Silje Nergaard

I believe that starry skies
Would always be more carefully dazed tonight
And would guide us she said
That we would fear nothing
And now I see the flawless heart
Whose only wish is to be right
Feels how it's beaten for nothing

She told him everything got out of hand
And she lost touch with moments they had planned
Tried to make herself believe she'd never cared
And none of this is written there in stone
She said it's based on a thousand true stories

I can see that all the signs
Have made myself believe I hadn't seen
Are what hurt us she said
There was no way of knowing
I rode a plane to fit the speed
Put our love and names up there in lights
But the god went on growing

He told her everything just fell apart
So he had done his best to fool his heart
Tried to make himself believe he was alive
And none of this has come from me alone, he said
It's based on a thousand true stories

We hoped that light would just stay in our hands
That just would disappear and we would find
Our way back to the love that we had left behind
And none of this can happen on its own, he said
It's based on a thousand true stories

I’m back to chasing light must be sure I keep in sight
How to change my lows to highs and how to make my sunsets rise


You help that spark to glow but if it fades well you just know
When to bide your time and when to breathe it back to life again


Follow, those dreams that seem so very far still a lot of good ones in the jar

We were always dreamers at heart




So safe within our walls we stay although the highway calls
Round and round in circle dance with nothing ever left to chance


Love and Life and music’s fine this dance is ours, yours and mine
Step by step we’ll find our feet hoping hearts will skip a beat ...and


Follow, those dreams that seem so very far still a lot of good ones in the jar

We were always dreamers at heart




You don’t have to tell me where you’re going if something’s wrong you know you’ve got a friend
I’ll learn to live with never-knowing when or if our roads will cross again





So below the stars above falling in and out of love letting go of shattered dreams knowing all’s not what it seems
Taking turns at being wrong knowing you and I belong in this castle that we share even though it’s built on air



Follow, those dreams that seem so very far still a lot of good ones in the jar
We were always dreamers at heart

If Love is strange... a lover's even stranger
He'll tell her she outshines his wildest dreams
But given time he'll try to rearrange her
To fit within the fabric of his schemes

Oh... what became of "stay the way you are, love"?
Why change the very things you loved me for?
What became of "stay the way you are"?
The way I was before you called me yours

If Love is blind... a lover's even blinder
Her charm he'll say has brought him to his knees
From that day on he'll search but never find her
The woman she's become will fail to please

Uh... what became of "stay the way you are, love"?
Why change the very things you loved me for?
What became of "stay the way you are"?
The way I was before you called me yours

(Credits: Music: Silje Nergaard | Lyrics: Mike McGurk | Acc. Guitar: Bjørn Charles Dreyer & Hallgrim Bratberg | Dobro guitar: Finn Guttormsen | Backing vocal: Jan Ingvar Toft)

Why did he have to make such darkness out of blue
Ok there's sadness in his life he didn't get to choose
Why did he needed to feel a reassuring hand
Before he seemed to understand
You stumble free... or let it be

Too late I saw my words were cutting him in two
Saw him clutching at the straws he couldn't bear to lose
He said that given time he knew it would come right
And how he longed for warmth and light
So he could see how things should be

Then my feet left the ground
And my words became a string of sounds
He gave me that old sad look and fell in line
And at this sign
Everything I'd said just slipped from my mind
'cause my feet left the ground
So glad once more it's me he'd found
Got rid of the dark and clung to the blue
What more could I do
Everyone knew that I was dreaming

He and I can stay in this tiny patch of blue
They are so close together colours that we use
I just needed to hear him say he understands
Before I dare to show my hand
And stumble free... or let it be

When my feet left he ground
All my words became a string sounds
He gave me that old sad look and fell in line
And at this sign
Everything I'd said just slipped from my mind
'cause my feet left the ground
So glad once more it's me he'd found
Got rid of the dark and clung to the blue
What more could I do
Everyone knew that I was dreaming

The storm that is underway is gonna rock that house of yours
Leaving you no place to hide
How are you gonna manage from then on
The wind that is but a moan will soon be howling at your door
You're tucked up safe inside
But are you gonna stay in till it's gone

You check locks and latches
And batten down hatches
But the gale will send flying all that it catches

How are you gonna deal with it, baby?
When everything you had got planned
Seems to come crashing down... there... before your eyes
How are you gonna deal with it, baby?
When everything gets out of hand... and all that once mattered
Is picked up and scattered
You're out in the cold
But you hold on and hope to survive

When the dust has all settled you'll find a way to survive
Still closed up or open wide
How are you gonna play it from now on
The storm has passed and you're relieved
Love's still alive
It could have curled up and died
There is no way to play it when it's gone

You check locks and latches
And batten down hatches
But the gale will send flying all that it catches

How are you gonna deal with it, baby?
When everything you had got planned
Seems to come crashing down... there... before your eyes
How are you gonna deal with it, baby?
When everything gets out of hand... and all that once mattered
Is picked up and scattered
You're out in the cold
But you hold on and hope to survive

What is the use of words
If they don´t make her seen or heard?
She watches dust to dust unstirred
Though left behind
She is too weak to grieve or blame us,
We who leave.

