Edinburgh (i/ˈɛdɪnbʌrə/ ED-in-burr-ə; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and the seat of the Scottish Parliament. It is the second largest city in Scotland and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a 30 square miles (78 km2) rural area. Located in the south-east of Scotland, Edinburgh lies on the east coast of the Central Belt, along the Firth of Forth, near the North Sea.
The city was one of the historical major centres of the Enlightenment, led by the University of Edinburgh, helping to earn it the nickname Athens of the North. The Old Town and New Town districts of Edinburgh were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 in recognition of the unique character of the Medieval Old Town and the planned Georgian New Town. It covers both the Old and New Towns together with the Dean Village and the Calton Hill areas. There are over 4,500 listed buildings within the city. In May 2010, it had a total of 40 conservation areas covering 23% of the building stock and 23% of the population, the highest such ratios of any major city in the UK. In the 2011 mid-year population estimates, Edinburgh had a total resident population of 495,360.
Boudewijn de Groot (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbʌu̯.də.ˌʋɛi̯n də ˈɣroʊ̯t], born 20 May 1944) is a famous Dutch singer/songwriter. He is known for the songs "Welterusten Meneer de President" (1966), "Land van Maas en Waal" (1967), "Jimmy" (1973) and "Avond" (1996) among others. On 19 January 2007 he issued his latest album Lage Landen (Low Countries).
Boudewijn de Groot was born in Indonesia in 1944 in a Japanese concentration camp close to Batavia (today known as Jakarta) where his mother died in June 1945. In 1946, he and his family returned to the Netherlands. De Groot's father, however, was obliged to return to Indonesia, so De Groot went to stay with his aunt in Haarlem. In 1951, his father came back and in 1952, the family moved, with his new stepmother, to Heemstede. De Groot lived in Heemstede in the same street as his future lyricist, Lennaert Nijgh, who was a friend of De Groot's stepbrother.
Goodbye my love
I'll be seeing you when the lights go
When I put my head on the pillow
I'll think of you
My crimson dove
Wish that I could save you from the sadness
Honey, all around me lies the madness
Ooh, of your love
What makes the price good enough to wanna pay?
What makes the hurt go away?
Fire escape when all that I can do is ache
Since you've gone away, you've gone away
My bleeding heart
It ain't gonna be the same without you
To think of all the shit we've been through
Ooh, I know, I know
Love makes the price good enough to wanna pay
But it don't make the hurt go away
Fire escape when all that I can do is ache
'Cause you've gone away, oh you've gone away
Oh, go away
Let the fire escape, all that I can do is ache
With every keystroke of every line of every paragraph
bent on other demise.
Vacant face set with empty eyes.
Computer screen filled with nothing but lies.
Techno Logic Kill! You’re fucking fake; you don’t know
what is true.
Techno Logic Kill! It’s time to realize your world isn’t
real.
Tech No Logic Kill! I’m sick of the fighting this is all
your fault.
Your destructive ways must come to a halt.
Dramatic child it’s time to quit. Pseudo feelings, no
true voice.
You don’t belong here; you’ve made the wrong choice.
The keyboards your weapon, the screen’s your defense.
Safe at home now let the bullshit commence.
It’s time to grow up, or get the fuck out!
Don’t put up just shut up, stop running your mouth.
Techno Logic Kill! You anonymous punk you will get no
respect.
Techno Logic Kill! Without your computer you do not
exist.
Techno Logic Kill! Technology’s warped any logical
Children bred for a like packed with hate.
Feeble minds, Forced, Not taught what to think.
As ignorant as the mother that birthed.
Devils in my eyes and scum of the earth.
Icons of filth you were doomed form the start.
No mind of their own with no soul and no heart.
Foul minded beasts with missions obscene.
Programmed to chase an impossible dream.
Purify! There is only one cure.
Purify! For this problem that plagues.
Purify! For this evil that lingers.
To purify this world your life must end.
Purify! I will kill for my beliefs.
Purify! I will kill to bring an end.
Purify! I will kill to bring justice.
By any means necessary i will defend.
So your.. Your life must end.
By any means! This plague must end!
Your ways, Your life, Your kind i want them dead.
Welcome to my realm where the fee for you is none.
Where your ignorance and racist ways are shot down
through the barrel of a gun.
With a fist in your ugly face or with a blade of a bloody
knife.
You’re a total same of a human being and a complete waste
of life.
So we shall purify this earth, and rid this world of your
I am a visionary. Set content on my chosen path.
My mind is mine. I know my own way.
I don’t need a monitor on everything i say.
You only complicate.
Not content with the current state of anything or anyone.
You’re only here to complain and ruin others fun.
And there’s a difference between you and me.
I say what i want while you say what you think the rest
of the world wants to hear.
