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Narcisse

by The Watchman

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New York, New York 04:02
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New York, New York Mr. Cabdriver, don’t no what to do I’m a rtranger here, I don’t no whereto He seemed to be from Bangladesh He know one word of English……….Cash! And the elevator man I give him one buck As he went away I heard him say; “f*k” One week later, the same guy again I give him a fiver. He said I was his friend chorus: And it’s a madman hidden in every knife There’s craziness in everyone’s life You swivel, you go delirious New York, New York like this Hard to take serious The aircooled guys they run the universe Back in the alleys or even worse See them come for fortune and fame These too young kids With less than a name chorus: And it’s a madman hidden in every knife There’s craziness in everyone’s life You swivel, you go delirious New York, New York so hard When it gets serious I’ve been loved up, spit out, same time around I thougt I made a friend but I lost that ground Knocked down, picked upand used for more They say it’s all in a dollar, dear Sweatheart, honey, on love score chorus: And it’s a madman hidden in every knife There’s craziness in everyone’s life You swivel, you go delirious New York, New York like this Hard to get serious
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Liechtenstein Rock Tune 02:24
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Moon over the Wing 03:57
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Moon over the Wing Leaving from Atlanta, homeward bound again Taking off I still get the shivers now and then High above the ocean I imagine the wales But most off all I recall them air hero tales chorus: There’s a moon over the wing, hello Ginger, hello Algie Moon over the wing, hello Miss Earhart, how are you And thity thousand feet down below The coastline of Ireland’s got to show Over the wing, how I cling People say I’m crazy, yes some people think I’m strange As if I look at things from a different range But just a few more miles up in this blackened blue I’m afraid I might become extraterrestrial too
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Maureen 03:52
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Maureen Maureen, Maureen I’m strangled by my younger days Maureen, Maureen, I’m moving turns in the strangest ways Around you Maureen Am I a hawk or a falcon Do I look with the right kind of eye Am I the wind around your house Maureen Or am I just an old song passing by On the grass, on the grass I see the pictures of my youth You’re standing there the way you are You’re laugh’s committing a crime, called truth Maureen. Maureen, oh the seasons go so fast Some day my soul will go Through your mind in circles, wider and wider Becoming past
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Sailor's home 04:04
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Sailor’s Home Burning rubber smell, down at the Winning bar Get the girls in, get the furs out Stall’m in the back of the car No one looking at us, in this gangster play Who am I and who are you And where are we going to stay ? One day, one night at the sailor’s home Tell me where and when, we’d give ‘m hell again But then again One day, one night, such a short poem Tell me where and when, hell again On the tables we dance, ain’t driving home tonight And all the glitter on your strangely shining in the UV light Let’s go out on the street, just a kiss will do Pting-a a-ring-a, the walls keep singing and I bless the stars for blessing you Free is a four letter word and so it past Just a song on a rainy night Is all that’s going to last
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How many seconds 03:34
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How many seconds Back and forth I go from work to pub Hello to you my drinking home Can you bear it love, every day, five stairs up to be alone How many seconds between the words does a secret need to How many whispers in a chord get to you ? Down the stairs you go every day To find a letter, just a card The sparkles in your eyes don’t tell no lies They’re morse signals from your heart Can you hear the blossom falling down on the bridge, every day ? How many bars in a verse ? There’s a song for everyone, there’s a song for being nude There’s a song for shivers and for solitude Here’s a song to make your strong, here’s a song to get along Thin blue notes they’ll wrap you up the way they do So many songs are sung, so many heads are hung
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Brilliant People 04:15
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Briljant people Listen darling, you don’t have to cry There’s no reason, nor answer to the question why If this love is true We’ll someshow see it trough ‘ Cause you and I can’t lie Wake up darling, wake up now Clear your face, come on change that brow If you want to survive Sweep that suffering from your eyes Your time is coming now Listen darling, I’m not an ordinary man You’re the only one in this entire land What’s going to be; are we cowards, are we free ? Like only briljant people can Things ain’t what they seem, make room for a dream Listen darling you don’t have to cry You no darling, you and I, we ain’t born For all that hate, all that jealousy, anger and scorn If you set me free, you’re soon going to see That love can melt the Matterhorn Melt down the mountain
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This time 03:55
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This time I’m going down to Zealand, south of delta Flushing is the city for me In the foggy morn’ I hear the sound of horns Of the ships trying to see And I gambled once and I gambled twice Threw many a dime But the morning sun on my early eyes, I sat This time, this time, this time Down on the coastline, down on the boulevard See the storm on the shore I had the vision bright, a collision wild No store around no more And I knew that time would wipe and wash Whatever man could do And it made me hold and turn again, saying This time, this time, this time This time tunes assembling in the breeze coming from sea The wind organ starts strembling, singing this time I’ll be free Well mother nature, she makes me feel insecure Whatever kill, whatever thrill, she’s always right and pure But then sudden spin of a gentle wind You’ve never felt before Is gonna make you hold and turn again, saying This time, this time, this time
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Solemn Vow 02:19
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Solemn vow Well, there’s a little bit of city Slippin’ through the door Is that you car, the click clack of your heels Tappin on the floor Crickets on the wall And that nowhere sound While the fan keeps swinging its silent circles Round, round, round Your solemn vow, solemn vow Solemn vow you said you’d be mine Be be mine Too much space in this jacket Too much space in this shirt As there was little space between you and me The night that I heard Your solemn vow, solemn vow Solemn vow you said you’d be mine Be be mine
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Rice's Crossing 04:28
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Rice’s Crossing From Manor to Taylor, way up North The Nova’s riding fine The New Sweden cemetery is scibbled as in one line On the horizon I’m coming near to some trees, a barn, some farmers gear I parked my car at Rice’s Crossing Is it the spring or is it the space or what I left behind I left the illness of the city for this stillness in my mind Shake of the miles, shake those monkeys from my back I can stand the black cat at Rice’s crossing Here they come, them moped rides Holding my father tight I’m hearing ghosts and demons in the drone Of the sound that fills the forest night Dark days of the honest killer The Roman lost between moor and moon Shining on my cap and boyish fears At Rice ‘s Crossing From the first wrong kiss to the first big loss To your first real blush and the first real sigh I started dwelling through the fields I heard a lark sing way up high Sing to me about jumping fish, some more summer wine And I’ll drink to all them days of mine And I fall for you
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Loving 03:28
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Loving I listen to you many times a day But I read your lips in a different way And at night we meet at the bar We both agree that love is war And I’m thinking what to do Tenderly distroying you Loving, loving Well my thinking was right but my willing seemed a bit strong Estimated the situation and you a bit wrong I believed what you said about believing in me One of the things that you’d like to see But the last time that you ran, you left me fighting windmills again Loving, loving When I think it’s all gone you come with your smile You’re wicked in a way ‘cause you make me feel like I was a child You’re unpredictable and dominant, are you a natural phenomenon But I tremble just the same, can’tremember my own name When you come loving, loving

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This album was previously released in 1992
Record label Van Record Company

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released January 28, 2023

All music & Lyrics by A.A.M.M. van Meurs aka The Watchman

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The Watchman Eindhoven, Netherlands

Ad van Meurs aka The Watchman was an incredible songwriter and very versatile guitar player.
His songwriting career made a serious start in the beginning of the nineties when his first album, The Watchman, produced by Joe Boyd, was released. This album was followed up by more than 14 albums in which his songwriter skills developed to a great height.
Ad van Meurs passed away in 2017. ... more

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