Circa 1989

I remember bright nights in mid June
We didn't even need stars to find ourselves

I remember how we had our own words
We made them up just to be like no one else
`Cause we didn't care what anyone would say

Those were the best days that we had
Those were the best days that we

I remember playing in your bedroom
I remember rainy Sunday afternoons

And all the colors, they would bleed together
From the pictures that we would draw each other
Of our imaginary friends
I still see them all every now and then

I remember my first sweater and snow
I remember frostbite and hugs of love
But I don't think I'll ever see them again

Those were the best days that we had

Those were the best days of our lives

A Day in the Life Of

Act 1: Call on the brigade
Break out the bottles of champagne
And raise your glass to the sky

Lucy says that she loves me
I beg and tend to disagree
I'm just her fling for the night

Step back, to the better years
When we, we never were like this,
Now we, do this all the time...

And the ballroom's swinging
To the song that is our life

And then the gallery resumes
Hair pins, corsets, and sweet perfume
Fill the, opaque room with new life

Dress down in your vintage cool
Dance dance, we float across the room
As we, drift into the night

Frances, she hangs with the aristocrats
Has a bottle of wine with her cigarettes
And then, we all start to sing

So you are the way you are
Everything so called
Light, you burn away
This is the end of me

I Dream of Marie Antoinette

I had a moment when the world loved me for a second
I embellish my thoughts
Let me scream into the microphone
It sounds so good in here
My headphones sound so clear

So please just believe me, honey
Now I long
For sun and song
The medicine's not working, darling
I still see you every night
Oh please just believe me, darling, now

I dreamt of you last night
We were in our fairytale
Words can't describe it
Let's scream into our microphone
It sounds so good in here
Our headphones sound so clear

So please just believe me, honey
Now I long
For sun and song
The medicine's not working, darling
I still see you every night
Oh please just believe me, darling love

Find Me Sunshine

Wake up with me, morning sun
Shine down on me from the heavens
Oh I know the day is lost
To lazy bike rides in the park
Summer made it once again
It found its way back from the cold dark end
Of winter and the fear
Of us sleeping through another year

I'm so tired and numb
Of thinking through this
I need some rest from all of my thoughts
Well no more waiting

Here comes the morning sun
It shines down upon us
Right where we belong

Flying kites as clouds fly by
I am flying, but I don't wanna
Come back down to the cold world
I never fit in there that good
Hours pass then days go by
We watch the clouds as they float on through our minds
My mind is made up on everyone
Find me sunshine, you never come

Method to Madness

Got to get out of this town with the sound
And I know I can run, I know I can run
Cause it sucks you all in and it's killing your friends
And I know they can run and they know I can run
Mundane Sunday
Kills me again, yeah it kills me again
Cause I'm sick in the head and on fire again
And I'm burning again, yeah I'm burning again
All right

Play my six string on the weekends for the people
As they come around
I can't dance but I can sing

Write on the walls as I'm burning my clothes
But nobody knows, yeah but nobody knows
As I wait by your door, fall asleep on the floor
But nobody knows, yeah but nobody knows
But you don't even know how much I love you, oh yes I do
But you don't even know how much I love you

Play my six string on the weekends for the people
As they come around
I can't dance but I can say that
I'm alright
I'm alright (when I'm not here)
Yeah I'm alright (when I'm not there)
I'm alright

But you don't even know how much I love you, oh yes I do
But you don't even know how much I love you
You don't even know how much I love you tonight

Oh, the truth

Oh, what's it gonna be?
When our love can't be found
For some time
And you're spinning around
I don't even care
I just breathe the air
And turn myself around

We're swimming in oceans of complex emotions and fears
The ship is sinking, but nobody seems to care

We fought for our wishes
But nothing came true
The season is changing
To cold and so are you
That's the truth

Oh, it's quiet
When I'm all alone in my head
I don't need you here
I don't need you in here
It's cramped enough alone

We swam in the oceans of complex emotions and fears
The ship was sinking, but nobody seemed to care

We fought for our wishes
But nothing came true
The season is changing
To cold and so are you
That's the truth (for sometime)

We swam through the trenches
But never had a clue (I thought you'd change, but you never saw it through)
The season is changing
To cold and so are you
That's the truth

Viva la Revolución

Hey you, can you drop the charge
I didn't steal your heart, but I set off the alarm
Call the city, Call the city, Oh I am burning up
From the fire, from the fire that we call love

The boys in blue never say they are wrong
The stars and stripes, they will never leave us alone
Oh God, Oh God, will you listen
I'd sing it all, but I ran out of words and then I drop

And then I sailed across the sun
To find the peers that I had lost
To the elephant of our freedom
My God, I'm gonna explode and then I stop

Who cares ‘cause no one will listen
To a man with the color of dark skin
He lost the war in the battle of life, he can't win
I'm sorry he doesn't fit your Midwestern neo-conservative format

Back in the bar of American values
We drink until our lies become the real truth
Fight a war and make up another excuse
Forget about the ones we've killed and abused (I said)

HEY YOU! Don't let me speak free
HEY YOU! Don't let me speak free
HEY YOU! Don't let me speak free
HEY YOU! Don't let me speak free

I can, I can fight
I can, I can die
For my last right (For my lover)

HEY YOU! Don't let me speak free
HEY YOU! Don't let me speak free
HEY YOU! Don't let me speak free
HEY YOU! Don't let me speak free

Vi Går till stranden

Glöm mig inte varje dag
jag finns här I ditt fotoalbum
och ett åskmoln regnar på oss
men någonstans så brinner ditt hjärta

Vi går till stranden på promenad
ett ställe där vi kan försvinna
Vi går till stranden
och känner på sanden med tårna
som vi har vuxit på fot
Och det känns som om jag faller upp
men marken den finner mig igen
Här i Stockholm vart änglarna partar på gator
och jag kan inte hitta hem

Vi går till stranden, ett öppet hav
ett ställe där vi kan andas
Vi går till stranden
och känner på sanden med tårna
som vi har vuxit på fot

Vi går till stranden
och kopplar av

An Average Idea

Petrula the Destroyer

I'm living death, I'm seeing stars
I'm between Jupiter and Mars
I'm everything that you are not
I'm everything that you forgot

I think it's time we realize
We kill the world with our own lies
Forget about the things that matter in our lives

I think we'll find a way out
I know we'll find a way out
I know we'll find a way out
I know, I know

And then the moon crashed into the sun
And night was day and day was dark
Forgetting to forget to make sense
Nothing to do to stop myself
Someday I think we'll break down
Someday when all is wrong
Someday I think we'll break down
Someday when all is wrong

Song Eleven

My dear, oh, my dear
How have you been?
Pack up your bags
And let's travel again
We'll go where the wind blows us
We'll blow away
And land where the stars shine
Both night and day

We gaze at the sky
As we lay in the sand
I hear the ocean
And then you grab my hand

That's when the world stopped
And I began loving you

We moved back to Montréal
The weather got colder
We thought we'd stay young there
But we kept growing older
You made me a painting
I sang you a song
The days became shorter
As the nights became long

We danced in the streets
'Till the morning would come
I am the darkness
And you are the sun

We packed up our bags
And we ran to the train
We jumped in a cart
And we traveled to Spain
To run with the bulls
In the streets made of stone
Then fly back to safety
To our northern home

Our wings became tired
From flying all day
We landed in Moscow
And then we flew away

We ran up the hills
Through the forest for fun
My feet were tired
But my heart was still young
I wrote you a poem
As you slept in my arms
I'll read it for you
Tomorrow when morning wakes us