Fingerprints
Wrong is not so wrong
Daily
Waiting for tomorrow
Dialogue
Where you never miss it
Gravity
My Nemesis
Straight Lines
Multiple colours
Bright new future
Outlines
Hands over you
Before I sleep
Steps, A.R.C.
Pale image
Us&we
Somehow you
Empty home
Echoes of life
Song of a dog
Better
Airport
Ac-1
Palpitations
Surprised
Chase the moon
I/U
Outside
Ocean
A to E
I fell down
Accidentally
Lock
Now
10 years
Wrong is not so wrong 
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
Don’t you say, there is nothing you could do
At the end of the day you’ll still be you
Hear my answer:
Ref: Here’s the news, I will choose and I’ll turn this all around
And when I go, I won’t know if I have done the right
But wrong is not so wrong
What you’d need is just what you fear the most
Something new, something else you do not know
But where you go, when you are afraid to go?
Hear my answer: nowhere far, stay right here
Ref: Here’s the news, I will choose and I’ll turn this all around
And when I go, I won’t know if I have done the right
But wrong is not so wrong
Where did you lose your drive, where’s the passion in your eyes
Has it left long ago, or did you just never show
I wish I’d known, I wish I could change you…
2x Ref
21th February 2003
Daily
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
When you say “I’ve got lost on my way,
Could you show me the way to myself?”
I must say “Do you really believe I’m the one you should ask, don’t you see?
I have need of comfort daily.”
Don’t you think that the blaze in my eyes
Will turn into ice one day?
You look strong and assured and I guess so do I,
So maybe that is way you think “He must know the secret. Tell me.”
If your life is so heavy,
I can only help you carry.
May 2001
Waiting for tomorrow
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
1st
I can’t remember what you said,
I leave you broken-hearted and again,
You don’t seem to understand,
I am so important to myself.
And somebody called my name,
I guess I heard someone today…
Refr.
Waiting for tomorrow,
And somebody called my name,
Who is it I have to follow?
2nd: I can’t remember what I think,
the cage is open now and again,
could I call myself my friend,
I lied to myself time and again.
And somebody called my name,
I guess I heard someone today…
Refr.
Waiting for tomorrow,
And somebody called my name,
Who is it I have to follow?
I worked so hard but no one looked
And those who saw didn’t say a word,
And what I gave is what you took
And I’m still waiting for your return…
Refr.
Waiting for tomorrow,
And somebody called my name,
Who is it I have to follow?
Waiting for today,
Waiting for tomorrow,
If I’m the king of this game,
Why do I still feel so hollow?
August 2001
Dialogue
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
I think I could get out easily,
But I know I’m in too deep.
There is so much that we never see,
My invented misery.
Refr.
There are lives that I’ve lived,
Still so much that I’ve missed to see.
And there’s so much I’ve learned,
About me and the world, breath in…
Strangely wounded but full of believe,
Once deceiver, now deceived.
I am deeply connected to you,
After all I’m just a fool.
When I curse and scream,
It does simply mean,
That I focus my energy,
On something you never need.
Refr.
Let’s not do what we’re told,
Chasing demons of gold, hear me…
I’m the voice in my head,
Lie awake, walking dead, free me…
And we still have a chance,
It is there in our hands, breath in…
3x Strange is the world…
May 2003
Where you never miss it
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
It grasped you while you were awake,
No risk was big enough to take,
But time can wash anger away.
It was your thunder,
Disturbed your slumber.
Refr.
Is it where you never miss it?
Time made you think it’s not so bad,
After all it’s all just in your head,
But lies take your comfort away,
Leave you behind with empty days.
No one can save you like yourself can do.
Refr.
Is it where you never miss it?
There is still time, get up now.
There is a way, find out how.
February 2003
Gravity
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
1st
I finally got up and fought back the sleep,
I mend all my wounds even if they ran deep,
One little step for you, for me one giant leap,
Refr.
