Kerim Arhan

(Words and music by Kerim Arhan)

The whole of me inside both my soul and Body going downwards

Pipe-like colors shift in all the shades that I can think of in the darkness

I clear the code, my blood is warm

I’m wanting more, but that’s not my fault An aging fall that tells me words to keep Me young, to keep me primal

Spinning in a dream

In silence and in distant noise

Make a kite or make a joke just hope

It doesn’t hit the treetops

Plastic bags that fill the floor and suffocate I’m gonna take a month off

Spinning in a dream

In silence and in distant noise

Make your choice and let them know you’re Well aware which way the wind blows Parked the car, said I’ll be back

Before I rolled the window

As I’m looking in the rearview mirror Let you let me slip away

As I’m looking in the rearview mirror Let you let me slip away

Kerim Arhan: Vocals, Acoustic guitar

Jonas Hult: Bass guitar

Jens Jungmark: Piano

Anders Alexander: Drums

(Words and music by Kerim Arhan)

Settle down and let my mind ride The cable line, the iron wire

It makes me blind with separation When the train rolls off the station

As the crow flies As the crow flies Flies

Off the ground into the heights I Settle down and wipe my hands dry As if you’re numb with desperation When the plane has left the nation

As the crow flies As the crow flies Hmm

Been back and forth for the past five months Been back and forth now as the crow flies

As the crow flies As the crow flies Flies

As the crow flies As the crow flies

Kerim Arhan: Vocals, Acoustic guitar

Neill Cardinal Furio: Bass, Loops, Percussion

(Words and music by Kerim Arhan)

Some drinks, some fun, some talk

The suburb club suggested we’d go

To Chinatown or elsewhere for a late-night stroll Your warmth, your curls, your smile

I couldn’t help but standing by

Round yellow stools and tables too

I wrote this song with thoughts on you Walking side by side was close Stopped was silent headed on

We took a walk and slept embraced

And then we woke down by the sea

And then the light came with the breeze

The lawn was round and stretching out Towards the water in between the land Reaching out as like an arm

Pretend it’s mine and give my hand

As if my home was floating there Hoping that it’d blow my way

The white and gray, the pearly rain The soothing cold, the perfect day The foaming waves, the sparkly clay The other side, the marketplace

An angled bridge across the stage

Don’t move, don’t breathe, the scene might break

We took a walk and slept embraced

And then we woke down by the sea

And then the light came with the breeze

With silky minds and sticky eyes

We said goodbye and dropped our smiles And after that met briefly once

Was you and me down by the sea

I do believe you remember me

I know your name is

We took a walk and slept embraced

And then we woke down by the sea

And then the light came with the breeze

Kerim Arhan: Vocals, keyboard

Jonas Hult: Bass guitar

Anders Alexander: Drums

(Words and music by Kerim Arhan)

The morning beams came peering in To dust the floor, the TV screen

I got the phone which had rung twice And lost my heart along the line

Had to shave, cut my chin Move my hand about an inch

Blood and white, red and sink I am burning within

I took a walk and time to think

To keep my mind from shattering A jewelry store, a man works there That does the Tango really well

An Argentinian voice says “How are you getting on?”

Said: “I have slept like a log And I feel strong as an ox”

The headlines read, a quote that said “A runaway, a bolting wreck”

I went inside for cigarettes

And left my license on the desk

I do believe when we spoke

I said I was glad that you called

Because I’m a wheel about to spin And I’m burning within

Kerim Arhan: Vocals, Acoustic guitar

Jonas Hult: Bass guitar, Backing vocals

Jens Jungmark: Piano

Anders Alexander: Drums

(Words and music by Kerim Arhan)

Down the staircase by the pay phone

Through the glass door past the fence where junkies go And the v-shape that the buildings hold

And that sucks me ’longst the street I’m on

Like a spotlight on the bus stop

Someone takes off to the shadows beyond

Someone shoots up on a rooftop

Someone gives in, someone looks down to the ground

Some fuse has blown, the wind is out of sight A sound that seems a code-red to the sky

A couple are descending from a fight Intoxicated, heads and shoulders white

A set off headlights stole my eyesight

And left me blinking crystal lashes

Caught my breath and kept on walking

Past the station towards the morning ahead

Some fuse has blown, the wind is out of sight A sound that seems a code-red to the sky

