Stina Nordenstam Complete Lyrics Archive

B i o g r a p h y
(by Kuhn)

Stina Nordenstam is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She was born in 1969, and grew up in the Swedish capital Stockholm. Nordenstam has released five albums so far: "Memories Of A Colour" (91), "And She Closed Her Eyes" (93), "Dynamite" (97), "People Are Strange" (98), a strange yet enjoyable cover album, and "This Is" (2001). She has also put out some singles and appeared on other cds. In 1996 she worked together with the American avant-garde artist Anton Fier, a collaboration which resulted in Stina buying the tracks, having them remixed and releasing them on a single called "The Photographer`s Wife". A collaboration with the Greek composer Vangelis ("Blade Runner"), ended up on the single ("Ask The Mountains", one of Stina most beautiful songs to date). There is rumoured to be at least two more tracks that have yet to be released. In 1997 Stina`s most commercially successful song, "Little Star", was re-released as a single, most likely as a result of it being put on the "Romeo and Juliet" motion picture soundtrack. Later that same year the "Dynamite" single followed, and about the same time a song Stina had done with Yello called "To The Sea" was released. Finally in 1998, UNKLE and Techno Animal reworked the title track from "People Are Strange", which originally is a The Doors tune In 1999 Stina collaborated with with a Danish indie band called Mew. Her voice can be heard on the track "Her Voice Is Beyond The Years" on the band`s latest full length album, "Frengers" - and in a different mix on their previous "Half The World is Watching Me". When Mew plays this song live, a video screen placed on stage shows Stina singing.

In 2000 Nordenstam also wrote the lyrics and sang on four pieces on the soundtrack for the Norwegian movie "Aberdeen", together with the acclaimed Polish composer Zbigneiw Preistner (best known for the experimental "Dekalog" tv series). Stina has also worked as a tutor at Norges Musikkh'gskole in Oslo, Norway. One of her pupils, Beate S. Lech - artist name: Beady Belle) released her jazzy soul-oriented debut "Home" in 2001, and in the booklet she thanks Nordenstam for "guidance concerning vocals, lyrics and composition". Beady Belle`s first single "Ghosts" sound very Stina-ish, especially the chorus. Stina`s fifth album called "This Is..." was released in November 2001 on Independiente. This album features two tracks performed with Suede frontman and vocalist Brett Anderson. One of these, named "Keen Yellow Planet", was planed to be a future single (source: NME 1999). Late 1999 Stina did an interview in which she said: "I have done fifteen half finished tunes for it [the record]" (Dagens Nyheter.061299). "Sharon & Hope" was later chosen to be first single, but it was to the disappointment of many never put out commercially - and two b-sides therefore never became available. In May 2002 Stina cut the lines to Independiente, most likely partly because of the poor work that seems to have been done to promote the album - however not much is know about the reason for the break up. The songs found on Stina`s records are all in English, though she actually does sing in her native tongue on the traditional song "V'rmtlandsvisan" featured on the 2000 Freddie Wadling album "Skillingtryck & Mordballader". Stina has also written a song in Swedish for Monica Zetterlund, a popular jazz singer in her native country. Nordenstam`s songs are beautiful poems with an huge intensity, and they often suggest some jazz influence as they can be said to often capture the moments of a mood quite directly - as good jazz tend to do. Her somewhat "high pitched child-like voice" may annoy some, enchant others, but cannot in any way be ignored. Nordenstam`s instrumentation is also truly unique and exciting, and she is said not to be particularly being fond of the studio environment, "Dynamite`s" many different record locations being an example of that.

Stina Nordenstam grew up listening to her father's jazz and classical records, and she has claimed that they still influence her music today (at least she said so in an interview made after "And She Closed Her Eyes" came out in her home country). Stina was in her teens member of Sweden's Communist Youth League, something that may have influenced or rather states the fact that she does not look very kindly on how the turbo capitalistic record industry runs and uses it's resources (artists and financial power) to almost any extinct (my impression, but also described in the Dynamite books). Stina also turned down an offer to do a song for a James Bond movie ("Tomorrow Never Dies") in 1997, and she supposedly declined to work with the infamous Chemical Brothers (or the Dust Brothers) due to their "rave attitude" (all this according to another Stina page found on the net). Stina Nordenstam has since her first album was released back in 1991 given very few interviews, and the almost only place to find pictures of her is in the cd covers and booklets. After her latest album was released, Stina allowed the British quality newspaper "The Times" and some others newspapers interview, but -mind- not photograph, her. Stina Nordenstam is a skilled photographer, and she has directed several music videos. The video for the Swedish group Koop`s "Gl'md" shows a person not afraid of playing with the demanding music video format. Stina also made the artwork for the European releases of Koop`s debut album "Sons Of Koop" and "Gl'md". A Koop DVD containing "Gl'md" was released in April 2002. Stina Nordenstam is an original and unique artist indeed. People are strange, but Stina is stranger.

Memories of a colour

Memories of a colour

I'm searching for a color
Don't think it's got a name
It's something between pink and brown

Just like when the sun sets
Sometimes when it rains
Like it's the first time you see it go down

Me and my boat have been out for years now
My collection of china's complete
Except for that one piece
I won't be satisfied
I once held it but it disappeared

They've stolen my wallet
Now I'm finally broke
Now I've finally got nothing to lose

Your picture was in it
The one thing that you left
With that photo I've lost you for good

I walk down to the port, take my motorboat
And go out and turn the motor off
And I listen to the waves
I lay very still
I try not to think
Try not to breathe at all

I'm searching for a color
Don't think it's got a name
It's something between pink and brown

The return of Alan Bean

Well I'm walking in these streets again
I'm back and it all looks the same

And I feel like a man who returned from the moon
Gotta be what it's like to return from the moon

I've been travelling for a year or so
I've been so far out baby you'll never know
I really loved you like in another world
But I'm back now, and this is even worse

And I feel like a man who returned from the moon
It's gotta be what it's like to return from the moon

Now Alan Bean he fulfilled his greatest dream
A step on the moon and his future was ruined
Alan Bean and Pete and Rusty too
they had nothing left that they wanted to do

Alan Bean had seen his life from above
And what he felt it was stronger than love
To Alan Bean life is not what it seems to be
A step on the moon and life on earth is a dream

Cause it's hard to return from a trip to the moon
It's not a game to return from a trip to the moon

You better take care of your dreams baby
But if you touch them you'll never be the same
Well I wanted to touch what I saw with my eyes
Don't try to reach the moon if you don't wanna realise

It's so hard to return from a trip to the moon
It's not a game to return from a trip to the moon

Another story girl

You were at the hall one night
I saw it on his face
I've seen you before
'Cause on his wall you left a trace

There's a portrait of yours
hanging in his hallway still
In his eyes a pain that will not fade
I know it never will

Some other town and other faces
It's another story
Some other town leaving no traces
It's another story
Another story
Another story

You were selling paintings
in a gallery in town
He could not afford to buy one
Yet he, he kept coming by

Trust is hard although you do try
It's easier to be true
He said: "I don't wanna watch things I can't buy,
no I want you"

Some other town and other faces
It's another story
Some other town leaving no traces
It's another story
Another story
Another story

I give him all my love
I do, like he gave his to you
You packed your clothes and things once,
now I'm thinking of it too

