I can always forget

 

I will never live without it

But I can always forget

There are stories, most are secrets

I will always regret

 

I had so many years to try to understand the reason why

I wish I could forgive myself the way that you forgave me then

The story I won’t tell

But you know so well

 

I will never live without it

But I can always forget

There are stories, most are secrets

I will always regret

 

I knew it then

And I lost a friend

I wonder if you knew I loved you

I broke my own heart

 

I will never live without it

But I can always forget

There are stories, most are secrets

I will always regret

 

Your name is Jude

Once I did you wrong and I’ve been sorry for so long

 

If you don’t ask for more

 

She’ll make your day

Make your night

Make your wrongs all right

She’ll make you smile

And remember how

Good it all is to live

 

But she can turn

She can fight

She can change sides

She can leave

When you need her most

It’s hard cause you never know

 

So close your eyes with joy at night

When she lies next to you

 

Thank heaven for that day

Thank heaven for this night

Know  when she gives

She gives her all

Don’t ask for more my friend

Cause that you know is the end

 

Don’t you cry

Don’t you call

When she waves goodbye

Let her leave don’t ask reasons why

Smile and wish her well

 

And close your eyes with joy at night

If she’s not by your side

 

Thank heaven for those days

Thank heaven for the nights she gave

And know when she gives, she gives her all

If you don’t ask for more

She’ll come back to your door

Like all the times before

If you don’t ask for more

 

In The Early Morning Hours

 

n the early morning hours

When your eyes are still closed

You are quiet and the sun has

Not yet seen your face

I lay wide awake beside you

I’m about to move close

As I do, you turn towards me

And open your eyes

 

In the early morning hours

Oh I, oh I

Know

 

Words seem to have left me

Well there’s no need for them at all

Time has lost all measures

The world seems so whole

The sky outside the window

Is as near as your face

I find myself in heaven

And reach your embrace

 

In the early morning hours

Oh I, oh I

Know

 

If the evening comes to bless us

I will lay my head down

On a pillow full of mornings

In this sky that came down

And if you still lay beside me

I know for sure I’ll move close

I know I’ll wake up early

To be there when you open the sky

 

In the early morning hours

Oh I, oh I

Know

 

 

Like Cologne

 

This is my heart

This is your home

They are the same

 

I’m wearing your kiss

Here on my lips

I feel like dressing up with more of you

 

I want to wear you like cologne

And carry all of you when I’m alone

 

When you return

I’ve aired all rooms

Polished the floor

 

Painted the walls

Colored anew

This time with every little shade of you

 

I want to wear you like cologne

And carry all of you when I’m alone

When I’m alone

Here I stand with open arms

An open heart because it’s all I know

 

This is my heart

This is your home

They are the same

 

Piano solo

 

I want to wear you like cologne

And carry all of you when I’m alone

When I’m alone

Here I stand with open arms

An open heart because it’s all I know

 

 

Maybe I

 

Maybe I felt next in line

Maybe I

Maybe I saw hard times coming

Maybe I did

 

I’d been drinking happily from

Empty glasses I made up

 

Maybe I thought wrongs were right

Maybe I did

 

Time would give the answer and I thought that I could wait

Giving in, believing in faith

 

Maybe I saw big fat lies

Maybe I

Maybe I saw they all were mine

Maybe they were

 

Time would give the answer and I thought that I could wait

Giving in, believing in faith

 

Time went by and so did I

Didn’t I, didn’t I wait

 

I’ve tried so hard to understand the meaning

And find a place where I could lay my head

Giving in, believing in faith

No easy way

 

I know I didn’t do this well

God knows that I tried

Just about this time last night I

Left you by the road side

Left you while you cried

There was nothing more to tell you

To make things right in your eyes

 

There’s no easy way to leave you

There’s no easy way to turn

There’s no easy way

To say goodbye

No words can tell how we failed

If you don’t know by now

 

That we have left an empty house

A long time ago

I wish that we would know how

To see the other’s heart

We didn’t even start

There is nothing more to tell you
To make it right in your eyes

 

There’s no easy way to leave you

There’s no easy way to turn

There’s no easy way

To say goodbye

No words can tell how we failed

If you don’t know by now

 

I see it in your eyes that you don’t know me at all

 

It’s too late to start again

Too soon to understand

It’s too late to talk things over

Besides I’ve said enough

And now it’s time to stop

There is nothing more to tell you

 

Not a woman

 

She’s not a woman you wanna let wait

She’s not a woman you’d see

Ask for more

Ask for less

Ask for anything

 

She’s a woman you wanna get near

When you do it is you

Who wants more

Even though

You knew you had it all

 

You don’t wanna play the game

Cause then to her you’re just a name

 

What you wanna give

Is what you wanna be

When all is good

You don’t need to ask

For anything to last

Cause she don’t need you to be

Anything you’re not

 

When you stand to a woman like that

You’re the man you can be

All is good

No more shoulds

And everything is true

 

You don’t need to play a game

Cause then to her you’re just a name

 

What you wanna give

Is what you wanna be

When all is good

You don’t need to ask

For anything to last

Cause she don’t need you to be

Anything you’re not

 

Nothing more to be lost except for what your past has cost

 

What you wanna give

 

Nothing for you

 

You have some many words to speak

But nothing to say

There are many tales I could tell

But none that did me well

 

And now you ask me for a moment or two

I do have a few

But nothing for you

 

You broke into my heart everyday

Took a look around and said

It wasn’t any good, and I should

Be ashamed of what it could

 

And now you ask me for a heartbeat or two

I still have a few, but none are for you

 

There is nothing you can say

To make me want to come your way

 