I’ve won the war against gravity
2nd
I finally saw that it was the time,
there are new ways to go and new mountains to climb,
there’s no one who told me, I just read the signs,
Refr.
I’ve won the war against gravity
Wasted time, it’s so a shaming, all these years I’ve spent here dreaming…
18th February 2003
My Nemesis
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
Straight Lines
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
Deep under everything,
Anger persists and even grows,
Takes dimensions you can’t hold.
Hold it against yourself that
You could never let it go,
Never ever let it show.
You have never been my inspiration nor my love,
You’re the most repulsive of all sensations.
Refr.
But if the world is big enough for you,
The world is big enough for me to,
The world is big enough for all of us.
Reprehend yourself,
for never breaking me enough,
My knees are bleeding from going down and getting up,
Let us turn our backs,
And walk in straight lines until we drop,
It’s the only way to stop ourselves, please stop.
You have never been my inspiration nor my love,
You’re the most repulsive of all sensations.
Refr.
But if the world is big enough for you,
The world is big enough for me to,
The world is big enough for all of us.
April 2003
Multiple colours
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
Walking like you do,
Talking like you do,
Could never help me.
More that I tried to,
Fill up your shoes,
More I lost myself.
I want to feel that I’m different again,
And don’t be feel ashamed, I simply enjoy it.
Refr.
All this is me, maybe that no one is dreaming of me,
But I am free to do all the same old mistakes again and again and again.
Walking the same ways,
Never look sidewise,
Will get me nowhere.
Silence is priceless,
Hear what my mind says,
Nothing is hopeless.
I’ll make you feel that I’m different again,
But don’t be afraid, I’m not a threat to you.
Refr.
All this is me, maybe that no one is dreaming of me,
But I am free to do all the same old mistakes again and again and again.
Maybe I scare you,
But there is much more to win than to lose,
Don’t be alarmed if,
There is more than one single turn to choose,
Life is a vast field,
Painted in multiple colours and tones,
You can’t deny those,
Which you consider less beautiful.
Refr.
All this is me, maybe that no one is dreaming of me,
But I am free to do all the same old mistakes again and again and again.
May 2003
Bright new future
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
I’m on my way into a bright new future,
I packed my stuff and left the house,
So far I don’t know where I’ve been but it can’t be so hard to find out.
I’m on my way into a bright new future,
I left no memories behind,
They are my pillow for the nights to come where no rest I can find.
Refr.
So come with me and we will see what will be next to come and,
We are unstoppable and on our way to somewhere we don’t know,
I am guided by the stars and by the wind in my back,
And no one is guiding the wind so maybe one day I’ll be back.
July 2003
Outlines
Hands over you
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
The shadow that you cast is so big,
it covers half the world under it,
you look so different but is this really so?
And when you talk the crowd is listening,
but does this make you more authentic?
it makes you just look even more strange to me
I have this feeling about you,
that you are not alone,
there’s somebody else with you
Refr.
Someone’s above,
looking down,
holding his hands over you so you won’t get dirty
You don’t have to go on talking,
I heart enough to know that I would,
never turn my back without watching out
Imagine us two on an island,
food is rare and water’s running out,
you would push me off a cliff to survive
and what that makes me in your eyes?
just a loss you would be ready to take to get out
Refr.
you are not different than we,
it just happened to be,
that nobody sees you like I do
20th July 2004
Before I sleep
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
I have cursed and I have sworn,
damned the day that I was born,
I carried all the world today
Refr.
Could you tell me something nice before I sleep?
So I can rebuild this world inside my dream,
(just) like I want it
Today I have mostly lost,
and if I won, what was the cost?
I felt the weight of life today
Refr.
Could you tell me something kind,
that would make me change my mind,
if it’s up to me, I’d do the things so differently
27th-29th July 2004
Steps
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
Snow is falling, covering my track,
one by one, my disappearing steps,
in my head…
Refr.
