Long goodbye

walking down the bank of the river

where the sun's  out in the shine of the day

and

water's runnin' peacefully through the green

I know life's been good to me

yet, as I walk on

somethin' stirs , somethin's wrong

I lower myself on a nearby bench

and

think this is not gonna mend

my eyes breakin' I know I'm fucked

 

lookin' down on myself motionless

peacefull in my sleep of the 'Long goodbye'

I know life's just that fallin' star comin' to its end

I was just a moment in time and time

has no end 

 

 

(c) JR.  21-12-2017

Drizzlin' rain

on a rainy day
London an' Paris
are much the same
no use lookin'
for a better place
It's all drizzlin' rain

it is when I found him
at the station,
sittin' on a bench
last train went
waitin' for it to happen

alone in the dark
waitin'for some love
he knew nothin' about
was comin' 'round
puttin' on a show
makin' believe
he was a pro

he was afraid
to blow the game
I led him on
in his believe
he was makin' it all
with me

I taught him
what love was
when he left
he was spent
still it happened

he kept comin'
to that bench
now ev'ry night
he's comin'
takin' it all
takin' it in

learning fast
like a fish's first swim
he drained
all I know
in the rain

drizzlin' rain
in the surf of my life
got a man
took him down
in the rain

(c) JR.  eightees

anonimiteit

 

 

 

 

 

 

langzaam zakt de zon

 

in

 

al zijn tederheid achter de einder

 

zie

 

ik de avond vallen omsluit de duisternis mij

 

met

 

zijn anonimiteit

 

en...

 

besef ik weer wat ik mis

 

 

(c) JR.




Encore,'Dancer' origenal English text

the dancer, stretches his back straightens it for the strenght

 

he needs to go back in time to what he once used to be

 

one more time he will dance

 

 

he tiptoes round the floor his ballerina follows his ev'ry move

 

they both dance in to a trance reachin' its ultimate height

 

as they did many years before

 

 

exhausted and spent in the end

 

with no one there to cheer

 

 

but still he hears them comin' takin'a bow feet on the ground

 

in total gratitude he kneels down

 

 

he hears his audience again he feels the hurt in his legs

 

once more he performed that's what he came to do

 

to

 

feel it one more

 

time 

 

 

 

(c)  JR.

The Game

I'll always be thinkin' of you

 

even if you don't of me

 

there'll always be that touch you left behind

 

 

it

 

was more than kind

 

yes, you spend time with me

 

 

time our own 'cause we came more than

 

close

 

 

and you were lost in me, as I was in you

 

yet you didn't come through

 

you came an' you went

 

in the same way

 

I

 

found

 

you

 

 

 

strugglin' for you as I was all the time

 

tryin'to save me an'  you, were we used

 

I really couldn't say

 

 

we

 

played the game

 

which i would recognise anwhere

 

 

in it was you

 

why couldn't you keep me as you

 

should

 

 

 

(c)  JR.   

Een glimlach

ben je er bij

 

wanneer mijn adem uitrust

 

op

 

de rand van jouw liefde

 

ben je er dan bij?

 

 

ben je er bij

 

wanneer het zijn weg vindt

 

op

 

zoek naar een nieuwe morgen

 

ben je er dan bij ??

 

 

ben je er bij

 

wanneer dat verdorde blad  in mijn hart

 

zich roert

 

een

 

glimlach mij bereikt

 

ben je er dan nog steeds bij ???

 

 

(c)  JR.   2015

I UNIVERSE

 

 

 



you

 

must have felt the sensation

 

that

 

went through you

 

 

when you saw me

 

 

the power sent of

 

the strong spirit

 

 

the hidden strenght

 

 

defeating in the end

 

 

I UNIVERSE will never bend

 

 

to

 

 

merely

 

 

MAN !

 

 

(c) JR.

At Dawn

I feel air touch my fingers

 

spread over my body

 

float over my face

 

notice my age

 

 

blood

 

rushin' through my veins

 

almost awake at dawn

 

my dreams fly away

 

respiration grows

 

 

I sense the world returnin' to me

 

suddenly I move, open my eyes

 

commit my life to the world

 

at

 

dawn

 

 

I'm yet unable to rise

 

night's clingin' like a cloak

 

I shake it, shape it, fold it, throw it away

 

I'm alive at

 

dawn

 

 

I see the walls that surround me

 

so familiar, so trusting in their need

 

to protect me from reality

 

closin' in at dawn

 

 

 

I bathe

 

water trickles down my spine

 

it's pleasant, a freshenss within

 

dressing with care

 

one glance in the mirror

 

it's all there

 

at

 

dawn

 

 

ready for a new day

 

its challenges, its surprises, its disappointments

 

its difficulties, its beauty

 

born from the womb

 

dawn

 

is

 

 

(c) JR.   2014