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Sandwich Babies
02:29
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there was a fire in the building next to mine
the day Lou Reed died
there was smoke coming out of a window
there were five fire trucks
and two police cars
and one ambulance
there was a crowd outside a building on fire
they all lived in there
and they were relieved when the fire went out
so fast it nearly ever began
and there were children among them
they looked like sandwiches
'cause it was cold and they were wearing
tons of blankets
sandwich babies
sandwich babies
sandwich babies
sandwich babies
and there were people smoking cigarettes
see an apartment on fire and light a fire on your cigarette
makes sense
I guess
I saw my dad smoke a cigarette once when I was a kid
it was so traumatic
it was a typical Swedish summer night
when mosquitos are flying wild
I said ”smoking kills, why do you smoke
I thought you didn't, dad?”
he said ”I'm just trying to scare those mosquitos away
they don't like smoke!”
maybe the parents of the sandwich babies could tell them that
the reason why their building was on fire
was to chase the mosquitos away
maybe it could be a new Santa Claus lie
to make it less traumatic
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Sad Antennas
03:38
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Girl with a camera phone is filming her friend
daydreaming in the crowd
tells her to say something she says "oh, I thought you were taking a photograph" while some ultra-violet sunbeams land in their scoops of rum-raisin ice cream
either I wasn't paying attention or I wasn't there
when they decided for me
it all passed over my head and when I went to see the monument
it was already too heavy like a
weight I could not lift or see through
but it would have been nice to
pretty soon they're sad antennas
stuck in a public place
like suns that ought to go down
to make way
for everyone else
it was summertime with all that it's supposed to mean
I got a guided tour
of the student town, the church, the botanical garden and then
as we drove out to a house where Carl Von Linné used to live
for a while
all those flowers were antennas
spreading their pollen out over the fields
the raisins too, they were drowning in a pool
of what used to be ice cream
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Hundreds of Love Songs
02:08
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since I met you I've been unable to write
anything but love songs
it's a pity I suppose cause variation is important, but
love is also
I read somewhere that one should sing and write about
own experiences
and if you are what I feel and think about more
than anything, do I even have choice?
feels like a cliché and I've never liked them
they are boring and dorky
but not in a good way
in a carpe diem tattoo way
in a bad eurovision song way
that kind of cliché
but love is a cliché as well
and I want it anyway
so how can I write about justice and trees
when your body is kissable
so very kissable
childhood dreams, favorite books
all of it fades away
when your mind is lovable
so very lovable
how can I ignore that you deserve hundreds of love songs?
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna write you
hundreds of love songs
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna write you
hundreds of love songs
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Homesick in Love
04:28
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homesick in love
even when she's there it can be bittersweet
homesick and trying to reach
out of reach
in under the wallpaper and out of reach
and our apartment is marked
by a former resident, yes he or she
who carved two pairs of initials
into a model of a childhood town
handmade from memory
it covers most of the floors
so in the morning I
have to watch out where I step
I navigate carefully
and end up brushing my teeth
on a hill in between
the supermarket and the fields that reach
out of reach
in under the wallpaper
and out of reach
out of reach
out of reach
out of reach
if I were a field and saw her in the passenger seat
of a passing car
I would wave my straws
I would wave my straws
I would wave my straws
I would wave my straws
I can make a model of my own
try to show my heart in it and she can look in and see
how I screw up the proportions
build dead end streets no
I've never been all that practical but it's hard to be
when you're homesick like me
homesick in love
homesick in love
homesick in love
homesick in love
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They Are Everywhere
03:32
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here's a thing that's pretty cool
I should tell people more often
me and my siblings are the tenth generation
living on the farm
Mårtensson property
since seventeenth century
usually when there are several generations living in one place
it's rich people or royal families
but my ancestors were
farmers and peasants
they were never rich
but they were as rich as they needed to be
although,
there is a story about a grandfather's grandfather of mine
who sold a cow for too little money and hung himself
in the trees next to the barn
I used to play hide and seek there with my sister
until someone told us the story
it's fascinating to think about all
that has happened and died in that house
once my father said ”did you know,
my grandmother died in the very spot, you're sitting at now”
they are everywhere, they are everywhere
they are everywhere, the ghosts are everywhere
when I came to Berlin
I thought a lot about how many people died here
probably at least one in every square meter
cause there were wars and heart diseases
cancer, child birth, suicide
and on the ground are golden plates
with names of people who were sent to Auschwitz
they are everywhere, they are everywhere
they are everywhere, they are everywhere
they are everywhere, they are everywhere
they are everywhere
they were not my ancestors
but they were here
they were here
they were there
they were everywhere
I am here
I am there
I am everywhere
and when I'm lying under ground