As a child I dreamed at night,
woke up and went to school,
now I try to be what I saw,
I think it was you
Rain is falling, wash away my trace,
one by one, the wrinkles in my face,
in my head…
Refr.
As a man I stayed the same,
just like I was a child,
nothing’s changing, nothing stays the same,
I’m me this time
29th January 2004
A.R.C.
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
One day, one night,
one question unreplied,
once it was evident,
now it’s denied,
action, reaction, consequence
one step, one way,
one special time of day,
first point on your list,
just one thing to say,
full-blooded strike and no defense
It is so simple when you know,
we just go and go
Refr.
Nothing’s real and
nothing’s true and
maybe yes and maybe no
I can risk it if it’s so
Nothing’s wrong and
you can go and
do the things you want to do
you don’t have to, but I do
One place, one time,
one chance to make it clear,
no words, no game,
no different space than here,
sorry all the damage I caused,
not knowing what I was doing,
sometimes you just see the goal and
you don’t notice the way you’re walking on
17th September 2004
Pale image
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
No one forced you to escape your simple life,
it would have been easier inside the hive
In the middle of the stream,
we all felt the same, it seems
that we are lost in space somehow
Refr.
Maybe this is nothing new,
just a pale image of you,
all this has been done before,
even though the stories old,
it needs someone to be told,
or we’re not moving anymore
No one’s over you and no one’s underneath,
in the end, we’re just the product
of the days that we have seized
22nd September 2004
Us&we
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
I’ 24,
soon I’m 25 and someday
I’ll be even more
I won’t tell your age,
I know even thinking of it
Puts you into rage
Refr.
We are getting older,
and we’ll lose our hair,
but don’t worry
we are gaining weight instead
We can trust each other
And we have our friends,
all together we will hold
our cold and skinny hands
I’m 24,
you’re a little more,
added up we’re old enough
to know what life is for
if we stick together,
helping one another,
maybe we can slip past
all the obstacles that bother
30th October 2004
Somehow you
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
I sat there still and felt a chill,
and I knew that anything could happen,
I broke my chains and cleared my stains,
and knew that anything could happen now
I took a bite of my own pride,
and I knew that I could make a difference,
I took a breath and I stopped to guess,
and I knew that I could make this sentence end
Refr.
You are different, somehow you,
make me feel I’m different too,
there is some kind of a current running from me to you
We took a step in the same way,
and we knew that everything was changing,
we felt the same without knowing our names,
and we knew that everything was different now
22th April 2005
Empty home
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
You don’t need someone to fill
an empty home,
you don’t need company to know
you’re not alone,
The objects in your room,
intoning one soft song,
resounding from these walls,
the stories of your life
There’s no void for you to fill
in an empty home,
you can’t cease to feel misplaced,
still you’re welcome here
The pictures on the wall,
your only proof of life,
the silence in these walls,
the noises from outside
09th August 2004
Echoes of life
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
Look what I’ve done to myself,
I’m locked in my room just by myself,
while they are dancing outside
Refr.
But I’m here,
weaker than my fears,
only echoes of life getting to my ears,
I need to find a friendly face,
filling up the empty space in here
Look what I’ve done to myself,
I am record put on the shelf,
and there is music outside
Everyone is just a victim
of his incapacity,
everyone is just a victim
of his own insanity
16th August 2004
Song of a dog
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
I am a dog, I am a dog,
Don’t try to hit me or I’ll bite,
I am a stone, I am a bird,
Don’t try to catch me in my flight,
You’ll never put me in a cage,
There’s too much anger, too much rage,
You’ll never tame me,
I am not the one you should worry about
I am a wolf, I am a dear,
I am lost between there and here,
I am a hunt, I am a chase,
I am lost between time and space,
You’ll never lock me in my room,
I am a flower in its bloom,
I am the only thing
you could be confident about
I am a dog, I am a dog,
Don’t try to hit me or I’ll bite
you
29th+30th September 2004
Better
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
Why we’re talking about leaving in a plane,
when we say the world is everywhere the same,
we have found a way to say,
(that) only the past is worth to stay,
there’s no use getting up today
Refr.
