Greatest Hits Volume 1

Mando Diao Greatest Hits Volume 1 Lyrics
1.Dance With Somebody(Radio Version)

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

Break your happy home
Learn to sing along
To the music, to the music
Clap your hands and shake
On a summer's day
To the music, to the music

I'm falling in love with your favourite song
I'm gonna sing it all night long
I'm gonna dance with somebody
Dance with somebody
Dance, dance, dance

I'm gonna dance with somebody
When you're all alone
We become your home
We're the music, we're the music
When your love's away
And you feel betrayed
We're the music, sweet music

I'm falling in love with your favourite song
I'm gonna sing it all night long
I'm gonna dance with somebody
Dance with somebody
Dance, dance, dance

Dance...


I'm falling in love with your favourite song
I'm gonna sing it all night long
I'm gonna dance with somebody
Dance with somebody
Dance, dance, dance


2.Long Before Rock`n`Roll

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

She said I like just lying on the bed
Beneath the celeing with her head upon my pillow
There's nothing else I'd rather do
And I said I'd rather do it on the couch or in the kitchen
Where about you seem so down child
Like nothing could destroy your world

But i never ever wanted to
You would never ever let me to
I would but you must wait 'til it gets dark
So what is it that you want me to?
I can make it if it's good for you
So play me some from 1954
Before rock'n'roll
yeah before rock'n'roll
before rock'n'roll

Well later she came with flowers in her arms
Said we can do it in the car
My brother owns it, the driver seat is made for us
And I said I'd rather grab a bite to eat
There is a diner down the street
Let's take it easy and join this lovely harmony

But i never ever wanted to
YOu would never ever let me to
I would but you must wait 'til it gets dark
So what is it that you want me to?
I can make it if it's good for you
So play me some from 1954
Before rock'n'roll
Yea before rock'n'roll
Before rock'n'roll
Yea yea yea yeah

Nanananananana...


3.Down In The Past

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

Well I don't wanna hang around with you
I've got my motor baby and I'm gonna see you through
You think I wanna be alone with you
It doesn't matter baby cause you're overreacted too

But since you're down there, where will I just be
I'm getting fine girl, dressing up for stormy weather

So touch me down in the past where my mother will last
And it's true that I'm in for a punch and a blast
Yeah down in the past where my mother will last
And she will make sure that you remember

Well I don't wanna slide away with you
I've got ten little soldiers pointing at you
Honey you just left me for a new one
It doesn't matter baby cause your hair is ugly too

But since you're down there, where will I just be
I'm getting fine girl, dressing up for stormy weather

So touch me down in the past where my mother will last
And it's true that I'm in for a punch and a blast
Yeah down in the past where my mother will last
And she will make sure that you remember

Well I don't wanna hang around with you
I've got my motor baby and I'm gonna see you through
You think I wanna be alone with you
It doesn't matter baby cause you're overreacted too

So touch me down in the past where my mother will last
And it's true that I'm in for a punch and a blast
Yeah down in the past where my mother will last
And she will make sure that you remember

That you remember... Come on...


4.Sheepdog

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

I aim the first one who'll dare to stand still
Oh Lord, your tension is making me ill
You've got no friends in your home, you'll got no family stone
You can't go... yeah yeah yeah

Everyone, in every town, on every boat, on every trip, the
multi-talented strip
Will gather 'round you with coke and pain
The trees, ain't no doubt about
The seeds, I had no thought about
No, yeah yeah yeah

Don't know why I can't locate this feeling,that I would rather
be with you
It makes no sense, you're crying out loud, that I may love you
This stress is wasting my emotions that I would rather be with
you
Don't let them closer to this secret...that I may love you

Take 'em outa west, take 'em outa height, take 'em on a sweet
ride
Those little angles are numbered nine
The colored TV once shined on desolation 15
They've got it!!Yeah, yeah yeah!
Bust 'em in the light, bust 'em in the light, BUST 'EM IN THE
DAYLIGHT
They ain't worthy being named as thieves
One of the shorties said hi up to the abbot who died
The rebound... yeah yeah yeah


Now hear the bluebird whistle hymns like 'I would rather heal
your wounds'
now hear the dark gun punching out that I may love you


5.God Knows

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

Well I turned left just like you told me to
I get excited by the moves you do
I'm on a mission and I'm gonna get away
Well I saw her standing all colored in red
I felt the blues just by the things she said
I want my mission so I can escape today

