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In the stillness

Lyrics: Kris Kraai

Song: Kris Kraai & Busking Trail

The view is clear, the sky is blue.
Here's everything here,
But is it true?

Seeking meaning in all of this,
To and fro it moves,
But only coffee soothes.

Chorus
I woke up this morning
With a riff in my head.
It was clear and true
And meant for you,
But sleep overtook me instead.

Lost again in this life,
But waking on you in the stillness of the night -
As the window turns to light.

***
Uncertainty is ever near
Like the sand and the sea and the dust.
In whom will you trust?

Cannot see your metal clear,
Is it because your heart
Is red as rust?

Chorus
 

That part of you

Lyrics: Kris Kraai

Song: Kris Kraai & Busking Trail

Where is that part of you,
That you left behind
In a distant jungle,
You are searching to find?

And where is your beauty,
You deny yourself?
Still frozen in that mirror -
On some forgotten shelve?

Chorus

All the lies they told you -
Now you cant believe..
Come clasp my hand.
Together we will

Retrieve that stolen part of you,
That gave you essence.
Like butter like salt,
Put back in your presence.

***

That warmth is missing -
The fire inside,
But where is that part of you,
And where does it hide?

Chorus

Harmonica solo (violin solo)

Around and around

Lyrics: Kris Kraai

Song: Kris Kraai & Busking Trail

(HARMONICA)

There are people, sitting in the room,
Talking and laughing from dawn 'til noon,
But I feel so alone, even more than on my own.

But you, sitting over there,
With colors in your hair -
Look at me to assure,
Now there’s something in the air.
I can feel it everywhere.

Chorus

And I feel so relieved,
But there’s nothing I achieved,
In a world that keeps on turning around and around.

With the answers in my head,
We will tread the roads we’ve tread,
Still the world keeps on turning around and around.

(HARMONICA)

***

Strife of people, they endure,
Taste of empty reassure,
My yearn for relief,
Give me something to believe.

All is fine; give me no-ones doom,
Yet sometimes I, can’t escape the doom,

But you just touch me one and only,
And you tell me that you love me,
- you tell me that you love me...

Chorus

(HARMONICA)

Through the fire

Lyrics: Kris Kraai

Song: Kris Kraai & Busking Trail

Open my naked eyes, and you scratch me more.

We do it again and again and again

Like so many times before.

Oh Love, my understanding has failed me.

Oh Love, my common sense has disappeared

In a time when I need you most,

You have fled I feared

Oh Love...

Chorus

How many times must our love go through the fire?

And it burns again and again, in spite it seems higher.

How many times I came Knocking like before?

But you burn your heart, burn your wings -

When you lock the door.

***

Do you know that I want to lie in your arms?

Do you know that I want to die in your arms?

The Children are playing and the sun has gone away.

You are safe and sound, but I have gone astray.

Oh Love, I'm calling out to you.

Oh Love, I've searched for somethiing new -

In a world where everything dissapears,

I thought I had you...

Oh Love

Chorus

***

The way I should

Lyrics: Kris Kraai

Song: Kris Kraai & Busking Trail

Maybe If I was so strong,
I would fight all your battles for you.

Maybe if I was so wise,
I would understand what you’re going through.

But Im not and how very weak I am in needs -
Finding myself not the healer but the one who bleeds.

Chorus

I know that you want me to see you in the way I should.
I see you as someone beautiful and good.

***
Maybe you don’t understand...
Maybe you call me a fool...

But when things don’t work out
Anybody can turn out cruel.

Oh, but sometimes I wish that I can just hold you so you can see,
The fear and the wander and the love that is in me.

Chorus

Guitar solo

Chorus

Guitar solo


Moonshadow

Lyrics: Kris Kraai

Song: Kris Kraai & Busking Trail

Out of the shadows you saw
That somebody was watching you.

You looked at me that way.
I looked at you and I knew.

There's no one can guide us here.
No one's word is perfect and true,

And only a few things we know,
Like here am I and here are you.

Chorus
Moonlight falls on your face,
And rests a ray of light.

Moonshadow covers our shoulders,
We are out of the line of sight.

***
Guitar solo

We simply do not know
Where we are and where we go.

And the feelings that I feel for you -
Where is it leading me to?

They’ve left us here to depend
On things that we cannot comprehend.

But what is also true -
I am here and here are you.

Chorus


Blueberry biscuits

Lyrics: Kris Kraai

Song: Kris Kraai & Busking Trail

Harmonica solo

It’s the middle of the evening,
End of the day.

You wait for the morning,
But I know you wont stay.

There’s not enough sugar,
And the words I cant find,

To flavor your sorrow.
It will only remind.

Harmonica solo

Chorus
Blueberry biscuits,
Jam in a jar,
And oil on your fingers,
And an old worn guitar.

***

So the morning comes even,
When the dreams are all through,

And the kitchen is empty,
But I still think of you.

Chorus

Harmonica

Chorus

Harmonica


New Song

Lyrics: Kris Kraai

Song: Kris Kraai & Busking Trail

I’m at a loss of words.
Maybe I’ve run out of it at last.

Misunderstanding and silence between us,
We cannot get past.

