Ongeveer Lyrics in English Eefje De Visser

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Ongeveer by Eefje De Visser from Dutch to English.
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It's around evening
Doesn't matter much
Everything's the same
And we're different
Doesn't matter
And you draw us grey
In winter it gets cold
And when the snow melts
Then I drive
South
I've got here
Something
To prove
It's around summer
Every season's alike
It makes
Not much difference
You draw the year as one straight line through
In winter it gets cold
And when the snow melts
Then I drive
South
I've got here
Something
To prove
Then I drive
In your car
I've got a
Point to
Make
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SONG MEANING

🌆 Ongeveer paints a twilight world where time feels elastic: evening slides into winter, winter dissolves into summer, and every season looks "ongeveer" (about) the same. Eefje De Visser sings in soft, cinematic images, sketching everything in grey while hinting at hidden colors. The repetition of "het maakt niet zoveel verschil" (it doesn’t make much difference) captures that hazy mood when days feel interchangeable and you start questioning what really changes and what stays static.

Beneath the calm surface, however, there is a restless pulse. The narrator keeps saying "dan rij ik naar het zuiden" - then I drive south - because she has "iets te bewijzen", something to prove. That southbound journey becomes a metaphor for breaking free from monotony, redrawing the straight line of the year into a personal route. Hopping into "jouw auto" to make her point, she turns passive observation into decisive motion. The song is ultimately a dreamy yet determined call to escape the grey, chase warmth, and assert your own direction, even when everything around you seems roughly the same.

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