1. Search for myself

[This song does not contain any lyrics]

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Music by Daan Verkerk

2. World's Mission Field

My mum said I'm a lazy boy
So maybe I should do something
Make this world a better place, but for who?
Is someone waiting for me
Or is there a job I should do
Am I needed in this world
Cause for now I don't know where

* * *

Sometimes sleeping 'till eleven
Sometimes sleeping 'till twelve
Sometimes duties chasing me
While I'm hiding in my shell
Sometimes enjoying the moment
While I could do something else

Sometimes reading a book
While I could save the forest too
Sometimes laying at the beach
While I could gather plastics too
Sometimes just holidaying
While I could work too

Is it bad to enjoy myself
Should I do something else
Is it bad to enjoy myself
Do I have to save the world

I don't know what to do,
in the world's mission field
I don't know what it needs
I don't know what to do,
in the world's mission field
I don't know what it needs

Do I do I do I do do I do I
Do I do I do I do do I do I
Do I do I do I do do I do I
Do I have to save the world

* * *

Sometimes I see an old woman
And I don't stand up
Sometimes I see something falling
And I won't pick it up
Sometimes I'm eating meat
While I know it is too much I consume

Is it bad to enjoy myself
Should I do something else
Is it bad to enjoy myself
Do I have to save the world

I don't know what to do,
in the world's mission field
I don't know what it needs
I don't know what to do,
in the world's mission field
I don't know what it needs

Do I do I do I do do I do I
Do I do I do I do do I do I
Do I do I do I do do I do I
Do I have to save the world

* * *

Is it bad to enjoy myself
Is it bad to enjoy myself
Is it bad to enjoy myself
Should I do something else
Is it bad to enjoy myself
Do I have to save the world

I don't know what to do,
in the world's mission field
I don't know what it needs
I don't know what to do,
in the world's mission field
I don't know what it needs

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Lyrics and music by Daan Verkerk

3. Perspective

What do you see
When you look at me
What do you see

What do you want to see
When you look at me
And is it what you see

Did you put me in a box just a second ago
Or was I already inside
I don't know what you're seeing
Cause I only know the mirrored version of myself

And it looks different from the inside
Than what you're seeing from the outside
And when you're looking from the outside
You can't see what's happening on the inside

* * *

Who are you talking to
When you talk to me
Do you talk to me
Or just a version in your head of me

I don't know what you see
So could you tell me
So I see what you see

Cause it looks different from the inside
Than what you're seeing from the outside
And when you're looking from the outside
You can't see what's happening on the inside

* * *

Are you looking at a boy with a guitar in his hands
Or are you seeing what's behind that guitar
What would I be for you

Credits

Lyrics and music by Daan Verkerk
Electric guitars by my brother, Rijk Verkerk

4. That Stupid thing

What do you know about me
'bout all the things inside my head
What do you know about me
'bout things behind all what I said
Is that CAPSLOCK necessary
Why that bad word dictionary
All those threats are kind of scary
And now I'm feeling very upset

What do you know about me
'bout everything what's going on
And if you don't agree
You could tell when we were alone
Did we ask for your conception
Cause it gave a bad impression
It was no more than aggression
Flowing out of your fingertips

Shouldn't we think
Before we chat
Shouldn't we think
Before getting mad
Shouldn't we think
Before we did that stupid thing

Shouldn't we think
Before we write down
Shouldn't we think
Before we burn to the ground
Shouldn't we think
Before we did that stupid thing

* * *

Where is that social part
In that big media thing
Isn't it pulling apart
Instead of bringing people together
Cause you can't see the emotions
And the words, they just form oceans
And they form all useless motions
It is just overwhelming me

Shouldn't we think
Before we chat
Shouldn't we think
Before getting mad
Shouldn't we think
Before we did that stupid thing

Shouldn't we think
Before we write down
Shouldn't we think
Before we burn to the ground
Shouldn't we think
Before we did that stupid thing
Before we did that stupid thing
Before we did that stupid thing
Before we did that stupid thing

* * *

Maybe I shouldn't have posted it
Cause now I've totally lost it
I will never post this thing anymore
This drawing of a dinosaur

Shouldn't we think
Before we chat
Shouldn't we think
Before getting mad
Shouldn't we think
Before we did that stupid thing

Shouldn't we think
Before we write down
Shouldn't we think
Before we burn to the ground
Shouldn't we think
Before we did that stupid thing
Before we did that stupid thing
Before we did that stupid thing
Before we did that stupid thing
Before we did that stupid thing
Before we did that stupid thing

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Lyrics and music by Daan Verkerk

5. Search for Happiness

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Music by Daan Verkerk

6. Book of Love

I felt in love with just the back of your book
And it became better at the inside
Don't want to miss one single word
From the point of your pen
I felt in love with just the back of your book

I loved the story of your life
And I'm waiting for the time
That I come into play
Will it be sooner than I could ever think
And will you fall in love
with the back of my book

