Sweet Chariots
BEAT BASED / SONG CENTERED / SPIRIT LED


---Lyrics---

1. All I want is what I had
2. Beatpound
3. Ship ahoy
4. Good love gone bad
5. Frankly
6. Never gonna stop
7. Cry no more tears
8. Balm for the burned
9. You said run
10. Ten tons of cargo
11. Sing your troubles away

Words by Mattsson/Frisk
(P)(C)2000 Virgin Records Sweden AB


All I want is what I had

Tonight was going to be so special
I was sure I had it all prepared
The wine and the shoshine
The sixteen steps down the stairs

As I crossed the street on a red light
There was something in the evening air
The stars were out
With a promise of a brilliant affair

And all I wanted lay within my reach for a while
The hope of a change was alive
The hope of an easier time
Than the one right behind me
Was blown away again I am the last to know
Now all I want is what I had just an hour ago

When I built up all these expectations
I guess I made my plans in vain
When I was counting on you
To be able to ease the pain

Now it feels like I'm about to lose it
And the borderline is getting thin
And the howling in my head
Is louder than it's ever been

And all I wanted lay within my reach...

You sparkled like the rain
As you washed my life away
I wish I'd stayed
But I was too afraid to fail again

And all I wanted lay within my reach...



Beatpound

We crashed at a southern subway station
Her course got to change my destination
She took my mind for a train ride
While the buzz of the crowd made the strangest sound

Tonight let's just make a beat bound
Underground
Tonight we might have a loss found

I took her for lame but she was smarter
And the music she liked was so much harder
I told her mine where the sad songs
She shook her head saying, I know these ones

Tonight let's just make a beat bound
Underground, if you don't know the sound
I think we might have a loss found

If you don't care for a comedown
And if your heart makes a lonely sound

Tonight let's just make it double bound
Underground
We'll make a heartbeat pound

A roll a rattle a shake
Just blow my silence away
Into the light and out of the shadow
We could be hit by sound, bow and arrow

My road is so dark come make it brighter
My sight is so narrow come make it wider

Love might have played you a sad song
But I couldn't sing though I wrote this one

Tonight let's just make it rhythm bound
Lost and found
We'll make the sweetest sound

Love might have played you a sad song
But I can not sing cause I live these ones

Tonight let's just make a beat bound
Underground
We'll make the strongest sound



Ship ahoy

I saw you hanging in the air
As a smoke trail hovered in a spotlight blaze
White noise and people everywhere
But the sounds disappeared as my spiked blood raced

Could it be love love
That I feel as I'm lying in the splinters
Land ho
What does it take to let go with you
Don't know
But I'm wrecked on a reef and I'm in for a hurricane

Ship ahoy
Let me travel your tide
What a joy
To let go on your high

Yes I've been the worst kind of guy
The kind that have a love for living in a haze
Throw a dice catch a pair of eyes
Share a kiss hey we could find a quiet place

Where we can find love love
We can lose ourselves with the cargo
We could drown
Or we could sail on the waves tonight
I've been sinking
But I'm close to the coast and I'm saved if you pull me up

Ship ahoy...

Looking good much better than we should
Feeling nice though the water's 'bout to rise
Look at all these things that bob around our raft
Am I going down or shall we drift away



Good love gone bad

Does everybody know
Has everybody seen
Is something going on here
Is it something about me

I enter a room
And conversations die
I don't want to believe it
But I've met so many lies

I come home late
In the middle of the night
You're pretending to sleep
But I saw you turn off the lights

And it's sad
Oh so sad
To see our good love
Gone so bad

We fall apart
We separate our lines
While I'm the one complaining
You're still the one who's fine

You look unharmed
And prouder than before
The comfort that I gave you
You don't need it anymore

You come home late
In the middle of the night
I'm pretending to sleep
Cause I'm too tired to fight

And it's sad...

I come home late
And there's nobody there
And I can't got to sleep
And I don't think it's fair

And it's sad...



Frankly

Is it the way you curse its name
Cause of the light that you're refused
Is it the hardness of the game
That we now can't win or lose
Just mind the way that it's used

With no future in our minds
Only ashes in our souls
Are we standing next in line
For the funeral of our curious kind

Frankly
We can't say this is love but madness
Frankly
It's a state-line between our aims
And me and you
Frankly
Shall we light up this case called sadness

I don't know
If you remember
How we stole every moment
And wasted a thousand
For counterfeit gold on our get-ups

We wrote in stars though bells they rang
For our last steps on the moon
And in the lip-synched show they sang
About a feeling warm and true

Can we get satisfied at mind
Could our souls be young again
Could our mileage do rewind
Could our love revive our spirit so blind

Frankly...

