1. |
Seeking For Lost Time
03:06
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SEEKING FOR LOST TIME
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
The thought, you could do it all alone
Just made you living on your own
It took all your time, keeping sight on what you strived
For just doing well, but it made you dwelling
On this hard day in your life
Now you're seeking for lost time
That you spent too much on the wall to climb
And now you're drinking beer in an old sad café
Seeking for lost time, but that's so far way
And now you sit right here, cause you have no place to go
You feel so hopeless and just have no smile to show
With such a thing as a hatred feeling, you know,
That time's been changed and your love and ideals are gone
And you know,
You chose the wrong side of your mind
Now you want the way-back, but it's blind
It takes all of you, but you're just so far behind
What must make you well, it should make you dwelling
Lost time will never be found
Now you're seeking for some love
You're not attractive, you're so soft
Just like you're grieving here in this old sad café
Seeking for lost time, but that's so far away
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2. |
A Friend
03:53
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A FRIEND
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
What is a life like without a friend?
Just someone, who's taken with you
At whom you feel easy and confident
And say things just freely and true
Whom you can laugh with as well as cry
And going together through a lot of things
Whom you can trust in and hold on by
Whatever life would bring
If you are to do without these things, you're to make it alone
Feeling all the world is threatening your life on your own
Getting on without some sympathy, you may think, you can
But once you surely come to see
That you miss that love of someone, who feels like a friend
If you care to pour out your heart
You need someone, who must understand
At whom you don't have to be on your guard
And your secrets are just in good hands
But how can you trust someone to be like that?
You may have mistaken so many times
Your greatest friend may turn out to be bad
And you'll always hold in mind
If you are to do without a friend, you're to make it alone
Feeling all the world is threatening your life on your own
Getting on without some sympathy, you may think, you can
But once you surely come to see
That you miss that love of someone, who feels like a friend
Just someone, who feels like a friend
Just someone, who feels like a friend
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3. |
Girl From Next Door
03:54
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GIRL FROM NEXT DOOR
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Girl from next door, just behaving some more like a girl than others
You were the first one, but I was too young then for being aware
Girl from next door, you'd sing along to present us so sweetly
Just only meant as a neighbourhood's glory, I shouldn't care
Grown up to what I am, I'm thinking about that you fared so badly
In what way I'd think you alive, I'll never know
Got at what I could take, I'm thinking about, we really did sweetly
In that way I think you alive, but you'll never know
Girl from next door, just behaving some more like a girl than others
This may be the cause of feeling aversion to you
Girl from next door, we crossed each other in wrong times and ages
You're a part of my childhood's glory, but you'll never do
Grown up to what I am, I'm thinking about that you fared so badly
In what way I'd think you alive, I'll never know
Got at what I could take, I'm thinking about, we really did sweetly
In that way I think you alive, but you'll never know
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4. |
Hitch-Hikin' Girl
03:47
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HITCH-HIKIN' GIRL
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Lost on a lonely road, thumbin' a ride
Dressed in old and dirty jeans, I felt pity on that sight
She offered me some company in truck for a drive
"Well, don't be surprised at me" she said, "thumbin' that's my life"
So we drove down the highway, with a long road ahead
It seemed to be the half so long by the distraction that I get
"I took in many jobs" she told, "to keep me alive"
"I wasn't gonna take for long, cause thumbin' is my life"
She said, "I'm just a hitch-hikin' girl
a-thumbin' rides for both directions
I'll may be at the mercy of a fool
I'll may be lucky with a lover too
I use to be a hitch-hikin' girl
And I may get you a sweet distraction
Where you mean to ride, oh it's just all right
It's where I wanna go"
When arrivin' in my home I asked her to be my guest
"We have a lot of good things here" I said, but I spent my breath
So she left here to go on thumbin', in which life she fell
But what's the use of my own settled life, I felt pity on myself
She said, "I'm just a hitch-hikin' girl
a-thumbin' rides for both directions
I'll may be at the mercy of a fool
I'll may be lucky with a lover too
I use to be a hitch-hikin' girl
And I may get you a sweet distraction
Where you mean to ride, oh it's just all right
It's where I wanna go"
Oh oh, Where you mean to ride, oh it's just all right
It's where I wanna go"
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5. |
Rosalie
03:12
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ROSALIE
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Rosy was a true-born country girl up to about a year ago
She got no dreams of but to see the world and that while she was hardly grown
She would do the cities in the next few years being left to her own device
Leaving her dad and mom in tears, which still are in their eyes
Rosalie, Rosalie let them hear
of how you're doing in the cities of your dreams
Rosalie, Rosalie, how they fear
That may grow the greatest pity of your dreams
Rosy was a easy country girl, could join in any talk at school
So she learned what's going on in the world, but it just made her a fool
Won't she has lost some of her heart in home? It's not in the line
Of a good girl, who would not depart without either word or sign
Rosalie, Rosalie let them hear
of how you're doing in the cities of your dreams
Rosalie, Rosalie, how they fear
That may grow the greatest pity of your dreams
Rosalie, Rosalie, Rosalie,
Rosalie, Rosalie, Rosalie.
