1. |
Disaster
03:16
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On a trampoline
I push my hands against the sky
My, my, my
But then I realize
I chase awrong kind of high
Ay, ay, ay
My feet will never leave the ground
But I’m surfing on a wave of sound
I’m my own disaster
A tornado on the ground
This old world
Keeps goin faster
And there ain’t no slowing down
I put my feet into
My boots and then I start to walk
Tip on my toes
I let ’em take me to wherever in this world
I’m suppose to be and that’s close enough
I don’t claim to have control
I just play the leading role
In my own disaster
A tornado on the ground
This old world
Keeps goin faster
And there ain’t no slowing down
Vivid dreams
That come in black and white
I’m full of flaws and dents
When held up to the light
Yes, I am a disaster
A tornado on the ground
This old world
Keeps goin faster
And there ain’t no slowing down
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2. |
Beggar
03:00
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Too many hours I’ve spend
Too many years I’ve paid the rent
How can two people feel so alone?
In a house that never was a home
Oh, what a garden we build
And what we grew got slowly killed
Now I see, oh I see
I was a beggar for your love
Thought you could never give enough
I was a beggar for your love
‘Cause I wasn't ready to give you up
I had my shed in the back
Your naked walls were so full of cracks
And still to think it all could be fixed
With a kitchen were the tile don’t fit
Sometimes the truth has a way
You only see, when you walk away
And oh, don’t I know
That I was a beggar for your love
Thought you could never give enough
I was a beggar for your love
‘Cause I wasn't ready to give you up
I was a-beggin’ for your love
With stolen trophies on the wall
Tried to intimidate them all
Hope you can catch them when they fall
Cause I was a beggar
I was a beggar for you love
Yes, I was begging
But now I’m not beggin’ anymore
I was a-beggin’ for you love
Now I’m not beggin’ anymore
We’re different people now that’s for sure
And no one is beggin’ anymore
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3. |
Heavy Load
04:16
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Tell me, son, what you’re on
Why you carry such a heavy load
It’s all the same, nothing’s changed I just try to keep myself afloat
You’re a minister with no congregation
I just try to keep my dreams alive
And that’s alright
Take it day by day, stay outside the rain
I’ve been broken, I’ve been bitter, I’ve been beaten and I’ve been confused
I’ve said what I need to say and I am handing down the torch to you
You decide if you burn it all down, yeah
Or if you’re gonna be the guiding light
And that too is alright
Make up your own mind, stay within the lines, yeah
Take it day by day, stay outside the rain
Make up your own mind for a change
Tell me, son, what you’re on, why you carry
The weight of everything and why it’s necessary
To tell me, son, why you carry such a heavy load
Tell me why you are applying such pressure
Onto yourself and why you constantly measure
Everything you are and what you do
Son, you are running
I don’t why you’re running, but you are running
And you are speeding when you should be slowing down instead
‘Cause when you get to that finish line, it’s just gonna be, POW!
Tell me, son, what you’re on
Why you carry such a heavy load
Take your time and you’ll be fine
You just gotta learn to let go
I tell you, son, we’ve all been wrong
It just takes a little time to feel like you belong
I tell you, son, you’re not alone
But you’ll be fighting all your life
Just realize it’s the fight that makes you feel alive
That too is alright
Take it day by day, stay outside the rain
Don’t be in it for the money
Being in it for the money that’s a poor man’s game
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4. |
Eyes Full Of Starlight
03:29
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As I wander in time I see all the magic
That keep us floating
Above sky and deep under ground
I’ve tried to deny all the physical laws
As I fall
Eyes full of starlight
Shine bright in the moonlight
‘Cause everyone’s a star
And we twinkle
‘Cause we let out some light as we die
It’s a love affair
It’s to go out and breath in the air
I tried to believe in effect and in cause
And in love
Eyes full of starlight
See clear in the moonlight
‘Cause everyone’s a star
And everyone can shine
But everyone’s afraid
Of losing their right mind
The more you look, the more they shine
Like a child growing love inside
Eyes that are waiting
Just anticipating
What you will show them
What you’re creating
You’re carbon and stardust
You’re the space in between us
Pick the stars from the night sky
Pick me up and we’ll take that ride and shine
‘Cause everyone’s a star
But everyone’s afraid of taking it too far
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5. |
Young Rebel
03:22
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Hey, young rebel
Don’t you settle
Pick the life that
Makes you able to be
Exactly who you wanna be
Loose your young voice
Let them hear you
Talk that big talk
So they’ll fear you and get pissed
Keep waving, waving your fist
Keep your heart out of trouble
Keep your dick in your pants, boy
Get your young shit together
And lit it up
Keep singing your song and I’ll be dancing along
Keep singing your song and I’ll be dancing along
Keep singing your song and I’ll be dancing along
Keep singing your song and I’ll be dancing along
Give me something new and I’ll be dancing along
Show your middle finger and I’ll be dancing along
Light your molotovs and I’ll be dancing along
Impeach this motherfucker and I’ll be dancing along
Buy your mother flowers and I’ll be dancing along
Get an education and I’ll be dancing along
Be the solution and I’ll be dancing along
You’re a young adult and you gotta prove me wrong
You gotta beat them back
To where they came from
These ballless CEOs
Can’t see the rainbow
Piss in their pot of gold
And slash their tires
There’s too much dirty money
And little cash flow
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6. |
The Singer
03:54
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If the singer he sings his song in a club
That’s empty does he still make a sound?
