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Compassion Collides

by Oliver Verse

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1.
2.
Silence 03:37
Take your time I’m at your side Travel safe Your future’s bright Don’t feel lonely Smile and find We’re just silent This faded night We will keep our Dive deep and find us Don’t be frightened Loose your blindness No need to fight Go where you go Your state reminds us To let you go And keep our silence We will keep our
3.
She Mumbles 02:05
Mum, she mumbles What you told me last night Still has me thinking Now you’re out of sight Mum, she mumbles Have you seen dad I missed him at breakfast Is he still in bed? Mum, she mumbles May I marry this man And go where he takes me Do you understand Will you come with us? To sing away the affair Until vapor vanishes Revealing solid air Mum, she mumbled
4.
Sam 03:52
He only took the old piano And left the rest behind He painted and polished Till it fit in his new life With a brand-new telescope In the mirror magnified He watches himself struggle In the past, losing his wife Sam got stuck In his shelter from the storm Sam got lost Trying to hide from home There’s a room full of paintings Parallels, morphing lines Day after day he sits here While his self esteem declines With a colorful blindfold He’s stuck in a maze With the paper-thin woman Who now rules his days Sam got stuck In his shelter from the storm Sam got lost Trying to hide from home
5.
You’ve got to see it while you can’t see it You want to see it but you won’t see it You wouldn’t see it while you sure see it You’ll never see it if you don’t see it You say that you run and run and run and run And chase what you’re after Telling me to go and go and go and go And go and go faster Always wanting more and more and more and more But not for the better Hungry eyes that grow and glow and grow and glow Until they will shatter Always playing hide and seek With no one to be found Always playing hide and seek With no one to be found You say that you know and know and know But know that I know you’re lying You say that you don’t, you don’t, you don’t, you don’t And still you keep trying Always playing hide and seek With no one to be found Always playing hide and seek With no one to be found
6.
So you tell me your happy Now tell me, who’s your real friend Why can’t you tell me directly That you had it all planned Well, does it matter what I think Does it matter what I do Do you still notice there’s more in this world then just you So you tell me you want it Now you figured all out So you take for granted Know we won’t scream and shout Well, does it matter what we think Does it matter what we do Do you still notice there’s more in this world then just you No time to process No time to think
7.
Stuck 02:34
What took me so long? Nothing
8.
Bones 03:56
9.
Overdrive 04:05
Endless nights of desire Blindly driving up a wall With smoking wheels of fire Wasted, wanting it all Chasing lines Overdrive Every time I, fly-by-night Torn apart and reassembled Driven by short skirts and tights Disappearing in darkness Looking for green lights Chasing lines Overdrive Every time I, fly-by-night Look at yourself Chasing lines Tell me where you’ve been Look at yourself Who you are You’re no mean machine What do you do When the mirror shows A stranger took your place Do you go? Do you go? Do you go? Chasing lines Overdrive Every time I, fly-by-night Chasing lines Overdrive Every time I, fly-by-night
10.
Ten Years 02:58
Slowly we drop in Morning, sunlit To celebrate life and the loss of it We will not forget Ten years, incomplete All our expectations, you did exceed You got lost, did not proceed We will not forget You ask attention, cold feet Memories turning up heat Today history does not repeat We will not forget Words wander slowly through the room From your chest and start to bloom With warm regret, like sweet perfume We will not forget I do it for your love I do it for our loss Never crossed my mind to give up I do it for your love I do it for our loss I still need your love
11.
I Want 06:28
Warmth Comfort

about

It was one of the last conversations I would ever have with her. I sat on the edge of her bed. Watching the grey Octoberness coming in. We sat in silence; 2008 it was. “What if you can do it all over”, I asked, “what would you do differently? What do you regret?”
“I would have liked to do more of my own thing. My own ideas, my own needs” she murmured with a whispering voice in my ear. “Being naughtier”. And she was quiet again. In this devastating silence, it hit me. I’ve always known, but I’ve never acted to it... So that moment I decided to quit my job. To rent out my house and start over new. From scratch, without money, without a job, but... from now on I’m a musician.

While my career started, the connection with my dad faded. Slowly we slid into an impossible relationship in which we couldn’t understand each other anymore. Creating contradictions and confrontations.

How do you deal with someone else’s choices you don’t agree on. How do you support each other in a situation where no-one wants to be. How does loneliness confront you when all structures you know fall apart.

During those years I’ve written down my story in every way I could. I travelled, took photos, composed and wrote poems. Found and lost myself many times, but ten years later finally there was a change. My father and I started opening up again. It ended this story. My personal story. So here it is. Compassion Collides tells how life scours, pulls, pushes and flirts. Straight through the dark, looking for the source.

In loving memory of my mother, Justina van Kamp

credits

released March 26, 2021

All music written, produced by Daniel van Loenen

Fresh ears & creative support by Merlijn Verboom
Mixed by Daniel van Loenen
Mixing final touch by Darius Timmer
Mastering by Darius Timmer at Studio de Plaatjesmakers
Artwork & design by Emile Feij
Photos by Daniel van Loenen

Guest musicians
Sam Alekos Vuskovic — Bass
Paper-thin Woman Pim Kokkeler — Guitar
Overdrive Nana Effah-Bekoe — Bass
Overdrive Mats Voshol — Drums
I Want Mats Voshol — Drums

All tracks are recorded and produced in Daniel’s studio at Birnie’s.

Drums and Rhodes of ‘Overdrive’ have been recorded by Tim Schakel at Studio de Kluizenaar.
Vocals of ‘Overdrive’ have been recorded at Merlijn Verboom’s ‘The Projectiekamer’.
Drums of ‘I Want’ have been recorded at Mats’ place.

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Oliver Verse Amsterdam, Netherlands

Oliver Verse is a project by Daniel van Loenen. Daniel is a composer for Darwin Project, dance collective MAN || CO and is keyboardist / trombonist with Nana Adjoa. He previously played with Jett Rebel, Dotan, Wooden Saints and Cast Glass, among others. ... more

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