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You may be feeling a stranger in this land by Walter Vermeulen

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WV2044/2025

Ecoline ink and coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.

"When the fire inside that burns so bright begins to grow faded

It can be hard to see the ground on which you stand

Though you may not be afraid of walkin' in the darkness

You will feel like a stranger in this land

You can try to carve a faith out of your own

But a broken spirit may dry out the bone

And the edges of the night may cause you sorrow

You know I may not be around this time tomorrow

But I'll always be with you

Yeah, I'll always be with you..."

THIS TIME TOMORROW - Brandi Carlile, 2021.

Lucy In The Red Sky With Dragons by Walter Vermeulen

Old76 Music-inspired DArt 2015

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile

The girl with dragon on her back

HOLIDAY INN by Walter Vermeulen

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WV184

1993

Coloured pencil and calligraphy writing on Steinbach.

Inspired by lyrics of Bernie Taupin (1970).

There are many HOLIDAY INN's all over the world, not only in the USA...

Just Another One Like The Other One... by Walter Vermeulen

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012

Dire Straits Songs Illustrated

MAKING MOVIES

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Expresso Love

Music & lyrics by Mark Knopfler & Dire Straits 1980

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She gets the sun in the daytime

Perfume in the dusk

And she comes out in the night time

With the honeysuckle musk

Because she smells just like a rose

And she tastes just like a peach

She got me walking the wildlife goes

I'd do anything to reach her

And she was made in heaven

Heaven's in the world

Is this just expresso love

You know I'm crazy for the girl

She call me just to talk

She's my lover she's a friend of mine

She says hey mister you wanna take a walk

In the wild west end sometime

And I get trouble with my breathing

She says boys don't know anything

But I know what I want

I want everything

Well I feel so good cos I feel so good

And I feel so good cos it feels so right

I was made to go with my girl

Like a saxophone was made to go with the night

And she can raise one eyebrow

Put her hand on my hip

And I close one eye now

Sweat on her lip

And I surrender to the fever

I surrender to the will of the night

She love me so tender I got to believe her

Love ? Expresso love's alright

I don't want no sugar in it

Thank you very much

All wired up on it all fired up on it

Expresso touch

Hey maestro expresso

It's just another one just like the other one

Hey maestro expresso

Is this another one just like the other one

Island Girl by Walter Vermeulen

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012

Elton John Songs Illustrated

ROCK OF THE WESTIES

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Island Girl

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1975

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I see your teeth flash, Jamaican honey so sweet

Down where Lexington cross 47th Street

She's a big girl, she's standing six foot three

Turning tricks for the dudes in the big city

Island girl

What you wanting with the white man's world

Island girl

Black boy want you in his island world

He want to take you from the racket boss

He want to save you but the cause is lost

Island girl, island girl, island girl

Tell me what you wanting with the white man's world

She's black as coal but she burn like a fire

And she wrap herself around you like a well worn tire

You feel her nail scratch your back just like a rake

He one more gone, he one more John who make the mistake

Harmony by Walter Vermeulen

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WV674/2002

Hello baby hello! Haven't seen your face for a while...

Drawn collage with coloured pencil on Steinbach paper

Anastasia Anastasi by Walter Vermeulen

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WV1825/2024

Coloured pencils & ink on Steinbach paper.

Themes of a non-existent series about football fans...

Lady Juventus...

Wasted Time by Walter Vermeulen

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

The Eagles Songs Illustrated

HOTEL CALIFORNIA

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Wasted Time

Music & lyrics by The Eagles, Don Henley-Glen Frey 1976

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Well baby, there you stand

With your little head, down in your hand

Oh, my God, you can't believe

It's happening again

your baby's gone, and you're all alone

and it looks like the end.

And you're back out on the street.

And you're tryin' to remember.

How will you start it over?

You don't know if you can.

You don't care much for a stranger's touch,

but you can't hold your man.

You never thought you'd be alone

this far down the line

And I know what's been on your mind

You're afraid it's all been wasted time

The autumn leaves have got you thinking

about the first time that you fell

You didn't love the boy too much, no, no

you just loved the boy too well, farewell

So you live from day to day, and you dream

about tomorrow, oh.