You’ve had all your chances in my life

And the choices you made are made

I do believe what parts you and I

Is the river of tears I cried

 

I hear they say you’re asking for me

Growing old and alone

Lying in your bed every night

With tears in your eyes

 

So now, you ask me for a feeling or two

I still have a few, but nothing for you

 

There is nothing you can say

To make me want to come your way

 

You’ve had all your chances in my life

And the choices you made are made

I do believe what parts you and I

Is the river of tears I cried

 

October nights

 

Winds roll in from the north, nights get cold

Evening hours seem to start too early every year

Oh lonely is the one who can’t

Forgive him self

Then no one else

Can enter through his heart

 

Cold, cold October night

Memories he holds too tight

 

Water falls from clouds that cannot hold

Somewhere down the riverbank runs something she once had

Long gone

Empty is the one who can’t

Forget the past

And all she was

Moments never last

 

Cold, cold October rain

Nothing ever stays the same

 

Pictures of a life in paints of gold

Evening hours close the last of stories that grew old

Oh blessed is the one who knows

October nights and never hides

From autumn nights alone

 

 

Cold, cold October night

Memories he holds too tight

Cold, cold October rain

Nothing ever stays the same

 

Cover me with snow

 

Red velvet carpet floor

Mirrors on the wall

Desires in a life pass by

Most of them unsatisfied

 

Underneath a crazy moon

Secrets of a powder room

Dirty lipstick on the shelf

7-up and hair gel

 

Is my makeup done all right

Will my hairdo last all night

Happiness for everyone

Peace and love and shiny stones

 

I could be ready

I could be ready

Ready for the moon outside

To take me out for drinks tonight

I could be ready

I could be ready

A powder room collapse tonight

Can I just get my hair right

 

Sales tax and facial aid

Confidence and fair trade

Thighs ass and cellulite

Democracy and human rights

 

Is my makeup done all right

Will my hairdo last all night

Happiness for everyone

Peace and love and shiny stones

 

I could be ready

I could be ready

Ready for the moon outside

To take me out for drinks tonight

I could be ready

I could be ready

A powder room collapse tonight

Can I just get my hair right

Sometimes

 

A face is still a face

After all the different ways it cries

A face is still a face

After all the smiles have faded

 

When you close those eyes

When you dry those tears

 

A life is still a life

After all the different ways it goes

A soul is still a soul

After all the lives have faded

 

When you close those eyes

When you dry those tears

 

Sometimes you go

Sometimes you stay

Sometimes you cry

Sometimes you laugh

Sometimes you leave

Sometimes you know

Starlight of your heart

 

If you hear this song

Know it’s for you

If you hear this song

Know it’s true

Every line and every sound

Is you

 

if you hear this song

You know you kept

That piece of my heart cause

That’s what I left

My shiniest star

So wherever you are

I’m too

 

I live to be starlight in your heart

I give you this song

I give you this song

This song is you

 

 

If you hear this song

Know it’s for you

If you hear this song

Know it is true

Nothing has changed

And traveling stars go

 

Far, go far go far and I give my all to you

 

I live to be starlight in your heart

I give you this song, I give you this song

This song is you

 

To be your lover

 

I live my life in a house

Of your advice

You say you care for me

And worry that

When I’m away

Someday I will lose my

Way to you and all I do

Is everything you told me not to

You may be right

But

 

I don’t need

You to save me

I just need to be your lover tonight

 

You find it hard to believe

That I don’t need

You watching over me

And all I do,

So find a way

To let me make my own mistakes

My way to you has not to do

With anything you’re trying to

But I don’t know for how long

Cause

I don’t need

You to save me

I just need to be your lover tonight

I don’t need

You to save me

I just need to be a lover in your arms

 

My feet are weak

I’ve walked so far to follow your advice

My arms are sore

From carrying the weight of your concerns

Now you know

It’s soon before I go

 

I don’t need

You to save me

I just need to be your lover tonight

Daylight Is Short In Fall

 

Daylight is short in fall

Leaves turn to gold

Autumn and winter will enter in time

To colour a tired soul

Give me faith this year

To find and to know

Living is only what runs through an open heart

Living is letting go

 

So many words already spoken

Trying to explain

After sunny days come rain

Nothing ever stays the same

The grace in change

A gentle face

That looks upon a mending heart

As time passes by

 

Daylight is short in fall

Leaves turn to gold

Autumn and winter will enter in time

To colour a tired soul

Give me faith this year

To find and to know

That living is only what runs through an open heart

Living is letting go

 

Do You Know My Love

 

Do you know my love for you

How it always brings me back to you

It's the colour of my blood

Helps me always stay with God

Do you know my love for you

That your daughter’s dearest love is you

 

Do you know my love for you

How it always brings me back to you

It is hard growing up

When it means giving up

The greatest world that's holding only you

The greatest world that's holding only you

 

I've been looking for you ever since

Looking for your eyes in every prince

I know I can't give up

Knowing that a heart can't stop

From longing for the love I got from you

From longing for the love I got from you

 

I know I can't give up, knowing that

a heart can't stop

when beating with the love

I have for you

it's beating with the love

I have for you

 

Giant body

 

My giant body in this fine world of thin lines and elegance

With quick words behaved laughs

Tears that shine from hurts that are sore but sweet to soothe

My body knows just how to get

Greedy as it is

Greedy as it is

 

Kisses bread and speedy cars

Loud talks and clumsy hugs

I never, I never learned to wait

 

They mourn so sweet

They work so hard

They talk so slim

They walk so right

They love so proper

Hate so fine

If I could be like that

 

If I could cry like that

If I could laugh like that

If I could shrink, if I could put this body down

If I could chill my burning breast and turn myself around

This giant body, loud and rude

Is harbouring a storm

Of useless thoughts

Of petty moods

Blowing me all down

I've tried and I've waited

 

I've tried and I've waited so long

They say patience and will

Make you strong

But I've wanted and wished for it

Longed for it prayed for it;

The scent of the innocent.

