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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/17 show “Energy with poetry and Music” “Expressions Poetry with Music!” in Austin performing her songs/poems “Victim” (done as a Chicago Industrial song), “There I Sit” to blues music, “Tight Top Affair” w/ an electric guitar, & “Knew I Had to be Ready” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersfeature
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/17 show “Energy with poetry and Music” at “Expressions Poetry with Music!” in Austin performing her songs/poems “Victim” (done as a Chicago Industrial song), “There I Sit” to blues music, “Tight Top Affair” w/ an electric guitar, & “Knew I Had to be Ready” (on a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersfeature
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Knew I Had to be Ready”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing their song “Tight Rope Affair”, Morrissey’s song “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, and together they sang (with altered chorus lyrics) Depeche Mode’s song “the Bottom Line” w/ John on guitar 2/18/18 at B. B. Rover’s in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing their song “Tight Rope Affair”, Morrissey’s song “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, and together they sang (with altered chorus lyrics) Depeche Mode’s song “the Bottom Line” w/ John on guitar 2/18/18 at B. B. Rover’s in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuypersinstagram
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 2/22/18 in their 2-hour live music show at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar. In this set, she sang Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, acoustically she sang most of the Eurythmics’ “Brand New Day” and then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, her song “In Love I Abide”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, the Smiths’ “London”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), Morrissey’s “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair”, the Church’s “Under the Milky Way”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, the Smiths’ “Ask”, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Erasure’s “How Many Times?” (joined w/ John vocals), the Smoking Popes’ “I Need You Around”, John Yotko’s “What I’ve Been through”, and Don McLean’s “American Pie” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera, filmed from a table; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 2/22/18 in their 2-hour live music show at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar. In this set, she sang Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, acoustically she sang most of the Eurythmics’ “Brand New Day” and then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, her song “In Love I Abide”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, the Smiths’ “London”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), Morrissey’s “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair”, the Church’s “Under the Milky Way”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, the Smiths’ “Ask”, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Erasure’s “How Many Times?” (joined w/ John vocals), the Smoking Popes’ “I Need You Around”, John Yotko’s “What I’ve Been through”, and Don McLean’s “American Pie” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera, filmed from the bar; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Marry Me... Whatever You Are” and “Universe... Now in Color”, then singing Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair” with John on acoustic guitar, all performed from her book “Say Nothing” live 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Marry Me... Whatever You Are” and “Universe... Now in Color”, then singing Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair” with John on acoustic guitar, all performed from her book “Say Nothing” live 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
video See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask”, with ‘books’ for ‘bombs’ lyrics changes (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
video See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (From a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera w/ a Threshold filter.)
video See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (From a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & given a Posterize filter.)
video See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & w/ an Edge Detection filter.)
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she read her “Energy with Poetry and Musicperformance art poems & songs (all performed as poetry readings) “There I Sit” “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready” and “Tight Rope Affair” from the cc&d 4/18 book “War of Water” as she hosted “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” during National Poetry Month (Panasonic Lumix T56; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she read her “Energy with Poetry and Musicperformance art poems & songs (all performed as poetry readings) “There I Sit” “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready” and “Tight Rope Affair” from the cc&d 4/18 book “War of Water” as she hosted “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” during National Poetry Month (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, w/ an Edge Detection filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she read her “Energy with Poetry and Musicperformance art poems & songs (all performed as poetry readings) “There I Sit” “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready” and “Tight Rope Affair” from the cc&d 4/18 book “War of Water” as she hosted “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” during National Poetry Month (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, w/ a Posterize filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she read her “Energy with Poetry and Musicperformance art poems & songs (all performed as poetry readings) “There I Sit” “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready” and “Tight Rope Affair” from the cc&d 4/18 book “War of Water” as she hosted “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” during National Poetry Month (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, w/ a Threshold filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 5/2/18 “May 2018 Book Release Reading” Austin feature reading, reading from the cc&d January-April 2018 issue collection book “Not a Trace” haiku “He’s an Escapist”, then her poems “There I Sit”, “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready”, and “Tight Rope Affair” from her show “Energy with Poetry and Music” for “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).#janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 5/2/18 “May 2018 Book Release Reading” Austin feature reading, reading from the cc&d January-April 2018 issue collection book “Not a Trace” haiku “He’s an Escapist”, then her poems “There I Sit”, “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready”, and “Tight Rope Affair” from her show “Energy with Poetry and Music” for “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Love Poem” and “Loved You the Most”, then sing her song “Tight Rope Affair” with John on acoustic guitar, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1”, then John reading his poem at “Poetry Aloud” 5/12/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Love Poem” and “Loved You the Most”, then sing her song “Tight Rope Affair” with John on acoustic guitar, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1” then John reading his poem at “Poetry Aloud” 5/12/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “I Want” from her “Striking with nature and humanity” show, “Coquinas” from her “IPB: Impromptu Poetry on the Beach” show, and then she sang her song “Tight Rope Affair” with john on guitar from her “a Very Goth Beach Feature” show, all performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” in Austin (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “I Want” from her “Striking with nature and humanity” show, “Coquinas” from her “IPB: Impromptu Poetry on the Beach” show, and then she sang her song “Tight Rope Affair” with john on guitar from her “a Very Goth Beach Feature” show, all performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” in Austin (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

tight rope affair

04/14/04

i know all the moves
i play the game
and it gets to you

you can’t say a word
you can’t move an inch
cause you can’t break the rules

i know what to say
i know what to do

and it sets you on fire


i have to play
on what you like
to see what you can take

and i walk out on to that tight rope
to watch you move and shake

and now we’re both stuck there
but here is where you quake

but you can’t fall from this wire


we walk a thin line
        in our tight rope affair
there’s no net when you’re high
        so you better beware

do you know your way down
        when you’re in making your moves
                and balanced in
                          your tight rope affair


when you’re up on the wire
you feel the fire
and you feel the fear

but you’re filled with desire
you want to go higher
whenever we’re near

what will transpire
now that we’re here

what can we do to make us right


when we gracefully step
on the paper-thin wire
we’re balancing high

we look to the ground
see a circus of clowns
as we’re touching the sky

now we both tightrope walk
and I wonder why

why we can’t bring it all into the light


we’re walking a fine line
        in our tight rope affair
yeah, you try to act sly
        when I know a part of you’s scared

but you know you’ll will try
        only if you can bear
                what might happen
                          in our tight rope affair


you balance on this twine
        in our tight rope affair
cause I know you’ll be mine
        yeah, be with me if you’d dare

this love is divine
        but it cannot compare
                to this rush
                          from this tight rope affair


you know how it feels
        in our tight rope affair
our time is surreal
        and our bond is rare

we sense this appeal
        and it makes us aware
                of the risks
                          in our tight rope affair


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