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Surfen by Typhoon

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Typhoon

Surfen

Release date: 20th May 2014

From Lobi Da Basi
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About This Track

'Surfen' opens with an invitation: take your partner's hand and consider breaking the cycle you've both been turning in. Typhoon builds the song around a central metaphor of surfing, where the conditions must align perfectly, the right bay, the right tide, the right wind, before anything can move. The variability is exhausting. He tends to his surfboard like an engine, speaking to the sea with patience and without blame, but the waves stay flat and the water stays dry. It is a song about waiting, about the gap between what is said and what is done, about the difference between virtual connection and the dance of actual presence. The chorus circles back to the same stalled place: all these days together, moving between the sea and the shore, yet so much talk and no movement. In the second verse, Typhoon sits with the paradox of form and formlessness in love, imagining kisses that exist only in thought whilst fishing for wild seas online, knowing all the while that it is air. He waits for the waves. By the final verse, the question turns inward: how is it for you? You are the best sea you can be. The song does not resolve so much as acknowledge what persists beneath the waiting.

"Surfen" is a track by Typhoon, from the album Lobi Da Basi, released 20th May 2014. Full lyrics are available below.

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Typhoon

Typhoon

Lyrics

Surfen

[Intro]

Pak je vrouw bij de hand

En al is het veel te lang geleden

En blijven jullie te lang draaien in dezelfde omstandigheden

Dan is dit misschien het moment dat je

De cirkel doorbreekt

Luister

[Verse 1: Typhoon]

Ik kan surfen

Mits de juiste baai

Mits de juiste tijd, maanstand, windrichting en de onderstroom

Zo veel variabelen dat je geen zin meer hebt om er aan te beginnen

Ook als de zee het wel zou willen

Eindstand is de golf laf en de zee droog

Wax mijn surfplank en verzorg het zo, als verse olie voor een binnenmotor of een buitenboord

Spoor de zee aan, fluister in haar oor

'Ik neem je niks kwalijk, misschien dan morgen

En is het niet morgen, dan kies jij maar op welke dag dan wel en dan hoor ik het'

[Pre-hook]

Ik wacht op de golven

Steve Addington in Australië

Windstil is niet veel als je surfen wil

Droogstand?

Niks virtueels, dat vervangt die dans

Niks virtueels, dat vervangt die dans

Niks virtueels, dat vervangt die dans

De balans, de behoefte

[Hook]

Alle dagen mee

Af en aan de zee in

We zeggen zoveel, geen beweging

Alle dagen mee

Af en aan de zee in

We zeggen zoveel, maar geen beweging

[Verse 2: Typhoon]

Als de zon het water raakt is het goud voor degene die geduld heeft

Al is het voor de vorm, in de poel van oneindige liefde is vorm slechts een bijkomstigheid

En als we toch dan voor de vorm bij elkaar zijn, kan ik dan ook nog voor de vorm aan je zitten?

Hoe zit dat?

Ik maar zeggen dat ik zonder kan

De mond spreekt uit waar het hart niet over uit is

Maar goed, surfen dus

Ondertussen kus ik je denkbeeldig en anders vis ik op het net, gefilterd op wilde zeeën, terwijl het lucht is en ik weet het

Geen kut hier te beleven, ik wacht op de golven

[Pre-hook]

Steve Addington in Australië

Windstil is niet veel als je surfen wil

Droogstand?

Niks virtueels, dat vervangt die dans

Niks virtueels, dat vervangt die dans

Niks virtueels, dat vervangt die dans

De balans, de behoefte

[Hook]

Alle dagen mee

Af en aan de zee in

We zeggen zoveel, geen beweging

Alle dagen mee

Af en aan de zee in

We zeggen zoveel, maar geen beweging

[Verse 3: Typhoon]

Maar hoe is het voor jou dan?

Je bent de beste zee die je kunt zijn toch ontbreekt er wat

Mislukte aanrakingen, maken het stroef

Ik bedoel, dit is de negentigste dag dus ik doe

Wat ik eerder had moeten doen

Peddel er op uit, leer je weer opnieuw kennen, neem een duik

Onderzeese beving, ribbeling op het water

Golftoppen hoger en we dalen op de golven

[Pre-hook]

Steve Addington in Australië

Windstil is niet veel als je surfen wil

Droogstand?

Niks virtueels, dat vervangt die dans

Niks virtueels, dat vervangt die dans

Niks virtueels, dat vervangt die dans

De balans, de behoefte

[Hook]

Alle dagen mee

Af en aan de zee in

We zeggen zoveel, geen beweging

Alle dagen mee

Af en aan de zee in

We zeggen zoveel, maar geen beweging

Geen beweging, geen beweging

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Track details

From Lobi Da Basi

2014
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Album
Lobi Da Basi
Lobi Da Basi
Typhoon
Release year
2014
  1. —Niets Verwacht
  2. —Hemel Valt
  3. —Zandloper
  4. —Van De Regen Naar De Zon
  5. —Surfen
  6. —We Zijn Er
  7. —Glenn 1984
  8. —Ijswater
  9. —Liefste
  10. —Ochtend Weer
  11. —Sta Me Toe
  12. —Vogel

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