Things you leave behind
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Closer
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Black Shades
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Things you leave behind
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Yankee Days
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Shelter
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True North
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Charlie
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Sound of us
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Hotel St. Pauli
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Dance for you
1. Closer
Closer, closer to you in me
Awake me to worlds in you
Light up my dying stars
Closer to you
Dream me and take me away
Home to where I was born
Give birth to me, murder me
Closer to you
Closer, closer
To you
Light up my dying
Stars
Closer, closer
Closer to you
Closer, closer
To you
Light up my dying
Stars
Take me closer
closer to you
Closer, closer
closer to you
2. Black Shades
There are workers down the street
In the backyard
There's a whole in the roof of the whorehouse and it seems
They ought to tear it down
I truly hope they stick around
For a long while
Sweating in the blazing sun
I guess I never liked that
Place anyways
But it is fabulous that some indecent people pay
The line outside that house
Always pulled me back
The neon light outside spoke of lonely nights
I prefer
My men in shirts
Come what may come my way
Blood shot craze
Under black shades
The evening is swelling
Into naked thighs
The silence of the curtains envelope crimson lies
Telling thirsty hours
Underneath that roof
Is raining down a river
It is pouring down my stoop
I prefer
My men in shirts
Come what may come my way
Blood shot craze
Under black shades
3. Things you leave behind
I'm never beat from trying
To show that I've got wit
I never cared for reading
Although I know my shit
Underneath these hot pants
You can say I'm fine
Even though I'm showing
Nothing of that child
You know I'm Norwegian
I like my men on ice
My liquor from the barrel
I never turn on a time
And if you say I'm pretty
I'll take you for a drunk, but
That does not make a difference
I'd do you a punch
Tell me if I bore you, that will not be unkind
These are just stories in my mind
I'm stupid, but I'm saying I'm still young
Besides I know I'm looking pretty fine
Do not care for those organic
Green tea sipping boys
That hang around the corner
Never making noise
Someday I'm gonna dress up
With leather spike and lace
Buy myself a vodka
That's right in you face
Tell me if I bore you, that will not be unkind
These are just stories in my mind
I'm stupid, I say I'm still young
Besides I know I'm looking pretty fine
Truth is; I'm a sucker
For your shoulders and your neck
You've become my country
And I've become a wreck
Leaving me with nothing
My big mouth's all i've got
I'd rather have my neighbors
Take me for slut
I'm nothing but your baby
Although no one can tell
You know I always love you
Although I'd never say
I do not care for good times
And I do not care for fun
Cause those days do remind me
Of the things you leave behind
Tell me if I bore you, that will not be unkind
These are just stories in my mind
I'm stupid, I say I'm still young
Besides I know I'm looking pretty fine
4. Yankee Days
Yankee days and love craze
Light green and dull dreams
Happiness and nothing less
The world was my red dress
It was good your looks
My wine and your lines
We were great and heavyweight
All teeth and colgate
Jimmy Carter Jimmy Choo
Good guys with great shoes
You and I and nice tries
World peace with my french fries
I - I like you
More than those around you
5. Shelter
Today is the day when I'm drinking,
A toast to the one I could be
If only somebody would give me
The free chance to be free
From all things people are telling
I admit it; most of it's true
But let's say old tramp for a moment
A chance to be something to you
Give me a dollar for shelter
Give me a dollar for food
Give me another for fun times
And then one to polish my shoes
Cause I plan to leave this barstool
Even if that means I'll crawl
Till you have one more dollars
To spare for a loser on call
Give me a dollar for shelter
Give me a dollar for food
Give me another for fun times
And then one to polish my shoes
If you can find it
in your heart
to pick up
the bill or me
The dollar you gave me for shelter
I'll give it back to you
Give me a dollar for shelter
