Earth & Fire - Earth And Fire (Netherlands, 1970)

Repertoire Records Reissue 1993:

1. Wild and exciting (4:27)
2. Twilight dreamer (4:16)
3. Ruby is the one (3:26)
4. You know the way (3:46)
5. Vivid shady land (4:11)
6. 21th century show (4:14)
7. Seasons (4:08)
8. Love quiver (7:36)
9. What's your name (3:36)

ADDITIONAL TRACKS
10. Mechanical Lover (2:16)
11. Hazy Paradise (3:46)
12. Memories (3:21)
13. Invitation (3:48)
14. From the end till the Beginning (4:54)
15. Lost Forever (4:10)
16. Song of the Marching Children, Single Version (4:06)
17. Thanks for the Love (3:38)
18. What Difference does it Make (3:10)

Wild and exciting
(Music: C. Koerts/G. Koerts; text: G. Koerts)
What is it you try to say
Is it something you don’t know
Is it something you won’t know
You’re acting well when you tell
The problems that break you
If you don’t it’s a hell
You got to know what you’re gonna do

Play your game the other way
You got to please her and hold her tight
You must be with her day and night
You’ll be surprised the way she walks
Surprised the way she talks
And when you look into her eyes
You soon will realise

Manta, she’s wild and exciting
Manta, she’s wild and exciting

What is it you try to say
Is it something you don’t know
Is it something you won’t know
You’re acting well when you tell
The problems that break you
If you don’t it’s a hell
You got to know what you’re gonna do

Play your game the other way
You got to please her and hold her tight
You must be with her day and night
You’ll be surprised the way she walks
Surprised the way she talks
And when you look into her eyes
You soon will realise

Manta, she’s wild and exciting
Manta, she’s wild and exciting

Twilight dreamer
(Music: C. Koerts; text: C. Koerts)
A sun-tanned shady person
is wandering along the shore
I think it’s the twilight dreamer
who probably knows more
The old bearded man is
now watching the twilight time
A seagull is floating above
the sea and gets a fish in time

Thousands of faces,
they’re laughing at him

The crimson ball is gently
falling without making a noise
The only sounds he hears
are the thousands faces’ voice
Hear them say: they show us the way

There comes Lydia
Lydia’s waltzing
Dancing Lydia in the crimson ball

He longs to his young drowned
Lydia who died in a terrible way
The thousand faces are laughing,
they’ll never tell him the way
The tears are burning in his
eyes and they’re dropping in his beard
They’re twinkling in the twilight time
He himself feels quite weird

The crimson ball, he’s drowning now

There comes Lydia
Lydia’s waltzing
Dancing Lydia in the crimson ball

There comes Lydia
Lydia’s waltzing
Dying Lydia in the crimson ball

The ceremony is over, the crimson
ball has gone
The twilight dreamer is tired and
is also moving on
The crimson ball,
he’s gone away now.

Ruby is the one
(Music: C. Koerts; text: C. Koerts)
Baby, I want you
Baby, I hold you
Never let you go
I’m sure that you will know

Baby, I tease you
Baby, I please you
Never let you go
You’re the first one to know

We will spend night together
We never wonder whether
We will love eachother

Oooh.
Ruby, I feel you
Ruby, I love you
Hold you in my arms
So you can enjoy all my charms

Ruby is the one
Ruby ruby is the one
Ruby never knows
That Ruby Ruby was the one

Ruby is the one
Ruby ruby is the one
Ruby never knows
That Ruby Ruby was the one

You know the way
(Music: G. Koerts; text: G. Koerts)
You know the way you look at life
And you know the way
you got to hide from danger
You know how to realize your words
That everybody heard
It’s good to see the way you look at life
My friend, my friend
You don’t know how to kiss me
And you don’t know how to hold my hand
And still don’t understand
It’s bad to see the way you treat me

You know the way you look at life
And you know the way
you got to hide from danger
You know how to realize your words
That everybody heard
It’s good to see the way you look at life
My friend, my friend
You don’t know how to kiss me
And you don’t know how to hold my hand
And still don’t understand
It’s bad to see the way you treat me

Vivid shady land
(Music: C. Koerts; text: C. Koerts)
The leaves are smashed on the riverside
The trees are burning and they’re crying bright
A pale face waves through the chasing clouds
Like a drunkard who is just blacking out

Where is this place, this vivid shady land
Where young lovers go and walk hand in hand
There we will be in our fate of being blind
And there we will dance and make love with our mind
Oh vivid shady land

The leaves have landed on the riverwaves
The trees are staring like crosses on their graves
The pale face is wasted, there’s a glorious sun
The drunkard is sleeping, a new day is born

Why, tell me why must this come to and end?
Where is the keeper of the key to this land?
We’re ready to pay for the dews of this sight
So we sure will pay before we die inside
Oh vivid shady land

The leaves are smashed on the riverside
The trees are burning and they’re crying bright
A pale face waves through the chasing clouds
Like a drunkard who is just blacking out

