Tell me, can I call you a liar?
Tell me, can I call you my friend?
Life passes by, I don't even try
So tell me: can I call you a liar
The sun makes me cry, I don't even know why
So tell me why the sun ain't rising no higher…
Tell me, can I call you a saint
Tell me, can I call you in the night
Life passes by, I don't even know why
So tell me: can I call you tonight?
The sun makes me cry, I don't even know why
So tell me why the sun ain't rising no higher…
©1995 Pär Karlsson
A magician waved his wand and left his native town
And walked into the World
With a winter yet to come and autumn all around
He knew he had to leave; he had found the dungeons down below
So the surgeons took their toll, made his dad into a troll
And turned his mother's inside out
So his brother came to see what his parents had come to be
So this brother found his gun
And walked into the World
A magician stole a car and drove into the Land
To the Wizard of the West
But the wizard wouldn't help, it was to no avail
So the magic man drove south to the Sorcerer of the Sand
And with the surgeons from below came a trail of blood
That this brother came to see
So he followed the best he could while the wind of blood drew south
To the eye that looks through space
And the Temple of the Moon
But the Sorcerer said 'No. It's time for you to go
You're what the surgeons claim.
And if they catch you here they'll turn my house upside down
So please will you go?
Now there's a thing I can give, it's the least I can do…'
And so he gave him ring, poisoned within.
'It's the only thing you can do.'
A magician threw his wand deep into the sea
And put the ring into his mouth
With a winter yet to come up north and beyond
He knew he had to die and so, he waved goodbye
The surgeons found him dead, cut him up, preserved his head
And turned their gaze from this World
And left on the shore was a brother without revenge
So he sat down in the sand with the ring in his hand
©1995 Pär Karlsson
I only wanted to be like you
I didn't want to betray you
You were my light
And I was Light's Angel
Tell me how did I become so evil?
I only wanted to be by your side
Cause you were my maker
Something went wrong
And you threw me out of heaven
Tell me how did I become so evil?
Is it wrong to question your being?
How were me made?
You didn't want to tell us
Why are we here?
You just said 'There's a reason'
But I knew you lied
Cause I was Light's Angel
And then I asked you why
And said I don't like it
©1995 Pär Karlsson
So here we stand
This is an outpost
We've gone far away
We look to the sky
But who cares about the weather?
The thunder isn't far away
Life is so short
I can almost see it ending
I don't want to die
I don't want to die
Dying is easy
Here on the Outpost
The stars are not so far away
Into the sky we gaze with wonder
Why are you so far away?
Life is so short
I can almost see it ending
I don't want to die
I don't want to die
Don't cry
There's no time
No lies
No lies
So here we die
Alone on the outpost
We've gone all the way
And from a sky filled with monsters
Comes the God to whom we pray;
It's not enough to be wise
Then you'll soon go under
Got to have a fire that burns in your eyes
And when we've gone none will remember
Not even stars last forever
Not even start last forever
Life was so short
I could almost see it ending
I didn't want to die
I didn't want to die
We felt betrayed even at the best of times…
©1995 Pär Karlsson
My face looked the same
My thoughts were the same
Until I told the lie
Until I told a lie
Then you disappeared
And something died inside of me
Got to rid this poison
Rid this poison inside of me
I'm alive but life is killing me
My life is killing me
My life is killing me
The sun looks the same
But the clouds are in the way
Since I told the lie
Since I told a lie
My love has gone away
And something dies inside of me
Got to rid this poison
Face the monster inside of me
I'm alive but it is killing me
My life is killing me
My life is killing me
©1997 Pär Karlsson
Your eyes are silent, wary
Are you where you once were
or have you gone?
Too late I came to love you
Too late for me to see
your smile to come along.
What if you're the One?
Are you where you once were
or have you gone?
©1997 Pär Karlsson
Dazed, the water smiles
Ninety nine degrees
The water dances for me
One hundred degrees
The wind carries your name
The songs are all about you
I feel you in the earth
But time goes on without you
You are here now
You will be here always
Whatever happens to me
You are in all days
I still feel you in this room
Sense your perfume and your breath
How you danced for me
Without a step: One Hundred Degrees
©1997 Pär Karlsson
I was born on the day that you died
I caught your soul passing by
Maybe I have the memories of a whole life
Buried deep inside
I dig a little deeper in me
I feel a little stronger knowing me
That's something helping me
To see
Everybody's a liar
Everybody's a liar just like me
Sick and tired of it all
Sick and tired of us all
I was raised with the seventies
I grew up in the eighties
Now I'm born in the nineties again
I don't want to look back
I dig a little deeper in me
To feel a little stronger knowing
There's so much more than me
In me
I was born on the day that you died
We're just the same you and I
Maybe you have the future and my life
Buried deep inside
Reach a little deeper in me
Dig a little further, make a hole
There's nothing more in me
Than you
Everybody's a liar
Everybody's a liar just like me
Sick and tired of it all
I'm sick and tired of us all
Time and time and time again
You put yourself on the line again
Over and over and over again
The truth we know become lies again
I was born on the day that you died
©1997 Pär Karlsson