
Being someone else’s wife?

Kind of feels like time stood still
A little older if you will
The attraction is the same
Tell me is that such a shame?

Chorus:

Like a moth to the flame, I’m drawn to you I know it’s no game
It’s a risky flight: happiness or emotional suicide

Well I am a different guy
Doesn’t mean a better try
Maybe you have also changed
And are we too estranged

Would it work this time around
Or would we be destruction bound
Would love be here to stay
Or hearts get broken on the way

Chorus 

Should we try no strings attached
Or do we better let it rest
The stake may be too high
To just give it another try

Chorus 

So here you are once more
Wonder what you came back for
Do we deserve another chance
Or do we better stay just friends

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • acoustische, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Sitting here beside you I try to not give in
This door must stay secure, can’t let my feelings win
Will keep denying that this is more than just attention
This is a just a case of  erotic tension

There is no room for this infatuation, in this delicate situation

Chorus:
 

Don’t break the silence, don’t cast a curse
Don’t say that you love me, cause you will only make it worse

I tell myself that this is, nothing more than flirting
Innocent meaningless, just play that won’t be hurting
My friends keep saying that I, shouldn’t play with fire
Is this just fun or is it, reflecting love so dire
This desire is just to inspire, can’t be allowed to go haywire

Chorus

Even though there is a, tangible attraction
I come with good intent, invite no chain reaction
This is just a case of, human interaction
It’s not nearly love it’s, just an abstraction

There is no room for this covert obsession, so this is not a confession

Chorus

I’m not in love I can’t be, all we are is friends
But don’t you poke too hard, I might lose my defense
Although perhaps at times, it may be pretty tough
This precious friendship must be enough

There is no room for this infatuation, in this delicate situation

Chorus

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  • acoustische gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Some decades of emotions
Implosions and explosions
Only strengthens my conviction
This is more than an addiction

A force completely inevitable
A feeling that is magical
Emerges like a firestorm
Like an inspiring art form

Chorus:

Our love is a force of nature
No attraction could ever be greater
Unstoppable undeniable
Future proof forever viable

This love cannot be denied
Time and time again been verified
Will last forever and a day
Could never be swept away

We are the perfect match
Each other’s ultimate catch
A bond that’s supernatural
Fortunately bilateral

Chorus

Feeling close even when far away
This love shows no signs of decay
Could never escape my tragic fate
You are my ultimate soulmate

We should be never be apart
United from the heart
Through love we have been amassed
We’re gonna have to make it last

Chorus 

When the magnets of our love collide
It’s so clear that it’s bona fide
Let us ride the highest tide
We know it won’t subside

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • twelve string, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

When you cast your magic spell, all I want from the wishing well
Is to be with you gazing at the stars above
A desperate man in an impossible love

Is it the smell of your French cuisine, or the vapors from your number nineteen
Can’t rule out it’s my male hormones, responding to your sweet pheromones
More than friends is a taboo, this is the best that we can do

Chorus

When you cast your magic spell, all I want from the wishing well
Is to be with you gazing at the stars above, a desperate man in an impossible love

Is it your devastating beauty, or you just being such a cutie
Is it your Mona Lisa smile, that makes me wanna run the extra mile
Being just friends is hard to do, I hope that we can pull this through

Chorus

Your royal presence is fascinating, captivating intoxicating
Permeating enervating, desire and love are detonating

Being just friends is hard to do, I’m not sure we can pull this through

Chorus

Is it the way you play with your hair, or that you always seem to walk on air
Is it your mesmerizing sexy voice, or your excellent clothing choice
Being friends is what we pursue, I know we have to pull this through

Chorus

 

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • acoustische gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

A love long forgotten buried deep inside
Has suddenly awoken and is becoming amplified
Picking up where we left off like no time passed at all
It all feels so natural just like I recall

Chorus

I reach out and you vanish into thin air
I’m not quite sure that you were ever really there
Cannot escape my tragic fate always too early or too late
This is more than I can bear

