The Lion's Roar

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1.The Lion's Roar

Lyricist:Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg
Writer(s):Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg

Now the pale morning sings of forgotten things
She plays a tune for those who wish to overlook
The fact that they've been blindly deceived
By those who preach and pray and teach
But she falls short and the night explodes in laughter

But don't you come here and say I didn't warn you
About the way your world can alter
And oh how you try to command it all still
Every single time it all shifts one way or the other

And I'm a goddamn coward, but then again so are you
And the lion's roar, the lion's roar
Has me evading and hollering for you
And I never really knew what to do

Well I guess sometimes I wish you were a little more predictable
That I could read you just like a book
For now I can only guess what's coming next
By examining your timid smile
And the ways of the old, old winds blowing you back 'round

And I'm a goddamn fool, but then again so are you
And the lion's roar, the lion's roar
Has me seeking out and searching for you
And I never really knew what to do

Sometimes I wish I could find my Rosemary Hill
I'd sit there and look at the deserted lakes and I'd sing
And every once in a while I'd sing a song for you
That would rise above the mountains and the stars and the sea
And if I wanted it to it would lead you back to me

And the lion's roar, the lion's roar
Is something that I have heard before
A children's tale, the lonesome wail of a lion's roar


2.Emmylou

Lyricist:Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg
Writer(s):Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg

Oh the bitter winds are coming in,
And I'm already missing the summer.
Stockholm's cold but I've been told
I was born to endure this kind of weather.
When it's you I find like a ghost in my mind,
I'm defeated and I gladly wear the crown.

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June
And you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too.
No, I'm not asking much of you
Just sing little darling, sing with me.

So much I know, that things just don't grow
If you don't bless them with your patience.
And I've been there before, I held up the door
For every stranger with a promise.
But I'm holding back,
That's the strength that I lack,
Every morning keeps returning at my window.
And it brings me to you,
And I won't just pass through,
But I'm not asking for a storm.

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June
And you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too.
You know I'm not asking much of you,
Just sing little darling, sing with me.

And yes, I might have lied to you,
You wouldn't benefit from knowing the truth.
I was frightened but I held fast,
I need you now at long last.

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June
And you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too.
No, I'm not asking much of you,
Just sing little darling, sing with me.

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June
And you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too.
No, I'm not asking much of you,
Just sing little darling, sing with me.
Just sing little darling sing with me


3.In The Hearts Of Men

Lyricist:Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg
Writer(s):Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg

In the hearts of men
In the arms of mothers
In the parts we play to convince others
We know what we're doing
We're doing it right

May have written books on the subject
But then you may still be surprised
by your tone over the phone
to your sister while waiting in line
at the shopping mall just outside a town

In the hands of teachers
In the books you read
The things you say when we're lost the lead
I still try to speak up but my voice won't make a sound
And I thought it all over too many times

But when there is no use
And the lights are all out
I just give it up and I walk home
Past the shopping mall
That's just closing down

Will you tell yourself,
you all must be what you'll be
Who's to say who is who and what is what
If you simply don't agree
Now, time will come to claim you
And it will have its way
Don't make mistakes and don't regret
Don't waste the time that is left
And then do it all with a goddamn smile

In the hearts of men
In the arms of mothers
In the parts we play to convince others


4.Blue

Lyricist:Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg
Writer(s):Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg

In the morning on the train
You sit and stare at the rain
Or bury yourself in your books
Don't look at no strangers
No, don't give them any looks

Why you ask yourself, why you're so afraid
Why you hesitate when someone asks your name
They'll come too close if you tell them the truth
Who's to say they want something from you

But you're just a shell of your former you
That stranger in the mirror
Oh, that's you
Why'd you look so blue?

And the only man you ever loved
You thought was gonna marry you
Died in a car accident when he was only 22
Then you just decided, love wasn't for you
And every year since then
Has proved it to be true

Now you're just a shell of your former you
That stranger in the mirror
Oh, that's you
Why'd you look so blue?

Maybe tomorrow you will make a change
Maybe someday soon you will find the strength

Now you're just a shell of your former you
That stranger in the mirror
Oh, that's you
Why'd you look so blue?


5.This Old Routine

Lyricist:Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg
Writer(s):Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg

So you come on home, walk through the door. She's in the kitchen
searching through the drawers. So you stop and watch her and ask
what she's looking for. She says she's not sure.

And it gets late and you turn off the lights. Her body so close
to you in the night. But you dare not touch her and you don't
want to fight, so you just say, 'Goodnight.'

This old routine will drive you mad
It's just a mumble never spoken out loud
And sometimes you don't even know why you loved her. Well you
look at her now, and you see why.

And your youngest is out fighting a war. But he won't say what
he's fighting for. If he's gone because of war for you, in which
you rather true.

This old routine will drive you mad
It's just a mumble never spoken out loud
Sometimes you can't even recall the sound of his laughter. Oh,
well did you ever really know the sound?

This old routine will drive you mad
It's just a mumble never spoken out loud
Sometimes you don't even know how you're still standing. Well
she looks at you now, and you see how.

Well you look at the now, and you know how.


