Det Måste Ha Varit Kärlek / It Must've Been Love

Det kanske var Roxette
‘It mustve been love’
Det kan ha varit en annan låt
men jag är gammal nog att förstå
att jag måste stänga av så fort det går
för annars kan pappa bli ledsen och så
Om jag anstränger mig så mycket jag kan
kan jag kanske förhindra
den här skilsmässan

Det måste vart kärlek
men det är över nu

Men vems föräldrar är inte skilda,
vem har inte gått igenom den där skiten?
Vem har inte gått till skolan med niohundra kilo
betong i ryggsäcken?
Man vill ju inte va den som står där och envist
propagerar för kärnfamiljen
Tänker jag och citerar lite valda fraser ur
Khalil Gibrans “Profeten”

Det kanske va kärlek
men det är över nu

Men det tog mig ändå hårt just då när pappa stod där vid altaret med nån som inte var mamma
När prästen sa ”allt ni gjort i livet har bara varit en väg fram till varandra”
Idiot. så vi och mamma var bara en väg och den här nya kärleken var målet?
Drack en flaska champagne och blev stenpackad innan jag höll det där spontantalet. 
Sa hoppas du inte skiljer dig som sist
För det vore ju ändå bara för trist

Det måste vart kärlek
men det är över nu


It might’ve been Roxette’s ‘It Must’ve Been Love’
It might’ve been a different song
but I’m old enough to understand
that I have to turn it off as fast as I can
Cause otherwise my dad might get sad
If I try as hard as I can
I might be able to prevent this divorce

It must’ve been love
but it’s over now

But whose parents are not divorced?
Who hasn’t gone through that shit?
Who hasn’t gone to school with
900 kg of concrete in their backback?
You don’t want to be the one who stands there
propagating for the nuclear family
I think to myself while quoting selected phrases
from Khalil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’.

It might’ve been love
but it’s over now

But it did hit me hard when dad stood there
at the altar with somebody who wasn’t mom
When the priest said “everything you’ve done in life
has just been a path leading up to each other”
Idiot!
So we and mom were just a path and this new love
was the goal?
Drank a bottle champagne and got superdrunk
before I held that spontaneous speech
I said “I hope you don’t get divorced like last time
because that would just be too sad”

It must’ve been love
but it’s over now

(Jens Lekman)

Lionsong

maybe he will come out of this
maybe he won't
somehow i'm not too bothered
either way
maybe he will come out of this loving me
maybe he will come out of this
i smell declarations of solitude
maybe he will come out of this

vietnam vet comes after the war
lands in my house
this wild lion doesn't fit in this chair

maybe he will come out of this loving me
maybe he won't
i'm not taming no animal
maybe he will come out of this
once it was simple
one feeling at a time
it reached its peak then transformed
these abstract complex feelings
i just don't know
how to handle them

should i throw oil
on one of his moods
but which one
make the joy peak
humour peak
frustration peak
anything peak
for clarity

maybe he will come out of this loving me
maybe he won't
i'm not taming no animal
maybe he will come out of this
maybe he will come out of this
maybe he won't
somehow i'm not too bothered
either way

i refuse its sign of maturity
to be stuck in complexity

i demand clarity
either way

maybe he will come out of this
somehow i'm not too bothered
i'd just like to know

(Björk)

Fall Asleep

Fall asleep
And slip away
What night will keep
From light of day-
Sailing cloud
And drifting wave
My dreams allow
The right of way

Something I’ll even dare to know
Let that be my name
Open like I’m alone
Empty my eyes
From stories I’m in
Brake me from being myself
Day so cruel
And night so fair
The tales I knew
Are true somewhere

(Rodrigo Amarante)

Um Antigo Assombro

(Sétima Legião)

Life Story

(Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm)

A Natural Disaster

It's been a long cold winter without you
I've been crying on the inside over you
Just slipped through my fingers as life turned away
It's been a long cold winter since that day

It's hard to find
Hard to find
Hard to find the strength now but I try
And I don't want to
Don't want to
Don't want to go on and speak now
Of what's gone by
Cos no matter what I say
No matter what I do
I can't change what happened
No matter what I say
No matter what I do
I can't change what happened

You just slipped through my fingers
And I feel so ashamed
You just slipped through my fingers
And I have paid

Cos no matter what I say
No matter what I do
I cant change what happened
No matter what I say
No matter what I do
I cant change what happened
No no I can't change

Just slipped through my fingers
And I feel so ashamed
You just slipped through my fingers
And I have paid.

(Anathema)