Welcome Back Color

In a moment
Of rebellion
To the rhythm
Of compassion
While we’re waiting for the world to stop spinning

We go dancing
Through the ashes
And the panic
Of the masses
While we’re waiting for the world to stop spinning
Stop spinning

The olden days are black and white on my tv
And nowadays the future looks the same to me
Unless you and I
Remind eachother
To welcome back colour

From the green lights
To the blueprints
From the red nights
Of flourescent
We are waiting for the world to stop changing

It’s a fever
An eruption
A volcano
It’s a puzzle
Why we’re waiting for the world to stop spinning
Stop spinning

The olden days are black and white on my tv
And nowadays the future looks the same to me
Unless you and I
Remind eachother
To welcome back colour
To welcome back colour
Now…

The olden days are black and white on my tv
And nowadays the future looks the same to me
Unless you and I
Remind eachother
To welcome back colour

Travelling the seven seas
Setting sail to go around the world, around the world
Open water, open heart
Open invitation to be whirled around the world
Spread your wings and spread them wide
See if they’ll reach all around the world

I just wanted to fly
Like a leaf in the wind
A leaf in the wind
But if you wanna fly
You’ve got to travel light
And make yourself paper thin
Paper thin

Pack a bag but pack it light
You can’t carry much around the world, around the world
Even what you hold dear of who you are inside
Could be too much dead weight for this ride around the world
If you spread your wings out wide and thin
Just pray they’ll hold you up till your home again

I just wanted to fly (around the world, around the world)
Like a leaf in the wind
A leaf in the wind
But if you wanna fly (around the world, around the world)
You’ve got to travel light
And make yourself paper thin
Paper thin

Take what you want from me
Take what you can
And then hide it somewhere I can’t see
Out of my hands
Do what it takes to make you feel better
Never forget that you
You’re nobody’s man

I love the way you set me off
With a stroke of your hand
And your puzzled look when we make love
That you don’t understand
But nothing I’ve got will make you feel better
At the break of dawn you’ll still
Be nobody’s man

Nobody feels the weight of your mission
Nobody can set you free
Nobody knows the way to your fortune
Nobody and least of all…
Me

So come and lay by my side
In my castle of sand
Let’s love til the early tide
Breaks down the dam
Stay if you want for worse or for better
But never forget that you
You’re nobody’s man

Nobody feels the weight of your mission
Nobody can set you free
Nobody knows the way to your fortune
Nobody and least of all…
Me

You… You… You… You…

Nobody feels the weight of your mission
Nobody can set you free
Nobody knows the way to your fortune
Nobody and least of all…
Me

You held the door
Looking over your shoulder
Face to the floor
It was already over
They took a good look at you
They knew that you couldn’t follow through
Just stood there and laughed at you
What could I do?

Warm sand underneath my feet
No promises left for you to keep
Fortune smiling back at me
Forgetting the things that couldn’t be

I pulled at your dress
But you took no notice
You left me to guess
Your desperate motives
Left here as unfamiliar eyes
Held you and pushed me aside
Aching with blame I
Watched from inside

Warm sand underneath my feet
No promises left for you to keep
Fortune smiling back at me
Forgetting the things that couldn’t be
The things that might have been
The things that should have been

It’s all I’d ever dream of
It’s all I’d ever hope to touch whenever I’d reach out

Warm sand underneath my feet
No promises left for you to keep
Fortune smiling back at me
Forgetting
Warm sand underneath my feet
No promises left for you to keep
Fortune smiling back at me
Forgetting the things that could have been
The things that might have been
The things that should have been

One
One touch can fill a life of longing
Not much is so much more than nothing
Yeah - All you need is
One
An open smile to win you over
One single step will bring you closer
Yeah - All it takes is one

And when you’re running for cover
And you feel the sky falling down upon you
And when it feels like forever
Since you’ve seen the face of someone who loves you

Then one is all that you need
All that you need to keep you warm
Is all that you need
All that you need to move you on
It’s all that you need
All you need is

One
One word to fill a room of silence
A hand to offer you some guidance
Yeah - All you need is
One
A moment long enough to notice
That everything’s stepped into focus
Yeah - All it takes is one

And when you’ve running from questions
And it seems like uncertainty controls you
And when you looking for answers
In the eyes of somebody who knows you

Then one is all that you need
All that you need to keep you warm
All that you need
All that you need to move you on
Is all that you need
All that you need to get you home
All that you need
All you need is one

I wake in the morning with one thing on my mind
To get up on my feet and be on my way
The wide roads are calling and I’m running out of time
To make the most of this exciting day

Hey!

