Daniel Balthasar

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

I always laugh when I could cry
yes I lie once in a while
I’m used to choke down when I could throw up
fight battles against myself, never win the cup

The scars that I wear
I made them myself
If you look for safety, please,
look somewhere else

Refr: I always be my nemesis

My mystery is my inner-me
who’s pulling strings and who’s tearing me?
tomorrow I hate what I love today
my head’s full of words but there’s nothing I could say

The scars that I wear
I made them myself
If you look for safety, please,
look somewhere else

Refr: I always be my nemesis

You think that you could handle me
are you aware of what this means?

22.06.2000

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

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

Keep it ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Write a note, write it to myself
from now on I’ll be some one else, all right?
leave all bad habits right behind
be myself but a better kind for you

Winning is easy,
when you only fight yourself
and when you lose the fight
just keep it to yourself

Write a note and then burn it fast
promise made, promise not to last for sure
if there’s nothing that gets in my way
maybe I’ll start another day, ok?

Winning is easy,
when you only fight yourself
and when you lose the fight
just keep it to yourself

02.07.09

Give in ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

We have known us for a while
there’s a thing that makes me smile every time
when you’re mad and call me names
and your mood goes up in flames
when you’re done with playing games

When we fight I never really want to win
‘cause I love this little wrinkle on your chin
when you try not to give in

We have known us for a while
there are things that drive you wild every time
when I’m down and don’t say why
everything passes me by
yes you hate me when I’m shy

When we fight I never really want to win
‘cause I love this little wrinkle on your chin
and your voice is just as if you’d like to sing
when you try not to give in

When you’re mad and call me names
and your mood goes up in flames
when you’re done with playing games

All this time ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Summer’s coming, summer’s gone,
falling leafs and falling snow
this is how the circle goes

Night and day, I thought of you
tried to make green out of blue
tried to go on and let go

I will love again
all this time
that I’ve kept you in my mind
all this time

Winter’s here but I can see,
spring is just in front of me,
all I need is to hang on

no bad feelings, no regrets
don’t say “I wish we’d never met”
I meant everything I said

I will love again
all this time
that I’ve kept you in my mind
all this time
that I’ve locked you up inside
all this time

I meant everything I said
in my chest and in my head
but this road has found an end

That’s the point we say goodbye
shake our hands and walk on by
what is broken has to end

I will love again
all this time
that I’ve kept you in my mind
all this time
that I’ve locked you up inside
all this time

Summer’s coming, summer’s gone,
falling leafs and falling snow
this is how the circle goes

Walk under water ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

One toe after the other
try to take it easy

when your head’s under water
you just quit the breathing
for a while

I am not sinking
I’m just trying to walk under water

I am not planning to drown
I’m just an ungifted starter

I will surely get there one fine day

One foot after another
the water is freezing

Take good care where you walk
avoid the dangerous streaming

as long as you can

I am not sinking
I’m just trying to walk under water

I am not planning to drown
I’m just an ungifted starter

Every beginning is hard
I will just have to be harder

And I’ll surely get there one fine day

My weight’s dragging me down
I walk on shallow ground
I know it cannot be far to the shore
three steps or maybe more
I start to count and go
one, two, three, four…

I am not sinking
I’m just trying to walk under water

And I’ll surely get there one fine day

And if not
I’ll just get washed away

13.02.10

Ready ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Did you pack your stuff
are you ready can we go
there is nothing left
that would keep me here for sure

all this yelling started from a buzz
there is no place someone waits for us

When you’re here with me
that is all that really matters
when you’re with me
I’m ready

When you’re here with me
nothing more could make it better
when you’re here with me
I’m ready

All the walls came closer
and the ceiling dropped on us
and the soil is bitter
we must go now, yes we must

we have spent too much time in this town
start the car and drive, don’t turn around

Stop giving up now
get yourself together
don’t you fail me now

Satellites ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Imagine floating satellites
metallic spying butterflies
checking your moves and your vital signs
all the time

Imagine giant telescopes
detecting all your deepest thoughts
they see inside you and see it all

There is no escape at all
these are translucide prison walls
they’re made so we cannot see them fall

No one can ever be lonely anymore

Come for you ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

I see you in a room with no light and no doors,
the floor is made of concrete, no windows on the walls,
don’t you resign to your fate,
I’ll digg a hole or build a gate

Every time you fall into this confounded room,
trouble lies ahead and dark clouds seem to loom,

