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HELMETTES LYRICS
© Joris Pelgrom & Pieter Kooijman
Click And Sing-a-Long
I don't care what the people say
Half Twee
Is It Safe Out There
1978
So, what are you going to do about it?
Watching my name go by (Song for Dr.Rat)
Hurt By A Rose
Sweet summer sweet (I love You)
Close My Eyes
Sit Still
We’re Not Dead Yet
Hey Girl!
You’re Beautiful
Angry No More
Follow The Stars
AS IF
DADDY REVOLUTIONARY
MARMELLATA
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY
I Q Zero
My Fun (is boring fun)
Etc.

I DON’T CARE WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

Well, I don’t care what the people say
Well, I don’t care what the people say
Well, I don’t care what the people say
I just make my day

It ain’t their problem what I wanna be
It doesn’t matter what they see in me
I don’t care if they talk behind my back
It’s okay if the wanna make me black

Well, I don’t care what the people say
Well, I don’t care what the people say
Well, I don’t care what the people say
I just make my day

Doing strange on the street
Is like stepping on their feet
They say I am a "fucking" idiot
But, all I want is my private riot

Well, I don’t care what the people say
Well, I don’t care what the people say
Well, I don’t care what the people say
I just make my day

Well, I don’t care what the people say
Well, I don’t care what the people say
Well, I don’t care what the people say
Well, I don’t care what the people say
Well, I don’t care what the people say
Well, I don’t care what the people say
Well, I don’t care what the people say
That’s all I gotta say.

Half Twee
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

Half Twee; Your time is over
Half Twee; You gotta go
Half Twee; What you doing tonight
Half Twee; The sun is bright

Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee
Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee

Half Twee; I'm sick of you
Half Twee; What are you gonna do
Half Twee; So tough shit!
Half Twee; What time is it?

Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee
Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee

Half Twee; V.D. patients are dead
Half Twee; And I'm so glad
Half Twee; Bells on rhyme
Half Twee; Can you spare me a dime

Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee
Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee Halloo

Half Twee; Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee Half Twee
Etc.

Is it safe out there?
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

I don’t care what the people say
I need more, more time to play

We are hiding far to long now
While the world keeps spinning on
We are working like dogs now
While the party is going on

We should all go out together
Show them who we really are
Don’t you mind the ugly weather
We can always take my car

Is it safe out there?
Is it safe out there?
It’s dark in here
Is it safe?

Never noticed it somehow
That we talk about the past
I don’t care what the people say
I need more, more time to play

Would you like to come with me
See what is going on outside
Maybe one more time than ciao
So we never need to hide

Is it safe out there?
Is it safe out there?
It’s dark in here
Is it safe?

We are hiding far to long now
While the world keeps spinning on
We are working like dogs now
While the party is going on

Would you like to come with me
See what is going on outside
Maybe one more time and ciao
So we never need to hide

Is it safe out there?
Is it safe out there?
It’s dark in here
Is it safe?
 
1978
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

I was fifteen in nineteen seventy-eight
I was to have more fun in nineteen seventy-eight

I heard Jimmy say in nineteen seventy-some
I had the right to sing and dance

In nineteen seventy-eight

I discovered girls in nineteen seventy-eight
I was to have more fun in nineteen seventy-eight

I got on the stage in nineteen seventy-seven
Grabbed the right to sing and dance

Nineteen seventy-eight

I was only fifteen in nineteen seventy-eight
I was to have more fun in nineteen seventy-eight

I found ‘bout girls in nineteen seventy-eight
I was to have more fun in nineteen seventy-eight

Kill all the hippies!

So, what are you going to do about it?
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

So, you got yourself a job
you didn’t expect to like
You want to hate your boss
but she is a sympathetic dyke

Your father really doesn’t mind
you’re dropping out of school
And your stupid older sister
says you’re so cool

So what are you going to do about it?

Play your vinyls loud
for the old fart down the stairs
Now he wants to borrow discs,
is there really no one that cares?

