Jens Lekman - A Postcard to Nina

Jens Lekman - A Postcard to Nina

Nina I can be your boyfriend
So you can stay with your girlfriend
Your father is a sweet old man
But it is hard for him to understand
That you wanna love a woman

Nina I can be your boyfriend
If it puts an end to all this nonsense
First time I see you in Berlin
And you don't tell me anything
Until outside your dad's apartment

Oh, God! Jesus Christ!
I try to focus on your eyes
We're having dinner with your family now
Keep a steady look at your left eyebrow

If it's raised, it means yes,
If it's not it means take a guess
Hey! You! Stop kicking my legs
I'm doing my best
Can you pass the flakes?

Your father puts on my record
He says: so tell me how you met her
I get a little nervous and change the subject
And put my hand on some metal object
He jokes and tells me it's a liedetector

He takes out the booklet and starts reading
So i heard you're moving out next season
I say: Yeah, New York is nice that time of year
Almost as green as it is here
He says: I thought you were moving to Sweden?

Oh.

Oh, God, what have I done?
I came to Berlin to have some fun
And clock on the wall strikes 4:56
My eyes can't buy a big crucifix
Guess that's why he won't let you go
His catholic heart is big and slow
You know I'll do anything for love
But Nina what were you thinking of?

But Nina I can be your boyfriend
So you can stay with your girlfriend
Your father is mailing me all the time
He says he just wants to say hi
I send back "out of office, auto-replies"

Nina I just want to check in
'Cause I think about you every second
So I send you this postcard just to say
Don't let anyone stand in your way
Yours truly, Jens Lekman

Don't let anyone stand in your way
Don't let anyone stand in your way
Don't let anyone stand in your way
Don't let anyone stand in your way

The Bees - Listening Man

The Bees - Listening Man

Tell me something away from trouble and away from doubting
Tell me straight from the spirit, from the top of the mountain
Let love be the reason between me and you
As real as the morning as fresh as the dew
If fates got a hold then it's up to you
It's a simple thing we've got to do

Just a listening man
Try to understand
Just a listening man
Doing the best I can

Tell me something before I stumble and show my weakness
Tell me right on the limewire fighting for progress
I can hear there's a sound that's coming through
There's a post in the ground, so what we gonna do?
You can have all your dreams if you really believe in something that's... something true

Just a listening man
Try to understand
Just a listening man
Doing the best I can

Just a listening man
Try to understand
Just a listening man
Getting carried through this land

Tell me something without any lies that cover my feelings
Give me time now I understand these lessons have meaning
Let love be the reason between me and you
As real as the morning as fresh as the dew
If fates got a hold then it's up to you
It's a simple things we've go to do

Just a listening man
Try to understand
Just a listening man
Doing the best I can

Just a listening man
Try to understand
Just a listening man
Getting carried through this land

Just a listening man
Doing the best I can
Just a listening man

I'm a listening man
I'm a listening man
I'm a listening man
I'm a listening man

St. Vincent - Paris Is Burning

St. Vincent - Paris Is Burning

I write to give word the war is over
Send my cinders home to mother
They gave me a medal for my valor
Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power, they say

"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is
Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear"

We are waiting on a telegram to give us news of the fall
I am sorry to report dear Paris is burning after all
We have taken to the streets in open rejoice revolting
We are dancing a black waltz fair paris is burning after all

Oh no, oh no

Enclosed in this letter there's a picture
Black and white for your refridgerator
Sticks and stones have made me smarter
It's words that cut me under my armor, they say

"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is,
Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear"

We are waiting on a telegram to give us news of the fall
I am sorry to report dear Paris is burning after all
We have taken to the streets in open rejoice revolting
We are dancing a black waltz fair paris is burning after all

Oh no, oh no

Dance poor people dance and drown
Dance fair Paris to the ground
Dance poor people dance and drown
Dance fair Paris ashes now

Dance poor people dance and drown
Dance fair Paris to the ground
Dance poor people dance and drown
Dance fair Paris ashes now

Dance poor people dance and drown
Dance fair Paris to the ground
Dance poor people dance and drown
Dance fair Paris ashes now

Rufus Wainwright - Matinee Idol

Rufus Wainwright - Matinee Idol

This is the day
The day of the death
The death of the matinee idol

Still so beautiful as the angels
as the angels came down from on high
So sweet and so soft
So charmingly daft
So young was the matinee idol
Lips of crimson slightly open
As the flash and all fame put to rest

