Playlist First Aid Kit

first aid kit - a window opens

The window opens I hear the toddling waves
I think about the soldiers, I think about the interstates
I would like to leave it all just for a week or two
Maybe I'd see it in clarity, whatever I would see

It's all so confusing, I don't know where I stand
I could be anything but not yours on demand
I would like to leave it all if I only could
Maybe I'd see it in clarity if I'd see anything at all

But the birds they are singing that sweet and lonesome song
Oh mother oh brother
Take me home today

You may call me irresponsible or even carefree
It makes me feel like I'm part of the earth
I would like to stay here and just watch the sky
Maybe I'd see it in clarity, or I'll see nothing at all

And the wolfs they are singing that sweet but haunted song
Oh father oh sister
Take me home today

first aid kit - beneath the pile

fingers offer fingertips for the clawing
out from beneath this pile of battered bodies and broken lips.
no that's not the cue to die. playing dead is not the same
as going quietly. there are forces to be reckoned with.
something is over our heads and watching us.
they all slither and slander because they can.
taking sniper shots from elevated posts
right through the back of our heads.
fingers offer fingertips for the clawing
and now double jointed we bend and bounce back so we make it.
following closely, charlie's ahead in the clearing.
and now the rebels march more carefully with weapons.

first aid kit - blue

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 shallow
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 shallow
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 shallow
Your former you
That stranger in the mirror
Oh, that's you
Why'd you look so blue?

first aid kit - caperucita

please be aware in dead forest
take your hood dyed in red
trees are weird in dead forest
wolves may be around

(pling plong pling pling plong!)

trees are weird in dead forest
wolves may be around

(spanish talking)

please be aware in dead forest
please be aware in dead forest
take your hood dyed in red
wolves can be around

first aid kit - contingency plan

It's a little late for the contingency plan.
Running down the corridors,
I should have planned for this before.
Now that everyone's passed on the situation is all mine.

A security that's been building in my head for quite some time.
An unnerving incompetence and I think I'd like to get by.

It's a little late to start and instrument now.

All my friends they had lessons.
Their parents needed to please their sons.
So like an old dog trying to learn new tricks,
I'm tripping on my fat fingers.

This isn't how I planned it but I guess that I never really planned it at all.
And it's a little late to start.

first aid kit - cross oceans

There's something about you
That I'm never going to find out
I want to live that life again
I want to live that life again

The way that you say things
So they sound so right
I want to cross oceans
I want to cross oceans

But everything I say I keep in the wrong side of my mouth
And when the words come out they don't sound anything like
I imagined, 'cause I imagined

It feels like I am
Waiting for the rain
I want to live that life again
I want to live that life again

Or an endless secret
Parade of change
I want to cross oceans
I want to cross oceans

Stare at the ground a second to long then it's gone
And everything I can see looks nothing like
I imagined, 'cause I imagined

I want to cross oceans
I want to cross oceans
I want to cross oceans
I want to cross oceans
I want to cross oceans
I want to cross oceans

first aid kit - dance to another tune

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 as me
I go from nowhere to nowhere 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 you're 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 in the car seat...

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 you're 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...

first aid kit - emmylou

Oh the bitter winds are coming in and i'm already missing the summer
Star comes 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 feed it 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
You know 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'm i... i'm in love to you
You wouldn't bet... for knowin the truth
I was frightened but i held back
I need you now i don't last

I'll be your emmylou and i'll be your june
If 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.

Just sing little darling sing with me

first aid kit - ghost town

All of these ghost towns
I keep travelling through
All of these traffic signs
And lonesome bars blind the view
I swear I can be better
I could be more to you
But there are things that line my path
That I just had to do

If you've got visions of the past
Let them follow you down
They'll come back to you some day
And I found myself attached to this railroad track
But I'll come back to you some day
To you
To you
To you
Some day

And I remember how you told me
All you wanted to do
That dream of Paris in the morning
Or a New York window view
I can see it now you're married
And your wife is with a child
And you're all laughing in the garden
And I'm lost somewhere in your mind

If you've got visions of the past
Let them follow you down
They'll come back to you some day
And I found myself attached to this railroad track
But I'll come back to you some day
To you
To you
To you
Some day

Maybe I should just turn around
Walk away
For no matter how much I really do want to stay
You know I can when it's too late

Oh I've found myself attached to this railroad track
I'll come back to you some day
To you
To you
To you
Some day

first aid kit - hard believer

So you ask for my opinion well what is there to say
To be honest and just foolish wonâ??t make you want to stay
Youâ??ve got to go on and get moving and I canâ??t do that for you
Got so many plans and so much you want to do

Love is tough, time is rough
On me

Well I see youâ??ve got your bible your delusion imagery
Well I donâ??t need your eternity or your meaning to feel free
I just live because I love to and thatâ??s enough you see
So donâ??t come preach about morality thatâ??s just human sense to me

Love is tough, time is rough
On me

And itâ??s one life and itâ??s this life and itâ??s beautiful

Love is tough, time is rough
On me

first aid kit - i found a way

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, won't ask for much

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

first aid kit - i met up with the king

I met up with the king
He confessed his body was burning
I met up with the king
His body had begun to rot
And he said don't think less of me
I'm still the same man I used to be

But no one believed him
No one believed him

I once knew a pretty girl
And she was in love with the world
And she loved a young man
Who loved her body but never saw her mind
He took everything she had kept
And then he took everything else that was left

But no one believed her
No one believed her

I feel just like the king
As I fall on the muddy ground
I feel just like you gal
There's people thinking
They know something now
Well I don't know anything at all
And we mean nothing to history
Well thank God

So tell me do you believe me?
Do you believe me?
I bet you don't
I bet you won't

first aid kit - in the hearts of men

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

first aid kit - in the morning

In the morning
On your journey to the sea
In the mountains
Your shadows beside me

You crossed the pasture land
And threw your wedding band
Into the great deep
Where you'd rest to sleep
My dear

In the oceans where you lay
Where you've made your grave
They'll find you on the shore
Rosy no more
My dear

In the morning
On your journey to the sea

You crossed the pasture land
And threw your wedding band
Swallowing the seed
Of truth

first aid kit - jagadamba, you might

I see the animals run past me
You know me better than the wind
Let me open the door for you
You might see the sun
Your little mama and your papa
They'll sing lullabies for you

And the seals are singing jagadamba
Coconut trees are swinging jagadamba

The reasons for this fight's forgiven
Yet we still don't want to lose
But, kid, don't tell me that you're frightened
This war begun long before you were born

And the gods are denying jagadamba
When the wind's not lying jagadamba