Look & Listen

Obnoxiously Talented

Obnoxiously talented,
and ready to die
Abandon your dreams now
and forever wonder why

Like something fallen from the sky,
just enough to get you by
Don’t even bother don’t even try
oh I’ll come around and I’ll make you cry

Giving up’s too easy and you know it
You’ll need a better reason when you finally blow it

Inside you laughter like a scream
a violent death in your wildest dream
I don’t even find it that extreme, now
with everything going on
What on Earth could go wrong?
We’ll have our chance and then it’s gone
Not always easy just holding on
When you dream, I dream along

Triumph will be fleeting and you know it
If you’re up for the fight then get ready to show it

They’ll praise your efforts, they’ll call you slurs
a rebel, a master, an amateur
Merely with your own existence
you already offer your resistance

Oh I know it’s a rotten deal,
and I know just how you feel
Don’t turn around, I’ll take the wheel
it’s not a dream if we make it real

Don’t die with sigh
Let’s go with a battle cry
Heaven forbid you’d ever give in
We still have a world to win
A world to win

Sweet Smell of Success

If you need a second chance, here’s your shot See this beautiful mess it’s all I’ve got Couldn’t get any better I guess The sweet smell of success couldn’t get any better I guess In some quiet town young and promising Didn’t keep any promise at all Your friends all loved the clown Glad I made you laugh with a joke that I can’t recall The sweet smell of success couldn’t get any better I guess The sweet smell of success couldn’t get any better I guess Of all my little lies, this is my favourite life At home when we’re retired we’ll finally get to cry Of all my little lies, this is my favourite life At home when we’re retired we’ll finally get to cry Couldn’t get any better I guess couldn’t get any better I guess couldn’t get any better I guess Alone at some old show I’m not letting go I’ve got no baby at home I’m not finished Couldn’t get any better I guess couldn’t get any better I guess The sweet smell of success The sweet smell of success (Always expecting it, but never dressed for it Never respected it but won’t admit to it) The sweet smell of success

Pompeii

Dead town,
was already empty but now it’s locking down
but you and I can still go ride around
We’ll ride that ring like it’s just been found

How are you gonna spend your lonely night?
How are you gonna spend your only life?
When I’m in your embrace
I can hardly describe how much I love that place

I wish we could stay, forever this way
Just like Pompeii

That fateful sun is just going down
Just like the disaster before we’re drowned
Did they feel this way that night in Pompeii?

The deepest desire I can’t explain
If it wasn’t for love then it’s all in vain
Did they feel this way that night in Pompeii?

When you finally say you’re gonna set me free
I know I can’t give you what you need

I’ve been chasing that sunset my whole life
I know I never make it there in time
but sometimes you just gotta try…
I’d say I love you but I catch my breath
cause whatever I love I always love to death

Can’t believe that when we said goodbye
we were saving all our money for the afterlife
We said our Love you’s just the other night
but now you’re saving all your loving for your future wife

(Come on, bello!)

Pompeii
Like the love in your eyes right before love dies
Pompeii
I believe in signs, are you reading mine?
Pompeii
That’s when I realise, we’re immortalised

Pompeii

Absolute Power

It’s me,
vs. the Black hole at the centre of the Galaxy
Who we are vs. Who we’d like to be
Get ready for the Fight of the Century

Come on and get excited
Everyone’s invited
It gets closer by the hour
Here we go,
Absolute Power

Throw your dice and cast your spells
Hoping everything will turn out well
But the fight is always fixed
and the results remain the same
You know you can’t win
trying to beat them at their own game

Alone at last, without a future without a past
Full of freedom in its vacancy
Get ready for the Fight of the Century

Come on and get excited
Everyone’s invited
It gets closer by the hour
Here we go,
Absolute Power

Every Night Is New

…It was a late Capitalist night
and I was feeling alright
It was in pre-Apocalypse times
and I was living a good life
I’ve studied the clouds for 30 years now
and I know nothing
That night I got ready to leave the house
See a friend for a change and just talk about
something
I don’t care if the world is through
Every night is new