The story of our love is hindered by circumstances
They always seem to stand in the way of our advances
Think about you all the time wonder how it would be
To really have a life together just you and me

Chorus 

I know I can’t be sure but I sense that you feel the same
If chemistry’s so easy who is there to blame
Having you so close surely fuels the flame
Why can’t we make this real this is not a waiting game

Chorus 

Why can’t this be it just feels so good
We seem to match so well I never understood
Is there really no way ahead no way we can make this work
Just help me to find the way to come out from where I lurk

Chorus 

The timing of our flings may always have been bad
But did we really take the chances that we had
Are we ever gonna get yet another chance
To really make this love work under the right circumstance

Chorus

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  • acoustische gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

This earthly life is complicated, often feel so inundated
Shackled and incarcerated, I need to be extricated
What if I leave this all behind, trade it for peace of mind
True love is there to find, the one of a kind

Chorus

If there is a heaven I’ll meet you there
We can be together and start a love affair
And forever we’ll be the perfect pair   
With endless love to spare
What if we dare to live the dream, and choose to simply float upstream
Let’s be the perfect team, our love may start to gleam
Not bound by obligations, or held back by limitations
No longer unreachable, or unapproachable

Chorus
 
Heaven is the place to be, it’s gonna be just you and me
With no one else around, it’s easy to be found
Disconnected from this life, where you would never be my wife
My dreams may now come true, if you finally let me love you

Chorus 

Maybe comforting to say, the afterlife is just a breath away

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • electrische gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

 

Chorus

You can always amuse me, seduce me, reuse me
You will never ever loose me, confuse me, or bruise me
I will always be there if you choose me, so don’t excuse me
I’m a fool for your love, so don’t write me off

If you’re pushing me away
If you’re keeping me at bay
I still wanna be your prey
Still wanna be your fiance

Chorus 

It’s so frustrating
If you keep me waiting
Still I find you fascinating
And all I want is dating

Chorus

Chorus

  • muziek, tekst, gearrangeerd en geproduceerd door Paul van Diest
  • twelve string, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Nothing is beyond repair
I wanna show you that I care
I hope for lots of love to share
Anyplace anytime anywhere

Chorus

You’re starting a new life, leave behind all the strife
Finally step away from all your troubles
Celebrate your restart with champagne bubbles
I‘m proud that you dare, I just wish I was there
When you seek new love take your time
Don’t mind waiting that is fine
Just as long as I’m first in line
So I can finally make you mine

Chorus

I guess you need time to settle
But don’t forever test my mettle
Even though I will hold on strong
Please don’t contemplate too long

Chorus

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  • twelve string, zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Life is passing by, so let’s give it a try
Let’s give love a chance, and start a new romance
You are so pretty, so full of joy and witty
Think you’re very cute, so don’t put me on mute

Chorus

You’re the one, you’re the one
The one I’m thinking of, the one that I love
I’m the one, I’m the one
What do I have do to make you feel that too
I’m a decent guy, won’t leave you high and dry
Will be a family man, and be your greatest fan

I’ll always have your back, and keep our lives on track
I will always be-he there, for any love to share

Chorus 

If you’re the one for me and I’m the one for you
Let’s shake off old debris so we can start anew

Chorus 

Well I am a passionate guy, so don’t just pass me by
Worth consideration, and regular flirtation

Much to your surprise, you’d come to realize
We’re good together, through happy days and stormy weather

Chorus

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  • zang, bas, keyboards: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Chorus

I miss you with all my heart
I can’t bear being apart
It ain’t easy but let’s strive
Real hard to keep this love alive

 

Living love through facetime calls
Our savior when we climb the walls
But only texting and some email
For love that’s not the holy grail

 

Chorus 

 

With every app I hope it’s you
Expressing that you miss me too
Using words nicely undue
Nothing verbal is taboo

Chorus

Nothing like the real thing
Closeness is the lover’s spring
Longing for your physical presence
Inciting lover’s coalescence

