62 posts tagged “lyrics”

Wanna know when you're coming home.

A melody that illuminates that dark place left in winter's Scandinavia.

Blue Foundation's haunting "Shine" is featured in this movie preview for the film Angel's Gone. This is the film adaption of playwright Anthony Neilson’s 1991 work Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper, the fictional story of the making of the life of a serial killer, told from the point of view of his beautiful Defense Attorney.

Archive.

Man, I lurve these guys. They meet all my requirements for being groupie-worthy:

1. Foreign
   
2. Dreamy
3. Lyrically deep

Archive has been around (in one form or another) since 1994 (according to wikipedia.com who would NEVER lie to me). They make sweet electronic sounds that range from moody and retrospective to fucking pissed off. Kinda like me. I lurve that, too.

Here they playing live at the Foire du Trône (hope your French ain't rusty) in Paris April 14, 2006. The Foire du Trône is a very popular fair that, according to the google translator, is about Thrones and gingerbread. I think.

The video. Go watch it:

It hurts to feel
It hurts to hear
It hurts to face it
It hurts to hide
It hurts to touch
It hurts to wake up
It hurts to remember
It hurts to hold on

Turn my head

The hurt's relentless
The hurt of emptiness
The hurt of wanting
The hurt of going on
The hurt of missing
The hurt is killing me

Turn my head
Off
Forever
Turn it off
Forever
Off forever
Turn it off forever

Ever blind

I just can't get enough of Karen Dreijer Andersson lately, drawn time and again to her projects The Knife and Fever Ray. There's a sweet spot I'm attracted to, a combination of utter weirdness, electronic tropical beats, and political ball-busting. The Knife's 2007 pre-recorded Swedish Grammy acceptance award video is classic "WTF is this?" behavior.

But you know? I think they've outdone themselves brilliantly this time. The Knife is set to unveil an opera written to celebrate the 150th publishing anniversary of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species in September 2009. It'll be at the Royal Danish Theatre, no less. The BIG time people!

The Hotel Pro Form, a Danish performance organization, is producing. From their Web site:

The theatre group Hotel Pro Forma’s (DK) special form of beauty blends with The Knife’s (SE) electronic music and Hiroaki Umedas (JP) hip-hop-inspired choreography to form a new type of electro-opera based on the works of Charles Darwin. An opera singer, a pop singer and an actor singing in the tradition of Brigitte Bardot perform The Knife’s music on stage. Six dancers from ballet and modern dance merge with the singers and the newest technology in light and sound to give us an incredible image of our immense diversity and amazing similarities.

WHO'S GOING WITH ME? This is going to be better than a bajillion SXSWs. Not that I'm still bitter I missed another one. Nope.

One of my favoritest The Knife songs of all the awesomenest ones, "We Share Our Mother's Health" performed LIVE:

In case you missed it, I've previously written about The Knife here, and featured the Fever Ray video "If I Only Had a Heart" here.

We came down from the north
Blue hands and a torch
Red wine and food for free
A possibility
We share our mothers' health
It is what we've been dealt
What's in it for me?
Fine
Then I'll agree

Trees there will be
Apples, fruits maybe
You know what I fear
The end is always near
x2

Say you like it
Say you need it
When you don't
Looking better
Shining brighter
Than you do
x2

Time proves you are
no longer watching over me
Leaving nothing to prevent me from reminding you of the
time you looked into me and said
Don't leave me, and
Please stay

You close your eyes
And leave me naked by your side
You close the door so I can’t see
The love you keep inside
The love you keep for me

It fills me up
It feels like living in a dream
It fills me up so I can’t see
The love you keep inside
The love you keep for me

I stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
It gives me time to stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
I wish my God you’d stay

I stay awake
I stay awake and watch you breathe
I stay awake and watch you fly
Away into the night
Escaping through a dream

I stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
It gives me time to stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
I wish my God you’d stay

Hey
Stay

I stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
It gives me time to stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
It gives me time to stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
I wish my God you’d stay

Stay awake
Stay
Stay

I wish my God you’d stay

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Sun been down for days
A pretty flower in a vase
A slipper by the fireplace
A cello lying in its case

Soon she's down the stairs
Her morning elegance she wears
The sound of water makes her dream
Awoken by a cloud of steam
She pours a daydream in a cup
A spoon of sugar sweetens up

And She fights for her life
As she puts on her coat
And she fights for her life on the train
She looks at the rain
As it pours
And she fights for her life
As she goes in a store
With a thought she has caught
By a thread
She pays for the bread
And She goes...
Nobody knows