Walk, walk along that wall
No it is not from the academy
Walk, walk along that wall

From this moment on you'll cease to be
The undying love of the public eye
And so goes one more
Away from the maze
Away for to sit at the table
Above Babel, far from this world
While standing on the boulevard

But still, whomever has looked at
Looked at beauty is marked out
Is marked out already by death
Still so beautiful as the angels
As the angels came down from on high

The Coral - Who's Gonna Find Me

The Coral - Who's Gonna Find Me

It's six in the morning
And there's no one else around
The mist has fallen
As i look out on the town

It's playing on my mind
Wasting all my time, away

It's too close for tears
And it's too hard to forget
It's too close for tears
I think i thought i said

It's playing on my mind
Wasting all my time, away

Who's gonna find me?
Tell me where i can go?
Who's gonna find me, searching, alone.

The face in the mirror
It's a face i've never met
Until i forgive her i'll remember to forget

It's playing on my mind
Wasting all my time, away

Who's gonna find me?
Tell me where i can go?
Who's gonna find me, searching, alone.

And the hours, they build
From underneath the spell, once again

It's six in the evening
And i'm sweeping up the day
The people beneath them
But i am here to stay

It's playing on my mind
Wasting all my time, away

Who's gonna find me?
Tell me where i can go?
Who's gonna find me, searching, alone.

It's playing on my mind
Wasting all my time, away

The Coral - Dreaming of You

The Coral - Dreaming of You

What's up with my heart when it skips a beat (skips a beat)
Can't feel no pavement right under my feet (under my feet)

Up in my lonely room
When I'm dreaming of you
Oh what can I do (wah oooo)
I still need you, but
I don't want you now

When I'm down and my hands are tied (hands are tied)
I cannot reach a pen for me to draw the line (draw the line)
From this pain I just can't disguise (can't disguise)
Its gonna hurt but I'll have to say goodbye (say goodbye)

Up in my lonely room
When I'm dreaming of you
Oh what can I do (wah oooo)
I still need you, but
I dont want you now

Oh yeah

Ohhh Ohhhhh

Up in my lonely room
When I'm dreaming of you
Oh what can I do (wah oooo)
I still need you, but
I dont want you now

Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog

Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog

Honey, lovin' you is the greatest thing,
I get to be myself and I get to sing,
I get to play at being irresponsible,
I come home late and love your soul,
I never forget you in my prayers,
I never have a bad thing to report.

You're my picture on the wall,
You're my vision in the hall,
You're the one I'm talking to,
When I get in from my work,
You are my girl, and you don't even know it,
I am living out the life of a poet,
I am the jester in the ancient court,
And you're the funny little frog in my throat.

My eye sight's fading, my hearing's dim,
I can't get insured for the state I'm in,
I'm a danger to myself I've been starting fights,
At the party at the club on a Saturday night,
But I don't get disapproving from my girl,
She gets all the highlights wrapped in pearls.

You're my picture on the wall,
You're my vision in the hall,
You're the one I'm talking to,
When I get in from my work,
You are my girl, and you don't even know it,
I am living out the life of a poet,
I am the jester in the ancient court,
And you're the funny little frog in my throat.

I had a conversation with you at night,
It's a little one sided but that's all right,
I tell you in the kitchen about my day,
You sit on the bed in the dark changing places,
With the ghost that was there before you came,
You've come to save my life again.

I don't dare to touch your hand,
I don't dare to think of you,
In a physical way,
And I don't know how you smell,
You are the cover of my magazine,
You're my fashion tip, a living museum,
I'd pay to visit you on rainy Sundays,
And maybe tell you all about it, someday.

Page France - Trampoline

Page France - Trampoline

Hey, hey, hey, you on the trampoline

Trying to see everything

Hey, hey, hey, sweet little Cherubin

Where has your papa been?