 

Each time

I walked through that door

Hoping to see

What I'm for

I ironed my shirt and I polished my shoes

And I kissed all the feet of the world

 

Show me the times when I fail

Give me the strength to be frail

To ask and receive

To trust when in need

When I've tried and I've waited so long

 

I've tried and I've waited

So long

If only

 

As I was walking down third avenue

As I was feeling too much like a woman

As my back rose strong and straight

As a thought popped up I stopped

 

Looked around myself

 

To remember the size of this world

To remember I just want to be

Daddy's, Daddy's little girl

 

If only you could see his hands

If only you could know the corner of his arms

If only you could hear his voice when he said;

If there were only you and me

 

You little girl, you little girl

 

If only there were only us

And I would never grow up

If only I could hear that voice again

I'd stay the same

Powerless

 

I may be powerless

I may be all what you despise

I may not know my own best

I may not justify

All what I have said or

All what I have done

Or all that I posses

 

You're right, most probably

Suspecting me of insobriety

Swimming in a sea of vast indulgence

I know just how to get

Everything my hands

Can get of what you ban

I'm everything you damn

 

You're right, you're right most probably

I am, I am guilty of inability

To feel any kind of responsibility

I have no conscience

Speak only nonsense as you hear

I sure am powerless

Can't have what you posses

 

If you want me to say I am sorry

I'll do that, but those are your words

Say goodbye to what is gone

 

Stay the night

Let me feel my life has been all right

I have seen something today

And it left me so afraid

I have to give up all beliefs and I

 

Don't know where to stand

Where to turn

Who I thought I've been for all these years

Disappeared before my eyes

The memories where lies

And now the truth comes daring me, can I

 

Turn around

Break the bond

Say goodbye

To what is gone

Can I, Can I

Turn around

Break the bond

Say goodbye to what is gone

 

Will you stay with me

When I turn

Will you let me go without return

Can I trust I know the truth

Can I trust without a proof

I am to give up all beliefs can I

 

Turn around

Break the bond

Say goodbye

To what is gone

Can I, Can I

Turn around

Break the bond

Say goodbye to what is gone

The Art Of How To Fall

 

Yesterday I fell in love

And then again today

And the day before yesterday

And all the days before

I fall in love with everyone

And every time I fall

I fall in every way there is

With every little kiss

 

But today I fell in love again

Like I never did before

Deeper than I ever did

Could not have fallen more

Who it was I fell for

I really can't recall

I simply want to truly know

The art of how to fall

 

I am falling

Again and again

I am falling

 

The sweetness of a Hershey kiss

Is nothing to a fall

To lose is everything there is

To have another ball

It's nothing less than heavens bliss

To know a moment's time

That all there is to know is

In the art of how to fall

 

I am falling

Again and again

I am falling

Virgin's Lullaby

 

It's sinfully late and I'm sinfully drunk

I've sinfully spoken a whole lot of junk

But I'm sinfully happy with things as they are

I haven't yet fallen asleep

 

And I didn't do it, I really did not

Go off to lose the one thing I've got;

The idea that I have, whatever that means

The chastity belt of a queen

 

And that ain't easy

With all these men everywhere

And all the love in the air

No that ain't easy

 

I'm sure gonna know all the day after lows

With pains and ills and neurotic chills

But I'm perfectly safe, thank God I am home

Thank God I'll be waking up alone

 

And that ain't easy

When there are so many men

And I love all of them

No that ain't easy

With all these men everywhere

And all the love in the air

 

Yes it's hopelessly late and

I'm hopelessly gone

Thank God I'll be waking up

Thank God I'll be waking up

At least I'll be waking up alone

 

Cover me with snow

 

I'm gonna lay this body down

Cover me with snow

Chill my burning flesh, it's scolding

Decency and pride

 

Cold war is over

Opening my pores

The flame each pore is breathing in

Is coming from my core

 

Sweet and gentle sleepiness

Coming from the cold

Come back faithful punishment

Cover me with snow

Cover me with snow

 

I'm gonna lay this body down

Cover me with snow

Walk these hours barefoot

Let the snowflakes be my gown

 

My fingers have no colors

Crystals in my hair

I feel so beautiful

My thoughts have turned to stone

 

Sweet and gentle sleepiness

Coming from the cold

Come back faithful punishment

Cover me with snow

Cover me with snow

 

It does for me what I could not

Even when I tried

It soothes my mind and leaves behind

All the times I've lied

 

I'm gonna lay this body down

Cover me with snow

Fall asleep with crystals

Falling silent from above

As long as there is a voyage away

 

The only thing you need to know is who you are

To look inside your self and see a thousand stars

The glory is in your heart

Then everything you look upon will be the greatest treasure

And the wonder is that all of it is yours

 

Heaven is a place that only you can find

It’s somewhere underneath all what is on your mind

Heaven is part of you

That never dies or fades away, just sometimes gets forgotten

When the rainy seasons get too long

 

As long as  there is a voyage away

There’s always a journey back

 

As tears clear our eyes

 

You danced with borrowed feet

Through times of borrowed days

With the promise of a try

To the rhythms of a lie

Then a sound was to be heard

A song that I had to learn

You sang with an alien voice

In the midst of your hearts own noise

 

The song was yours

The song was

 

You danced too long with no face

Borrowed too many days

Then the borrowed feet failed

And the voice became frail

You whispered weak to the night;