Everybody’s gotta end up somewhere
I’m just taking my time to get there
And it looks like freedom and it smells like fun
But it feels like being on the run

I wake in the morning with one thing in my head
The haunting sound of chords I’ve yet to play
It sounds like a warning that maybe I should stay in bed
Before these winding roads lead my astray

Hey!

Everybody’s gotta end up somewhere
I’m just taking my time to get there
And it looks like freedom and it smells like fun
But it feels like being on the run

Somewhere there’s a place for us, a place for us
Where?
There’s a place for us...

Everybody’s gotta end up somewhere
I’m just taking my time to get there
And it looks like freedom and it smells like fun
But it feels like being on the run

Poison racing through my veins
A sordid pull to the insane
A constant gravity to change
And I don’t know where to go

Paris breaths beneath my feet
Thirsty skin against concrete
My sacred heart misleading me
And I don’t know where to go
No, I don’t know where to go

I could go home to my love
And live the life I’ve always wanted
Or I could go on running off
Into the night, lonely and haunted
And the strange thing is
I don’t know which I prefer
As I sit here and watch the sun set on Sacre Couer

Paris falls under my eyes
History against one life
My sacred heart’s on no-one’s side
And I don’t know where to go
No, I don’t know where to go

I could go home to my love
And live the life I’ve always wanted
Or I could go on running off
Into the night, lonely and haunted
And the strange thing is
I don’t know which I prefer
As I sit here and watch the sun set

I could go home to my love
And live the life I’ve always wanted
Or I could go on running off
Into the night, lonely and haunted
I could go home to my love
It’s all there if I want it
But the sad thing is
I don’t know which I prefer
As I sit here and watch the sun set on Sacre Couer

Come and take my hand
It’s been so long
Since tender words last fell
From our hard tongues
Tell me, tell me now
Where we go wrong
Tell me there’s a way if we press on

And keep our arms open wide
Don’t say no to anyone
But keep our hearts safe inside
Don’t let go to anyone
And raise above the chaos of love

Come and hold my hand
You look confused
You give your best
And end up feeling used
Tell me why you struggle like you do
To draw the line between the world and you

Just keep your arms open wide
Don’t say no to anyone
But keep your heart safe inside
Don’t let go to anyone
And keep your heart safe from harm
Safe and warm in your hand
And raise above the trials of love

Come and take my hand
It’s been so long
Since tender words last fell
From our hard tongues

We’ll keep our arms open wide
Don’t say no to anyone
But keep our hearts safe inside
Don’t let go to anyone
Yeah, keep our arms open wide
Don’t say no to anyone
But keep our blood safe inside
Not on show for anyone
And raise above the chaos of love
Of love

There are faces, there are smiles, so many teeth, too many arms and legs
And eyes and flashing buttons all around me
I’m a-watching, I’m a-breathing, I’m a-pushing, I’m a wishing
That these walls would not be talking quite so loudly
I have lost it once before I’ve pulled myself up from the floor
And I am looking for a reason to stay standing
But sometimes it’s just too much or not enough or something else
It’s so much bigger than my head, it’s too demanding

Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to go slow
And sometimes if you wanna hold on you got to let go

I’m gonna close my eyes
And count to ten
I’m gonna close my eyes
And when I open them again
Everything will make sense to me then

I have met so many people, we’ve exchanged so many words
We’ve said it all and we’ve said nothing but it’s changed us
I have know a lot of men, some were lovers, some were friends
But all together were they merely passing strangers?
They’ll control you with their silence, they’ll control you with their words
And you’ll control them with your body’s coded signals
In the wild, entangled gardens of our insecurities
We lose our heads into eachother’s hidden pitfalls

Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to go slow
And sometimes if you wanna hold on you got to let go

I’m gonna close my eyes
And count to ten
I’m gonna close my eyes
And when I open them again
Everything will make sense to me then

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-ten...

