Category: Lyrics/poems
I’ve always liked the way words sound together, especially when accompanied by music. I can thank Bob Dylan for this because despite the valiant efforts of my high…
We raise a glass to friendship and drink it to the last we make a toast and a dozens boasts about our noble pasts about our noble pasts…
They talked about their yesterdays and a homeland far away, They huddled in the barracks and had nothing good to say. They thought about the days gone by…
I get the globalisation blues When I read the globalisation news Don’t know which globalisation to choose So many globalisation shoes In Europe they follow the laws that…
The sky descends in darkness as clouds block out the sun The end he always feared appears to have at last begun. The hope he found is nearly…
I drove forever and a day and I saw no one; I sailed the river from its source in search of life; I climbed the hillocks up and…
Of course I can be happy too, I’ll do it if it pleases you I’ll turn the darkness into light and bring a brightness to your night I’ll…
Give me the stuff of life, give me the morning light give me a chance to sing, give me a diamond ring give me all you got, I…
Let’s sing of the rivers that run to the sea of the things that have been of the things that must be Let’s glide with the tide and…
time takes its turn again turn again, turn again time takes its turn and the sun takes its time time takes its turn again turn again, turn again…
The most “Latvian” songs in all recorded history are sung around bonfires on the nights of JÄņi and LÄ«go during the Midsummer Solstice. They cannot be translated, for…
The awesome entirety has got me the endless all has got me in its spell the thing of things and all their rings and all the wonder wonder…
I am a man of principles I am a man of my word Come gather round and listen to the things you’ve never heard Come look at all…
I’m grateful to the gods that be for being somewhere near to me I thank the heavens for the time they waste on this mere mortal I count…
Its time to go to battle, the trumpets have been sounded unsheath your sword, adjust your shield and march march into the face of those that doubt you…
The bankers and the businessmen are rushing to their cars with bodyguards and drivers they head out for the bars The ministers and mistresses are waiting for them…
On the edge of the forest, at the foot of the hill where the river runs down to the sea A horse and its rider have taken their…
We live our lives in the now and then, We choose the rules for the how and when. Things are the same as they’ve always been We do…
you can take it all away you can take away my day you can trample on my pride you can make me run and hide you can penetrate…
This city once had walls and cannons that fired balls and every city tower would signal by the hour if children had to fear that enemies were near…
The soldiers of misfortune (Ode to the Latvian Legion) Somewhere in the lonely night an angry trumpet sounds the smoke that filled the meeting rooms heads for the…
Latvia experienced many nights of terror during the Soviet occupation, when the KGB came to apartments and arrested entire families, loaded them on cattle cars and shipped them…
We planted our seed near the great Northern Sea sending roots deep below in a land that was free We took strength from the oak, we stood tall…
God is this God is that God is that which is under your hat God is good God is strong God is never, ever wrong God is big…