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Visit us in Rotterdam

Thank you Creative Mornings Rotterdam for giving us a platform to share our latest Two Doors Down song. It wasn’t on the theme of the month (REVERIE), but the city Rotterdam featured prominently in the talk and in Community Minutes.
 
 

Visit us in Rotterdam

 
Rotterdam, O Rotterdam …. Ooo …

Chorus 1
Visit us in Rotterdam
Discover its many charms
Feel the beat of this ‘can-do’ city,
the beat of a working heart
the beat of a working heart

Verse 1
The river Maas, Erasmus Bridge
The tall buildings and the cruise ships
The old church, the Markthal,
the cube houses and the seagulls
Delfshaven, Museumpark
Hotel New York and the Euromast

Chorus 2
Visit us in Rotterdam,
a city of flesh and bone
Visit me and the other locals
in this city that I call home
The city that I call home

Verse 2
We’ll walk around my neighbourhood,
have breakfast at Zus en Kees
On Sunday we can go to church
and picnic at the lake
So much to take in, so much to do
Rotterdam and I, we welcome you

Chorus 3
Visit us in Rotterdam,
a city of flesh and bone
Visit us and the other locals
in this city that we call home
The city that we call home

Rotterdam, O Rotterdam …. Ooo …

Live recording: Good Night’s Sleep

A live recording of Two Doors Down performing “Good Night’s Sleep” at Creative Mornings Rotterdam on 2 August 2019.

The song is inspired by Creative Mornings July’s theme, “End”, and captures something of Irene’s daily struggle to call it quits and enjoy the benefits of a good night’s sleep. Irene is on the guitar as usual and singing lead vocal, while Margriet adds percussion (bell and shakers), sings harmony and plays the melodica. Notice the audience reaction when Margriet starts playing “Somewhere over the rainbow” at the end.

 

Good Night’s Sleep

bell signalling midnight

Verse 1
There’s something about the midnight hour
that brings out the worst in me
Not that I’m a party girl
On the contrary
But I struggle to call it quits
And miss out on all the benefits
of a good night’s sleep

Verse 2
My second wind kicks in and them
I’m chasing after something again
I love the flow but as some of you know
It can be an addiction
I wish I could train my brain
to entertain the counterclaim
of a good night’s sleep.

Verse 3
At the end of the day I need to learn to say
Lady, enough is enough
It’s time for bed, you sleepy head
Stop sweating the small stuff
On the far side of my dreams
There’s a better version of me – I’m dying
for a good night’s sleep.

Coda
Gotta try me some of
sleeping beauty’s beauty sleep

strains of “Somewhere over the rainbow”

Live recording: Symmetry

 
A live recording of us performing “Symmetry” (this month’s theme) at Creative Mornings in Rotterdam on 22 February 2019.

 

Symmetry

 
Verse 1
We were in motion when we met
How we connected I’ll never forget
In this world of tangled dreams
there are no guarantees
I’m one of the lucky ones
who know that love is real.

Chorus
Symmetry, by degrees,
is shape-shifting me
The unexpected symmetry
of me and you loves you and me.

Verse 2
I’d had enough of playing games
Round and round in circles, what a waste
Love helped me to begin
my return to innocence
Love is like alchemy
it changes everything.

(Repeat Chorus)

Verse 3
Looking forward, looking back
Everyone says I’m much more relaxed
The future sure looks bright
with love in my life
It’s not a bed of roses
but it’s deep and wide

(Repeat Chorus)

Live recording: Honest friends

Irene writes,

I’m a regular at Creative Mornings Rotterdam. It got me thinking. Could I write a decent song on the theme of the month and would Creative Mornings Rotterdam let Two Doors Down debut the song live at that month’s breakfast lecture?

The Rotterdam Creative Mornings team were willing to indulge me. To date I’ve written 4 songs inspired by Creative Morning themes, and we got to performed 3 of them live. (“I trust my hands” I performed a capella to a gallery owner in Manchester where I was stranded because I’d missed my flight. It happens.)

 
The 4 songs in our “Creative Mornings Collection” are:

Who will throw me a life line (Theme: anxiety)
Curiosity (Theme: curiosity)
I trust my hands (Theme: craft)
Honest friends (Theme: honesty)

 
Here is the latest song, “Honest friends”, recorded live at Creative Mornings Rotterdam on 26 October 2018.

 

Honest friends

 
Verse 1
Will you tell me the truth
tell me the truth in love? Please share.
I appreciate it when you speak from the heart
It tells me how much you care.

Chorus
I need honest friends to keep me grounded
Who bring out the best in me
Up close and personal
I need your honest-to-goodness honesty

Verse 2
Will you back me up
back me up when I’m under fire
It’s so good to know I have support
from those who know me and how I’m wired.

(Repeat Chorus)

Bridge
Like the pitch and roll of a ship at sea
My life is in constant flux
I need an anchor, a harbour and a lighthouse
People I can trust

(Repeat Chorus)