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Keep Me Company
03:56
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Keep me company
when the day is done
We lost some battles here..
but our hearts have won
A winner is dreamer who never gives up
Try your luck cause we’re not here for long
The rapid fires, develish ticking clocks
Stay with me now, before it all will turn into dust
Keep me company
with a buoying grace
your heart of lightness will
keep the ghosts at bay
A winner is dreamer who never gives up
try your luck cause we’re not here for long
The rapid fires, develish ticking clocks
stay with me now, before it all will turn into dust
Graphs about charts
Charts about graphs
a figure eight that lasts
Poems about math
Math made of poems
Deconstructing our love
But are you holding your cards to your chest?
Are you giving it your best?
These develish ticking clocks
cause we’re not here for long
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Best of Times
03:49
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THE BEST OF TIMES
It’s the best of times
it’s the best you’ll ever have so
celebrate the golden sublimated sounds
dance till the morning after
A brief crack of light
the upward lightning is stretching
Stop worrying about wether you’re running out of time
to do everything you wanted
Oooh
Travelling the best of storms
Travelling the far and the close by
Full of meaning and full of joy
Young again, young again,
When her heart is gone
ran off with another love
Like the sunset bloom
Need some space, some breathing room
like California, California,
Stop worrying about wether you’re running out of time
to do everything you wanted
Celebrate the golden sublimated sounds
dance till the morning after
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3. |
The Golden Lining
05:42
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THE GOLDEN LINING
Colours colliding, beautiful chaos
Random collections, drawing skyscraper trees
My skeleton sketchbook, bycicle wheel fountains
Everything’s golden if that’s what you want it to be
Destiny is like a boat sailing the chaos
dazzle painted with circled stripes
Always stay hungry and stay foolish
Stay young don’t let the fire die
The sea is dancing, inhaling the fire
Collapsing chaos, I can almost feel your smile
Turning tragedy into triumph
even the silver lining is golden
Have some faith that you will belong
beacons of hope that’ll guide you home
They glitter in the reflected light of the sunrise
The words I write they keep me sane
I let the meaning all escape
Run with the haunted, sleep with the verbs
Let the vowels be undisturbed
Drink the colours, feel the waves
How all reason has escaped
to far off places where it glitters in the reflected light of the sunrise
Let me see you dance
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Ghost Town
00:59
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Forever
03:35
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Forever
The nature of things, can’t put my heart to rest
The longest now, try to catch it while you can
If clouds were trees, I’d climb them fearlessly
If hearts were drums, I’d beat them like a charm
I wanna feel this way forever
Gotta hit this town and go
Get in on the action
Like a figure 8 we’re lasting
let’s put the time on hold
make it everlasting
Nothing so bad - it can take the F out of
Fill Everything up, I need it all so it won’t stop
I wanna feel this way forever
Gotta hit this town and go
Get in on the action
Like a figure 8 we’re dancing
let’s put the time on hold
make it everlasting
The way we get by
it’s a tender life
And I can almost
feel your smile
Let’s fool the reapers
Let’s fool time
Let’s pick the long straw
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THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
The perfect light that shines on you
The way the colours dance in dedication
to the paint that has been searching like a fool
for answers, clues, a cauldron of temptation
And the ferocious strokes and colours
make me feel alive
In the garden of earthly delights
Turning the big corner,
Round the bend tonight
Watch the giant birds
Strange fruits
Organic shapes
Cavorting nudes
Hybrid creatures
bathe in the lakes
saying, good things come to those who cannot wait
in the dead of night
I never felt more alive
In the garden of earthly delights
I never felt more alive
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A Great Day
05:09
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A GREAT DAY
Are you selling out
Just because you can
Just because it’s there for you to grab
Free but compromised
Did you ride along just because you could
just because you think you should try everything
It’s a great day to leave everything behind,
and see how wonderful this life can be
It’s a great day to leave everything behind,
and feel completely free from reality
even when it pulls you down
even when the rocks don’t roll
even when the squares are round
even when the beat drops out
It’s a great day to leave everything behind
and see how wonderful this life can be
It’s a great day to leave everything behind
and feel completely free from reality
It’s a great day to leave
It’s a great day to leave
or are you selling out?
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Do you want all of everything
you need to have it now
Do you want all of everything
enough for you?
Do you want all of everything
you need to get it now
all, all, all of everything
you know I need it now
all, all, all of everything
the golden rule is to be consumed by you
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Animals
04:40
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ANIMALS
A new moon rising, looking up, to a forrest canopy
like christmas time in hell, we are happy to be free
The animals the’re off, people caught in zoo’s
Reproducing art, abundant piles of food
Step it up a notch, underneath the moon
More bang for your buck, caught up by the rules
Into nature like Walden pond, a suitcase full of trees
the smoke and mirrors that man has fought, behold its vanity
The animals the’re off, people caught in zoo’s
Reproducing art, abundant piles of food
Step it up a notch underneath the moon
More bang for your buck, caught up by the rules
The kaleidoscope is shaking
The pieces all in flux
The silverlining clouds that
All drift off in the dark
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9. |
Keep up
04:36
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KEEP UP
A list of things I should forget that just don’t matter
Fortunateness, worried times are getting better
The sun is beaming seemingly easy metaphores
The silhouettes of circumstances written in chords
Keep up
Answers won’t get you where you want to end up before your time is up
Keep up
Don’t let there rules let you end up where you just don’t belong
Suppose I wasn’t there at all would everything stop?
Turn the dice and toss and turn your life into art
Keep up
Answers won’t get you where you want to end up before your time is up
Keep up
Don’t let these rules let you end up where you just don’t belong
Keep Up
Floating high above the cloudy shaded mountain tops
Keep up
keep the hope machine running, longing, never giving up
Keep up
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Being and nothingness
The first moment when you realize that your heart belongs to someone else
at times I’d never thought I’d ever get it back
The scent of early spring
when you remember that all these things here will not last
watching life going by too fast, too fast, too fast
The scent of early spring, remember.. don’t forget
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11. |
The Sunset Suit
03:15
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So who this girl you’re with
where are you going now
what’s this song you’re in
roads and stairs and clouds
And suddenly we’re all just gone
off to another part of town
then this whole story is off
dead and gone and drowned
in its own story lines
We’re all round the bend
juggling with the looping time
and then they’re all about to ask
where we’re going now
what are we about to find
The soundtrack to your life
So who’s this girl you’re with
where are you going now
what’s this song you’re in
sunken feathered clouds
and suddenly we’re all just gone
off to another part of town
and this whole story is off
dead and gone and drowned
in its own story lines
fast forward rewind
juggling with the looping time
and then they’re all arriving fast
from all parts of town
they’re all gonna wear this timeless sunset suit tonight
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CHOP WOOD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chop Wood is a solo project by musician and graphic designer Odilo Girod.
The second album
'The Golden Lining' has been released in 2020.
A debut album was recorded in Berlin as part of the in a cabin with project.
Meanwhile Chop Wood is also working on music for films and documentaries.
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