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Old Lo​-​Fi Songs Written for Girls

by Bram Cools

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1.
Chocotoff 02:39
This winternight makes the city cold and dark and soon I'll be sitting on a lonely train home you ask me not to go now you ask me not to go now No I'm not leaving, and for now I'll stay here with you untill the buss comes to take you back home the chocolate you gave me it didn't actually change my mind but I take it anyhow and stay with you a little longer You seem so confused my friend, is it really such a mess I know I’m naive and I don’t know the games your in you ask me not to go now you ask me not to go now No I'm not leaving… I know you'll never make me do the things I don't wanna do I know you'll never make me do the things really shouldn't do and I feel you need this friend right now and I feel you need this friend by your side No…
2.
Emilie 03:27
Emilie I 'm happy we'll only friends cause you with your dark eyes could've been dangerous if you really wanted to Emilie let me be someone to me don't ever try to play those game of girls and boys with me caus that would be the perfect way to get rid of me but emilie it's okay for me to be your philosopher in a braindead world and you can trust me if you need to you can trust me don't ever try to play those game of girls and boys with me caus that would be the perfect way to get rid of me and I don' want to loose you Emilie may the almighty wacht over you Emilie may you see him too
3.
He’s going to make you his perfect Christian girlfriend If he finds a way to fit you into his world He’s going to make you his perfect Christian girlfriend It’s his project, there’s not much you could say You don’t want to lose him now, so you’ll let him anyway When he’s weak in his faith he’ll come back to you A forbidden lover, that he can’t let go But you know what he says behind your back about you A temptation, a weakness, a danger to his soul There’s hurt in your eyes, but you’re in love with him And he’ll assure you again, he’s going to make it work He’s going to make … They warned me in church about being friends with you A dangerous girl, a nonbeliever, you know how church gossip goes I don’t know what they say behind our backs, ‘bout me and you But you’re a friend, not a temptation, and these people hurt your soul There’s hurt in your eyes, and you’re in love with him And he’ll assure you again, he’s going to make it work He's going... When outwardly adhering to teachings about purity is considered more important than treating your lover as a person As a human being, as a friend, as someone to stay true to You deserve better you’re not a toy to play with All these games and manipulation all the gossip and dirty looks I’m ashamed of my religions when I see the way you’re treated On and off and on and off and still he comes back to you You know in the end hell dump you but for now he’s going…
4.
I don't know what to think or do but the love.'s still here and it is real and I don't know the end of this story and still I have no clue what the hell to do you've been confusing me since the moment I met you but I think none of us is to blame for anything and if the love I feel would be wrong in any kind of way then let's turn it into friendship I hope that this is like it's meant to be I hope it will last I hope he'll be the one for you cuz alll ever wanted from you is to know that you're happy and still I have no clue what the hell to do I never had a chance always felt you far beyond reach and it's too late now even hope would be a sin and if the love I feel would be wrong in any kind of way then let's turn it into friendship I said if the love I feel would be wrong in any kind of way then let's turn it into friendship And now I'm sitting here totally confused I've lost one more dream a dream involving you I guess it should be enough for me to know that you're happy but stilll have no clue what to hell to do and after alll haven't lost a thing cause you can't loose a thing when you have nothing I said if the love I feel would be wrong in any kind of way then let's turn it into friendship
5.
Battery II 04:10
6.
The trap was invisible and deadly Made with the strongest glue around It was something I could not foresee Now it will be the end of me (instr) I will be hanging here Feel life slowly fading Waiting for her Waiting for the end (instr) And There she came and paralysed me with poison She should be back, can be any moment She will suck my life away She will my soul away (instr) Once I could still fly around, fly high Between the coulours of the evenings sky But suddenly everything stopped here stuck between those sticky chains (instr) I can’t fight it, I’m totally overpowered For sure she will enjoy / every moment Sucking out my life, sucking out my soul Sucking out my life, sucking out my soul (instr) And tomorrow she’ll throw away, anything that’s left of me I’ll be long forgotten then, I’ll be long forgotten then She’ll be waiting for someone new, she’ll be waiting With her deadly eyes, and invisible glue She’ll be waiting for someone new, With her deadly eyes, and invisible glue
7.
You (live) 02:43
you you made me believe believe again or maybe for the first time in my life that 2 people really can fit together more than I expected more than I deserved nothing is perfect not me not you nothing lasts forever not even this world but a lifelong together doesn't seem to be such a problem if it's with you
8.
(bloempi) 02:32
de dingen zijn anders dan je zou verwachten en ze werken het best als je alles vergeet wat je hebt geleerd van TV, school en andere slechte voorbeelden liefde is leuker speelser en serieuzer simpeler dan verwacht omdat jij het bent zal het wel gaan zal het wel lukken samen verder gaan liefde is geven en krijgen de rest zou toch niet werken ik ben blij dat jij er bent ik weet niet of het zou kunnen zonder jou ik hoef het niet te weten jij bent het van wie ik hou
9.
before you touched my lips I was unkissed and so were you my love a new world will open for us like an empty canvas that's only ours to paint in a world of ugliness in a world of lies let's paint something beautiful let's paint something true (my love) to love means to give and I gave myself to you my love and I'll give myself more and more just like you do let God be our witness here those promises we made when we were lying on the edge of the world breaking them would be suicide the end of all we stand for take my hand and come with me let's walk slowly among those flowers no need to hurry let's take our time go there barefoot with our toes through the grass if we'd go there by car we'd leave a scar in the landscape and spoil this garden and it's the beauty in this innocence that I'm in love with it's the beauty in this innocence that I'm in love with

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The 'Old Lo-Fi Songs Written for Girls' EP (from the archives of the 21st century virgin boy) is a collection of old songs from around 2000-2005 that were indeed 'written for 'girls', when I was in my early twenties and still used the band name 'the Irresistible 21st century virgin boy, which was also the name of a very limited edition tape that became the definitive collection of my songs of that time, most of which are lost now (the rest is available here on bandcapm), sometimes luckily.

This is also mostly a return to my first phase in songwriting with songs written for just me and a guitar. Most of these songs are acoustic guitar pieces, but there are also a few more experimental sounds. Some of these are 'friendship love songs', a few are heartbreak songs, and the others are actual romantic love songs. Only 6 is certainly not autobiographical, II might be a lot of things but I'm not a fly.

Whenever possible the original versions on tape and minidisc have been used with all the tape noise and imperfections, but some songs were not available anymore, unlistenable in their old version (or never recorded and have been rerecorded and sometimes slightly rewritten.

If you buy the album (at your own chosen price) then you get 3 extra tracks so that the 9-song EP becomes a 12-song full album!!

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released June 5, 2020

All songs written by Bram around 2000-2005
Bram: guitars, vocals, percussion, bass ,plus mandolin on 3, organ on 9,
LLMS mellotron emulator piano roll programming on 6,
1-3-6-10 re-recorded in May 2020, 2-4 taken from the tape 'the irrestistible 21st century virgin boy' (around 2002), 5 taken from the 1-copy limited 'spiderwoman tape'. 8-9 originally released on myspace and noxa music. 11 unreleased in this version, 12 was once part of a long-lost 'best of Bram Cools' collection that was available on mp3.com

Original versions of 4-10-11 on the tape 'avonturen in lo-fi', 7 has a version on 'I am the Belgian Christian lo-fi scene.

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Bram Cools Lier, Belgium

Bram Cools is an eclectic singer-songwriter from Belgium with lo-fi roots, with an own musical universe that moves somewhere in between weird folk, electro-acoustic noise and christian antifolk. He'll never be rich and famous, but that's not really the point. ... more

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