Agnes Obel Lyrics, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs

B i o g r a p h y
(by Official Press)

Play “Just So” to anyone in Germany and they’ll tell you it’s the music from the Deutsche Telekom television advertisement. Which it is. The kind of exposure many an artist would die for. Well not literally, obviously. Or the kind of publicity an independent spirit might agonize over, venturing into the commercial arena.

I can’t help feeling that Agnes Obel is not going to have her feathers ruffled by something, in the greater scheme of things, as inconsequential as a song placement in an ad. Yet is not intriguing how a few bars of music can seep into our consciousness and set us off wondering where they came from?

This facebookish world of ours offers us the illusion of getting to know people we don’t really know. Who their friends are and what they like. Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel likes Alfred Erik Lesley Satie and Sonic Youth. Debussy and Dylan. Hitchcock and PJ Harvey. But what people like is not necessarily the same as what he or she is like. Clues, perhaps, but as fans of Hitchcock well know, not every clue leads you where you think it might.

So we focus on the facts. Agnes Obel is from Copenhagen but she lives in Berlin. She studied at the University of Roskilde, a town renowned for a Glastonbury style music festival and home to a marvellous viking ship museum. She possesses the rare gift of a songbird‚Äôs voice and is about to release her debut album.

Then, like a good detective, we study the photograph. The owl and Agnes. Except their watchful gaze leaves you feeling its they who are looking at us, rather than the other way around. Did you know that an eagle owl’s eyes do not move, instead owls can move their heads almost three quarters around without moving their body? Agnes, meanwhile, seriously beautiful, looks a little like Liv Ullmann in Bergman’s “Persona,” or Tippi Hedren in self-assured Marnie guise rather than the catatonic figure in The Birds. She appears perfectly balanced alongside the eagle owl, both mutually protective of their proud serenity. A clue staring us in the face, yet conjuring up more questions than answers.

Riverside

Down by the river by the boats
Where everybody goes to be alone
Where you won't see any rising sun
Down to the river we will run

When by the water we drink to the dregs
Look at the stones on the river bed
I can tell from your eyes
You've never been by the riverside

Down by the water the riverbed
Somebody calls you somebody says
Swim with the current and float away
Down by the river everyday

Oh my God I see how everything is torn in the river deep
And I don't know why I go the way
Down by the riverside

When that old river runs pass your eyes
To wash off the dirt on the riverside
Go to the water so very near
The river will be your eyes and ears

I walk to the borders on my own
To fall in the water just like a stone
Chilled to the marrow in them bones
Why do I go here all alone

Oh my God I see how everything is torn in the river deep
And I don't know why I go the way
Down by the riverside

Brother Sparrow

Voices in the street
Footsteps on the concrete
Guess I hear just every sound
On the ground
From my window view
I know a color blue
That can bite so very hard
The day apart

Picture fresh as water clear
Days have passed without you here
Street lights dancing on the dark
Across the park
Waiting for a word from you
Waiting for a sign or two
Footsteps on the city ground
You know the sound

Brother sparrow
Come tomorrow
To my window
Brother sparrow
Come tomorrow
To my window

Just So

Black turns beat me bright
Turning on the light
Today is gonna be the day
You hear somebody say
We need you right away

Tiptoe over the floor
What are you waiting for
So so and no more
That's all to be, so before

Today is gonna be the day
You hear somebody say
We need you right away

You hear the moments kick and play
The order of the day
Is already in your way

The window shade
The nurse and maid
To let it all just work away
From head to toe
Where shadow grows
Since forever and a day

Quiet moments home,
Where some do you roam
Today is gonna be the day
You hear somebody say
We need you right away

No time for tea or lemonade
Some moments of the day
Were only half awake

Drink a toast to the sun,
To the things that never go
To the break of the day
That is all that I say

Beast

I would know who roars mostly like the beast
Going out to hunt and then back to feast
I consider you, I consider you
I consider you
From your hill of beans I will sit and roar
Thinking to myself
What are you waiting for
I consider you, I consider you
I consider you

Let's go tonight, let the beast run a mile
With the dogs and the cattle, let's go
I know you said it's like a heel to the head
Or a girl in your bed and in your arms