Stains
Look at all these stains
Look at it running down these walls
Into the drain

Shame
I don't feel no shame
I don't feel nothing but relief
To be alone

It's a cold heart that did what I did
Should be so hard to live with it
Should be sorry
But I feel no regret

Lies
Listen to these lies
Listen to them jumping from my tongue
Into your life

It's a cold heart that did what I did
I should be so hard to live with it
I should be sorry
But I feel no regret

From time to time
The tables turn
You cross a line
Get your fingers burnt
Suddenly is a new situation

From day to day
Dot to dot
Case to case
'Til the chord is cut
Suddenly is a new situation

Everybody wants to believe they hold a ticket
To the train to the promised land
Everybody wants to believe it ain't no lie
One day I woke from a dream on a rocket
Coming back from another planet
Don't think I'm ever gonna understand
Why...

Nothing is what it used to be
These white walls are all new to me
Time is the doctor and I'm his patient
I don't know what he's done to me
A gentle push or brain surgery
It's gonna take some imagination
This new situation

From A to Z
Through and through
The destiny
I thought I knew
Suddenly was an open ending

I learnt the trick
I did the time
My eyes fixed
On the finishing line
All it was was a new beginning

Everybody dreams of a happy ever after
And gold at the rainbows end
Everybody wants to believe it ain't no lie
Everybody wants the machine to run faster
Faster, out of hand
I don't think I'm ever gonna understand
Why...

Nothing is what it used to be
These white walls are all new to me
Time is the doctor and I'm his patient
I don't know what he's done to me
A gentle push or brain surgery
It's gonna take some imagination
This new situation

Nothing is what it used to be
These four walls are all new to me
Time is the doctor and I'm his patient
I don't know what he'll do to us
But things will change, I know that much
It's gonna take some imagination
This new situation

I’m writing this letter
To tell you I’m on my way
I’m coming home
I’m feeling much better
I don’t know what else to say
I’ve missed you so

I never thought I would want to go back from Goldhawk Road
But history and hope is much stronger than that
And here I go
I know I’m late
But babe, I’ve changed

My love, will you be there
The morning my ship comes in
I can only hope
I know I’ll be eager
To tell you everything
When we get home

I never thought I would want to go back from Goldhawk Road
But friendship and root is much stronger than that
And here I go
I know I’m late
But babe, I’ve changed

I never thought I would want to go back to where I came from
But oh, my love is much stronger than that
And here I come
Oh, to belong
Such a gift
You know I never left

I’m writing this letter
To tell you I’m on my way
I’m coming home
And nothing, nothing, nothing
Can get in my way
Babe, I’ve changed

When the tears start falling on my pillow
In the wee hours of the night
Know that it’s not you that cause my eyes to fill, no
I just float off to the deep end of my life

When my eyes drift off into the horizon
And my hand seems to loosen its hold
Know that it’s not you that send my thoughts a-roaming
I’m just overwhelmed with the affection I’m shown
That you show

’Cause there’s love all around me
And there’s love all around me
And there’s nothing to keep me from falling
And drowning in it

So when the tears start falling on my pillow
And there seems no reason for this blues
Know that it’s not you that cause my eyes to spill, no
There’s just so much in this life I’m scared to lose

’Cause there’s love all around me
And there’s love all around me
And there’s nothing to keep me from falling
And drowning...