I’ve got something to say, but no one’s receiving these days
And my fight it is endless
My fight it is hard
I don’t want to fight anymore
You’ve given me something that’s poisoned my eyes forevermore
Open your door
Let me show that there’s more
I’ll give to you something that’s true
‘Cause no one can see me
I’m invisible now to you
If my hope leaves me dead in the water
Will you dive in to rescue me?
If I offer my secrets would you listen to me patiently?
Is it love, is it hate and who will take the bait
And enter this lonely house?
Every night I wonder with whom I will share this doubt
But my heart is an ocean, my mind is a tank
That’s driven by the will to succeed
My heart is a river and that’s why my soul must bleed
So let it bleed
A nation without song
Is a nation that is poor
A nation that’s poorer than me
Let us rejoice
Let us use our voice
To kill
This noise
I recall a young boy
An innocent boy
But he’s lost between life and space
And all that I see
Is a man who doesn’t know who be
Let him be me
Let him be
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7. |
Chameleon
03:18
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Another day
Another way
To hide your face, chameleon
A different shape
You shift your weight
Don’t mean what you say, chameleon
You think you’re fooling everyone
But I can see your colors run, chameleon
You change your name
A new coat of paint
For a slice of fame, chameleon
I spit, you swallow
Don’t lead, just follow
You don’t evolve, chameleon
I can feel your sticky tongue
You twist my words so they feel wrong
Chameleon
Another game
But nothing’s change
You’re still the same, chameleon
A brand new day
A new role to play
You’re acting strange, chameleon
I can feel your sticky tongue
You twist my words so they feel wrong
Chameleon
If you keep crawling on all fours and can’t get up
It’s safe to say that you will never earn my trust
Chameleon, then you’re lost
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8. |
The Inevitable Goodbye
03:25
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That you built from scratch
Eventually becomes
The first and last syllable
Of a word the spells out All the multicolored bricks
That you build around your life
Will eventually become just a big old pile
And that will be
Your inevitable goodbye
Yes, that will be
Your inevitable goodbye
It’s when everything wrong
And that will be
Your inevitable goodbye
Yes, that will be
Your inevitable goodbye
I can’t punch into anymore
Dead duck feather pillows
I can’t open anymore imaginary doors
Cause the openings are closed forevermore
You get the feeling you were wrong
And they were always right
And that’s when you begin to hum that tune that sounds quite like
A goodbye
An inevitable goodbye
Yes, that will be
Your inevitable goodbye
Someone is out there to make you twinkle
To make you come alive
But me and the boys we’re just waiting
For the shit to turn out right
And that will be, be your inevitable goodbye
Yes, that will be, that will be your inevitable goodbye
I’ve had my share of punches, I guess I’m signing out
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It’s when everything starts to taste like burnt tobacco in you mouth
And the need to cuddle up next to a bottle of everything you got
That’s when the alarm goes of
If we survive the virus, the dubious wars and the melting waves will we have won?