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6. |
Give Me Your Love
03:33
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GIVE ME YOUR LOVE
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
I hope, you'll find one day, it's you, who makes me sing this song
It shows, one ought to say, but stammered words might bring it wrong
So I use a song to chance on you, as you're the girl, who stole my heart
Down the stage of a dancing room, I didn't even mind my own guitar
Now recalling you make me dream; A face that seems as sweet as an angel
You appear to have golden hair, please show you're aware of being the same girl
Then give me your love, if you hear me and trust yourself to be that girl
Oh give me your love, if you hear me, don't keep me singing half the world
From now I'll sing this song whenever you would take the floor
That's how I must get you on giving the love I'm longing for
When recalling, it makes me dream of a face that seems as sweet as an angel
You appear to have golden hair, please show you're aware of being the same girl
Then give me your love, if you hear me and trust yourself to be that girl
Oh give me your love, if you hear me, don't keep me singing half the world
Oh give me your love, if you hear me and trust yourself to be that girl
Oh give me your love, if you hear me, don't keep me singing half the world
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7. |
Ricky
03:52
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RICKY
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Look here, I've been thinking for days what has remained so long in my mind
As to memories of my holidays; a girl's face sweet and so kind
But all things must have an end, you wanted nothing better than I'd stay
I played the last song on my guitar and I went seeking to be as lucky again
I said, 'Ricky, so long, shall I hear about you?
Had a few fine days with you
I'll send the pictures of all fine moments with you
Trav'ling again, I was thinking about you
But you slowly fade away
Another 'Ricky' has taken your place again'
I have sent the pictures, I promised, with my stories about my days
Apperently you fared on the same way; I've not heard from you to this day
My songs did surely fade away, another boy has taken my place
But none of us regret it, we are seeking to be as lucky again
I said, 'Ricky, so long, shall I hear about you?
