kent is my favorite band, sadly for the rest of the world, most of their work is in swedish, so I'm working on translating it for your pleasure, and just for general practice. There are also some of my own extra lyrics to "The Man in the Black Hat" in here.
Egoist by Aborro, literature
Literature
Egoist
April-sky an innocent red
Wind carries the smell of smoke
All over Sweden the book burnings glow
In the grand square crosses aflame
Now hate's fine if pointed the right way
Nothing hits as hard left-wing violence
And we will never be like you
There are those who say that love it is so easy
Either you have love or you don't have it
And suddenly you stand there alone in the rain
One foot in the grave among lilacs and students
We will live, live life
We are drive, we have drive
We will live, live life
We take all, yes, all for granted
You are sugar, curiosity
I am strong black coffee, ambitions and rain
A monotone verse
Needs a strong chorus
I'm the hand holding the flag
I'm the pickpocket at the central
I'm the bomb at the terminals
in the bag left behind
I'm the first cold rains
I'm the frost where nothing grows
I'm the half year of darkness
in the land that god forgot
I'm the teargas in the handbag
I'm on the Ravecommission
The xenophobic politics
I'm the suicide-statistics
I'm the rural area, Rohypnol
I'm the jealousy, alcohol
I'm the quick sms-loans
I'm the drive at the schoolyard
All for all and one for one
All for all and one for one
All for all and one for one
So we start over again
I'm the mist on memory lane
the wind on the bridge across the bay
I'm the suspicious ne
They say I have been broken
Never have I been whole
They say something's with the legs
But nothing has ever
Been more wrong
They says I have been mean
Always have I been straight
Something's wrong with the heart
But nothing has ever
Hit this hard
They says I have been risky
Always have I been weak
They say something's with my head
But nothing has ever
Been so near reply
Fall asleep and wake up again
As I always do
Reply: did you get enough?
Did you get enough tonight?
Wake up and fall asleep again
Have no idea what I am waiting for
Reply: did you get enough?
Yes I think you got enough
Do you know any four-letter words
To impress with
Make an impression, smile!
Make an expression that's stuck
Longer than that you already did...
Open hand and everything runs out
What were you expecting?
Reply: did you get enough?
Did you get enough tonight?
Filling up until everything ends
You will not find it anyway
Reply: did you get enough?
Yes I think you got enough
Have you learned to stand by your w
Is that you
Or someone else
Like you somewhere?
Instead of sound you are quiet
and not here and now
Give me a minute
I miss the damp
All has ran out
Is that you
the hand on my shoulder
Please say something now
Fill my mouth with yours...
Fill my time with something
Fill my mouth with your
Far too cold tongue
And as we look around
it's thru your
righful blue eyes
I observe everything
even myself thru your eyes
and I hate it so....
Fill my mouth with yours...
Fill my time with something
Fill my mouth with your
Far too cold tongue
Think of all you taught me
I was the echo to your call
You played ”Taillights Fade”
for old times sake
I practice every sentence
in the mirror, every word
We've gone from dam to dam
We went from earth to earth
I never thought further than a moment at a time
and just now
I want to see my future, I want to see all that shall come
through the mists here
Can I not even see my nervous thin hand that seek yours?
You give me no promises
and you set no demands
because you know exactly
what I can take
You see me as an equal
I act out like a child
An angels patience
A diabolic persistency
You always thought further than the moment whe
So hang them high
So hang them slowly
But hang them high
I demand retribution
An early morning
Born a geek
So lay down low and sleep, little sister
Just lay yourself down and bide your time
I know, you know what must happen now
I’ve got stonecold belief in your plan
Hang them high, hang them high
When you cried at parties
I was never invited in
You fell apart in-front of the guests
I built you up bit by bit, again
Bit by bit, again
Bit by bit, again
So I became an expert in waiting alone
You get used quickly, you wait for someone
the spectacled cobra reflects light, I get you home, unconditionally
Back of my bike you held me, as if i
All that is and all that’s been
All we thought and all we dreamed of
All of our sky-high planning
It fell apart on the little details you forget
I thought I knew what I wanted
But what the heck I was so young and dumb and drunk then
Everything worth knowing you have taught me
But you say I’m not in your debt
So hold your head up high
Cause I love all that you do
Hold your head up high
It is all anyone can ask for
I know you gave me all your love
Unconditially and without demands
How I wish that I was worth you
That I could give you something equally grand
But hold your head up high
Cause I love all that you do
Hold your head up
January, all was still
Every glimmer a double dose in black glass
In Febuary the shocks begun
Yet I compress my resistance and answers to speech
I am prepared
Just let them come now
I'm here, let them come now
I'm akin to a greek god
just a hell'a lot uglier
Let them come now
it's all about luck this time
Let them come now
Do you ever get the roles that you want
We stand up in rows in someone else's uniform
It's hard to say no, to stand against
But I am calm and barren and beyond all control
I am prepared
Just let them come now
I'm here, let them come now
I'm akin to a greek god
just a hell'a lot uglier
Let them come now
it's all about luc
I know that you're sleeping
feeling the warmth from you skin
just the smell makes me weak
but I don't dare wake you now
And I would give you
anything you point at
but only when you don't hear
dare I say so
I can't even walk
without your air in my lungs
I can't even stand
when you're not looking
and transparently gray
I'll be
without your breathing
My watch has stopped
under your eyelids
dreams flutter by
inside you're feather-light and white
And without a sound
my heart in your hand
have I lost my language
it's stuck in your hair
I can't even walk
without your air in my lungs
I can't even stand
when you're not lookin