Every ambition that you’ve ever had seems to lose it’s meaning when grave danger washes over the world
And I gasp for air as I collaps in a panic attack with the promise to do better tomorrow, be a more loving version of me
Being a textbook dad and a loving husband instead of riding on the back of an vaporizing dream
Is our damnation stupidity? I guess so
The nerves in my face twitch in spasm ‘cause I can’t conceal how worried I am
It is crystal clear that it only takes a drop of poison in the cup to make the chimps go of the rails
Even a wet match could ignite the pale blue dot right now and send it into space
Blown into tiny astroids that go whistling across the universe
I see a white, red and black horse tied to a lamppost outside a night club called “Polyester Paradise” where an overwhelming sound flushes out the windows
It sound like a mixture between a prayer, trap music and pink noise
At the corner of my eye the fashionably late pale horse crosses the city limits
We are treated like straw dogs by our governments
Smeared in dog dick red lipstick and blown away, set on fire, when we’ve completed our task
The pillars of society, the nurses, the daycare takers, the school teacher are fucked over by the men in ill fitted suits
These are the virus and they must see and feel our tears
Tears so heavy and hard that they crush their tiny white hands while they launder our tax money
I can go on and on, I could go on and on
But I’d rather go off the fucking rails, I’d rather go off the fucking rails
We’re coming for you, CEOs
So fuck you and goodnight
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10. |
Star Pharmacy
03:42
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This is for a place were we all used to go
Where our kind could medicate their souls
Around the corner, through the door
Rush down the stairs, looking for more
We’d dance like drones or just hang out
Loose track of time and be obnoxious and loud
In many ways it was a terrible place
A dark room that would steal your days
Star Pharmacy, you wouldn’t let go
Star Pharmacy, you blackened my soul
It’s obvious you were to good to be true
Couldn’t see it then, but know I do
I was the music and the people that went
That lured us down into the lions den
Don’t get me wrong, there were good nights too
But now it seems like they’ve lost their value
Star Pharmacy, you wouldn’t let go
Star Pharmacy, you blackened my soul
It’s obvious you were to good to be true
Couldn’t see it then, but know I do
Star Pharmacy, filled with smoke
Star Pharmacy, when I couldn’t cope
It’s obvious it wasn’t good for you
Just fucked my mind up for a minute or two
And you gotta learn sometimes
You gotta burn your fingers sometimes
My heart would ache, blackout in a haze
And when you go down, go down hard
Things and people got lost
Thinking people paid the cost
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11. |
Thrill
04:18
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Here comes Eve in her birthday suit
She’s got everything planed out and nothing to loose
But the neighbours are complaining about the nudity
‘Cause it doesn’t look as good as it does on tv
Oh man, they only see
What goes on between her chest and her knees
Give me a taste of something real
Give me a chance to tell you how I feel
What we need is a spoonful of truth
To keep the peace, keep the truce
Just give me a sign, uh-yeah
I keep an open line, call me when you feel
Here comes the teenager full of angst
He’s marching on the streets in every foreign land
Look how cute he looks holding his homemade sign
Can’t make out what is says, but I love the design
Oh man, It’s right in front of you
Actually, the warnings signs just went through the roof
I’ll give you a taste of something real
Give me a chance to tell you how I feel
What we need are buckets of truth
To keep the peace, keep the truce
Just give me a sign, uh-yeah
I keep an open line, call me when you feel
And then call comes in
You’ll get your money’s worth
You’ll get your money’s worth
And if my drugs don’t work
You will be reimbursed
I’ll get your monkey back
I’ll put him on your back
I’ll put a dead-eyed rabbit back in your hat
If you still regurgitate on the Internet
While you sit in your underwear on your bed
And refuse to listen to the facts
I guess you still get your fucking money back
I’ll give you a taste of something real
Give me a chance to tell you how I feel
What we need are buckets of truth
To keep the peace, keep the truce
Just give me a sign, uh-yeah
I keep an open line, call it my ordeal
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12. |
Back To Zero
02:52
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You’re just one more push short of a hear tattack
Used to travel the world but the times don’t call for that
There’s hope in your heart, but it’s wearing thin
There’s a leak in your head, where the pain gets in
Nowhere deeper to fall
Heaven missed your call
You’re back to zero
Waiting for a heart attack
Where did the years go?
It’s the biggest cliché
When you feel the decay
You try to changes your ways
Used to talk to the world, but the world don’t call you back
Gotta bag full of tricks, but the kids won’t fall for that
There’s is hope in your heart, but it’s wearing thin
And your words become harsh when no one’s listening
Bang your fist on the door
You though there would be more
You’re back to zero
Waiting for a heart attack
This backstreet hero
Got no numbers to call
You’re starting to stall
When all you gotta do is fall
‘Cause you know that I’m a backstreet robber
Give me something valuable
But I’m no push’n’shover
No backstabbing motherfucker
I’m a fighter and a lover, fought my way up from the gutter
To be with you
And you know there’s a new tune out there
There’s a whole generation just waiting to get into it
And they’re right, goddammit, they are right
So we gotta find that middel ground, we gotta find that mutual sound
Where we speak with one voice
With a higher purpose and that purpose is to deliver
A pinch of happiness every single day
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The Blue Van Copenhagen, Denmark
THE BLUE VAN
Danish beat group founded on new years eve 1996. Still original line up, consisting of Steffen Westmark, Søren Christensen, Allan Villadsen and Per M. Jørgensen
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