@ALBUM: Ting (1992) Nits are: Henk Hofstede Vocals, piano Rob Kloet Timpani, percussions Robert Jan Stips Piano, vocals Note : These are the lyrics as they appear on the CD booklet. If any additions or corrections are to be made, please drop a line : Pascal Mouret (pascal(at)bofix.univ-mrs.fr) @SONG: Cars & Cars (Nits) In the mirrors of this house I've seen your face A thousand times or more In the corners of your room I've seen your face A thousand times or more In the darkness of the town I've seen the wheels a-turning I'll be gone In the darkness of your room You've heard the wheels a-turning I'll be gone In Cars & Cars Cars & Cars going faster In the mirrors of this house I've seen your face A thousand times or more In the darkness of your room You've heard the wheels a-turning I'll be gone In Cars & Cars Cars & Cars going faster @SONG: Ting (Nits) I am waiting At the bus stop 'TING TING' With my girlfriend She is pregnant Like a raindrop 'TING TING' And the donkey And the bull Are standing next to me 'TING TING' 'Here comes the rain' 'TING TING' I am walking With the blind man I am talking To the deaf man 'TING TING' Here comes the rain Here comes the bicycle Here comes the girl here comes the child 'TING TING' @SONG: Soap Bubble Box (Nits) I saw a box in New York Inside the MOMA Clay pipe and cork It's a soap bubble It's a soap bubble I saw a map of the moon Cut out of camels Tin spoon It's a soap bubble It's a soap bubble He is walking very slow through Manhattan In the snow Joseph Cornell I saw an egg painted blue Rhinestones in 4 rows of 2 It's a soap bubble It's a soap bubble BOX @SONG: Fire in My Head (Nits) In a Swiss town by the lake Fall down like a white snowflake There's a fire in A fire in my head Roll on like a stone in a field I've got a home but I've got no shield There's a fire in A fire in my head Saint George and the Dragon fight In a church by candlelight There's a fire in A fire in my head All the birds in the waving tree Look down and they sing for me There's a fire in A fire in my head All the angels falling down In the smoke above this town There's a fire in A fire in my head @SONG: House on the Hill (Nits) I saw the house on the hill It burned like a tree In an endless night Tell me river when the fire ends Tell me fire where the river bends I had a vision of my house It turned into a flame On the riverside Tell me fire where the river bends Tell me river when the fire ends Tears are falling down Like a river through a town Where I saw the house on the hill Something in my mind's eye said I was afraid Something in the late sky said I was returning Back into the river Where I once had sailed Back into the fire Where I was not burning I saw the house on the hill It bloomed like a flower In the summer rain Tell me fire where the river bends Tell me river when the fire ends @SONG: Christine's World (Nits) On a sunday morning The bus is stopping At the espresso bar She's stepping out Into the light and disappears Christine you're in a dream Oh Christine 'I like to buy a postcard Of the falls And send it home When he calls I will keep it as a bookmark For I keep forgetting all the words' Christine you're in a dream Oh Christine On a sunday night The bus is leaving At the espresso bar She sits behind the window And waves 'goodbye' Christine you're in a dream Oh Christine @SONG: Bus (Nits) [Instrumental] @SONG: River (Nits) So many years And the river flows down So many It is hard to count them And so many years I am standing there On this stone bridge Now Like sand flows Through my fingers The water flows under me So forgotten in the city smoke So many years I've tried to find a photograph Taken somewhere here It's a sad day Sand through my fingers Time Same old river Now You Smile @SONG: Tree Is Falling (Nits) When I was a young boy I was swimming in the river Drinking the water When I was young When she was a young girl She was diving in the water Drinking the river When she was young Tree is falling And I'm standing I'm still living When I was a young boy I was living in the city Watching the river When I was young When she was a young girl She was walking through a wood Picking the flowers When she was young @SONG: White Night (Nits) How many years I waited How many years you walked In my raincoat and my shoes On a bright day Like a white night How many days I listened How many days you talked In my raincoat and my shoes On a bright day Like a white night How many hours you wait How many hours I walk In your raincoat and your shoes On a bright day Like a white night @SONG: All Or Nothing (Nits) Come back come back To the house on the hill Where the tree is falling And I think I will Come back come back To the house anymore Where the water is burning And they knock on your door When it's all or nothing All or nothing for me When it's all or nothing It's all for me She said 'The man in the street Will break your heart They try to mend it But it falls apart' Come back come back To the house on the hill Where the tree is falling And I think I will @SONG: Night Fall (Nits) He is counting all my footsteps I am looking at my watch Night Fall See him walk The somnambulist He is counting all the trees Night Fall In the ponds and in the ditches He is counting all The ducks and swans Night Fall Whistle bird in the window Lightbulb and the rising moon Night Fall It's the watch on the thin wrist Of the somnambulist who walks Night Fall Night falls Moon in heaven He is dreaming of a park Night Fall @SONG: I Try (Nits) I tried to be afraid But you said that it was too late I tried to be alone But you said that I wanted this home I try I try I try I try to be like you But you never wanted that I Wanted it too But I try to be around Somehow, sometime I was found I try I try I try I have seen mirrors black In a room by the sea When we came back Sometimes it's a sunny day You lift your head and walk away I try I try I try I tried to be afraid But you said that it was too late I tried to be alone But you said that I wanted this home @SONG: Yellow Boat (Nits) Here comes the yellow boat on the river She is sleeping and I will leave her Look at the yellow boat on the river She is swimming and I will give her Water to drink Candles to light I am walking home tonight In the wind on the right corner Flies Look at the yellow boat on the river She is swimming and I will leave her Here comes the yellow boat on the river She is diving and I will give her 'Give her' Apples to eat Wood to burn Then she tells me when I turn She will turn to stone and fall asleep I will be a memory Here comes the yellow boat in the night She is turning off the light Look at the river Look at the moon Sailing home on a windy night Soon @SONG: Saint Louis Avenue (Nits) On Saint Louis Avenue There's something in the air My heart beats like a hammer On Saint Louis Avenue Cathedral-bells and cars Are singing when I meet her 'You came today ... I am living One day ahead of time' She said On Saint Louis Avenue There's something in my head I wish I could remember On Saint Louis Avenue A cloud fell on the street It's so hard to find her