There was a girl her eyes were blue
He'd miss her when she'd gone
There was a boy who'd die for you
For anyone he'd want

Some other town and other faces
It's another story
Some other town leaving no traces
It's another story
Another story
Another story girl

His song

There she goes waiting for her love
There she goes waiting for her love
There she goes waiting for the big surprise
That'll change her world
That'll change her world
That'll change her world
That'll change my world

I know that I can't have you
I know that you'll never be mine
I know that and that's why I choose you
'Cause this is real life

See how I'm smiling
Well you should be surprised cause I
Used to get sad just by talking about him

It's not that I forgot him
Tonight he was here with me saying
He'd changed his mind he'd decided to stay

It's a dream, there's no need to tell me so
It's a dream, don't you think I know?
But I just never noticed
That it could be this close
From being dreaming to being alive
From having nothing to having it all
From being in love to being poor

I skip that lipstick
I don't care what I wear today
My thoughts are with him
when I walk out in the street

People were staring
Then I felt my face was wet
I didn't notice I'd started to cry

I'm through with travelling
I know now what I was after
I stay right here
Now I've found what I searched for

I know he doesn't love me
No he doesn't care much
Don't seem to stop him from killing me slowly

A dream, there's no need to tell me so
It's a dream, don't you think I know?
But I just never noticed
that it could be this close
From being dreaming to being alive
From having nothing to having it all
From being in love to being poor

He watches her from behind

He watches her from behind
As she walks across the floor
Doesn't move, no
But his eyes caress her shoulders
While the coffee he bought gets cold

He watches her from behind
So she knows and she won't turn
But her hands shake
It's a shame she won't see the smile he wears
'Cause it's only for her he smiles

I guess I knew from the start
He wouldn't play the main part
I guess I knew all along
He would appear in this song

Pretending this is a film
Now a close-up on her neck
And some soft lights
But the film will no reveal her voice
'Cause this script doesn't have any lines

I guess I knew from the start
He wouldn't play the main part
I guess I knew all along
He would appear in this song

He watches her from behind
While her girlfriend gives advice
Doesn't listen
But her mind is obsessed with one desire
How she wants him to see her face

He watches her from behind
And that's all there'll ever be
And don't blame her
Another life or some other café
And they just might have found a way

I guess I knew from the start
He wouldn't play the main part
I guess I knew all along
He would appear in this song

I'l l be cryin' for you

But I'll save my dreams 'til I get old
I might need them some day
And I stay awake 'til the morning comes
I won't be waiting for them today, no

I'll be crying for you...

It's all very beautiful and quite sad
How I keep talking about you
It seems I could lose all I ever had
Except for my thoughts about me and you

I guess it's true what my sister said
When it's all fine it is just a bore
Well she needs an extra smoke to help her through the day
It's her problem here is what I do

I'll be crying for you

Now, I wouldn't mind being on your knee
But you said no and it's fine with me baby
I'm not taking chances, oh no, not me
This is the way it'll have to be

I guess it's true what my sister said
Not giving up though I said I would
'Cause there's really only one thing I know how to do
You know now here is what I do

I'll be crying for you

But I'll save my dreams 'til I get old
I might need them some day
And I stay awake till the morning comes
I won't be waiting for them today

I'll be crying for you...

Alone at night

To fight the battle between darkness and light
There he is sitting all alone
He found the starry sky one night
A secret he will keep

There is a house next to the station
It's not abandoned any more
You see the lights up at the station
Somebody's living there for sure

No one's ever stayed inside
Up there 'til dawn arrives

There was some damage to the spacecraft
So now they're stuck in outer space
Something went wrong down at the lift-off
Two billion miles or more away

"We'll send another capsule
So they may be back in June"

He lit a candle from the fireplace
Sat on the floor and watched it breathe
See the lightkeeper finally found his place
And he won't rise, won't fall asleep

Our lives are lying there before us, awaiting
So many ways to make it right

And still they're all the same to me
These stars all look the same

And still they're all the same to me
These days are all the same

Soon after Christmas

I've called you now a thousand times
I think I know now, you're not home
I've said your name a thousand times
To be prepared if you'd be there

I wanted so to have you
And I wanted you to know
I wanted to write songs
About how we're walking in the snow

You've got me slightly disappointed
Just a bit and just enough
To keep me up another night
Waiting for another day

The city is taking a day off
The streets are empty
No one's out tonight
My life is in another's hands

I wanted so to have you
And I wanted you to know
I wanted to write songs
About how we're walking in the snow

But there's no snow this winter
There's no words for what I feel for you
It's not enough though it's too much
Why must it always be like that?

The TV screen is lighting up my room
The film has ended
Every inch of my skin is crying for your hands

And I wanted so to have you
And I wanted you to know
I wanted to write songs
About how we're walking in the snow

You've got me slightly disappointed
Just a bit and just enough
To keep me up another night
Waiting for another day

A walk in the park

Chris was five when her mother died
She was the only child
Her mother used to say I'd spoil her too much
She was my joy and pride

Seems like yesterday
I hear her voice, five hours left to go:
"Won't you let me, well you know I can drive
Please let me take your car
Won't you please let me take your car"

Two policemen in the car behind
Not on duty but they stopped
And just before the car caught fire, bravely they pulled her off

Now days grow warmer Chris and spring is here
You'll see it with my eyes
If I were you Chrissie I'd rather not take this to stay alive

No I would rather die

One of these days when the sun shines
We'll go outside and listen to the birds in the park

When Debbie's back from Texas

When Debbie's back from Texas
This is the last place he'll be leaving
He'll cross the courtyard
Smilingly open the gate

When Debbie's back from Texas
He'll be moving back to Greenwich
It takes you no time
You just follow the bridge

Indian summer evening
Let the shadows backslide
When the pond is drained you think you can walk on the ground
They call it trust

I brought all that I needed
I took all that was mine
I could think of a few more things to believe in
But I don't know about love

She'll answer you like lovers do
Like lovers do, she'll answer you
She'll answer you like lovers do
Like lovers do

You'll try to figure out
What life would be without her

I'm standing by the window
Suddenly feeling so small
Cars go by and life
I feel like I could try just a little more

I'm a true believer
And no lover of starshine
I know where this is leading
This is my last chance

She'll answer you like lovers do
Like lovers do, she'll answer you
She'll answer you like lovers do
Like lovers do

Like lovers do

Viewed from the spire

Viewed from the spire
it looks more like a coincidence to me
Another bomb in the harbour
But you were there
The place was all crowded but...

No one crosses the street that way

It was such a lunatic thing to do
Broken glass all over
I heard the sirens
Her name on the radio

Should have known there was no escape

They haven't found him
They say it wasn't professional this time
Just a bomb in the harbour
A love affair
Her room-mate won't listen but I...

No one crosses the street that way

She says no, no, how would I know?
'Cause you didn't know her
I hear the sirens
And just suddenly I thought

No one's gonna say it did not take place

Crime

Whatever made me glow, it's gone now
But I pretend I'm having it still

You know it's getting very hard to go on now
But I pretend I want to

You know it wasn't really me
You know I wasn't really there
I would have thought more carefully
I would have turned away

You know it wasn't really me
You know I wouldn't really care
But someone looking just like me
Just turned around and you were there

My fingerprints are on the wall
Can I go now
'Cause I've got nothing more to say

Except I didn't want to fall
So be still now
As I'm walking slowly away

You know it wasn't really me
You know I wasn't really there
I would have thought more carefully
I would have turned away

You know it wasn't really me
You know I wouldn't really care
But someone looking just like me
Just turned around and you were...