6.To A Poet

Lyricist:Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg
Writer(s):Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg

And you said, 'Don't give me nothing
you don't want to lose'
I said, 'Darling, I'll give you everything I got
if I want them to choose'

Then I got on a plane and flew
far away from you
Though unwillingly I left
and it was so, so hard to do

The streets here at home had rapidly filled up
with the whitest of snow
And they don't make no excuse for themselves
and there's no need, I know

Now I miss you more than I can take
and I will surely break
And every morning that I wake
god, it's the same
There's nothing more to it,
I just get through it
Oh, there's nothing more to it
I just get through it

It always takes me by surprise
how dark it gets this time of the year
And how apparent it all becomes
that you're not close, not even near

No matter how many times I tell myself
I have to be sincere
I have a hard time standing up
and facing those fears

But Frank put it best when he said
'You can't plan on the heart'
Those words keep me on my feet
when I think I might just fall apart

Now I miss you more than I can take
and I will surely break
And every morning that I wake
god, it's the same
There's nothing more to it,
I just get through it
Oh, there's nothing more to it
I just get through it
Oh, there's nothing more to it
I just get through it

And so I ask where are you now
just when I needed you
I won't ask again
Because I know there's nothing we can do
Not now, darling, you know it's true


7.I Found A Way

Lyricist:Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg
Writer(s):Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg

It's me, it's me, you've come to take
My duality awakes by midnight time I could not see, if I were
you or you were me

We play the game with skillful hands
And so I asked for your demands
Give me your love, give me your thumb
And he traced us back to where we begun

So the morning came
And swept the night away
As I was looking for
A way to disappear
Amongst the quiet things
And all these empty streets
I found a way, I found a way
To reappear...

I'll follow you
Where you go
Yes, I'll be there
Just so you know
I need your condolence
And your trust
But I won't ask
Won't ask for much

There's a heavy load upon our backs
Of things we carry from the past
My guilt-filled mind, it tried to run
But it traced us back to where we begun

So the morning came
And swept the night away
As I was looking for
A way to disappear
Amongst the quiet things
And all these empty streets
I found a way, I found a way
To reappear...

I'll follow you
Where you go
Yes, I'll be there
Just so you know
I need your condolence
And your trust
But I won't ask
Won't ask for much

I'll only ask for so much
No, I won't ask, wont ask for much

So the morning came
Swept the night away
I found a way
I found a way
To reappear...


8.Dance To Another Tune

Lyricist:Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg
Writer(s):Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg

Will you look at me? Take a good look at me and tell me who it
is that I am. This old mirror it is broken, there's too much
drift in the dam.

It's not the world that's spinning at me
I go from no where to no where searching for the key. There's
nothing new under the sun, all that will happen has already
begun.

Will you savor this in your mind, this old feeling when your
left behind? Will you hold to this as true or will you dance to
another tune?

I was watching for a long time as people crossed the street.
Some heavy sadness weighed upon me as I sat silent incarce.

Shadows with that same look upon their faces, a child will die
that nobody embraces, everything gets tiresome, everything grows
old, with each secret revealed, there's another to be told.

Will you savor this in your mind, this old feeling when your
left behind? Will you hold to this as true or will you dance to
another tune?

Will you look at me? Take a good look at me and tell me who it
is that I am.


9.New Year's Eve

Lyricist:Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg
Writer(s):Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg

Well it's a New Year, with it comes more than new fears. Met a
young man who was in tears, he asked me, 'What induces us to
stay here?' I said, 'I don't know much and I'm not lying, but I
think you just have to keep on trying.'

And I know I'm naive, but if anything
That's what's going to save me
That's what's going to save me

Took a stroll around the neighborhood where the trees are
swaying. People passed in cars with their windows down, with a
pop song playing. A man walked by, walking back and forth the
street with a drunken smile he took home along. He stopped to
look at me and say, 'Child, don't fear doing things wrong.'

Yet I am still afraid but if anything
That's what's going to save me
That's what's going to save me

Now I have a lot to learn and I'm starting tonight, got to stop
looking at things like they're black and they're white. Got to
write more songs of a little more, treat my friends better. Got
to stop worrying about everything to the letter. And sometimes
when it's too hard to get up, it just might be a little call
apart.

But I find it hard to believe, but if anything that's what's
going to save me
That's what's going to save me

Tell me, tell me
Oh, what's going to save me?


10.King Of The World

Lyricist:Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg
Writer(s):Klara SoderbergJohanna Soderberg

At ten in the morning
I was laughing at something
At the airport terminal
At nine in the evening
I was sitting crying to you over the phone
Well passing the border from a state to another
Filled with people whom I couldn't help to relate to
And we stopped a while at a roadside restaurant
Where the waitress was sitting outside smoking in her car
She had that look of, fear in her eyes
And as we drove away from there she looked at me and
she smiled

I keep running around
Trying to find the ground
But my head is in the stars
My feet are in the sky
Well I'm nobody's baby
I'm everybody's girl
I'm the queen of nothing
I'm the king of the world

Well once you asked me well what's my biggest fear
That things would always remain so unclear
That one day I'd wake up all alone
With a big family and emptiness sleeping in my bones
That I would be so blinded, turn into fear
And that my fake laugh would suddenly sound sincere

Now I wasn't born for anything
Wasn't born to say anything
I'm just here now and soon I'll be gone
I'm nobody's baby
I'm everybody's girl
I'm the queen of nothing
I'm the king of the world

Now everyday there's a
While I sleep they start dimming the lights
Well I've seen everything I ever want to see
Screaming fire in the theater, people taking their seats
Watch it all go down like the stone in the stream
Fall for your reflection, drown in the tree

Tell me something real
Tell me something true
I just want to feel there's something left that I can do
But I'm nobody's baby
I'm everybody's girl
I'm the queen of nothing
I'm the king of the world