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Unhinged

by Simon van Gend Band

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1.
Dreamboats are sailing in and out of my harbour So close and then a little farther She comes again my friend, bringing me the rain Showing me the way to laugh and smile and cry and feel the pain again My house my space my dog my cat my mouse the human race I was lost on the ocean, drifting away Weighed down by emotion, with nothing to say My my look at that sky Hey hey feel the rain Over and over and over again I get lost in the pain and I try to be zen And I try not to judge all the ways that I've been I try to be true to a new regimen But before long I feel like a bull in a pen And I can't stand the way that I fence myself in So I break all the rules to be happy again Around and around again and again and again I'm a chameleon again I'm a bat in a cave again I'm a bull in a rage again And I'm ten years old again Shiny and bold again
2.
What do I want from this thing? And is it going to give it to me? Where have these thoughts of mine been? And where are they leading me? That's what I always ask myself When I've got time for myself Did I say the wrong thing, can I take it back? I want you to smile not feel like you're under attack Sailing on the river of love There's no time for all this self-eating stuff
3.
Hold yourself a while Don't be afraid of the thing that has stolen your smile Let yourself swim Deep in the river of love that is flowing within Feel the sunshine Let it dry out the damp in the shack at the back of your mind Let the wind blow Let it take you any place that it wants you to go That's what these moments of silence are for You've got to let your soul sing a song about loneliness hunger and crying for more You've got to learn to set that free Don't make an enemy of anything you'll ever be Hold yourself a while Keep yourself close to the things that are making you smile Let the love in Don't be afraid of a thing that's about to begin Let the rain fall Let it slide down your roof let it tumble and fall down your walls Let the seas rise And wash away all of the tears that have formed in your eyes
4.
I’ve been thrown away before I’ve found ways and means of picking myself up off of the floor scaring enemies scary when the enemy’s a living breathing part of me still love aches, but it’s better than freezing up and spinning into space let’s show the world what love is for let’s show the world what love is really for I’ve been rolling on the sea staying down below hiding in the hold of misery scary to know that space scary when the love you feel is always falling off of someone’s face still love aches, but it’s better than freezing up and spinning into space let’s show the world what love is for let’s show the world what love is really for I’ve been begging at the door I’ve spent days and weeks trying to find out what I’m living for scary to know that space still it doesn’t matter where I’ve been as long as I arrive before too late still love aches, but it’s better than freezing up and spinning into space let’s show the world what love is for let’s show the world what love is really for
5.
Keeping my mind in a familiar train Trying to live my life with the minimum pain Talking to ghosts about the state of my health Trying to go out, just meeting myself Greening my grey with a bucket of woe Silly me thought I had a chance with no-one I know Shooting at fish in my memory tank Thirty two years and I'm drawing a blank The scariest thing that I learned about Love You dip your toe in and you'll never get enough of that stuff But if you're real and you wait a long time You just might find the love that'll ease your mind And when I said that I love you You shouldn't have believed a word that I said I was talking a hole in your head
6.
Infinite panic and infinite relief Knowing in a moment that all is belief Knowing in the moment I'm caught as I fall Knowing that all is love and love is all Oh my love fills me with gladness Oh my love, leading me into madness If you let yourself believe in a world where there's no love You'll find no love Infinite panic and infinite relief Knowing in a moment that all is belief Knowing in the moment I'm caught as I fall Knowing that all is love and love is all
7.
Ingabangaba 04:23
I'll bring you fried eggs in the morning When I wake up with bleary eyes I'll bring them to you when you're yawning As your dreams vaporise Because it feels so good to hold to touch to smell to see And I will stick around until you've had enough of me Ingabangaba emlanjeni Ingabangaba emoyeni Ingabangaba elwandle Umfazi endlwini I'll take a walk down to the beach where Fat seagulls lie in the sand I'll wander down to the foamy shoreline Let little creatures crawl down my hands Because it feels so good to curl your toes into the sand You know it feels so good to be alive without a plan Ingabangaba emlanjeni Ingabangaba emoyeni Ingabangaba elwandle Umfazi endlwini