My fingerprints are all over the world
You see my jacket in the street
What if they hear your heart beat?

'Cause you've been seen with another girl
She's in everyone you meet
And I can hear your heart beat

Fireworks

These fires never die
They told me this would help
I'm walking by the water

I'm falling with the tide
They said that this would end
I went as far as I could

I'm on distant ground now
Fishing boats go by
I fall asleep too early

I scream when no one hears me
The waves will wipe it out
And we'll be even

I turn my face to
From wherever the wind blows
Is it worth so much to try

I turn my face to
From wherever the wind blows
Is it worth so much to try

I'm at the airport waiting
For lights to fade below
And then something else

All instant things are fading
The pain will go
I won't remember

And if the lights went out
If the elevator stopped
If we were lost where I was

Or in the deepest tunnel
The train just stopped
But you gave me no chance

I turn my face to
From wherever the wind blows
Is it worth so much to try

I turn my face to
From wherever the wind blows
Is it worth so much to try

Proposal

Sunday morning
No I'm not crying
If you would pretend you're still asleep
The kids would be playing

While I forget a lot of things
I had a scar under my left eye
We went skating

Little good
The sun will be doing to my face

Little star

Little star
So you had to go
You must have wanted him to know
You must have wanted the world to know
Poor little thing
And now they know

Little star
I had to close my eyes
There was a fire at the warehouse
They're always waiting for a thing like this
Came traveling from all over town
For you, little star

Little star
So you had to go
You must have wanted him to know
You must have wanted the world to know
Poor little thing
And now they know

Laudamus adoramus te domine
Laudamus benedicimus domine deus
Laudamus benedicimus domine deus
Cum sancto spiritu in gloria dei patris

For you, little star

Hopefully yours

Wind full of smells and far-away places
The last thing I said: "Are you sure you can do this?"
Hands fold together, he says no
"Don't turn your head, no don't, just go"

I'm here in your yard and it's getting colder
"You're making it hard": He smiled when he told me
Life on the wing like a lot of things would be better if we didn't try
Well I tried

Like I was walking out in your garden
Or am I just being foolish
Or am I just being hopefully yours?
Or just being foolish?

You know you've been seen not quite on the main street
And I was the queen, 'til then I had nothing
And I can't go on like this is not a way of telling you
"Be mine, be mine"

Like I was walking on your blue carpet
Or am I just being foolish
Or am I just being hopefully yours
Or am I just being foolish
Or am I just being hopefully yours

Just being foolish
Or just being hopefully yours
Or just being foolish

Murder in Mairyland Park

Things that happen just once
If she'd looked she would have seen it
He was standing all night 'cross the street, very still
And they go out so easily, the streetlamps
The cars come and go

But I see you too clearly
I don't trust myself anymore
If it's all true just say it, I may already know
That sound when it's over
The sidewalks will carry you home

And they go out so easily...

I see you again

I see raincoats and newspapers
Cowboy boots
And reflected
In a window on a train

I see you again

Very brief in the night,
Between the stations
A passing town
Was illuminating the face

I saw you again

So this is goodbye

So this is goodbye,
So this is how you say it
These are the words
It's the voice you're using
It's the picture you've seen

So this is goodbye,
So this is how you say it
This is the time it takes you
Didn't take you a lot, now did it?
Didn't hurt you a lot, now did it?

So this is goodbye,
So this is how you spell it
Where you place it in your mouth
What happens if I didn't hear you?
What happens if it wasn't serious?

Well I was around
Maybe it was you I came to see
Maybe it was you who invited me
I remember your eyes were on me
I remember your eyes were on me

Goodbye

Something nice

Almost give it a try, I sure do
I wake up early thinking of you
And I paint my eyes in light blue
Reflecting every promise I do
There's a brand new note in the middle of this song
I close my eyes and hope that nothing will go wrong

That I'll have something nice to talk about
While I'm walking home
Have something nice to talk about
While I'm walking home

Almost wondering why you want me
Sometimes I think you're better off on your own
When I make you cry over me
I almost want to leave you alone
But when I wake up in the middle of the night
And when I sometimes suddenly remember your smile

And to have something nice to talk about
While I'm walking home
To have something nice to talk about
While I'm walking home

To have something nice to talk about
While I'm walking home
To have something nice to talk about
While I'm walking home, walking home...

To have something nice to talk about
While I'm walking home
To have something nice to talk about...

And she closed her eyes

And she closed her eyes and said
"No I'm not in love
No I'm not in much, for real"

And the hood fell off her head
And her face got wet
I held my part of the deal

I've been growing older he thought
And he smiled and said
"You've got the saddest face I've seen"

And when she didn't seem to listen at all
He said: "I'm getting wet
You held your part of the deal"

Under your command
Did I not do well
Was not my record fine

Under your command
Wouldn't I have walked straight through hell
And did I ever look down

Under your command
Didn't I walk naked and cold
Did I spare any pains

Under your command
Wasn't I courageous and bold
Did you ever hear me complain

Under your command
Did my hand ever shake
Didn't I stay cold as ice

Under your command
Did I leave any trace
Was I not great telling lies

Under your command
Was I not true to the cause
Did I not swallow my pride

Under your command
Did I not follow your laws
Did I ever mind

Dynamite

The film they show is sad and boring
The morning shot from a diving bell
Forgetting you is like breathing water
There's got to be a better way

Dynamite

A thing you said once made me wonder
What can go away as fast as love
First the light and then the thunder
I've been up all night and I got it now

Dynamite

All day I did things slowly
Walked in circles round your home
I had something to add to the things you showed me
I've got it here underneath my coat

Dynamite

Almost a smile

Almost a smile
Like the sun here in November
Almost a smile

Almost a smile
Lakes that glitter behind trees
Blinking lamps in dusky streets
Almost a smile

Almost a smile
Like the bliss of northern summer
Hopefulness with the newcomer
Very casual and unstable
Like a guest will leave the table

Like a day when nothing happens
You were sure the worst would happen
Almost a smile

Like a word that isn't worthless
That you haven't heard in lies yet
Almost a smile

Like the presence of a stranger
When you've lived in constant danger
Almost a smile

Passing cars, surprising comfort
Like the lover at the airport
Almost a smile

Almost a smile

Mary bell

Let the evening in now
Let the darkness come
Shadows in your room unfold the night

Time to go to sleep now
For every man and child
Remember you're protected by the blackness

One was nearly seven
Her sister almost five
You'll tell us all tomorrow, Mary Bell

About how smoothly things went
And how they didn't fight
You're going back there, Mary Bell

And tell us how you found out
What no child should know
Tell us about the killing, Mary Bell

The night is dark above you
The universe is quiet
Tonight you're still protected by the blackness

The man with the gun

I'm out of my senses
I'll only smile
The night I meet the man with the gun

Not that I'd be defenceless
But I don't think I'll fight
The night I meet the man with the gun

Maybe I'll see what kept you
I knew you would come
But somehow didn't expect to
Be spared for so long

Was it a whim of fortune
Or was I hard to find?
What's the routine of the man with a gun

Was it a kind of torture
Have you been out of town
What is like to a man with a gun

Maybe I'm glad to see you
It's hard to believe
But standing here beside you
is such a relief

This is gonna hurt me
Oh I do know why you've come
But I got this feeling
That it's already been done

Until

'Til you give up
'Til you give in
Stop the car, turn off the engine
Wake up at night with a pounding heart

'Til you go down
And loose your head
Step unconscious from your bed
Until you walk from bar to bar

Until

Until you're scourged
Until you're snared
Reminded by the clothes you wear
Galled and sticky with desire

Until you bleed
Until you cry
Until you hurt as much as I

Until 'until' electrifies
Your ragged face, your sleepless eyes

This time, John

This time, John, you'll make it
You're back in real time
A second chance so take it
Your film is on rewind

One of us will hit you
The others hold you down
We'll mark you, mud and soil you
We'll throw you in to drown

We'll beat you up as badly
We'll throw you out as far
You're struggling just as madly
You're breathing just as hard

But you're still floating

And you're still floating...

