Keep it

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Write a note, write it to myself
from now on I’ll be some one else, all right?
leave all bad habits right behind
be myself but a better kind for you

Winning is easy,
when you only fight yourself
and when you lose the fight
just keep it to yourself

Write a note and then burn it fast
promise made, promise not to last for sure
if there’s nothing that gets in my way
maybe I’ll start another day, ok?

Winning is easy,
when you only fight yourself
and when you lose the fight
just keep it to yourself

02.07.09

Give in

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

We have known us for a while
there’s a thing that makes me smile every time
when you’re mad and call me names
and your mood goes up in flames
when you’re done with playing games

When we fight I never really want to win
‘cause I love this little wrinkle on your chin
when you try not to give in

We have known us for a while
there are things that drive you wild every time
when I’m down and don’t say why
everything passes me by
yes you hate me when I’m shy

When we fight I never really want to win
‘cause I love this little wrinkle on your chin
and your voice is just as if you’d like to sing
when you try not to give in

When you’re mad and call me names
and your mood goes up in flames
when you’re done with playing games

All this time

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Summer’s coming, summer’s gone,
falling leafs and falling snow
this is how the circle goes

Night and day, I thought of you
tried to make green out of blue
tried to go on and let go

I will love again
all this time
that I’ve kept you in my mind
all this time

Winter’s here but I can see,
spring is just in front of me,
all I need is to hang on

no bad feelings, no regrets
don’t say “I wish we’d never met”
I meant everything I said

I will love again
all this time
that I’ve kept you in my mind
all this time
that I’ve locked you up inside
all this time

I meant everything I said
in my chest and in my head
but this road has found an end

That’s the point we say goodbye
shake our hands and walk on by
what is broken has to end

I will love again
all this time
that I’ve kept you in my mind
all this time
that I’ve locked you up inside
all this time

Summer’s coming, summer’s gone,
falling leafs and falling snow
this is how the circle goes

Walk under water

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

One toe after the other
try to take it easy

when your head’s under water
you just quit the breathing
for a while

I am not sinking
I’m just trying to walk under water

I am not planning to drown
I’m just an ungifted starter

I will surely get there one fine day

One foot after another
the water is freezing

Take good care where you walk
avoid the dangerous streaming

as long as you can

I am not sinking
I’m just trying to walk under water

I am not planning to drown
I’m just an ungifted starter

Every beginning is hard
I will just have to be harder

And I’ll surely get there one fine day

My weight’s dragging me down
I walk on shallow ground
I know it cannot be far to the shore
three steps or maybe more
I start to count and go
one, two, three, four…

I am not sinking
I’m just trying to walk under water

And I’ll surely get there one fine day

And if not
I’ll just get washed away

13.02.10

Ready

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Did you pack your stuff
are you ready can we go
there is nothing left
that would keep me here for sure

all this yelling started from a buzz
there is no place someone waits for us

When you’re here with me
that is all that really matters
when you’re with me
I’m ready

When you’re here with me
nothing more could make it better
when you’re here with me
I’m ready

All the walls came closer
and the ceiling dropped on us
and the soil is bitter
we must go now, yes we must

we have spent too much time in this town
start the car and drive, don’t turn around

Stop giving up now
get yourself together
don’t you fail me now

Satellites

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Imagine floating satellites
metallic spying butterflies
checking your moves and your vital signs
all the time

Imagine giant telescopes
detecting all your deepest thoughts
they see inside you and see it all

There is no escape at all
these are translucide prison walls
they’re made so we cannot see them fall

No one can ever be lonely anymore

Come for you

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

I see you in a room with no light and no doors,
the floor is made of concrete, no windows on the walls,
don’t you resign to your fate,
I’ll digg a hole or build a gate

Every time you fall into this confounded room,
trouble lies ahead and dark clouds seem to loom,

I can make this bubble burst,
I am prepared for the worst,

I will always come for you

When you go down there,
you go all by yourself,
you let me standing here
while you’re just somewhere else

I’ll find a way to this place
you never leave without a trace

And if I could I’d burn it down
I’d light a match and that’d be left
ashes on the ground

I will burn it down,
I just light a match,
and I watch the flames,
Watch the flames grow high and higher
until there is nothing left

12.08.09

Concrete walls

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Say, say, say what you need to say
what you need to say
burn, burn, burn, what you need to burn

Take, take, take all that you can get
all that you can get
Tear it out of somebody’s head

And you twist, dissemble, use it for your purposes,
you feed it to your ego and your bitterness

And you crush my stones to sand in your hands
and you break my concrete walls and my hardest defense

Put away all your big grenades, all your big grenades
stop to shoot little poison darts
step back and let the others do what they need to do
maybe you’ll find something to do too

Just remember not so long ago
you had something that would make you go
but you traded it for something else, you know

And you crush my stones to sand in your hands
and you break my concrete walls and my hardest defense

Sarcasm rules the world

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Well, you look good today
for somebody, let’s say,
with such a lethal illness

your kids are doing well
in their detention cell,
who likes his parents anyway?

if words can hurt your mouth’s a knife,
cutting what’s good out of my life

If sarcasm rules the world
how come that you never win?
If sarcasm rules the world
how come that you’re net the king?

I think that you could win
if you would change a thing
or maybe just completely

Or even better though
the world will change for you
and you can stay the way you’ve been

you see that words can build a wall
but they can also be a wrecking ball

You win, you win again.

12.09.09

Find in you

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

We don’t choose, we are what we are
just a piece in great jigsaw
you’re the piece that I love the most

I find in you what I can’t find in me
I see in you what I can’t see in me

I find in you what I can’t find in me
I see in you what I can’t see in me
I feel in you something I could not feel all by myself