8.
At night you toss and turn you wake from troubled sleep You try to turn away from the memories of your dreams And in between your words and what you mean You've built a screen to hide your silent scream It doesn't matter what you feel Just as long as it's real I never had a lover coming round breaking my door Always me the one running round begging for more Steadily down, a little closer to the ground, on my knees At night you toss and turn you wake from troubled sleep You try to turn away from the memories of your dreams And in between your words and what you mean You've built a screen to hide your silent scream It doesn't matter what you feel Just as long as it's real Suppertime, Mom is in the kitchen, on and on it goes Do I need to be alone now, or do I need more love? Find myself slide into the fiction that everybody knows Trying to find a space between the feelings but they're pushing and shoving Shooting down the red lights, trying to turn a stop into a go Lying awake at three in the morning, trying to make a yes out of a no Thoughts rush by like the white lines in the middle of the road Kept awake by the sound of my breaks, I can't slow down At night you toss and turn you wake from troubled sleep You try to turn away from the memories of your dreams And in between your words and what you mean You've built a screen to hide your silent scream It doesn't matter what you feel Just as long as it's real
9.
Touched 04:07
To be touched by you baby Is all I want to be Is all I want to be To be shaken by you baby Is all I want to be Is all I want to be I've been staring at the ocean As the waves come rolling in And I've been jumping in the water And I've been learning how to swim And I've been fishing with my logic For the craziness within And I've been looking for a lover And I've been wondering where she's been Everyone you ever knew Is somewhere deep inside of you And every face you ever saw Is knocking at your bedroom door And every thought you ever had Is slowly trying to drive you mad So let go So let go To be touched by you baby Is all I want to be Is all I want to be To be shaken by you baby Is all I want to be Is all I want to be In the middle of you baby Is where I want to be Is where I want to be
10.
Drie rand 03:47
Drie rand a purse en a naalklipper drie rand Drie rand a purse en a naalklipper drie rand Four for two rand two for a rand chips Cooldrink i'chips Come closer bring your love to me We'll see what we can be Slip slowly sideways into love //I'll never get enough If you want to be a part of me decide You could run you could hide But if you want to stick around then stay Get to know my duvet Drie rand a purse en a naalklipper drie rand Drie rand a purse en a naalklipper drie rand Four for two rand two for a rand chips Cooldrink i'chips Be soft and warm for me and kind Ease me out of my mind Take me to where your river sings Strum softly on my strings I want to see your ecstasy fly Hear your sigh fill the sky Standing on a ray of morning sun Children lost in their fun Drie rand a purse en a naalklipper drie rand Drie rand a purse en a naalklipper drie rand Four for two rand two for a rand chips Cooldrink i'chips
11.
Dreams 04:14
Always half a step from the moment See the world slip by Always thinking about what I'm thinking Till it makes me cry Having it out with myself trying to find out why I'm such a lonely guy Following myself through a maze that is leading me on To the hurricane's eye Dreams fall to the ground they make no sound Thoughts are in between not what they seem Words can make me feel just a little real But things are only real in what we feel Stepping on a ladder climbing through the morning feeling like a new bird blinded in the daylight Heaven is a place any place where you are Though you try to let it rest a while you don't know how hammering the sound of all that isn't alright Heaven is a place any place where you are But your dreams fall down by the wayside, your heart's like a stone at your graveside Heaven is a place any place where you are You hold yourself away from the fact that you're never going to get that one thing back Heaven is a place any place where you are I howl as you're spinning me around now I stumble into the walls I feel myself flying from the ground now So high and so small
12.
When you lie 03:25