Waiting for things to clash
Where does it go?
Everybody seems so happy,
damned that’s no go

So what are you going to do about it?

Tomorrow you’ll go to work
wearing inside out black jeans
Fancy gel in your spiky hair
so they’ll see what it really means

If everybody likes you
with that cock-ring in your nose
It’s time to settle down,
that’s just ‘bout how far it goes

So what are you going to do about it?

Watching my name go by (song for Dr. Rat)
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

See the children spray
Doctor Rat, Doctor Rat
See the children spray
Doctor Rat, Doctor Rat
Watching my name go by
Doctor Rat, Doctor Rat
See the children spray
Doctor Rat, Doctor Rat

Writing our names on the wall
His and mine and yours and all
That’s how it was yesterday
You can hear us old guys say

Not that much has changed
Authorities stay amazed
How they do it at night
Messages without a fight

Paintings worth a gallery
How art becomes artistry
That was the wish by far
From our dead old friend Ivar

See the children spray
Doctor Rat, Doctor Rat
Watching my name go by
Doctor Rat, Doctor Rat

Still with Lenny and all that jazz
Who could even have guessed?
Not me not you and surely him
It was over before the begin

Like I am sure would he
I find it really funny
People born after he died
Call out his name late at night

On a wall he wrote Half Twee
That’s faded, his name will stay
That was the wish by far
From our dead old friend Ivar

See the children spray
Doctor Rat, Doctor Rat
Watching my name go by
Doctor Rat, Doctor Rat

---------------------------------
If he would only know
That he is the new hero
Sure he would laugh like mad
That mystery called Doctor Rat

New artists call out his fame
He’s the one that takes the blame
The guy that wrote my name
On the city’s first subway train

Of course we had our differences
A long discussion among friends
To act seriously crazy
You don’t have to be …

See the children spray
Doctor Rat, Doctor Rat
See the children spray
Doctor Rat, Doctor Rat

Where has he gone?
The cross eyed black man
Oh where have you gone?
Lulu

Hurt by a rose.
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

I got hurt by a rose
The blame is on me
The pain goes thru my spine
She’s dead now, I suppose

I got hurt by a rose
The blame is on me
The pain goes thru my spine
She’s dead now, I suppose

Hurt by a Rose (x)

She was all sweet
Gave me all of her time
Gave her my last dime
No more do I need

She was all sweet
Gave me all of her time
Gave her my last dime
No more do I need

Sweet summer sweet (I love you)
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

The sun is red
Shining over your head
And I love you
No cloud in the sky
Who wonders why
‘Cause I love you

The sea is blue
The beach is you
And I love you
We swim like fish
It's all we wish
‘Cause I love you

Sweet summer sweet
Let me kiss your feet
‘Cause I love ya’
Sweet summer sweet
You’re all I need
‘Cause I love ya’

After the sun
You’re the greatest fun
And I love you
You see you’ll get
Let's go to bed
'Cause I love ya'

I'm happy like I am
Who gives a damn
‘Cause I love you
Do you want to dance
Let’s give it a chance
‘Cause I love you

Sweet summer sweet
Let me kiss your feet
‘Cause I love ya’
Sweet summer sweet
You’re all I need
‘Cause I love ya’
Sweet summer sweet
I Love You

Summer is great
Let's make it late
‘Cause I love you
We're living today
Wish you could stay
'Cause I love ya'

Awake all night
‘Cause it feels all right
And I love you
We play with sand
In this our land
And I love you

Sweet summer sweet
Let me kiss your feet
‘Cause I love ya’
Sweet summer sweet
You’re all I need
‘Cause I love ya’

Sweet summer sweet
Let me kiss your pretty feet
Sweet summer sweet
You’re all I need
Sweet summer sweet
Let me kiss your sandy feet

Sweet summer sweet
You’re all I need
‘Cause I love ya’

Close My Eyes
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

I have been driving for hours
Forty-eight or even more
Under the sun through showers
Forgetting what I passed before

Never did I go to fast
I stay on the middle lane
Never first never last
Never completely insane