Curiosity you do not know
But with a gang of me you'll be on your toes
I consider you, I consider you
I consider you
For a bit of skirt you do go my way
Singing to the sky, oh like a bird of prey
I consider you, I consider you
I consider you

Let's go tonight, to let the beast run wild
With the dogs and the cattle, let's go
I know you've said, it's like a heel to the head
Or a girl in your bed and your arms
For the butter on your bread, for the dying and the dead
For your cheeks turning red, let's go
Let's go tonight, let the beast run a mile
With the dogs and the cattle, let's go

Avenue

What is wrong at the end of the day
What is really wrong no one dares to say
You know you're when there's only one right
But what is wrong when right is out of sight

Right rode away long ago
Before rescuing wrong from below
I might be mistaken, I know
But hey we need to be somewhat

Foolish, feebleminded
Wrong and senseless
Right rode off long ago
There's nothing more you need to know
There's nothing more you need to show
Let us disagree
'Cause wrong was made, for you to be

What is false when we can't hear no more
And there is nothing to cover for
What is wrong in this old wasted game
May right and wrong be one and the same

Right rode away long ago
Before rescuing wrong from below
I might be mistaken, I know
But hey we need to be somewhat

Foolish, feebleminded
Wrong and senseless
Right rode off long ago
There's nothing more you need to know
There's nothing more you need to show
Let us disagree
‘Cause wrong was made, for you to be

Philharmonics

Guess who died
Last night
In grey stockings
In all might
It was no loss
The only god of mine

He fell down
Just to drown
In a sea
Of delight
To tame champagne
And creatures of the night

As the water
Took him over
Filled his lungs
Inside out
I sold his gold
For flowers and rice

Speaking fire
He would hire
Pawns and peasants
Just like me
To feed upon the conquered ones
But now we are free

Close Watch

( John Cale cover )

Never win and never lose
There's nothing much to choose
Between the right and wrong
Nothing lost and nothing gained
Still things aren't quite the same
Between you and me

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine

I still hear your voice at night
When I turn out the light
And try to settle down
But there's nothing I can do
'Cause I can't live without you
Any way at all

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine

??? Oh I'm sure
No harm will come to you no more
'Cause I find myself in your hands
Don't you be so hard on yourself

Over The Hill

Over the hill
I will be waiting for you
I won’t pretend
That you don't mean nothing to me
Come now, come now,
Come back now, come back now

The doubt will creep
And crawl in on you
The dark will leap
And fall upon you
Come back now, come back now

Let it be, let it go
Let it fall, let it blow
Let it come, let it go
Let it fall, we will know

On Powdered Ground

Go back and forward
But all is melting like the snow
Taking all from us
All we thought was left to know

On what we treasure
Falls a dusty snow
Taking us backwards
But where we will never know

Don't break your back on the track
Don't break your back on the track
Don't break your back on the track
Don't break your back on the track

This strong old blizzard
I will let it blow
To undiscovered places
Underneath the snow

Don't break your back on the track
Don't break your back on the track…

Katie Cruel

When I first came to town
They called me roving jewel
Now they've changed their tune
Call me Katy Cruel

Through the woods I'm going
Through the bogs and mire
Straightway down the road
To my heart's desire
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
When I first came to town
They brought me drinks of plenty
Now they've changed their tune
Bring me bottles empty

Through the woods I'm going
Through the bogs and mire
Straightway down the road
To my heart's desire

Through the woods I'm going
Through the bogs and mire
Straightway down the road

If I was where I would be
Then I would be where I am not
Here I am where I must be
Go where I would, I cannot
Go where I would, I cannot
Go where I would

We are the ones of the free
The sons and daughters
Come with us, you will see
Our future
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
We borrow we play
For we know nothing will stay unchanged
Anyway

Moving fast with no weight
Upon our shoulders
Nothing in our world
Will ever hold us

We borrow we play
For we know nothing will stay unchanged
Anyway

Can you hear what we said
???
Can we call you again
All you need is

We borrow we play
For we know nothing will stay unchanged
Anyway
Unchanged anyway