Lyrics

Released works

This is an overview of released songs featuring my song lyrics. Each piece is personal to me, and reflects my experiences and thoughts. More lyrics will be uploaded soon!

Album: The Mirrored Mask – Harlem Lake (2024) – 9 songs

Carry On – Harlem Lake (written ’19, released ’23)

Take me to your hotel room and draw outside the lines
Your perfume and your costume, no I wouldn’t mind
being your partner in crime

Carry on baby, carry on and be a bad bad boy!
Carry on baby, carry on and be a bad bad boy!

Oh I know your wife is just sitting at home
Drinking that lonely glass of wine
You are on the road for that bluesy bluesy business
Which means that tonight you will be mine

Carry on baby, carry on and be a bad bad boy!
Carry on baby, carry on and be a bad bad boy!

Take me to your hotel room and draw outside the lines
Yeah your perfume and your costume, no I wouldn’t mind
Being your partner in crime
No I wouldn’t mind being your partner in crime

Carry on baby, carry on and be a bad bad boy!
Carry on baby, carry on and be a bad bad boy!

Fooled Again – Harlem Lake (written ’22, released ’23 & ’24)

The man is the moon
Needing the sun to shine
A boy is a tune
Needing a song to rhyme
And I know I got it all

He said he felt like
A pilot without his plane
So I learned to fly
But then he took off anyway
Now I’m here left on the runway

Poor, poor me fell like a fool for a man
I thought that he was cool but I got fooled again

Who shuffled the deck
And gave me this hand?
The man is the moon
With a gun against his head
He thought he had it all

Poor, poor me fell like a fool for a man
I thought that he was cool but I got fooled again

Give me a garden where I can bloom
Wade me in water that isn’t doomed
Wash me in roses that shot from the gun
I won’t atone for what he has done

Poor, poor me fell like a fool for a man
I thought that he was cool but I got fooled again

To Tell You I’m Sorry – Harlem Lake (written ’22, released ’24)

Are we just gonna wait for the snow to fall?
Or am I just another girl waiting outside the ball?
Who’s gonna pick me up, who’s gonna pick me up?

And I know the camera’s are already rolling
But my heart is already frozen
Who’s gonna dress me up, who’s gonna dress me up?

I need you to do my make-up
Gotta make sure you will make up with me
I need you to do my make-up
Gotta make sure you will make out with me

I find it hard to tell you I’m sorry
No I’m not an easy one to fight
There is another side to the story
I might be wrong and I might be right

Please do not pretend like you are Mr. Know-It-All
‘cause I’m already standing here with my back against the wall
Who’s gonna pick me up, who’s gonna pick me up?

I need you to do my make-up
Gotta make sure you will make up with me
I need you to do my make-up
Gotta make sure you will make out with me

I find it hard to tell you I’m sorry
No I’m not an easy one to fight
There is another side to the story
I might be wrong and I might be right

Beggars Can’t Choose – Harlem Lake (written ’22, released ’24)

The Thought Of You – Harlem Lake (written ’22, released ’24)

I was trying to build a home
Hiding from the storm
But now hiding ain’t living and loving can’t keep me warm

The sight of you makes me cry
The sight of you makes me cry

I was fleeing from a home
Right into the storm
Trying to find the answers in my questions as I go

The thought of you makes me cry
The thought of you makes me cry

How am I supposed to tell you
I got to break your heart again?
I couldn’t even talk or cry
So then I ran

Crying In A Desert – Harlem Lake (written ’22, released ’24)

Crying in a desert, a thunder strikes
Crying in a desert, the lightning is mine

A gun in my pocket, but no one in sight
The dust on a rocket shatters the light

Crying in a desert, crying in a desert

I’m looking for a drop way up the hill
My momma went up and my father soon will

This land is deserted, I’m looking for a sign
The mission aborted, more sand than time
I find more sand than time

Crying in a desert, a rumbling evolves
I watch how the world to dust resolves

The Mirrored Mask – Harlem Lake (written ’19, released ’19 & ’24)

I’m nowhere to where we were before
Clouds pretend to be raining
You have been smiling constantly
Peeled layers of the painting

The mind’s a word that has been playing
Alters in the blink of an eye
I don’t trust what I’m portraying
Nothing I can call to testify
Nothing I can call to testify

Where is she hiding? Where is she hiding?
Don’t you know that I’ve been trying
Trying to understand
Don’t you know that I’ve been trying
Trying to comprehend

How could a mind be so blind
Time didn’t make me realize

Well I don’t believe your tears are made in present
A falling star only burns in the past
The ashes leave you petrified that they might rise
And tame you at last

Where is she hiding? Where is she hiding?