Instead of smiles
Instead of jokes
Instead of handshakes
I'd rather be your girl

Instead of talk
Instead of laughs
Instead of friendship
I just want to be your girl

I've been a-waiting for the feeling to go
To shy to let it show

I'm on a train to three four five to your door
I'm outta words, I'm out of reasons to keep on
Running away from asking if you could be more
More than a friend, more than a shoulder I can lean on

In need of touch
In need of kiss
In need of closeness
I'd like to be your girl

I don't know much
But I do know this
I'm being honest
I really want to be your girl

I've been a-waiting for the feeling to go
To shy to let you know

I'm on a train to three four five to your door
I'm outta words, I'm out of reasons to keep on
Running away from asking if you could be more
More than a friend, more than a shoulder I can lean on

Here is my heart
For a start
And the rest will follow
As soon as you give me the key to yours

Chorus...

Copenhagen
I've never seen you look this bright
Just awaken
From the beauty snooze you took last night

Oh, this tingling feeling
To be the blood inside your veins
I've been leaving believing
I could find a better place

And all this time...
You were right here

Copenhagen
I've never felt your grip so tight
Care is taken
You'll catch me if I slip, I'll be alright

Oh, this wonderous feeling
To be walking your empty streets
I've been leaving believing
I'd find better streets than these

But all this time...
You were right here

Outside my window
At my feet
In my heart
In the air I breath

Copenhagen

I must be crazy to tell you what I’m telling you now
It’s kinda personal but I’m way beyond being proud
I just spent a year saying no to this man chasing me down
Then he got over me the minute I turned around

I was so hell bent on being alone
A left-over dream I should have out-grown

Now it’s too little too late
I’ve been replaced
Why did I wait so long?
Just a few minutes too late
The tables have turned
And what have I learnt?
That life is better lived with open eyes
My eyes were closed
And now I’m watching him go

I look at couples made of people who just wanna be free
It proves the grass is always greener if they wanna be me
Even the mention of her name brings a smile to his face
It isn’t easy to admit it but he’s in a good place

No longer hell bent on being alone
A left-over dream I’ve finally out-grown

But it’s too little too late
I’ve been replaced
Why did I wait so long?
Just a few minutes too late
The tables have turned
And what have I learnt?
That life is better lived with open eyes

I gave too little too late
I’ve been replaced
Why did I wait so long?
Just a few minutes too late
The tables have turned
And what have I learnt?
That life is better lived with open eyes
My eyes were closed
And now I’m watching him go

You were given nothing as a child
Now that’s a lot to carry
You’ve been empty-handed all you life
A heavy weight to carry

Things could be different
But it wouldn’t be the same
You wouldn’t be the man I love
Without this weight

All these years feeling small and misplaced
The only lonely man on Noah’s Arc
All these years dealing with radio active waste
Has made you glow in the dark
Don’t you know you glow in the dark

You’ve been digging graves since we first met
You’ve got a lot to bury
From the empty closets in your head
A heavy weight to carry

Things could be better
But it wouldn’t feel this good
I wouldn’t change a thing about you
If I could

’Cause all these years feeling small and misplaced
The only lonely man on Noah’s Arc
All these years dealing with radio active waste
Has made you glow in the dark
Don’t you know you glow in the dark

You glow...

Welcome home
I’m amazed you came around
You were lost now you’ve been found
In your own dream
A rebel boy
Who took off and couldn’t land
Lost his love on one bad hand
Had a fit and then got banned
From his own team

Could it be that I know nothing
About holding on to love
Like you hold on to the memories
That you’re most fond of
Me, I just get bored and wander off

Welcome back
I’m surprised you look the same
So much turbulence and change
At your door
A wary boy
No intention to steer clear
Kept his enemies so near
That all the good ones disappeared
Leaving only an idea
Of what good is good for

Could it be that I know nothing
About holding on to love
Like you hold on to the thread
That your life hangs on

Me, I just get bored and wander off
Could be the stress I’m under
Love can take an awful lot of time
No one would believe me if I said
”Just haven’t met the right one yet”
They’d say I really must be blind

Could it be that I know nothing
About holding on to love
Like you hold on to the memories
That you’re most fond of
How could it be that I know nothing
About holding on to love
Like you hold on to the thread
That your life hangs on
Me, I just get bored and wander off