You've got the keys to his chariot

And I bet it looks hilarious

To watch it drag the terriers

And all the bugs that fair the earth

Through all the dams and barriers

Turn the vessel upside down

Turn the vessel upside down

Let us swim or let us drown

I am lost but I have found

Burn right through my palms

You burn right through my palms

Hey, hey, hey, you on the trampoline

Up above everything

Hey, hey, hey, sweet little Cherubin

Wanting to be let in

Be careful what you ask for

Because it burns right up your walls

It burns right up your walls

And I bet it looks hilarious

To watch it drag the terriers

And all the bugs that fair the earth

Through all the dams and barriers

Turn the vessel upside down

Turn the vessel upside down

Let us swim or let us drown

I am lost but I have found

Burn right down my walls

You burn right down my walls

You burn right down my walls

You burn right down my walls

The Ditty Bops - Sister Kate

If I could shake it like my sister Kate
Shake it like a bowl of jelly on a plate
My momma wanted to know last night
How sister Kate could do it oh so nice
Now all the boys in the neighborhood
Katie could shimmy ass mighty good
Now it may be late but I'll be up to date
When I can shimmy like my sister Kate
Oh yeah, shake it like my sister Kate

If I could shimmy like my sister Kate
I'd never stay home, stay out too late
I'd get myself about as high as a kite
You know I'd do it for you every night
Now all the boys in the neighborhood
Katie could shimmy ass mighty good
Now I may be late but I'll be up to date
When I can shimmy like my sister Kate
Oh yeah, shake it like my sister Kate

If I could shake it like my sister Kate
Shake it like a bowl of jelly on a plate
My momma wanted to know last night
How sister Kate could do it oh so nice
Now all the boys in the neighborhood
Katie could shimmy ass mighty good
Now it may be late but I'll be up to date
When I can shimmy like my sister Kate
Oh yeah, shake it like my sister Kate
That's right
Shimmy like my sister Kate

Rufus Wainwright - The One You Love

The mind has so many pictures
Why can't I sleep with my eyes open
The mind has so many memories
Can you remember what it looks like when I cry

I'm trying, trying to tell you
All that I can in a sweet and velvet tongue
But no words ever could sell you
Sell you on me after all that I have done

I'm only the one you love
Am I only the one you love?

The Lady Gloom and her hornets circling round
Is now before us, the screaming's done without moving
One little move and for sure you will be stung

I'm singing "Oh, Jerusalem oh, Jerusalem
See what he's picked up in the park"
Let's fuck this awful art party
Want you to make love to me and only to me in the dark

I'm only the one you love
Am I only the one you love?

We've traded in our snap shots
We're going through the motions
Into the view, I'm leaving you
Down Conduit Avenue into the early morning
Into the early morning
The one I love
Are you only the one I love?

Jens Lekman - You Are The Light

Yeah I got busted
So I used my one phone call
To dedicate
A song to you on the radio

Yeah I got busted
In custody
I imagined our melody
Being played on a grand piano

I saw your face in front of me
It was perfect clarity
I saw a light in the end of the tunnel
And it was you

Cause you are the light by which I travel into this and that
You are the light
You are the light by which I travel into this and that

Yeah I got busted
I painted a dirty word on your old mans Mercedes-Benz
Cause he told me to do it

Yeah I got busted
But soon they released me cause the cops were sad
And they didn't know how to prove it
Ooh

I saw your face in front of me
It was perfect clarity
I saw a light in the end of the tunnel
And it was you

Cause you are the light by which I travel into this and that
You are the light
You are the light by which I travel into this and that

It sounds so obvious, so obvious
Why would anyone need a map or a compass?
It's so beautiful
To be guided by you
Cause you are the light

You are the light by which I travel into this and that
You are the light
You are the light by which I travel into this and that
You are the light light light light
You are the light

The Czars - Little Pink House

Lilacs and tiger-lilies
Won't be enough for me when you're gone
Hollyhocks, gladiolas
Could never replace your face

In your little pink house
With the blue polka-dots
I learned what I was
And what I was not
Supposed to be
Supposed to be
Supposed to be
Supposed to be

Bleeding heart, lily-of-the-valley
Snapdragon, rambling rose
You'll never make it in this world
If you're not one of those

In your little pink house
With the blue polka-dots
I learned what I was
And what I was not
Supposed to be
Supposed to be
Supposed to be
Supposed to be

Diadem, orange sensation
Diorama, bell canto
Baby-Lune, and princess too
But you were the one I chose

In your little pink house
With the blue polka-dots
I learned what I was
And what I was not
Supposed to be
Supposed to be
Supposed to be
Supposed to be