Don’t you know that I’ve been trying
Trying to understand
Don’t you know that I’ve been trying
Trying to comprehend

They throw down the gloves and whispers in the room
You don’t recognize your eyes, the mirrored mask in a costume

Don’t you know that I’ve been trying
Trying to understand
Don’t you know that I’ve been trying
Trying to comprehend

How could a mind be so blind
Time didn’t make me realize

Temptation – Harlem Lake (written ’22, released ’24)

I’d say it’s just a matter of time
You haven’t met everybody who will love you yet
Guess I have to wait my while
I believe in the life of a second wife but I cannot wait for that

Take me straight to where I wanna be
Take me straight to my fantasy
You talk like a movie and you walk like you’re the boss
I guess if it were up to me we would be in a rush

But I gotta stay loyal, I gotta stay true
A little temptation, what bad can it do?

I guess it’s fun to play around at the edge of loyalty
And I really don’t mean to say I wanna cheat
Even though I know this is dangerous
The smell of tequila is so flavorous

Hey baby I just wanna say there’s no shame
In a chase of something you can’t chase
And we all know sniffing snow doesn’t mean
You are gonna stay high this way

But I gotta stay loyal, I gotta stay true
A little temptation, oh what bad can it do?

Jack In The Box – Harlem Lake (written ’20, released ’23 & ’24)

All the cards are on the table
But your Jack is still up your sleeve
Here’s the first rule of betrayal
You gotta make sure the lady don’t see

You’re waving around with your magic wand
but it really doesn’t do the trick
so she was gone in a blink

There’s another in the corner
But he just looks away
He’s probably the warrener
His jackrabbits are loose and astray

She asks him for the numbers but he won’t say
So she gathers all the girlfriends, they are calling the same:

Put your Jack in the box
Put your Jack in the box
Put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back in the box!

Didn’t your momma teach ya
That genital ain’t gentle man
Practice what they preach ya
Is the saying of the masterplan

You think it ain’t harmful if she doesn’t say no
But she never bought a ticket to your late night show

Put your Jack in the box
Put your Jack in the box
Put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back in the box!

Album: A Fool’s Paradise vol. 1 – Harlem Lake (2021) – 8 songs

Deaf & Blind – Harlem Lake (written ’20, released ’21 & ’23)

Tell me everything’s gonna be alright
I know you cannot stay tonight
I know many of your reasons are because of me
and I feel ashamed it took me so long to see

But I wish you didn’t feel that way

I can’t keep on running away from home
I’ve been hiding, hiding, in your arms for too long
You already told me so many times
But I didn’t listen, I was deaf and blind

Often I’m too proud to ask for the help I need
Too stubborn to find out what’s wrong with me
The truth hurts the most when it reveals
that I was wrong, wrong, wrong for so long

But I wish you didn’t feel that way

I can’t keep on running away from home
I’ve been hiding, hiding, in your arms for too long
You already told me so many times
But I didn’t listen, I was deaf and blind

A Fool’s Paradise – Harlem Lake (written ’20, released ’21)

Tell me everything’s gonna be alright
I know you cannot stay tonight
I know many of your reasons are because of me
and I feel ashamed it took me so long to see

But I wish you didn’t feel that way

I can’t keep on running away from home
I’ve been hiding, hiding, in your arms for too long
You already told me so many times
But I didn’t listen, I was deaf and blind

Often I’m too proud to ask for the help I need
Too stubborn to find out what’s wrong with me
The truth hurts the most when it reveals
that I was wrong, wrong, wrong for so long

But I wish you didn’t feel that way

I can’t keep on running away from home
I’ve been hiding, hiding, in your arms for too long
You already told me so many times
But I didn’t listen, I was deaf and blind

The River – Harlem Lake (written ’20, released ’21 & ’23)

See me dancing in the water
I ain’t waiting for another turn
You cried me a river about another
Well, I’m not gonna teach you if you never learn

There is no smooth education
No one ever told you life is fun
You’re travelling from nation to nation
but you cannot finish any of the things that you’ve begun

So get down, get down to the river
Erase your footsteps and never return
Get down, get down to the river
Well, I’m not gonna teach you if you never learn

We’re just jumping around each other
So why are you in denial, baby?
Your hand holds a queen and a king
So let me tell you one thing: a quitter never wins

So get down, get down to the river
Erase your footsteps and never return
Get down, get down to the river
Well, I’m not gonna teach you if you never learn

Do you even realise you cannot spell out my name
I’m done riding, it’s time to settle down
Oh and you are not a hound dog that is easy to tame
So I’d rather put you on board so you can sail your way south!

So get down, get down to the river
Erase your footsteps and never return, boy
Get down get down to the river
Well, I’m not gonna teach you if you never learn

So get down to the river
Erase your footsteps and never return, no
Get down, get down to the river
Well, I’m not gonna teach you if you never learn

Guide Me Home – Harlem Lake (written ’20, released ’21 & ’23)

Blurred faces behind the windows
The summer rain seems to leave me here alone
Am I wrong about my opinions?
Everybody seems to strengthen their backbone

I didn’t wanna be on that rolling sea
The waves would just throttle my letter in a bottle
All the promises I vowed but it’s so hard
The tides are trying to change
but they just seem to derange
And we cannot fight the break of day

Take me to a place where I can be strong
Oh baby I long to belong
This world is a maze, I can not find my way
Where are the stars to guide me home?