Had a few fine days with you
I'll send the pictures of all fine moments with you
Trav'ling again, I was thinking about you
But you slowly fade away
Another 'Ricky' has taken your place again'
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8. |
Need My Company
04:25
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NEED MY COMPANY
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
How can I reason you out of your thoughts that I don't really care much for you
I could lately give you my words for loving and gonna share rooms
Still you have feelings of doubt and distrust, suspect me to once let you down
For some woman, I might just have enough
when playing in those small distant towns
Need my company, my company so bad
And so, it may have fairly turned your head
You need my company, just not come to be a prey
To thoughts that I'm miles and miles away
You wanna own me for matrimony, it's your one and only desire
You want nothing better than have me forever and ever
To love, to enjoy, to admire
Now spend time so idle, just longing so wild
And just thinking you might be let down
But I know you're wrong, 'cause my love's all the stronger
when playing in those small distant towns
Need my company, my company so bad
And so, it may have fairly turned your head
You need my company, just not come to be a prey
To thoughts that I'm miles and miles away
Need my company, my company so bad
And so, it may have fairly turned your head
You need my company, just not come to be a prey
To thoughts that I'm miles and miles
And miles and miles, and miles and miles away
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9. |
Well On The Road
04:23
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WELL ON THE ROAD
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
We're driving down the highways in the dead of a winternight
Did a show in one or other distant place
There they'd never heard about us and the people were not fine
So we just played for ourselves and a lttle wage
Now we try to forget and dream away at the music on the bus
Riding all night through with my baby on my mind
This is giving her so many lonely days, but she holds on to the trust
I'll soon turn and see, it's just a waste of time
But now my love, I'm well on the road and it takes me back to you
And I just won't be long in coming home in the early morning dew
Then I can call you for going to work and take your place and sleep
Oh my love, I'm well on the road, back to you, back to you
I'm bound for you
Still some of us are sure to dream of, we'll be the greatest in the end
It's just a boyish dream, I once had such myself
How different things are getting now, when remembering I've got a friend
It really set me thinking and it may be just as well
But now my love, I'm well on the road and it takes me back to you
And I just won't be long in coming home in the early morning dew
Then I can call you for going to work and take your place and sleep
Oh my love, I'm well on the road, back to you, back to you
I'm bound for you
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10. |
Leave Of a Season
04:07
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LEAVE OF A SEASON
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Suddenly, something emerged and it just made me clear
It was a sign of a change by the course of the times of a year
Got conversant with winter, but I did know, it once should be done
A good time really disappeared like snow before the sun
Leave of a season makes me some sad
About the lost pleasures of a time that I had
A new time's in season, it has hardly begun
You are its treasure, come along with the sun
Now the waves colour silver, it makes me thinking of a hot summernight
The sea-breeze feels cool, but our love has made me just being bright
Making plans for the time to come, our long summer being on the way
When a lovely spring has gone, as lovely as we may never live again
Leave of a season makes me some sad
About the lost pleasures of a time that I had
Life has its seasons, whatever is to come
You are my treasure, come along with the sun
Sometimes, something emerges and I just realize
It's a sign of a change by the course of the times of a life
After springtime it's summer and so on, but I'd never believe
This lovely time might really fall like leaves from the trees
Leave of a season makes me some sad
About the lost pleasures of a time that I had
Life has its seasons, whatever is to come
You are my treasure, come along with the sun
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11. |
Choice Of My Life
03:37
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CHOICE OF MY LIFE
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
You opened up my eyes to see, I had to choose my way
However hard it's just to me, I gave my soul full play
And I wondered what on earth could be really worth
Your bitter tears, you were left with here
I couldn't exchange you for a traveling band
Should we've ever made it, should we've got much people's hands?
It's a life, a funny life to live
But it's not much fun when thinking of what it gives
And how it did fail when there was love on the scales
'Cause that did decide on the choice of my life
Pain in our hearts couldn't drive us apart
Love must survive, it's the choice of my life
I couldn't compare you with my own rock & roll band
And how I dispaired, 'cause they did not understand
It's a life, a funny life to make
But it's not much fun when thinking of what it could take
And how it did fail when there was love on the scales
'Cause that did decide on the choice of my life
Pain in our hearts couldn't drive us apart
Love must survive, it's the choice of my life
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12. |
Greetings From Austria
03:25
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GREETINGS FROM AUSTRIA
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Do you really take your pleasure on the slopes in Austria?