I'm already reading your book
While you're still writing
I've already finished some pages
While the story goes on and on
I'm already reading your book
While you're still writing
I've already started
But I'll never get to the end

* * *

You're my favorite author at this time
And I wonder if you could help me too
I just can't finish my storyline
And I think I know just what I need

I'm already reading your book
While you're still writing
I've already finished some pages
While the story goes on and on
I'm already reading your book
While you're still writing
I've already started
But I'll never get to the end

* * *

I think the author of life has made us together
Cause our characters will fit
Like my skinny jeans
I think we were already meant for each other
At the time we were just a piece of clay

* * *

I ain't got words, words, words for your story
I ain't got words, words, words for this play
I ain't got words, words, words for your story
I ain't got words that could ever describe

* * *

I'm already reading your book
I'm already reading your book
I'm already reading your book
While you're still writing
I've already finished some pages
While the story goes on and on
I'm already reading your book
While you're still writing
I've already started
But I'll never get to the end
I've already started
But I'll never get to the end
I've already started
But I'll never get to the end

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Lyrics and music by Daan Verkerk

7. Livable Place

Do you see the nature running wild and free
Between the fences of humanity
Sometimes enjoyed, sometimes thrown away
Like it's a plastic pearl from a claw machine

We know we have to live long
on this planet called earth
Where we are living now
We know we have to save this all
for our kids who have to live somehow

We have to build it again
We have to build it again
Let's clean up the footprints we have left behind
We have to build it again
We have to build it again
Let's free nature and it will restore and shine

* * *

Do you see how beautiful you are
But why are you living in such an ugly war
You would be better off without us
Can we rewind the time back to the start

We know we have to live long
on this planet called earth
Where we are living now
We know we have to save this all
for our kids who have to live somehow

We have to build it again
We have to build it again
Let's clean up the footprints we have left behind
We have to build it again
We have to build it again
Let's free nature and it will restore and shine

* * *

We know we have to live long
on this planet called earth
Where we are living now
We know we have to save this all
for our kids who have to live somehow

Let's make it a livable place again
Let's make it a livable place again
Let's make it a livable place again
Let's make it a livable place again

We have to build it again
We have to build it again
Let's clean up the footprints we have left behind
We have to build it again
We have to build it again
Let's free nature and it will restore and shine

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Lyrics and music by Daan Verkerk
Drums by Tijmen Jozua

8. Old Friends

I've met him at the high school
We talked some and we chilled
In no time we walked together
No free time alone was spilled

We just got some closer
He would never let me down
Yeah, these were the good days
The good day's in town

* * *

When we left the high school
We swore we would meet again
We didn't even say goodbye
Because we soon would meet again

But days where getting weeks
And months where getting years
We forgot about each other
Just without any tears

When it's about a laugh
All friends are the same
When it is about the true love
Only old friends will remain
When it's about a laugh
All friends are the same
When it is about the true love
Only old friends will remain

* * *

One day I called another one
Also a forgotten friend
But that didn't matter
Because the cot is where we've met

In no time we knew each other
Better than we knew ourselves
It was some kind of magic
Although we didn't see any elves

When it's about a laugh
All friends are the same
When it is about the true love
Only old friends will remain
When it's about a laugh
All friends are the same
When it is about the true love
Only old friends will remain

* * *

When it's about a laugh
All friends are the same
When it is about the true love
Only old friends will remain
When it's about a laugh
All friends are the same
When it is about the true love
Only old friends will remain
Only old friends will remain
Only true friends will remain
Only real friends will remain
Ohh the old friends

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Lyrics and music by Daan Verkerk

9. Search for Peace

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Music by Daan Verkerk

10. Time

Time, do we have enough time
Time, do we have enough time
Cause times are changing
The time price is raising
Time, do we have enough time
Time, do we have enough time
Cause you have to make it
And friends, they just take it
Time

* * *

Time, do we have enough time
Time, do we have enough time
With more timepieces
You're just gonna leave this time
Do we have enough time
Time, do we have enough time
Cause good things take hours
While time is your power
Your time
Well it takes your time

* * *

Gold, do I have enough gold
Or is your time already sold
To business and earnings
But when are you learning
That you're running out of time

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Lyrics and music by Daan Verkerk

11. Peace

In the moonlight
In the shining of the sun
In the shadows
In the highlights of the One

A misty evening
Or the falling of snow
The sight of mighty mountains
Or a lake in valleys below

In this busy world,
you'll have to find your peace
In this busy world,
you'll have to find your peace
in another world

* * *

In the variety of birds
And the melodies they sing
In the glowing of a fire fly
Or the butterfly's wings

In a city
Or on the countryside
In an author's work
Or a digital fight

In this busy world,
you'll have to find your peace
In this busy world,
you'll have to find your peace
in another World

* * *

In a world of paintings
In a world of joy
In a world of music
In a world of toys
In a world of class
In a world of simplicity
In a world of friends