I was filling all the blanks of the night sky
I’ve read the books, I saw the films they made me see and
I went to schools that taught me things I don’t believe in
Don’t be so grateful for the drugs they legalize
I can see the sadness there in your faraway eyes
They’re just filling all the blanks of the night sky

Hey moon, have a nice life!
I never lost faith in you
Every night is new

Days of Dust

If it’s over now, maybe now i’m finally free
If it’s over now, maybe now it’s letting me be

Marie Curie don’t believe in text book tragedy
I stepped on the lawn of some forbidden dawn
and declared myself so free

In the days of dust, I’m falling
just like it’s all over now
Days of dust, night calling
just like it’s all over now

Nothings what I’d expect to be
If I just wasted time
At least while I had it
was mine

If it’s over now
If it’s over now

You know the moment when you walk out the door:
If you turn around (turn around!)
and your prison ain’t there anymore

It felt like 20 years ago today
but still I can’’t forget
I packed all my things and I went away
lighter than a cigarette

In the days of dust
In the days of dust

…and like I had just been saved
from a burning building of desire
I got back up and I ran right into the fire

In the days of dust, it’s over now
In the days of dust, it’s over now

If it’s over now
then maybe it was meant to be
then maybe it was meant to be

A Slice of Lemon

Look into my melting eyes ice
Can’t you see it melts for you?
The messages were mixed
and were polarized
I adore everything you do

A slice of lemon
The pride of heaven
So obvious to everyone but me
so ominous to everyone who could see
So why can’t you see me?

Look into my watery eyes ice
with all the tears I shed for you
The disappointment of the future
and I’m mystified;
sounds like something I would do

Sitting on a plane sipping on a drink
flying over Greenland now I think
I used to be so proud, how much I got around
but now I see it differently
I look into your eyes ice
and I see what you see:

A slice of lemon
The pride of heaven

So obvious to everyone but me
so ominous to everyone but me
So why can’t I see me?

Look into my eyes ice
Look into my eyes ice

Serious Flowers

I can’t believe it’s real
and there’s no other way around
Getting used to this new feeling
will turn your life around

I can forget, I’ll forgive your regrets
If breaking my pride
was all i ever needed
Time, was all I ever needed

What am I supposed to say
when everything just sounds so cruel?
Driving you away
the friend I thought I saw in you

I can’t pretend that losing a friend
ain’t aching inside
Time, all I ever needed
All I ever needed

I can forget and I’ll forgive your regrets
Breaking my pride
all i ever needed
Time, all i ever needed

It’s alright if leaving
gives you what you needed
It’s alright
but now it’s all I got

I can’t pretend, facing the end
ain’t aching inside
All i ever needed
as if, time was all I ever needed
Time, was all i ever needed
All i ever needed

Gun Control

Streets are crowded but life is so vacant
there’s nowhere to go
Stepped outside in the light but couldn’t take it
there’s nothing to know

You gotta wait it out
but it’ll take some time
Be good to yourself
and then clear your mind
When all of this is far behind,
long ago

Every time you show me your soul
I only ever stare at the bullet holes
Remembering the times when you lost control
still sitting in your seat when the credits roll
Gun control

Could get out if you had a car,
drive up to the coast
Instead of hanging round the same old bars
and feel like a smoking ghost

Like you wanted to die
but you didn’t want to
Like you wanted to try
but then pushed it through

Remembering all the love we felt,
you’re the reason I wear a safety belt

Every time you show me your soul
I only ever stare at the bullet holes
Remembering the times when you lost control
still sitting in your seat when the credits roll
Gun control

(Why not listen to the youth when you need them?
Why resist to see the future when you see it?
When you know the past is already gone and it’s already done
Now put your faith in the young!)