CQD

Linked to the world by a payphone.
Stuck between galaxies
I finally fell in the black hole
Between your sentences

Circling over the airport
Beacon confirm our height
Is anything wrong, can we go down?
But the radio remains quiet

CQD

It's me and you now and you're not on my side
A night for planets, planes and souls to collide
They say that light years might go by till they do
It takes a desert to meet someone like you

Cut me dead, send me out blindfolded
Watch me take up the glove
This is what I've been trained for
I think I am in love

CQD

Down desire avenue

Down Desire Avenue
Where all the pilots go
Line in a bar when day is through
Keeping the world in place below

Tall second rated moviestars
Step from their overcoloured truth
Out through a side door right into
Desire Avenue

Empty faces, silly walks
Coming in from the tight-rope dance
Men judging balance above all
Looking down on their shaking hands

It's coming up, it's hard to breathe
And I think of you
I'm going down but nothing's cheap
Down Desire Avenue

One bite of cold and one of heat
A sip of lust, a sip of pain
A careless way to cross the street
That is the way to play this game

Now is a red-hot piece of coal
Thrown right at you
This isn't courage anymore
Down Desire Avenue

Now that you'r e leaving

I'm turning out the light
Now that you're leaving
To see things black and white
Now that you're leaving

To kill you in the dark
To make my last remark
I'll stay up tonight
Now that you're leaving

I'm running backwards on a train
All is coming back to me again

A crowd of people in my way
And everyone has got your face

Between what I was
And what I will be

I'm held back by your ghost
And what I couldn't be

Sailing

( Written by Gavin Sutherland - 1972 )

Sailing, I am sailing
Home again, 'cross the sea
I am sailing, stormy waters
To be near you, to be free

I am sailing, I am sailing
Home again, 'cross the sea
I am sailing, I am sailing
Stormy waters, to be free

Sailing, I am sailing
Home again, 'cross the sea
I am sailing, stormy waters
To be near you, to be free

I am sailing, I am sailing
Home again, 'cross the sea
I am sailing, I am sailing
Stormy waters, to be free

I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair
Born like a vapor in the summer air
I see her tripping where the bright streams play
Happy as the daisies that dance on her way

Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour
Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er

I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair
Floating like a vapor on the soft summer air

I long for Jeannie with the daydawn smile
Radiant in gladness, warm with winning guile
I hear her melodies, like joys gone by
Sighing 'round my heart o'er the fond hopes that die

Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain
Wailing for the lost one that comes not again

I long for Jeannie and my heart boys low
Never more to find her where the bright waters flow

Love hurts

( Written by Stephen Foster - 1854 )

Some fools rave of happiness
Blissfullness
Togetherness
Some fools fool themselves I guess
But they're not fooling me

Lonesome Road

( Written by Gene Austin and Nathaniel Shilkret )

Look down, look down that lonesome road
Hang down your head and cry
The best of friends must part sometimes
And why not you and I

True love, true love what have I done
That you should treat me so
You made me walk and talk with you
Like I've never done before

True love, true love what have I done
That you should treat me so
You made me walk and talk with you
Like I've never done before

( Written by Leonard Cohen - 1968 )

Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I've tried in my way to be free

Like a worm on a hook
Like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee

If I've been unkind
Please just let it go by
If I've been untrue
It was never to you

Like a baby, stillborn
Like a beast with his horn
I've torn everyone who reached out for me

If I've been unkind...
If I've been untrue...

But I swear by this song
And by all that I've done wrong
I will make it all up to thee

... unkind
... untrue
It was never to you

Purple Rain

( Written by John L. Nelson and Prince - 1984 )

I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted to one time see you laughing
I only wanted to see you laughing in the rain

Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain

Never meant to be your weekend lover
I only want to be some kind of friend
I could never steal you from another
It's such a shame our friendship had to end

Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain

It's such a shame our friendship had to end

Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain

Like a swallow

( Traditional Canadian song - 1930 )

He's like the swallow that flies so high
He's like the river that never runs dry
He's like the sunshine on the lee shore
He was my love, my love is no more
He was my love, my love is no more

Out in the garden, this fair man did go a-picking roses
How could he not?
The more he picked and the more he pulled
Until he got his apron full

Out of these roses, he made a bed
A stony pillow, for his head
He laid his head down, no word he spoke
Until this fair mans, heart was broke

Reason to believe

( Written by Tim Hardin - 1966 )

If I listen long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe you that it's all true

Someone like you makes it easy to give, from myself
Someone like you makes it hard to live without, somebody else

If I gave you time to change my mind
I'd find a way to leave the past behind
If I listen long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe you that it's all true

Someone like you makes it easy to give, from myself
Someone like you makes it hard to live without, somebody else

Someone like you makes it easy to give, from myself
Someone like you makes it hard to live without, somebody else

I came so far for beauty

( Written by Leonard Cohen and John Lissauer - 1979 )

I came so far for beauty
I left so much behind
My patience and my family
My masterpiece unsigned

I thought I'd be rewarded
For such a lonely choice
And surely she would answer
To such a very hopeless voice

I practiced all my sainthood
I gave to one and all
But the rumours of my virtue,
They moved her not at all

I changed my style to silver
I changed my clothes to black
And where I would surrender,
I would attack

I stormed the old casino
For the money and the flesh
And I myself decided
What was rotten and what was fresh

And men to do my bidding
And broken bones to teach
The value of my pardon
And the shadows of my reach

But oh, I could not touch her
With such a heavy hand
Her star beyond my order
Her nakedness unmanned

Come to Me

( Written by Stina Nordenstam )

Come to me my love
Come back to me
To me, my love
Come to me

Love, without you I can never
Come to me

On to strange lands, beyond the sea
I'll travel to be free, far from you

Come back to me
To me, my love
Bright skies are shining

People Are Strange

( Written by The Doors - 1967 )

People are strange
When you're a stranger
Faces look ugly
When you're alone

Women seem wicked
When you're unwanted
Streets are uneven
When you're down

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name

People are strange
When you're a stranger
Faces look ugly
When you're alone

Women seem wicked
When you're unwanted
Streets are uneven
When you're down

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name

When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange

You'll have to stand perfectly still
You'll have to close your eyes
And when I am finished
I don't believe you can go

Everyone else in the world
Would love me by now
Would love me from day one
But not you