“tuck me in I am tired”

And the night put over his coat

That strangled the sound of each note

 

This song is yours

The song is

 

 

They say you left behind

Nothing but a troubled mind

For all who’s left to cry over

But tears can turn to gold

 

 

Didn’t I

 

Didn’t I lie to you

Didn’t I betray

Didn’t I throw away

Everything you gave

 

Didn’t I leave you with

A mountain of my stones

Didn’t I do you wrong

 

Didn’t I leave with all

Your diamonds in my hands

Didn’t I take all

 

Now I see you have not lost

 

Didn’t I forget to say

I’m sorry every time

Didn’t I

Waste your love

 

Now I see have not lost

 

Didn’t I tear you heart

In two when I deceived

Didn’t I make you cry

 

Now I see you only cried for me

Now I see you have not lost

Now I see you can not lose

 

Even if you buy me thousand cars

 

I could choose you

I could loose you

I could miss you

I could want you

I could feed you

I could need you

But I don’t

 

 

I could fool you

I could rule you

I could wrong you

I could cheat you

I could lure you

I could use you

But I don’t

 

Even if you buy me thousand cars

And praise me beyond the stars

 

As long as there is need in all your tries

And stories you cannot get by

 

I could teach you

I could lead you

I could reach you

I could ease you

I could show you

I could tell you

But I won’t

 

Life will not be found in others hands

Until you know you’ll never under - stand

 

 

I could

If I would

I could

 

Life will note be found in others hands

Until you know you’ll never understand

 

Going home (is a lonely travel)

 

Going home is a lonely travel and long

You think you’re there after all these years

And your feet feel sore

You see no more why

 

You’re always looking for roads to take you to home

You change your make up and buy new shoes thinking

Almost there

Yeah almost there, still

Still

 

Far away but no farther than a forgotten thought

Looking back is like strange imaginations

You’re there you’re there

 

You traveled far and you traveled hard for so long

Through changing seasons not knowing you carried all along

The home that’s your own

Now know

 

Far away but  no farther than a forgotten  thought

Looking back is like strange imaginations

You are there you are there

 

Far away but no farther than a forgotten thought

Looking back is like strange imaginations

You are there you are there

 

Far away but no farther than a forgotten thought

Looking back is like strange imaginations

You’re there you’re there

Innocence

 

No one and anyone can say they have seen

What I am now, and

Who I have been

I’m naked and kissing and making love

I’m naked and kissing and making love

 

Someone may say I have not innocence

I know who I am and what

I only can;

Be naked and kissing and making love

Be naked and kissing and making love

 

Love me and love you and love this moment too

I’m loving you loving him loving them and their brothers too

 

I am the only one to say what I know

To choose what is beauty

To know where to go

I’m living life, not wondering who’s right

I’m living life, not wondering what’s right

 

I heard them say I lost my innocence

If they only knew what I found as I lost

Heavenly nakedness, kisses of bliss

Heavenly nakedness, kisses of bliss

 

Love me and love you and love this moment too

I’m loving you loving him loving them and their brothers too

Is that you

 

Are those your tears
running down my cheeks
is that your breath
playing with my hair
is that your love
running through my veins
How can it be
How can it be

Is this your song
coming through my mouth
is that your voice
playing with my heart
How can it be
this moment is
so full of you
so full of you

It's not a wish
not a memory
it's not a thought
so I ask;

how can it be
this moment is
so full of you
so full of you

You answer me through my smile
an I know you've been here
for a while

Is that you
Is that you

Just a little moon

 

Just a little moon

Shining on my love tonight

The night is open wide

And I lay by his side

 

All the guests went home

We’ve closed the door to what is gone

And now this little moon

Is peeking through our rooms

 

And all else shall be

Quiet, nothing shall disturb

The given bliss, the grace

The new that’s in his face

Reflecting that one of my own

Finally we are alone

Here we lay in moonlight arms

a kiss can’t do us any harm

 

Just a little moon

Young and true and just for us

We cannot change the stars

But we can see the moon at last

 

And all else shall be

Quiet, nothing shall disturb

The given bliss, the grace

The new that’s in his face

Reflecting that one of my own

Finally we are alone

Here we lay in moonlight arms

The day can’t do us any harm

 

So ro til (meg selv)

 

So ro til meg selv

La meg sovne fort i kveld

Natta kommer farlig nær

Trer meg inn i mørkets klær

So ro i myk seng

Drøm om sol og kløvereng

Drøm meg igjennom natta

 

So ro nå i natt

Søvnen kommer som en skatt

Lukke begge øynene

Drøm bort alle løgnene

So ro fra alt som frister

So ro til mørket brister

So ro til ny dag

 

 

Why do all the good guys get the dragons?

 

Why do all the good guys get the dragons

Who push them around

And tell them they are good for nothing

Why do all the good guys stay in hell

Don’t I know the story oh so well

I met a lot of good guys in my life

Unfortunately they all have a wife

Who push them around

And tell them they are good for nothing

 

Where have all the dragons gone

Good guys picked them everyone

When will they ever learn

When will they ever learn

 

Mama says good girls go to heaven

But what about the rest of us

In hell, would there be space enough

Why do all the good guys come to us

And stick around until they’re turning nuts

Then everyone is saying we’re to blame

But no one wonders why they ever came

To be pushed around

And told they are good for nothing

 

Where have all the good guys gone

Dragons picked them everyone

When will they ever learn

When will they ever learn

Driving

 

I like driving

Darling I like driving

 

I left my shoe in a closet somewhere

You wonder how I'll walk from here

But there's a way

I got to your hood

In the first place

 