 

Chorus

Oh please tell me tell me when
We finally can meet again
This divine spark may not vanish in the dark

 

Chorus

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Dark and rainy, headlights hurt my eyes
Resonating painful goodbyes
Had to leave you both behind
Another fortnight with no piece of mind
Although I know I could not stay
I know there is a price to pay

Chorus

Will you ever understand
That love is difficult
Things don’t go like you planned
Will you ever understand
Sometimes love comes to an end

The house is quiet, empty rooms upstairs
Empty beds and deserted bears
Feel the tears behind my eyes
Realizing just how much I miss you guys

Although it’s really hard to say
hope to explain some future day

Chorus

The hole in my soul will never heal
Won’t get used to this ordeal
Longing for another Friday
Get the car and I’ll be on my way

And though there is a price to pay
I’ll live to die another day

Chorus

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  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drums

Things look bad when you find that love is over
The misery can make you mad
Don’t drown your sorrow in your worst hangover
Just try to look ahead

Chorus

You may not see it now
You may not feel it now
But soon you’ll find out
There is life after love
There will be love after love

Just live your life remember don’t look back
Don’t reminisce about things said
When you feel your life is in a wreck
Have no regrets just look ahead

Chorus

When you’re down and out just don’t pull back
Just live your life the way you should
Get your messed up feelings back on track
Try things you never thought you would

You may not see it now
You may not feel it now
But soon you’ll find out
There is life after love, believe me
There will be love after love

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  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drums

Living in a slender bubble it’s a continuous struggle
Even though it’s worth the trouble now
It has been a lasting nightmare, sometimes hard to bear
Moments of despair it’s so unfair

Chorus

I’ve seen you at your worst but still you rank first
Knowing where we came from the best is yet to come
So open up and let me in

Every now and then you think of, way back when
I guess you wanna do it all again
Now you’ve won the fight the future looks so bright
It’s time to see the finest brightest light

Chorus

Leave all the sorrow far behind you, that’s what you need to do
So much joy to find time to unwind
No more sitting tight and find your appetite
Let me be with you tonight and reunite

Chorus

Everything is gonna be alright
Life will be so full of new delight
For too long you felt like being on a ridge
But all the misery is water under the bridge

Chorus

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The alarm’s ringing, but I hardly hear it
Should go to work but I deeply fear it
I’m so tired, can’t get out of bed
Sleep on says the voice inside my head
I can’t do anything at all, my world has never been so small

Chorus

I feel bad and I don’t know where to go or what to say
I feel sad and the worst is I don’t care much anyway
Sometimes I feel I should just cry out loud
I guess I’m pretty stuck in this burnout

Sometimes it feels like, life is a funnel
Still see no light at the end of the tunnel
Gotta grab my bootstraps and lift myself up
And show the world I’m still part of the club

I can’t do anything at all, my world has never been so small

Chorus

It feels like I’ve been sucked in way to deep
But life looks better after a lot of sleep
Maybe I’m improving day by day
And soon I will feel much better than today

I couldn’t do anything at all, my world was never quite that small

I felt bad and I didn’t know where to go or what to say
I felt sad and the worst was didn’t care much anyway
Sometimes it helped to just cry out loud
I guess I’m getting out of this burnout

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Living your life through happy days
Solutions to minor problems finding their ways
And then a touch, an image, a core
Places you in the middle of a war

Taking everything for granted
Now all securities are slanted
Changes your whole perspective
Into a fear and anger collective

Chorus

If you let me in, together we can win
Let’s be a fighting twin
If you let me in together we can win so please let me in

Earth is shaking below your feet
On and off come waves of heat
A monster eating you up inside
Until all your blood has dried 

Your whole life is shaken up
All your nerves have woken up
The insecurities, the fear
From your life you loose a year

Chorus

Losing sleep, and losing hair,
Feeling sick it just ain’t fair
Sometimes even losing your sense
But worst of all is losing friends