God knows - I ain't sleeping but I want my line
God knows - I ain't happy so I want it bad tonight
Oh brother can you help me out
God knows - I've got nothing so accept my time
God knows - it ain't easy to behave in this spotlight
Oh brother can you help me out
brother can you help me out
Oh brother can you help me out

Well I turned the page from number three to four
You had nothing on you by my bedroom door
You had your mission now I'm gonna get away
When this is over and our souls are saved
When I am buried when I've got my own cave
I've done my mission so I won't be here today

God knows - I ain't sleeping but I want my line
God knows - I ain't happy so I want it bad tonight
Oh brother can you help me out
God knows - I've got nothing so accept my time
God knows - it ain't easy to behave in this spotlight
Oh brother can you help me out...
brother can you help me out
Oh brother can you help me out
Oh brother can you help me OUT

I turned right just like I thought you would
I got excited like you said I would
I'm on a mission and I'm getting blown AWAY
Well I saw her standing all colored in red
I felt the blues just by the things she said
I want my mission so I can escape today

God knows - I ain't sleeping but I want my line
God knows - I ain't happy so I want it bad tonight
Oh brother can you help me out
God knows - I've got nothing so accept my time
God knows - it ain't easy to behave in this spotlight
Oh brother can you help me out...
All right


6.Welcome Home, Luc Robitaille

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

Smile you're on tv again
You must put up a happy face
Your mother told you to on Christmas day
Oh you must do what they say
Now you're thinking of happy thoughts
Like no one did you harm and it was all
1234
Life's so brilliant but why? I'm not so sure
You remember the day
You remember the package
Where he used to spend his years
And now you found him or was it him that found you
It feels like you already knew

Life is sweet when he is back so I just say
Welcome home, Luc Robitaille there's so much
That you missed I'm old but I need you as much as yesterday
Oh Mr. Robitaille stay
I threw the others away

This must be the worst thing I've done
I don't know even why I wrote this song
There's so much more to him than that paper card
Look at him crossing the line oh it's so hard
To define the moves inside my head it's all just
Blood blood sweat sweat tears tears behind all fears
Now it seems so clear everything falls into place
This mathematic maze and now you found me
Or was it me that found you it feels like you already knew

Life is sweet when he is back so I just say
Welcome home, Luc Robitaille there's so much
That you missed I'm old but I need you as much as yesterday
Oh Mr. Robitaille stay
I threw the others away
I threw the others away

Smile you're on tv again you must put up a
Happy face your mother told you to
And now you see you found him or was it
Him that found you
It feels like you already knew

Life is sweet when he is back so I just say
Welcome home, Luc Robitaille there's so much
That you missed I'm old but I need you as much as yesterday
Oh Mr. Robitaille stay
I threw the others away


7.Gloria

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

Well now
She don't need to see the sun ahead
Don't need that help from God above
If you're losing her don't be sad
Cause she will offer you heart attacks

She's tired of problems that you caused her mind
Tired of all those lies in your freak show
Tired of being alone at night
Being the lowest cat on earth

So Gloria steps out of the prison
Gloria's no longer the wasted disco girl
you've been dreaming about

Gloria alone now forever
Gloria away in the air now
Gloria she's no longer your slave, noo

Ooh ooh ooh

It's time for you to see yourself
All the misery you brought up
Gloria's one day ahead
Watching you from the heaven's gate

She's tired of problems that you caused her mind
Tired of all those lies in your freak show
Tired of being alone at night
Being the lowest cat on earth

So Gloria steps out of the prison
Gloria's no longer the wasted disco girl
you've been dreaming about

2x
Gloria alone now forever
Gloria away in the air now
Gloria she's no longer your slave

She's no, no longer your slave
No, no, not anymore
She's no, no longer your slave
No, no, not anymore
She's no, no longer your slave
No, no, not anymore

So Gloria steps out of the prison
Gloria's no longer the wasted disco girl
you've been dreaming about

Gloria alone now forever
Gloria away in the air now
Gloria she's no longer your slave

No, not anymore
No, no, no, not anymore
No, no


8.If I Don`t Live Today, Then I Might Be Here Tomorrow

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

Take my hand of funeral flowers in white
Why did you hurt me so?
You said that you never stood out
So go kiss Ann on the cheek
She's never week
She likes the way you betrayed me
But don't forget If I don't live today, then I might be here
tomorrow
If I don't live today, then I might be here tomorrow
Be here tomorrow

Watch me shine, as all the lights closes down
It's just a talent of mine
You know I die whenever I want
So go chase fortune when I'm gone
I'm guilty of reading my own past.
So don't forget If I don't live today, then I might be here
tomorrow
If I don't live today, then I might be here tomorrow