When everything was bad, everything was better,
when everything was bad, everything was better than now
Why we’re talking about leaving in a plane,
when we say the world is everywhere insane,
we are planning our escape, the ideals are losing shape
Because we don’t know what we have,
all the time that we have left,
maybe the best is yet to come,
don’t believe them when they say
Nothing, nothing is better than now
21st February 2005
Airport
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
It is way too early and
It is way too loud in here,
I am way too worried
to get my head clear
you are so very nervous,
what’s wrong?
Did you forget
To take your pill,
You don’t answer my questions,
You sit there still
The world looks so small,
But I feel much smaller in here
Refr.
Please let this not be
The last time that I put my feet on the ground,
I don’t want to leave like this
Without a sound
I just try to look strong so that you
feel more comfy in your seat,
I’m afraid of heights,
You’re afraid of speed
And I guess in some days we will
Laugh about our stupid and unfounded fears
Refr.
Maybe there’s a lot I would not miss but
There is even more that I would,
So please let me come down
Like I should
Refr.
Maybe there’s a lot I would not miss but
There is even more that I would,
So please let us come down
And please let us get out
Like we should
16th July 2004
Ac-1
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
We try to go back in time
and stay forever in this space
drink out the ocean of the past
that warms our very core
Refr.
And we dream in our sleep of things we could achieve
if we were given time, chance and strength of mind
We try to go back in time
and feel the comfort of this place
we know that this is all past
but at least it was
And we hold on to this even if we’re doomed to miss
21st Mai 2005
Surprised
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
Is it real or is it not?
I can’t tell from this spot
I must see from behind
What you try to hide
And sometimes a song is just a song
And sometimes the obvious is not so wrong
If you never trust your eyes
You can never be surprised
Is it real or is it not?
For every yes, there is a but
The cynic talks right from the start
He only hides his broken heart
And sometimes the words are only words
There’s no hidden sense nothing that hurts
If you never trust your eyes
You can never be surprised
27.03.08
Chase the moon
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
Run as fast you can
Still it feels you stand
Nailed into the ground
How come that the sun
Already sets down
Has it made its circle around?
I can’t let go
There’s more, I know
Just give more of your light
This is too soon
Go chase the moon
And ban it for tonight
You can sleep but can you wake up
Can you go back and erase it what if not?
You can wait but can you catch up
You cannot fail if you never really stop
Day has passed but I
Cannot close my eyes
Put my head to rest
This day could be the last
Becomes part of the past
Have I really given my best?
And the answer I don’t know
To a question that I don’t
Even know how to ask in my head
How could the sun
Even think of getting down
And leave me stand alone here in the dark
You can sleep but can you wake up
Can you go back and erase it what if not?
You can wait but can you catch up
You cannot fail if you never really stop
I/U
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
I’m finally here,
the gate was small, the way was long,
I’m so glad we made it home
I hear the talk,
they say that they new all along,
but I was the only one for so long
I irritate you, irritate me
They are finding ways
to make it seem so easy done,
diminish all your efforts, tear them down
They are sowing doubt
and it will make you change your course,
if you want or if you don’t
Outside
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
You don’t need to be afraid
I’m sure we both will find a way
Life is not so bad to us
We got food and drinks en masse
We can stay inside and hide for a while
We don’t need to go outside
This is not what we intended to do
But you know things mostly don’t go
Like you want them to
Looking back later on, we’ll have something to smile upon
And I’m sure this will end up right, we don’t need to go outside
Ocean
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
We fell into an ocean
We fell into the sea
And suddenly it strikes me
No one’s here to look after me
I’m all alone
No one’s going to save us now
Out here
We fell into oblivion
We fell into a hole in the ground
There’s not one ray of light here
The hole is way to deep and profound
Where are you now?
No one’s going to save us now
In here
Where are you now?