Page France - Jesus

I will sing a song to you
And you will shake the ground for me
And the birds and bees and old fruit trees
Will spit out songs like gushing streams
And Jesus will come through the ground so dirty
With worms in his hair and a hand so sturdy
To call us his magic we call him worthy
Jesus came up through the ground do dirty
I will sing a song for to you
And you will stomp your feet for me
And the bears and bees and banana trees
Will play kazoos and tambourines
And Jesus will dance while we drink his wine
With soldiers and thieves and a sword in his side
And we will be joy and we will be right
Jesus will dance while we drink his wine
Jesus will come through the ground so dirty
With worms in his hair and a hand so sturdy
To call us his magic we call him worthy
Jesus came up through the ground so dirty
Jesus came up through the ground so dirty
Jesus came up through the ground so dirty
Jesus came up through the ground so dirty

Psapp - Cosy in the Rocket

Climb, climb into the rocket
And we set the fuse to go, go, go
Head start, cosy in the rocket
And I need to go, to go, go, go
Tip top ready for the sky
And I'm tip top ready to go
Tip top ready for the sky
And I'm tip top ready to go, go, go

Come, come, fly into my palm
And collapse
Oh, oh, suppose you'll never know

Nobody knows where they might end up
Nobody knows
Nobody knows where they might wake up
Nobody knows
Nobody knows where they might end up
Nobody knows
Nobody knows where they might wake up
Nobody knows

Tick tack toe, you're fitting into place
And now the old ways don't seem true
Stick stop blue you're only shifting
In the same old shape you always knew
Tip top ready for the sky
And I'm tip top ready to go
Tip top ready for the sky
And I'm tip top ready to go, go, go

Come, come, fly into my palm
And collapse
Oh, oh, suppose you'll never know

Loney, Dear - I am John

I am John

johnny and I, we got lost tonight,
we got carried away,
i takes someone like me,
to lose track like that,
to be troubled down,
got a heart full of plans but nowhere to run,
there were seventeen dogs out to track us down and
i got some bruises and i got a scar but now,
never gonna let you down,
and i got it wrong like i knew i would and
i told you, never gonna let you down,
i must never let you down,
but i will always let you
and everything must start from here,
in a morning with ease with somewhere to go,
with no sticky feeling of going wrong without the heartbeats
asking where you're gonna go with the trouble you wear,
you want to wear it down,
you want to make something new of this but never gonna make it home,
never gonna make it
someone i want now,
somewhere i want to go,
and i told you,
never gonna let you down,
never gonna let you down,
but I will always let you down.
i said johnny and i, we got lost tonight,
but we doubled our chances we've got somewhere to go,
we've got devils chasing us to hunt us down,
and we know we can't go like this from now,
i've got a feeling of you,
and we danced for so long,
i want your arms around me,
said never gonna let you down,
never gonna let you down,
but i will always let you down
I've got a feeling of you and we danced for so long,
I want your arms around me like lovers do,
and I'm never gonna let you down, never gonna let you down.

Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks

if i told you things i did before
told you how i used to be
would you go along with someone like me
if you knew my story word for word
had all of my history
would you go along with someone like me

i did before and had my share
it didn't lead nowhere
i would go along with someone like you
it doesn't matter what you did
who you were hanging with
we could stick around and see this night through

and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about our own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care about is talking
talking only me and you

usually when things has gone this far
people tend to disappear
now it won't surprise me unless you do

i can tell there's something goin' on
hours seems to disappear
everyone is leaving i'm still with you

it doesn't matter what we do
where we are going to
we can stick around and see this night through

and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about our own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care about is talking
talking only me and you

and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about our own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care about is talking
talking only me and you
(repeat)
talking only me and you

talking only me and you
talking only me and you

Architecture in Helsinki - It'5!

Stranger danger,
Danger stranger,
When you gonna follow through?

The mistake you don't make,
Or the rain cloud covers above your house.
Steal the feelings,
Don't focuse on the flames girl.
Have I failed to impress you?
Could've sworn that wine
And one and four made two,
But it's 5!
It's 5!

Can I ride with you
Until the sunset gets all red?
And we'll get chased by the moon

Hope the passion don't fade
Since you decided he's your spouse.
Wheeling, dealing,
Joking things will change girl.
Have I failed to impress you?
Could've sworn that wine
And one and four made two,
But it's 5!
It is 5!