Mannen I Den Vita Hatten (16 år Senare) - The Man In The White Hat (16 Years Later) Lyrics
Album: Du Och Jag Döden
Lyrics: Joakim Berg
Music: Joakim Berg
A row of benches in a restless late April
I look over my shoulder and see you blink
I can have you whenever you want
A wind blows trash along the corridor one last time
And you and I hold our breath and hold hands during the leap
It’s not so far from home
Still there are thousands of tears left
They were yours to give to anyone
At last
They are the most precious jewellery you have
So never apologise again
At last we cross their borders
Do you remember our blood-oath, our law
Our stupid crusade toward an equally stupid city
I remember it all, like nails on glass
But you just laugh at me, reduce everything to a joke
But I can see in your anxious posture, your hunting look that it feels
That it’s a long way home
And soon there are no tears left
They were ours to give to anyone
At last
They are the most precious jewellery we have
So never apologise again
At last you set your own borders
That boy I never knew
Who walked on streets I never saw
And thought thoughts I never thought
Under a thin and wispy hair
And all the emotions struck and exploded
Every day full of holes
In a time when nothing happened
In a town that always slept
But darling we were all once little
Yes, we were all once little
Yes, we were all once little
I throw stones in my glass-house
I throw darts in my incubator
And so I grow my fear
Yes I constantly sow new seeds
And in my green-house I'm safe
There, envy grows bright and green
I am scared out of my life of living
And I am scared to death of dying
But darling we will all one day die
Yes, we will all one day die
Yes, we will all one day die
We will all one day die
We will all one day die
We will all one day die
(The following lines are only sung during live performances)
A dyslexic little cowboy
Rules the world from a country
Where the Christian white conservatives
And NRA go hand in hand
And we dance to their tune
Fatten fat wonderkids
With a big mac in front of the tv
Like a true American
I am 40 years from death
According to today’s statistics
It is a soothing thought
That we have such little time
And it's hard for me to show my feelings
When it's not about us
And I have never had an opinion
Never carried any cross
And time softly crushes your resistance
It will melt away like snow
Until you hit your cane against the wall
That you built around your island
And all your friends
And your entire family
They walk swiftly towards the day
When they will no longer exist
But darling we will all one day die
Yes we will all one day die
Yes we will all one day die
And he who stares out from the mirror
It can’t be me, can it?
When did I become so ugly and tired and old
So lonely, cowardly and weak
And you hate who you become
And despise who you were
Is there no god in the world
That can give you an answer
Other than we will all one day die
Yes we will all one day die
Yes we will all one day die
I hate the songs I've written
I hate everything I've ever said
And I hate who I've become
When I thought I had control
I hate the clichés I've spread
On singing and dancing and liquor
Maybe one should commit suicide now
But I really like it in my suite
Darling, we will all one day die
So you took my hand in the crowd
And said darling everything is shit
And my cynical heart flickers
When the love of my life draws her knife
You said: We'll go to heaven together, won't we?
But make the most of our time
And I hear the bells ringing
For the oldest pick up line in the world
You said: Darling we will all one day die
Yes we will all one day die
Yes we will all one day die
Yes we will all one day die
I have always liked weakness
Like sex and bragging and drugs
There is always a way out
And I have never been strong
In my head burned a contradiction
A wildfire in a park
Where one hundred thousand monkeys
Filled blank sheets of paper
With the words we will all one day die
And I will protect those I love
With heart, body and soul
I will protect them against life
Which is hard and ugly and brittle
I will give them all that is left
When I am finished with this
I will give them something that helps
Against an evil and toxic world
Darling we will all one day die
What I want cannot be bought
Not stolen, got on loan
What I want cannot be owned
It is so much greater than that
I throw paper planes from the high-rise
At a spark hidden in the snow
I must believe that it can happen
I must dream my own dream
For you and I will never die
No, you and I will never die
I think I know what everything is about
I think I finally understand
That there is no magic shortcut
No smoke and no trace
And there is no easy solution
Nothing black and white, only gray
You take what you've been given
And say I love what I have
You and I will never die
No, you and I will never die
No, you and I will never die
What we have will never die
No, what we have will never die
What we have will never die
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