9.Mean Street

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

Let me take you for a ride
far away from the upper side
we're going down to the mean street

Johnny's got a brand new 38
he thinks it's gonna cure his hate
Ah it's all done in the mean street

It's the state of grace

and It's all done in the mean street

Take my hand and close your pretty eyes
cus it's gonna hurt so much when summer hits
New Nork sky
oh no, it's all done in the mean street

God I love this stormy cloud
Where all nasty girls they like it loud
It's all good in the mean streets

Diane had her grand debut here
Michael couldn't even tell if it was
pleasure or fear
It's all done in the mean street

and It's my little state of grace

It goes down in the mean street

Take my hand and close your pretty eyes
cus it's gonna hurt so much when summer hits
New York sky
oh no, it's all done in the mean street

The heights, the sights, the green, the
scarred
the easy way of doing everything hard,
the fashion
Oh I hate that street with... passion

Take my hand and close your pretty eyes
cus it's gonna hurt so much when summer hits
New York sky
oh no, it's all done in the mean street
it's all done in the mean street
it's all done in the mean street


10.The Band

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

I've played that song from long ago
When every morning longed to fall
It broke my sighs and my regrets
It stumbled on the steps
You've build for climbing towards me
Now it feels like sinners in the sun

When I say
I said I'd die for you
Or was it in my head
I took you down on ouzo
And now I think I'd rather see you dead

I said I die for you
Or was it in my head
She took me down on ouzo
And then you say you'd rather see me dead

If my depression stood the wind
I spat the devil up his chin
It couldn't do me any harm
It roughed my steel and shut my mouth
My late impression
Oh, that rain that's iching on my skin

When I say
I said I'd die for you
Or was it in my head
I took you down on ouzo
And now I think I'd rather see you dead

I said I die for you
Or was it in my head
You took me down on ouzo
And then you say you'd rather see me dead

Hold me, scratch my shoulder
Fold me, sue me, watch me going mad

I said I'd die for you
Or was it in my head
I took you down on ouzo
And now I think I'd rather see you dead

I said I die for you
Or was it in my head
She took me down on ouzo
And then you say you'd rather see me dead


11.Never Seen The Light Of Day

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

She knows that if she ever breaks free
That she will never see the light of day
She's been blinded by the stars and dreams she craved
And if they ever let her go
She still be bound to all her fears
And all the medicine they forced her to take

On and on and on she goes
On and on and on she goes
But she will never ever ever find love
Unless she takes on a fight
Along with the northern light

They found her in the basement facing east
Howling wolves and inhailing beast
Were strangling every little dream she had in there
And if she ever finds her way
They will haunt her through the day
Until she breaks and then becomes one of them, cause

On and on and on she goes
On and on and on she goes
But she will never ever ever find love
Unless she takes on a fight
Along with the northern light

Yeah...

On and on and on she goes
On and on and on she goes
But she will never ever ever find love
Unless she takes on a fight
Along with the northern light

She knows
That if she ever let go
She will only loose her soul
There's no way out of this hell.
Yeah


12.TV Me

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

Gunned down in a fight
It was a bloody pleasure
Though I couldn't walk
I'm not dead I smell the pavement
At the end there's a light
And so pretty women
Though I couldn't see
I'm not blind and inside my mind

Fright night on the radio starving Junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
While there's conan something
MTV's burning up from lack of fever
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
I just wish there was something more to this
TV & Me

Lift off into space
It's all on discovery
I don't understand why it takes
So long for me to turn
So long for me to turn it off

Fright night on the radio starving Junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
While there's conan something
MTV's burning up from lack of fever

I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
I just wish there was something more to this
TV & Me


13.You Can`t Steal My Love(Radio Edit)

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

I was walking down the street
with my chains chains chains
tied up to my feet
I leaned instead of jiggie
with the sidewalk
Now this street tells the same old boring tale
that has failed in so many ways of life
To trust its stories
you've got to be dull as them

And all the love I've got in here
You've just killed you peasants
didn't even care
The love I had in store you raped for more
And all the dreams I had in here
you've just stolen
You peasants didn't even care
But the dreams I had for her you cannot touch,
my golden hand
'Cause it's guarded by your promises
yeah, yeah, yeah!!!

