Strandbeest Song by Jos van Hout josvanhout.nl

I drank like a man who wanted to die but lacked a plan to really try so I toast in vain - toast in vain Like a soldier who stepped on a mine and feels like his leg’s still fine I feel ghost pain - ghost pain It’s pathetic to describe what can’t be described I go insane - go insane I was in search for something maybe in search for me Very young, naive maybe but then I found these (Chorus) Strandbeests, strandbeests stranded on the beach They landed in my mind for immortality to find I tried to make them alive these beasts should survive to live in some way on their own some day They don’t need curves or hips or boobs the beauty of the beasts follows from the tubes I check what breaks - most attempts can’t cope But some do - or at least give hope And hope is like love - makes you want to create It provides the energy - though it’s so easy to hate them for the countless trials who fairly fail endeavours between reality and fairy tale (Repeat chorus) Every day I wake up with an idea that I try right away, quite clear Usually it sucks, but it feeds experience and that makes every next idea better At first I felt a god, but I’m a mere slave destruction is at hand with every wave It can’t be beaten, not in a decade not in my lifetime, they are doomed to fade (Repeat chorus) (Bridge) Still when you fail as often as I do it’s just something you get used to, I doubt myself, doing something useless being closer to my conciousness over and over again but in vain, maybe in vain I used to be lonely, now I’m still alone but never feeling lonely any more no longer lonesome, not any more not lonely like I was before I’m more aware of my depart from this planet born here, die here, my ashes scattered on my natural habitat, here on the beach where my strandbeests will forever be (Repeat chorus)