The Sum of Every Shade

Friskt Pust Records, November 2020

Track List

  1. I Love the Way You See the World
  2. Dogs
  3. Strangers
  4. Contradictions
  5. Pages
  6. Giraffes & Elephants
  7. Good News
  8. Beneath the Snow
  9. Funny Old Life
  10. The Enterprise

Lyrics

I Love the Way You See the World

Did i ever try
To go on without something
That something in mind
Did i ever try
To go on without something
That something in sight
Fear will always hold me down
I feel it in my spine
To go on without something
And not back in line
But not compare myself to no one

 

I need you more than ever
I love the way you see the world
You don’t need the experts
Showing you the way to live
Do it at your own speed
Someone opened fire
Trying hard to change your ways
I love the way you see the world

 

You have always tried
Driven by wonder and not by command
Always dare to speak
Your heartbeats are followed by endless reverb
May all, may all your words resound
Fear will never hold you down

 

I need you more than ever
I love the way you see the world
You don’t need the experts
Showing you the way to live
Do it at your own speed
Someone up in fire
Trying hard to change your ways
I love the way you see the world

 

You’ve always been the outsider
On the outside looking in
Someone will betray you
Remember what you’re fighting for
Now load your smile and go to war
No one’s gonna change your ways
I love the way you see the world
The way you see the world

 

Heartbeats are followed and brought up
by endless reverb
Driven by wonder and not by command
Your heartbeats are followed and brought up
by endless reverb
I love the way you see the world

Dogs

We are a swarm of creatures
a pack of creatures in the night
and we are searching in the streets
with gloomy eyes for something right — see ya

 

Tonight its make or break
within it’s fake but that’s just fine
We are all lonely creatures here
pouring poison out of our mind’s

 

I’ll never settle in my quest for bliss
and all my thoughts are a like a bunch of dogs
fighting over the last bone

 

We’re flying over rooftops
a manic search for something else than this – epic failure
we’re scrolling screens in search of truth
do we go blind when we connect?

 

If you want common decency
you’ll have to travel back in time – see ya
we’re all together in this boat
would it hurt so much to just be kind?

 

Constant fear of missing out on everything and everyone
Stop the train, it goes too fast , this is never gonna last
Constant distance, always blind, never reach the finish line

Strangers

No one in sight
Considering his thoughts on repeat
The sting growing strong
A coincidence that they were to meet

 

She was on her way home
when something changed the course of her feet
A cautious «Hello…
I felt that here was someone in need»

 

He was alarmed at first
and didn’t meet her warm and friendly eyes
«I’d like to pray for you,
to see if it can help , I’d like to try»

 

No bus in sight
and absolutely no need to flee
He needed some time
to push his doubt aside, to let it be

 

She covered his ache with her hands
She closed her eyes and whispered words of faith
He was soon overwhelmed
as he felt the sting begin to fade away

 

She walked the extra mile
for a stranger, a random act of kindness
There is more here than meets the eye
A moment in his life
that forever, that forever
would cross his mind, from time to time

Contradictions

I don’t want fortunes
I just want peace
like in a forest
between the trees

 

This world’s confusing me
and so are you
I’m lost in contradictions too

 

Who to believe in?
Just what is true? What is truth?
This world is beauty
and it’s a mess, and nothing less

 

Our home is porcelain
it might just break
Such a poor connection
everything’s at stake
The arrogance of certainty

 

Who to believe in?
What is true? What is truth?
This world is beauty
and it’s a mess, and nothing less

 

They are connected
Every part
Let’s spend our time well
Invest our hearts
Now’s the time for that to start

 

Who to believe in?
What is true? What is truth?
This world is beauty
and it’s a mess, and nothing less

 

I don’t want fortunes
I just want peace
like in a forest
between the trees

Pages

I live, I learn, pages have to turn
I can’t deny, I cannot lie
I cannot lie my way out
Leave my heart out
and then pretend that everything’s alright

 

Something’s gone, as something new is born
There is no why, I have to try
I’ll have to find my way through
conquer doubt and change
I’ll have to turn to the next page

Giraffes & Elephants

Breathe again
There’s no easy
there’s no easy way to free my self from all that has been

 

Seal the dark
There are brighter
there are brighter shades to guide me towards halcyon days

 

Bring back the glow, bring back the glow, bring it all back
Bring down the noise, bring it all down
Bring back the glow, bring back the glow, bring it all back
Bring down the noise, bring the glow back
Shape up, get set, let’s go

 

Welcome change
please be seated
Please stay, display, grow firm, welcome home

 

Greetings hereafter
Plans have altered
We’ll sleep, we’ll breathe, we’ll feed, we’ll dance again

 

Bring back the glow, bring back the glow, bring it all back
Bring down the noise, bring it all down
Bring back the glow, bring back the glow, bring it all back
Bring down the noise, bring the glow back
Shape up, get set, let’s go

Good News

It was just what I needed to see
to see that something goes right
The parts now fit together
Before I was gloomy but now the screens are turning bright

 

It was just what I needed to hear
to hear that something goes right
I had disconnected
«never again» has no meaning if we can’t look both ways through time

 

So where do we go from here
We’re stuck together everywhere
Hey now let’s be fair
One day at the time
make this a moment for change
We’re all the same kind
Silence is violence, speak out, be

 

It was just what I needed to feel
to feel that this time a change is for real
Let’s not turn to silence
Remind and repeat so that we can move onwards from here

 

Without history, we will not remember
Without memory, there will be no future

Beneath the Snow

She is lost in winter
way beneath the snow
Better to have loved and lost they say
Is it so?

 

He is lost in footsteps
in streets they used to walk
Now she is a ghost that every night and then
comes to to talk

 

She visits him in dreamland
when all his shields are down
They’re no longer screaming at each other
not a sound

 

He said to her
«I guess you’ll always follow
wherever I will go
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn
I guess you know»

Funny Old Life

Can’t we just be
right here and now
Your boat is afloat and it’s cutting the waves
cutting the waves

 

Your sword has an aim
You got what it takes
don’t pull the brakes
Don’t turn the bow
Don’t turn the bow

 

More so than not you are right
Don’t always trust what you hear
Don’t put your self aside
Don’t always trust what you see
If all comes from the outside and nothing from within
are you still you then?

 

Am I still me then?
Listen to the stream and then to your heart
Then when you look out
you’ll also see in
also see in

The Enterprise

I am tied down by a chain
You seduce me all the way to hell
I turn to you when it gets way too real

 

Poison, I love you more, each time, we’re stuck in a tangle
each time you draw me into your rule
Trying to tear me down but you are not my commander
I will never obey again and you will never be master

 

The revolving door slams in my face
All it takes is one bad day
Seems I’m still at the same crossroad

 

Poison, I love you more, each time, we’re stuck in a tangle
each time you draw me into your rule
Trying to tear me down but you are not my commander
I will never obey again and you will never be master

 

«I’ve got just the thing you need
this is the very latest version
And you need it to survive»

 

A choir of demons call and they’ re in love with destruction
I will never obey again and you will never be master