About Somebody

Damn, I think about you all the time
And I said damn, I wish I could make you mine
But you don’t need to be “somebody’s”
cause you’re already somebody
No need to be somebody’s
because you’re already somebody

Damn, I look into your big blue eyes
and I said damn, if I were a millionaire I’d buy all your lies
Babe I wanna party with you every night
and have a hard-on for the rest of my life
Baby when we’re dancing and you’re making me smile
you make the trouble all seem worth while
You don’t need to be somebody’s
cause you’re already somebody
Somebody

Damn, I thought you were gonna be my man
and I said damn, If you can’t love me maybe nobody can
But I don’t need to be somebody’s
because I’m already somebody
Don’t need to be somebody’s
because I’m already somebody
I’m somebody
Somebody

Not Today Satan

Here we are, not knowing what’s awaiting
trying to clear our hearts of fear
Sure it’s easy to sit around hating
Instead of pulling your loved ones near

When in doubt, do the brave thing
And tell, all the devils no chance in hell

What are they doing all day in LA?
I long for the day when we arrive and get to stay
Keep away from shallow junk
Baby went to LA and all I got was drunk

Not today Satan
Not today

It can’t be bought the things they sell
Milton Friedman burn in hell
Don’t be sad but do get mad
At all the small men who act so tall
In the end they always fall

Baby, what you doing tonight?
(Except just running around in my mind)
While we’re screwing tonight,
There ain’t no sin in giving in to love
That’s just how we’re winning the fight

Not today Satan
Not Today Satan
See you tomorrow Satan

Money Never Dreams

Money never sleeps
Money never dreams
Money never wakes you up
And says you’re good enough
You’ll see
Money doesn’t care about you
Always going somewhere,
Without you
(Hey Money, come back!)

Money doesn’t spend it’s life
Money only spends the night
You keep waking up a mess
But money’s already dressed

Old surprise, the wolf puts on a new disguise
Knowing in your sleep,
no one’s gonna hear you scream

Let’s go back to the beginning:
Money had a tough childhood
Somewhere in Hollywood
Money never went to school
Cause money doesn’t follow the rules

Money doesn’t stand around in the rain
Money pours another glass of champagne
(You guys wanna hang out?)

Old surprise, the wolf puts on a new disguise
Knowing in your sleep,
no one’s gonna hear you scream

Only tell me your dreams if I’m in them
Only tell me your schemes if we’d win them
Holding on to something that’s already gone
Money never dreams
Money never dreams

Let’s Talk About Privleges

(Lyrics on screen)

Song taken from upcoming album IMAGINATIONS out 2017

Happyness

It may happen in your life,
that you find a word that can describe
all the rooms that I have lived in,
all the lives that I’ve walked through
Every face, every dream, every view

Amigoless, otra vez
but something in that freedom
feels like happiness

I was always so embarrassed about what I wrote,
but deep inside there was always a little hope
that someone’s gonna find my notes

You promised me you’d show me where you live,
but boy was I disappointed once you did
My heart just got more crowded than my bed,
as we decided to be just friends instead

Dear diary, you won’t believe
the desire vs. destiny…
In every place, every me every you

My Body

I love my body like nobody could ever love anybody
I love my body like nobody could ever love anybody

I love my body cause it’s mine
but I didn’t always love it all the time
It’s as good as any body you would find
It fights for me and it nurtures my mind

I had a dream that changed my life
or maybe life changed what I dreamed of
It’s the only thing that keeps me alive
now that’s what I call love

I love my body like nobody could ever love anybody
I love my body like nobody could ever love it
cause it’s MINE

1995

Windows 95, you’re long gone but I’m still alive
I’ve gone so far, not even knowing how
I suppose the world is so much smaller now

The plans that you made,
when you still had the time
I’ve saved all the things
that you left behind
but by now I guess I’d consider them all mine

Windows 95,
is only a metaphor for what I feel inside
Although I’m older now,
there’s still an emptiness
that’s never letting go somehow

Have you ever walked into what seemed,
to be somebody else’s dream?
And though the time won’t let you pass,
it keeps you looking through the glass

1995,
they call the year the future was to arrive
But back in ’95
we thought we were standing on the threshold
to the end of time
(And we still do)
So what’s wrong with living in the past?
It just happens to be the place I saw you last
And what’s wrong with living in a dream?
That one day the echo answers,
deep inside of me

I’ll remember 1995
I’ll remember 1995

Lovers Are Losers

I saw a late night movie on TV
and it felt just like it was about you and me
And since it was me and you,
it didn’t watch it till the end
cause I didn’t want it to