Where is this place, this vivid shady land
Where young lovers go and walk hand in hand
There we will be in our fate of being blind
And there we will dance and make love with our mind
Oh vivid shady land

21th century show
(Music: C. Koerts; text: C. Koerts)
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Twenty-first century show

Marching and moaning and crying and dying in no time
Like home-lost pigeons and full of suspicions in their mind
Let us go to the merry-go-round
Come on now let them go
It’s the twenty-first century show
Nothing there they really need

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Twenty-first century show

Neuro-surgeons are dreaming of more and more
They’re begging and begging 'oh please' at your door
Let us go to the merry-go-round
Observations of a fool
It’s the twentieth centuries’ fool
But he stays real cool

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Twenty-first century show

Our technical friend can be a deadly friend in the end
Will wisdom survive this technical friend
your friend
Let us go to the merry-go-round
Come on to the sun
I’m glad there is one
Let it shine
Let it shine

Seasons
(Music: G. Kooymans; text: G. Kooymans)
There were times before
the skies were blue
Before the sun could burn the dew
Times without years and seasons

But then when the seasons
were there
All kinds of vibrations in the air
The sky was blue
And no scar on the velvet skin

Winter: hoar-frost on the trees
I think I’ll stay asleep for another week
Summer: I can’t protect myself
from the heat
I think I’ll find myself a shady seat

There were times before the
day was born
Before the rain could drown
the lawn
Times without years and seasons

But then when the seasons
were there
All kinds of vibrations in the air
The rain was wet
Transparent and like glass

Autumn: sparrows in the sky
While the leaves of the
branches are dying
Spring: sound of a new born life
I think I’m moving on ‘cause it’s time

There were times before the
skies were blue
Before the sun could burn the dew
Times without years and
times without seasons

There were times before the
skies were blue
Before the sun could burn the dew
Times without years and
times without seasons.

Love quiver
(Music: G. Koerts; text: C. Koerts/G. Koerts)
When you’ve got to choose
You wonder: I should have
know better, better, better

When you’ve got to lose
You want to leave life
forever, ever

When you’re realy down
on the ground
And beneath your smile
you wear a frown
While the rain is falling down
from the sky
You see a little girl cry

While you watch the rain
You think of times
together, gether, gether
And in your window-pane
Reflections of her just
gather, gather

You don’t have to feel
sorry my friend
It is just the loosing end
While the rain is falling down
from the sky
You see a little girl cry

Did you, did you, did you see her,
she cries herself a river
You have just lost your last
arrow of your love quiver

When you’ve got to choose
You wonder: I should have
know better, better, better

When you’ve got to lose
You want to leave life
forever, ever

When you’re realy down
on the ground
And beneath your smile
you wear a frown
While the rain is falling down
from the sky
You see a little girl cry

Did you, did you, did you see her,
she cries herself a river
You have just lost your last
arrow of your love quiver.

What's your name
(Music: C. Koerts/G. Koerts; text: C. Koerts)
Here I go
Let the sea ease my mind
Here I am
Just to see what I can find
Here the seagulls fly
On past the crimson ball
Their wings flash red
At the deep blue purple sky

It was a beatiful day
It was a beatiful day
While the wheels of time
Grind my mind away
Tell me, tell me
What’s your name

Hear the symphony
That echoes in my brain
While birds and flies
Play a happy game
Here I go
To the surface of the earth
Here I am
I’m going back to work

It was a beatifull day
It was a beatiful day
While the wheels of time
Grind my mind away
Tell me, tell me
What’s your name.

10. Mechanical Lover
(Music: C. Koerts; text: C. Koerts)
He’s a mechanical lover
You will discover when you’re off

We got together
I wonder whether we were near

I sat by his side
My eyes got open, open wide

Where are we?
Are we going to forgotten fatherlands?
It’s strange you see

A kind of lift off
Please hold my hand love
It’s enough

Where are we?
Are we going to forgotten fatherlands?
It’s strange you see

Fantastic colours you will discover
It’s true

I sure remember
And will surrender to this land

Where are we?
Are we going to forgotten fatherlands?
It’s strange you see.

11. Hazy Paradise
(Music: G. Koerts; text: H. Ziech
Pastures who used to be green
Perish in white seas
That even embrace
The slumbering trees
Like bordermarks

And from the paths
Just before the ivory figures
Who stand on guard
Like sombre tentacles
Oh hazy paradise

Pieces of fog vanish to flow together
Pieces of fog vanish to flow together

Pastures who used to be green
Perish in white seas
That even embrace
The slumbering trees
Like bordermarks

Pieces of fog vanish to flow together
Pieces of fog vanish to flow together.

12. Memories
(Music: C. Koerts/G. Koerts; text: C. Koerts/G. Koerts/H. Ziech)

If you have been away
And left this world behind
So fare away
No problems on your mind
Alone again
Feeling very sad
Left with your memories

If you have been away
And made a lot of fun
No place to stay
Always on the run

Alone again
Feeling very sad
Left with your memories

Is it really worth-while?
Is it really worth-while?