And the hours go by like minutes

and the shadows come to stay

So you take a little something

to make them go away

And I could have done so many things, baby

If I could only stop my mind from wonderin' what

I left behind and from worrying 'bout this wasted time

Ooh, another love has come and gone

Ooh, and the years keep rushing on

I remember what you told me

before you went out on your own:

"Sometimes to keep it together,

you got to leave it alone."

So you can get on with your search, baby,

and I can get on with mine

And maybe someday we will find,

that it wasn't really wasted time

Mm,hm

Oh hoo, ooh, ohh,

Ooh,ooh, mm

Expresso Love (is all you need) by Walter Vermeulen

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WV2004/2024

"She gets the sun in the daytime

Perfume in the dusk

And she comes out in the night-time

With the honeysuckle musk

Because she smells just like a rose

And she tastes just like a peach

She got me walking where the wildlife goes

I'd do anything to reach her...."

EXPRESSO LOVE - Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler), 1980.

Every picture tells a story by Walter Vermeulen

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WV146/1990

Original reworked version...

Mellow on Mars by Walter Vermeulen

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WV1972/2024

"....

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids

In fact it's cold as hell

And there's no one there to raise them if you did

And all this science I don't understand

It's just my job five days a week..."

A Rocket Woman

ROCKET MAN - Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin

ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK by Walter Vermeulen

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WV668/2002

Oil pastel on Steinbach paper

"Bangkok, Oriental setting

And the city don't know what the city is getting

The crème de la crème of the chess world

In a show with everything but Yul Brynner

Time flies—doesn't seem a minute

Since the Tirolean Spa had the chess boys in it

All change—don't you know that when you

Play at this level there's no ordinary venue?

It's Iceland—or the Philippines—or Hastings—or—

Or this place!

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster

The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free

You'll find a god in every golden cloister

And if you're lucky then the god's a she

I can feel an angel slidin' up to me

One town's very like another

When your head's down over your pieces, brother

It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity

To be looking at the board, not looking at the city

What do you mean?

You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town—

Tea girls, warm and sweet (Warm, sweet)

Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist

Whose every move's among the purest

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

Siam's gonna be the witness

To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness

This grips me more than would a

Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

And thank God I'm only watching the game—controlling it—

I don't see you guys rating

The kind of mate I'm contemplating

I'd let you watch, I would invite you

But the queens we use would not excite you

So you'd better go back to your bars, your temples

Your massage parlours—

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster

The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free

You'll find a god in every golden cloister

A little flesh, a little history

I can feel an angel slidin' up to me

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble

Not much between despair and ecstasy

One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble

Can't be too careful with your company

I can feel the devil walkin' next to me...."

ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK - Murray Head, 1984.

Jan Edwards by Ceramic Showcase

Our Lady of the Fishes Vase

Janie's Got A Gun by Walter Vermeulen

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

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JANIE'S GOR A GUN

By Aerosmith

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Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done?

Dum, dum, dum it's the sound of my gun.

Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done?

Dum, dum, dum it's the sound

Janie's got a gun

Her whole world's come undone

From lookin' straight at the sun

What did her daddy do?

What did he put you through?

They said when Janie was arrested

they found him underneath a train

But man, he had it comin' Now that Janie's got a gun

she ain't never gonna be the same.

Janie's got a gun

Her dog day's just begun

Now everybody is on the run

Tell me now it's untrue.

What did her daddy do?

He jacked a little bitty baby

The man has got to be insane

They say the spell that he was under the lightning and

the

thunder knew that someone had to stop the rain

Run away, run away from the pain yeah, yeah yeah yeah

Run away run away from the pain yeah yeah

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Run away, run away, run, run away yeah

Janie's got a gun

Her dog day's just begun

Now everybody is on the run

What did her daddy do?

It's Janie's last I.O.U.

She had to take him down easy and put a bullet in his

brain

She said 'cause nobody believes me. The man was such a

sleeze.

He ain't never gonna be the same.