Lovers are losers
Losers, lovers are losers

I watch the sports then the news,
confuse the lingo that they use
Cause winning’s not why were playing
that’s the kinda neo-liberal bullshit
that they’re saying “losers”

Lovers are losers
Losers, lovers are losers

A strike for the right kind of battles
if we choose, it’ll feel like we win
overtime that we lose
And I don’t know what the care is,
we’re all fucking losers from Miami to Paris

Losers,
Lovers are losers
Lovers are losers

Ugly Girl

I recall you saying you believe
we will all be born again
But boy, let me tell you
you won’t be this lucky then
If there’s any justice left in the world
in your next life you’ll get what you deserve
if there’s any justice left in the world,
in you next life you’re gonna be an ugly girl

When you tell me beauty comes from within
it’s the most stupid thing I ever heard
cause let me tell you you’ll still be an asshole
even if we redefine the word
When all bridges are burned, and no cheeks left to turn
like the tables are gonna one day
In your next life, in your next life or the life after that
you’re gonna be an ugly girl
In the life after this or the life after that

If I ruled the world, I’d make all boys girls
If I ruled the world, I’d make all boys girls
at least a day or two
if there’s any justice left in the world,
you’ll be the ugliest girl in the world

Blue Dollar

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Summer Cats

We are Summer Cats
We know nothing lasts
We walk at great heights
and we fall all through the night
and there goes another life

We are Summer Cats
Summer never seems to last
There goes another year,
I heard the cats around here only have 7 lives

We are Summer Cats
We know nothing lasts
But we’re always landing on our feet
on someones sofa or the streets

We are Summer Cats
Summer never seems to last
There goes another night
and there goes another life

We are Summer Cats
We know nothing lasts

The Power Ballad

Bless the poets in their graves
who say we’re all gonna be saved
In the most unpredictable way
On the most predictable day

Who loves a sceptic?
And who do skeptics love?
Who won’t surrender to the mysteries above
we were all born to be
so dangerously free

The Power of Love
vs. the Love of Power

Don’t wanna grow in their gardens
I wanna be the weed beyond the fence
I wanna live outside the frame
with no name in my defense
Fame, only makes you inhumane
Look at the kings all gone insane
I only wanna be rich
if everyone in the whole world is

The Power of Love
vs. the Love of Power

I’d rather wear shirts with broken seams
than to wear their hand-me-down dreams
Fashion only lasts a little while
but an open mind is always in style
You gotta be brave to be so afraid
I feel like I win every time I fail

The Power of Love
vs. the Love of Power

Going Places

Yesterday we drove to the other side of town
but most night we’re only riding around
We talk about the holidays we never take
and it seems like we’re always on the make
I know we’ve gone through phases
but we’re always going places
I know we’re going places

I always had the feeling my life would be magic
I guess everybody feels that way
When life is sublime like the other night
It just seems so hard to die
I only feel alive when it stings me a little inside
We’re going places tonight
We’re going places all the time
We’re going places in our minds
We’re going places all the time

Our dreams were always to big to fit in one night
so we have to dream with our eyes open wide
When you’re dreams come true they abandon you
until you find some new
We’re going places tonight
We’re going places all the time
We’re going places in our minds
We’re going places all the time

Dear Life

Dear Life,
I would never call you a bitch
All my miseries have made me rich
Dear Life, you know I love you secretly
even when you’re talking dirty to me
And I’m not only saying this cause I’m drunk
(though I am) I should tell you more often
if I think that I can
I really mean it, I really mean it
I really really mean it tonight

Take me through these avenues and boulevards
my rushing blood is a racing car tonight
I felt so high on life
These endless streets, my tired feet
are gonna get us far from wherever we are tonight
it felt so close tonight

Dear Life,
you felt so close tonight

From the airplane window the cities far below
look like glowing vomits in the snow
These sails will bring me where the wind is gonna blow
where we’ll go don’t tell me cause I don’t wanna know

