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/ 01 / LOSING A FRIEND
You're losing a friend / You got it all wrong / It's not about revenge / But you're losing a friend // I didn't see it coming / With my head stuck in the sand / But now I'm losing a friend // And it's keeping me up / It's the ribbons I tied / I would rather just die / Go to hell and crawl back / Than let you go
You're losing a friend / You jeopardise me / Bad bad blood on your hands / And see, you're losing a friend // I'm fickle and I'm vain / And you trick me over and over again / And now I'm losing you // And it's killing me / It's the strings that I tie / I would rather just die / Go to hell and crawl back / Than let it all go // My mistake / To lose you
Oh no, oh no! / So this is the end now / I'm losing you / Oh, look at you! / Look what you're wasting / You're losing a friend / Oh no, oh no! / I'm losing a friend / Oh, oh oh no
Lyrics by Nina Persson [Copyright Control].
2005 Universal Music AB
/ 02 / GODSPELL
I heard about a great big swindle / I read about it in a book / The book flew out the window / Was later found by thieves and crooks / And now / They're singing hallelujah / I'm wondering just what did they find / They way "what's it to ya?" / Just take a place in line // And wait / So I wait / I wait / And I wait / And I...
I'm one of a few survivors / In a drawer labelled "lost and found" / Moon travellers and deep sea divers / Whose oxygen supply ran out // Now maybe if their gods be willing / They'll give us something, fill our empty cups / Sit down in the boat, don't spill it / Or we'll just have to line back up // And wait / So we wait / We wait / And wait // Yes we wait / And we wait / And we wait / We will wait / 'Til we...
You can hear it in the beat they march to / And you can feel the earth shake when they start to dance / You can tell by the way they move you / It's not murder, it's an act of faith, baby
And as the world moves faster / Whiplashing us round and round / It's quite a slow disaster / But people keep on falling down / As they wait / We wait / And we wait / We wait // Hallelujah!
Lyrics by Nina Persson & Nathan Larson [Copyright Control / EMI Music Publishing France].
2005 Universal Music AB
/ 03 / DRIP DROP TEARDROP
I'm gonna watch you while you get me wrong / I'm gonna sing until you hate this song / I'm gonna tell you in my sweetest voice / I'm gonna choose you 'cause you have no choice / This funny thing we've got / Is never gonna stop / Oh no
I'm gonna take you to the wilderness / I'm gonna show you things you might have missed / I'm gonna kiss the parts that you have lost / It's gonna cost you but it might hurt less // This funny thing we've got / Is never gonna stop / This funny thing we've got / Is never gonna stop // Until drip drop teardrop / Will we ever learn
I'm gonna work 'til we get it on / I'm gonna love you 'til we get along / And when your ears and your eyes are sore / I'm gonna love you just a little bit more / This funny thing we've got / Is never gonna stop / This funny thing we've got / Is never gonna stop // Until drip drop teardrop / Will we ever / Will we ever / Will we ever learn
Lyrics by Nina Persson [Copyright Control].
2005 Universal Music AB
/ 04 / OVERLOAD
Overload / Oh what a match we are! / As we romance along / Towards the firescape // Open fire / Forever in your arms / Splendid time we have / Doing what I dread // Oh my lord / Can I buy some time // I'm learning to dance // Dum-ditty-dance / I'm dancing, ok?
Overlord / Lord of the underworld / Full-of-wonder-girl / As we twist and twirl // Hot and dry / High in my cloven heels / This is how real love feels / As we prance and die // Oh my lord / Such a fancy fire // As we dance / You sure can dance / Dance dance
You I will never forget / I hope you'll remember me later / We're swimming in a puddle of sweat / I'm hot baby, don't burn your fingers / I'm tenderly served on your plate / The band must continue to play /
So we can dance / I love to dance / Baby dance with me // Yeah / I can dance / To love is to dance / Now dance me home
Lyrics by Nina Persson & Nathan Larson [Copyright Control / EMI Music Publishing France].
2005 Universal Music AB
/ 05 / I NEED SOME FINE WINE AND YOU, YOU NEED TO BE NICER
Well, here's a good man and a pretty young girl / Tryin' to play together somehow / I'm wasting my time, you're changing the world / I get drunk and watch your head grow // It's the good times that we've shared / And the bad time that we'll have / It's the good times / And the bad times that we had
Well, it's been a long, slow collision / I'm a pitbull, you're a dog / Baby you're foul in clear condition / But you're handsome in the fog // So I need some fine wine / And you, you need to be nicer / For the good times / And the bad times that we'll have
Sometimes we talk over dinner like old friends / 'Til I go and kill the bottle / I go off over any old thing / Break your heart and raise a glass or ten // To the good times that we shared / And the bad times that we'll have / To the good times / And the bad times that we've had
Well, it's been a long, slow collision / I'm a pitbull, you're a dog / Baby you're foul in clear condition / But you're handsome in the fog // So I need some fine wine / And you, you need to be nicer / For the good times / And the bad times we know will come, yeah
I need some fine wine / And you, you need to be nicer / We need to be nicer / You and me / For the good times and the bad times that we had
Good times, bad times / Sweet wine, bad wine / Good cop, bad cop / Lapdog, bad dog
Lyrics by Nina Persson & Nathan Larson [Copyright Control / EMI Music Publishing France].