There is no hour of bliss
When ignorance can lead to this.
Don´t let the hand of time be kind
And smooth her gently from my mind.

Let me be troubled.
Let me be troubled.

Where on the road did I lose my way
Not knowing where it will wind?
How can I find that road?
I need to explain where I went amiss
And tell her I will save her from all of this...
From all of this.

These are the words of a fool
And heads not hearts must rule
I hear you say that minds can be so slow to see what hearts just know.

Let me be troubled.
Let me be troubled.

Where on the road did I lose my way
Not knowing where it will wind?
How can I find that road?
I need to explain where I went amiss
And tell her
I will save her from all of this...
From all of this.

Where on the road did I lose my way
Not knowing where it will wind?
How can I find that road?
I need to explain where I went amiss
And tell her
I will save her from all of this...
From all of this.

How come these precious things were made to seem remote
How come the words I weighed were forced back down my throat
There was no room for honesty
No quarter that was mine
No noble cause
I tried fake a life
To fool those snapping jaws

From here I dare to launch my flimsy paper boats
I shove each gently from the shore but guard it where it floats
They must not drift too far from me
I still sense danger and
They are too frail
In time they'll catch the wind
And fly with billowed sail

Lead mte to the sand and sea
Sit a while beside me... and I won't mind
Wait until the tide has turned
To see what's left behind

Then I'll search for things to save
Wake me if I'm dreaming
And if all I've planned starts
streaming through my fingers
Out of hand... grains of sand

Let the woman I'll become
Dare to walk the shoreline...
and to ride the wave
Let the ocean show its might
But leave me feeling brave

When all else is washed from sight
Wake me if I'm dreaming
And if all I've planned starts
streaming through my fingers
Out of hand... grains of sand

Never let me hide away
In caves and shun the light of day
Let the waters gently steer
Me to my moorings far from fear
so I might come to comb this beach
Seeing what my eye can reach
And knowing that a heart can open here...
open here

Lead me to the sand and sea
Sit a while beside me... and I won't mind
Wait until the tide has turned
To see what's left behind

They won't ever find us here
Believe me... that's the truth now
It's not that hard to disappear
You've just got to know how
His eyes meet hers and he sees how she's
Busy fighting back the tears

We'll be just fine... you wait and see
He hopes his words will calm her
From here on in it's you and me
He'll let no-body harm her
Her hands in his on the table-top
Trying to make the shaking stop

How I wonder whose they are
Those lives we can only watch from afar
How I wish that we could show
That we can care and long to know
How it goes... that we could see
Beyond the way things seem to be
The way they seem to be

They pay and leave... the bus is due
The night is growing colder
He says this coat's just made for you
And slips it 'round her shoulders
They climb aboard and become to us
Just to faces on a bus

How I wonder whose they are
Those lives we can only watch from afar
How I wish that we could show
That we can care and long to know
How it goes... that we could see
Beyond the way things seem to be
The way they seem to be...

Welcome to the wastelands
I guess you saw the sign
Saying... plots of land to let
Where all those broken hearts can pine

A place where no-one says that you
Must get back in the game
But let you take your own sweet time
And you just let them do the same

All who walk the wastelands
Feel they're branded someone's fool
All who walk the wastelands
are hurting bad but won't let sadness rule

The landscape is forbidding
The trees are hung with dew
But no-one ever comes to visit here
For the climate or to see the view

The wastelands must stay barren
So hearts can freely sow
The seed that thrives on all their bitterness
Well-knowing it won't ever grow

All who walk the wastelands
Feel they're branded someone's fool
All who walk the wastelands
Know that Love can be so cruel
All who walk the wastelands
Are still missing what they had
All who walk the wastelands
Are hurting bad but won't let sadness rule

A door left ajar lets whispering from afar breath life into... a dream of me and you I will the spark to die But still it lights my eye Still makes me feel that this alone is real And though I know it I dare not show it or let this madness makes a kill By dwelling on what might have been Or giving sadness space to fill I'll balance on the edge a while but won't fall in I'll retrace every step I’ve ever run or crept Hoping I will see what is bleeding me And when I know it I won't show it... or let this madness make a kill By dwelling on what might have been Or giving sadness space to fill I'll balance on the edge a while but won't fall in (간주) And though I know it I dare not show it or let this madness makes a kill By dwelling on what might have been Or giving sadness space to fill I'll balance on the edge a while but won't fall in

When Judy falls
The word goes out to
One and all
When Judy falls
The whole world seems
To heed her haunting call

And when she falls
It marks the start
Of Spring
The air is filled with bird-song
And Nature sings along
When Judy falls

When Judy falls
Her hopes are oh so high
She's walking tall
And when she falls
She's hoping she's the apple of some eye

But if she falls... in vain
We'll surely hear... the sound
Of hopes that start to crumble
And silent birds that tumble
To the ground

Love is always new
When Judy makes the rules and breaks them too
Love is never old
She doesn't wait around till hearts grow cold
She believes in weaving dreams
And nothings ever what it seems
When Judy falls
Oh when Judy falls

But if she falls... in vain
We'll surely hear... the sound
Of hopes that start to crumble
And silent birds that tumble
To the ground