TOM HUGO

Stay with me

 

My dark memories 

All the things I’ve seen 

Things that I will never forget 

I can disappear 

Hide it all inside
Why I wake up screaming at night 

 

Guess I should be doing much worse than I am 

Been fighting them off like a soldier 

Tell me, do you know how to walk like a man?

I just keep stumbling on 

 

Please stay with me 

When I push you away 

I never learned how to love you 

Will you walk away 

When I’m shaking from fear 

I was so cold here before you 

Sometimes I still get the impulse to run 

I thought I had to be lonely 

Please don’t listen to me when I say that I don’t need you 

 

But maybe you are right 

things will be okay 

I don’t really think so - but hey

 

Maybe I am wrong 

All the things I learned 

Was how to be hateful – and scared 

 

I have been trying to run from my past 

Moving away and get wasted 

That’s why I’m not really convinced this will last
I just keep stumbling on    

 

Wont you stay with me 

When I push you away 

I never learned how to love you 

Will you walk away 

When I’m shaking from fear 

I was so cold here before you 

Sometimes I still get the impulse to run 

I thought I had to be lonely 

Please don’t listen to me when I say that I don’t need you 

I was always hiding from my own
Was so careful not to be me 

When my whole young world came crashing down 

There was no one there to see me 

 

Please stay, stay with me 

Wont you stay with me

Stay with me

When I push you away 

I never learned how to love you 

Will you walk away 

When I’m shaking from fear 

I was so cold here before you

Sometimes I still get the impulse to run 

I thought I had to be lonely 

Please don’t listen to me when I say that I don’t need you

Please stay

 

Royal

 

Just another

Angry working class boy

With the lips of a girl

They have never

Ever kissed a boy though

You just wanna top the world

 

Dreams of Bowie – social climbing

The middle class all love to bend

If you found a royal – you could be a royal

 

Ooo, I see royals in your future

If you stop running away

Ooo, I really hate to see you crying

Better days are on the way

 

Cause I’m sorry for the hurting

Shit you have to take

I promise you love, you see
Better days are coming

And you look royal to me

 

They tell you

Find a girl and

Make a steady plan

Fall in love just

Learn to love yourself and

Try to be a better man

 

While you just want to bleach your hair

And you hate to be a better man
Better be a royal – fucking with the royals   

 

Ooo, I see royals in your future

If you stop running away

Ooo, I really hate to see you crying

Better days are on the way

 

Cause I’m sorry for the hurting

Shit you have to take

I promise you love, you see
Better days are coming

And you look royal to me

 

So just leave it all

No more working class hero

Leave it all, behind

 

Ooo, I see royals in your future

If you stop running away

Ooo, I really hate to see you crying

Better days are on the way

 

Cause I’m sorry for the hurting

Shit you have to take

I promise you love, you see
Better days are coming

And you look royal to me

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Stuck in the middle of nowhere

 

Pretty sure nothing’s changed in a hundred years 

We’ve got Jesus headlining every week and no one cares

I light a fag, bring my cans out of my car 

There’s gotta be smoke when I make art 

When I leave it says «Racing» and «No Fear»

 

I’m stuck in the middle of nowhere

Stuck in the middle of nowhere

 

You said that I was tougher than the boys 

That’s why I keep on driving 

All night I'm racing in the streets 

I get through the silence making noise  

That’s why I keep on fighting 

Waiting for someone to punch me out 

Stuck in the middle of nowhere 

 

I leave the car running outside our house 

It’s one of those things you’d hate if you’d stuck around 

You left me all your Springsteen records and a gun 

I drive a 240 and race for fun

I dream of days of thunder all night long 

 

Stuck in the middle of nowhere

I’m stuck in the middle of nowhere

 

You only taught me how to be hardcore 

That’s why I ride the lightning

All night I’m racing in the streets

My mind’s set on gasoline and chrome  

That’s how I keep on going

Waiting for you to come back home 

 

Stuck in the middle of nowhere

I’m stuck in the middle of nowhere

Stuck in the middle of nowhere

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With You

 

Night is colder

I can’t sleep

Kind of trembling
Here in the deep

And I hold you    
I pull you close

So I feel you

Breathing

 

I'm with you 

I'm with you 

All my life 

All this time 

I'm right here 

I'm with you 

 

Late October

Mornings dark 

Room is quiet 

And in my heart 

I don’t know what

The future holds

But for worse 

Or for better 

 

I'm with you 

I'm with you 

All my life 

All this time 

I'm right here 

I'm with you 

 

You know it's been a million years 

And nothing came before 

Time started with you 

The night that we met 

And I want to keep going 

Keep changing 

With you 

 

Sun is rising

One more day 

One more hour 

And I'm awake 

I don’t know what the day will bring 

But I'm right here 

With you 

 

I'm with you 

I'm with you 

All my life 

All this time 

I'm with you 

I'm with you 

I'm right here 

I'm with you

 

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Heavenly

 

Brown eyes in reflection

Blue nails on the phone

“Hey, let’s go to Heaven

While the night is young”

Running down the pavement

Always running late

Know your girls are waiting

At your favorite place

 

And it’s so heavenly

Heaven is dancing with your girls

Blessed with safety and beauty and life

Like it transcends what hurts

Sometimes it’s wonderful

Leaving the shadows by the door

When you’re all that you wanted to be

And it fits perfectly

 

Bus back Sunday morning

Backseat all alone

Sometimes you get nervous

When you’re on your own

Got your hair back and your pepper spray

If they try something you know the way

When you think of what heaven was like

You know you’ll be all right

 