I left my head in a willow tree

Outside the house you were showing me

That night we met

I remember your face

And the strange taste

 

You left in my dreams

Where my mind had been

Making excuses

For what it’d seen

But madam X

Didn't leave out the next

Sight she saw

It was a closed door

 

So I picked up my purse

And the one shoe I had

The rest of the pride

The bank said I had

I picked up the pain

And carried some stains

God it hurt to be barefoot

 

Darling

I like driving

Darling I like driving

With the naked boys

 

But I'd be down on the floor

Wouldn't laugh no more

I wouldn't think a thought

 

Girl next door

 

There’s a girl next door

That I’m liking more

Cause she leaves

When she’s had enough

To be bored is tough

And she won’t

Pretend she’s having fun

Instead she’s sneaking out

But you won’t see her run

She just collects her things quietly

 

That girl next door

She can hit the floor

Like nobody else

She swears and drinks

And her husband thinks

It’s way too much

But she couldn’t care less

She’s a queen without a dress

She sure is having fun

Until she leaves the party quietly

 

She’ll never say goodnight

She won’t turn out the lights

When she’s had her fun

She just leaves the party quietly

 

Innocent Thief

 

Sunlight shines

Gentle away

Cause daytime can show

What nobody knows

You still care for him

And want him to stay

 

He’s sleeping beside you now

Finally you touch

Gently and enough

Fingers run through his hair

You’re taking everything

And store it far within

This is the life of an innocent thief at night

 

He can’t turn back time

And have it undone

And you can’t say

He’s forgiven anyway

You still care for him

Want him to stay

 

It’s dark and love is everywhere

(You steal a kiss he’ll never miss)

It’s dark and he’s still here

You know you still care

 

He’s sleeping beside you now

Finally you touch

Gently and enough

Fingers run through his hair

You’re taking everything

And store it far within

This is the life of an innocent thief at night

 

Mina’s dream

 

Mina’s deep asleep now

A life’s about to start

Mina’s in a dream now

The day will fall apart

Pray she won’t remember

That she’ll forget by the time the

Sun rises

 

Mina’s deep asleep now

Hear Mina’s song tonight

The soundtrack to a story

Where shadows cast too bright

Pray she won’t remember

That she’ll forget by the time the

Sun rises

 

Never Been To Paris

 

I don’t wanna see my Paris go

Someone telling stories told me so

Bathing in the streetlights of a city I don’t know

I’ve never been to Paris, but I know

 

I don’t wanna see that city go

The truth is that I lost it long ago

I nailed my face onto a picture taken by my love

On a sunny day long time ago

 

I don’t wanna go to Paris

I don’t wanna go

I don’t wanna go

I don’t wanna go to Paris

Cause I don’t wanna see my baby go

 

Darling do you know I’ve never known

How to say goodbye all on my own

I do remember lips around the letters of a word

Spoken way too softly to be heard

 

The sky was blue in Paris on that day

That is what you told me anyway

What I said and what you heard might be the very same

But I still check the train to go to Spain

 

I don’t wanna go to Paris

I don’t wanna go

I don’t wanna go

I don’t wanna go to Paris

Cause I don’t wanna see my baby go

 

I don’t wanna see that city go

The truth is that I lost it long ago

 

Same kind

 

Who’s this someone sitting next to me in this house

With the same kind of cup in his hands like me

Here we are again

Drinking each others lack of confidence

Not realizing we were never meant

 

Collecting this kind of porcelain for years

It’s all unspoken, well we never had the words

Sweet silence, bitter turned

I’m looking down into my silver spoon

The only mirror that is in this room

 

The silence keeps us both alive

That’s what we like to think at night

Before we try to close our eyes

 

Who’s this someone laying next to me at night

With the same kind of shade in his eyes like me

Here we are again

Drinking each others lack of confidence

Not realizing we were never meant

Sweet silence bitter turned

I’m looking down into my silver spoon

The only mirror that is in this room

 

The silence keeps us both alive

That’s what we like to think at night

Before we try to close our eyes

 

Sweet silence bitter turned

I’m looking down into my silver spoon

The only mirror that is in this room

 

September/Gift of evening

 

f I could find the heartbeat in this song

I didn't have to doubt, I may be wrong

To think I can predict the coming season

As I lay down awoken now

 

Summer has been over for some time

I didn't even know it said goodbye

But it has given notes, it’s not a secret

I always sent today away

 

I'm walking barefoot

With a broken rod

My weak and weary light

A storm put out

And you are coming as

A gift of evening

 

September gives no days of shining bright

It dies like wind through leaves that never fight

And all the debt of life is on my shoulders

It’s autumn night in all its might

 

Still day is all around me in a show

With notice to the night I've got to go

My heart well hid in ice but still protected

Like hidden hope of rose in snow

 

I'm walking barefoot

With a broken rod

My weak and weary light

A storm put out

And you are coming as

A gift of evening

 

But morning light is reaching to my chin

And I see wings of sunlight take me in

And I do dare to hope like spring in autumn

The hands of cold can’t kill a soul

 

 

 

I'm walking barefoot

With a broken rod

My weak and weary light

A storm put out

You are coming as

A gift of evening

 

Strange evening

 

It’s a strange, strange evening tonight

And we don’t fight

There’s no more trouble in sight

We are lovers tonight

 

Love light shines from our eyes

And we can’t tell

Who lit the fire of life;

There’s more than desire tonight

 

Dance with me love

Slow tonight

Like we’ve never danced before

If you don’t give up and I don’t stop

Maybe we can dance for life

 

Now we are tones in a life

All strings sing

It’s not up to us to decide

What the strings of the violin bring

 

One step at a time

This we’ve never done

I know the music in your arms

 

