Year's End
This song is about the final days of the year. After a year of striving and trying to realize your ideals, those last few weeks of the year are a time to reflect on what you’ve achieved and what you haven’t. Coming home during this dark time of year, you realize that your partner and your most cherished loved ones are what truly matter most. Looking at the moon, we have lights in the trees, and at the end of the year, we set off fireworks. But the real warmth and illumination come from the person you’re with. This song is very dear to me because it’s about my partner, who truly embodies this for me. Together with Sander Geboers and Wim Veenhof, I further developed the melody I had created into this song, and I wrote the lyrics, which were beautifully translated into English by Michael Diederich. The music video was recorded in a small studio where we brought together some of the musicians, and the stunning illustrations was created by Flo de Goede, a Dutch cartoonist who captures the romance beautifully through his artwork.