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Omar's Promised Land
03:57
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OMAR’S PROMISED LAND
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Going out at dawn, naturally engaged
In the daily livelihood for a modest wage.
Taking part in the system, turned into a drudge
Always being occupied with having being judged
On all that hazy matters
Of going well together with the crowd
With all that crazy habits
Learning to know just what it’s all about
On going with the flow and come to understand
That’s the way it goes in Omar’s Promised Land.
There ain’t no ears for stories, there ain’t no eyes for tears
Just not a bit of feeling for those, who had to fear
Been giving up to madness at the mercy of a war
That might be backed by those who found the sufferers at their door
With all their crazy habits
That are wished to get it put away
Before it’s falling out that
It would be all about and here to stay
On holding up the flow and never fail to stand
For the way it goes in Omar’s Promised Land.
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The Wide Open Windows
03:28
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THE WIDE OPEN WINDOWS
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
The wide open windows gave them eyes on the world
On which they were always deprived.
The chances of progress have been finally unfurled
And it just changed their look on their lives.
So they're getting a load of all the pretties,
They were never aware of or what was even banned.
And they found themselves straight out to be pitied
And easily been tempted to leave their land.
The wide open windows made them wild and confused
About everything, that's settled and true.
Now they meet all those modern excitements, they used
to be hold dissipated and blue.
So they're bound to let go their set of values,
'Cause their longings are finally much too hard to withstand.
And they found themselves facing the overwhelming
Passion for freedom and leaving their land.
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Paradise Island
03:55
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PARADISE ISLAND
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
There're many grounds for thinking out, that we chanced to raise
In the right time in history, in just a perfect place
For turning out to be the rich and following our hearts
But now we have to make up with, we're turning out too far.
We are faced with the outcomes
Masses on the run
For the floods and the droughts and the violence.
Aren't they quite right to want safety in flight
And a better life on Paradise Island
We are slaves to our system, just based on our greed
Riding around getting stuff, that we don't really need
Been droven up to madness and pushed to put our backs
Into hard work and trading things to get that Cadillac
Now we are faced with the outcomes
Masses on the run
For the floods and the droughts and the violence.
Aren't they quite right to want safety in flight
And a better life on Paradise Island
We're running out of loose talks
We're running out of time
More and more we see them walk and pass our borderlines
And get us into trouble and make us face the facts,
That no longer we can't hold on keep ourselves back
'Cause we are faced with the outcomes
Masses on the run
For the floods and the droughts and the violence.
Aren't they quite right to want safety in flight
And a better life on Paradise Island
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Brokenhearted
03:50
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BROKENHEARTED
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
How would you cry because your heart is torn
As you can no longer live where you were born
Watching your land just wither and die
And losing everything, you made a living by
What to do, when all your hope is gone
And you realize, there's nothing to be done
When fear is everywhere and certainly to stay
And death is just a hair's breath away
Brokenhearted, you will leave there
And everything, that's in your heart
Going on the run, steady and tough
And hope to meet somebody's charity and love
When you're lost and desperate in your mind
Cause it's hard to come out of what you'll leave behind
You're looking for the meaning of your life
And got it in yourself to want to survive
Brokenhearted, you will leave there
And everything, that's in your heart
Going on the run, steady and tough
And hope to meet somebody's charity and love
Brokenhearted, you will leave there
And though it's going to be rough
You hope to meet somebody's understanding mercy and love
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Omar Jallow
04:27
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OMAR JALLOW
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Along the Gambia River
In the African domain
Of just unlucky people, having so much to gain.
There I saw an Omar Jallow,
Such a kind and clever guy.
Got hold of me in a chat
To share the problems on his life.
He besought me to send some money
For the needs of his family.
It was just a straight calling on my humanity.
He said: “We’re all here together
On this one and only earth.
I have a right to a much better life
And get a chance to prove my worth”.
Omar Jallow, you came into my heart
And I didn’t want to hear of it,
You might be a blackguard.
How I loved you to be real and true
And help you out of misery
I was concerned about you!
Oh, happily I’ve been timely waken
Out of my good thoughts.
And found myself just been taken in by a shameless fraud.
But now I really halt between two feelings deep inside
Could I ever meet and help an Omar,
Who is true and right.
Omar Jallow, you came into my heart
And I didn’t want to hear of it,
You might be a blackguard.
How I loved you to be real and true
And help you out of misery
I was concerned about you!
