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

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

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

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

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…

Waiting for tomorrow,
And somebody called my name,
Who is it I have to follow?

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…

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…

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.

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

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…

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

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

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

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

I’ve won the war against gravity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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