Dance with me love

Slow tonight

Like we’ve never danced before

If you don’t give up and I don’t stop

Maybe we can dance for life

 

It’s a strange, strange evening tonight

And we can’t tell

Who lit the fire of life

There’s more than desire tonight

 

There’s more than desire tonight

Everything can change

 

Maybe you don’t need to say much

Maybe you don’t need to give advice

Maybe your friend lives life like you do

Or maybe even stronger than you

 

Maybe you don’t need to do much

Maybe you don’t need to try so hard

To have or be a friend is just the same

 

 Everything can change

A world can break into thousand pieces

You stay the same, cause you are a friend

 

Maybe you’ll be feeling lost at times

And it’s hard for you to understand when

Days become a world you don’t know

 

You don’t need to say much

You don’t need to know much

All you need to know is your love

 

Everything can change....

 

How can you show a friend

Love doesn’t know an end

 

Everything can change...

 

It is hard to be a loser

 

It is hard to be a loser

When it is forbidden to lose

No matter what you start

It's bound to have an end

And no matter what happened

You know you are to blame

What others call beautiful music

Is what you call the blues

 

When I woke up this morning

My bed was gone

I was freezing like a dog

And the ceiling was broke

It rained through the window

The floor was wet

The first thing I saw

Was you had left

With her

And that you both are walking around calling beautiful music

What I now call the blues

 

But okay go to hell

And get out of my sight

If people ask how I feel

Tell them I’m doing all right

And if people ask why I cry

I'm not at all sad

I just invented a new form of laughter I've practiced since last

It is what you call beautiful music

And which I call the blues

 

If you one day shall think that your beautiful world has fallen apart

Please look me up

Since it is me who’s paid the party

You see, a man is like a house

There is always an open door

And I don’t give a shit if thousand women have lived there before

 

Just having my fun

 

All the things I should have done

All the things I should have known

All the things I should have had

All the do’s I don’t

 

Laying in my bed all day

I like staring in the air and say;

All the things I should have done

And all the don’ts I do

 

I am here and that is all I care

I’m not on the run

Just having my fun

In the sun of my bedroom light

 

Don’t know what is wrong about right

Don’t know what is day in night

Or why people grow older when life still stays the same

 

I am here and that is all I care

I’m not on the run

Just having my fun

In the sun of my bedroom light

 

I don’t need a take and give

I leave that life for you to live

It’s up to you and what I do is what I choose

It’s better with a simple mind

Don’t need a God to give a sign

I get my fix and don’t get sick

I don’t  turn tricks

 

I am here and that is all I care

I’m not on the run

Just having my fun

In the sun of my bedroom light

Love may seem hard

 

Love may seem hard before you know it in heart

When you do there is nothing you can say to

her

You cannot make her know it too, not with words

Maybe not even love can reach the guarded heart

That guarded heart of hers

 

You cannot save her, nor can anyone but she

She will cry each time you smile, because you do not

share

Her lack of love

It’s that guarded heart of hers

 

To an armored heart there is danger in each touch

Do not try to open it, it may not be her time to

Love

May seem hard before you know it in heart

When you do, you know it cannot be pursued

 

    Love does not loose and love does not choose

    Love is one can never be two

 

It’s that guarded heart of hers

May I borrow your pillow

 

May I borrow

Your pillow tonight

May I borrow

Some dreams that make things right

May I borrow

Your feather down tonight

 

Everything must turn from here

Right now all good is everywhere

 

For this one night

I see the world in your light

For this one night

I see my life is right

For this one night

For this one night

 

May your pillow be my guide

Until my eyes stay open wide

Nobody’s fool

 

I may pretend like I’m not aware

Every time you enter the room

I may pretend like I couldn’t care

Whether you stay or go

I may pretend I do best on my own

Just to mention a few things I do

But the truth is

I’m down on my knees for you

 

I think you’re playing with me

It’s all for show

I’m nobody’s fool

I keep my cool

And slack and turn my back

I’m nobody’s, nobody’s fool

 

I may pretend I’ve got nothing to say

That is the actual truth
I don’t have much to say anyway

I may pretend and laugh you away

When you smile and come over to me

I just tremble and don’t know what to say

The truth is

I’ve lost my speech on my knees for you

 

I think you’re playing with me

It’s all for show

I’m nobody’s fool

I keep my cool

And slack and turn my back

I’m nobody’s, nobody’s fool

 

I guess it is me who is playing the way that I’m pretending

And I know a player’s a loser

I’m swept off my feet

Can’t find a seat

Maybe you can see beneath

Cause the truth is I am

Crawling on my knees like a fool

Lost my speech and I’m about to drop some drool

Completely your personal fool

So I’ve got no choice and much better off

 

Peculiar

 

It is peculiar how everything turns

Going on after the bridges have burned

The point of no return

A blessing you have earned

 

It is peculiar what watching can be

When a memory is not what you see

The point of no concerns

A blessing you have earned

 

There’s nothing left to keep

Nothing left to be forgiven

Nothing left to weep

Nothing left for you to loose

 

Nothing left to save

Nothing left to be regretted

Nothing left unsaid

Nothing left to regret

 

It is peculiar how everything seems

When you’re looking through glasses that keep

Old print and photographs

Of things that didn’t last

 

You’ve got everything to keep

Everything to be forgiven

Everything to need

Everything to regret

 

Everything to say

Everything to be regretted

Everything unsaid

Everything left to lose

 

There is nothing left to keep

Nothing left to be forgiven

Nothing left to weep

Nothing left for you to keep

Nothing left to say

Nothing left to be regretted

Nothing left unsaid

Nothing left for you to lose

 