Everyone else in the world
Would love me by now
Would love me in a crowd
But not you

False promises of love
Still promise love
You'll get what you want
When you just want what you get

Everyone else in the world
Would love me by now
Would love me from day one
But not you

Everyone else in the world
Would love me by now
Would love me in a crowd
But not you

Me and Ron had the uniform on
But we're not going to school
But the other way through the concrete grey
It was all OK it was cool

We took turns at laying an ear at the rail
We heard before we saw
The faintest sound stead growing loud
We wanted nothing more

The laws of Silence Universe
We fight with high and fast
We fight with close and dangerous
With things that doesn't last

Ron and I got on alright
On the roof the speed was great
We made a turn and then came the tunnel
And all went dark as a grave

And the light came back and I saw the bridge
For a moment time stood still
It had started to rain, I noticed that
And then I turned and ran

The laws of Silence Universe
We fight with high and fast
We fight with close and dangerous
With things that doesn't last

So Lee

Slowly, it is how it goes, Lee
The song in which he leaves me
This is how it goes

So Lee, what do you have to tell me?
That if he doesn't leave me
I'll shape up so he won't

Oh Lee, I wanted so to be, Lee
Grown up just like you, Lee
I wanted it so

Oh Lee, standing in this fucking rain, Lee
I don't want to be me, Lee
I don't want it at all

Slowly, the song in which he leaves me
This is how it goes, Lee
This is how it goes

So Lee, what do you plan to tell me?
That if he doesn't leave me
I'll shape up so he won't

Oh Lee, I wanted so to be, Lee
Grown up just like you, Lee
I wanted it so

Oh Lee, standing in this fucking rain, Lee
I don't want to be me, Lee
I don't want it at all

Slowly, slowly, slowly
Slowly, slowly, slowly

The Diver

Look up, don't look down
Now's the time
Don't look down

Look up, face the sun
Breath and climb
Don't look down

Love is hard to get
But don't give in
Not now not yet
You will get hurt
You will get wet
And what you win
You'll lose and yet

Look up, don't look down
He's watching now
Feel his eyes

In your back
In your step
In your fall
Feel his eyes

Love is hard to get
But don't give in
Not now not yet
You will get hurt
You will get wet
And what you win
You'll lose and yet

Look up don't look down
He's watching now
Feel his eyes

Circus

Tomorrow I will stretch out like an acrobat
And make my way to what's there
I will get dressed again, in spite of all
With the laziness Of a circus

Before or after the performance
As I'm walking down the many stairs
Remembering my stunts all over
Remembering I'm sick and like to die

I will be
The only not mad woman in the park
I will be
What's left of longing on this earth

It took two days to lead up to this agony
Learning trust was just as slow
I just stop seeing you as my enemy
I was not prepared to let you go

I will be
The only not mad woman in the park
I will be
What's left of longing on this earth

Stations

They all see you off at some point
I was always prepared
That's what airports and stations are there for
I'd wave goodbye, try not to stare

It's never too early
It's never too late

He spoke my name and his eyes glowed
His skin was like velvet from pain
I would have known him with eyes closed
See what I saw all the same

It's never too early
It's never too late

We see them all off at some point
We wave goodbye and we stare
I should have seen it with eyes closed
This one would be hard to bear

It's never too early
It's never too late

It's never too early
It's never too late

Keen Yellow Planet

The keen yellow planet
Bleeding out into the night
Hidden oceans of longing
Now tell me that this is right

Intoxicated by stars
Very far away from land
At a hotel near the airport
I hear the planes start and land

I'm never close
I'm just that shadow underneath your window
I like the pose
All night my naked stare will make you stay awake
Awake

The keen yellow planet
Bleeding down over the earth
All dead serious lovers
Now tell me what this is worth

Intoxicated by darkness
Very far away from home
This poison must be harmless
'Cause my body is still warm

I'm never far
From where I lie I'll easily reach and touch you
I will stir your heart
I will stare you out 'til you return my gaze
My gaze

Lori Glory

Lori Glory you're on the list
Beware of what's coming
Though hard to resist

Lori Glory
Like a fly drawn to light
You met me at the airport
You were such a sight

I said nothing and then nothing and then you said
"The man that I love loves you, so I will love you too"

Lori Glory
In the back seat of a cab
Did I dream that you kissed me
Lori, I'm so sad

Men took all the decisions
About what and why and when
You learned the part of refusals
And you played it very well

Lori Glory
Like a fly drawn to light
At all the bars where you took me
You were the queen of the night

Lori Glory
The girl that I like
Promise to fight harder
The next time they strike

I said nothing and then nothing and then you said
"The man that I love loves you, so I will love you too"

Lori Glory
My bags are packed
Our last walk across Manhattan
Such a balancing act

Welcome to happiness
No smoking allowed
Here it's so easy to burn yourself
And equally hard to survive

Taste the sweat on your upper lip
Welcome to hunger and thirst
Welcome to happiness
It may appear shocking at first

Be ready to go
You'll never know when
You'll never know why

Welcome to longing
To wanting to taste and to touch
Mind the gap, here's depending
Here is wanting too much

Be ready to go
You'll never know when
You'll never know why

Take off anytime

Clothe Yourself For The Wind

Clothe yourself well for the wind
After you'd left it was windy everyday
It was not a thing you could avoid
Outside people were shouting
Sideways to one another
Longing from a great distance
Must have reached you

Clothe yourself well for the wind
Clothe yourself well for the wind
We took ourselves out of our hands
We couldn't have explained danger better

Clothe yourself well for the wind
We're running out of everything

Sometimes it's all around you
Sometimes that love surrounds you
And even God it's with you, tasting of salt

He learned about love the hard way
She learned that nothing would stay
They knew all about love and nothing
Sharon and Hope

She says I'd like to kiss you
He says you'd better not
He's on the brink of loving
She's on the brink of falling

Maybe a month in Spain could do it for you
Or a fridge of cocaine could do it
Those are not ways to do it
For Sharon and Hope

Now that I met you nothing's the same
It's not gonna be it ever again
If you stay or walk away
If I'm off or if I'm brave

Sometimes it's all around you
Sometimes that love surrounds you
We have it if we want to
Me Sharon, you Hope

They put a needle once in my spine
It took them so long to find it
I can't get this pornfilm out of my head
Let's get on with it

It is banging inside
It is singing aloud
Get on with your life

All over the world they get out of bed
Love dies every second
I can't get this creature out of my way
Killing it is not an option

It is biting your nails
So as not to scratch
Get on with your life

It is counting aloud
'Til the battery dies
Get on with your life

And I try to get up and I try to move but
This thing won't let me
It's heavy as a man's body on you
And it's this close to get me

It is banging inside
It is singing aloud
Get on with your life

'Til the battery dies
'Til the battery dies
Get on with your life

Winter killing

On cold days it is
Easy to behave and
Easy to believe in it
On cold days it is
Easy to see clear and
Easy to believe in it

You say winter's killing you
That you can't stand the season
It has no smell or flavor
I left the city for you
There was no other reason
I did your wife a favour

You're safer with me here
You're safer with me here
You're safer with me here
And you there

I took the fast track
Considered crying
I was stopped in customs
Quite proud of the knack
I have of knowing
When it's over

You're safer with me here
You're safer with me here
You're safer with me here
And you there