I can make this bubble burst,
I am prepared for the worst,

I will always come for you

When you go down there,
you go all by yourself,
you let me standing here
while you’re just somewhere else

I’ll find a way to this place
you never leave without a trace

And if I could I’d burn it down
I’d light a match and that’d be left
ashes on the ground

I will burn it down,
I just light a match,
and I watch the flames,
Watch the flames grow high and higher
until there is nothing left

12.08.09

Concrete walls ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Say, say, say what you need to say
what you need to say
burn, burn, burn, what you need to burn

Take, take, take all that you can get
all that you can get
Tear it out of somebody’s head

And you twist, dissemble, use it for your purposes,
you feed it to your ego and your bitterness

And you crush my stones to sand in your hands
and you break my concrete walls and my hardest defense

Put away all your big grenades, all your big grenades
stop to shoot little poison darts
step back and let the others do what they need to do
maybe you’ll find something to do too

Just remember not so long ago
you had something that would make you go
but you traded it for something else, you know

And you crush my stones to sand in your hands
and you break my concrete walls and my hardest defense

Sarcasm rules the world ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Well, you look good today
for somebody, let’s say,
with such a lethal illness

your kids are doing well
in their detention cell,
who likes his parents anyway?

if words can hurt your mouth’s a knife,
cutting what’s good out of my life

If sarcasm rules the world
how come that you never win?
If sarcasm rules the world
how come that you’re net the king?

I think that you could win
if you would change a thing
or maybe just completely

Or even better though
the world will change for you
and you can stay the way you’ve been

you see that words can build a wall
but they can also be a wrecking ball

You win, you win again.

12.09.09

Find in you ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

We don’t choose, we are what we are
just a piece in great jigsaw
you’re the piece that I love the most

I find in you what I can’t find in me
I see in you what I can’t see in me

I find in you what I can’t find in me
I see in you what I can’t see in me
I feel in you something I could not feel all by myself

Everthing is temporary ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

These scratches on this wooden floor
show somebody’s been here before
someone called this place his home

7 years with this one guy
and the days kept flying by
but now you’re standing here alone

The only constant that I see is how it changes around me and how it alters everything I used to be

Your biggest win, your biggest loss
everything is temporary, everything’s made to be lost
you were the king, you were the boss
everything is temporary, everything’s made to be found and to be lost

They listened to the things you said
and no one dared to shake his head
now they look the other way

You said goodbye to the world
every single bridge was burned
but now your planning your return

The only constant that I see
is how it changes around me
and how it alters everything I used to be

Your biggest win, your biggest loss
everything is temporary, everything’s made to be lost
you were the king, you were the boss everything is temporary, everything’s made to be found and to be lost

you felt so down
a dried-out desert all around
everything is temporary, everything’s made to be lost

It all was good until it changed
‘til it was rearranged
everything was exemplary
before it just turned into ordinary

21.& 22.02.12

Away ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Calm down, nothing is so bad don’t you see
you’re only trying too hard, let things be

You don’t need to be all perfect
please leave a spot where we see that

you are just human and you
are just flesh and blood
you are not different at all

Someday it will go away

Calm down, you’re wasting your time, don’t you see
no one can turn this around you or me

I know you want to be perfect
and no one’s closer than you but still

you are human and you
are just flesh and bones
you are not different at all

And when day comes you will see that it’s just fine as
it is and you don’t need
to worry all the time about it
let’s face it, you can’t change it anyway

29.07.11

Say what’s on your mind ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

You can say what you want to
I will do what I need to
I have to

You can say what’s on your mind but it won’t change a thing
you can try to catch me but I’m out there on the wing
I don’t really have a choice
if we don’t use it why do we get a voice?

You must do what you have to
All my words cannot stop you
you’ll break trough

I can say what’s on my mind but it won’t change a thing
I can try to catch you but you’re out there on the wing
you don’t really have a choice
if we don’t use it why do we get a voice?

You can say what’s on your mind but it won’t change a thing
you can try to catch me but I’m out there on the wing
we don’t really have a choice
if we don’t use it why do we get a voice?

