Skip the charades - Cold War Kids

You wait on letters
Fishing for any sign of life
Drinks after dinner
Your friends will get you to unwind

Let's skip the charades
Can we just speak plain?

I'm two left feet when
I'm home, we tap-danced on broken glass
Somehow you manage
To keep your sense of humor in tact

Let's skip the charades
You're seeing right through me anyway
Can we just speak plain?
We're playing for the same team
But I'm the one that's acting like
Acting like
Acting like
I'm so strong
You're the one that's acting like
Acting like
Acting like
Nothing's wrong

You dodged the bullet
You do your best when you're busiest
But you're disconnected
You can't find your name in the script

It was you who were wildest
It was you who floated above us all
I held on with wires
Will you come back down if I let you go?

Let's skip the charades
You're seeing right through me anyway
Can we just speak plain?
We're playing for the same team
But I'm the one that's acting like I'm so strong
You're the one that's acting like nothing's wrong
I'm the one that's acting like I'm so strong
You're the one that's acting like nothing's wrong

Can we skip the charades?
Just speak plain
Can we skip the charades?
Just speak plain
Can we skip the charades?
Just speak plain
Can we skip the charades?

My same - Adele

You said I'm stubborn and I never give in
I think you're stubborn except you're always softening
You say I'm selfish, I agree with you on that
I think you're giving out in way too much in fact
I say we've only known each other one year
You say I've known you longer my dear
You like to be so close, I like to be alone
I like to sit on chairs and you prefer the floor
Walking with each other, think we'll never match at all, but we do
But we do, but we do, but we do

I thought I knew myself, somehow you know me more
I've never known this, never before
You're the first to make out whenever we are two
I don't know who I'd be if I didn't know you
You're so provocative, I'm so conservative, and
You're so adventurous, I'm so very cautious, combining
You think we would and we do
But we do, but we do, but we do

Favouritism ain't my thing, but
In this situation I'll be glad
Favouritism ain't my thing, but
In this situation I'll be glad
To make an exception

You said I'm stubborn and I never give in
I think you're stubborn except you're always softening
You say I'm selfish, I agree with you on that
I think you're giving out in way too much in fact
I say we've only known each other one year
You say I've known you longer my dear
You like to be so close, I like to be alone
I like to sit on chairs and you prefer the floor
Walking with each other, think we'll never match at all
But we do

Bli med oss - rOlfFa

”Om en mann kan vise så mye hat…
Tenk hvor mye kjærlighet vi alle kan vise sammen.”
-Jens Stoltenberg (24.07.2011)

En fallen søster
En fallen bror
Sorg og frykt i kor

Trygt og godt i vårt fedreland
Knust til grunnen av vår egen mann

For i mørkets rom er lyset svakt
Og hjelper lite
Så om alle står med hvert sitt lys
Vil fargan gjenoppstå

En fallen søster
En fallen bror
Har det skjedd her vi bor?

Trygt og godt i vårt lille land
Står vi sammen hand i hand

For i mørkets rom er lyset svakt
Og hjelper lite
Så om alle står med hvert sitt lys
Vil fargan gjenoppstå

For i mørkets rom er lyset svakt
Og hjelper lite
Så om alle står med hvert sitt lys
Vil fargan gjenoppstå

For i mørkets rom er lyset svakt
Og hjelper lite
Så om alle står med hvert sitt lys
Vil fargan gjenoppstå

For i mørkets rom er lyset svakt
Og hjelper lite
Så om alle står med hvert sitt lys
Vil fargan gjenoppstå

Vil fargan gjenoppstå

Birdcage religion - Sleeping At Last

So slowly I’m losing
Who I’ve sworn to be
A promise in pencil
That years have made so hard to read
I’ve spent my life building walls
Brick by brick and bruise by bruise

A birdcage religion
That whispered me to sleep

But time is spinning silk
That coils ruthlessly
With the devil’s patience
It binds my hands so quietly
That soon it becomes a part of me

So soften these edges
And straighten out my tie
And help me remember
The hope that I have compromised

Please be a broken record for me

Skinned knees and gapped teeth - Dear And The Headlights

Was it a broken arm or collar bone?
It depended on the week
And me with my black eye
Stitched from head to feet
Uncomfortably happy
All skinned knees and gapped teeth

Remember summers with the speak and spell
Trying to make the robot cuss
If mother knew the words we used while she worked
She would be fuming
Cause that's not how she raised me

And when you taped over a good half of the wedding tape
I bet you never thought Thundercats could ever make me cry
You sat in disbelief
As Lion-O made plans to slay the whole wedding party
They're disco dancing to their death
Oh Ma, you just don't know it yet

And all my hand me downs are stuck to me
From all the blood I couldn't keep
Oh, such a likely scene
10 year old body face down on Rosall Street
My bike passed out on top of me

