@ALBUM: Henk (1986) The Nits are: Joke Geraets Double bass Henk Hofstede Vocals, guitar Rob Kloet Drums Robert Jan Stips Keyboards Uploaded on the 8th Feb 1995 by Pascal Mouret (pascal(at)bofix.univ-mrs.fr) If there is any mistake whatsoever, please drop a line. You'll be very welcome. @SONG: Bike in Head (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) Wake me up Sunray On this bright sunny summerday Leave my bed Bike in head Clear blue sky Bird and kite On this day Time is on my side Someone said Bike in head On a shadow lane Between big trees Bike-chain spins And frame freezes I have seen the vilages in green Meadows cut by ditches in between Lines I've read Bike in head Can't you hear Can't you hear what they say Can't you hear Artis bought an elephant today Wake me up Sun-ray On this bright sunny summerday Leave my bed Bike in head Is this the real world! Am I alive Is this the real world! Am I alive Is this the real world! Is this the real world! @SONG: Port of Amsterdam (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) We're sailing on an ocean On an ocean And the time flies We left the port of amsterdam We wave our hands And say goodbye We say goodbye goodye The heart is at the wheel tonight The wheel tonight is turning west The moon is on the sea and shines On waves that never take a rest We say goodbye goodbye We say Goodbye We're heading for no destiny No destiny is on our mind The morning breaks The evening falls And we can leave the world behind I know there are some problems But I'm gonna have to solve them When I'm older For now I've got a bottle and a blanket And I use it when it's colder We say goodbye goodbye We say goodbye goodbye Ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja We're sailing on an ocean On an ocean And the time flies We left the port of amsterdam We wave our hands And say goodbye We say goodbye goodbye We say goodbye goodbye @SONG: Typist of Candy (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) One key of her typewriter's 4 and the sign of percent She says that it looks like the face of a former boyfriend She once typed a whole page of those little noughts and fours And one big x at the bottom meant 'over' of course With a backbone of candy she's sitting behind her machine Her eyes are as the stars in the sky and they're green Tap tap tap with one finger on the same key I know its the key of the dollar She's looking at me Don't think that it's easy Don't think that it pleases me In big hands Of people who want it all In big hands Of people who want it all My typist of candy you're feeling so sad and so blue And where is that pretty girl I once knew She taps the whole paper black and she gives it to me My typist of candy there's only one question mark key Don't think that it's easy Don't think that it pleases me In big hands Of people who want it all @SONG: Home Before Dark (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) Another car is stopping for gas Be careful with that burning match The radio is playing Nat King Cole Nat King Cole sings Another stranger turns the wheel I stay behind in silence and feel The oil on overall and hands Is all that's left, all left for me Better late than never Here come the sunny days You keep your eyes wide open And all I say is Yes yes yes yes yes me too I'm ready for a kick in the back I'm ready for another hopeless wreck I'm ready for a night so long and black So long and black Better late than never Here come the sunny days I keep my eyes wide open Here come the best years of my life And all I say is Yes yes yes yes yes me too Another night of counting cars The magazines and candy bars And everybody's driving home They're home, home before dark @SONG: The Singing Telegram (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) Oh when, when will I see you Oh when, when will I see you On a highway in a car On a river in a boat In a town where everyone is sleeping It doesn't matter where you go Oh when @SONG: Erom On (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) I'm fighting it fighting it fighting it Till I am winning Rewinding it winding it winding it Till the beginning Erom on I open the window Open the door When I'm closing My room and my house And backwards I'm walking To your house Erom on It's like driving a car By looking in the mirror Forwards in reverse I'm touching the walls And the corners Erom on You say words in reverse You say words in reverse A doorplate your number I go up the steps to your room I'm facing you facing you facing you And you are saying "erom on" Erom on You say words in reverse You say words in reverse I'm walking to my room I'm closing the door Erom on No more @SONG: Sleep (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) In the black of the night In the black of the night There's a flashing light Shining bright shining bright What happens now to your eyes so suddenly What happens now to your eyes Wer reitet so spaet Durch nacht und wind Darling child come with me My daughters sing and rock you to sleep In the back of the car In the back of the car Who cares where you are No one cares No one cares What happens now to your eyes so sad and lonely What happens now to your eyes So suddenly What happens now to your eyes Du liebest kind komm geh mit mir Can't you hear Can't you see There is someone In the black Of the night There's a flashing Light Shining bright Wer reitet so spaet Durch nacht und wind Es ist der vater Mit seinem kind @SONG: Pillow Talk (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) Somebody said You better not forget To put heart In front of head I know it's true I've been thinking of you And all the words That you have said Pillow talk to me Pillow talk to me Pillow you talk to me Pillow you talk to me Like a puff of smoke You disappeared When I awoke Today The heart breaks slow The headaches follow The shape of you will fade away Pillow talk to me Pillow talk to me Pillow talk to me Pillow you talk to me @SONG: Cabins (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) I'm taking my time I am travelling I am travelling You, taking your time You're travelling You're travelling It makes no difference Where we are What they say Tomorrow we will sail away Every night a falling star In cabins On a black sea In cabins On a black sea Kiss me I'm biding my time I'm not worrying I'm not worrying You, biding your time You're not worrying You're not worrying It makes no difference Where we are What they say Tomorrow we are far away Every night a falling star In cabins On a black sea In cabins On a black sea Kiss me @SONG: Under a Canoe (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) I roll up the sleeves Can she bake a cathedral Under a canoe I'm a swimmer in blue I roll up the sleeves She takes a lot of pictures Of animals in water Fish Fish Fish Under a canoe A shirt is waving in the meadow Shirt is waving in the meadow A shirt is waving in the meadow Shirt is waving in the meadow I roll up the sleeves The night lies on her shoulders Under a canoe I'm a swimmer in blue A shirt is waving in the meadow Shirt is waving in the meadow A shirt is waving in the meadow Shirt is waving in the meadow @SONG: Cranedriver (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) It's early in the morning He's climbing up The ladder to the top Of his crane He's smoking a cigarette In his cockpit of glass Look down The town's Still asleep Peter and I were walking Along the long canal We could smell the factory Smoke Dirty filling-station We arranged the row of cans Till they said so so so so Cranedriver lift me up Put me in my past Cranedriver lift me up Cranedriver lift me up Put me in my past Cranedriver lift me up Now Peter's building houses I am a keeper of records Both of '51 The cranedriver's climbing down Every step a year It takes him twenty to the ground Cranedriver lift me up Put me in my past Cranedriver lift me up Cranedriver lift me up Put me in my past Cranedriver lift me up @SONG: 5 Hammering Men (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) [Instrumental]