I guess, what you are thinking of must make a hell of the place you are
But we do know, it's the best thing, we could do to find out
If we really need each other, to make an end of all our doubts
Though it's all like a bad dream, oh I just don't care at all
'Cause I never hoped, you'd send me merry greetings from Austria
Here I'm caught in the memories as your picture on the wall
And your letter in my hand with your greetings from Austria
I wrote it in my letter and I told you on the phone
That all things just remind of you and that it's hard to be alone
Oh baby, when these days are up, we must talk and start again
'Cause there's one thing we agree on, that it has not been in vain
Though it's all like a bad dream, oh I just don't care at all
'Cause I never hoped, you'd send me merry greetings from Austria
Here I'm caught in the memories as your picture on the wall
And your letter in my hand with your greetings from Austria
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13. |
Maggy
03:20
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MAGGY
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Nobody can stop my bleeding heart
I never thought, we might ever part
But now you may leave me one of these days
Still that won't stop my love for you
And make forget how you loved me too
Before it started to fade away
But however we'll fare, dearest Maggy
I'll always bear you in my heart
You'll remain my friend, dearest Maggy
If we might strand and drift apart
If this is the way, after all I tried
To make you happy and to stop your cries
You must not stay because of me
I see, you haven't enjoyed your youth enough
Just not ready for the great true love
And I love you too much, not to set you free
But however we'll fare, dearest Maggy
I'll always bear you in my heart
You'll remain my friend, dearest Maggy
If we might strand and drift apart
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14. |
Giving Up The Dream
03:10
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GIVING UP THE DREAM
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Your honesty just made you see all things so clear and fair
So you made anybody so easy to be your friend
Then your fantasy just made you dream and build your castles in the air
Just setting all your heart upon it to gain your ends
Giving up the dream for reality
It is such hard lines when you come to find what the world is like
Giving up the dream for reality
It's what you have to pay, going with your age
Just exchanging youth for some bitter truths
Well, all your parts would bring you so far
When believing people's praising words
And you took it as a promise for the years to come
But how it let you down by the time you found
What these things are really worth
When you've been freed from your illusions and your dreams are done
Giving up the dream for reality
It is such hard lines when you come to find what the world is like
Giving up the dream for reality
It's what you have to pay, going with your age
Just exchanging youth for some bitter truths
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15. |
Writings On The Wall
04:12
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WRITINGS ON THE WALL
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
No, you rather did not cry to catch the hurried people's eye
They really wouldn't understand, couldn't lend a hand
Whatever they would try
You have never found your voice, it would only drown in people's noise
Not a soul could ever know that your love of life must go
That you had no other choice
Writings on the wall
And people deaf and blind for a mischief on the way
Staring them in the face, they threw it to the winds
Writings on the wall are hardly understood
And later on it could appear that all is getting clear
But they'll never catch the truth
Now some people got confused
You are gone, but they'll never lose a kind of sense of shame
Feelings to be to blame for what caused you to do
And they finally realize, you threw dust in people's eyes
You were different as they thought
And they hate the way that brought your inner man to light
Writings on the wall
And people deaf and blind for a mischief on the way
Staring them in the face, they threw it to the winds
Writings on the wall are hardly understood
And later on it could appear that all is getting clear
But they'll never catch the truth
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16. |
What About Tomorrow
03:56
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WHAT ABOUT TOMORROW
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Who shouldn't like to do his doings twice
Just start again and do it all otherwise
The way you made your living won't make you going far
A lot of mistakes just have made you as you are
Well, what about tomorrow
There's just another chance to start and do your utmost to use your sense
Oh, what about tomorrow
It will be all of yesterday, these feelings for which you sorrow
And you can start again
What would your life look like without your worries
And all that things you've done for which you're sorry
You made the wrong decisions, you should have better friends
Oh, you'd wish to awake and feel yourself a new man
Well, what about tomorrow
There's just another chance to start and do your utmost to use your sense
Oh, what about tomorrow
It will be all of yesterday, these feelings for which you sorrow
And you can start again
And you would do it the same if you could do it again
And you would do it the same, all over again, all over again
Well, what about tomorrow
There's just another chance to start and do your utmost to use your sense
Oh, what about tomorrow
It will be all of yesterday, these feelings for which you sorrow
And you can start again
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17. |
Wintertime
03:06
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WINTERTIME
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Hard winds and rain just swept away all that reminded of summer
Birds on the run followed the sun, flied to the south in great numbers
Then the wind from the east made it come to freeze
And all found safety in hiding
And the sun's shining low on the first fallen snow that covers the sleeping world
Wintertime, and the earth seems dead, looking bare and sad
World in white, such a lovely thing, just a screen for the new life in spring
When the days are drawing out and winter's all about
The sun takes the long way to summer
Just when snowdrops come to grow through the rests of melting snow
Most of these cold days are numbered
Then the earth will regain its showers of rain
And all what's reminding of springtime
Growing leaves on the trees and the birds and the bees
Then spring will be all around
Wintertime, now the earth seems dead, looking bare and sad
World in white, such a lovely thing, just a screen for the new life in spring
Wintertime, now the earth seems dead, looking bare and sad
World in white, such a lovely thing, just a screen for the new life in spring
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18. |
Summertime
03:29
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SUMMERTIME
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
What's in that cold and stormy weather and the always falling rain?