Dear Life,
you felt so close tonight

I Hope You Die

Baby, sometimes I don’t understand you
You’re the abstract art in my Modern Museum
Baby, sometimes we fall apart
but the ruins of my heart stand like the Colosseum
I hope you die, by my side
the two of us at the exact same time
I hope we die, long from now
the two of us at the exact same time

Maybe it’s all beyond control but baby you can have my soul
I hope you die, by my side
Maybe it’s all ages away but I can’t help but think of the day
I hope we die at the exact same time

Baby, your lungs are bigger than a football field
I’m the hooligan of your heart
sometimes we win and sometimes we lose our dreams
but I‘ll always wear the colours of your team

Baby, you’re the coolest moon when the nights begun
I’m a goth in the sun and we can sleep through the summer days
I know you think I’m morbid when i say
I hope you die, by my side
the two of us at the exact same time
I hope we die, long from now
the two of us at the exact same time

Hotel Home

Hotel Home, you’re never on your own
All the seeds we’ve sown,
all the chances that we’ve blown
Our knives are never dull,
our moon is always full
I could have gone the other way,
but now I’m here and I want to stay
I’m never too far like the stars all are,
I’m never too nigh, I’m a satellite
The world will find me when the time is ripe,
I’m never at home so call on Skype

Lead-blue hearts in the cities of steal,
I don’t care if nothing of this was ever real
The promises she breaks,
when fate makes mistakes
What would have been nobody knows,
but that’s the way the story goes

Hotel Home, you’re never on your own
All the seeds we’ve sown,
all the chances that we’ve blown

The Closest We’ll Ever Get To Heaven

The closest we’ll ever get to heaven
with a stolen six-pack from 7-eleven
And though this city sleeps,
I bet she never dreams
She never dreams like you and me
I know it’s been a while since I saw your smile
but I hope you’re doing great
My old friend, I haven’t seen you since spring 2008

The years will come and go
before we know it we’ll be old
Summer is already over and it’s getting cold
In the ice and snow,
we can hardly keep our cigarettes a-glow
so tell me when the wild winds blow,
how do you hold on to your soul?

I hope all of your dreams became your reality
and if not, I hope you’re living in your dreams
You know I, kept them all cause I meant to
all the letters I wrote but never sent you

I google you sometimes
but the search results never fits
someone with the same name
is getting all the hits
and maybe the digital age left you behind
But you never left my mind

Last Forever

Do you believe in astrology?
Or do you think it’s all made up to be
something to talk about with strangers
when you go out
Saying he had lost his friends
“They must be the bar” I said,
“that’s where all friends are”
Always wishing it would last forever

Something in the night,
something in the fading light
and the background smiles
I never like the music but I love it loud,
love sitting quiet and watch the crowd
Always wishing it would last forever

Do you believe in infinity?
Or is it just something we’re meant to believe
to make some sense of it all,
or to make no sense at all
I thought I saw you was it you?
Hiding behind the things we do
I thought I saw you was it you?
Hiding behind the things we do

Something in the night,
something in the fading light
and the background smiles
I never like the music but I love it loud,
love sitting quiet and watch the crowd
Always wishing it would last forever

Hey Moon!

I know it’s been so long since we saw each other last
I’m sure we’ll find some way to make the time pass
Hey Moon, it’s just you and me tonight
everyone else is asleep
Hey Moon, if I was to fall I won’t fall so deep
Though I doubt I’m gonna
You can wake me up if you wanna
And your pale, round face makes me feel at home in any place
I would happen to be at a quarter past three
The moon chased the sun out of the sky
Goodbye Sun, the night’s begun
The Moon chased the sun out of the sky
Goodbye Sunshine, the night is mine
Hey Moon It’s just you and me tonight
everyone else is asleep
Hey moon If I was to fall I won’t fall so deep
Though I doubt I’m gonna
You can wake me up if you wanna
I would hate for you to hang there alone
The whole night through
And I would love to spend the whole night
Just looking at you
And those neat little stars You spread around
They make such a dramatic background
I don’t care for sunbeams
No, I need the night to feed my dreams
And that’s why The Moon chased the sun out of the sky
Goodbye Sun the night’s begun
The Moon chased the sun out of the sky
Goodbye Sunshine the night is mine
Hey Moon, my old friend
Hey Moon, the night is coming to an end
Hey Moon, come back soon…