Run away, run away from the pain yeah, yeah

yeah yeah yeah

Run away run away from the pain yeah yeah

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Run away, run away, run, run away yeah

Janie's got a gun

Everybody is on the run

Janie's got a gun

Her dog day's just begun

Now everybody is on the run

Because Janie's got a gun

Janie's got a gun

Her dog day's just begun

Now everybody is on the run

Janie's got a gun

Mother by Walter Vermeulen

"Circus girl without a safety net" (Tori Amos)

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

John Lennon Songs Illustrated

JOHN LENNON PLASTIC ONO BAND

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Mother

Music & lyrics by John Lennon 1970

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Mother, you had me I never had you

I wanted you but you didn't want me

So I got to tell you

Goodbye, goodbye

Father, you left me but I never left you

I needed you but you didn't need me

So I just got to tell you

Goodbye, goodbye

Children, don't do what I have done

I couldn't walk so I tried to run

So I got to tell you

Goodbye, goodbye

Sweet Little Mama by Walter Vermeulen

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

SLEEPING WITH THE PAST

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Amazes Me

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1989

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You're a cool little one

My dark southern breeze

Sweeps through my fingers

And it amazes me

Dixie shadowland

Your envy shelters me

Lay down your burden

Mystery of ebony

And it amazes me

Oh it amazes me

Maybe the heat babe could be this tune

It amazes me

What drives me crazy is that big fat yellow moon

Look up that pale light

Well she's waking the trees

I'm drifting in your hoodoo

And it amazes me

That magnolia state

Got a hold on me

I got no blues to preach

Just Mississippi company

Ain't no magic potion

No gri-gri on her side

She's bound to my salvation

Sweet little mama

Take me down by the river tonight

And it amazes me

Just Like Belgium by Walter Vermeulen

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Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustraterd

THE FOX

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Just Like Belgium

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1981

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Remember Belgium and the Brussels Museum

Where we piled on the front steps like stray cavaliers

Our code of living meant little to others

The few francs we saved bought some cheap souvenirs

But the red lights where the catfights make it just like Belgium

See us face down on the floor of another cheap barroom

Streetwalkers sweet talk you out of your spare change

And your sweet madame makes it seem just like Belgium

Just like a hustler when they look attractive

It's nothing more than a slap on the back

The price tag of being just a little bit different

The first rule to learn is to keep your own distance

Saint by Walter Vermeulen

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

TOO LOW FOR ZERO

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Sait

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1983

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You don't pass your time in limbo

Or hang out with the crowd

Sitting on the stoop like a little girl

Who took the wrong road into town

But you got that short cut way about you

And no one's gonna stare you down

You cook much better on a lower flame

You burn much better when the sun goes down

And heaven can wait

But you ought to be a saint

I got your very best intentions

Helping me along

And if I ever fail to mention

You were an overnight sensation

Well take it from me

My baby's a saint

I believe you were a new arrival

On the fast train passing through

And you traded in your luck for survival

To sweeten up the witch's brew

You had a better way of working magic

A little mystery in your eyes

Instead of rolling over you remained the same

You took the whole world by surprise

ANTARTICA by Walter Vermeulen

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WV940/2006

Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper

The Emperor Penguin's new clothes...

Medley (Yell Help, Wednesday Night, Ugly) by Walter Vermeulen

Old76 Music-inspired-Art 2012

Elton John Songs Illustrated

ROCK OF THE WESTIES

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Medley (Yell Help, Wednesday Night, Ugly)

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1975

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Yell help, too many cooks and a bird in the bush, yell help

Yell help, if your mirror busts and your cat gets cussed, yell help

`Cause down the road you find someone else who's looking

Down the road you find another sweet lady cooking

So I gotta yell help

Yell help, some shelter from the storm like the travel agent warned

Yell help, if you can help your superstitions they gonna keep you warm

`Cause down the road you find someone else who's looking

Down the road you seen another sweet lady cooking

So I gotta yell help

I wish tonight wasn't Wednesday night

I wish it wasn't the thirteenth of July, yell help

And you're looking at the guy whose eyes can't deny

That he wishes he were somewhere else tonight

Well I met this woman down in New Orleans

Lord she built just like a dream

Even wore stockings that had seams

And she was ugly

Now hell I don't mind women of her kind

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly

She built like a steamroller

Just the kind to mow you over anytime

Hey the moment might arrive

On Bourbon Street

Well the ugliest woman you'll ever meet

But she's mine all mine and she's ugly

So I better yell help

LADIES LOVE OUTLAWS by Walter Vermeulen

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WV1793

2014

B

'... ladies love outlaws

Like babies love stray dogs

Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold

Outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul"

(Waylon Jennings songs)

Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper

CAGE THE SONGBIRD by Walter Vermeulen

WV130

1990

Coloured pencil and calligraphy on Steinbach paper.

Inspired by the song CAGE THE SONGBIRD by Bernie Taupin & Elton John about the amazing carreer of EDITH PIAF, but it's a drawing of KATE BUSH, a songbird too.

