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The Midnight Laundrette

by EUMETRIS

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    On thin ice that is where I’m going
    On thin ice without truly knowing
    Where to go
    Minding every step
    Scared of every gap
    Fearing it will crack
    It will drag me down
    Into the deep dark deep
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1.
A Simple Knocking On Your Door 03:56
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A Simple Knocking On Your Door Since you’ve been gone I’m trying tracking us down Narrow it down to the drawing board All these years of lying And trying not to be alone Yes I’m aware That I was wearing you out You were carrying all the load I took it all for granted And somehow I lost control I know you’ve been waiting for A simple knocking on your door And me coming to my senses Like I never did before But the show must be going on The wrestling out of this dirty swamp And us setting up our defenses Like we never did before Since you’ve been gone There’s so much room in my head A blessing in diguise We could chase away the elephants From every corner of our minds Something inevitable’s coming my way Resilience is all around Though it’s always trial and error We’re still in this merry-go-round I know you’ve been waiting for A simple knocking on your door And me coming to my senses Like I never did before Once you were lucky when I was around Came in without knocking cause you looked worn-out Once you were lost to find your way Givin up your efforts I’m not to blame I know A simple knocking on your door And me coming to my senses Like never before But the show must be going on The wrestling out of this dirty swamp And us setting up our defenses Like we never did before And us setting up our defenses Like never before
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Offended 03:24
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Offended You got attracted to the night Not always easy to survive The road was lit by neon-light Your own sunny day You were convicted to the night Somehow we managed to get allied Together we walked side by side To your sunny day Now that I am told you feel offended Not easy to go on without restrain Starting up so much misunderstanding Never ending Accumulate You got addicted to the night Not all the waste gets clear in sight Somehow you lost your appatite For a sunny day You got restricted to the night All your boundries watertight Revel in darkness just inspite Of a sunny day Now that I am told you feel offended Not easy to go on without restrain Starting up so much misunderstanding Never ending Exaggerate I'm sorry that you still feel offended Not intended I'm sorry that you still feel offended You will find your world ablaze
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Who Am I 03:43
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Who Am I Verify, who am I The mirror on the wall gives no reply All a try, all a lie There's always somthing there That makes me cry Ratify, who am I The man said you will know The day you die Just a sigh, just an eye There's always something there to justify. I wanna love you I wanna love you I wanna love you But I just deny Think of my darkest thoughts And I know why Scarify Feel all my darkest naughts But there's light Anywhere Rectify, who am I The woman that I love can testify In a fly they'll come by They will take me up to crucify Think of my darkest thoughts And I know why I’m so scarified Feel all my darkest naughts But there's light Anywhere Rectify, who am I The woman that I love can testify In a fly they'll come by They will take me up to crucify I wanna love you I wanna love you I wanna love you But I just deny The woman that I love will testify
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Settle Down 04:32
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Settle Down Hiding my heart For someone I don't know Falling apart I don't know where to go And it is always there inside of me In many ways it shows People ask me how it feels But somehow I don't know Hiding my heart From anyone to see Right from the start They've been searching for the key But it was lost somewhere in distant past Nobody's been aware Of things in life I'm aiming at And somehow I don't care Settle down You don't accept to where this train is rolling Try to see your heart in the world around you Settle down, settle down Settle down, settle down I’m only hiding my heart I'm prisoning my soul Playing the cards The aces that I hold Are not enough to gain the world in me Never had a better hand Somehow I'm so close to it But then somehow I prevent Settle down You don't accept to where this train is rolling Try to see your heart in the world around you Settle down, settle down Settle down, settle down When the day is dawning I fly back to the night Far away from all the people Saying it ain't right All alone in seclusion They don't realize Just as long as I can hear the silence I'm in Paradise Settle down, settle down Keep your head up and look around Why don’t you leave your battle-ground Settle down Settle down, settle down Settle down, settle down
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Expecting The Bubble To Burst 03:13
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Expecting The Bubble To Burst And I grew up believing A fight will never solve a thing Just turn the other cheek Only selfdeceiving And oh, bleeding nose and broken arms And then I have been swallowed By all that fancy talk about A better way of life Happy tomorrow Depending on all wishes come true And no one there to tell me how to find The reason why we don’t leave all this far behind And more and more and more I keep expecting The bubble to burst And still we keep on dreaming And so wasting precious time We could have changed down the world To its basic meaning And there will be no No next time around Time is always healing And still stealing my life away
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History Repeats 05:13