I met her in a crowded room
where the bookshelves help you and knowledge takes your hand
I watched her beauty from an armchair
I said 'Hey girl have you seen that film
with those kids in New York in the eighties
Oh, you have - Well, can I watch it with you anyway'

And all the love I've got in here
You've just killed you peasants
didn't even care
The love I had in store you raped for more
And all the dreams I had in here
you've just stolen
You peasants didn't even care
But the dreams I had for her you cannot touch,
my golden hand
'Cause it's guarded by your promises
yeah, yeah yeah, yeah!!!

Congratulation Mr. Major
you savior,
betrayer,
you stinking master of trusts
How does it feel to ride all those horses
You cannot touch our hearts
when we're in bloom
I assume that we'll win over the heads again
We conceal non,
you'll feel none,
that's what I promise

And all the love we've got in store,
you can't kill You peasants!
We won it all
And the love I have for her
you cannot touch,
my golden hand,
'Cause it's guarded by your filthy promises

And all the love I've got in here
You've just killed you peasants
didn't even care
The love I had in store you raped for more
And all the dreams I had in here
you've just stolen
You peasants didn't even care
But the dreams I had for her you cannot touch,
my golden hand
'Cause it's guarded by your promises
yeah, yeah, yeah!!!

Honey I love you, like the summer falls
And the winter crawls you're above and beyond me
Honey I love you, like the summer falls
And the winter crawls you're above and beyond me

Honey I love you, like the summer falls
And the winter crawls you're above and beyond me


14.Mr Moon(2002 Remastered)

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

Mr Moon, Mr Moon maybe your time is coming.
Mr Moon, Mr Moon what's happening in the room?
We'll search our hearts before you die, let the time fades away.
It was given as a promise to each and every man.

I wanna love you but I'm growing old.
Ten little soldiers screaming in my soul.
Will she come over when it's time to go?
Come on and show me little drummerboy.
No...Mr Moon, Mr Moon, Mr Moon

Sad but true, sad but true,
you're telling me what to do.
I've learned my lesson, that stupid question,
Though it hurt my pride.

But you're a girl, a serious girl,
Showing me the world.
Oh my love, you're so tired,
But you must be quiet.

I wanna love you but I'm growing old.
Ten little soldiers screaming in my soul.
Will she come over when it's time to go?
Come on and show me little drummerboy,
No..Mr Moon, Mr Moon, Mr Moon.

Hey, hey, heeey?
Mr Moon, Mr Moon, Mr Mooooooooooooon.

I wanna love you but I'm growing old.
Ten little soldiers screaming in my soul.
Will she come over when it's time to go?
Come on and show me little drummerboy.

I wanna love you but I'm growing old.
Ten little soldiers screaming in my soul.
The day is using up it's final breath.
I've never been so sure I've never doubted you.
Mr Moon, Mr Moon, Mr Moon.


15.All My Senses

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

Pull the trigger, break down in a love affair
When I said I didn't care, you started searching for tomorrow
Pull the trigger, my girl you're running all alone
I said I was back home, but I'm far away

And there ain't no point in the words I write
There ain't no way to know me
But it sure felt right when I saw your eyes
But now they feel like, oh yeah they feel like Mondays

And all my senses seem to shine through the day
Seem to shine through the day, honey that's okay
Yes all my senses seem to shine in the night
Seem to shine in the night, honey that's alright

In your heart girl, I see a jealous butterfly
You wanted me high, love, but I'm sober still
In your heart girl, there's nothing left but misery
Come dance while I'm getting free I'm gonna lie again

Cause there ain't no point in the words I write
There ain't no way to get me But I sure was high when I saw your
smile
But now your always, oh yes you're always gone girl

And all my senses seem to shine through the day
Seem to shine through the day, honey that's okay
Yes all my senses seem to shine in the night
Seem to shine in the night, honey that's alright

All my senses seem to shine in the night
Seem to shine in the night, honey that's alright
And all my senses seem to be in this song
Thinking all day long, honey what went wrong
Tell me what went wrong
Tell me what went wrong


16.Paralyzed

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

She ain't as beautiful as me, but she's as beautiful as she can
be
She ain't as cold as she want but she wants it to boil
She ain't as cold as she can be, don't you see
It takes a fast mind to figure out, what's on this whole earth
this is all about
Let 'em ride for a while, let 'em wonder, oh
Why it takes a faster, faster, faster mind to figure out how

She's got a bent belt by her side
She's got that donkey paralyzed
She's got a cold inner wind and a ware full of sins
She's got a garagedoor where you've got lies
She's got a lifeline by her side
She's got a woman paralyzed
She's got a much elder husband than god's son himself
She's got a bagage full of hope and knives
Na! Get down!