I'll be everywhere
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there's a bottle of fear next to every kidney
including the beans
(just kidding about the beans)
sometimes it breaks and fear spreads with the blood
it can easily ruin a day
I am afraid of bees and roller coasters
I am afraid of horses
and deep water, fire, old food in the sink
sometimes I'm afraid of everything
there's a pillow made of courage in every belly
including the jelly belly
(just kidding about the jelly)
that pillow can make people do things
they never believed themselves capable of
it will make me go on a roller coaster, even though
it's the scariest thing I know
and afterwards when I throw up because I'm so dizzy
I will feel proud and disgusted and terrified in the same time
I will love you if you do
(go on a roller coaster)
and I will love you if you don't
but going to an amusement park
would be more fun if you did
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Dry Shampoo
02:00
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sometimes I feel
like a dolphin who feels
like a talkshow host feels
when he's not on tv
I come up to the surface looking for applaud signs little lights in the waves on the water
and the things I do
are dry shampoo
wasting candy while waiting for a movie to start
I breath into a new sweater and it smells like a book
and the doors open up, and the people are like a stream
of shimmering dolphins
but I'm an arrow through glass
I let another caramel break on my teeth like a seashell breaks on a rock
and the things I chew
are dry shampoo
it's harder to change than you think, and when you think you do
it's dry shampoo
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Happy Karaoke Birthday
02:02
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I am standing on a karaoke stage
singing Fidelity
feeling pretty good
because everyone is dancing
suddenly I see a man making gestures
when I read his lips it looks like
”STOP IT”
and he points a middle finger
up in the air
I didn't know what it meant in middle school
but everyone else seemed to know
I'm turning twenty today, so
now I know
and I wonder
am I bad, should I stop singing?
am I sad, should I get off the stage?
but this is karaoke
and everyone can sing here
even those who can't really sing
so why is he saying fuck you to me?
it takes some guts to get on this stage
I wish he would disturb
someone with better self esteem
someone who will
shake that finger off as if it were dust
I guess I will shake that finger off
as if it were dust
and I will keep singing
until the song is done
then I will come back
because the stage is mine
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The Softest Pear
03:56
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I was trying to look away but couldn't see
further than here, I watched my eyelids make believe
that I could look
as far as to Gran Canaria
where I taught you the breaststroke,
stroke by stroke
you in your chloriny salty hair
you looked alright from in my Baden-Baden chair
helpless and pretty beautiful
you were the softest pear
I put you back like that in there
love's a sneaky weekend when it breaks
in through your bedroom window friday morning and it makes
you think you can go in
with your head already sparkling
my appetite was just as big
as what I thought you could give
and I've been close to a lot of people on the subway
but never as close as I was to you on that day
the first I saw of you
was your back from the seat behind
I was breathing down your neck
and you couldn't look back
helpless and pretty beautiful
you were the softest pear
I put you back like that in there
I put you back in there
the street's all emptied out and there's a summer night
going on and so it's like being inside of a private room
you can look up and see the same atlantic sky
that almost made a spanish puppy want to cry
from my Baden-Baden chair
you looked like the softest pear
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oh the silence in my ice cream shop on rainy days
is killing me
oh the number of people wanting to buy ice cream
on sunny days
is killing me
oh the youth in her face
when she tried to tie her shoe laces
the sadness in her voice
when she spoke about her grandparents
the scent of her hair
strawberry
she never wanted to go to bed
but when she did I held her hand
and sang a bunch of lullabies
goodnight
sleep tight
oh the whiteness in my spring shoes
and the stains too
from summer last year
from the Gothenburg clubs
from the way to my job
taking care of men and women
of age
and one of them said
”the youth in your eyes
it shines through, I envy you
and don't forget to be honest
'cause honesty is super important
I see you only wear bright colours
well, I do too”
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When Linnea Met Linus
02:04
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I was only seventeen when I first saw you
walking 'round the school looking cool
you were super tall sometimes I only saw your head
my favorite days were the ones when you wore that green shirt
when I saw you with a guitar case on your back
love struck
like a lightning
and we had a long distance relationship
for a year
(but I was unaware of it)
we had a long distance relationship
we lived in the same town
but not in the same state of mind
cause you didn't know who I was
you didn't know I wrote in my diary about you a lot
you didn't know I was internet stalking you
and that talking to you was on top of my list of fears
in your dreams we were kissing
in your life I was missing
and I wrote,
this love it's not valid
it's just like when we were twelve
and had pictures of Leonardo Dicaprio on the wall
and I wrote,
this love it's not valid
it's just a stupid teen crush without meaning
but I came to my senses after a long time
I thought,
I should do something drastic
and see what happens
but before I did that,
we had a long distance relationship
for a year
(but I was unaware of it)
we had a long distance relationship
in my mind
(I was unaware of it)
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