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History Repeats Things are happening here That I can only fear you know Someone has turned back the clock To another epoque ago It's just a matter of time and a kiss is a crime It's just a matter of fact If you drink you'll get wrecked It's no illusion History repeats The wheel turns But the spokes will never meet Oh - I wish that all could see What a wonderful time we could have Oh - I wish that all could see What a wonderful time we could have There is a thing going on It is scary and strong you know Someone has turned back the clock To another deadlock below It's just a matter of time When you're free it's a crime It's just a matter of course It is theirs of it's yours So much confusion History repeats The wheel turns So much intrusion History repeats The wheel turns But the spokes will never meet Oh - I wish that all could see What a wonderful time we could have Oh - I wish that all could see What a wonderful time we could have
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I'll Find A Way 03:45
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I'll Find A Way I’ll find a way To get you anything you need forever But I’ve got nothing to lean on Still I’ll get anything done I’ll find a way To get you anything you need forever But I’ve got nothing to lean on And I underestimate the undertow The closer I get The more winds blowing me away Still I’ll get anything done Standing outside looking in My eyes on that empty chair to win To be one of that few With nothing much to do Oh I would love I’ll find a way To get you anything you need forever But I’ve got nothing to lean on And I underestimate the undertow The closer I get The more winds that blow me away Still I’ll get anything done Soon come the day That you’ll find a way To play the ultimate price winning card It’s easy to say That you’ll find a way That leads you straight to the start Though I paid all of my dues At harvest-time There will be nothing left to choose Though I know it’s for real Always try to conceal Just to keep going on I’ll find a way To get you anything you need forever I’ve got nothing to lean on Still I’ll get anything done Still I’m in search of the sun
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Confused Bouquet 03:54
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Confused Bouquet You made me do the things I never wanted to Even though you never forced me Reason for surrender must be my love for you Still I can't see how I still remember All the things you never said My fortress keeps cracking and crumbling ahead I won't say I never caused you any pain Hiding in my inner hemisphere Boarded up to cut off all this emo-chain Echoing all around You're my defender And my accomplice too Maybe that's why when I crawl out it's up to you From an occasional flowerbed I made you this confused bouquet Reluctantly cheering up in my head But still the night resents the day The morning after I can only sense war-paint On everybody's face around me You're the first one there to help me rearrange To pull me out once again Why in the first row When they handed out this gloomy waste Maybe that’s why I always melt in your embrace From an occasional flowerbed I made you this confused bouquet Reluctantly cheering up in my head But still the night resents the day Reluctantly cheering up in my head But still the night resents the day You made me do the things I never wanted to Even though you never forced me
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I Am Crying 04:10
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I Am Crying I’m just hanging at the bar Staring at my drink Oh, I feel shadow all over My mind is on the blink I am crying, crying Ordered for an other drink Get it served so well No matter all the things I love I’m on my way to hell I am crying, crying I am crying, crying Talking to myself, finding me a way Through the night and through the day I can never walk alongside of the road Facing the crowd getting way too close The limousine is waiting To take me to the TV-show Heading for an audiance of millions I feel so all alone I am crying, crying I am crying, crying Talking to myself, finding me a way Through the night and through the day I can never walk alongside of the road Facing the crowd getting way too close
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Help Me Like No Other 04:40
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Help Me Like No Other I drift away in my troubles now and then But I know that when You’re reaching out your hand to me Your eyes in tender smile Sometimes I’m down ‘cause of unimportant things Then you come and bring Some light and put me up again Your eyes bright as the sky You comfort me a while. Hmmmm You can help me like no other Help me like no other ‘Cause you’re mine Ooh You gotta help me like no other Help me like no other ‘Cause your mind’s an open book I would like to take a closer look Sometimes I drown in my ordinary life Then you will come and strive To fill me up with energy Your eyes in tender smile Yes I’m aware I am always on the run And never get things done ‘Till you appear and ease the pain Your eyes bright as the sky You comfort me a while Hmmmmm You can help me like no other Help me like no other ‘Cause you’re mine Ooh You gotta help me like no other Help me like no other You left me behind ‘Round the corner of your mind So I couldn’t say for sure That you’re the helping kind I drift away in my troubles now and then Help me like no other Help me like no other ‘Cause you’re mine Ooh You gotta help me like no other Help me Your mind’s an open book Would you mind I’d take a closer look?
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For The Scent Of Your Perfume 04:20