What does the future have in stock
Recover from this terrible shock
Take fate into your own hands
Time for love, time for plans

Chorus

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Deserted buildings and quite streets, restaurants with empty seats
Closed hairshops and bars, parking lots with hardly any cars

Few people in the park, but only until the dark
This town is like a ghost town, under corona lockdown

Chorus

The invisible enemy closes in day by day
The one you can’t feel, can’t hear and yet so real
And yet it may kill you it takes your breath away

Crowded supermarkets with people hoarding, deserted airports no planes for boarding
Experts saying stay at home, keep inside this is no time to roam

Parents with attention soaking toddlers, trying to be the perfect coddlers
Adolescents showing forbearance, with their irritating parents

Chorus

Going viral gets its old meaning, not enough tests for wider screening
Sick people flooding the ICU, and dying by thousands, it’s not just flu

Hospital staff working day and night, fighting this never ending fight
We need a vaccine that’s for sure, scientists everywhere working on a cure

Chorus

So many people out of work, from blooming to recession with a jerk
So many companies down the drain, no more sports and arts, hard to explain

This crisis is hopefully not all bad, even though it makes so many people sad
We learn that we can do with less, that in itself is a success

Chorus

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Chorus

My sweet femme fatale
You are my blessing and my curse
You are my better and my worse
Bonjour au revoir
You run and then decide to stay
You make and then you ruin my day

This love is overwhelming
Deniable and compelling
Hollow and fulfilling
Conceiving and yet killing
It’s numbing and it’s thrilling
It’s burning and it’s chilling
Reluctant and so willing
Thrifty and yet spilling

Chorus

Seeing you is daring
Not seeing you is scaring
Struck by moon and lightning
It’s calming and it’s frightening
You are my black you are my white
You are so dark and yet so bright
You make it hot and make it cold
You are the iron and the gold

Chorus

You tell the truth you tell a lie
You make me live and wanna die
You take me low and take me high
You are so far and yet nearby
You are my heaven and my hell
My divorce and wedding bell
My bedtime story and alarm,
Bad omen and my lucky charm

My sweet femme ideale
Please be my blessing not my curse
And be for better not for worse
Bonjour pas au revoir
No more running you just stay
Forever you will make my day

 

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  • Eelke Gort: drums

Chorus

Save the earth, save the earth
We should better value its worth
Don’t let greed get in the way
If mankind is here to stay

We want it all, we want it now
We seem to think that’s possible somehow
We should finally admit
The sky is not the limit

Chorus

We indulge too much in mass tourism
Alas destructive hedonism
Maybe soon effectively
Travelling’s for the climate refugee

Chorus

Constant floodings and lasting heatwaves
Are going to take us to our graves
Sea level is clearly rising
Polar ice melts that’s not surprising

Chorus

Unavoidable overpopulation
May be the ultimate damnation
It is the Earth we drain
Being the top of the food chain

Chorus

There’s no escape into space
Beyond earth there is no better place

Chorus

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This is not a shadow fight
I hope I know what’s wrong or right
Engaging in unfriendly fire
Chasing after vengeance dire

Chorus

Only death can set us free
No matter just how hard you try
Cause if it’s either you or me
I’ll be the last to die

As time is seemingly standing still
We both keep going for the kill
Through all the perils I will brave
And finally take you to your grave

Chorus

To cancel villains is my plight
For queen and country I will fight
And as I finally settle the score
I save the mighty world once more

Chorus

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  • Sebastiaan Knoppert: Saxofoon solo

I remember all this time good lovin’ no regrets
This is as good as it gets
But if you think you need to go and leave me
So be it

If you think this does not work you should ask yourself why
Don’t you see that I’m the perfect guy
But if you think you need to go and leave me
So be it

You’ll never find another love like this
Real soon you’re gonna miss you’re gonna miss my kiss

When you fin’lly realize you chose the wrong fate
It will all be too late
Cause I’ve found a better you that makes my dreams come true
So be it