With a bit of ice under my clothes
My tongue against the teeth
I think of nothing
Walk around the house on the cold
'Til it hurts to breath
I think of nothing

I knew I had to leave
'Cause spring was coming
You'd made a lover out of me
And spring was coming

I'm safer with me here
I'm safer with me here
I'm safer with me here
And you there

On falling

All of us are falling
It's in everything
Hold on to nothing
Don't count on anything
The earth is falling too
It doesn't stop at night
See this glass is falling
And no I'm not alright

Even the low are falling
Even the lying
All of us are going down
It's not just the flying

You're tall and you are skinny
Stunning when you sleep
Ecstasy and sadness
I almost couldn't wash the sheets
Even you are falling
When you're turning out the lights
Strange and lovely facts for us
Who cannot sleep at night

Even the brave are falling
Even the boring
All of us are going down so
Just try to ignore it

Even the streets are falling
Look at the houses
All of us are going down and
It's not alright, no

The cars and the trucks are falling
The buses are kneeling
You're shot and you're going down so
Get used to the feeling

Parliament Square

This is no final solution
No this is just for today
I'm running from London pollution
Still cold from the rain

These are not perfect conditions
No this is far from ideal
This is a downcast position
At least it is real

It may be silent but I hear bombs fall
I hear sirens down in Whitehall
I see fires around you Paul
But you stand so still
And you look so small
And I'm so tired,
Of no help at all

You've been missing for weeks now
You never go far from the site
They won't ask when you show up
They're paid and polite

It may be silent but I hear bombs fall
I hear sirens down in Whitehall
I see fires around you Paul
And you need a drink
Your eyes are glowing
It might be too late
There's no way of knowing

This is no final solution
No this is just for today
I'm running from London pollution
Still cold from the rain

I'm staring out the world

I'm staring out the world
I'm staring out the streets
I'm staring out the world
Hoping she will teach
Hoping she will tell
All about herself
I'm staring out the world

Indifferent she looks back
There isn't much to see
A wound about to heal
And about to bleed
I still have blood enough to stand
Blood enough to keep
Staring out the world

A bullet dancing in my brain
Could end it any day now
Oh I'll break in that scene
I'll lift it on my own

Without a stop in raining
Without a shift in daylight
It could be any day now
Another witness gone

From Cayman Islands with Love

Half a day behind
And miles away
I'm on a beach
The only one around
I know who can't
Enjoy the heat

I bought the postcard
Now I have to write the words
I left the country
There's a chance you may have heard

Grand Cayman is great
Of course it is
Weather like this

Living is great
Of course it is
What else did you think

What else did you think

I said I want a man
And not a boy
You left the room
The Caribbean sun
So leaves me cold
You never do

I want to see you
Even want to see you bleed
I can't believe I paid for this
There's nothing here I need!

Grand Cayman is great
Of course it is
Weather like this

Living is great
Of course it is
What else did you think

What else did you think

The morning belongs to the night

The morning belongs to the night
Until it comes with a light
Until it's born with a spark
Until it outgrows the dark

And there it hangs for a moment
A breath of hope for a moment
Stands on its own for a moment
Free from the past for a moment

The morning belongs to the day
Already here with the grey
Already spilling with need
Already flooding with speed

With its voices and faces, neverending
With its hard spoken phrases, neverending
But its promise of outlasting light
Is just converted black in the sky
Is just converted black in the sky

With its falling and waking, neverending
With its holding and breaking, neverending
Soft the darkness reflecting your eyes
But the black is just converted light

125

They shut down the experiment
It had long gone out of hand
But the nation's funds were well spent
To the pride of modern man

125 has crossed the channel
It's the finest thing man made
And existence as we know it
Has reached another grade

We broke the code of meaning
Those who knew got paranoid
But we'll use our finest scientists
To get back in control

125 has crossed the channel
A proud and giant bird
Gliding like a condor
Above the simple earth

125 has crossed the channel
It's the finest thing man made
And existence as we know it
Has reached another grade

Butterfly

It happened again last night
It happened again alright
Honey it makes me want to cry
Too late I fell out of bed
Hit the ceiling instead
I'd turned into a butterfly

God didn't spend much time
This was a hit and run
Clearly the wings were oversized
In all, nothing was right
Still it was quite a sight
I'd turned into a butterfly

But the last time I looked in a mirror
It looked like it was going to be fine
And the last time I looked in the mirror
It looked like it was going to be fine

Baby I don't know why
I was the average guy
And I was almost satisfied
To be just one in the crowd
Not too tall or too loud
I turned into a butterfly

Tired but always clean
Staying away from dreams
So I lie sleepless by your side most nights
A twitch in my back
Gently life would attack
I'd turned into a butterfly

But the last time I looked in a mirror
It looked like it was going to be fine
And the last time I looked in the mirror
It looked like it was going to be fine

Once past the drowning panic
And the longing to fly
Whatever I see in the mirror
I'm sure that it's going to be fine

The world is saved

I blinked again and
I wasn't dead
I was a favorite
Child in it's bed

You had to look
In praise and alarm
Yet I hold nothing
In my arms but my arms

Pouring through me
The world is saved
The world is saved

Take it from me
The world is saved
The world is saved

I clashed with silence
I stumbled and fell
I blinked again, sure
This wasn't hell

You had to look
In awe and surprise
Yet I'd found nothing
To life but my life

Pouring through me
The world is saved
The world is saved

Take it from me
The world is saved
The world is saved

The end of a love affair

The end of a love affair
A scene from a film
Just as familiar
As the love had been

I woke and couldn't sleep
Before a word was said
The gap was ocean deep
Between us in the bed

The end of a love affair
The end of a life
The end of a love affair
Still we both survive

It didn't take so long
Really just a day
And all the hope was gone
It was clear I couldn't say

Getting up is easy
Beaten up, still easy
Cutting off is easy
Tearing down is easy

The end of a love affair
The world is born again
If things doesn't look the same
It's cause they constantly change

I take your number off the phone
Now I'm on my own
The good days will come
I just need the time

( With Dive - 1992 )

Three o'clock in the afternoon
Someone shouts in a crowded room
"Will somebody talk to me.."
All kinds of people gathered there
To me they all seemed unaware
Of their own presence there
How would they notice him?

Rain falls from a cloudy sky
And on the sidewalk I decide
This is my peeping-day
That is my happy day
So I turned the corner saying:
"What am I supposed to do?"
Every day is fresh and new
Locked up in a room full of flowers
Now I'm just passing through

"Hey baby, where do you wanna go?"
He said and turned up the radio
But she had her earphones on,
Listening to a better song
And I smiled to myself thinking
"What is she supposed to do?
Drive around the world with you
With a bag of batteries and a walkman?"
Well, maybe she would

What is he supposed to do
Watch the TV show with you
Locked up in a room full of flowers
Sorry, I'm just passing through

And everybody on the street
Acted like they were on TV
And I thought "Hey", we're living in an image-factory
Choose who you wanna be
But the facelift doesn't come free

What am I supposed to do
Everyday is fresh and new
Used to be locked up in a room full of flowers
Now I'm just passing through

What am I supposed to do
Watch the TV show with you
Locked up in a room full of flowers
No, I'll just be passing through

Ask the Mountains

( With Vangelis - 1995 )

Don't come after
Don't come after
Please don't follow me along
When you read this I'll be gone