SPITEFUL CHILD by Walter Vermeulen

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WV1763

2012

B

Jump up, rocker!

Ink and gouache on $teinbach paper

WASTED TIME by Walter Vermeulen

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WV1527/2010

Gouache on Steinbach paper.

"Well, baby, there you stand

With your little head down in your hand

Oh, my God, you can't believe

It's happening again

Your baby's gone,

And you're all alone

And it looks like the end.

And you're back out on the street.

And you're tryin' to remember.

How do you start it over?

You don't know if you can.

You don't care much

For a stranger's touch,

But you can't hold your man.

You never thought you'd be alone

This far down the line

And I know what's been on your mind

You're afraid it's all been wasted time

The autumn leaves have got you thinking

About the first time that you fell

You didn't love the boy too much, no, no,

You just loved the boy too well, well, well.

So you live from day to day,

And you dream about tomorrow

And the hours go by like minutes

And the shadows come to stay

So you take a little something

To make them go away

I could have done so many things, baby

If I could only stop my mind

From wonderin' what I left behind

And from worrying 'bout this wasted time

Another love has come and gone

And the years keep rushing on

I remember what you told me

Before you went out on your own,

"Sometimes to keep it together,

We got to leave it alone."

So you can get on with your search, baby,

And I can get on with mine

And maybe someday we will find

That it wasn't really wasted time..."

WASTED TIME - Eagles, 1976.

Lies by Walter Vermeulen

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

MADE IN ENGLAND

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Lies

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1995

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Some lie about who they love

Some lie about the truth

Some lie to save their lives

Some lie about their youth

Some lie about age and beauty

The conquest of sex

Most lie about the night before

A woman lies for a party dress

I've lied for a stolen moment

I've lied for one more clue

I've lied about most everything

But I never lied to you

And we lie, lie, lie on a streetcar named desire

Oh we lie, lie, lie for that sweet bird of youth

I could be great like Tennessee Williams

If I could only hear something that sounds like the truth

Some lie in the face of death

Some lie about their fame

Some kneel and lie to God

Some lie about their name

Some lie in words and speeches

With every living breath

The young lie with their guitars

The old lie for a little respect

I've lied to lie with danger

I've lied for a drug or two

I've lied about most everything

But I never lied to you

I've lied for a stolen moment

I've lied for one more clue

I've lied about most everything

But I never lied to you.

Good Day Sunshine by Walter Vermeulen

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Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Original coloured pencils and digital reworkerd...

The Beatles Songs Illustrated

REVOLVER

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Good Day Sunshine

Music & lyrics by The Beatles, Paul McCartney-John Lennon 1966

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Good day sunshine, good day sunshine, good day sunshine

I need to laugh and when the sun is out

I've got something I can laugh about

I feel good in a special way

I'm in love and it's a sunny day

Good day sunshine, good day sunshine, good day sunshine

We take a walk, the sun is shining down

Burns my feet as they touch the ground

Good day sunshine, good day sunshine, good day sunshine

Then we'd lie beneath the shady tree

I love her and she's loving me

She feels good, she knows she's looking fine

I'm so proud to know that she is mine.

Good day sunshine, good day sunshine, good day sunshine

Ich Bin Wie Du II by Walter Vermeulen

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

"Ich Bin Wie Du" is a song from MARIANNE ROSENBERG.

She is a German Schlager music singer and songwriter. The song "Ich Bin Wie Du" was her biggest hit and breakthru song in 1976.

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ICH BIN WIE DU

Musik & tekst MARIANNE ROSENBERG, J. Heider/Chr. Heilburg)

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Ich bin wie du

wir sind wie Sand und Meer

darum brauch ich dich so sehr.

Ich bin wie du

wir sind wie Tag und Nacht

füreinander immer nur da

für immer nur da.

Und du weißt

dennoch lass ich dir die Freiheit

weil man sich dann leichter treu bleibt

ich genauso wie du

grade das

das macht unsre Liebe anders

das macht unsre Liebe so anders und ich finde das gut.

Ich bin wie du

wir sind wie Sand und Meer

darum brauch ich dich so sehr.

Ich bin wie du

wir sind wie Tag und Nacht

füreinander immer nur da

für immer nur da.

Was auch kommt

wir beide werden uns nie trennen

wir lernen uns nur besser kennen.