You’re gonna stay forever in dismay
I’m gonna be my happy happy me

I remember all this time good lovin’ no regrets
This is as good as it gets
If you wanna go and leave me
So be it

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So now you’re gone
Love is dusted and done
You will be always on my mind
Such love is hard to find

We lost our love alliance
Now I drown in deafening silence
Am swamped in nothingness
Emptiness and loneliness

And as I look into your lovely eyes once more
This is hurting more than anything before
I realize when I finally close the door
Love of my life no more

This love is gone forever
This is the end of our endeavor
This is our curtain call
Lost the meaning of it all

Nothing will be the same
It is such a shame
No more whispering your name
I’m going solo in the game

And as I look into your distant eyes once more
This is hurting more than anything before
I realize when I finally close the door
Love of my life no more

So now you’re gone love is dusted and done
You will be always on my mind such love is hard to find
We lost our love alliance, now I drown in deafening silence
Am swamped in nothingness, emptiness and loneliness

And as I look into your absent eyes once more
This is hurting more than anything before
I realize when I finally close the door
Love of my life no more

 

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  • Paul van Diest: acoustische en klassieke  gitaar, zang, bas, keyboards
  • Eelke Gort: drum

 

Chorus

It’s been a long and winding road
For too long have we been remote
We should no longer be apart
Finally speaks the heart
I’m coming home, I’m coming home, I’m coming home, I’m coming home

For too long have we been flirting
But yet still love averting
What lie have we been living in
Isn’t it time for giving in

We’ve always been magnets that collide
But all this time love was yet denied
But it can’t get more purified
This is something we can no longer hide

Chorus

This feels so absolutely right
This is something we should not fight
Isn’t it time that we yield
This love can no longer be concealed

Long enough have we been waiting
Like double stars we kept rotating
After all this oscillating
This is where we have been gravitating

Chorus

This should be no battlefield
Our love should finally be unsealed
It certainly is bona fide
It’s about time that we get unified

Chorus
I’m coming home

 

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  • Eelke Gort: drum

Chorus

They come back here to haunt
me
Keep coming back to taunt me
Succeed to nearly daunt me
Don’t want them here to stay
Need them to go astray
Please chase my demons away

All my eccentric dreams
Devolving into screams
My mind is cracking at the seams
My mesmerizing fears
Keep draining all my tears
Have lost the music of the spheres

Chorus

 

No sins at all abating
My failings aggravating
My world dilapidating
And in my darkest hour
I sense the slipping power
A bitter taste goes sour

Chorus

 

I simply must contain them
I must try to disdain them
Please help me to tame them
Although I cannot blame them
I must try to restrain them
Please help me to inflame them

Chorus

 

Demons, oh demons you won’tbring me down
I will fight you ignite you, you won’t cause my meltdown

Chorus

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  • drums: Eelke Gort
  • basgitaar: Clive Wells
  • saxofoon: Sebastiaan Knoppert

Having you by my side
Never felt more right
But were we worlds apart
And failed to bridge the hearts?

Just don’t know why it died
Never sure that we really tried
Made some bad choices
Should have spoken our voices

Can’t help but thinking
Since we were so much in sync
We could have had it all
We had it there right in our hands
Do you still recall
This wonderful romance


All the plans that we made
Never turned into our fate
We lost it on the way
A price so high to pay

A love that was one of a kind
Somehow somewhere got undermined
We left it far behind
For reasons undefined

Was our love against the grain
Did we try in vain
We could have had it all


We had it there right in our hands
Do you still recall
This wonderful romance


So many dreams we shared
How did we get despaired


Looking back with deep regret
How could we just forget
We should have had it all
We had it there right in our hands
If we had stood tall
We would have lived up to our plans

 

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  • drums: Eelke Gort

Being around you getting to know you
Made me realize just how great you are
And I couldn’t help that slowly but surely
I just completely fell for you

