Daan Stuyven, the lost son Arno never had, released his new piece of art and called it Manhay (a village in the Belgian Ardennes, next to the place where he recorded the album). His new album breaks with his former work in the sense that synthesizer, although still present, have been replaced by the piano as main instrument. And like always, Daan gets away with it.

You already might have heard the first Manhay single Exes or might have seen Daan‘s own Lumberjack clip for the song. I’m amazed by how many rhymes he managed to find for the word “exes”:

Manhay tracklisting:

1. Exes
2. Your eyes
3. Brand new truth
4. Icon
5. Friendly fire
6. Crawling from the wreck
7. Bad boy, bad girl
8. Radio silence
9. A great retriever
10. Decisions
11. Beauty calls collect
12. The stealing kind

Exes lyrics:

Exes I’ve got no acces to my exes
I’m sure by now they’ve moved to Texas
or took a one way trip to Naxos
Exes I’ve lost the battle of the sexes
Like making love inside of taxis
They liked the sting but not the cactus

I know that exes reflect my youth
I know that exes are my male proof
I know they’re guilty of being the past
But you’ve killed the cupid
You’re over them
Exes I’ve got no problem with my exes
They loved me driving in my Lexus
A road’s as good as all its exits
Exes so out of date like sending faxes
I was the tree they were the axes
They liked the pray but not the mantis

The cynical collector of birds not bees
The problem detector got high on heels
The beauty protector with no degree
for exes

Which is good which is constructive
Which is what a woman needs
Don’t go asking for forgiveness
Go plead guilty all degrees
You were raised on definitions
With your dears obscuring deeds
Your actions

Exes you like ‘m young but not the acne
You like the team but not the referee
I wonder how it feels to ex me
So go ahead and ex me
Try to forget just don’t annex me
I thought I threw away the frisbee
I’d say we try to stick to plan B

Like a missile that ain’t guided
I was following my seed
Like a horse that hasn’t travelled
I took hay for upper purple weed
I got excommunicated
Cause I couldn’t play the creep
for exes
Exes too young to check all their reflexes
No use explaining who T-Rex is
They are the source of all complexes
You know… exes

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