LEARN LYRICS

Dan Huilt Mijn Hart (Then My Heart Weeps) invites us to watch the sunrise over a once-vibrant city now reduced to rubble. Ernst Jansz and his daughter Luna guide us through memories of children playing, gardens blooming, and lovers sharing dreams, only to reveal that armies have marched through and left nothing but ruins. With each dawn the singer counts the cost of war: sons and fathers sacrificed, ideals sold, and a heart that can only cry. The repeating line “Dan huilt mijn hart” turns private sorrow into a universal lament that listeners everywhere can feel.

What makes the song so gripping is how it layers intimate love with sweeping social critique:

• a glowing sun contrasted with shattered streets
• playful children replaced by lists of the dead
• lofty slogans—an ideal, a dream, a god, a general—set against the tangible loss of real people

By the end we are wandering beside the narrator through a ghostly landscape, carrying a “haveloze erfenis” (ragged inheritance). It is a haunting reminder that war erases places, breaks hearts, and leaves only the fragile hope that, by singing, we might remember and choose differently next time.