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Big Spring

by Helgi Jonsson

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Salt 04:29
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Dimma 04:16
Staring at cracks in the wall And paint from the seventeenth century Filling up holes in the floor With coins of an insolvent monetary We're one step away From living in the perfect place You know what they say Just let it be and come what may We're one step away Brush up an old gramophone And dance to a song from the twenties, alone Watched how you to leaned out the window Your balance and glass of white wine in your hand Your dress soaking up the downpour We were one step away From living in a perfect place Two years and a day In hope that you'd decide to stay We're one step away I cross my heart and hope to fly You know what they say Just let it be and come what may So I invite you all To dance in the hall The neighbors will join the ball
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Good Fireman 03:52
Policeman, policeman Stay away, stay away See cracking, back stabbing But stay away anyway I'm lying in the mud A pool of my own blood If she can't save me, no one can Please try to understand That, officer From safety long I'm banned Good fireman, good fireman Stay away, stay away Suffocating, death awaiting, But stay away anyway Sparks fly, there's smoke in the air I'm good as gone and I don't care If she can't save me no one can Please try and understand Good fireman This time we can't pretend Where else can we land But in the net between a woman and a man?
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Badwater 04:14
In this quiet place Know the light will blind your open eyes Cover your face Above all don't stare into the white Imagine then In forgotten days When on horseback they set out Days and nights on end And this was what They found The invisible It will suddenly appear In the physical And be present everywhere I won't go back I'll stay here and watch the seasons change And drink to that Which is far beyond my reasons' range Another year Happy Holidays It's the breakaway from doubt We should celebrate That the jury is still out Just relax and trust And again the air is clear Seems like he that does Never drowns in a confusion caused by others
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Stuck in a traffic jam, don't know what to do Man right in front of us doesn't have a clue It's not a limousine, we don't have a crew Hey, maybe I could get lucky here with you Although our driver is drunk And though our drummer is in the trunk My greedy kiss will taste of gasoline Our hearts'll beat in rhythm with the drummer shaking up his tambourine Come let me feel you up and don't be mean We'll make this trip a pleasure so now what you say my lovely figurine Stuck in a traffic jam, this is what we do Waiting for everyone else to make a move It's not a satellite, we don't have a clue Hey, maybe we could go faster me and you Although our drummer is drunk And though our driver is in the trunk It's pretty obvious you're also keen If only our drummer would relax and stop to play the tambourine Come let me feel you up and don't be mean We'll make this trip a pleasure so now what you say my lovely figurine
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The first time we met you were crawling on all fours Looking for a bug friend in the grass roots of the lawn You waste your time but you don't mind You're pointing out that I waste mine Searching for a bug friend in the grass roots of the lawn Le - let's take a va - vacation Le - let's take that t - t - trip You can pick the lo - location We might need a coin to flip You got no passport, you can have a page in mine We have a visa for our travel back in time We'll do the pleasure galore and be higher than high Last time we met you joined me on the tour Sitting on the bus, sipping red, soaking wet to the core How you been I don't know But something tells me "so and so" Cooking up a dinner on a single stove with no pot We - we need a va - vacation We - we need that t - t - trip I will pick a fun location You can do the skinny dip You got no passport, you can have a page in mine We have a visa for our travel back in time Let's do the pleasure galore and be higher than high
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Lonely Birds 03:35
Lonely birds are the last to fly It's because they're afraid to die This is true, I have seen it in their eyes At the pet shop The happy ones are the first to fall Crash or fly against the wall Is it because their wings never ease at all To glide in circles But passive and trapped inside a cage Of massive fear of taking the chance Fifteen seconds to steal away and climb the fence I'd rather die alone than see another summer Without having tried
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Open this box For a glimpse into the past At the kids at the back of the room Our fear had no name It could not be explained Like a bird that went flying too soon We were the careful children We learned to run with a careful tread A careful pace And a careful step I'll give you this dance Come as close as the air I won't speak till I know what to say Don't leave it to chance Don't pretend not to care We won't leave all our fortune at stake We are the careful people We choose our words with a careful tongue A careful rhyme Of a careful song
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The Pond 04:31
Now again I'm home And maybe for the last time I'm here all alone Though it's been two years Your name is still on my door But mine's disappeared It dissolved in thin air From living within To living without I'm sorry, it's such a disappointment I don't know where our lives went We live them on our own There's a plant on the floor I know it needs water I know it needs more And the mail by the door In a pile of newspapers I've seen it before It dissolved in thin air From living within To living without I'm sorry, I'm such a disappointment I don't know where our love went We seek it on our own Don't worry, despite our separation We with all our memories Will never be alone We'll never feel alone Never be alone We'll never feel alone We'll never be alone...
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The Lake 03:54
Love the accident Feel the consequence Take the chance you get Leave a compliment The road to where I hide was never straight and never wide But if you guide me to your place I will bring you here to mine Where whirling mass and melody, the wind plays on electric lines The fire warm when cold are feet From wading through the snow Through the knee-deep snow The road to where I sleep was never straight and ever steep And if you lead me to your sea I will dive in where it is deep Submerge in your undertone, do weightless somersaults Drift with your current It carries the answers To the accident To the consequence To the time we have

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released September 16, 2011

Helgi Jonsson
Joel Shearer
Thor "Doddi" Thorvaldsson
Jon Estes
Tina Dico

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