Sun been down for days
A winter melody she plays
The thunder makes her contemplate
She hears a noise behind the gate
Perhaps a letter with a dove
Perhaps a stranger she could love

And She fights for her life
As she puts on her coat
And she fights for her life on the train
She looks at the rain
As it pours
And she fights for her life
As she goes in a store
With a thought she has caught
By a thread
She pays for the bread
And She goes...
Nobody knows

And She fights for her life
As she puts on her coat
And she fights for her life on the train
She looks at the rain
As it pours
And she fights for her life
Where people are pleasently strange
And counting the change
And She goes...
Nobody knows

this will never end
cause i want more
more, give me more, give me more

this will never end
cause i want more
more, give me more, give me more

if i had a heart i could love you
if i had a voice i would sing
after the night when i wake up
i'll see what tomorrow brings

if i had a voice i would sing

dangling feet from window frame
will i ever ever reach the floor?
more, give me more, give me more

crushed and filled with all i found underneath and inside
just to come around
more, give me more, give me more

if i had a voice i would sing

This is the new video from Fever Ray, the latest creative endevor of Karin Dreijer Andersson. You may know her from that mysterious Swedish band The Knife. (I lurve The Knife. Oh, yes.)

The album is available for download now on Klicktrack and Amazon. Physical release March 18th in Sweden through Rabid, March 23rd through Coop in Europe, US through Mute and etcetc in Australia and New Zeland.

Tracklisting:

1. If I Had A Heart
2. When I Grow Up
3. Dry & Dusty
4. Seven
5. Triangle Walks
6. Concrete Walls
7. Now’s The Only Time I Know
8. I’m Not Done
9. Keep The Streets Empty For Me
10. Coconut

Take the sky
For example
A canvas of a billion suns
But our local hero
Shines them out by day
Save for the winking of a Venus or Mars

Even the stars
Sometimes fade to gray
Even the stars
Hideaway

I see the bare moon
Raise his big bald head
I see my friends play the fool
I'll make my own way
In the wide world
Just know I don't want to wander too far

Even the stars
Sometimes fade to gray
Even the stars
Hideaway

Even the stars
Sometimes fade to gray
Even the stars
Hideaway

Some call me
All kinds of names
Some say I don't play the right kind of game
I try to be honest
I try to be kind
And honestly leave when I know that it's time
I know that it's time

Hear a phoebe sing his only song
The summer's day is hovering
I'll write my full heart
Troubles fly like embers
Out the windows of our traveling car

Even the stars
Sometimes fade to gray
Even the stars
Hideaway

I was looking for your smile in the wind
But there was nobody there this morning

...one of my favorite songs from the super-talented Emile Simon:

I was swimming across the sky
Clouds and angels by my side
Then I realized that I was lonely
And it wasn't such a good thing

I was flying in paradise
In that ocean of dead lights
I was looking for your smile in the wind
But there was nobody there this morning

I was swimming across the sky
Clouds and angels by my side
Then I realized that I was lonely
And it wasn't such a good thing

I believe in your smile everyday
But I know that you're far from my way
When I talk to the moon I can hear you
In the dark I can see, I can feel your light

I was swimming across the sky
Clouds and angels by my side
Then I realized that I was lonely
And it wasn't such a good thing

I was flying in paradise
In that ocean of dead lights
I was looking for your smile in the wind
But there was nobody there this morning

I believe in your smile everyday
But I know that you're far from my way
When I talk to the moon I can hear you
In the dark I can see, I can feel your light

You cool your bed-warmed hands down
On the broken radiator
And when you lay them freezing on me
I mumble "Can you wake me later"

But I don't really want you to stop
And you know it, so it doesn't stop you
You run your hands from my neck
To my chest

Crack the shutters open wide
I want to bathe you in the light of day
And just watch you as the rays
Tangle up around your face and body
I could sit for hours
Finding new ways to be awed each minute
'Cause the daylight seems to want you
Just as much as I want you

It's been minutes, it's been days
It's been all I will remember
Happy lost in your hair
And the cold side of the pillow

Your hills and valleys
Are mapped by my intrepid fingers
And in a naked slumber
I dream all this again

Crack the shutters open wide
I want to bathe you in the light of day
And just watch you as the rays
Tangle up around your face and body
I could sit for hours
Finding new ways to be awed each minute
'Cause the daylight seems to want you
Just as much as I want you

Crack the shutters open wide
I want to bathe you in the light of day
And just watch you as the rays
Tangle up around your face and body
I could sit for hours
Finding new ways to be awed each minute
'Cause the daylight seems to want you
Just as much as I want you