Long never ending tunnels
With more lights than the naked sky

I stop at a tollbooth
From autostrada
To autoroute
---
I have been gone for days
Seven eight or more
To get out of this maze
Been over here before

My job got lost
Faithful made the most of it
Pleased the family at all costs
Than started all this shit

Long never ending tunnels
With more lights than the naked sky

I stop at a tollbooth
From autostrada
To autoroute
---
A dark slow truck
Black, small red lights
Accelerated, what the fuck
Must be one of those nights

Feel no pain, not a thing
There is nothing out there
Not Elvis, the king
It just is not fair
---
[crash]
---
Please take my hands of the wheel
And close my eyes
Take my hands of the wheel
And close my eyes

Sit Still
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

Sit still sit still
Gonna take your picture
You better sit still
Don’t go back in the past
Don’t go any further in the future
Sit still sit still
Gonna take your picture
You better sit still
Sit still sit still
Don’t go back
Don’t go any further

Sit still sit still
Don’t go back
Don’t go any further
Sit still sit still
Don’t go back
Don’t go any further
Sit still sit still
Don’t go back

Sit still sit still
Gonna take your picture
You better sit still
Don’t go back in the past
Don’t go any further in the future
Sit still sit still
Gonna take your picture
You better sit still
Sit still sit still
Don’t go back
Don’t go any further

Sit still sit still
Gonna take your picture
You better sit still
Sit still sit still
Let me tie you down
You’ll never escape

Sit still sit still
Don’t go back
Don’t go any further
Sit still sit still
Don’t go back
Don’t go any further
Sit still sit still
You’ll never escape

We’re Not Dead Yet.
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

We’re not dead yet.
And if we were, we wouldn’t tell you.

We have just been sleeping.
Time flies, when you’re dreaming.

We’re making plans.
Using the same old, agenda.


We, we, we, we, have to go.
You, you, you, you can stay.
We, we, we, we, go astray.
We, we, we, we are not dead yet.


We’re not dead yet.
And if we are, you are as well.

We’re only dreaming.
It’s true, you’re only dreaming too.

We know you’re out there
And only we, can bring you back.

We, we, we, we, have to go.
You, you, you, you can stay.
We, we, we, we, go astray.
We, we, we, we are not dead yet.

We, we, we, we, have to go.
You, you, you, you can stay.
We, we, we, we, go astray.
We, we, we, we are not dead yet.

Hey Girl!
©Joris Pelgrom & Pieter Kooijman

Hey girl, where are you going with that gun in your hand?

Why are you full with this aggression?
Did he get out of your side of bed?
And now you want to shoot someone dead?
Like some kind of fashionable depression?

Hey girl
Stop now
Hey girl
Stop now
Hey girl!
Hey girl!
Stop now

Why are you full with this insane hate?
Did he put on your waitress skirt?
Looking for a place where it doesn’t hurt?
Isn’t there someone in the wait?

Hey girl
Stop now
Hey girl
Stop now
Hey girl!
Hey girl!
Stop now

Why all this furious anger in silence?
Is there no warm place where you can stay?
They all let you go anywhere but away?
Where is the hidden love in violence?

Hey girl
Stop now
Hey girl
Stop now
Hey girl!
Hey girl!
Stop now

Look out guys; baby’s got a gun.

You’re Beautiful
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

You got no opinion about planet earth.
You don’t know where the damn place is.
You can’t remember what you voted for.
And why your brother died at war.

One time you read a book
It was at some kind of school
Something romantic.
That’s what you are looking for.

You don’t know why people hate each other.
You don’t know why people love a god.

You’re beautiful.
I don’t understand a word you’re saying.
But you’re beautiful
I don’t understand a word you’re saying.
But you’re beautiful
Beautiful baby.

You have an opinion about the neighbourhood.
There’re to many leaves coming from the trees.
You know who is number one in the charts
You don’t care about your brothers C.D.’s

One time you went to a museum.
It was with some kind of school.
You did not go in.
It’s not what you from life.

