Sondre Lerche Album

When there is light from up above
then there will come a sacred dove
to the basement, to the basement

When there is fear you won't have to cry
napkins are here, they'll dry your eyes
and blind them, and blind them

They will come to your home
When they are here
faces down

When there is greed taking control
moving the bricks and starving the older people
oh, people

if you seek shelter from your past
they'll come to point their fingers where you cast your shadow
cast your shadow

They will come to your home
When they are here
faces down

But you
have been fooled
You knew the rules
by heart
There is
no guarantee
against infamy
out there

When there is trouble on the road
dead passengers will guide you home
they will lead you
if they can just feed you

They will come to your home
When they are here

Use every chance you've been given
She replied after several days
It's no good to be perfect
You know so well things are easy to tell
There is one thing I know
It goes like this
It's that when I'm down and out, it's you I miss

I have told you this before
And my transparent mind
Won't cover see-through hearts
I'll be straight with you now
Now I'm not what you want
Just like the rest
And you feel like you're subject to a test
But if there's one thing I know it's this
When I lose my sleep it's you I miss

You sleep all night
You know you lie awake
Tell me, yeah
And time is running out
And you know so well
It may never be

Use every chance you've been given
She is told, but it doesn't make her smile
She has no need to be perfect
She knows too well
Things are easy to tell
I have said what I thought you should know
But you never seem to recognize my face

I am but a fool to play unaware of things
If I treasured the truth, I would tell it to you?
I come around each time your notes are high
To tear you down and drag you up
to let you know what's going on

Sleep on needles
you'll believe you are hard
Sleep on needles

I heard him yell something
It shouldn't be this bad
He's spitting as he says "hi"

The time is here for being straight
It's not too early and never too late
People say I should watch my pace (What do they know?)
"Think how you spend all your days" (They all say so)
They'll just have to wait and see (Wait and see)
If things go right they'll have to agree

Oh, what a world this life would be
Forget all your technicolour dreams
Forget modern nature

Summer killed the ones you loved
I hesitate and tell you
When people leave without goodbye
I lose another brick
The buildings are tall
the world explains all
and here I stand and face myself:
I lead the way for us

I've frozen down my memory
It's morning when she gets up
She puts on Lionel Ritchie
I've already had enough
The queues are long
Guess I am wrong
This chemical environment is getting out of hand

Virtue and wine cannot help you swim
Pain and sorrow must come
if you go

It's the chemistry and the things we should'nt do
I am nothing without you

I've come to know the reasons
I've come to realize the truth
Cause though I leave her waiting
she knows I'll turn against myself again

But nothing stays the same
I stand in my own way
I hear you called again

Down in the valley you're close to the sun
but we're heading closer as close as can come
so you said 'you have to put some truth into your words'

Down in the valley, inside your mansion
you won't have to speak to express what you feel
but I said; 'you know how it feels but not what to do'

It doesn't make sense how you can leave the ground
and enter the sky and stay there too

Down in the valley: a myriad of fools
and sometimes they invite you to do what you do,
and these fools share my opinion that flying is crazy too

Down in the valley a choice has been made
a new reputation, it sleeps in your bed
like you said: it never was better than how it was

I know what to say when things fall apart
Now that they grow I'm talking in the dark

You can just call
I will pretend not to care
You'll pretend all
and I'll pretend you called

But no one's gonna come
tell you how it's done
tell you how it feels
'till you come down
It doesn't work by itself

They were seen hi-jacking someone's car
they drove far away
and it's in the news, the papers too
it's all around

They came here to steal the things they lack:
computer equipment and chemical stuff
cause we have have enough
we give it away

It's this simple: you believe someone gives and you receive
but somewhere along the way all luck ran out again

Now they live in nevernever-land
claiming they're tourists
They light up the crowd
and don't talk too loud

The problems are:
I have no bags to pack
no suitcase waiting in the hall
You have no make-up
no stockings in my drawer

Once I believed we could approach this

is it all make believe?
is it all make believe?
dont abuse the trust i place in you
if i should bend and brake
force me to walk and wait
no one will wait for you
cause you never ask them to
if the moment you got caught
you'd stop and see its enough
even you are not complete
ba bo bum ba
ba bo bum
ba bum

is it all make believe
tell me now make believe
***I'm attentive playing you other pegs
if i should stop to breathe
just to get over it
i wouldnt wait for you
cause you never ask me to
if a moment you got caught
deny and reveal your lies
even you are not complete

for a moment just retreat
tonight you lie down defeat
even you are not complete

ba bo bum ba
ba bo bum
ba bum
ba bo bum ba
ba bo bum
ba bum
ba bo bum ba
ba bo bum
ba bum
ba bo bum ba
ba bo bum
ba bum
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forcing my way out of sleep
i inhale the smell of spring and greens
and bucket loads of bees
migrain's been all of over me
the softest meddow would've cracked my head
i'm easly mislead
and you're standing in my way
so give yourself a pair of hands today
my words to you are fake
now you are my mistake
and i am yours
don't be shallow
don't be cheap
she prays for you
to grow up
patiently
don't be selffish
nor unmanaged
you're all i want
and nothing more
but thats not good enough
no no thats not good enough
trouble at the hardware store
a funky foreign bodies interfere
we like you don't come near
but all that seems a waste of time
when you are said to take the final test
in the solemn quest
she'll tell you to stand and watch
the violent fields of praise so much
their ears are falling from the sky
where most of them now hide
and i am yours
don't be shallow
don't be cheap
she prays for you to grow up
patiently
don't be selffish
nor unmanaged
you're all i want and nothing more
but that's not good enough
no no that's not good enough
she'll tell you to stand and watch
the violent fields of praise so much
their ears are falling from the sky
where most of them now hide
and i am yours
don't be shallow
don't be cheap
she prays for you to grow up
patiently
don't be selffish
nor unmanaged
you're all i want and nothing more
but that's not good enough
no no that's not good enough