Here you find most of the lyrics to the songs on the new bartmes CD modular soul. Enjoy!
The Source (© 2011 / lyrics by Jo Bartmes)
too cheap, not deep, distractions creep into my life awake, asleep
too big, too fast, too loud, no doubt,
not smart, no good, just jive, not funny
who runs my life, who’s got the money
three, two, one, sensory knockout,
where can I find release from all distractions
four, five, six, how about
regaining power over all my actions
regaining power over all my actions
power over all my actions
find release from all distractions
regain the power over all my actions
be this, be that, but don’t be sad
the market’s up, so what’s so bad
slick and smart and hot and cool
happy, preppy conformists rule.
I want to be the source again
and not be victim of remote controls
and our desperate world’s conflictions
there is a well of love and grace
hidden away deep in myself
abandon all restrictions
abandon all restrictions
regain the power over all my actions
abandon all restrictions
I've got it all, I am enough, I'll be the source and spread my love, yeah
Strange (© 2011 / lyrics by Jo Bartmes)
don't ask why
just go with me
time goes by goes by
it's so wonderful suddenly
I'm as happy as I can be
in awhile
in awhile
lets exchange
no soulless word
just be strange
be strange
like an exotic bird
making sounds that I've never heard
please be strange
be strange
Do you want to know
that I love you so
Does it make you stay
(or) make you go away.
gentle moves
my brain is still
lucious grooves
with you
blending our hearts until
moving apart we will
just be strange
be strange
Do you want to know
that I love you so
Does it make you stay
(or) make you go away.
The moment I define
that you're heart is mine
you will disappear
and the night is clear.
Fair Love (© 2011 / lyrics by Jo Bartmes)
there's broken glass
the tears will dry
it's hard to breath
and time goes at a slower pace
compelled to fight
i don' know why
where there was love
there's many words and no more space
we're fighting hard
the air is tight
the joy is gone
two views of right
it's hard to move
without the light
fear stops the groove
with all its might
i'd like to let you know
no matter where you go
this has been a bumpy ride
but I'll always feel you at my side
i'd like to let you know
no matter where i go
and even if it's hard to see
you'll be a part of me
loving fair ain't that easy
it's easier to live at war
it takes a lifetime to cease the fire
but at the end we'll fight no more
High Taste (© 2011 / lyrics by Jo Bartmes)
I like champagne.
What do you drink?
You're going insane.
Life's on the brink.
(You) can't see the joy.
(You) never get the rest.
Since you were a boy
live life without the zest
I'm doing well.
There's nothing much wrong.
I make my living
singing a song.
I'm doing quite fine.
What's wrong with you.
You work on an assembly line.
What can I do?
You are fourty years old and never been to school.
How much that makes me feel like a privileged fool.
You sew my hipster clothes and you're cleaning up my waste.
Make my life affordable, survive on my high taste.
You are harvesting my gourmet food - have barely enough to eat.
You are shoeshining my shoes, nothing to wear on your own feet.
Will we change our minds and make the shift today.
I'm pretty shure not ready yet to give up the privileged way.
We've got it made.
We're doing well.
This is your fate
living in hell.
Authenticity (© 2011 / lyrics by Jo Bartmes)
Do you want me to be pretty?
Do you want me to be pretty?
Do you think that I am funny?
Can you dig the things I do to hide myself?
Can you dig the things I do to hide myself?
Do you want me to be pretty?
Do you think that I am funny?
I am funny.
Can you dig the things I do to hide myself?
Can you dig the things I do to hide myself?
I better stop pretending.
Will you love me when I cut the lying game.
The masquerade is ending.
The Me you know and who I am is not the same
I better stop pretending.
Will you care for me if I don't always shine.
The masquerade is ending.
Can I be proud of everything that's truly mine.
Authenticity, authenticity, authenticity, authenticity
is the city where I wanna be
is the city where I wanna be
is the city where I wanna be.
Do you love my smile?
Hope you like my style!
Do you love my smile?
Hope you like my style!
Everything I do to be loved by you.
Everything I do only to be loved by you!
Everything I do only to be loved by you!
I better stop pretending.
Will you love me when I cut the lying game.
The masquerade is ending.
The me you know and who I am is not the same
I better stop pretending.
Will you care for me if I don't always shine.
The masquerade is ending.
Can I be proud of everything that's truly mine.
Authenticity (I better stop pretending)
authenticity (the masquerade is ending)
authenticity (I better stop pretending)
authenticity is the city where I wanna be
(the me you know and who I am is not the same)
is the city where I wanna be
(the me you know and who I am is not the same)
is the city where I wanna be.
Let It Be (© 2011 / lyrics by Jo Bartmes)
say you love me
will you let me go
pressure off me
I will beam and glow
say you love me
will you set me free
let go off me
can you wait and see
say you love me
we are tryin' to fly
back up off me
this is no good bye
you say that you love me, can you please let me be free, you say you
treasure my free soul, then what do you expect from me, you know that
all our wishful dreams will never live up to reality, the
only moment that is here and now and you and me and we are
free to feel alive and fly away and let it be and I will
go and will not stay and you will also fly not held by me and
all I'm tryin' to say is that I want to set us free and want us
all to let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.
Your Guts (© 2011 / lyrics by Jo Bartmes)
I should have met the other girl
Before and not after I met you
I should have listened to my mom
When she told me what to dohoo
I’d like a smaller nose, a smarter brain and better education.
Live would be so much easier if I would know my destination.
Wish, would, should, could
If, when, maybe, then
You got to do what you do and like it
Because if you know, there’s no wrong and no right
There is no use to excuse and to fight
About every little thing.
You got to live by your guts or you going nuts
If there wouldn’t be so much ignorance
Our world would be much better
I wish I wouldn’t allways say so much
That doesn’t really matter.
If I were a real singer I could sing this song right
and I would be rich and famous and my future would look bright -
and my future would look bright
Wish, would, should, could
If, when, maybe, then
You got to do what you do and like it
Because if you know, there’s no wrong and no right
There is no use to excuse and to fight
About every little thing.
You got to live by your guts or you going nuts
We hear this voice from deep inside that tells us what to do
which is our gut feeling beyond opinion and indoctrination.
With great success we do suppress it in our selfs and in our kids over the
years with heavy manipulation.
Which is to bad cause live is good when you listen to your guts voice
and not to anybody elses dogma that says you got no choice...
you got the choice...