You don’t know why people kill each other.
You don’t know why people kill for a god.

You’re beautiful.
I don’t understand a word you’re saying.
But you’re beautiful
I don’t understand a word you’re saying.
But you’re beautiful
Beautiful baby.

You never knew there was a second world war.
You ask me: Paris how far?
You never knew there was a second gulf war.
You ask me: Berlin how far?

You’re beautiful.
I don’t understand a word you’re saying.
But you’re beautiful
I don’t understand a word you’re saying.
But you’re beautiful
Beautiful baby.

You’re beautiful.
So fucking beautiful.
You’re beautiful.
Beautiful baby.
Oh, you’re beautiful
So fucking beautiful.

You’re beautiful.
I don’t understand a word you’re saying.
But you’re beautiful.
Fucking beautiful.


Angry No More.
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

I don’t want to get angry no more.
Don’t want to get pissed.
Over an opportunity missed.

I don’t want to get angry no more.
I should calm down a little.
It ain’t easy when nobody helps a bit

I don’t want to get angry no more.
If no one seems to care why do I?
I yell and I cry.
==
I don’t want to get angry no more.
==
I don’t want to get angry no more.
Don’t want to get pissed.
Over an opportunity missed.

I don’t want to get angry no more.
When I see those boozers,
with pensions for losers.

I don’t want to get angry no more.
When I hear educated nobodies.
Talking bout stealing as a cult thing.
==
I don’t want to get angry no more.
==
I don’t want to get fucked up.
No intentions to shut up,
but still angry no more.

I feel no anger when they mention.
There is no chance, no intention,
to change a little bit.

So fuck them, fuck you.
If this is all you want to do.
Make a choice if you dare.
==
I don’t want to get angry no more.
==
Don’t want to get angry no more.
Don’t want to get pissed.
Over an opportunity missed.

I am no coward.
Just want to get a bit forward,
when my anger is out of the way.

Where has your patience gone?
It’s no longer in the sack
where it used to belong.
==
I don’t want to get angry no more.
==

Follow the Stars
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman
 
You have your heroes,
Listen to the music they make
Follow every ball he throws
Like in that movie take.

Life is so easy
The hero shoots the heroine
Are you waiting for your man?
The obligation of a fan.
---
Bring the gun to your little brain.
Carry the burden of proof.
Die like the big star in total vain
Underneath mommies roof.

Follow the stars (x3)
Why don’t you
Follow the stars (x3)
And go to hell
---
We all have our heroes
Listen to the music they make
Get those videos
Man, he is a fake.

Buy me a Bentley
Get yourself a red jacket
Have you seen Elvis lately?
Working at the supermarket.
---
Bring the gun to your little brain.
Carry the burden of proof.
Die like the big star in total vain
Underneath mommies roof.

Follow the stars (x3)
Why don’t you
Follow the stars (x3)
And go to hell
---
Go and crucify yourself
So you may hang around the stars
Go and crucify yourself
So you too may hang around the stars

As If
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

As if you did not smile at me
As if you did not talk with me
As if you didn’t come with me
Just imagine that you did not stay

That you don’t cry with me
That you don’t wait for me
You didn’t feel this hate for me
Think about how our lives could be

As if we could have foreseen all this
Should we have acted on it?
Do you think we are that strong?
As if we could have foreseen all this
Should we have acted on it?

As if you did not start a live with me
As if you did not made love with me
As if you did not hate me
Just imagine that you walked away

You could be somewhere else
Fighting and loving someone else
You could be someone else
Think about how our lives would be

As if we could have foreseen all this
Should we have acted on it?
How do you think we lasted this long?
As if we could have foreseen all this
Should we have acted on it?

Do you think we are that strong?
As if we never loved
How do you think, we lasted this long?

Daddy Revolutionary
(Joris Pelgrom – Pieter Kooijman)

Viva la revolución!

