• The Sea

    WHAT = LIFE
  • UB boy makes his choice and gives the care of the Child in him back to the mighty Sea. Redeemed by this load UB Boy starts adrift in his still familiar scenery now with new laws. That's the way Life goes. He must overcome disgust, pain and frustration if he wants to adapt to this new environment.

  • September 1984  So in this beautiful song UB boy considers what to do. Through a glass the light scatters in different angles and in his eyes. Thus presenting a variety of choices to make. Quite a responsibility…

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  • October 1984  UB boy makes his choice and decides to go to the beach. There he gives the care of the child in him back to the mighty Sea. Without any words. He promises the child to take it back as soon as everything is alright. He’ll then wake it in a Heaven's dawn.

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  • January 1985  Not nice probably to say something like that. Could be a setback of dragging his own child all the way. And now UB Boy is relieved, all comes free, also the dirty & ugly things. Or maybe it is a paradox, eating ones own offspring. Who knows.

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  • February 1985  UB Boy lies awkwardly on his arm and the pain works him out of bed. He then undertakes a journey through nocturnal The Hague. Its streetmap seems to correspond with the road map that directs UB through his life. So a bend in the street determines what way to go...

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  • August 1985  UB Boy simply won’t see. Too much input. - UB Man still knows those moments he simply won’t see. - So something must have evoked this temporarily urge to be blind. As this album dictates, UB Boy must overcome all sorts of inconveniences like annoying light in order to adapt to this shiny daylight environment again.

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  • September 1985  Okay, diverting in another direction if necessary UB Boy will do. Face the bloody light, kill his own darlings, right. But, once carried out, what is left to give hope?

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  • December 1985  While UB boy was still scanning the schoolyard for colourful girls, a friend slid in his life. As the Oxford English Dictionary defines: “slide (slid, slidden) Move smoothly along a surface”. And so Peter smoothly slid his motorbike along the asphalt. What an entry!

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  • October 1986  Somehow the ordinairy daily life knows how to touch UB Boy in the heart. While shopping for his bread, butter and Dutch cheese he recognizes the streets again he has been crossing every day. For so many years he only saw the inside of his skull. That gives confidence & hope..!

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  • February 1987  Encouraged by the feeling that he can look after himself now, UB Boy decides to go to the Sea to collect his child. By some reason he takes his friend Deluciana with him. The blond warm blooded girl. Has UB already reached his Heaven’s Dawn?

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  • May 1987  A year passed by, a year in which UB Boy completed his military service. He finds a job in a warehouse. There he meets all sorts of people and a Turkish boy makes him smile. That unwinds the body and rekindles the soul.

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  • July 1987  UB Boy came so far. Every year he reaches the summer holidays it seems he finally got to the finish. But it always appears some stop-over. When will his inhuman efforts be recognized?

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  • July 1987  In a quiet moment all the puzzle pieces slide together. The empty frame unexpectedly is filled after all. It now is a picture where all UB’s tough experiences and all that he encountered find a place. This picture is better than a certificate..!

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  • What Life = The Sea 1984-1987
    Through the yellow glass
    Shrink... no crashing windows. As fragile... yes as fragile as glass. The glass in my hand tinkling in this nowhere air. No, this is somewhere. Somewhere in a garden. And it's yellow. I mean the air, but not visible. Sitting in a chair, a table on a pavement. Holding the glass in the somewhere air. And it tinkles, waving at me. The way it looks. The many sides of vision. A chair in the air.

    The sea will look after me
    Let me go to the beach. The black sea that swallowed the history that's mine, before I was born. The sandy colour covering my feet. This is all I need. This is all I need. No I want blue, the sky above me. Crashing insanities to develop a sane one. A mother, a hand, a talking moon. Boy, am I confusing. But it's the child's language. The simple cry raised out of the sea. No-one can hide its stretched out arms. So helpless, but it needs the water it comes from. You just wait child. Everything's gonna be alright. Back to the sea. And when you're sound asleep I'll wake you in a heaven's dawn.


    Eat the children
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    Ain't that a trumpet
    Seems like early daybreak. Streets are cold and silent. Didn’t plan to walk, but some pain worked me out of bed. So walking around… So walking around. Calling on my imagination. What way to follow, what way to go, how to spend this bonus time. The bend of the street drives my direction and points me to the dark side of my mind. So moving ahead…

    I'm Blind
    I’m blind, simply won’t see. So would you mind not pity me. I won’t need a stick and I won’t need a dog. Just don’t care a fig for I didn’t plan to walk. I just want to find my way in a black and shapeless day. I want to sink in a sea of sounds washing me. No light. Don’t need no light to lighten the world, to lighten the mind. Things I say sound better at night and things I grab are more solid than light. I just want to find my way in a black and shapeless day. I want to sink in a sea of sounds washing me.

    The Hunt
    God would I like shooting castles in the air. God would I like shooting islands in the sea. And see the air and see the sea crying castles
    drowning islands, RIP. Castles made of air, islands made of sea. Then what is there to give hope, then what’s there to be shot.

    Let's go crash cassette recorders
    Peter, listen to me. You're my friend, aren't you. There is something I never told you, I'm sane! Long ago I saw you throw a spear. Not bad at all. It's just sad that no-one cared. Even the spear did not return. Let's go crash cassette recorders one for you and one for me. Let's go dying, just for fun, me a few times, you a few times. Hanging in curtains, like Edward does. He's still looking for the spear you threw away. A dark morning by accident, I glimpsed you scattered all over the street. A lot of eyes spearing you, though no-one cared. So let's forget it. Let's go crash cassette recorders one for you and one for me. Let's go dying, just for fun, me a few times, you a few times. Peter, pass me the coffee. And let’s drink the morning away. Peter, listen to me. You're my friend, aren't you. Don’t you worry, cause I know: We’re sane! Let's go crash cassette recorders lots for you and lots for me. Let's go dying, just for fun, me a few times, you a few times.

    Once in a while
    Once in a while I'd like to know the way I am. I'd like to show a face that's mine leaving no doubts about the years it spent to grow that smile, that then will glow the very warmth of the flame I kept alive. Once in a while I'd like to know the way I am. And talk and talk all day long about things of no importance. But to me they are the crumbled feelings I refused to eat in wintertime of life. Now, that time still runs I'm glad to know that I'm still there. That I can go a way I want leading without any roundabouts right to that place I once belonged and where I'll find my goal that’s still alive. Now, that time still runs I want to show the way I am. And walk and walk all day long through streets I crossed so often. But to me these are important streets that give to me some bread, to simply stay alive.

    We've come to take the child
    I'm so in love with a girl I make believe it is my sister. But when she puts her hand in mine I can't resist her. So I take her by the hand I was taken by the hand myself. And show the sea the way it was fixed in my memory. There in the sand she just wants us to play. She fails to see the whole intention. But when I squeeze her hand a bit, she pays attention. Then the sea, she starts to dance and the wind lifts her high up in the sky. It's quite a show. It nearly made me forget the reason why I'm here. We've come to take the child to play. is all I dare, I dare to say...

    Factory
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    The shadow-frame

    It never shines it shades the way I line the day, define my play. It always leaves an empty frame and ample room to sign my name. But what’s a name when you never meant to play some game. I surely claim the life I spend to reach my aim.

    The Picture
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