Ask the mountains,
Springs and fountains
Why couldn't this go on
Couldn't our happiness go on
Ask the sun that lightens up the sky
When the night gives in, to tell you why

Ask the mountains
Wild woods, highlands
Ask the green in the woods and the trees
The cold breeze coming in from the sea

Springs and fountains
Ask the mountains

Ask the sun that lightens up the sky
When the night gives in, to tell you why

Then tell the mountains
Springs and fountains

Why couldn't this go on
Couldn't our happiness go on

Why couldn't this go on
Couldn't our happiness go on

Dancin' madly backwards

( With Fleshquarter - Flow Lp - 1994 )

About this old time, I'm gonna break down your walls
Oh yeah this old time, won't do you nothing at all
There's a line between the ages
You have seen and what you are right now
But this old time, I'm gonna break down your balls

Dancin' madly backwards
I was dancin' madly backwards
I was dancin' madly backwards
I was dancin '

Dancin'

Come on, flip back, flash back flip
Take a trip and get with the jazz, the set
To the run, run, run along this track
Now take time for your mind
Destination Cloud Nine
One, two, three D.A.N.C.E M.A.D.
In the circle of your destiny
Madly backwards, the chorus ??
So come along and hear the gong, gong, bang
Now grandslam
Me the beat, the bop
Here go the rock
Man, things are rollin'
I keep the goal in sight
Through the thunderin' night
I wonder why I sigh
So high grows the mind
This old time

This old time, I'm gonna tear down your walls
Oh yeah, this old time, it won't do you nothin' at all
There's a line between the ages
You have seen and what you are right now
But this old time it's the third world war

Dancin' madly backwards
I was dancin' madly backwads
I was dancin' madly backwards
I was dancin' madly backwards
I was dancin' madly backwards
I was dancin'

I was

Don't look for messages don't wait for signs
All you could need you will find on Cloud Nine
Go with the rest or they'll leave you behind
Follow them now and we'll meet on Cloud Nine

Failing To Fly

( On the Japanese version of The World Is Saved CD )

Failing to fly, that's what I do
I'm doing fine, no worse than you
Failing to lie, that's what I do
Can't help being true

Failing to die for one more day
Failing to give all of it away
I guess I'm used to breathing out
To laughing out loud

Failing to trade my soul for the keys
Failing to trust authorities
I'm without part the way they see it
But I'm not on my knees

Failing to melt in with the rest
I never passed the normality test
And out of all my failures in life
I like that the best

*** Thanx a lot to Crystallina for this one ***

First day in spring

( Little Star EP )

Lucky you, someone else was found
In the ruins of a boarding house
Lively you were watching them
For a moment it all looked so bright
Their first born child had peculiar ways
They made sure that you wouldn't havefont
Lucky you, 'til the body was identified
You had every chance

The first day in spring and the police were there
Had to go hide for awhile
Down in the dark sea
Eyes were just broken
They were trying to remember your smile
They're restoring your alley
Putting wastebaskets on the sidewalk
Your mother confirmed it all happened quite fast
Spring was here in a day

Give Me More Of Everything

( Unreleased, planned for The World Is Saved )

Give me more of everything
Give me a longer rope
Give me more of anything
Only not hope
I can't stand seeing anything
I'm three-quarters blind
I'm seeing too many things
Success falling out

Only not hope
I can't take that
I lose it every time
I think you'll be back

And give me more of everything
I'm not picky at all
Have no preferences for things
Have no favorites at all
I'll take whatever gift you bring
Any drink, any dope
Give me more of anything
Only not hope

Only not hope
I can't take that
I lose it every time
I think you'll be back

*** Thanx a lot to Crystallina for this one ***

Greetings from the Old World

( Dynamite EP )

Greetings from the Old World
What isn't dead sends you its wishes
A ghost of what we once were
Europe greets you with kisses

Here where it all started
Former heart of knowledge and wisdom
Always room for the heavy hearted
And a better security system

Greetings from the Old World
Across the sea, if you still remember
We always do, here in the Old World
???

The story goes you're still alive
Spreading your seed somewhere else
The saints wake up and sing with pride
And all the churches ring their bells
We all agree you were the one
We all agree you were the best
All dusty statues in the sun
Now raise their heads and face the west

And I want you like I used to
And I thought I'd write you a letter
Greetings from the Old World
Where things can only get better

( With Dive - 1992 )

An iron suit
Pulls me deeper and deeper down
Into subterranean depths
The damn pressure hurts my head

"I think I'm almost there now.
Now I can see the cave
It's hidden underneath the stones and decorated like a grave.
Ok, I'm going in now ... Oh, Shit! The lights went out!"

"Take a look at the monitor sir
There's something down there with him."

"Jesus! Get him out of there!"

Listen and obey
Have a nice day
Have a nice day

"Ah ... wh ... where the hell did that come from?"

"Ah, frankly I don't know
We're receiving signals from another transmitter."

I think I'm stuck
The lights went on now
A giant rock blocks the opening
And I think you better send down some help

"I wish we could just hear what he's saying.."

"The contact's broken sir, and he don't know it."

And while I wait
I'll procedure my mission
Please, don't be late
I see the equipment now
I'll try to open it somehow

"Oh, my god!"

Listen and obey
Have a nice day
Have a nice day

"Ah ... I'm afraid we lost him sir"

"The government denies any suggestion
That they have ever had anything to do
With a researching project what so ever near that area."

"It is now twelve years since the discovery of .. ah ..
'Have A Nice Day', and it sure has come up with some major problems
Among the different religions on the planet.
The Buddhists are saying that 'Have A Nice Day' means
While the Christians are saying that it means
The Hindus claim that it means
While Islam is raging mad because they say that it means ..."

"The Pentagon says there's a war coming up"

"Let us now pray for Joshua who sacrificed himself
So that we could bear the ultimate truth.
Joshua, divine diver of the lost world."

Her voice is beyond her years

( With Mew - 2000/2003 )

*If I could look you in the eyes
If I could look you in the eyes

Her voice is beyond her years
She's trying to move you
She did not know where to go and soon it was dark

If I could look you in the eyes
If I could look you in the eyes

I couldn't let you go
I couldn't let you go

I couldn't let you go
I couldn't let you go

Her voice is beyond her years
Please try not to move her
At least it was her mistake, hers alone to make

If I could look you in the eyes
If I could look you in the eyes

*In the morning I can see you
Can you see me when you're talking
Even your lies will do if they're spoken by you

* 2000 version only

I Could Still (be an actor)

( The Photographer's Wife OST - 2001 )

I could still be an actor
I could still be your friend
I could be a shattered pilot
I could pull out to the end

I could still be a writer,
Still get a deadly disease
And miraculously recover
I could still wanna be me

I could still be your mother
I could be myself again
I could still be an actor
I could still be your friend
I could be an organ donor
I could still save someone's life
To burden all sorts of experiments
Put all material on fire

I could still be in danger
I could be safe again
If I can't be your lover
I could still be your friend

I could still be an actor
I could still be an actor

I could still go to convent
Crash a car and survive
I could be taken prisoner
Tortured and stay alive
I could be a heroin addicted
I could still have a choice
I could still be on a mission
I could still die for a cause

I could still be a sailor
I could still climb K2
I could beat every record
I could still try to be true
I could still be in danger
I could be safe again
If I can't be your lover
I could still be your friend