And it’s so heavenly

Heaven is dancing with your girls

Blessed with safety and beauty and life

Like it transcends what hurts

Sometimes its wonderful

Leaving the shadows by the door

When you’re all that you wanted to be

And it fits perfectly

 

And it’s so heavenly

Heaven is dancing with your girls

Blessed with safety and beauty and life

Like it transcends what hurts

Sometimes its wonderful

Leaving the shadows by the door

When you’re all that you wanted to be

And it fits perfectly

When it fits perfectly

It's so heavenly

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I Was a Fool

 

Tell me all the stories

From when we were we young

And how we danced all night

We were always dreaming

Would follow the lights

Back when they were so bright

 

Show me all the sunsets

We lost in the west

When we were beautiful

Tell me all the mornings

We swam in the lake

Were unforgettable

I remember waiting for you by the train

I remember losing my mind

 

I was so young when we met – I was a fool

Darling, I’m still foolish and I can’t forget

I was a fool – was a fool

I thought you were cruel when you left – I was a fool

Darling, now the memories are all I have left

I was a fool – was a fool

 

I still see you laughing

With all of the boys

You were the gorgeous one

I still hear you crying

You said you were lost

And you would always run

 

Last night I was walking

Alone in the rain

I thought I saw your face

At the bar by the station

Right next to the lake

That was our favourite place

 

I remember waiting for you by the train

I remember losing my mind

 

I was so young when we met – I was a fool

Darling, I’m still foolish and I can’t forget

I was a fool – was a fool

I thought you were cruel when you left – I was a fool

Darling, now the memories are all I have left

I was a fool – was a fool

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Eden

 

Æ var en fargeløs skygge

Matt som ei rose som dør

Blått som den evige natta

Var livet mitt før

 

Æ sang forsiktig når himmelen var svart

Æ ba om frelse hver eneste natt

Gud, kan man dø av å lengte?

Når alt er som før

 

Kjære æ så dæ i drømme

Du rodde mæ ut av mørket

Æ så et håp om et liv

Eden

 

Kjære æ så dæ i haven

Du sang så vakkert i drømmen
Æ så alt starte på ny

Eden

 

Du ligger naken i skyggen

Paradis var aldri tapt

Livet og drømmen om Eden
Vi sammen har skapt

 

Selv om æ tvilte så tror æ på oss

Verner om freden men klar for å slåss

Æ fant en styrke her

Æ har en kraft her
Kjenner det vokser i mæ

Kjære du kom hit med stormen

Æ sto alene på skansen

Tårene ble til en bønn

Eden

 

Kjenner det rister i hjertet

Glede og galskap og smerte

Hold mæ til allting tar slutt

Eden

 

Æ er i Eden

Æ er i Eden

Er i Eden

 

Kjære du kom hit med stormen

Æ sto alene på skansen

Tårene ble til en bønn

Eden

 

Gud som det river i hjertet

Glede og galskap og smerte

Hold mæ til allting tar slutt

Eden

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Beckham and Lenin

 

Its five past eleven

The train is asleep

You’re talking capital, Marx and elites

And I keep on searching

My bag for my smokes

Your eyes are like Beckham and Lenin

Young young Radical
Young radical Love

 

Its two in the morning

I don’t wanna sleep

Reach for the lighter and our fingers meet

Sparks they go flying and I can not breath 

Right across Beckham and Lenin

You, young radical love
young radical 

 

Its five in the morning

And we have arrived

I’m out of smokes now

But feel so alive

You call me comrade and then you say bye

My dream that was Beckham and Lenin

Young young Radical 

You, young radical love 

You, young radical
young radical love

 

 

Stolt

 

Tør du gå

Her med mæ

Å ta hånda mi i Markens

Vi som aldri skulle komme hjem

Kjenner gråten bak i halsen

Tørre si

Det tok tid

Bare det å skulle leve

Jage skygger fra ei annen tid

Retter ryggen selv om hjertet slår og slår

Og tok mæ hit

 

Æ e stolt

Æ e stolt

Æ ser fremover nå

Æ har søkt

Æ har tvilt

Æ har rast om natta

Alt æ venta på

Herregud, la det gå nå

Er så stolt nå

Æ e stolt

Æ e stolt

Æ tar hånda di nå

Du har søkt

Du har tvilt

Du har rast om natta

Alt du venta på

Herregud, la det gå nå
Er så stolt nå

 

Du kan gå med mæ - Bare ta hånda mi

Æ e stolt av dæ – men æ vet det tar tid

 

Æ kan stå

Her med dæ

Se de flagger over torvet

Er så glad æ kunne finne hjem

Gikk mæ nesten bort i natta

Tørre si

Å få fri

Fri fra alt du har tatt med dæ hit

La mæ følge dæ et stykke til

Løfter blikket selv om hjertet slår og slår

Og tok dæ hit

 

Æ e stolt

Æ e stolt

Æ ser fremover nå

Æ har søkt

Æ har tvilt

Æ har rast om natta

Alt æ venta på

Herregud, la det gå nå

Er så stolt nå

Æ e stolt

Æ e stolt

Æ tar hånda di nå

Du har søkt

Du har tvilt

Du har rast om natta

Alt du venta på

Herregud, la det gå nå
Er så stolt nå

 

Du kan gå med mæ - Bare ta hånda mi

Æ e stolt av dæ – men æ vet det tar tid

 

Du kan gå med mæ - Bare ta hånda mi

Æ e stolt av dæ – men æ vet det tar tid

Æ e stolt