(Won’t Somebody) Take Me Out Tonight

Won’t somebody take me out tonight,
I wanna shine like the streetlights
The coloured lamps outside the bars
outshine the brightest stars
I got a new haircut today,
I want the rain to wash my broken heart away
Like any sinner I’m gonna skip dinner,
if you’d only take me out tonight

I’ve got a hundred stupid things to say,
and tons of compliments to give away
I’ve got 50 bucks that you can borrow
and I won’t be able to remember it tomorrow
The city is a cold and lonely place,
I want to look into an unfamiliar face
If you’ll come with me you’re my best friend forever,
and we can make new memories together

Won’t somebody take me out tonight,
I wanna shine like the streetlights
The coloured lamps outside the bars
outshine the brightest stars
I got a new haircut today,
I want the rain to wash my broken heart away
Like any sinner I’m gonna skip dinner,
if you’d only take me out tonight
where the musics loud and people bright,
feels like I’m falling apart
but somewhere in this town there’s a bar
where I can drown my broken heart
if you’d only take me out tonight

In Real Life

Online you never feel alone
I never feel alive when I’m on the phone
All I’d wanna say are just words anyway
I’m spending too much time IRL

What you you gonna tell your children?
What did you learn today?
What you gonna tell your parent
when you know that they will say
Everything was so different
I remember back in the days
we were looking for life in outer space

I knocked on every door
until I knocked them down
Standing there I saw,
there was nothing there behind
I opened every drawer
but someone had before
only leaving me a note saying
“Now the World is Yours”
Online I never feel alone
I never feel alive
call it what you like, In Real Life

Mom and Dad don’t blame the kids,
for what you had and what you did with it
You can call it what you like
Online I never feel alone I never feel alive
I never feel alone I never feel alive
call it what you like, In Real Life

Europa

The borders are only lines in the sand,
the borders are divided by land
and invented by man
The birds all fly high in the sky
but the birds have never heard
About Europe, about you
About Europe

The girls with bright eyes
rides away on dreams of lies,
into Europe
The sun has always been setting in the west,
so the sun must know where the setting is the best

What a mothers nightmares can’t bear
a cruel world does on it’s own
She said she’d call when she’s there
must be something wrong with the phone
The phones all over Europe

Is the future any brighter?
Is the darkness any lighter in Europe?
I met Joy in London, she used to love to sing
but now she’s not singing about anything
“Gotta work to make your way,
better work if you wanna stay”
So now she’s working for you, for Europe

No matter how many times that story’s been told,
how history repeats itself
and some stories never grow old
and they call her
Europe

8000 days

I remember every single day of my life. So far
And there are more of them, than there are stars
Only the ones I can see count
But suddenly the stars fade and die. Don’t ask me why
It’s a blue sky
I guess it’s morning and soon there will be day
I guess it’s morning and soon there will be day

Every day is just like the rest.
The worst and the best.
As the days pass.
The first to the last
Every day is just like the rest.
The worst and the best.
As the days pass.
The first to the last.

8000 days. Different in 8000 ways
I remember every single day of my life. So far
And there are more of them, than there are stars
Only the ones I can see count
Only the ones I can see count
Every day is just like the rest
The worst and the best
As the days pass
The first to the last
Every day is just like the rest
The worst and the best
As the days pass
The first to the last

A Song They Won’t Be Playing On the Radio

Follow the light
to the other side of the night
And listen closely to the clouds
as they slowly pass you by

Don’t fall in the stream
it’ll swalliw your dreams
It happened to a girl in a film I saw

Like a song they won’t be playing on the radio
You won’t be seeing on a TV show
I heard my life be told

Follow the light
to the other side of the night
And walk the streets to find out where they lead
With the wind on my back and the sun in my face
I’ll be walking the path, I’ll be falling from grace

Go where no ones been before

Like a song they won’t be playing on the radio
You won’t be seeing on a TV show
I heard my life be told