Burning Questions Unanswered:
An instrumental song written with the main riff of the Krakatu song “Burning Questions”. This song came original out in 2007 on the full-length album from Krakatu called “A Waste Of Time”. It’s a song that I wrote in that period, but the riff still stayed in my mind. I play it a lot on my bass. So, I thought to record this main riff with only bass guitar. You ‘ll hear an acoustic bass, a fretless bass and a 5-string bass tuned in A. That’s it.
The Inner Strength Hurts:
(Featuring Marcel on drums)
This can be seen literally or figuratively. Falling into a great big hole. Realizing that this will take some energy to overcome this situation. The inner strength will hurt when the fall stopped and there will be no way out.
Traurig:
Again, another song with a German lyric. I really like the German language in a song.
(Featuring Marcel on drums)
The internet. Things like “Catfishing”. People who misuse trust. It’s sad (Traurig) to see this happening without knowing who does this to you.
Go Now:
(Featuring Bob on drums)
When you are done with someone, you’ll wish this person the best. You don’t want to see this person ever again. Don’t hesitate, just let this person go now.
22323:
(Featuring Marcel on drums)
An instrumental song and also the title track of this cd. The title is the date that I wrote this song written in the Dutch way.
A Different Level Of Fear:
(Featuring Marcel on drums)
Becoming an outcast because of your believes. At first you will be accepted. After a while you don’t know who to trust. It becomes a different level of fear.
Duinbewoners:
For the first time a song with a Dutch lyric. I always start writing lyrics in Dutch and then translate it into English. But this lyric I couldn’t translate in a proper way.
(Featuring Marcel on drums)
“Duinbewoners” means: Residents of the dunes. During World War 2 there has been a lot of fighting in the Dutch dunes alternated with a lot of rest and a lot of hate and envy. These soldiers and civilians of the resistance that lost their lives became forever the residents of the dunes.
Mission Completed:
(Featuring Marcel on drums)
Some people need a quick adrenaline rush. To do so, they go into vague buildings, with vague people, to score some vague drugs. By doing so, they are risking their life. Their mission is completed when the adrenaline rush does its work.
Wherever I Look:
(Featuring Marcel on drums)
When a person had a near death experience, often they see a thing or shade besides them. A thing or shade of the other side? They see it wherever they look.
I Lost Hope:
(Featuring Marcel on drums)
Getting lost in a situation you don’t like to be in. Every hope you have is gone. You just lost the hope in a good ending.
Burn a Candle:
To many family and friends I have lost during my life. I would burn a candle for them to remember.
Guilty, But Still…:
(bonus track)
(Music by Siegfried, I wrote this lyric when I was 20!)
It’s about a murder of an 18 year old women with two sides to it. Both stories are convincing.
Lost In a Storm:
(bonus track)
(music and lyric by Siegfried)
A sailor who thought he is a god, but in the end it is also a human person who saw it completely wrong.
Naturally you can read the lyrics, like you want them to be. In your own personal situation. Enjoy this music. Thank you for listening.
Low Tones:
An instrumental song written in 1 evening with 8 bass guitars. Only the Low Tones.
Personal Meltdown:
Featuring Henri on vocals
Your hurt is so strong that you cannot cope with it anymore. It’s making you desperate. You want it to stop, but you can’t. You fall into a personal meltdown.
My Will Is Broken:
Featuring Bob on drums
When you lose everything you own in a split second, your will is totally broken.
Irrelevant Things:
Featuring Felicity on vocals
When a person close to you passes away. The grief is one thing, but the loss is greater. You wish the person was still here and you see a vision everywhere. Small irrelevant things reminding you of this person suddenly begin to matter.
No Choice Of Your Own:
When you are at an age that you think your life is complete. You don’t want to life anymore. Your choice is it to pass away when you want to, but people around you are trained to keep you alive against your will. It’s no choice of your own to decide to give it all up.
Closed Walls Without a Door:
I knew a man who never told how much pain he had. He played bass and painted pictures in his spare time. A very good artist that hided his pain for everyone, but we all saw the pretense. He hide behind closed walls without a door.
41030:
An instrumental song with a title that’s an important date to me in the near future.
Empty Chair:
Featuring Henri on vocals
Losing a friend that committed suicide is terrible. Afterwards you have a million questions. At the dinner table a chair stays empty. The empty chair the friend used to sit in…
Full Speed Ahead:
In a cult everybody follows the leader, but sometimes someone comes to his senses. He sees what goes wrong and can’t imagen that nobody sees what he sees. The followers all drive the same way with full speed ahead.
Every Day:
Featuring Henri on vocals, Julian on drums and Bram on solo-guitar
Imagen you have a disease that is so progressive that each day your pain in all your muscles gets worse and worse. Every day it’s a struggle to survive. Your energy comes to the lowest point. Every day you hope that it’s over. This terrible disease is called: Fibromyalgia.
No Washing Can Clean That Off:
Featuring Henri on vocals
Abuse gets in the head. You will never forget what is done to you. The filth you feel cannot be washed of.
This lyric is an addition to the lyric “In Silence, In Tears” of the Manckh album “Closure & Finish”.
Nothing At All:
Being on the road away of the city and looking around. The things you see are beautiful. An enormous space around where we humans look so small. So small that we are nothing, nothing at all compared to the space around us.
What Just Happened Over Here?
A dream with weird things happening so fast, that afterwards waking up, you ask yourself: “What just happened over here?”.
Keinen Einfluss:
(bonus track)
Another song with a German lyric.
I got the taste for it ;-)
Competent authorities with incompetent officials. When you get in contact with them, you’ll have no influence (Keinen Einfluss). Preparing has no use. Everything will be treated the same. Your file will be thrown on an endless pile.
Naturally you can read the lyrics, like you want them to be. In your own personal situation. Enjoy this music. Thank you for listening.
Lyrics explained to stay in the main theme.
I’m Shocked:
Featuring Henri on vocals
This song is about how stupid you can be after a contact ritual or séance that gone wrong doing it one more time again! Thinking this time it will not go wrong! But I’m shocked that it did go wrong. I should have been more careful.
Rooms Filled:
Being in a room that seems empty. Got knocked down. Felt the fear and anger that is present, but there is really no one around. Awoken the evil spirits by calling them up. A great mistake. Now the rooms In This House of Pain are filled with dark anomalies.
Mind’s Eye:
Maybe a mind’s eye can give some explanations of what is going on in this house of pain. A contact with the energy of the deceased. A mind’s eye sees things other people can’t see.
So I Have Faith:
Featuring Jean on solo guitar
The women with the mind’s eye tells me things she could not know about me. She made contact with the people I lost and being in the hereafter. From what she told me, I became a believer. So I have faith in her.
Invited:
Featuring Henri on vocals
After a while a contact of the afterworld invited me to come again into this house of pain. This time I’ll pass…
Rache:
(bonus track)
A song with a German lyric I have been challenged to do by a good friend (thank you Henri).
It’s about a killer that takes revenge (Rache). He or she hijacks the persons who did the killer wrong. Gets them drunk. Puts an airtight blanket over their body, so they suffocate slowly. The killer can’t believe that this all came true. Maybe these deceased persons are the evil spirits In This House of Pain?
Naturally you can read the lyrics, like you want them to be. In your own personal situation. Enjoy this music. Thank you for listening.