Maybe because of my situation
You never responded to my flirting
Maybe unsure of my intentions
Maybe afraid to be hurt again

Chorus:

Oh lady letting you slip away
May have been the biggest mistake of my life
Oh lady letting you slip away
May have been the biggest mistake of my life

Never dared to tell you how much I love you
Wasn’t really sure I could give it all up
Now it’s too late you found your love
And all I can do is forever hold my peace

Chorus

In this life it is not meant to be, there won’t be any you and me
But if there is a next life, you’re gonna be my wife

 

I’m not sure that I’ll ever be the same
I feel so low that I can’t think straight
Maybe tonight I’ll finally sleep
And tomorrow act like everything’s ok

 

Oh lady letting you slip away
Must have been the biggest mistake of my life
Oh lady letting you slip away
Surely was the biggest mistake of my life

 

 

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  • akoestische gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Open up your heart
Let’s make a brand new start
Together we will find the way
This time you’re gonna stay

Leave all your demons far behind
Ban all frustration from your mind
No more sadness no more sorrow
There is only today and tomorrow

Open up your heart, let’s make a brand new start
Together we will find the way, this time you’re gonna stay

Just dare once more to take the plunge
Suck love in like a sponge
Try to give this love a chance
You may enjoy this romance

Open up your heart, let’s make a brand new start
Together we will find the way, this time you’re gonna stay

Of course it is a little scary
There’s so much left you need to bury
But if we solemnly believe (in this love)
There is nothing that we can’t achieve

Open up your heart, let’s make a brand new start
Together we will find the way, this time you’re gonna stay

Have faith and give yourself away
We’re gonna make this last forever and a day

Open up your heart, let’s
make a brand new start
This love will never go away, good times are here to stay

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  • drums: Eelke Gort

When I look into the mirror, every day I see it clearer
Through years grows the experience,  translating to resilience
Ageing means just getting wiser, it shouldn’t be an oxidizer
But rather be a fertilizer, appetizer stabilizer

They say I’m getting older,  but I still feel the same
My blood’s not getting colder, just see the burning flame
There’s an angel on my shoulder, got no one else to blame
In the eye of the beholder, age is just a frame

Age is just a mindset, fight off the never ending threat
Young at heart is a great asset, live every second no regret

Dare to challenge your own fate, stop ageing from being 28
Pretend staying young and gravitate, towards the illusion you create

They say I’m getting older, but I still feel the same
My blood’s not getting colder, just see the burning flame
There’s an angel on my shoulder, no one else to blame
In the eye of the beholder, age is just a frame

The art of growing old is to put ageing on hold

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  • 12-string gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort
  • saxofoon: Sebastiaan Knoppert

If this were the last day of my life I
Would spend it with you, and you know why?
I kind of like you, maybe love you
If you do too, together we’ll pull through

Overt adorations, but different expectations
Despite the strong temptations, too many bad vibrations
Different destinations, providing limitations
Due to remote locations, mounting deep frustrations

If this were the last day of my life I
Would spend it with you, and you know why?
I think I like you, may even love you
If you do too, one and one makes two

Undue explorations, wound up in wrong relations
All these obligations, avoiding conversations

No more deviations, live up to these flirtations
Give in to this impatience, time for celebrations

If this were the last day of my life I
Would spend it with you, and you know why?
I ‘m sure I like you, and madly love you
If you do too, my dreams come true

We wasted so much time, ignored this love sublime
Step up this pantomime this love just ain’t no crime

If this were the last day of your life would
You spend it with me, if you could?
If you like me, or even love me
Let’s find a way to be a couple for one day

 

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  • 12-string gitaar, elektrische gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort
  • saxofoon: Sebastiaan Knoppert

Chorus

You turn me on, you turn me on again
Turn me on still like way back when
You turn me on, turn me on again
You turn me on, feel like I’m born again

The feeling still is so intense
All my life starts making sense
One look into your lovely eyes
Makes me lose all my disguise