Give me a dollar for food
Give me another for fun times
and then one to polish my shoes
6. True North
Quiet has made my love for someone on his way
Far from the road I would wish for him to take
Many words were passed between us; most of them were mine
You embraced the silence more than I
Go and rest your mind
Go and find peace 1
Go and find your true north
Though it will not be me
My eyes are closed, my heart is open; it's like that
I was wilful and sure and I needed you to know
All my thoughts, that my whole heart was pounding for you
You prefer the silent child of show
Go and rest your mind
Go and find peace
Go and find your true north
Though it will not be me
Now I'm sitting by your bedside,
No need for words, at last I understand
My love is not going out
In the silence I can see you now
Go and rest your mind
Go and find peace
Go and find your true north
Though it will not be me
Go and find your true north
Though it will not be me
7. Charlie
Charlie never says something old
Charlie never leaves me cold
He sings along with my tunes
Everything is cool with Charlie
He never ever says goodnight, just
Tuck me in alright
With lots of skin and limbs
Lord, I'm good with him
He's everything for a
Girl like me
with high healed shoes and bad hairdo's
Easy on the eye
Little baby sugar
Easy in the heart and easy to start
Charlie Charlie I love you
Charlie Charlie loves me too
Charlie never does me wrong
Charlie's singing all day long
My baby's got the sweetest lips
And loveliest fingertips
That can pick a girl almost apart
That can fix all kinds of broken hearts
Charlie sure's my man
He's got my whole world in his hand
He's everything for a
Girl like me
with high healed shoes and bad hairdo's
Easy on the eye
Little baby sugar
Easy in the heart and easy to start
Charlie Charlie I love you
Charlie Charlie loves me too
8. Sound of us
I do not like things in the water
I do not like the wind in my shoes,
I do not like the fashion this summer,
I do not like the sound of too few
I love the sound of playing
With buckets of sand in the rain
I love the voice of an old friend
That never look back for the same
It's cold in the shadow of wonders
It's cold - I do not remember it all
And now that I see you smiling
At first, I tell you, it hurts
The woman is standing next to you teeth
Is sweet, but I was there first
The things coming out through you fingers
I swore I'd never recall
I tried to erase and forget all your ways
But it's hard when you're smiling this wide
It's cold in the shadow of wonders
It's cold - I do not remember it all
Ai ai ai, ai ai ai - no one that does not belong in your world
Is there but I was your girl
Ai ai ai, ai ai ai - I do not like my underwater head, do not like
Your pillow empty and cold
It's cold in the shadow of wonders
It's cold - I do not remember it all
9. Hotel St. Pauli
What there is true emotion
In your eyes
Or where they mirrors of a dark disguise
Could I see the secrets
In your lies
What is there really love behind your eyes
Tonight
I live it all again
I live the pain of love again
For you
You called me baby baby while you're down me down
And now the night is calling with a lonely sound
I am haunting hotel st pauli
Where I'm crying for your love
I have to drive the demons
From my mind
Free the surge of hate you left behind
The night unlocks the dangers
In my mind
Lurking shadows in a deep cold mine
Tonight
I live it all again
I live the pain of love again
For you
You called me baby baby while you're down me down
And now the night is calling with a lonely sound
In the haunting hotel st pauli
Where I'm crying for you
Well, well ...
In the haunting hotel st paul
Where I'm crying for your love
Where I'm crying for your love
10. Dance for you
(Text: Rebekka Bakken Music: Jesper Nordenstroem, Rebekka Bakken)
Over there and everywhere
Is blood, money and fighting rounds
I'm bruised and beat
Back in this hotel room
Wicked and wasted
I've become
From all the nuggets you've thrown my way
From one for the money
Two for the show
Baby I'd dance for you
Make me more and more
Murder me strangle me
Beat to feast
squeeze
If you please
And baby I'll dance for you
Tell me nothing
Nothing at all
Spend me
There's plenty to take
down down
reasons to take me dow
And I come and come and come and come
Home to dance for you
Play me like a string
Cause you're my child of king
Baby I dance for you
You take me all the way up to Kingston
Baby I think I can see Boston from here
Oh, I dance for you
REBEKKA BAKKEN