Ich genauso wie du

grade das

das macht unsre Liebe anders

das macht unsre Liebe so anders und ich finde das gut.

Ich bin wie du

wir sind wie Sand und Meer

darum brauch ich dich so sehr.

Ich bin wie du

wir sind wie Tag und Nacht

füreinander immer nur da

für immer nur da.

Real Madrid by Walter Vermeulen

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Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

"You're simply The Best..."

Pen Drawing in Line Drawing 02 - Artist Anikartick,Chennai by ARTIST ANIKARTICK (VASU engira KARTHIKEYAN)

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Pen Drawing in Line Drawing 02 - Artist Anikartick,Chennai

HEALING HANDS by Walter Vermeulen

2 1

WV978

2006

"There's a light, where the darkness ends

Touch me now and let me see again

Rock me now in your gentle healing hands..."

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin 1989)

Coloured pencel on Steinbach paper

Outlaws Love Ladies by Walter Vermeulen

... and ladies love outlaws

Old76 Music-inspired DArt 2015

"One day she saw him starring and it chilled her to the bone

She knew she had to see that look on a child of her own

'Cause ladies love outlaws

Like babies love stray dogs..."

(Waylon Jennings songs)

LITTLE FRIGERATOR by Walter Vermeulen

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WV918

2006

"Well, She looked so easy 'cause she looked so young

With a geisha smile made in Taiwan!"

Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper

WHITE LADY WHITE POWDER by Walter Vermeulen

WV1738

2011

"And she's a habit I can't handle

For a reason I can't say

I'm in love with a wild white lady

She's as sweet as the stories say

White powder white lady

You're one and the same

Come on down to my house won't you

And hit this boy again!"

(Elton John/ Bernie Taupin, "21 at 33", 1980)

Ink on $teinbach paper

Martha My Dear by Walter Vermeulen

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Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Original ink and watercolour on paper, later digital BW reworked....

THE BEATLES

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Martha My Dear

Music & lyrics by The Beatles, Lennon-McCartney 1968

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Martha my dear though I spend my days in conversation

Please

Remember me Martha my love

Don't forget me Martha my dear

Hold your head up you silly girl look what you've done

When you find yourself in the thick of it

Help yourself to a bit of what is all around you

Silly girl.

Take a good look around you

Take a good look you're bound to see

That you and me were meant to be for each other

Silly girl.

Hold your hand out you silly girl see what you've done

When you find yourself in the thick of it

Help yourself to a bit of what is all around you

Silly girl.

Martha my dear you have always been my inspiration

Please

Be good to me Martha my love

Don't forget me Martha my dear.

Sacrifice by Walter Vermeulen

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

SLEEPING WITH THE PAST

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Sacrifice

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1989

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It's a human sign

When things go wrong

When the scent of her lingers

And temptation's strong

Into the boundary

Of each married man

Sweet deceit comes calling

And negativity lands

Cold cold heart

Hard done by you

Some things look better baby

Just passing through

And it's no sacrifice

Just a simple word

It's two hearts living

In two separate worlds

But it's no sacrifice

No sacrifice

It's no sacrifice at all

Mutual misunderstanding

After the fact

Sensitivity builds a prison

In the final act

We lose direction

No stone unturned

No tears to damn you

When jealousy burns

SIXTY YEARS ON by Walter Vermeulen

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WV249

1995

The señorita is passing by with coloured pencils and a white Steinback paper block...

Understanding Women by Walter Vermeulen

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Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

THE ONE

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Understanding Women

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1992

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Rolling over trying to sleep

And understanding women

Thinking of you out there somewhere

Looking for a new beginning

Just let me be the final word

In the book we haven't written

I won't be another page

In understanding women

I could drive to Mexico

On understanding women

Throw myself against the waves

And answer up to heaven

How come her heart's so stubborn

And what's so wrong with giving

Ask the big sky talking

About understanding women

And I'm not just anyone who ever stood outside your door

And I'm not any man you've ever known before

Don't judge this picture by the frame

Every man is not the same

Some men reach beyond the pain

Of understanding women

Tiger by Walter Vermeulen

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014

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TIGER

Music & lyrics by Abba, Andersson & Ulvaeus 1976

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The city is a jungle, you better take care

Never walk alone after midnight

If you don't believe it you better beware

Of me

I am behind you, I always find you, I am the tiger