I don't know
I can't remember
We've got holes in our pockets
Shame in our suitcase
We chew on our cheeks
But we never really get high

Frankly
Shall we light up this case or not

I don't know
I can't remember
We've got holes in our pockets
Shame in our suitcase
We walk on our knees
But we never really get high



Never gonna stop

Standing by the window
Wasting my time
Waiting for the headlights
But I know your kind

You won't go for silver
You must look for gold
Find out for yourself
You can't do what you've been told

You were made a migrant
Impossible to hold
Your heart is set on living
Your heart is set on living

It's never gonna stop
Don't try it
It's never gonna stop
Don't try it

It's all across the nation
And coming to town
A contageous epidemic
And you ain't around

You won't go for reason
Listen or behold
You must go your own way
Can't do what you've been told

It penetrates your body
Savages your soul
Your heart will run for shelter
Your heart will run for shelter

It's never gonna stop...



Cry no more tears

I thought I was alone
I was sad I was stoned
I was out of my mind
I thought I was erased
I was fading away
The world had left me behind

Now I feel ashamed
That I ever complained
It turns out I was wrong
I thought I was a mess
I was wrong I confess
But I thought I was low until you came along

If you recognize through your swollen eyes
Someone just like you broken down with lies

Cry no more tears
Take this song and sing your troubles away
Fear no more fears
Take your faults and make them right today

I thought I could be free
Doing fine being me
I was out of my mind
I thought I was enough
Everything was so rough
I had to leave it behind

Now I feel ashamed
Everyone that I blamed
It turns out they were right
I realized I was alone
I was sad I was stoned
And I thought I was gone till I saw you tonight

If you recognized through your swollen eyes
Someone just like you broken down with lies

Cry no more tears...

I ain't afraid
Of walking alone though I'm lost and astray
Fear no more fears
Take your faults and make them right today

Some say it's better
If you let it open wide
Some say forget it
You were damaged
you were hurt but don't you

Cry no more tears...



Balm for the burned

They can put out the lights but they ain't gonna blind us
They can steal our songs but we're still gonna sing
They can break our bones but they ain't gonna grind us
They can put us in chains but we're still gonna swing

Took a walk on the shadowy side
Where I met an old acquaintance of mine
She showed me marks on her arm in a line
She said do you think these freckles
Do you think these freckles
Do you think these freckles will stay

They can search for all time but they ain't gonna find us
They can put us to test but we'll never get fooled
They can force us to run but we'll leave them behind us
They can taunt our class but they ain't gonna rule

Got a friend in a newspaper-stand
Where he lines up magazines on the shelf
He showed me colours in neon and sand
He said do you think these faces will sell

Do you really think we can work it out
Will the end be televised
Or do you think we'll go live

There's a sign in the sky and it ain't gonna guide them
There's a change in the wind that they ain't gonna feel
There's a balm for the burned but ain't gonna heal them
There's a balm for the burned that they just cannot steal

Took the lift to the twenty-first floor
For the greeting of a promoted friend
He showed me marble and gold in his room
He said do you think these records
Do you think these records
Do you think these records will play

They can out out the lights but they ain't gonna blind us
They can steal our songs but we're still gonna swing



You said run

They're closing down old pavilion
They're pouring concrete on the grass
Well I don't mind the way it changes
And I don't cry for times that passed

Cause I have done my share of changing
I did my best to satisfy
And though I never really made it
You can't claim I didn't try

You said run and I ran
You said sing and I sang
I've done what I can
But I'm leaving now
I'm just the rambling kind

Now I see snow among the ruins
The cranes like birds against the sky
Well I'm not back I won't be staying
I was only passing by

And I don't care much for nostalgia
And I won't miss you when I'm gone
But I wanted so to thank you
Don't think you know the good you've done

You said run and I ran
You said sing and I sang
You've done what you can
But I'm leaving now
I've got someone else to mind
And it's me
If you look you will see
I'm gone and I'm free
I'm nowhere bound
But I'm still the rambling kind

And when I got away
I celebrate that day
To finally be alone
And when I reached the road
It felt like coming home

And I ran...



Ten tons of cargo

Ten tons of cargo
I carry in my load
Ten tons of cargo
I've gathered on my road
Some of it I don't mind
Some of it I should have thrown away
Some of it I never find
Looking every hour every day

When we were together
Scales fell from my eyes
When we were together
Higher than the sky
Some of it was blinding me
Lying with my freight crashed on the stones
Some of it reminding me
We were young and never should have grown

Wheels
Rolled me off the righteous highway
Wheels
Rolled me to the dead-end lanes
Yonder in the distance
I can see a righteous day

The smoke and the gravel
The dust-clouds that we raised
The smoke and the gravel
The beauty and the waste
Wonder what we flight it for
Wonder where the morning lost the day
Though some of them were very small
I wonder 'bout the signs along the way

Wheels...