Now if you’ve been away
And wandered on the shores
Games to play
So what you’ve been looking for

Alone again
Feeling very sad
Left with your memories
Left with your memories
Left with your memories.

13. Invitation
(Music: C. Koerts; text: C. Koerts )

My dream told me
Go and look
For the girl in the sand
Near the hill far away
She will appear
When the sunshine awakes
And the morningdew
Spreads over the day

Yes I’m walking down to my lady
Got this feeling tonight
I’ve had an invitation

Yes I’m walking down to my lady
I feel so good
I’ve got an invitation

She forces him
To come closer to her
But she fades away
While she’s calling his name

Yes I’m walking down to my lady
I feel so good
I’ve got an invitation

Yes I’m walking down to my lady
Got this feeling tonight
I’ve had an invitation

Yes I’m walking down to my lady
I feel so good
I’ve got an invitation

Yes I’m walking down to my lady
Got this feeling tonight
I’ve had an invitation

Yes I’m walking down to my lady
I feel so good
I’ve got an invitation.

14. From the end till the Beginning
(Music: C. Koerts/G. Koerts; text: C. Koerts/G. Koerts/H. Ziech)

My existence was between
God and mountains
Where will I be?
Solar systems

They’re growing very fast
A last farewell to removing Gods
The scorched earth is dying
My existence was between

God and mountains
They’re turning into dust
To return after many ages
The scorched earth is dying.

15. Lost Forever
(Music: C. Koerts/G. Koerts; text: C. Koerts/G. Koerts/H. Ziech)

Do you still remember
We used to walk hand in hand
All the things we saw are gone forever
Now i’m sure you’re a stranger
With your own life in your true ways
In my first mind
I wondered if you were happy

Places where we were together
Were asking: where are you?

Everybody sees emptiness around me
The only thing that is left
Is trying to live without you.

16. Song of the Marching Children
(Music: C. Koerts; text: C. Koerts/G. Koerts/H. Ziech)
A Theme of the marching children
B Opening of the seal
C Childhood

Watching through the broken seal
I saw the tree of life, forever
All the branches fully green
Bearing human fruit, forever
You're ignoring, to what you'll turn out to be
You'll once be sewing and gathering frequently
That's what you 'll turn out to be

Watching through the broken seal
I saw marching children and children
At the church nearby the gate
A preacher read his sermon for children
You're ignoring where the hell you're going to
God bless you for the world is going into

Why can't we go
over the untouched read
Is it too winding
Flanked by reflections of time
Go and experience
Learn the human destiny
Happiness and sadness
Posts of your life time

D Affliction

Children's eyes fixing upon the gate of heaven
Predestinated for minority
Into the underworld the others tumbling down
Tortured by terrestrial vixations

E Damnation

A long precession
Hearing the black knight's thoughts
I have been watching you
Your conduct in life was in vain
Cross the waters of death
With their silent borders
Then you'll see
Your waiting graves

F Purification

When will be the crack of doom
Is it tomorrow
Is it tomorrow
A laurel wreath for the future graves
Of the marching children
A laurel wreath for the future graves
Of the marching children

G The march

17. Thanks for the Love
(Music: C. Koerts; text: C. Koerts/H. Ziech)

The other day I saw your face
It seemed so strange in many ways
I think our love has really changed

Since you’ve found someone new
There’s nothing else left to do
Then trying to forget after all

But how can you be so glad
While i’m wondering and still sad
Now I’m on my own

Maybe I should take the chance
To start myself a new romance
So I can fall in love after all

I really cannot say
What’s happening with me today
Anyway, thanks for your love
Your honesty in all you have done
Thanks for the love
And thank you for giving me
a reason to go on

My days are sad and lonely too
‘Cause I used to spend my
time with you
I hate to work things out on my own

Really I could take the chance
To start myself a new romance
So I can fall in love after all

I really cannot say
What’s happening with me today
Anyway, thanks for your love
Your honesty in all you have done
Thanks for the love
And thank you for giving me
a reason to go on

Anyway, thanks for your love
Your honesty in all you have done
Thanks for the love
And thank you for giving me
a reason to go on

Thanks for your love
Thank you
Oh, thanks for your love.

18. What Difference does it Make
(Music: C. Koerts; text: C. Koerts/H. Ziech)

I got no love, no chance, no possibility
I knew I wasn’t certain
And everybody could see
That I got something to hide
What difference does it make
What difference does it make

I got no home, no friends,
no place to stay
Well I was sad and lonesome
But this is finally the day
That someone has come my way

What a difference does it make
Ooh, what a difference does it make
Oh baby, when you’re on my side
There’s love, there’s
always something there

I got no home, no friends,
no place to stay
Well I was sad and lonesome
But this is finally the day
That someone has come my way
What a difference does it make
Ooh, what a difference does it make
Oh baby, when you’re on my side
There’s love, there’s
always something there

They say you don’t know
what you’ve got in to live for
Well I know better baby
now you’re on my side
I believe it’s gonna be allright

Ooh, what a difference does it make
Ooh, what a difference does it make
Ooh, what a difference does it make
Ooh, what a difference does it make.