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TIME IS REALLY RUNNING OUT
Now it’s time to get things straight
Without delays or hesitating
To love’s to be loved, just open up
Drink from that cup, go straight to the top
There’s nothing else
Time is really running out this time
All those years of catching up
Starts and stops and pressure drops
Doing it my way, shifting gears
Sinatra sang: ‘The end is near’
There’s nothing else
Time is really running out this
Time is really running out this
Time is really running out this time
When I was a kid there was no fit
I just played without a grid
And then there was love on the radio
The music told me where to go
There was nothing else
Time is really running out this
Time is really running out this
Time is really running out this time
Time hasn’t been always on my side Time is really running
There’s nothing else There’s nothing else
Time is really running out
It’s running out of time
Time is really running out
It’s running out of time
Time is really running out this
Time is really running out this
Time is really running out this time
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The Arithmetics
02:58
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The Arithmetics
What I wanna do is something
Which depends on numbers more than often
So why doing things out of the blue?
1+1=2 is something
That’s been said to me a million times
I always wanted 1+1 to be 3
I should have listened better to the advice
The arithmetics never lie
Though I wish they would
I’ve been outnumbered by the truth that never lies By the arithmetics of my life
That I misunderstood
What I wanna do is something
Which depends on numbers more than often
So why doing things out of the blue?
Clichés are much more numerous
Than behaviour that can’t be decoded
I’ve got to find my way back out of the woods
I should have listened better to the advice
The arithmetics never lie
Though I wish they would
I’ve been outnumbered by the truth that never lies By the arithmetics of my life
That I misunderstood
1+1=2 and 2+2=4
An outcome always opens up a door
I should have listened better to the advice
The arithmetics never lie
Though I wish they would
I’ve been outnumbered by the truth that never lies By the arithmetics of my life
That I misunderstood
I’m still counting don’t know whether I’ll win or lose
Recounting
And counting
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
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After I'm Gone
03:18
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AFTER I’M GONE
I don’t know why I do it
I just do it
And if I wouldn’t do it
I’d just screw it
I need the motion
I don’t need emotion
I’m a wave in the Pacific Ocean
Don’t ask me questions
I won’t reply at all
Cause this life just goes on after I’m gone after I’m gone
I’ve got to get work done before I’m gone before I’m gone
Why was I born
I just don’t wanna know it
I am not strong
But I try to ease my mind
Happiness is just a passerby
It ain’t no product you can easily sell or buy
I’m getting closer
I can’t stay behind
Cause this life just goes on after I’m gone after I’m gone
I’ve got to get work done before I’m gone before I’m gone
Before I’m gone
After I’m gone
My motor’s running and I’m heading somewhere
It may be nowhere, but in the end we’ll see
Half of my life I spent it analyzing
Now the time has come to work and let things be
I’m a traveler without a destiny
Cause this life just goes on after I’m gone after I’m gone
I’ve got to get work done before I’m gone before I’m gone
before I’m
This life just goes on after I’m gone after I’m gone
I’ve got to get work done before I’m gone before I’m gone before I’m
This life just goes on after I’m gone after I’m gone after…
I’ve got to get work done before I’m gone before I’m gone
Before I’m…
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Superglue
04:05
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SUPERGLUE
In the slipstream of my heart
I hear screaming loud guitars
It’s been like that since I discovered the power of art
Many liaisons fall apart
Due to my selfish one track heart
Due to knowing what I should have done
Right from the start
In these songs it’s so easy to give
It’s where I live
When doors of songs start to revolve
All the problems left unsolved
They just vanish
They just go up in holy smoke
In these songs it’s so easy to give
They make me live
They may be all I will leave to this world
Well, that is something
It may sound pretty poor to you
As if it is all that I can do
As if my songbook’s just a miserable excuse
I’m sorry to make you feel that blue
But these songs they’re superglue
If I don’t stick with them