Remember how I swore I would
Pass you up in age
You just scoffed at me
Well I'm still gonna do it
Just haven't quite figured out how yet

We cornered Teddy Ruxpin and smashed his story tape
And put Guns’N'Roses in
And watched him sing along to ‘Appetite of Destruction’
Yeah he knew every word
I'm dying in the hall laughing
Oh John, you gotta turn it off

And when you taped over a good half of the wedding tape
I know you never thought Thundercats would ever be the end
You sat in disbelief
As Lion-O made plans to slay the whole wedding party
Oh John, you gotta turn it off

Tomorrow - SR-71

Is it any wonder why I'm scared?
If I was a little younger would I care?
Feeling like the walls are growing stronger
I don't know if this cage can hold me any longer

You never dreamed you'd have to live your life so guarded
Cause they'll find a way to make you feel discarded

I'm not afraid of tomorrow
I'm only scared of myself
Feels like my insides are on fire
And I'm looking through the eyes of someone else

I never thought they'd want me to go even faster
I never thought I took my foot off the gas
Everybody loves to be in on the pressure
But I know they're all waiting for the crash

You never dreamed you had to live your life so guarded
Cause they'll find a way to make you feel discarded
Things have changed, you've become a complication
You can't make it through another day's humiliation

I'm not afraid of tomorrow
I'm only scared of myself
Feels like my insides are on fire
And I'm looking through the eyes of someone else

Someone, someone, someone else
Someone, someone, someone else
Someone, someone, someone else

Is it any wonder why?
The answer keeps me petrified
Is it any wonder why I'm scared?

I'm not afraid of tomorrow
I'm only scared of myself
Feels like my insides are all on fire
And I'm looking through the eyes of someone else

I'm not afraid of tomorrow
(It is any wonder why I'm scared?)
I'm only scared of myself
(If I was a little younger would I care?)
Feels like my insides are on fire
(Feeling like the walls are growing stronger)
And I'm looking through the eyes of someone else

It is any wonder why I'm scared?

Someone, someone, someone else
Someone, someone, someone else

Under the ground - The Working Title

Maybe everyone's to blame
Cause I can't fall in love to save
All the world or anyone else
Turn on the TV and fade

Maybe it's only me

Talk to me now
Why do you run from me?
Walk up to me
Like we've never met
Break into me
I need you more than you know
Oh no, I'm under the ground

Tell me if you want to be
Lonely or if there should be
Someone else, tell me it's me
Let's run away in the rain

Maybe it should be me

Talk to me now
Why do you run from me?
Walk up to me
Like we've never met
Break into me
I need you more than you know
Oh no, I'm under the ground

My parts are falling out, it's useless
No one can save me now, I'm under
Somebody's painted house, I hear their
Surrounding voices fade, when I decide to stay

Talk to me now
Why do you run from me?
Walk up to me
Like we've never met
Break into me
I need you more than you know
Oh no, I'm under the ground

It's four in the morning
I'm naked and staring at the wall
In my lonely apartment room
And I'll swear to your beauty
I'm sorry that I'm so messed up
Don't hate me
I'm under the ground

A thread cut with a carving knife - Stars

It was a hot and sultry afternoon
Sometime at the end of June
We had collapsed ourselves in shade somewhere
To conclude our love affair
But it was too damn hot to speak that much
It felt easier to touch
So we forgot to fall apart that day
And the next day

It was a cold and endless sky above
When he decided he was through with love
The leaves were piles of skeletons
And he was only skin and bones
And then he went to the bridge so he could fall
And drop down far away from it all
But the water looked so black and deep
That he closed his eyes and he went to sleep
Til the next day

The snow fell hard from five to five
You had to drink to stay alive
But you were hoping it would kill you too
At least you'd have something changing you
Cause you were cold as the ice at your front door
You raised a trembling glass and shouted, "Fuck the war!"
And then you fell into oblivion
Lying on your bed with your shoes on
Til the next day

Baby, close your eyes until tomorrow
It could bring joy, it could bring sorrow
But it will come sure as light
Try not to dream a dream tonight
Imagine that you're standing here
And suddenly you disappear
A thread cut with a carving knife
That is what they call our life

Baby, close your eyes until tomorrow
It could bring joy, it could bring sorrow
But it will come sure as light
Try not to dream a dream tonight
Imagine that you're standing here
And suddenly you disappear
A thread cut with a carving knife
That is what they call our life

Bur oak - Bowerbirds

The room calls to me, says we’re all strung out
And the beat we both stomp on the floor
While outside the leopard frogs sing sweetly
These are the hymns that today we’ve ignored
And all across the desert, and all up in the mountains
A wind so loud that we might never mention

And here’s to my lovers hands and feet
They are the roots that will weave through the floor
And down in the dirt, in her wandering
Find the snail to give us breath, to give us words
He asks us for our patience, he asks us for our patience
And he asks us what we have done for our souls lately