2005 Universal Music AB
/ 06 / DON'T BLAME YOUR DAUGHTER [DIAMONDS]
Don't blame your daughter / That's just sentimental / And don't blame your mum / For all that you've done wrong / Your daddy's not guilty / You came out a little faulty / And the factory closed / So you can't hold them liable // You come from an island / You're cutting diamonds / With a rubber knife
Your autograph's worthless / So don't send me letters / And don't mail me cash /'Cause your money is no good // What's left in you mattress / Is holes that lack of love left / Some hair from a horse / And none if it is yours, man // You come from an island / You're cutting diamonds / With a rubber knife
And the song you sing today / Wasn't always in your head / The words you try to say / Are the ones you should've said / They're glistening like diamonds / Go out and find them / But don't blame your daughter
Read me your tombstone / Tell me you're sorry / Fax me your will / You owe me something still / Blood is like water / The bath that you poured me / Has drained and is gone / Don't blame it on your son
And the song you sing today / Wasn't always in your head / The words you try to say / Are the ones you should've said / They're glistening like diamonds / Go out and find them, boy!
The world is full of diamonds / Go out and find them / But don't blame your daughter
Lyrics by Nina Persson & Nathan Larson [Copyright Control / EMI Music Publishing France].
2005 Universal Music AB
/ 07 / LITTLE BLACK CLOUD
A black cloud's hanging over town tonight / But I don't mind / I don't mind / There's a cold breeze cutting through the summer air / But I'm not scared / I don't care // 'Cause we dance the night away / Let's dance the night away, yeah!
The black cloud's whispering into my ear / But I don't hear / I won't hear / 'Cause the arms that hold me want an eye to eye / He's touching me / And I don't mind // As we dance the night away / Let's dance the night away
Oh, yeah! / The music wants me tonight / What time will you let me down / I look pretty good tonight / Oh, yeah! // Little black cloud / Little black cloud / I don't wanna go home
The black cloud's circling over me tonight / But I don't mind / And you don't mind / If you're cold I'll tell you it's the summer breeze / Just dance with me / We'll be alright /
Oh, yeah! / The music wants me tonight / What time will you let me down / I look pretty great tonight / Oh, yeah! // Little black cloud / Little black cloud / I'm not done yet
He, look at me! / The music wants me tonight / What time will you let me down / I look really great tonight / Oh, yeah! / Little black cloud / Little black cloud // I don't wanna go home / I'm not done yet / I'm not done yet
Lyrics by Nina Persson [Copyright Control].
2005 Universal Music AB
/ 08 / IN THE ROUND
I am young and I'm alive / I want to talk about things / I am young and I own my life / I need to talk about it, baby // I am one but I asked for two / I didn't get anything / This puppet's lonely without you / It's tough to walk without strings // I do my dance in the round // I'm right on track but this state is frail / You slip out and derail // I do my dance in the round / So people clap your hands / Clap your hands
I wanna do it right this time / I wanna step in time / I wanna do it right this time, yeah! // Clap your hands // I gotta get it right this time / I wanna step in time / I wanna do it right this time // I do my dance in the round
I am young, coming at you live / People gonna talk about me / When I'm done, please hang me high / For everybody to see // 'Cause I do my dance in the round / So people clap your hands // I wanna get it right / I'm dyin' to get it right / I wanna get it right / I'm dyin' to get it right
Lyrics by Nina Persson & Nathan Larson [Copyright Control / EMI Music Publishing France].
2005 Universal Music AB
/ 09 / HOLY LOVE
When you love / I can feel your love / Shooting holes in my stupid pride // When you love / I don't fear your love / Of all the angels you're the most divine
Holy love // You can really have anything you want from me / Anything you ask me to, I'll do / We can live in poverty or prosperity / Anything impossible, I'll try / You can really have everything you ask / And I'll be intimate with you / Giving everything over / To making everything right
Holy love // When you love / I can feel your love / Shooting holes in my stupid pride // When you love / I don't fear your love / Of all the angels you're the most divine
Holy love // You can really make anyone you want of me / Anyone you need tonight, I'll be / Whether you want empathy, animosity / An enemy or company, call me // I can even be nothing if you ask / I'll turn invisible for you / I'm the bird on your shoulder / Singing psalms through the night // Of holy love
When you love / I can feel your love / Throwing rocks through the windows of a monastery / Love / Makes me feel the super extra gravity / Of god, yeah! / And life // When you love / I can feel your love / Of all the angels you're the most divine
Lyrics by Nina Persson & Nathan Larson [Copyright Control / EMI Music Publishing France].