Caught in the middle of a beautiful thing There's a fight going on, did you hear the bell ring? Trying to get through to the middle of my brain Where the truth speaks out louder than the pain Hard luck to those who try and never get by Who do you think you're fooling when you lie Wake up in the morning with a devil in the bed Got to try to minimize all the things it says Got to get around something that I just can't hold Got to beat the tree till it turns to gold Trying to say the things that no-one speaks Trying to hide the words away behind the beat Who do you think you're fooling when you lie Hiding from yourself in the middle of the day Knowing somewhere there's a better way Fighting with the anger got to bottle it down Wondering why there's nobody around Can you hear the rumbling underneath the ground Can see the buildings crashing all around Who do you think you're fooling when you lie?
13.
Caravan 03:38
Give me your love Gonna be your shining angel I'm gonna do what I'm able To be as able as I can As able as I can As able as I can As able as I can Let me inside Let me live my life beside you Let my love misguide you Slide you with my plan I'm a gonna backslide you with my plan Slide you with my plan I'm a gonna backslide you with my plan 'Cos I've got love More love than I can stand And I've got hope More hope than any man Step into my caravan Give me a sign Make like you need me near you Give me something to adhere to And I'll cooperate I'll cooperate I'll cooperate I'll cooperate Tell me something Don't just say you're OK Tell me everything you love now And everything you hate Every little thing you hate Everything you hate Every little thing you hate 'Cos I've got love More love than I can stand And I've got hope More hope than any man Step into my caravan Bidibidi bim ba-a-ah….
14.
Another time 04:14
You're going to be the one I run to in another time Am I going to be the one you run to in another time We're going to blow on the fire in another time Make the flames rise in another time Going to be a new bird in another time In a new sky in another time In another time going to blow your mind going to blow my mind going to blow your mind going to blow my mind in another time I'm convinced of something but I don't know what it is so I can't tell anyone about it I've got to get my head together got to learn to relax Got to try harder got to take it to the max (You know it's you that's got me) Holding onto something that doesn't seem real Got to learn to laugh smile cry got to learn to feel (You know it's you that's got me) Running round madly like a chicken on drugs Swimming in the mud with the snails and the slugs (You know it's you that's got me) Lying in my bed unplugged and unhinged Trying to find the centre, skirting on the fringe
15.
Lazy boy 03:58
my mother and me, we sat down to tea i tried to let go, to not let it show chorus: i was a lazy boy who only ever wanted joy some days i get by and i don’t have to try but some days it’s all pain and i can’t stop my brain chorus somewhere in the middle of the dream i heard a stranger scream my heart is overcome my heart is overcome we smile and we chat about this and that but the things we can’t say all get in the way chorus.
16.
Why when I go out Do I just need to be alone? Why when I'm alone Do I go crazy in my zone? I'm just a dustbin full of urges I try to stay afloat I keep my goodness in control No mutiny in my boat Why do I seem happy When I'm screaming to be burned? Where do I find the smile? Where's the reason where's the sense Where's the cause and consequence Where's the feeling where's the hate All I can do is contemplate I'm just a dustbin full of urges I try to stay afloat I keep my goodness in control No mutiny in my boat
17.
Dreamboats 05:34
Dreamboats are sailing in and out of my harbour So close and then a little farther She comes again my friend, bringing me the rain Showing me the way to laugh and smile and cry and feel the pain again My house my space my dog my cat my mouse the human race I was lost on the ocean, drifting away Weighed down by emotion, with nothing to say My my look at that sky Hey hey feel the rain Over and over and over again I get lost in the pain and I try to be zen And I try not to judge all the ways that I've been I try to be true to a new regimen But before long I feel like a bull in a pen And I can't stand the way that I fence myself in So I break all the rules to be happy again Around and around again and again and again I'm a chameleon again I'm a bat in a cave again I'm a bull in a rage again And I'm ten years old again Shiny and bold again

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released October 1, 2001

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Simon van Gend Band Cape Town, South Africa

Simon and the Band à Parte are an introspective indie/folk/rock band from Cape Town, whose music has been described as a unique blend of folksie foot-tapping red wine fireside poetry. This trio, with Simon on vocals and acoustic guitar, Eric Michot on bass and Ross Campbell on drums, has released 3 albums to date, with a 4th due to be released on 30th June this year. ... more

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