I’m forever bound to lose
In these songs it’s so easy to give
And forgive
In these songs it’s so easy to give
It’s where I live
So let me live
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Relief
03:09
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RELIEF
From the first day on
I have been waiting for a miracle
Something merely magical
To make it all worthwile
I’ve been looking for some signs
That could tell me which way to go
Release me from wondering
About things I can not know
About this life
And its wonders
And its beauty underneath
Through the fields I should wander
And stumble upon relief
Upon relief
I started discovering
Enigmas and temptations
Trial and error
Seemed to be the only way to levitation
But then somehow I lost myself
In endless ruminating
The organs all stopped playing
I started singing out of key
The key of life
And its wonders
And its beauty underneath
Back to zero
I should wander
To stumble upon relief
Upon relief
Upon relief
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How the Past Was Won
02:57
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HOW THE PAST WAS WON
Chords…words…
The people who love me and make me belong
The gasoline my engine runs on
What I can do is answer your love with a song
A simple song to keep the faith strong
A mantra to which we can all hum
To celebrate we don’t have to die on our own
I play some chords
Utter words
Try to sound like lively birds
I thank you all and sing this song
About how the past was won
Yeah I really really love the way you all care
It’s soothing my mind
It takes me there were
I’m longing to be
And ought to live in harmony
Loving, breathing, growing
Knowing without knowing
Hovering, heating, glowing
Going without going
A simple tune to simplify life
A day-to-day tool that can help us survive
The fear and the fury
That sometimes cut like a knife
I play some chords
Utter words
Try to sound like lively birds
I thank you all and sing this song
About how the past was won
So here I go
And I don’t know
But tomorrow it will show
I love you all
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The Life I Didn't Live
05:23
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THE LIFE I DIDN’T LIVE
The life I didn’t live
The tricks I didn’t learn
The kids I didn’t have
The page I didn’t turn
The love I didn’t give
The seas I didn’t sail
The people who I’ve left
The moments that I failed
All I didn’t have
Makes it pretty clear
Everything that’s left
Is all what matters here
I know that more is less
It took a while to learn
Ambition brought me here
And now it’s time to burn
Burn the fears and thoughts
Breathing in the air
Close my eyes and see
Everything is there
The life I didn’t lead
Slowly disappears
Now is all there is
Nothing interferes
The life I didn’t live
The tricks I didn’t learn
The kids I didn’t have
The page I didn’t turn
The love I didn’t give
The seas I didn’t sail
The people who I’ve left
The moments that I failed
The life I didn’t live
The tricks I didn’t learn
The kids I didn’t have
The page I didn’t turn
The life I didn’t live
The tricks I didn’t learn
The life I didn’t live
The life I didn’t live
The life I didn’t live
The life I didn’t live
The life I didn’t live
The life I didn’t live
The life I didn’t live
The life I didn’t live
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The Best Of Your Days
03:03
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The Best of Your Days
Days…
The best of your days
High time now the sun takes over
This went on way too long
I sing you a four-leaf clover
A straw of luck to keep you hangin’ on
Cause it ain’t over yet
I think it’s just begun
All those years of tears and mourning
Will have taken their toll
I sing you a brand new morning
Cause nothing is eternal after all
No it ain’t over yet
Now recover from the fall
Through the wind and through the rain
There will be sun to ease the pain
Throw off these chains and breathe normally again
Out of the mist
Out of the haze
Into the open fields of grace
You’ll find a place
To spend the rest of your days
This may be my final warning
I’ll have to go now soon
I hope you will be safe from harm
And stay away from howling at the moon
Hope you can manage
You gotta get out of that cocoon
Cause it ain’t over yet
I think it’s just begun
Through the wind and through the rain
There will be sun to ease the pain
Throw off these chains and breathe normally again
Out of the mist
Out of the haze
Into the open fields of grace
You’ll find a place
To spend the rest of your days
The best of your days
The best of your days
I think they’re still to come
Through the wind and through the rain
There will be sun to ease the pain