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For The Scent Of Your Perfume Some of them were dreaming Some of them awake Some of them were aching over Their bundled up mistakes Won’t color up their memory Won’t bag that trip for two Heading for Mordorean roads Most outer purlieu Some of them were leaving Some of them came home Trying to get rid of all Scales to weigh their load Came upon this opportunity Came upon good-sense Not all will be all that bad We thought we never stood a chance Way across the room I sense your caution Way across the night I sense a glimpse of bloom And when the darkness hides Into a silvery morning I won’t give up the fight For the scent of your perfume Some of them were burning Some of them outrage Some of them came all the way To sacrifice the day Locked in a B-grade movie Story on a bubble-gum strip Endlessly and hopelessly Try escape from this bad manuscript Way across the room I sense your caution Way across the night I sense a glimpse of bloom And when the darkness hides Into a silvery morning I won’t give up the fight For the scent of your perfume Way across the room I sense your caution Way across the night I sense a glimpse of bloom And when the darkness hides Into a silvery morning I won’t give up the fight For the scent of your perfume For the scent of your perfume
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Learn The Hard Way 03:38
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Learn The Hard Way Did you see me stumble On the path of life Did you see me stagger Trying to survive Still I cannot turn my head I’ll learn the hard way Did you see me passing All the helping hands Did you you see me messing With my dearest friends Still I cannot turn my head I’ll learn the hard way Never see me crying When I'm on my way Deep inside I’m dying Every single day Ooh - I had to learn the hard way All I wanna do Is play it by the rules Somehow it ends up That I’m the bloody fool Ooh - I had to learn the hard way Ooh - I had to learn the hard way Did you see me hiding From the pouring rain Seems to my umbrellah No one did explain Still I cannot turn my head I’ll learn the hard way Still I cannot turn my head I’ll learn the hard way Ooh - I had to learn the hard way Ooh - I had to learn the hard way Ooh - I had to learn the hard way Ooh - I had to learn the hard way Ooh - I had to learn the hard way Ooh - I had to learn the hard way Ooh - I had to
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How Can I Be Wrong 04:52
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How Can I Be Wrong How can I be wrong? Be sure I learned my lessons well So how can I be wrong? I've read the books so many times It made me go blind How can I be wrong? I'm taught the one and only truth So how can I be wrong? How fierce the sound How strong the ground The planet is round Once I was lost in the space of my spirit Now I am found It’s devine delight To be always right How can I be wrong The prayers are running through my vains So how can I be wrong? You'd better trust me don't hesitate I am your fate You'd better follow me as your leader Before it's too late It’s devine delight To be always right It’s devine delight To be always right It's so easy to fight When you're convinced That you're always right
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Guilty Victim 03:30
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Guilty Victim I’ve seen so many faces Coming up and down the stairs Should ask them what they’re up to But I don’t think I realy care And why should I be trying To paint this landscape in the dark It isn’t worth the lighting It won’t light up Do I sense a bit of doubt now Do I sense a bit of fear Feels like they photoshopped me out now My images will disappear I’m just a guilty victim To be left my own audience of one My itinirary fading to almost none Dreaming the night away A nightmare is to follow Languish my days away I can’t remember what I felt the other day I Would like to turn the page now To whatever it may lead I’m in a certain stage now Just let it come down over me The best is yet to come now It’s been staring me right in the face I’ll make the final jump now No time to waste I Would like to turn the page now I’m in a certain stage now I would like to turn the page now To whatever it may lead
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The Midnight Laundrette 06:32
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The Midnight Laundrette • Theme • Just Divorced • The Dreamer • Just One Set Of Clothes • The Poet • Theme (reprise) • Old Man Theme These moments I spent at the midnight laundrette The folks that I’ve met I will never forget Just Divorced Had no choice I never realized this implication Had no choice I’ve never been around such situation Had no choice I just had no choice I just had no choice I couldn’t deal with her high expectations She dumped my suitcase in the street, no reconciliation Had no choice No reconsideration I just had no choice No evaluation The Dreamer On thin ice That is where I’m going On thin ice Without truly knowing Where to go Minding every step Scared of every gap Fearing it will crack It will drag me down into The deep dark deep Just one set of clothes Hey, you fell asleep Said the man in his underwear He ain’t no creep But apparently not aware Of his appearance And he sat back at his machine The tossing and turning Of his shirt and his pants The tossing and turning Of his socks and his vest The tossing and turning His yellow night-dress Mesmerizing Mesmerizing Mesmerizing Mes…me…ri…zing Oh what a fright The reflection in the machine An awfull sight He saw himself in his underwear He felt embarrassed And he felt ashamed And he hid away Behind the baskests and the buckets And bins and boxes The poet The tall pale guy in the long dark coat Vocabulary Way beyond his years When he was young He couldn’t find the tears But the words came through Just like dripping water Every poem, every song Just sounded like no other Theme (reprise) These moments I spent at the midnight laundrette The folks that I’ve met I will never forget Old man Now you are old and grey Meaning of your life is fading faster Waiting for your dying day For no one it will be a great disaster