I need a room with a view
An armchair by the window
a cup of coffee and a cigarette or two
Watch the sky turn from hazy gray to black
Watch my neighbours go to work
and look exhausted and burned out when they get back
Thinking about you
Thank God for this beautiful view

I recall you took me swimming
the sea was dark and cold
You’d been there many times before
with many different girls, I’d been told
But what’s a man without a past
We love him for his lies
and then we try to break him down to make it last
’til they come true
Thank God for this beautiful view

Beautiful view
You, you, you...
I still love you

The dark is falling and the city fills with lights
Cars like shining pearls on strings
moving through the emptiness of night
The wine is running to my head
I’m spellbound by the moment
can’t get up, can’t find the strength to go to bed
Without you
Thank God for this beautiful view

Beautiful view
You, you, you...
I still love you

I’ve been blind too blind to tell false from true
I’ve been so busy running
never stopped to think where I was running to
But I’ve learned my lesson from the tears I’ve had to cry Sometimes it helps to take your time
to sit alone and watch the world go by
Cause every day it’s new
Thank God for this beautiful view
Every day it’s new
Thank God for this beautiful view
Thank God for this beautiful view

Our minds run in circles
Racing 'round the restaurant
Searching for what more to say
To say what we really want

Let's leave it like it is
And stop staring at these walls
Let's not go headlong to that distance
Where you can't come back at all

Let's go dancing
Waltz around the rumour mill
In your faded dress
With the daffodils

Once your name was but a whisper
A simple wish upon my tongue
And staring at your shadow
Was like staring at the sun

And in this dark, dark hour
You still illuminate a room
Oh, God give us the power
We gotta keep ourselves in tune

Let's go dancing
Waltz around the rumour mill
In your faded dress
With the daffodils

Lost in cheap delirium
Searching the neon lights
I move carefully
Sink in the city aquarium
Sing in the key of night
As they're watching me

Take me somewhere we can be alone
Make me somewhere I can call a home
'Cause lately I've been losing on my own

Wrapped in silent elegance
Beautifully broken down
As illusions burst
Too late to learn from experience
Too late to wonder how
To finish first

Take me somewhere we can be alone
Make me somewhere I can call a home
'Cause lately I've been losing on my own

Won't you take me home...

Where are you now, my friend?
Pulling your bike past their windows again?
You know they won’t let you in
You don’t change the city
The city changes you

Where are you now, my love?
Still in the war with the Aphrodite Mob?
What was I thinking of?
You don’t change the city
The city changes you

Under the lights
You fall into the rythm
You close your eyes
You don’t see the shadows
Your shadow watches you

Where did it go, my love?
A mere song that echoed from the rooftops above
I’ve given all but I won't give up
You don’t touch the magic
The magic touches you

When you close your eyes
And fall into the rythm
Under the lights
You don’t see your shadows
Your shadows is watching you

Someday I have to say goodbye
To the city that moved me, confused me and soothed me
Someday I have to say goodbye to London

I’m flying over London
On a cold November night
The river snakes across the vast ocean of electric lights
The city is a living creature all on its own
And we all push like blood through its veins
So close together
So alone

A strong hand, a strong hand
So I don’t fall
A strong man, a strong man
To make me feel small
His muscles chase eachother up and down his forceful arm
Genetic confidence behind his magnetic calm
A strong man, a strong man
To take care of all

But if no man is an island
Then no woman is his yacht
And no man is stronger than his fear
To lose the one he loves
And if I should leave tomorrow
He would surely be destroyed
And crumble like a hopeless child
Who’s lost his favourite toy
I
Oh, I hate to see a grown man cry

There’s nothing in the world he couldn’t teach you about
He always puts his weight behind and shows no sign of doubts
A strong man, a strong man
A strong man, a strong man
A strong hand, a strong hand
To make me feel small

But if no man is an island
Then no woman is a bridge
And his love will take him nowhere
If he doesn’t know where she is
And if I should leave tomorrow
He would surely be destroyed
And crumble like a hopeless child
Who’s lost his favourite toy
I
Oh, I hate to see a grown man cry

It's cold when it's October here
So I guess I won't see you at my birthday this year
And who'd have thought a love like this
Would wither and wash out as a winter pulls near
I'm not gonna cry about it
No, I'm just gonna lie about it
Your laughter filling my sails

So
Back where we started
Back where we started
And why don't we just leave it
No
Not broken-hearted
Just back where we started
And why don't we just leave it at that
Leave it at that...