26.& 27.07.11

Change ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Please come around and sit down
this time I’m around
Please try not to wear your frown
when I’m around

You know some people change
but then most people don’t
Some things stay the same
but then some simply won’t

Don’t ask me to change if you don’t know what you want me to change into

You say you feel upside down
while I’m around
You’re scared to make a sound
while I’m around

You know some people change
but then most people don’t
Some things stay the same
but then some simply won’t

Don’t ask me to change if you don’t know what you want me to change into

06.05.11

To the start ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Try to break the ice
fear’s a bad disguise and
words are not my friends

Can’t you speak for me
feel completely free, I’ll
listen and then we shake hands

Roll back to the start
try to be a part
of what’s going on
around you

Roll back to the start
it’s not really hard
to be part of what
surrounds you

Try to make a stand
smile and go shake hands and
talk away the silence in this room

Can’t you do the same
all my jokes are lame but
please laugh anyway, I would do it for you

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. (Quote by Samuel Beckett)
It will go on like this forever

18.08.11

I knew this ship was sinking from the start ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

I can’t see a thing trough this wall of fog
and no one around has the guts to talk
and say what we all know and feared for so long
the route that we sailed on might be the wrong

I knew this ship was sinking from the start
I knew it was hitting the shore
I knew it was hitting it hard

I don’t understand how did we get so far
we lost all our maps and the northern star
when suddenly clouds came and blinded our sight
by then it was too late to make it right

I knew this ship was sinking from the start
I knew I would have to let go
I knew that it would break my heart

14.-16.11.11

Parallel universe ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Maybe there’s a place where you and I can coexist
all our troubles and our fightings easily dismissed

And the birds are flying in the bluest sky
and I love you without ever asking why

But I don’t believe in a parallel universe
there might just be one
and this rusty medal doesn’t really have a shiny reverse
there might just be none

Maybe there’s a place where we could talk and listen too
and my words would reach you like they were intended to

all the answers would be floating through the sky
and you’d love me without questioning the why

04.11.11

Another word ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

Impatience is a virtue
no matter what you say
it makes me
get trough a
lot of eventless days

Impatience is what makes you
get up and go away
while all signs
clearly show
you really ought to stay
holding on to

Someday’s another word for never

Impatience is a tough glue
that sticks on strange ideas
and makes you
not stop until
you get what you need

Impatience is what makes you
dare things that you should fear
and all signs show you that
you should get out of here
nowhere to run to

25.11.11

Reconcile ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

When you’re alone in your bed
everything moves in your head
and in your heart
the worry is deep
I wish I could
catch some sleep

That is the moment that I’d like
heart and mind to reconcile
if only one of them would say
I don’t mind, close the file

When you’re asleep in the night
in your dreams raging fight
and when you wake you can’t recall
but then again you feel so small

That is the moment that I’d like
heart and mind to reconcile
if only one of them would say
I don’t mind, close the file

21.01.11

Dealing in absolutes ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

I am buried under heaps of sorrows and
muddy water’s slowly filing up my lungs
instead of trying to find what’s wrong with me and all
I am sitting here writing simple songs

Simple songs are fine but they never dissolute
everything that doesn’t work the way it used to do
they just play along and tell you what to do
but life does not deal in absolutes

I thought I was gone, I thought I was done
I thought that I hated every single one

I thought I was lost, I wrote you a song
about how much I was right and they all were wrong

I am buried under heaps of nothing and
there’s an empty void inside my nights and days
I’m afraid that this hole might be bottomless
maybe I should look out for some better ways

Simple songs are fine, but they never give an answer
or at least they never give the needed one
did those simple songs ever help anyone
life does not deal in absolutes

I was wrong
life is made of simple songs

01.& 02.08.12

You are missing ↑

Words & music: Daniel Balthasar

This morning was a grey one
with clouds in my head
all over sudden you were there

you popped into my mind
like the sun comes to shine
and brightened up what’s good in there

but you are missing in my picture right now
and all I try is to get to you somehow
my friend

This evening was a dark one
with cold misty rain
and I felt so alone again

please pop again into my thoughts
and help me once more
to get my sinking boat to the shore

but you are missing in my picture right now
and all I try is to get to you somehow
my friend

29.11.10

everything is temporary

walk under water

Palpitations

Outlines

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 ↑

Surprised ↑

Chase the moon ↑

I/U ↑

Outside ↑

Ocean ↑

A to E ↑

I fell down ↑

Accidentally ↑

Lock ↑

Now ↑

10 years ↑

Keep it ↑

Give in ↑

All this time ↑

Walk under water ↑

Ready ↑

Satellites ↑

Come for you ↑

Concrete walls ↑

Sarcasm rules the world ↑

Find in you ↑

Everthing is temporary ↑

Away ↑

Say what’s on your mind ↑

Change ↑

To the start ↑

I knew this ship was sinking from the start ↑

Parallel universe ↑

Another word ↑

Reconcile ↑

Dealing in absolutes ↑

You are missing ↑