She's selling basses down a 'backstreet stair'
Just down the alley where there's nothin' but air
And the birds took brake, 'round 1968
She's selling basses in a 'backstreet stair'
She took me down when just couldn't get ahead
She took my soul when I choosed laughter instead
Let me ride for a while let me wonder, oh
How it takes a faster, faster, faster mind to figure out how

She's got a bent belt?


17.Christmas Could Have Been Good

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard


18.Ochrasy

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

I feel dizzy all laid back and I'm too blind to see
What's going on outside my lonely window
I'm turning on the TV screen watch the news for a while
Then I fall back to sleep again

And I'm dreaming 'bout times, times that are gone
Times when I lived alone in my own land called ochrasy
That place was everything to me
The word I made it up you see
It's all there in my fantasy
And I believe it

I'm waking up again and see that war on screen again
And it makes me want to go and hide
This world is full of misery, the anger is too big to see
That's why I had to dream this dream

I was dreaming 'bout times, times that are gone
Times when I lived alone in my own land called ochrasy
That place was everything to me
The world I made it up you see
It's all there in my fantasy
And I believe it

Now they come again all these soldiers without shame
Dressed in black an equipped with fire
They can stop our happy days and put us in the graves
But never reach the ochrasy

I was dreaming 'bout times, times that are gone
Times when I lived alone in my own land called ochrasy
That place was everything to me
The word I made it up you see
It's all there in my fantasy
And I believe it

I'm waking up again and see that war on screen again
And it makes me want to go and hide
This word is full of misery the anger is too big to see
That's why I had to dream this dream


19.Clean Town

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

You wanna worship its feelings
The ones who's squeezing the shame from every man
And if mama says it's dinner time,
if she ruins your love,
run away

So you live in a prison
So you're wasting your life
On a system you never will understand
Are you the one I dreamed of.
Man!

Clean town if you want to get away
You pack your cases and you hope for a better day
Mama's alright she said she didn't want you love
Clean town if you want to get away,
you pack your cases
And you hope for a better day
Joni's alright she said she didn't want your love

Won't you walk down the main street
Take the bridge over never ending rails
And even if you're falling down
That's an open door to the outside world
So you live in a bubble...

Clean town if you want to get away...

You can drive to the east cost
Disappear for a while Put the band-echo on,
then we'll give him a ride
Are you the one I dreamed of.
Man! Clean town if you want to get away...

Won't you get away...


20.Good Morning,Herr Horst

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

I've been walking down the street
With a tambourine on my feet
I'm holding every beat steady and low
Well if it would've been me
I would have turned into the factory
And chase that little girl black and blue

Now I'm bleeding
And I'm freezing
And I'm crying once again
For Monday glass
For Monday glass

So if you see me on the street
Don't ask me about my passing days
Just slip another coin
And walk away

Lalalalalalalalala

I once had a love of mine
With a different heart
In another time
I blew that all with pills and alcohol

I once had a child of mine
With a different heart
In another time
I blew that off with booze and lack of soul

Now I'm bleeding
And I'm freezing
And I'm crying once again
For Monday glass
For Monday glass

So if you see me on the street
Don't ask me about my passing days
Just slip another coin
And walk away
Yeah slip another coin
And walk away

Lalalalalalalalala


21.Motown Blood

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard

I said go, I said baby don't wanna go
I said freeze, I said baby don't wanna freeze
And if it's night or day we don't care if what
we get along whatever you do
And it won't be long 'till they get my file
and turns it black as black as afternoon
And turns it black as black as afternoon

I said you, I said you and me and her
I said us, I said us makes white a blur
And if it's night or day we don't care if how
we get along whatever you say
And it won't be long 'till they get my file
and turns it black as black as grey
And turns it black as black as grey

I said you, well you do...
We don't care if you care for the mob
We don't care if you care for the sub
We don't care if you care for the mud
Cause we've got motown blood in our veins
Cause we've got motown blood in our veins

I said move, I said baby don't wanna move
I said groove, I said baby don't wanna groove
And if it's night or day we don't care if what
we get along whatever you do
And it won't be long 'till they get my file
and turns it black as black as afternoon
And turns it black as black as afternoon

I said you, well you do...
We don't care if you care for the mob
We don't care if you care for the sub
We don't care if you care for the mud
Cause we've got motown blood in our veins
Cause we've got motown blood in our veins

Cause we've got motown blood in our veins
Cause we've got motown blood in our veins


22.Dalarna

Lyricist:Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard
Writer(s):Gustaf NorenBjorn Dixgard