We hit it again

 

We hit again

The nothingness of all we thought was something

Isn’t that sweet

How crazy it seems

Now that it’s all over

 

You with your touchy nerve

That laughs away my looks in your direction

How did I

Get tangled up

And lost in all those silly worlds

 

All for the sake of love

At least what we’re capable of

It tasted good, though

That world

 

Now that it’s all over

You were all I needed to see

The nothingness we both thought was something

 

How sweet it is to play when you know it’s a game

 

Well, what can I do

Your charming awkward ways that’s really something

What do I care

It’s not only fair

To enjoy a bit of nothing

 

Not for the sake of love

But what we are capable of

It tastes so good

 

Now that it’s all over

You were all I needed to see

The nothingness we both thought was something

 

It tasted good

How sweet it is to play when you know it’s a game

Not for the sake of love

But what we’re capable of

How sweet it is when you know

How mean when you don’t

 

Welcome home

 

Standing at your door

Like so many times before

Here I’m again

Returning to a friend

 

You kiss my weary feet

And take me to your room

I lay my coat away

You wash my face and say;

 

“Welcome home,

It has been a while

You’ve walked a thousand miles back home

Now leave your worries behind

And rest your mind”

 

This time I’m back for real

This time I will heal

Never will I

Hold that coat again

 

Home again, it has been a while

I’ve walked a thousand miles, back home

I leave my worries behind

And rest my mind

 

The truth behind my words

Is only known to you

You know I won’t

Stay the summer through, still you say;

 

“Welcome home,

It has been a while

You’ve walked a thousand miles, back home

Now leave your worries behind

And rest your mind

 

 

What love is not

 

Love brings peace and love brings solace

Love brings strength to the most frail bodies

You will know what it is

When you see

 

What love is not

It is simple but

Still the hardest thing to do

When you still hold

A wounded soul

That can’t recall

That have forgotten all

 

Love is one can never be two

Love is easy but hard to pursue

You will know what it is

When you see

 

What love is not

It is simple but

Still the hardest thing to do

When you still hold

A wounded soul

That can’t recall

The nature of itself

 

You bring new stars

 

Dear Angels I have not spoken for a while

I don’t know if I do this right

God knows I have forgotten what I knew

I don’t know any longer what is true

So I ask and stay still

 

Bring me new stars

To my heaven

Show me where the sun’s at night

 

Dear Angels as I lay still I find you here

You speak so softly but not to my ears

Dear Angels is it me who called you first

Or is my calling, the answer to your care

I know as I’m still

 

You bring new stars

To my heaven

You show me where the sun’s at night

You take me to the sun at night

 

You place new stars in my heaven

You take me to the sun at night

 

You are here to see me through to you

You place new stars

To my heaven

You show me where the sun’s at night

 

You’re crying

 

I still love you

Deeper than before
I have lived a bit more
Years have passed since last

You’re crying so much easier now

 

Cry out the last drops for the lost

Come rest your head you have paid all costs

Now is the time for you to heal

You’re crying so much easier now

 

All throughout the years

You’ve spoken many words

Some were lost some were heard

A quiet time has come

You’re silent and you’re resting your mind

 

Know all the stars outside tonight

Come rest your eyes

You have seen enough

Stars are reflections of a heart

That’s crying so much easier now

 

There’s no use

In watching all the mirrors you broke

You’re older now

The road somehow

Still winds on

 

And I still love you

Deeper than before

I have lived a bit more

Years have passed since last

You’re crying so much easier now

 

Black Shades

 

There are workers down the street

In the backyard

There's a whole in the roof of the whorehouse and it seems

They ought to tear it down

I truly hope they stick around

For a long while

Sweating in the blazing sun

I guess I never liked that

Place anyways

But it is fabulous that some indecent people pay

The line outside that house

Always pulled me back

The neon light outside spoke of lonely nights

 

I prefer

My men in shirts

Come what may what comes my way

Blood shot craze

Under black shades

 

The evening is swelling

Into naked thighs

The silence of the curtains envelope crimson lies

Telling thirsty hours

Underneath that roof

Is raining down a river

It is pouring down my stoop

 

I prefer

My men in shirts

Come what may what comes my way

Blood shot craze

Under black shades

 

Things you leave behind

 

I'm never beat from trying

To show that I’ve got wit

I never cared for reading

Although I know my shit

Underneath these hot pants

You can say I'm fine

Even though I'm showing

Nothing of that kind

 

You know I’m Norwegian

I like my men on ice

My liquor from the barrel

I never turn on a time

And if you say I'm pretty

I'll take you for a drunk, but

That won't make a difference

I'd do you in a punch

 

Tell me if I bore you, that won’t be unkind

These are all just stories in my mind

I hear they say I'm stupid, but I'd say I'm still young

Besides I know i'm looking pretty fine

 

Don't care for those organic

Green tea sipping boys

That hang around the corner

Never making noise

Someday I'm gonna dress up

With leather spike and lace

Buy myself a vodka

That I’ll throw right in you face

 

   Tell me if I bore you, that won’t be unkind

These are all just stories in my mind

I hear they say I'm stupid, I'd say I'm still young

Besides I know i'm looking pretty fine

 

Truth is; I’m a sucker

For your shoulders and your neck

You've become my country

And I've become a wreck

Leaving me with nothing

My big mouth’s all I’ve got

I’d rather have my neighbours

Take me for slut

 

I’m nothing but your baby

Although no one can tell

You know I'll always love you

Although I´d never say

I don’t care for good times

And I don’t care for fun

Cause those days do remind me

Of the things you leave behind

 