Emotions are beyond control
Defenses gone unearth my soul

The tickling of a single touch
Seems like it almost is too much

Chorus

Your beauty gets me so excited
A lasting love am so delighted
And as our hormones get ignited
I feel our hearts are now united

What you see is what you get
I’m signing up with no regret
Let this night under the stars
Be the start of our memoirs

Chorus

Wanna make love to you
If it’s the last thing I’ll ever do

Chorus

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  • drums: Eelke Gort

 

Chorus

I’m in love once again
Wonder where this may take me
This can make me or break me
Shake me if you forsake me once again

This could be right this could be wrong
But the attraction is so strong
Is this a fling or lasting long
A lover’s hymn or a torch song

Chorus

What else can I do but yield
And bravely lift my shield
Defenses have been peeled
Let’s see if I can wield

Chorus

In love and fate we should trust
Vulnerability is a must
Let’s shake of all the dust
And make this love robust

Chorus

If we believe enough we won’t fail
Let’s cherish this love so frail

I’m in love once again
I know where this will take me
It will make me not break me
Not shake since you won’t forsake me once again

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  • basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • percussie: Eelke Gort

Desperately waiting for a sign
Are we still good are you still mine
Is our love still doing fine
Throw me a lifeline

It’s Christmas and I miss you
It’s been a while since I kissed you
Wandering through the dark
Am looking for a spark to light me

I need to ask but may not dare
Just need to know you that you still care
Need to you know you miss me too
Sometimes I just don’t have a clue

It’s Easter and I miss you
It’s been so long since I kissed you
Wandering through the dark
Still looking for a spark to light me

Signs of love are dying off
Handling this is pretty tough
Not sure what I’m hoping for
Doesn’t seem to mean much anymore

Thanksgiving and I miss you
Been a year since I kissed you
Still wandering through the dark
Can’t seem to find a spark to light me

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  • 12-string gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort
  • Saxofoon: Sebastiaan Knoppert

Chorus:

Can’t stop thinking about you
Can’t stop dreaming about you
Can’t stop talking about you
You’re always on my mind

Can’t stop singing about you
Can’t stop dancing around you
I loathe all moments without you
Our stars are so aligned

Exile your parallel universe
Time warp to easily traverse
Across the cold cold milky way
Into our private hideaway

Chorus

We are the brightest solar eclipse        
We challenge the apocalypse
We are a once in a blue moon
Gravitate into my cocoon

Chorus

We are stardust we are stardust
In love we trust

Chorus

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  • drums: Eelke Gort

Chorus

If only I could make you love me
If only I could make you see
We would be as happy as can be  
Life would take a different course
Just for better not for worse
There would never be any remorse

Look at this tormented soul
In an emotional sinkhole
I need a romantic stroll
My lonely heart is up for grabs
But it can’t take no more stabs
So weary of all those slaps

Chorus

My heart is lying on the table
Determined but yet so unstable
So willing but yet so unable
It’s all yours if you really like it
It’s so easy to revive it
But leave it if you yet despise it

Chorus

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  • akoestische gitaar, 12-string gitaar, basgitaar, keyboards, zang: Paul van Diest
  • drums: Eelke Gort

Astounded by this magic feeling
So compelling and so healing
When I at your pictures gaze
My mind is blurred from lover’s haze

We’re different personalities
With private insecurities
Different ghosts drawn from the past
May hunt us both down here at last

Chorus:

We’ve gotta learn to believe
We’ve gotta learn to believe
We’ve gotta learn to believe in this love
We’ve gotta learn to believe
We’ve gotta learn to believe
We’ve gotta learn to believe in this love

To yield is really very scary
Makes us act a little weary
Scared of being hurt once more
By this gorgeous love encore


Don’t know much about your moods
Your habits and your attitudes
Don’t know much about your taste
The demons by whom you have been chased

Chorus

Believe will make this love prevail
Our fate the future will unveil

Chorus