You used to be the angel to take me away
From this tonight -

From the battle to live and the battle to die -
..to die is winning this fight

Chorus
So I learn a new song.
I learn a new song.
I learn a new song.
New song
I learn a new song
I learn a new song
***

Come like the bushvelt sunset -
sure and certain.
come quick and strong -
Clear as the highland lightning curtain.

I’m isolated and stranded,
But I’m lying next to you.

I’m in darkness...
But you only you turn the dark to blue.

Harmonica solo

The time has come for us
To leave this place in the past.

Your voice has reached her tender age
And beauty bloomed at last.

In a world like ours,
I feel so alone and obscure,

But when I hear your voice,
My heart feels safe and sure.

Chorus
New song
We learn a new song
We learn a new song
New song
We learn a new song
We learn a new song

Guitar solo

Daya

Lyrics: Kris Kraai

Song: Kris Kraai & Busking Trail

Daya one and only,
Beautiful and strong.

No one can possess you
All day long.

You laugh so naughty
But your lips are sealed,

With eyes so lonely,
‘cause your wounds never healed.

Chorus

But your heart is tender,
Innocent and mild.

I touched your fingers -
The fingers of a child.

***

Daya one and only,
With your needs so strong.

Immediate and certain,
No one can prolong.

Lying on my carpet
Waiting on the floor.

I cannot touch you -
But your wounds want more.

Chorus

Still your ghost was lying
In my arms last night.

She told me all your secrets,
In the opal light.

***

Guitar solo

Daya one and only,
I never understood,

How your world like water
Lifting drifting wood.

And the edges of your ocean
Mentioned words before.

Shipwrecked wood of safety
Drifting on your shore.

Chorus
Still your heart in tender
Innocent and mild.

I touched your fingers -
The fingers of a child.

***

I touched your fingers...
The fingers of a child.


Conquer me

Lyrics: Kris Kraai

Song: Kris Kraai & Dorivaldo Pinto

All I know
Is that I'm not sure,

But I'm sick of your restrictions,
I'm tired of your games.

I'm sick of your restrictions,
I'm tired of your games.

All I know
is that im not sure.

We’re stuck in uncertainty,
In a dialogue of names.

But we’re stuck in uncertainty,
In a dialogue of names.


Chorus
There’s no food for my soul.
Ive lost my purpose,
I have no goal.

It scares me when beauty
Cannot motivate me.

I need your love
To conquer me.

I need your love
To conquer me.

***


Yesterday
I seemed so sure.

But now my mind
is tumbling like a leaf.

But now my mind
is tumbling like a leaf.

yesterday
I seemed so sure.

But now my heart is
Been stolen by a thief.

But now my heart is
Been stolen by a thief.


Chorus


Typical love song

Lyrics: Kris Kraai

Song: Kris Kraai & Busking Trail

Harmonica solo

Since I can remember,
My heart's been for you.

It’s a longing,
I need to hold you.

Sore a longing,
I need to know you.

***

Now, I'm not sure
What this means to you.

I'm not sure
What this means to me.

I'm a shadow,
A wandering heart sore.

I'm your shadow,
A wandering heart sore.

Chorus
Oh this is such a selfish little love song,
Such a selfish little love song,

Such a typical love song,
Such a typical love song.

***

Harmonica solo

Oh this is what
Is in my eyes.

That strange look,
You don’t understand.

It’s a longing.
I need to hold you.
Sore a longing,
I need to know you.

Chorus

Harmonica solo


Shake shout and twister

Lyrics: Kris Kraai

Song: Kris Kraai & Busking Trail

I want to run to your world.
I want to hide from it.

I want to touch you, embrace you, hold you -
Wana let you pass through.

I want to make you mine.
But only from a distance shine.

Wana drink your  -
Deep, dark, wine.

Chorus
I want to say it to you,
But it wont get through.

I wana decorate your skin.
I want to dig deep into you.

I only want to whisper;
Shake, shout and twister,
Shake shout and twister,
Shake shout and twister.

***

Guitar solo

I want to say enough is enough.
I want to call your bluff.

Want to control your life,
Want to free you of obsession and strife.

I want to be your only man,
Want to run away as far as I can.

Wana be your first, your last, final -
Plan

Chorus

Big guitar solo

Chorus


Skopensboer

Lyrics: Eugene Marias & Totius

Song: Kris Kraai & Busking Trail

Voor die onheilswoning tussen skaars beblaarde
Soetdorings staan, in droe aarde
Maar lowergroen en blink van blad
Staan die wag ‘n bietjie bos
Langs die pad

Wanneer ek nader kom, dan sien ek dorings krom en reg.
K’sien take inmekaar gedraai, en deurmekaar gevleg.

En wil ek aan die blare gryp, of aan die takke breek,
Tas ek in ‘n doring nes, wat vreeslik haak en steek.

Chrorus
Deur die nag word ons prêt beloer.
Laaste lag is skoppensboer..

Deur die nag word ons prêt beloer
Laaste lag is skopensboer
Verlee lag ons mee
Met elke toer van skoppensboer

***

Van ver so skoon, so groen so blink o maar hoe verward
Wanneer ek nader kyk en dink as wat ‘n sondaar pas

En steek ek my hande uit na jou besluid,
Dan gryp ek in die dorings vas.

Chorus