But what you don’t understand is you’re scared, You’re
just living in fear.
I spit venom, spit flame, I’ll say what i say.
I will not be contained.
You try to maintain a tight grip on society.
Always worrying about what others will say.
Why don't you waste the time on someone else's day.
I don’t care what you think of me or [my] personality.
I am who i am, not who you want me to be.
I'll say what i say, you can’t contain me.
You will never silence me.
My rage will always be set free. And i will always say
what i want to say.
I’m doing things on my own way. So stay clear of my
ravenous ways.
You can not silence me. My rage will be set free.
Maybe then you will see you can’t contain me.
My iron jaws won’t seal. They’ll maul through everything
you feel.
You may not like us but we don't care so fuck! you!
Just leave your bullshit at the door.
We'll leave your morals on the floor.
Like animals out [of] the cage, welcome to the house of
rage!
Sympathy for you is what we lack.
And Nothing will be held back.
Step to us and plead your case, but pardon me while i
rage all over your face.
If you can't take it then you should get the hell out of
Your priorities are just as screwed as the stupid
things you say.
You don't belong here, You never did, So why don't you
just stay away.
If attention is what you're looking for then you sure
won't find it here.
So stop the charade and start facing up cause we know
that you're insincere.
And I can't believe what you're doing.
Trying to cash in on what we've built.
And I don't believe what I'm seeing.
Another fake mocking what we feel.
While we sacrifice our own lives to keep this strong
you're just here along for the ride.
Just another sheep in the wolves clothing, you're all
bark and no bite.
I think that it's about time for you to wise up and get
your mind right and realize that we will weed out your
kind.
We're sick of your selfish ways and all the stunts you
pull to try to make a name to gain fame.
But no! Not today!
Not any more 'cause we know you're lame.
And you'll never be welcomed again.
And I think that it's about time for you to wise up and
get your mind straight.
You're just a puppet a tool here for personal gain,
with no true love for the scene.
We see straight through you and know you're not what
you seem you drama queen.
Listen to me and take heed.
Hear my words, You are a drying breed.
And you'll never be welcomed again.
While we sacrifice our lives you're just along for the
ride.
We as lions, We claw beyond the surface of your dreams.
We look through the fantasy you create and see how ugly
this world can be.
I will not lay down my life to the army of pacifists.
I will keep my fight and lay down the law, smash through
the filth with this iron fist.
Your peaceful harmony is not reality.
A world in check and devoid of violence will never
fucking be.
You can’t let down your guard in the face of the enemy.
Because Hate. Reaction. Hate. Is all these eyes have
seen.
So don’t you preach to me the bloodshot eyes shall see.
Peeled open in search for some truth.
The fortunate ears shall hear how they should learn and
live a positive youth.
But none of it means a thing ‘cause people do what’s
necessary to do.
So my advice to you is Get Real!
Wear the mark of saints so pure, of lifetime
commitments you shall endure.
Now up on stage with mic firmly grasped.
A waste of your honor when your heads up your ass!
Don't chastise me for the choice i make.
You words of malice turn respect to hate.
Unity is a dying dream when you try to shun me form
what's most important to me.
I won't!
Be shoved down to the side or looked down upon.
I won't!
Be kept form this life that I've loved so long.
I can't!
Be held at your arms length I'm already in.
But trust me!
I'll curb your ego when you talk your shit.
You can't look down on me when I'm on top.
Don't try to wage a war that should not be fought.
You shut your eyes; you closed the door, tried to make
me feel unwelcome inside my own home.
Now shut your mouth while I break down your door 'cause
this is my life, My world as much as it is yours.
Break It Down Now!
Now shut your mouth while I break down your door, This
is my home!
It was never ever meant to be fist over fist.
You ain't the slightest bit better than me; you don't
run this shit.
Now get the fuck off of that stage and meet me face to
face.
You're as ignorant as they come, [your] integrity's a
waste.
HARDCORE!
Hardcore will never die, keep it alive within our hearts
and minds.
HARDCORE!
Hardcore will show our pride for good friends, good music
& good times.
MY LOVE!
My love will never fade.
Still burning strong since the first day.
Our lives are lived hard, the weak have no say.
We are the strong and we will have our way!
Peel back the flesh and expose my veins.
My blood runs thick and that wont ever change.
Love for my family’s strong and here to stay.
Down for the core ‘til in my grave i lay.
Flesh of my flesh, of blood and bones!
It’s what i love it’s what i know shouting hardcore!
‘til the last day
Demand respect and respect will be paid.
In this for life somehow some way.
Keep up the fight and show your pride.
You can’t really think you’re on top.
The shit goes down and all you do is talk.
As soon as a body hits the floor you want to jump in
the mix.