A to E
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
No wrong assumption
No comfort please
And all we sang and wrote
Could bring us some relief
My head’s becoming
A barricade
The revolution’s near but
Maybe it’s too late
Help me tear down the walls, can you?
For once is just what you expect
This time it’s from A to E and back
No fast conclusions
We’re not there yet
Of all the things I lack
I really miss my bed
No false illusions
Not really sad
The only thing I need
A place to rest my head
We have climbed up the stairs
Let our lungs fill with air
But for us I didn’t smell so right up there
At least I know where I stand
For once is just what you expect
This time it’s from A to E and back
For once is just what you expect
This time it’s from A to E and back
I fell down
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
I fell down but I got up
Two seconds later and
You fell down and you’re still
Lying there on the ground
With your face in the dirt
And there’s mud on your shirt
And you cry, cry, cry, cry, cry
And you wish you would die
I fell down but I got up
Two seconds later and
You fell down and you could not
Find a reason to get up again
And you started liking
Your life there on the ground
With your faith in the dirt
And there’s mud on your shirt
You don’t need to cry, cry, cry
If you don’t ever live, you don’t ever die
If I was a better friend I would
Take you by the hand but
You stopped so long ago
To reach out for someone you know
Now I cry, cry, cry, cry, cry
Because I wish you would try
Accidentally
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
When you said you’re never going back, well
Did you mean that?
We haven’t talked for a while but talk is cheap
Did you know that?
If you’ve stayed who you were
I mean a little bit
I will know who you are
When we meet accidentally in the streets
When we meet again I will still know you
When we meet again I will not forget you
When you’re gone
When you’re gone I will pretend to sleep
When I said, “forget about the past”, well
I didn’t mean that
Yes, I know, it makes us who we are but
I sometimes forget that
If you’ve stayed who you were
Not a person I can see trough the very first minute
Don’t you think we should try
Someday soon to meet accidentally in the streets?
When we meet again I will still know you
When we meet again I will not forget you
When you’re gone
When you’re gone I will pretend to sleep
Yes, it’s time to catch up on the wasted time
Yes, I feel fine but how are you?
You’ve got a family, that is so great news
I never thought we’d get this old, did you?
When we meet again I will still know you
When we meet again I will not forget you
When you’re gone
When you’re gone I will pretend to sleep
Lock
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
Let’s fake the the silence
and do as if nobody’s home,
pretend we’re all alone
Let’s form a circle
and do as if we’re only one,
this knot can’t be undone
Wherever you go
there’s always a door
nobody can lock
No cold and no heat
we could not defeat,
just grap the phone and talk
Let’s form a spell to
keep all the cold-hearted out,
they always talk so loud
Let’s built a wall to
keep all the trouble apart,
no one gets to our heart
Wherever you go
there’s always a door
nobody can lock
No wind and no storm
can make us fall down,
just grap the phone and talk
When I go,
will you follow?
When I leave,
will you borrow me
all your fears and your sorrows?
All your needs
Wherever you go
there’s always a door
nobody can lock
No fist and no word
can make us feel hurt,
just grap the phone and talk
Now
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
Choose your words and make a rime
You never know when it’s the time
Get everything out that is inside
Clear what’s on your mind
Silence is good, darkness and light
Start to fill the lines on the blank page in my head
Waiting for you now
Come to me again
Waiting for you now
Will we meet again?
I always hear you but you won’t
Use the same language every time you speak to me
You never dictate twice the same phrase
Never show your face out of focus in the shade
10 years
Words & music: Daniel Balthasar
10 years from now is tomorrow
After them 10 more will follow
10 years from now is tomorrow
After them 10 more will follow
How could I have been so wrong?
10 years is not really long
Come back to me again
10 years from now is tomorrow
After them 10 more will follow
It will just go on and on
Even after we have gone
Come back to me again
10 years from now is tomorrow
After them 10 more will follow
How could I have been so wrong?
10 years pass just like this song
Come back to me again