It seems to hold for months together, the sun just out of play
But now all that grey and cold days are gone
Life has been changed by the summersun
So we must enjoy it as long as it lasts
Now time goes so fast, it's summertime
Look at that sight of flowering flowers opened up in the shine
Everything's bright by the sun, full of power, setting here at far past nine
But look what he's leaving when he's out of sight
A beautiful evening and a sultry night
Oh we must enjoy it as long as it lasts
For time goes so fast, it's summertime
Now and again a thunderstorm is bound to come along
Thunders and lightnings flash through the night
And I think it splendid, I think it a sight, it's bright
Then in the dawning, mist on the water, clouds are rolling away
A beautiful morning promises another bright and sunny day
Then all that good life begins again
Oh shouldn't we like it to never end
But we must enjoy it as long as it lasts
Oh time goes so fast, it's summertime, it's summertime
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19. |
Nostalgia
03:52
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NOSTALGIA
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Where are you my boy, your life was full of joy and seemed so easy
You really had no guile on seeing that sudden smile, you were so breezy
There was no time for care
Or being rather aware of what your life were coming to
Well, I feel nostalgia rising in my mind
Missing that world that looked so fine, so kind
Oh I feel nostalgia
Having all the pains of wishing to be that boy again
Where are you my child, you could be really wild 'bout something little
The how you were devoured by all that grew and flowered, but it was so brittle
Just as you going blind
At learning to set your mind on what you should be coming to
Well, I feel nostalgia rising in my mind
Missing that world that looked so fine, so kind
Oh I feel nostalgia
Having all the pains of wishing to be that boy again
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LET THE SUN ALWAYS SHINE ON ME
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
Imagine, I was a plant just having to stand in the shade
I should be filled with gloom and my single bloom would fade
And I should stay forever small and looking not all that bright
That I should be worth to be seen, being that mean
That I should rather be out of sight
Let the sun always shine on me, 'cause I wanna grow, let it be
Let the sun always shine on me
Then I was trampled down, crumpled and wounded so bad
That I was left to my fate and only could wait for my death
So nobody would have seen how bright I could have been
If I'd only been given more light
Let the sun always shine on me, 'cause I wanna show, what I can be
Let the sun always shine on me
Let the sun always shine on me, 'cause I wanna grow, let it be
Let the sun always shine on me, 'cause I wanna show what I can be
Let the sun always shine on me, 'cause I wanna grow, let it be
Let the sun always shine on me, 'cause I wanna show what I can be
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21. |
Always Having You
03:12
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ALWAYS HAVING YOU
Words & Music by: Piet Louter
At all I am to be, you will stand by me
And I only have to look at you
If I couldn't tell my white lies from the truth
Always having you, my very self
At all I am to do, I can trust on you
Making me find a way of doing well
And I never need to lose a day
Always having you, my very self
And at times when I am feeling doubt
When someone tries to put me out
You will struggle and protest against, giving me your pains
At all I am to love, you will make me soft
And feel like just coming out, out of my shell
And I never need to do without
Always having you, my very self
I never need to do without
Always having you, my very self
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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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