music playing is 'MORNING TIME' (words and music: Rob Dokter), first issued on my first solo-CD 'Just as I am' , nr. 1 on RTV Oost 'RegioTap' in 2000. Thanks Willie! For lyrics to this song please scroll down.
Musicians: on the CD was just me and my guitar! This version now playing i added february 21st: LIVE AT 'Le FASHION CAFE' in Quimper(29), FRANCE in may 2002 (unissued officially sofar, so it is exclusively for YOU as visitors to this website!).
Recorded while on tour in France as 'SOUTHERN TRAIN' (=Stef Eijkelenkamp+Rob Dokter as 'The Dutch Terry+McGhee' more or less (MOL!)) Musicians on this recording: MARY-LOU: Jean-Phillipe Thepault: bass, Patrick Pernet: keyboards, Jean-Luc: electric guitar, Mary: guitar WITH SOUTHERN TRAIN: Stef Eijkelenkamp: harmonica, Rob Dokter: leadvocals and guitar.
Some favourites i wrote
(more to be added later! last adds on this page march 23rd, 2011)
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(words and music Rob Dokter)
Soon,
it's time to go
At the first fall of snow
i'm goin' home
Had about enough of the cold
Been startin' to feel old
Worn out and all alone
Soon,
there'll be a morn'
so bright and clear, i'll feel reborn.
It'll sweep out the pain
Dry up all of the rain.
Makes me gain controll again.
Everything will cool down and we'll fool around like we used to do, baby
I will hold on to you to keep me from ever more feelin' blue.
And i'll be flyin' high through a clear blue sky, yes way up high
on a jet airliner to that baby of mine
Come and meet me
(words and music by Rob Dokter)
Everything will be all right in the morning time
Let's leave all our cares behind and make love rhyme
It's like being on an island, babe, in the midst of seas
Without any lack of food or drinks and just the birds and bees
Sure is a wonder, babe, i found you
Sure is a wonder, babe, our love shining through
This trip across the ocean's been a rough and rowdy one
This quest to this island between the earth and sun
(words and music by Rob Dokter)
Once you're runnin' on empty, all signals screamin' in red
All them letters of application sent and day in and day out just longin' for bed
If she knew what to hit me for i'd be black and blue
Yet, all i want, is to stand tall for this livin' and get rid off these expat blues
If you could have half your wishes you could double your trouble
There's no big loss if you're number don't come in, if you never accomplish a couple
Although all of them rattlin' chains they're draggin' me down and this pack rat fever drives me insane
It ain't gonne blacken the memory of your wedding gown
There's a fuzz in my head no amp could implant and i'm running wrong ways again
Like a train on a one way track, just ridin' without ever comin' in
(music by Rob Dokter/words by Marcel Vermaning and Rob Dokter)
The world seemed to be a-shakin' as i wandered through the streets
Gonna be tough awakenin' when my mind and the morning meet
Yes, the world seemed to be a-shakin' as i wandered through the streets
Gonna be tough awakenin' when my mind and the morning meet
If they'd hand me a dollar for every drink i had
I'd be rollin' free, babe, and you can bet your mind on that
If they'd hand me a dollar for every drink i had
I'd be rollin' and tumblin', babe, and you'd see some smiles you never knew i had.
And it feels like too much Heady WIne
(words by Rob Dokter/music by Rob Dokter and Stef Eijkelenkamp)
Headin' down to Lonely Ville and i'm lookin' kind-a pale
Headin' down to Lonely Ville and i'm lookin' kind-a pale
Your love don't move me, no, and this house is up for sale
Standin' out here on my own like left luggage in the rain
Standin' out here on my own like left luggage in the rain
On my way to Lonely Ville and i just missed the train
On my way to Lonely Ville and i'm lookin' kind-a pale
On my way to Lonely Ville and i'm lookin' kind-a pale
This house don't live no more, no no, it's a dead one up for sale
(words and music by Rob Dokter)
As the light leaves the room and we're headin' for the lane of dreams.
To where our love was in bloom like no love you'd ever seen.
Like a rock there it stood, feelin' so goddamn good
shinin' brighter than we probably should've and the grass was always green.
Seems we never had no fears of all the morning might bring.
Never shed too many tears and it sure was a time to sing.
With our love standing like a rockmm hearts and fingers locked.
Celebrating the dawn with some local beer.
Never to think we might ever loose the cheer..
(words and music by Rob Dokter)
Now the smoke has cleared and the light's back on in the Persian Gulf today
No more black rain, but beaches with tarry balls that seem to remain
The psychologic damage, the environmental afterpains
that've got the people all around still daily draggin' chains
Nobody knows what kind of illnesses there are to come the next few years
And when some die from some new disease is the world gonna be in tears?
The jeans have claimed the place of the traditional dishdasha-clokes
And somehow it makes me feel empty like i just heard some sick joke
The Al-Sabah clan is on again, the people ride their four wheel drives
But under the ground i don't believe they'll ever stop sharpenin' their knives
And it's still an empty feeling that there might never come an end
to this silly struggle to rule the world withough caring where it's sent
So, let us all hope, we've had the worst part
and the ones in charge will be that smart
to put over the helm onto a calmer sea and this empty feeling let's us be
(words and music by Rob Dokter)
Tonight the wind is blowin' like it has never blown before
There's something scratchin' on my bedroom door
Lord knows i need to find me, i can't stand it anymore.
Well, it's down to you and me now, whether i'll dare to make a change
If i dare to look inside myself and free me from these shackles and chains
Lord knows i need to find me, i can't stand it anymore
(words by Rob Dokter/music by Rob Dokter/Marcel Vermaning/Dick Zoeteweij/Willem Stoel)
I was crossing 59th and 2nd
Heading to a busstop outer town
Love just came a-crashin' with pieces laying all way around.
They say a writer lives what he writes
and i tried to write my own lines
Had lived some i wish i never had and some i never wrote i wish were mine.
Clouds of gasoline against the sunset
Blackening out my rearview looks
And the man's just pushin' it on ahead, totally unaware of the closing of the book.
All night drive on an interstate Greyhound
and every minute the distance grows
I'm all through with love and life in my hometown
I've had it up to here and i guess it shows
I've had it up to here and i guess it shows
(Words and music by Rob Dokter)
T is grauw en 't is donker, je ziet 't leven niet
Ene grote zwarte massa en 't regent dat 't giet
Eenzaam in de nacht in de auto, zo breekbaar als riet
'T is grauw en 't is donker, je ziet 't leven niet
Was 'ns hier en ik was 'ns daar, zo rusteloos als wat
Als ik daar was wilde ik hier zijn, als ik hier was wou ik dat ik daar zat
Altijd maar gedreven naar 'n verder, geen zit meer in 't gat
Was 'ns hier en ik was 'ns daar, zo rusteloos als wat
(words and music by Rob Dokter)
De risico's
zijn uitgebannen
Toch voel ik me zo
Gespannen
Heb ik jou nou ook verveeld
net als al die mannen?
Ideaal en toekomstbeeld
uit schaamte maar verbannen!
Jaag ik vage schimmen na?
Zit ik zo gevangen?
In mijn eigen wereld, ja
m'n vastegeroeste gangen
'k wil eruit
'k wil niets meer
dan lekker onbevangen
m'n gangetje gaan zonder weer
te voldoen aan al die rangen
De risico's
zijn uitgebannen
Toch voel ik me zo
Gespannen
'k wil eruit
'k wil niets meer
dan lekker onbevangen
m'n gangetje gaan zonder weer
te voldoen aan al die rangen
M'n God, ik zit gevangen
Zit gevangen
Zo gevangen
(MORE TO COME, so check in later)