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6. |
Frozen Fingers
04:18
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FROZEN FINGERS
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
What's the thing that matters, now they turned you down
And it looks like everything is fallen to the ground
You need to stand up, bringing all your charms
And see the ones, who fall for it, give you alms
Calling on the ones with guilt feelings
Giving them the music of your heart
Making them empathize and feel for your plight
And help you make it through another night
You always need to sneak it, playing underground
Doing everything you can, never to be found
To be that stateless person, not having any rights
Looking out for trouble from any side
Calling on the ones with guilt feelings
Giving them the music of your heart
Making them empathize and feel for your plight
And help you make it through another night
Now you got these frozen fingers on a winter's night
Looks like you linger on in darkness and in spite
But anything is better than the death plane
That would take you back to misery again
Calling on the ones with guilt feelings
Giving them the music of your heart
Making them empathize and feel for your plight
And help you make it through another night
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7. |
Stranded In Water
04:00
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STRANDED IN WATER
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Forced into the rubberboats by evil men with voices like thunder
After all the hardships in the desert sand didn't make them go under
To get across the river and make the unknown land
But they didn't see the other side, they didn't understand
Watch them floating at the mercy of the waves
Packed together, one after another
Does it really matter if they would be saved
Or getting lost and stranded in water
Drifting about in immensity, feeling small, and left to their own devices
Anxious faces always on the look out for some hope on the horizon
Hope for the green light, shining in the air
Hope for meeting happy faces, glad to see them there
Watch them floating at the mercy of the waves
Packed together, one after another
Does it really matter if they would be saved
Or getting lost and stranded in water
Did they hear any of the sad way, the world is put in order
Did they ever think of the barriers at the rich countries' borders
To keep them from coming, finding slamming doors
And keep the lap of luxury away from the poor
Watch them floating at the mercy of the waves
Packed together, one after another
Does it bloody matter if they would be saved
Or getting lost and stranded in water
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8. |
But Sorrow
03:39
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BUT SORROW
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
I watch you dealing with how your life is bound
To never be meant to rise to higher ground.
You just resign yourself to what it is.
It’s in my dreams, imaginary scenes.
I catch you worrying about the sense of life.
And see you searching for how you could survive
In the desert of endless crimes and wrongs.
It’s in my dreams with nightmarish scenes.
Now I see a smile on your face.
And it dawns on me, you’re here on the right place
In spite of how often life really hurts,
But sorrow; you don’t even know the word.
In the darkness you’re waiting for the sun
Thinking of peace-time, when a war has just begun.
It almost looks as if it’s all the same to you.
But that’s in my dreams, wishful thinking’s scenes.
Still I see a smile on your face.
And I’m sure of that you’re here on the right place
In spite of how often life really hurts,
But sorrow; you don’t even know the word.
But sorrow; you don’t even know the word.
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The Leaders
03:37
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THE LEADERS
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
There could be happiness for everyone in the world,
If they were granted to be free
Of all the wrongs, that makes living hurt.
But the leaders just don’t wanna see.
They promised shine and paradise on earth,
And made a show of doing well.
But now we know, what their sales talks are worth,
Cause the leaders made nothing but hell.
How unfair is it organized
Holding people down in the dark,
That keeps them away from the Western pies,
While the leaders make nothing but war.
What could they do to make a better state
Using their power really well
And free the poor of all that heavy weight.
But the leaders just think of themselves.
How unfair is it organized
Holding people down in the dark,
That keeps them away from the Western pies,
While the leaders make nothing but war.
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10. |
All Those People
04:13
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ALL THOSE PEOPLE
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
All those people want to smile
And have a standing in the crowd
Getting all their wishes, free and wild
And reach the state of feeling proud
Far away from the cryings over there
And rather not being faced by the wrongs
Always building their castles in the air
That can bring enough happiness along
All those people need to breath
And claim their right of being here
But when it comes to the case of life and death
They had to face their greatest fear
If there's still something in the air
Getting them the beauty of life
Or meet a world, that really doesn't care
They're fated to always be deprived
All those people need to eat
From the scarce and shrinking fields
And from all that disputable meat
Up to the limits, the earth can yield
Up to the time, it can no longer meet
What it always kindly brought about
Just all those hungry people's needs
Ending in the fatal running out
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Piet Louter Netherlands
Piet Louter is a singer/songwriter from the Netherlands born in 1953 with songs about social isues and personal things.
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