about

——— EUMETRIS ———

After they first met, there was a period of getting to know eachothers ideas and recordings. Very soon it was apparent that both Hans and Bart mutually were very much into eachothers work. Hans picked a few of Barts songs – and Bart of Hans'. Letting their imagination and talents full free flight, the two influenced eachothers material to another, new level of existance. With both respect and love for eachothers music, they got involved in a creative process, parallel to their busy daily lives. Songs were chosen, arranged, re-arranged, re-re-arranged, performed and recorded, and sometimes all over again, either at home or at the Apogee Studio in Alphen aan den Rijn where all songs were mixed and mastered by their good friend René van Hugten.

Two and a half years after their first encounter it all resulted in their first album, 412nd, at the end of 2005.

They never lost sight of each other afterwards and kept in regular contact. They helped each other, where necessary, with studio recordings. Only in 2019, when they both had more time to spend, they got the idea for a second phase of EUMETRIS. Since their album 412nd the distance between them got considerably larger, so it was not an option to visit each other on a regular basis. Fortunately this was not a problem due to the extensive digitization. The various songs for their new album 'The Midnight Laundrette' have been sent back and forth between Hans and Bart dozens of times during the creative process.

The songs were mixed by their good friends René van Hugten (7 songs) and Rob Smit (8 songs). Besides that Rob is responsible for all drums & percussion, synth sounds, and the mastering of all songs. Thanks!

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released December 16, 2019

Featuring:
Christiaan Thomasius, cello (5)
Fred Leeflang, saxophone (7)
Songs mixed by:
Rob Smit (1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15)
René van Hugten (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 14)

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Bart van Schoonhoven & Hans Lamboo

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