( With Fleshquarter - Flow Lp - 1994 )

I got a strange obsession
It's on the rivers edge
I gotta make a confession
I'm so full of dread
Somewhere out in the distance
While the angels howl
There somewhere I don't get no
Hurt 'n a smile

It won't hurt you
Why it won't hurt me
It won't hurt you
Well, it won't hurt me
It won't hurt you
No it won't hurt me
It won't hurt you
It won't hurt me, no more

I know the times are floatin'
Back and back again
And there's no way of doin'
Things you cannot say
But somewhere I can find out
Where the night does end
All these kind of dreams
Must be from heaven sent

It won't hurt you
Why it won't hurt me
It won't hurt you
No, it won't hurt me
It won't hurt you
No it won't hurt me
It won't hurt you
It won't hurt me no more

No it won't hurt me no more

Any way the wind may blow
Whatever direction that I may go
It won't hurt me or do me harm
So I'm not worried I just stay calm
When stars connecting in the chain reaction
The mind I find to be the main attraction
Transcendental and mental uplifting
Signs emerge and colours shifting
Lightning strikes with mighty thunder
As forces of nature makes me wonder
Days go by, I walk my way
On to another phase ? love and grace
Moving on without fear of tomorrow
I'm free of pain or greed, or even sorrow
Now if I'm wrong, then Lord have mercy
But somehow I know that it won't hurt me

I got a final memory
I hang it on my wall
I don't see what's coming
Cause I can't see at all
But I got a strange obsession
It's always on my mind
I don't know what it's made of
I'm not the asking kind

It won't hurt you
Why it won't hurt me
It won't hurt you
Baby it won't hurt me
It won't hurt you
No, no it won't hurt me
It won't hurt you
It won't hurt me no more

Why it won't hurt me no more

( The Photographer's Wife OST - 2001 )

You were there and she was too
I saw her and then I saw you

I wasn't shaken or moved at all
'Cause I don't love you anymore

Now when I see you

For a moment it seemed so bright
Like all your hopefulness was almost mine
It seemed so easy to have a try
I feel your eyes now never more

Now when I see you

( With Fleshquarter - Flow Lp - 1994 )

Someone will be
Telling you stories
Someone like me
Saying don't worry

Whispering your name
As lightning split the darkness
You spark this flame
But the targets changed
In time to come
We'll look back to see
Someone like you, someone like me
Shattered dreams of eternal touch
I'll be missing you so much
I'll be missing you so

Someone will be
Telling you stories
Someone like me
Saying she's sorry

Now I'm lost in a circumstance
Captured in a ritual dance
Spirits in the air
How could anyone ever compare
Someone like me and someone like you
But now when I know that we got to go
Somewhere above or somewhere below
I'll be missing you so
I'll be missing you too
I'll be missing you so

Someone like me
Saying don't worry
Someone like you
Saying she's sorry

( With Dive - 1992 )

These are mayday days
But no rats'll flee this sinking ship
These are our paydays
We're heading down real fast
Picking up speed along the way

If you spread your love
If you spread your love

It'll reflect in their eyes
As if the rays of a sun
A thousand times as bright
Hits the ocean

You're alone and cold and you can't go home
They're the ocean
You're alone and cold and you can't go home
No more

These are judgement days
They know it too they're bugging our airway
And in days like this
We may ask ourselves what our struggle's worth

If you spread your love
If we spread our love
We'll be stars at night
A million tiny lights
And we'll reflect in the ocean

No you can't turn back 'cause you've got no home
They're the ocean
You would just find out that you're left along
By the ocean

These wounds will never heal
"These wounds will never heal"

They're the ocean
You're alone and cold and you can't go home
To the ocean
No you can't turn back cause you've got no home
They're the ocean
You would just find out that you're left along
By the ocean

You're alone and cold and you can't go home

The Things You Said

( The Photographer's Wife OST - 2001 )

I wish you hadn't told me
I never might have known
'Cause I've been driving past you
While I'm on the road

You're just another jerk now
It aches inside my head
I wish you hadn't told me
Said the things you said

I wasn't telling secrets,
We never got that close
I could have done without you
Could have had a choice

Could have had a choice

To the Sea

( With Yello - 1997 )

Away
Away

You may have many problems
But I was never one
All I ask is take me to the sea

You had to take me somewhere
I realize it now
Listen now just take me to the sea

Away from flickering nights and crowded streets
Away from blinding lights and shining needs
Away from losing heart and breathing hard
Away from always paying on your card

To the sea
To the sea
To the sea

Now this will be my way out
And you will be my guide
The more you take me to the sea

I'm only asking this once
Please take me for a ride
All I ask is take me to the sea

Then leave me with the seagulls
And smile your sweetest smile
Kiss you like the salt and earth and breeze
Drop silver on your forehead
And wave my last goodbye
All you do is take me to the sea

Away
Away

To the sea
To the sea

Treat me nice

( From People Are Strange Japanese Bonus CD )

When I walk through that door
Baby be polite
You're gonna make me sore
If you don't treat me right
Don't you ever kiss me once, kiss me twice
Treat me nice

I know that you've been told
It's not fair to tease
But if you come on cold
I'm really gonna freeze
If you don't want me to be cold as ice
Treat me nice

Make me feel at home
If you really care
Scratch my back and run your pretty
Fingers through my hair
Treat me nice

You know I'll be your slave
if you ask me to
But if you don't behave
I'll walk right out on you
If you want my love at least take my advice
And treat me nice

Walk

( With Fleshquarter - Flow Lp - 1994 )

A man wakes up one morning on the beach
He cannot know his name
And so he repeats these words all over and over again

Love, Peace, Happiness, Eternity
All these walks with me

And so he remembers very well what he's meant to be
All of these moments may be lost if he cannot see

Love, Peace, Happiness, Eternity
All these walks with me

Talk about Love, Peace, Happiness, Eternity
All these walks with me

Love, Peace, Happiness, Eternity
All these walks with me

Talk about Love, Peace, Happiness, Eternity
All these walks with you

Wonderful World

( With Snow Borne Sorrow - Nine Horses - 2005 )

It's a wonderful world
And you take and you give
And the sun fills the sky
In the space where you live

It's a day full of dreams
It's a dream of a day
And the joy that it brings
Nearly sweeps her away

It's a wonderful world
As the buildings fall down
And you quicken your step
'til your feet leave the ground
And you're soaring above
All the sorrow below
And you're falling in love
With those you don't know

And your heart feels so wide
And your heart fills so strong
It was never a place
That you felt you belonged

It's a wonderful world
Full of wonderful things
And the people fall down
And abandon their dreams

(I hear him, he's talking out loud
Sometimes he whistles while walking
How could he know any better?
I weep for him, I weep for him now)

It's a wonderful world
It's a real crying shame
Cos she's hurting herself
In a violent way
And there's people she knows
That won't even try
And they're trapped in their lives
Feeling terrified
And it's in times like these
That she promised to call
But the scale of our love
Is diminished and small

It's a wonderful world
And she doesn't know why
She wakes up each day
And continues to cry

(He's sleeping his troubles away
He's finding it too hard to bear
I'm with him every step of the way
I weep for him, I weep for him now)

It's a wonderful world
And you take and you give
And the sun fills the sky
In the space where you live