A Lipstick Under A Pillow
Gertjan Wijnalda, june 2001

about this song
quite often i get irritated by everyone who's making big troubles - usually for no good reason other than that they're feeling unhappy. they frighten themselves by thinking of everything that possibly could go wrong while most of the time nothing happens. this song is about those people.

if you're one of them, remember that life's not only about living, since there is something more to it than just living ...

listen to it   [ realaudio ]
this song was published on a 150-piece limited special edition of the IJskast magazine. it was recorded especially for this interactive cd, called frisbee. the realaudio file is an excerpt from the final ProTools recording.

A Lipstick Under A Pillow
(G.L. Wijnalda)

Looking out your window, simply observing the world below
Waiting 'till you open up your eyes
'Till I find that all I'm waiting for is water
To drown me

And then I find you hide your lipstick under your pillow
So afraid I'd use it on your wall
To write a message of goodbye and of deception
You never really trusted me no more than others

You say your life is only living anyhow
So when you die you think it'll all be over?
Believe that life is more than living anyhow
Can't see it coming at you while you run away
Go run away

I just can't see what you've always been afraid of
What's down below that I can't see
I understand people are either artists or the audience
But I'd wish the audience would take my stage some time

Repeat Chorus

Under a killing moon the magpies hide outside your window
Waiting 'till you open up your eyes
I wonder if you ever looked outside below
Ever wondered about the constancy of changes?!

You say your life is only living anyhow
Why can't you see there's really something more between us
You know that life is more than living anyhow
Can't see it coming at you while you run away
Go run away

Go run away (repeat until fade)