 Tell me if I bore you, that won’t be unkind

These are all just stories in my mind

I hear they say I'm stupid, I'd say I'm still young

Besides I know i'm looking pretty fine

Yankee Days

 

Yankee days and love craze

Light Green and dull dreams

Happiness and nothing less

The world was my red dress

 

It was good your looks

My wine and your  lines

We were great and heavyweight

All teeth and colgate

 

 Jimmy Carter Jimmy Choo

 Good guys with great shoes

 You and I and nice tries

 World peace with my French fries

 

  I - I liked you

  More than those around you

 

Shelter

 

Today is the day when I'm drinking,

A toast to the one I could be

If only somebody would give me

The generous chance  to  be free

 

From all the  things people are telling

I admit it; most of it’s true

But let an old tramp for a moment

A chance to be something to you

 

Give me a dollar for shelter

Give me a dollar for food

Give me another for fun  times

And then one to polish my shoes

 

Cause I plan to be leaving this barstool

Even if that means I’ll crawl

Till then you might have one more dollar

To spare for a loser on call

 

Give me a dollar for shelter

Give me a dollar for food

Give me another for fun times

And then one to polish my shoes

 

If you can find it

in your heart

to pick up

the bill or me

The dollar you gave me for shelter

I'll give it back to you

 

Give me a dollar for shelter

Give me a dollar for food

Give me another for fun times

and then one to polish my shoes

True North

 

Quiet has my love become for someone on his way

Far from the road I would wish for him to take

Many words were passed between us; most of them were mine

You embraced the silence more than I

 

Go and rest your mind

Go and find peace 1

Go and find your true north

Though it won’t be me

 

My eyes are closed, my heart is open; finally it’s so

I was wilful and sure and I needed you to know

All my thoughts,  that  my whole heart was pounding  for you

You preferred the silent kind of show

 

Go and rest your mind

Go and find peace

Go and find your true north

Though it won’t be me

 

Now I’m sitting by your bedside,

No need for words, at last I understand

But a part of me is crying out don’t go my love don’t go

In the silence I can see you now

 

Go and rest your mind

Go and find peace

Go and find your true north

Though it won’t be me

Go and find your true north

Though it won’t be me

 

Charlie

 

Charlie never says something old

Charlie never leaves me cold

He sings along with my tunes

With Charlie  everything is cool

 

He never ever says goodnight, just

Tucks me in alright

With lots of skin and limbs

Lord, I’m good with him

 

He’s everything for a

Girl like me

with high healed shoes and bad hairdo's

Easy on the eye

Little baby sugar

Easy in the heart and easy to start

Charlie Charlie I love you

Charlie Charlie loves me too

 

Charlie never does me wrong

Charlie’s singing all day long

My baby’s got the sweetest lips

And  loveliest fingertips

 

That can pick a girl fast apart

That can fix all kinds of broken hearts

Charlie sure’s my man

He's got my whole world in his hand

 

He’s everything for a

Girl like me

with high healed shoes and bad hairdo's

Easy on the eye

Little baby sugar

Easy in the heart and easy to start

Charlie Charlie I love you

Charlie Charlie loves me too

Sound of us

 

I don’t like the things in the water

I don’t like the wind in my shoes,

I don’t like the fashion this summer,

I don’t like the sound of too few

I do love the sound of us playing

With buckets of sand in the rain

I do love the voice of an old friend

That never look back for the same

 

It’s cold in the shadow of wonders

It’s cold - I do remember it all

 

And now that I see you smiling

At first, I tell you, it hurts

The woman that’s standing next to you teeth

Is sweet, but I was there first

The things coming out through you fingers

I swore I’d never recall

I tried to erase and forget all your ways

But it’s hard when you’r smiling this wide

 

It’s cold in the shadow of wonders

It’s cold - I do remember it all

 

 

Ai ai ai, ai ai ai -  no one that don’t belong in your world

Is there but I was your girl

Ai ai ai, ai ai ai - I don’t like my head underwater, don't like

Your pillow  empty and cold

 

It’s cold in the shadow of wonders

It’s cold - I do remember it all

Hotel St. Pauli

 

Was there true emotion

In your eyes

Or where they mirrors of a dark disguise

Could I see the secrets

In your lies

Was there really love  behind your eyes

 

Tonight

I live it all again

I live the pain of love again

For you

 

You called me baby baby while you tore me down

And now the night is calling with a lonely sound

I am haunting hotel st pauli

Where I’m crying for your love

 

I have to drive the demons

From my mind

Free the surge of hate you left behind

The night unlocks the dangers

In my mind

Lurking shadows in a deep cold mine

 

Tonight

I live it all again

I live the pain of love again

For you

You called ma baby baby while you tore me down

And now the night is calling with a lonely sound

Im haunting hotel st pauli

Where I’m crying for you love

Na na na…

Im haunting hotel st Paul

Where I’m crying for your love

Where I’m crying for your love

Dance for you

(Text: Rebekka Bakken Music: Jesper Nordenstroem, Rebekka Bakken)

 

Over there and everywhere

Is blood, money and fighting rounds

I'm bruised and beat

Back in this hotel room

Wicked and wasted

I´ve become

From all the nuggets you've thrown my way

From one for the money

Two for the show

Baby I'd dance for you

 

Make me more and more

Murder me strangle me

Beat  to feast

squeeze

If  you please

And baby I´ll dance for you

 

Tell me nothing

Nothing at all

Spend me

There's plenty to take

down down down

reasons to take me dow

And I'll come and come and come and come

Home to dance for you

Play me like a string

Cause you're  my kind of king

 

Baby I dance for you

 

You take me all the way up to Kingston

Baby I think I can see Boston from here

 

Oh, I dance for you