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Autobiographical song for the four Van der Westen boys growing up with their loving parents but also facing the bitter and difficult periods when their father became heavily manic depressive.

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Bittersweet
All that We have longed for. Some place of our own
All we ever needed. Was you to be our home.
Sure those days have changed us. They changed us where to walk
And all these paths we have taken. They were drawn so long ago.

Cause In this house we were living.
Life was bittersweet.
And oh so many roads we have driven.
Just to be back home.

These ghosts that once we’d hunted. They were buried long ago.
They could not come between us. They went down to deeper soil
Now love and rest returned to. The bottom of our souls.
Would it make a change though. Well if you had known it all

Cause In this house we were living.
Life was bittersweet.
And oh so many roads we have driven.
Just to be back home.

Those years we have never found them. They were taken long ago.
But all that life you gave us. Well you could have done things worse
Now we will return to. How life it should have gone.
And all we can rely on. The ways you might have done

Cause In this house we were living.
Life was bittersweet.
And oh so many roads we have driven.
Just to be back home.

Nanananananaa....

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from Honesty of The Hopeful, track released October 14, 2022
Dieter van der Westen: Compostion & Lyrics
Dieter van der Westen & Aron Raams: Arrangements

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Dieter van der Westen Amsterdam, Netherlands

The new album Honesty of the hopeful is an ode to everyone who makes the best of life in an honest way and does not give up. The melodies on Honesty of the Hopeful are simple and hook into the themes of the lyrics, sometimes energetic and enthusiastic, sometimes tragic and compelling.
Americana, Folk, Alt-Country with a bit of Soul. ... more

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