A couple are descending from a fight Intoxicated, heads and shoulders white

Kerim Arhan: Vocals, Electric guitar

Jonas Holt: Bass guitar

Nicklas Jungberg: Electric guitar

Jens Jungmark: Syntheseizer

Anders Alexander: Drums

(Words and music by Kerim Arhan)

A fallen branch, a violent spectra From steel-brushed rust to faded red From milky gray to bleached brown A gypsy woman in the sun

That turns to face the Danish way

I said: “The ride’s for free today”

A buzzing fly, a long cool breeze

The last few lines had knocked me still

A break in blue and shades towards green I felt a drop land on my skin

The surface in my cup had broke

And stirred to action what was thought

I fill my lungs and race the clouds Ascending bird in backwards glide Reversed sound, I’m out of line Whatever we sail out of time

Garage door slamming, mid of March Across the stables getting dark Shadows falling to the ground Landing softly one by one

What plans were made went up in flames The last of breath had left the day

I fill my lungs and race the clouds Ascending bird in backwards glide Reversed sound, I’m out of line Whatever we sail out of time

From milky gray to bleached brown A gypsy woman in the sun

That turns to face the Danish way I said: “The ride’s for free today”

Kerim Arhan: Vocals, Acoustic guitar

Jonas Hult: Bass guitar, Electric guitar

Anders Alexander: Drums

(Words and music by Kerim Arhan)

Flames quarrel on the kitchen stove And dance to the only tune they know Do I care to interfere?

They stroll past me on the platform

And they keep coming back and forth again Do I care to interfere?

And spend my birthday in a hall

A folded painting on the wall

Then someone calls me at the door

So why would they make me take those needles? And why would they send me those Afghan wizkids? Why would they stare at me on the subway?

Why would they follow me to the Skytrain?

Wait, try and stay inside the lines

And save whatever little’s left of time

And meet someone you thought you’d never see Something you possibly could be

Something unthinkable to speak

Something unbearable to hear

Somehow you thought you’d always know Someone you really need to call

Quote, artificial telecom

Kerim Arhan: Vocals, Piano, Syntheseizer

Anders Alexander: Drums, Syntheseizer

(Words and music by Kerim Arhan)

Now are you confident and grounded? Are you about to lose your nerve?

Is this the way you thought it sounded? Or something that you never heard?

I can wait

Until my death breaks the light I can wait

Bring in the drooling hounds

Is this obscure and not well-rounded? Or straight-on forward crystal clear?

Now would you take it if you found it? Oh well, I guess now that you’re here

I can wait

Until my death breaks the light I can wait

Bring in the drooling hounds

Now was there something that you needed? What is it that you’re looking for?

Kerim Arhan: Vocals, Electric guitar

Jonas Hult: Bass guitar

Niklas Jungberg: Electric guitar

Anders Alexander: Drums

(Words and music by Kerim Arhan)

The nightmares stop

The curtains drop and God knows what You’re supposed to do

Got everything, I can’t complain Thought I saw someone

I recognized, then it wasn’t you

You’re wanting this but doing that Lose it all and get distressed You’re saying this but meaning else Sort it out now what a mess

All of the time

Not one day goes by All of the time

Something I already said

Slipped my tongue and left my head? Peculiar

Remind me what I used to be

When part of you is leaving me Recognize

Running up and down the hill Whatever comes out of the mist Something I already did

Crossed my mind and seemed unreal

All of the time

Not one day goes by All of the time

A line, a film, a book, a place

I knew by heart got lost in space Environment in which you’re safe You wanna leave, you wanna stay

All of the time

Not one day goes by All of the time

Kerim Arhan: Vocals, Acoustic guitar

Jonas Hult: Bass guitar, Backing vocals

Jens Jungmark: Piano

Anders Alexander: Drums

(Words and music by Kerim Arhan)

Is it safe to say the clouds had finally blown away

Would it be in place to say it was the time of day

That dreams awake

Was it that you saw the answers finally float ashore

Sink into the sand, some of which had hit the rocks or found a home

Did you see the pond resting on the left-hand wing

The dirt road bending down, the way it's almost flickering

Down into the lake that glows like amber rolling in

How everything awake is curiously listening

Did you hear the trees, notice they were whispering

And how they would embrace the burden of a worried breeze

I don't think that you'd mind if I assumed what you would say

Could we speak again and spin the world the other way

That every now and then when my eyelids slowly sink

You'll be by my side comforting and telling me

Kerim Arhan: Vocals, Piano

Jens Jungmark: String arrangements

Längd: 4.09

ISRC: SE67R2400310