songteksten | DEREK

Deep purple is my heart

You gave me yours right from the start

Deep purple is my heart

For you there was no other way

Than making love to every note you played

And wake the beauty in the song

And lift it up for everyone

Not just your fingers, not just your thumb

Not just your brain and breath, but all in one

Deep from the heart, the whole of you

In every note, the whole of you

For you there was no other way

Than making love to every note you played

And wake the beauty in the song

And lift it up for everyone

Deep purple is my heart, deep purple…

Act of love

I didn’t wanna be a daddy that was never home

I didn’t wanna be a daddy turning every stone

I just hang around on the top of the family hill

Kept an eye on the cattle, kept the flame under the kettle

All I tried to do was make a little one strong

Kicky in the ass and kissy on the front

Good as I knew they hated my guts

It was just an act of… it was just an act of

It was just an act of love

Now I look back on my ways on the family hill

My mellow discipline was free of sin

Now the kids are wild and strong in the saddle

They’re the flame of the cattle and under my kettle

All I tried to do was make a little one strong

Kicky in the ass and kissy on the front

Good as I knew they hated my guts

It was just an act of… it was just an act of

It was just an act of love

Sixteen times four

At sixteen love was no more than a backstreet alley kiss

At thirty-two when I met you I realized what I had missed

At fourty-eight we lived too fast, slowing down did make us last

At sixty-four we know that love don’t just come from above

You need eachother more and more

Once you’re sixteen times four

You need eachother more and more

Once you’re sixteen… times four

We look at pictures of ourselves so young

We look at pictures of our kids so young

The things that we can only do together

The reasons why are always getting better

You need eachother more and more

Once you’re sixteen times four

You need eachother more and more

Once you’re sixteen… times four

Sixteen times four….

Last cigarette stub

I keep my last cigarette stub in an empty bottle of bourbon

It’s been a long road

It’s been a long long road

We travelled together, we travelled together

I keep my last cigarette stub, in an empty bottle of bourbon

But now I gotta keep the heart in a happy steady beat

Reliable and faithful, unbroken beat

It’s been a long road, it’s been a long long road

We travelled together, we travelled together

I keep my last cigarette stub in an empty bottle of bourbon

Now I gotta keep the heart in a happy steady beat

Reliable and faithfull unbroken beat…

Going back to the kid

I’m going back to the kid

The kid I was before I hid

Before I hid under the lid

The lid of life

Mother told me how to hide

I’m a master in that now

How young I was so unaware

Of the world of do or dare

That waited ‘round the corner

A few steps over my border

Lips under high water

Breathin’ through the nose

I’m going back to the kid

The kid I was before I hid

Now I wanna lift the lid

The lid of life

Show the beauty of clear conscience

The force of purity

The days of innocense

Sinless in the first degree

Before I stepped into the wolf clem

Lost a heart and lost a war

Feel the dreaming in the window

In my childhood wall

I’m going back to the kid

The kid I was before I hid

I’m gonna look under the lid

The lid of life

I’m going back to the kid….

I made you cry

I won’t fall at your feet girl, don’t fall at mine

In this incomplete world, begging for time

Tears in my heart, are wondering why

I could not lie to you and baby and I, I made you cry

Now you wanna hide girl, you wanna break

Out of the sorrow and beat a retreat

Tears in my heart are wondering why

I could not lie to you baby and I, I made you cry, I made you cry

Now what can I do? I gotta wait

Until you are ready to see me again

Tears in my heart are wondering why

I could not lie to you, I could not lie to you baby and I

I made you cry, I made you cry

In many dreams, I can see your smile

Maybe that means, you will be back in a while

Tears in my heart are wondering why

I could not lie to you, I could not lie to you baby and I

I made you cry, I made you cry

Living in a song

Don’t tell me that I’m wrong to keep writing the song

And that the way I’m living now is straight on home

Home alone, home alone

Don’t tell me that I’m wrong to keep living in the song

And that the way I’m living now is straight on home

Home alone, home alone

Live in an illusion, hide for daily drag

Scare away confusion, finding my own track

I love living, living in a song…

Don’t tell me that I’m wrong to keep diving in the song

And that the way I’m living now is straight on home

Home alone, home alone

Live in an illusion, hide for daily drag

Scare away confusion, finding my own track

I love living, living in a song…

Stay who you are

Listen carefully, very carefully

It’s of high importance, real high importance

You never listen to people who say that you

Have to be this or that way

They’re part of a conspiracy

Of a division of fear

Fear of identity

Fear of selfhood

Fear of uniqueness

Don’t listen

Stay who you are

Listen carefully, very carefully

It’s of high importance, real high importance

You always carry

Carry with you

That big net to capture your dreams

Don’t let ‘m run or fly away

No matter how mad

Insane or absurd

‘Cause the division of fear is the worst judge

Don’t listen

Stick to your dream

Stay who you are

Cut out

I wasn’t cut out to be a singer

I wasn’t cut out for the guitar

I wasn’t cut out to break through

I was just cut out to be with you

I wasn’t cut out to be a winner

I wasn’t cut out to be a star

I wasn’t cut out of the happy few

I was just cut out to be with you

To be your man, to be your lover

To be your dog, to be your guide

Your guardian angel and your brother

Your partisan all day and night

I wasn’t cut out to be a hero

I wasn’t cut out by the knife of God

I wasn’t cut out to be a guru

I was just cut out to feel your love

To be your fortune, your good luck

Lust and desire, appetite

To be your fido, your back up

Your partisan all day and night

I wasn’t cut out to be a singer

I wasn’t cut out to be a star

When our summer comes

I don’t feel the need, to share all good and bed

I do not on the street, I do not on the internet

Don’t wanna pay a price, for an unknown witness

Cause no dopamine device will cure solitariness

When our summer comes, I’ll take you hopping in the fields

I’ll come hanging ‘round your block, to look you in the eye

When our summer comes, when our summer comes

When our summer comes, I’m gonna drive you south

And we go swimming in the river, and we go kissing on the mouth

When our summer comes we will go camping at a lake

Play chess with the mosquitoes, when our summer comes

When our summer comes, when our summer comes

When our summer comes, we gonna mingle with the stars

We’re gonna live out of the box and open up our hearts

When our summer comes we won’t let it go

There will be no fall and winter will not show

When our summer comes….

FASTER

Life is passing by like a ship on the ocean

If you watch it from the shore it’s moving slow

But if you steer your ship or hang your head over the railing

It’s going faster than you could ‘ve ever thought

A thousand memories and they all wanna stay

But triviality pushes most of ‘m away

And there’s no room for all of that