A vulture ups his score.
You can’t really think you’re on top.
You’re like jackals feeding on the scraps.
Cowards running with the weakness pack.
Stay in back until you feel it’s safe to make the
attack.
But it’s all for the show just to get known.
You only want to make a name but your not grown.
So you better slow your role ‘cause when you’re alone
you’re just another punk who needs to get thrown to the
wolves so you’ll learn respect is something to be
earned.
And you’ll get burned if you want to act a fool and
think it’s cool.
But i think you better chill before you get schooled.
You better check your chest. Is there courage inside?
You better check yourself; you’re not on my side.
You better recognize this is not your fight or i just
might have to bust another head tonight.
You can’t really think you’re on top.
You proved [you’re] a coward so you better walk.
Don’t come around acting like something you’re not.
You think you’re hard but your not, so i hope that you
stop.
You can’t really think this fight is for you.
You make me hate you with the things that you do.
Well in the end son you’re gonna lose ‘cause I’m sick
and tired of you and your bullshit crew.
You’ll never be more than just a joke.
Something better change ‘cause I’m at the end of my
rope.
So you better wise up now or quit the game.
But it seems you’re more concerned with the quest for
fame.
You better check your chest.
Don’t be a fool like the rest.
You better check your chest.
Word is Bond
This is what i live for
Every step of our progress is taken with pride.
No clichés, no gimmicks here.
Se true love held within these eyes.
Our word is what sets us apart.
A bond deeply rooted inside our hearts.
It cant be touched, this thing of gold.
Their dirty hands can’t taint what i hold.
Feel the burn deep inside.
My sword, my shield, my life, my pride.
Their shady eyes have no effect on me.
Nothing they bring can phase my loyalty.
Word Is Bond! My word is bond.
And all i want is to keep this moving along.
Word Is Bond! My word is bond.
Despite the faults we are still growing strong.
Word Is Bond!
And i know that you’ve already heard this all before.
But this is truth and this is real.
It’s in my heart this is how i feel.
Survivals a must and the way to win is to express our
ideas again and again.
There is never too much, to hold back is loss.
Release and gain at any cost.
Our word is bond and it reigns true.
From them to us, form me to you.
Word Is Bond! My word is bond.
And all i want is to keep this moving along.
Word Is Bond! My word is bond.
Despite the faults we are still growing strong.
Word Is Bond!
And i know that you will hear this all again.
We won’t change.
We’ll plant our flag through the hearts of the enemy.
We won’t change.
A sway like a vacant sullen swingset
In the cooling breeze
On the playground of abandon
Surrounded by memories
White horse whisper blood token
The blade of age is at my throat
Cold white horse whispers empty hope
Recite blood light cold white horse is comin'
Transcend into nothing
A sway like an occupied gallow
In a faint hollow(repeat chorus)
Never wanted the sun, never needed the sky
Now I want it, lead on, I will follow you, to the end
Ailing bed of memories exhaust
Drifting from my final stand
Swollen fevered density, reweighing identity
Doubt and faith meet scrimmaging
I've downed the bottle of believing day after day
Or am i lost in time (repeat chorus)
Pages of prayer, decisive chapter
Mirror fearing the judgement
Creedence whispers, questions rise, inert wearied lullaby
I am breathing the final dance
I am buried deep under the soil of my mind in the forest
The book of elemental existance creeps forth shut
Graceless waning dispute
Spiralling a disappearance into the den of solitare
As I lie here wide awake
I kneel and pray a curse to break
Nature fades, human resides
Pollution equals slow suicide
Sheltered mind dominions
Hooked on falso opinions
Natural thought disaster
Gripping warhead master
Fictional security
Their transparent conviction bleeds
The elemental hand of trust
Will wash away all of the dust
Sheltered mind dominions
Hooked on false opinions
Natural thought disaster
Gripping warhead master
Heavens weep the silence
Shames guilty scars have carved my face
I wish I could scream but my breath is asleep
The troublemaker drove my being off a cliff
And I don't remember if I looked before my leap
Glass revolver shooting liquid ammunition
Oh, I lost sight of that which determines
Poion tongue led by a focused whiskey eye
My heart is sick, is sick and my skin is uncomfortable(repeat chorus#1)
Oh, I lost sight of that which determines
Oh, spreading like a flood suffocating reason
Lost in webbing spun by the spider of truth
Oh, I lost sight of that which determines
Oh, oh the thinning air resembles my patience(repeat chorus#1)
Poison tongue led by a focused whiskey eye
Shifting sails
And wake dawn trails
Black curtained puzzle pieces that refuse to pale
Sifting tales
Through shielding veils
Corroding ill foundation of reports so frail
Royalty slumbers by the grave edge of four knights
One from five
Released on the ocean
This circle of silence will splinter
Misting ails
Cresting waves wail
Of essence in the presence of armored exhale
Shifting sails
And wake drawn trails
And paths of negligence that hold judicial scales
Fabricated tools crafted this stage you have built
How overbearing are your strings puppets of guilt
At peace with emotion
This circle of silence will splinter
On from five released on the ocean
This circle of silence will splinter
One from five
One from five released of the ocean
This circle of silence will splinter
One from five released on the ocean
When I was young I caught a snowflake in my hand of beautiful design
It melted after a brief existance in a whispers decline
Let us pretend we are not beasts of the field
Let us, Let us, Let us escape invisible cages
Define risk and you will find they erase all the minds
By routines as wisdom is left for sages
I've got a better way to waste your life
Seasons change, you know I'm right, seasons change
The artery of perception limits potential progress
The machine wears a suit made out of the unmotivated desireless
To the beholder at heart the ties of all choice, the risks of the wants
And opinions of voice can evade the overcast that obscures desire
I knock your ladder, who is the madder?