Throw off these chains and breathe normally again
Out of the mist
Out of the haze
Into the open fields of grace
You’ll find a place
To spend the rest of your days
The best of your days
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I Want To Live
04:52
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I WANT TO LIVE
I want to live
Figuring out where it all comes from
Ignoring the beat of the drum
Looking for an answer I can give
Trying to understand my youth
Reading self-help books to find the truth
I didn’t forget about anything but to live
I want to live
I asked myself a thousand times
When will these bells cease to chime
The answer it is blowing in the wind
And it becomes a bit pathetic now
Even the doctors don’t know how
Can anybody give me some kind of hint
About how to live
Cause I want to live
I want to live
Now that the lights are being dimmed
It’s high time for some kind of hymn
A hymn to the beauty that sustains
So I summon up all my courage now
Open the curtains, take a bow
And join in song repeating the refrain
Cause I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
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Dreaming Melodies
01:54
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DREAMING MELODIES
I’m dreaming melodies
I don’t know what they mean
The less I know
The more I dream
I live in harmony
As long as I’m asleep
On my own
The night is only dark to some extent
It ain’t no oddity
Real life is strange to me
I can’t let go
And words come slow
But then in my dream
All painful memories
Just melt like snow
Life is only dark to some extent
In dreams I shine and everyone’s my friend
I’m dreaming melodies
I’m dreaming melodies
The night is only dark to some extent
In dreams I shine and everyone
Almost everyone
Is my friend
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The Less I Think
03:33
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THE LESS I THINK
My belly’s got no head
It never can be misled
I hope it will protect me in the end
My belly makes many sounds
Mono, stereo or surround
Aiming for perfection’s lost its sense
I wish I’d spent more time
To feel the vibes down below
They were always there
But I didn’t know
My head was heading elsewhere
My belly’s got no head
Only fishes in a watershed
Dividing the good from the bad
My belly makes the world go round
I didn’t know until I found
My thoughts lying in an observation bed
I wish I’d spent more time
Like a rolling stone
Losing control
Unaware
Letting myself go
Floating in the air
Mi barriga no tiene cabeza
La vida da ninguna certeza
Los pensamientos no son la solución
Mi barriga no tiene cabeza
La razón le da pereza
Cansada de alcanzar la perfección
The less I think about it
The less I think about it
The less I think about it
The less I think about it
The less I think about it
The less I think about it
The less I think about it
The less I think about it
The less I think about it
The less I think about it
The less I think about it
The less I think about
My belly’s got no head
It never can be misled
I hope it will protect me
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THE EARTH IS TURNING ROUND THE SUN
I can see it from a distance
Observe it from afar
And there’s nothing that can change my point of view I feel less and less resistence
Or hardly anything at all
There’s no point in finding solutions to the truth
Cause when something’s gone There’s nothing to be done
The earth is turning around the sun I feel as one
Live like a monk
A little bit of buddhism can be fun Fun
I can see you from a distance
You leave my heart untouched
In the very end all this practice made some sense Because I’m going to live in peace now
I do thank you very much
I may bore myself to death but I’ll take the chance
Cause when something’s gone There’s nothing to be done
The earth is turning around the sun I feel as one
Live like a monk
A litte bit of buddhism Can be fun
It can be fun
Fun
When something’s gone
There’s nothing to be done
The earth is turning around the sun
Rick Treffers // vocals, guitars, keyboards, programming Erik Verhoef // bass
Ivar Vermeulen // wave guitar, synth
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Rick Treffers Netherlands
Rick Treffers (1967) is a Dutch songwriter, singer, musician and producer, releasing albums since 1995 as Mist, El Turista
Optimista, Miss Universe, Girlfriend Misery and now as Rick Treffers. In 2018 he published his first novel (in Dutch) Ik wou dat ik jouw leven had. New album in 2024: The Opposite Of Never.
File under: singer-songwriter, indie pop, indie folk, new chanson.
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