Music – 2006 – Up Close And Personal




    Title: Up Close And Personal
Year: 2006
Label: Layered Reality Productions
Playing time: 38:00
Music and Lyrics by: T. de Wit

Musicians
Tom de Wit – Vocals, Synths, Percussion, Programming
Ramon de Wilde – Guitars
Vincent van Bers – Guitars
Christine Reurink – Violin
Andreas Jongeneel – Pots, pans, bathroom sink, toilet

Release information
The original version of Up close and personal was released in 2006. This version is currently out of print. A new version of Up close and personal is in the making and will be released in the future.
Tracklist        Playtime
1: Surface Scratching
2: Mourning After II
3: Jimmy
4: #7*
5: The curse from the woods*
6: Fearless speeding maniacs*
7: :’
8: An octave in 3*
       (3:46)
(5:31)
(4:57)
(3:41)
(4:34)
(1:56)
(6:23)
(7:58)

Produced by: Tom de Wit @ De Zolder Studios, Amersfoort
Released by: Goatdog Productions in march 2006

Surface Scratching

Call upon thy soldiers, leaving the world one by one
Wish for infinity and never ask where it belongs.
Arm yourself with weapons, be afraid of everyone,
Around you lies the world you live in, we should all change before it’s gone.

(Pre-Chorus)
I’m scratching at the surface, but there’s no-one left to see
making a new promise, for what it is left to me.

(Chorus)
Feel the rain, let it grow, let me scratch down all below,
make me sway, I will sow, to reap the seeds all on my own.

Conquer all the lifelines, make your life go past the way you want,
make me explode!
Take me to the shoreside, to curess the sea and take the cold,
Take it in hold,
Scratching up the surface I could never find the truth you hold.

(Pre-Chorus)
(Chorus)
(Guitar Solo)
(Pre-Chorus)


Mourning After II

I’m standing here, in a place, where everything was fine once,
no pain, no anger or disgrace, it was just the place to make you fall.
When talking ’bout the meaning of life, you spoke of things so unreal
I could not understand it then, but I guess now, that I feel.

How just a stone and a piece of ground, can bring so much to me,
Everytime I visit this small place, it just gives me tears,
to early you went, and now I’m here, trying to take on all,
that seems to be my life these days, why did you fall ?

(Chorus)
You once spoke the centerfolds and called out my name,
holding the tears I said no words, chaos gone astray,
I still feel the fire that, once burned in your eyes,
but I cannot apply to that, that is what I despise.

So many questions and more answers, I’m searching with no succes
keep on dreaming you once told me, like I was better then the rest
The thoughts of you take on their toll, I’m weakening with every day
I want to think of you along good lines, but not in this draining way.

(Chorus)

(Post-Chorus)
All I know is leaving in vanity now,
All I see is crushed down,
All I know when I touch emotions ocean
Can I leave this place now !?

(Guitar Solo)
(Post-Chorus)
(Chorus) (x2)


Jimmy

Jimmy was a starting guy in the politics,
His motives fresh and young and right for everyone that is.
But personal events made him turn to the subjective
Now his motives turned to black into a darkened pit

Jimmy climbed up to the sky, by dividing thus
He told that different wasn’t right and was not part of us
But his opinion was to harsh, for certain angry men
No here he lies, death on the street an unexpected end

A man just stood in front of me, with a weapon clutched in his hands
with fury in his eyes and limbs, craving to understand,
opinions I made did not comfort him and now he was over the brink,
He pulled the trigger and took my life, no reason or logic to think…

(Chorus)
Jimmy, don’t you fade away,
the thoughts of you will force respect and grace
Jimmy, lead our way
Because we’re blind and search for an embrace

After the shot I couldn’t have seen, the pain that I would cause
I ran my lungs out of myself to leave the scene at all cost,
But then as I halted I realized that I had taken his life
I picked up my weapon and shot myself, leaving 2 kids and a wife…

(Chorus)
Jimmy, don’t you be afraid
The honor of your death won’t be in vain
Jimmy, Rest safe
Allthough you drove someone out of his brains

Jimmy, we’re affraid
that we can’t say what we want in our own ways
Jimmy, It’s insane
That you made us numb while trying to embrace…


:’

Doublepoint, apostrophe,
heading for catastophe


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