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tinaboonstra
May 26, 20231 min read
My little love: lyrics and giving the love you have
Sometimes I wish I was someone else. Someone more open-hearted, with more love to give. This is a song about giving the love that you...
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tinaboonstra
May 26, 20232 min read
No time to wait: lyrics and a lesson from my great granny
This is a story about my great granny and grandpa. Their families didn’t approve of their relationship so they emigrated to South Africa...
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tinaboonstra
May 26, 20232 min read
Proof of life: lyrics and a note to self
Note to self - usually hard stuff does get easier in the end. Sometimes when you’re in a situation that’s hard, it can feel like this is...
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tinaboonstra
May 26, 20232 min read
Do what we can: lyrics and the hidden work of a life well-lived
This is a story about a full life, but it’s not exactly the kind of life anyone’s going to make a movie about. It’s about a maths teacher...
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tinaboonstra
May 26, 20232 min read
Why do good times fly?: lyrics and love for the long-haul
I met this lady at a wedding, she was maybe in her sixties or early seventies. I didn’t know her, but ended up talking about her husband...
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tinaboonstra
May 26, 20232 min read
Grace Riley: Lyrics and learning to be a braver friend
I wrote this song about a girl who ran away. And it made me think of this time when I was a kid, there was this girl who was being...
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tinaboonstra
May 26, 20231 min read
No place to go: lyrics and rest as an act of defiance
Sometimes I can get caught up in the news. The injustice of it all, it can feel so overwhelming Sometimes in face of really hard things,...
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tinaboonstra
May 26, 20232 min read
Can people ever really change?: lyrics and life after self-sabotage
Have you ever tried to start again? Sometimes you know you have to, sometimes you don’t have a choice. Sometimes we do things to try and...
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tinaboonstra
May 26, 20231 min read
If I could: lyrics and the stories we tell when there's nothing else to do
I wrote this song after my friends’ baby died in the womb. It was such a shock, we didn’t know what to say or what to do. So I did the...
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tinaboonstra
May 26, 20232 min read
Call me Thomas: lyrics and why we should stop giving him a hard time
I feel like doubting Thomas gets a bad rep. He was one of Jesus’ 12 disciples and yeah the only one who said out loud, what probably...
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tinaboonstra
May 26, 20232 min read
Martha: the lyrics, and why the hard parts had to stay in
I find this song really hard to play to people for the first time, there’s so much goodness in it, and then suddenly it gets so heavy. I...
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tinaboonstra
May 26, 20231 min read
Circle back, start again: lyrics, and the awkward un-knowing
This is a song about getting lost and found all over again. It’s about letting go of old ways of thinking without really knowing how it’s...
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