Reunite your mind to your soul of high(2x)(repeat chorus)
When earth was young she held a people in her hand of beautiful design
It melted after a brief existance in a whispers decline
What's that sound? A crack of whip...in a future residing in nowhere?
Restraint of chain? The twisted maze of the murmors insane?
The insects of greed swarming their next bite?
Lost centuries of dreams, slay the king and queen
Reunite your mind
Reunite your mind to your sould of high(2x)
Place your suffering on the shelf of the victimized centuries
Relieve your suffering, embed the bullet of hope deep in your chest, Lodged into your chest
Educate your suffering, cleanse the bodies stacked centuries high
Please my suffering, experience the breath that you have been given
Your life is only one, swimming in the seas of the unknown(2x)
Erase your view and lift a stone, realize that the future is your own
The perspective alone, life is only one
Blood bearing spore soaked mind field
Captain cap poisoned thought swirl
Skein jungle knot, skein Vacant proof, False truth;
Cold confusion, Cold confusion
A quest for knowledge that seems an inch out of reach
Depression steals dreams as broken hopes wash ashore on death's beach
On death's beach(3x)
Cold confusion(3x) cold confused
Rogue mobocratic silence
Disordered plot, sanity rot(2x) mystery mystery
Opinionated mental intrusion, a fitting stage for cold confusion
Opinionated mental intrusion
A silence sits alone from a lack of communication
A mind destroys itself in the hands of interpretation
A voice is downed by an opposition
An empty thought contains useless contradiction
On death's beach(3x)
cold confusion(3x) cold confused(repeat chorus A)
The star focused
Lenses on orchids
Black mantra
Bonds the mantis
To my friends
Teach me how to swing
So I can take out trash like you
The dragon snowed on your summer
Wild fires bloom
Where your gardens used to grow
I'll shed a tear for your mother
For she won't know
Batting lashes
Sift your ashes
Searching for the key
Purring for the seed
And your little red wagon
Throws it's temper tantrums
And give praises to your dreams
Teach me how to swing so I can ramble on with you(repeat chorus)
Your garden's burn in snow
Tell my mother that I am dead, I am dead
I'll be the sailing the ocean till the water is not such a dark shade of red
And when the Caiman Island spread
There's no way out brothers
Yea(5x)
Enter the sycophant
With the deceptions
Golden gates with silver keys
Tailoring image expertise
Guideline on a shiny hook
Eight winds tear apart the book
Format abuser abuser
I am ghost image remover
Fire breathing copperhead
Painted forest green
Saturated in the sound
Echoes from no scene
Things ain't always right in my town
I've bled the grain and I've been around
Caustic soul
Plastic advice
With a cost you'll pay the price
Frozen versatility
Hail storms on felicity
Eight winds tear the book apart
Shadows follow the heart(repeat chorus)
Have you ever held an image of a ghost?
Roll out
Yea(6x)
Things ain't always right in my town
I've bled the grain and I've been around
Sin fold scarring
Compromising from industry clowns
An aged bottle of dream
Adjusting to your need
I won't drink your water
Our tap flows clean
Your sore voice
Guides me to sleep again
Charcoal legends do not sleep
So pay the horde a toll to keep
If you pass through the blood mark gate
You'll see no ice on the boiling lake
Your sore voice guides me to sleep again(2x)
I won't drink your water
I refuse to drink your water
I refuse
Your sore voice
So when the banshee kissed the gold
After the torchlight burned the past
Their methods bought their secrets sold
Then the water turned to ash
Your sore voice guides me to sleep again(repeat chourus)
I refuse to drink
The water turned to ash
Vision you as the widow
Dressed in royalty
Motion me to the window