Let's get in tune
beat the drums
strum the guitar
Let's get a tune
from where it comes
is where you are
from where sounds
from where words
from where silence speaks
of sounds gone by
sounds reborn
sounds in tune
with people on chairs, sitting,
waiting for tunes, for songs, for
tonight happening in songs,
like the one about a sunny
saturday, thinking about love,
thinking about you, never too
far from my heart, this sunny
saturday, under the sun, me
thinking, me singing for years,
about you, not here, singing
about surrounding beauty, me
in the middle of all of it, call
it a miracle, hurry up and
wait, like i do for you, hurry
up and wait (while i play
my guitar), i came home from
work, tonight the house is
smiling, would you give me a
tune, to sing to the moon, shining,
'til dawn opens the house,
meanwhile a falling star (is
that what you are?), seven
sisters cry down on me, try
for heaven, this cold night,
seven sisters won't you cry,
i'll bring my own god and call
it kindness, don't know where
i'm going, just know that wishes
may come true, let's get in tune;
i'll bring yours, will you bring mine?
ain't that kindness, yes it is,
let's get in tune, let's get
the kids to work, put boots
on, they fit me, you see, here
i walk, here i dance, i take a
chance and put the boots on
and here i go; they fit, i walk,
i dance and then i go to sleep,
while guitars are weeping, drums
are keeping up the heartbeat,
seeing grace, seeing rain, getting
in tune with happy thoughts,
stay with me, sing it ten times
and it's you, dressed as a guitar,
singing a song, walking with a cane,
ten times and it's you
(just slow down, have a beer),
a million butterflies told me
about a song to write down
and i did, in the road i saw them,
they sung about waterfalls,
i saw it, i sung it, i did,
i never thought that it could be,
i never thought that i could see,
that light, so very bright, so butterfly-light,
and now, here i am, watching
the show from the side, there's
this talking on your part, where
are you going, i don't know, do
you know. do you care (guitar
is weeping and screaming), let's
get a tune, creeping up, gloomy
in the morning breeze, here i am
by myself, with myself, i want
you to get in tune with, here
i am, do you see, do you see me,
let's sing along, or will you be
left behind, to get baptized,
to see St. Peter, to see the light
smiling, to sing a song to sing
sing along on shakey ground,
homeward bound, where friends
present a song that we love,
so we spin spin spin around,
make-up masquerade in the life you're living,
but it isn't a show, you know,
keep spinnin' spinnin' around,
in the life you're living, spin
away from the show, be real,
get along the watchtower, she's
out in the field, working hard,
keep on going, get along all
you hard working people, get
in this song, sit down and sing
along, let's get in tune, bring
your own god along in this song
oxoxoxoxoxo
drums are beating, birds are
singing, my eyes see smiling
flowers, in your eyes, words
are filled with wind and sun,
my soul is stormy, my sweet-
heart is out at sea,
i feel the chill, i get a good cry,
thanks to the onion-union,
i let it all out, you know, just
a good cry every morning, let
it all out and let it be, it's
a good way to let it all out,
will you come over, it makes
me feel good, to hear you say,
sleep in my arms, it makes me
feel good, let get off the highway
and look for a way to get high,
it makes us feel good,
to hear those sounds,
that zooming zimming sounds, a
guitar is blooming out of it,
hear me, see me, feel me
in this sensual landscape
where angels fly, because they
take themselves lightly, in and
out of night and day, here and
now, easy going, easy flowing,
while a guitar is singing and
telling me stories of when
angels were looking for wings
but all they needed was take
themselves ligthly and dance
to the sounds in the air, water,
fire, earth and you, you lay
beside me (and the guitar tells
it like it is), see the waves
are coming over me, two of
them, but i'll put my head up,
open up my heart and surf
my spirit anywhere, hiking
four months long, coming out
of the wood, put foot, put foot
further on the trail; inviting,
calling, put foot, put foot further
and get yourself a bright
example of forward, put foot,
put foot - someone is waiting
for you as a bright example
shining, put foot shine, put
foot shine, while the guitar
tells i, me, mine, getting a tune,
getting in tune, getting along
with a lonesome song, going
our own way, chasing rainbows,
questions asked, answers lost,
lost to be found again, never
to be found again: "Get up,
your head is aching, so what,
sing your song!"
along to the drums, to the bass,
to the voices, the guitars getting
in tune with the love, did you
know it, speed of light, do you
know it, yes, i do, let's get
lost, let's get in tune,
when the lilacs are in bloom,
let's make a tune, when
the daffodils smile the landscape awake,
but most of all when the lilacs
are in bloom, i'll see you, my
darling, not faraway but
ZOOM (in)
get out of your cabin, cool
the fever, look the lilacs
are in bloom, come closer,
here is some fire, here is no
low, just get higher and
ZOOM (in)
- Egbert Hovenkamp II-