Down by the bur oak tree, I had lost your locket in the loam
And there fell to my knees, beneath the coil and the brush of the fern
Down by the bur oak tree, I had lost your locket in the loam
And there fell to my knees, beneath the coil and the brush of the fern

The candles light dances across the table
And will burn at the tip of my pen
And lures all the moths into the kitchen
To spin tales and bend truths through the evening
And scribe for them their stories, we scribe for them their stories
While they wax and wax of their lives in the country

Down by the bur oak tree, I had lost your locket in the loam
And there fell to my knees, beneath the coil and the brush of the fern
Down by the bur oak tree, I had lost your locket in the loam
And there fell to my knees, beneath the coil and the brush of the fern

Adventures in solitude - The New Pornographers

Balancing on
One wounded wing
Circling the edge
Of the never-ending
The best of the vanished marvels
Have gathered inside your door

More than begin
But less than forget
But spirits born
From the not happened yet
Gathering there
To pay off a debt brought back from the wars

We thought we lost you
We thought we lost you
We thought we lost you
Welcome back

Sleeping for years
Pick through what is left
Through the pieces that fell
And rose from the depth
From the rainwater well
Deep as a secret nobody knows

Less than forget
But more than begun
These adventures in solitude never done
To the names of our wounds
We send the same blood back from the wars

We thought we lost you
We thought we lost you
We thought we lost you
It will all come back

I know you want to
Run far away from one more
And that it's coming at a bad time
Some cold place
Heartless ways
For all we know

I know you need to
Breathe through
Come back
Come too
But it's coming at a bad time
Tangled day
For all we know

I know you want to
Run far away from one more
And that's coming at a bad time
Some cold race
Heartless ways
For all we know

I know you want to
Breathe through
Come back
Come too
But it's coming at a bad time
Old scarred face
Survivor's guilt
For all we know

Starving your friends - Envy On The Coast

Thanks a lot
I've been disadvantaged from the start
You constrict the veins heading straight to my head
Rerouted the blood to my heart instead
Rerouted the blood to my heart instead

I am brain dead
Thinking strictly in blues and reds
Oh, I'm in enough trouble, man
Oh, man, I'm in trouble again
Cause everyone's ears are watching me
But I never, ever felt that this would be
Anything more than a makeshift personal IV

Cause I fall three times as hard
If it's from nothing at all
You all seem twice as tall as I will ever be
And I feel terribly small
When my head works too hard
When you think with your chest
There's not a thing that you don't see

I'm hardly capable of half the damage
That I would like to do
I could swear that I don't care
But you know I'm too full of shit to think this through
So look at me
I pray to God
But curse too much to be considered true
I'm just like me
I'm just like me
So who the hell are you?

I'm but a boy
Just like the rest of these thieves
And I borrow phrases from dusty, faded record sleeves
The story is the same
I've just personalized the name
But if it's all you need
Then I'd be more than happy to confess my shame

Cause I fall three times as hard
If it's from nothing at all
You all seem twice as tall as I will ever be
And I feel terribly small
When my head works too hard
When you think with your chest
There's not a thing that you don't see

I'm hardly capable of half the damage
That I would like to do
I could swear that I don't care
But you know I'm too full of shit to think this through
So look at me
I pray to God
But curse too much to be considered true
I'm just like me
I'm just like me
So who the hell are you?

I know you think you know
But these eyelids are windows
That shut you out from all the things
That I don't want you to know
And I refuse to tell you one single secret I own
Cause you'll find I'm petrified of your eyes

I'm hardly capable of half the damage
That I would like to do
I could swear that I don't care
But you know I'm too full of shit to think this through
I've read the book, I prayed to God
But cursed too much to be considered true
I'm just like me
I'm just like me
So who the hell are you?

Kids on the run - The Tallest Man On Earth

Oh, meet me when the morning fails on the fields of desire
Oh, meet me when I lost my part in the choir of dusk
Where the promise to lead what is right
As we both know how fields will turn white
And know I will never speak of days
Cause I know you won’t count them

No, we have never grown a day from the poison we shared
And we're walking our crooked backs home
But will we ever confess what we've done?
Guess we're still kids on the run

And no, we will never be a part of the pictures once taken
When we're feeding fire with the flames till no memories gone
And the cold sky will write us a song
But will we ever confess what we've done?
Guess we're still kids on the run

And the reflections in their eyes
Sure could paint us as killers
Oh, I'll be there

And till the terror of our time
Could forgive us as lovers
Oh, lets break some hearts

And no, I will never speak of ways
Cause I know you won’t try them
But all the weapons raining from the sky
Will be ours to embrace
And the cold sky will write us a song
But will we ever confess what we've done?
Guess we're still kids on the run