Blurred face behind the windows
These dark days are only lit up by our telephone
We all know we can not be the winner
The game is played by all these rich men sitting on their thrones

Take me to a place where I can be strong
Oh baby I long to belong
This world is a maze, I can not find my way
Where are the stars to guide me home?

Baby I’m waiting, I’m waiting for you
Baby I’m waiting, I’m waiting for you
Baby I’m waiting, I’m waiting for you

to take me to a place, where I can be strong
Oh baby I long to belong
This world is a maze, I can not find my way
Where are the stars to guide me home?

Please Watch My Bag – Harlem Lake (written ’20, released ’21 & ’23)

’Please just watch my bag baby
I’m just going, I’m just going outside
Please just watch my bag baby
I’m just going, I’m just going outside
I’m gonna be smoking one cigarette
underneath the neon light.’’

‘’Hey baby, yeah you right there, could you please just keep an eye on my coat
I promise you I won’t be away for too long
Please just keep an eye on my coat right here
I promise you I won’t be away for too long.’’
That is what she told me when she made her way out of Hambone’s

She stepped into the darkness
Stealing the love and light from my eyes
I didn’t even notice that she had left me
Until the bartender said: ‘’Alright ev’rybody, goodnight!’’
‘’Please just watch my bag baby.’’ I now know she was only telling lies!

‘’Please just watch my bag baby
I’m just going, I’m just going outside
Please just watch my bag baby
I’m just going outside
I’m gonna be smoking one cigarette
underneath the neon light
Please just watch my bag, baby’’
I now know she was only telling, telling lies!

My Turn To Learn – Harlem Lake (written ’20, released ’21)

I’m driving south to face my fears
I’m driving south to face my tears
Driving south to climb the waves
of the darkest, the darkest years

There’s a fire in the morning
Let me see if I can sit it through
There’s a fire and it’s burning
What good can a heartache do?

But I can stand a little fire
Oh, I can stand a little burn
Yes, I can stand a little heatwave
Now it’s my turn, it’s my turn to learn

There is a message in every story
There’s a teardrop in every splash of rain
There’s no reason to feel so sorry
if it’s the past you cannot change

But I can stand a little fire
Oh, I can stand a little burn
Yeah I can stand a little heatwave
Now it’s my turn, it’s my turn to learn

Oh, but the future is a blank page
waiting for you to confess
and the whole world could be your stage
if you’re ready to do your best
and I can stand a little fire
I can stand a little burn
Now it’s my turn, it’s my turn to learn

Oh I can stand a little fire
Oh I can stand a little burn
Oh I can stand a little heatwave
Now it’s my turn, it’s my turn to learn
Yeah it’s my turn, it’s my turn to learn
Oh it’s my turn, it’s my turn to learn

I Won’t Complain – Harlem Lake (written ’20, released ’21 & ’23)

The drawings on the wall are screaming my pain
I’m so done with driving people sane
It’s my free choice to be fed up and sad
Your world ain’t my world so don’t tell me you understand

And just for one second I got jealous of the sky
where birds can just float, they are always free to fly
But I can climb mountains and sail the ocean blue
The grass won’t be greener so you just stick to being you

I don’t complain even though it all falls apart
I won’t complain about this broken heart
I don’t complain if you ask me are you alright
No I won’t complain, oh no

My tears are the past that is bleeding
My mind is the palace I’m dreaming

I’ll be drying my wings in the wind
because I cannot fly with this burden, no
I can still feel your anger on my skin
but it means nothing compared to the world’s hurting

So I don’t complain even though it all falls apart
I won’t complain about this broken heart
I don’t complain if you ask me are you alright
No I won’t complain, but don’t expect me to smile

My tears are the past that is bleeding
My mind is the palace I’m dreaming

No, no, no, I won’t complain,
No no no, I don’t complain, I won’t complain

I Wish I Could Go Running – Harlem Lake (written ’20, released ’21 & ’23)

Give me another reason why I shouldn’t run away tonight
Ah give me another reason why I shouldn’t run away this time
There ain’t nothing left to sooth me, there ain’t nothing left but crying

And I wish I could go running a long long way from home
I wish I could go running a long long way from home
This paradise ain’t what it should be
The apple is just a lie I’ve been told

Oh this world ain’t what it should be, it has lost its ways throughout the years
Oh this world ain’t what it should be, it has lost its ways throughout the years
And there ain’t nothing left to sooth me, there ain’t nothing left but tears

So I wish I could go running a long long way from home
Oh I wish I could go running a long long way from home
Yeah this paradise ain’t what it should be
The apple is just a lie I’ve been told

Sonny Ray!
One more! Fucking lekker jongens! One more!

I wish I could go running a long long way from home
Yeah I wish I could go running a long long way from home
Yeah this paradise ain’t what it should be
The apple is just a lie I’ve been told

Oh, and I wish I could go running a long long way from home
Hey, I wish I could go running a long long way from home
This paradise ain’t what it should be
The apple is just a lie I’ve been told