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Here I stand I can do no other

by Simon Karolis

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1.
Choirmaster 04:18
Choirmaster it’s okay to talk away it’s okay to keep your mouth shut just be true and tell me this is our home a scary place for you? and is it true that we offend you while we don’t want to we just want to lend you our gum to chew. is your friend your choirmaster is your voice to you a fluid well fill me up up to my nose I want all that you can put me through and is it true that I offend you while I don’t want to I just want to lend you our gum to chew
2.
Bob Dylan 04:34
Bob Dylan not even the slightest change not even the tiniest hill kept in restraint alarm clock set rings and turned off again there’s a hell in every hour I’m a coward or a hero in a coma waking up read pray and off to bed again no we don’t need no message no one likes to experience no constant itch I pray for safety and for that matter happiness the times they are not changing no they are just waiting here to begin and I look up to these old mountains and I won’t stop looking at them
3.
Mirror of the earth there was a piece of wood going through my hands at least it felt like it was and I’m just scribbling these crosswords so how must you feel? there was a handful of cash put into my hands and I just smiled in return today at them all, to end this to end the transaction there was a fence bitten through by the pigs and my brother got sick from a curse but the moon shines religiously bright tonight and the sky is the mirror of the earth
4.
At once 05:25
At once the statue of the lions is here to teach us how to be like lions I don’t have a computer don’t need a computer we will group at dawn to follow the one at dawn on a survival with keyboards and take apps with oh we’re scared oh we’re lonesome we are loved and we’re homesome we’ll bite our fingers and the bullet at once the romance of the snail following the trace of the leading snail toys to put somewhere clothes to leave somewhere we’ll gather around the water and put our heads into the water all here another round ‘till all heads turn round oh we’re scared oh we’re lonesome we are loved and we’re homesome we’ll bite our fingers and the bullet at once and chase down the enemy as long as there’s no enemy we eat with fork and knife and kill with fork and knife oh we’re scared oh we’re lonesome we are loved and we’re homesome we’ll bite our fingers and the bullet at once
5.
Rearview mirror the mouse that doesn’t know which part to eat of the poison pie the giants I should be standing on they hunt me down the road I came again now every days changes snipers or dead birds in the rearview mirror I have lots of freedoms I have more than ever maybe I have no idea I wouldn’t notice if I had some caring words will suffice unlike the Victoria waterfalls next to me I don’t want to think of another clever line to match my ultimate machine now we could perform surgery on your rogue red eyes but would you please believe me I have lots of freedoms I have more than ever maybe I have no idea I wouldn’t notice if I had I would wake up in bed I would believe you if you said I did not see clear I had to start over again
6.
John 01:22
John the red lights of the bikes rolling the sound of the church bell each half hour the mouse that someone is catching pictures taken without flashing a nightly fire a deux made with eight matches my heated head by the sixth and the seventh four day old wine tasting so sour reading John and thinking it over taking a dive in the river for a morning shower why mud on his face and why not his sick mother his sick brother his sick father
7.
Front for love you have no faith in common sense I talk the language of love every meaning has its borderline I see things in black and white nothing you pray isn’t in your hands I talk to the gods above so this is just a front for love I taught you through the steps today you smiled a little forced all of them they patched you on the back someone made a tearful speech now there’s the house and there is the bed he threw you there a bit too rough so this is just a front for love.
8.
Down by the boat I’m an admiral I make my horn signal which only admirals may hear but now I gave that show away to you if anyone would know that you had witnessed this I won’t do it again because there’s too much men that’ll hear it then sailors don’t cry except for when their ship gets burned or sinks or when they’re on a raft when they’re shipwrecked all alone maybe probably you won’t believe my rank but that’s only because I won’t show off on it I won’t get temped again so let’s get of this boat and hide your tears so we can get to town to buy some bread then pick up dad then we’ll go home sailors don’t cry except for when their ship gets burned or sinks or when they’re on a raft when they’re shipwrecked all alone
9.
Grey water 03:20
Grey water Christians they just talk that way without really meaning all the things they say I’m not capable of being happy or unhappy for a longer time so there’s that too in a dark place you try to see in an empty place you try to find in a dry place you try to drink but twilight fills the room like grey water upstream walk against the mighty river make it seam that up there awaits your dream and we find our freedom on the day that we lose everything in a dark place you try to see in an empty place you try to find in a dry place you try to drink but twilight fills the room like grey water
10.
Featherbrain 02:41
Featherbrain I’m exaggerating my existence when I’m kneeling down when I would end this there’s too much work to do and all will be gone by tomorrow I’m waking up to fall asleep because this is the day that I’m falling asleep that’s the end me and miss mental featherbrain we are smiling ourselves out of the building we don’t shake hands we just try to get away by tomorrow we’re waking up to fall asleep because this is the day that I’m falling asleep that’s the end we’re discharging ourselves from the hospitals and we don’t listen to stories about caving in we’re not coming home so don’t you get excited for tomorrow I’m waking up to fall asleep because this is the day that I’m falling asleep that’s the end.
11.
Dark light standing out to a low roof nowhere to turn but to the past nothing to listen to then well canned voices nothing to eat but your own flesh to become something new but still stay blind blank and borrowed the dark light standing out to the low roof and I know this will forever recur here therefore then I will not put an end to this dialogue ‘cause I know this will forever recur the breath and warmth of these figures whoever you invented stays silent in the shadows the story you tell, tells your story your voice grew fainter while your point was taken the dark light standing out to the low roof and I know this will forever recur here therefore then I will not put an end to this dialogue ‘cause I know this will forever recur we try to speak for we cannot hold our tongue we just appear we don’t know why we cannot help it and then we die

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Anno 2013 is Simon Karolis de naam waaronder Arend Jan muziek maakt nadat de indieband LPG in het voorjaar ermee ophield. Over een lange periode zijn de liedjes op dit album opgenomen en geschreven. Inde zomer van 2012 zijn ze gemixt door Jan Schenk. Vervolgens was er niemand die deze muziek wilde uitbrengen in tastbare vorm, dus nu is het online beschikbaar gesteld voor u.

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released October 30, 2013

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Simon Karolis 'S Gravenhage, Netherlands

Simon Karolis is Arend Jan van der Scheer who was one of the driving forces behind the band LPG. When this band fell apart abruptly in 2012 Arend Jan went on with his life, getting two kids and entering the world of dayjobs. In march he is releasing an EP under his alias Simon Karolis which will be called 'Infants'. The EP talks about the perks of young fatherhood in all it's facets. ... more

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