In a world of religion
In a world of faith
In a fantasy world
A world you've made
In a family world
Just a different world
You'll have to find your peace
In another world,
you'll have to find your peace

* * *

In the people
And the works they have made
In the children
And the smiles on their faces

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Lyrics and music by Daan Verkerk

12. Evening Walk

When the last lights are fading away
And I'm almost home
The only sounds are my feet touching the ground
And I'm alone

It's a walk late in the evening,
at the middle of the road
Only thinking about the thought of the coming at home
When everyone is sleeping
and my bed calls my name

The only time that time stops for a minute
That I'm away from the busyness of the world
The only time that I'm truly enjoying
No people calling me
No duties chasing me
It's just the misty moonlight that brings rest to my heart

* * *

The streetlights are making beams in the fog
A fresh breeze through my coat
I see my own condensation from under my hood
And I'm alone

It's a walk late in the evening,
at the middle of the road
A single car at the freeway passing by
When everyone is sleeping
and my bed calls my name

The only time that time stops for a minute
That I'm away from the busyness of the world
The only time that I'm truly enjoying
No people calling me
No duties chasing me
It's just the misty moonlight that brings rest to my heart
It's just the misty moonlight that brings rest to my heart
It's just the misty moonlight that brings rest to my heart

* * *

My hand touches the heck of the backyard gate,
I'm almost home
I unlock the door, a sleep well note,
I'm all alone

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Lyrics and music by Daan Verkerk

13. Search for Myself

[Depending on your definition of lyrics, this song doesn't contain any]

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Humming by Daan Verkerk

14. Happy End

Too many different beliefs
Too many different thoughts
Now it's blinding my perception
while I just thought I could see.
Too many different visions
Too many choices for me
and I don't know what the truth is,
I don't know what I want to be

Where do we stay when it's all over
Stay when it's all gone
Stay when we've had our happy end
And when we are thinking different
There's one thing we can say
We won't meet at our happy end

* * *

This discussion is never ending
About the life after death
Cause there isn't a religion
that is telling a proven truth.
And we can never prove it
Even though we try so hard
Cause the more questions you're revealing
the more questions will find their way in your mind

I'm not telling you
you're making mistakes
Cause it's a mystery and a mystery it will be
I'm not blaming you
For choices you made different
I'm just telling the hard, hard truth

Where do we stay when it's all over
Stay when it's all gone
Stay when we've had our happy end
And when we are thinking different
There's one thing we can say
We won't meet at our happy end
No, we won't meet at our happy end

Credits

Lyrics and music by Daan Verkerk
Drums by Jos de Water

15. Collecting Courage

Once upon a night, I couldn't sleep
Cause a daydream was going ‘round in my head
I was dreaming about a concert, my own concert
On my pillow, in my bed

I saw the lights, the songs, and the curtains
I saw people joining me on stage
I felt that I was living my dream
That I was living outside the cage

* * *

But living a dream is difficult
Cause I don't like to talk about what's going on
And I would only play some music if someone asked me to play a song

And at a certain moment I sat on the couch
I was inside the gap of school and a job
I just had a job interview at a company I liked
But then I thought I had to stop

* * *

My mind brought me back
Back to the times when I used to dream
But the dream was gone, gone so it seemed

And I knew better times would come
But it didn't feel that way
Because it would take a long time to live my dreams
Not knowing if the real world would obey
The things I saw in my dreams

And now the time has come
And there is one thing I've learned
And I wish I knew this when I was young

* * *

When you have a dream
And this sounds very cliché
But I'm still going to say
You've got to talk about it to your family, your friends or your bae
Cause when you don't share your dreams
You'll never know what it could have become
And you will lay down on your pillow
And your dreams will weaken till the're gone

* * *

It took me a lot of days, but now I'm here
And I give my dream the lead
It took me a lot of days to collect my courage
How many do you need

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Lyrics and music by Daan Verkerk

16. Fruit of Origin

My parents said one day to me
I could play a song
I could play an instrument
That was where it all began

I liked harp and cello
But those two were refused
There was a piano in our house
So that was what I chose

Now music is my passion
And that's why I play
Music is my passion
And that will always stay
Music is my passion
And I want to give a bit to you
But when you thank me for the music
You've gotta thank another one too

* * *

It's not that I don't like the compliments
Sometimes they help me out
And without all those compliments
I wouldn't be here now

But I am not an angel
There was some luck on my path
My parents supported me
And could afford the lessons I had

And now music is my passion
And that's why I play
Music is my passion
And that will always stay
Music is my passion
And I want to give a bit to you
But when you thank me for the music
You've gotta thank another one too
But when you thank me for the music
You've gotta thank another one too

* * *

I believe there's a God above
Who made all humankind
Who planted talents in our hearts
And music was mine

So I'll praise my Father up above
Kneeling as I pray
And I'll thank Him for the music
For the music we play
Oh I'll thank Him for the music
For the music He plays

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Lyrics and music by Daan Verkerk
Alternative title: my mums favorite song (love you mum)