Viva Zapata
Che Guevara
Karl Iljitsj
Come out of your solitary

Cynical feeling has come over me
All those promises made
Generation after generation
Now, they say, it’s too late
Let’s burn down some barricades
I’m free this Sunday if you like
Throw down the bloody gates
Daddy, help me fight

Wake up, Daddy revolutionary
Wake up, Daddy Revolutionary
Daddy, daddy, daddy revolutionary
Wake up, Daddy revolutionary

Richard Penniman
Bobby Zimmerman
Davey Jones
Me? No one knows
Are we the lazy sods?
Turn around in our cods

All those little revolted
Made me angry and numb
About egocentrics it revolves
I don’t want to know, it’s so dumb
I don’t want a new world order
I just want to be controlled
Stop telling me what to believe
I just want everybody to wake up

Wake up, Daddy revolutionary
Wake up, Daddy Revolutionary
Daddy, daddy, daddy revolutionary
Wake up, Daddy revolutionary

I wonder: is it fighting? Or is it fun
Pablo Picasso
Jackson Pollock
Andy Warhol
Away with the old?
Bin Laden’s wild life
George double you
He wants you
Working for the
Yankee dollar

Wake up, Daddy revolutionary
Wake up, Daddy Revolutionary
Daddy, daddy, daddy revolutionary
Wake up, Daddy revolutionary
Daddy revolutionary
Wake up, Daddy Revolutionary
Daddy, daddy, daddy revolutionary
Wake up, Daddy revolutionary
Wake up, Daddy Revolutionary
Daddy, daddy, daddy revolutionary

Come on daddy
My Daddy Revolutionary

Wake up, Daddy Revolutionary
Wake up, Daddy Revolutionary

Were have your balls gone?
Daddy Revolutionary

Wake up, Daddy Revolutionary
Daddy, daddy, daddy revolutionary
Wake up, Daddy Revolutionary
Mommy where is daddy?

Marmellata.
©Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman

Cara Amica
Vedo le lacrime nei tuoi occhi
Sento come tremano le tue mani
Ascoltato il dolore nelle tue parole

Noi siamo amici da un bel po’
Noi ci conosciamo molto bene
Noi siamo pronti ad aiutarci
Siamo il tuo sostegno

Hanno parlato di zucchero nella benzina
Hanno pensato ad accendere
A me non sembra abbastanza
Ne faccio marmellata

Vado a trovare quello stronzo
Non ce una strada sicura
Non ce una piazza aperta per lui
Non ce un posto per nascondersi

Ne faccio marmellata
E verrà dimenticata

Cara Donna
Lascia scorrere via le lacrime dai tuoi occhi.
Riprendi la forza di prima nelle tue mani.
Togliamo l’amaro dalle tue parole

Non si parla più
Non si ricorda più   
Non lascio una traccia
Di lui non si parla più

Ne faccio marmellata
E verrà dimenticata
Amen

I Don’t Know What To Say
(Joris Pelgrom - Pieter Kooijman)

I don’t know what to say. The things that I am scared of...  Scared of the consequences....for you and me. You and me, should not be, could not be happening, still this is happening. I don’t know what to write. I write you e-mails filled with irony. Irony hides what I truly feel. I truly feel you and me, could have been. Should be happening Say it’s happening.

I don’t know what to say
When I am awake
I don’t know what to do
What’s at stake?
I don’t know what to say

I don’t know what to say, you say you’re dreaming. Dreaming of me, like I dream of you. I am dreaming, dreams do come true. It’s true you and me, are really happening?

I don’t know what to say
When I am awake
I don’t know what to do
What’s at stake?
I don’t know what to say

I don’t want to scare you, scare you away. Words are not enough, I don’t know what to say. Like to hear your opinion, your opinion on this matter. Does it matter? If it’s not happening?

I don’t know what to say
When I am awake
I don’t know what to do
What’s at stake?
I don’t know what to say
When I am awake

I don’t know what to say
I don’t know what to do
I don’t know what to say

Do you?
Do you?

Share it with me
Love, share it with me
Are you online?

(Lyrics published with the kind permission of  Half Twee Tunes)

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