2005 Universal Music AB
/ 10 / GOOD MORNING JOAN
Good morning Joan / Now pick up your phone / It was bad but just a dream / And you are remembered // Put on something pretty / Go back to the city / In town the sky's just space / No starlight in you face // Listen to Eve / She's got stuff up her sleeve / To her there's no excuse / You've gotta use before you get used // Or talk to Luise / She knows all about freezing / She got lost in early May / And now it's December
I'd call on you if I could / If you were less like me I would
Good morning Joan / Did you wake up alone / Did you dream you woke up happy / With a phonebook full of names // Just forget about Mary / She says everything's scary / She got locked inside her skin / Get near her, she'll drag you in
I'd call on you if I could / If you were less like me I would / Save you from this if I could / If I were less like you God knows I would (Save you from this) / Spare us all this shit / But you're all just like me so I quit!
My name is yours / Can I sleep on your floor / See my heroes changed their minds / And I lost my numbers
Lyrics by Nina Persson & Nathan Larson [Copyright Control / EMI Music Publishing France].
2005 Universal Music AB
/ 11 / AND THEN YOU KISSED ME II
Slowdancing tight / My barren heart and I / Your name used to taste so sweet / Then you beat the love right out of me // It's a mystery how people behave! / How we long for a life as a slave / When he kissed me I gladly gave in / To a fight nobody could win
Man, he left me blue / And if I could, I would do it too / I tell you now like I told you before / Love is a powerful force // And it's a mystery how people behave! / How we long for a life as a slave / And tumble into any open arms / That will only ever do you harm
Oh you you, it's always you / The best kisser that I ever knew / True love is cruel love / Not much to be proud of / Nerve-wrecking acrobatic backwards bend / All for a happy end
It's a mystery how people behave / How we worry ourselves to the grave / When he kissed me I lost everything / Then I got up and did it again
Oh you you, it's always you / The hardest hitter that I ever knew / True love is cruel love / Not much to be proud of / Ass-kissing mercy-missing faithless friend / All for a happy end
Lyrics by Nina Persson & Nathan Larson [Copyright Control / EMI Music Publishing France].
2005 Universal Music AB
GIVE ME YOUR EYES / Bonus track /
Oh girl, look at yourself, what have you done / What have you become / Well, I couldn't say / Slow down and think of your heart, where do you go / Now, how am I supposed to know, I'm always looking away // Give me your eyes so I can see me straight / Give me your eyes / I can't tell night from day / Give me your eyes so I can see me straight / Give me your eyes and watch me walk away / Yeah, yeah, yeah
I took a look at myself / Nothing inside / Except for cigarettes and wine where there should be a life / You've been watching me for a while and you like what you see / It's in the eyes of the beholder / Now give them to me // Give me your eyes so I can see me straight / Give me your eyes that seem to light my face / Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh mirror, mirror upon the wall / Who is the fairest of them all / Mirror, mirror made no reply / Mirror went black and cracked from side to side / Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh girl, look at yourself, what have you done / What have you become / You know the camera don't lie / Give me your eyes so I can see me straight / Give me your eyes I can't tell night from day // Come give me your eyes so I can see me straight / Give me your eyes and watch me walk away / Yeah! // Give me your eyes / Give me your eyes / Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Lyrics by Nina Persson [Copyright ControL].
2005 Universal Music AB
SLOW / Bonus track /
Slow, slow, slow / There is something you need to know / There's a feeling I don't understand / Here it comes again / Glow, glow, glow / There was love ten seconds ago / In its place, now a tiny pain / It comes again // There'll be rain on our wedding day / And the chapel will be mud and clay / There'll be rain on our wedding day / Gray be the sky / I don't know why
Slow, slow, slow / Easy come and easy go / It seems your ring is sliding off my hand / Do you understand? / No, no, no / In every breath you're dragging me low / In every movement the chill sustains / Here it comes again // There'll be rain on our wedding day / Rotting roses in my bouquet / There'll be rain on our wedding day / Gray be the sky / Too late to cry
Slow, slow, slow...
Lyrics by Nina Persson & Nathan Larson [Copyright Control / EMI Music Publishing France].
2005 Universal Music AB
SLOWDOWN TOWN / Bonus track /
Should come snow / But we got rain and it's leaking in / I think of Paris / How that ugly tower stands 3 years of wind // Now don't it seem like we're living in a slowdown town / I feel like we're living in a slowdown town / And on and on it goes / On and on it goes
Billions of people be happy living like the way we do / With the world in our hands / Believing that we're small and true // But sometimes I feel like we're living in a slowdown town / Yes I feel like we're living in a slowdown town / And on and on it goes
I'll be here / And the wind and the rain will be / Tearing down the building over me / I'll be here / In my tower of mistrust / I built this myself with nails that don't rust
Don't you feel like we're living in a slowdown town / Oh honey, I feel like we're living in a slowdown town / So people, come on, let's just blow it and get out of this damn town / Or on and on it goes / Or on and on it goes
Lyrics by Nina Persson & Nathan Larson [Copyright Control / EMI Music Publishing France].
2005 Universal Music AB
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