The summer asked no questions
And the winds found no excuse to abridge our story
(Over)
Nature is a faithless friend
And counting on her favours will make you sorry
(Over)
I'm not gonna cry about you
It's not like I'll die without you
Your laughter filling my sails

So
Back where we started
Back where we started
And why don't we just leave it
No
Not broken-hearted
Just back where we started
And why don't we just leave it at that
Leave it at that...

Lying back to back at 10 to 1
You’re awake, like me
Trying to concieve that done is done
You made a mistake, I see
But I’m a little too tired, baby
It’s a little too late

To bring it up
In the weary dark of night
Between black and white
Is a thousand shades of gray
I’m not giving up but I need a little light
Oh – save it for the break of day

Monday’s paper scattered on the floor
Lost in time, like me
Nothing that I haven’t heard before
A simple mind set free
But I’m a little too tired, baby
It’s a little too late

To bring it up
In the weary dark of night
Between black and white
Is a thousand shades of gray
I’m not giving up but I need a little light
Oh – save it for the break of day

You’ve been a little bit worried lately
Been a little too scared to make me
Take a stand a chance to maybe
Land this kamikaze romance safely
I’m just a little too tired, baby
It’s a little too late

To bring it up
In the weary dark of night
Between black and white
Is a thousand shades of gray
I’m not giving up but I need a little light
Oh – save it for the break of day

We jumped across and we cross the sky
We fail to breathe and swallow the light

We mark the spot and we draw the lines.
We carried on and followed the signs

We drift away, and we loose the sight,
we lock the doors, and borrow

There was in all of a sudden
some five years later still smoke in the air
And I guess not all of the dust
has fallen to the ground

We jumped across the sky
we fail to breathe and swallow light
We mark the spot in lines
and follow the signs

We jumped across the sky
we fail to breathe and swallow light
We're drifting out of sight
And borrow

There was in all of a sudden,
some five years later still smoke in the air
And I guess not all of the dust
has fallen to the ground

We jumped across the sky
we fail to breathe and swallow light
We're drifting out of sight
And borrow

Historien fortæller at david engang
Behagede gud med en sjælden sang
Men musik har aldrig virkelig interesseret dig, vel?
Den går sådan her en kvart en kvint
En molnedgang, som ender blindt
Den slagne konge synger halleluja

David’s tro var stærk, men han ville se bevis
Og hun dansede ud på den tynde is
Månen og hendes ansigt slog ham omkuld
Og hun bandt ham til et køkkenbord
Hun brød hans magt og hun skar hans hår
Og fra hans læber drog hun et halleluja

Men baby, du ved jeg har været her før
Jeg har åbnet det vindue og smækket den dør
Jeg boede her da jeg lærte dig at kende
Og jeg så dig marchere under flag og sang
Men kærlighed er ik en sejrsgang
Det’ et vaklende og fortvivlet halleluja

Der var en tid hvor jeg ku se
Præcis hvad du følte indeni
Nu ser jeg kun en skygge af foragt
Men jeg husker dig blidt ind over mig
Og himlen viste os på vej
Vores åndedræt var et hviskende halleluja

Måske er der en gud et sted
Men alt hvad jeg véd om kærlighed
Er hvordan man piner livet ud af sig selv
Det hér er ikke et klageråb
En udbrændt pilgrims sidste håb
Det er et koldt og det’ et ensomt halleluja

Jeg gjorde det bedste jeg ku gør’
Ved ikke hvad jeg følte men jeg prøved at rør’
Jeg talte sandt, jeg kom ikke for at svigte
Selvom alt gik galt alt hvad jeg gjorde og sag’
Vil jeg stå foran gud på den sidste dag
Med intet andet end et halleluja