Erstellt am 17.11.2007 - 13:37

All I Need

explained by Sharon den Adel



This song has been written from the point of view of someone
who has been disappointed in love and life. A person who has found something or someone he wants to believe in again. At the same time he knows that he won't be able to deal with a new disappointment. He's afraid of giving into the temptation of wanting to believe, because if it does backfire again he's not sure wh at he's going to do.

I don't know why this songtext turned out to be on this subject. Sometimes lyrics just go into a certain direction and others are written with a subject in mind from the start. All I know is that this text became a lot more real to me when a friend of the family committed suieide this year. We knew he was going through a rough dme. The last time Robert and I saw hirn we realized that he had reached the point where he would either break, or he would have to dramatically change his view on life and his future. More than two years passed, and nothing really changed, until we were on tour this year. He'd had some bad news, and that was just one disappointment too many.
When I was 10 or 11 years old, he took me to a friend who had moved from my hometown all the way to loure in Friesland, which lies way up in the north of the country. It's about a 2-3 hour's drive from where I live, and for us Dutch people that's a lotbecause we're not used to driving for too many hours in a row. Friesland, which is 1 of 12 Dutch provinces, has its own dialect and in the past the Frisians actually said they wanted to be independent from the rest of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Our friend was a Frisian, and he bought me a fake Frisian passport I can remember it had all kinds of info about Friesland and it provided discount at, for instance, museums, stores and cinemas. This immediately broke the ice. Although I'd known hirn for as long as I could remember - I was bit shy back then. I only saw hirn when he was in the country, when he had to work in my hometown with my dad. He lived in Indonesia where he'd married and had a fa m ily, but whenever he was in Holland he stayed at my grandma's place, where he would rent a room. When he gave me the passport he said: "As this will be your first time in Friesland, I won't be able to take you with me unless you have a Frisian passport..." LOL. He was this really big guy, who was not much of a talker, but the fact that I was shy made hirn talk the whole trip long. He told me all kinds of things about the eities we passed, the environment a!1d about his beautiful Friesland. He treated me like a grown-up, w,hich was really good for my self­esteern. It was a great start of the weekend. I had forgotten about this trip, but when things like this happen, you start to remember many things you'd forgotten about along the way. I still have that passport and 1'11 always have my memories. He really was a good guy. Rest in peace.

Sharon


Quelle:

Within Temptation Official Fan Magazine No.6


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Zwei Dinge sind unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit, aber bei dem Universum bin ich mir nicht so sicher.

Albert Einstein