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Seventeen
02:51
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So tired of winning
The shadow of penny
Rolled across my eye again
It’s blinking like crazy
And to play the cards of winning
Raise it up, then folding
Hurry up I’m spinning, seventeen papers
Seventeen debts
Seventeen disagreements to file
Higher up than over
Interesting
I am wearing some notions of fire
It’s a daring choice of colors
I’m going out in style
Going through the motions that I already filed
Already filed
Already filed it is feeding day it’s to be
All of the other
Letters and employees
Mothers and the daughters, pretending to be
Pretending to be
Attending to me
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2. |
Up From The Hole
04:05
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I’m going
Going to try again
Try again
Listen fool
Listen to your own rules
You gotta help yourself up from this hole
Don’t just curl up into a ball and don’t cheat
And try to find some one who’s close to you
To check up on you
Get up and don’t just sit at home
Move you body around
And don’t just wait until later, do it now and don’t cheat
I’m going
Going to try again
Try again
Listen fool
Listen to the other mules
No one but you will pick you up
You’re going to learn that this is the only way to find peace
But I am a spinning wheel
Constantly moving, but standing still
I am a soft machine
I am a blunted tool
I am a spinning wheel
Always down hill
I am a spinning wheel
My life is the dream, but everything around me is stinking real
Freefall’s the righter way
No more hiding here among the grey
It’s not about what you win here
The more you cling on to, the more you fear letting go
You’re a ringing bell
Ringing in the year, unresolved
Down is up, and you’re coming down
I’m going
Going to try again
Try again
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3. |
Year Of The Dog
04:02
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I know this trail like the back of your hand
You're close to home but a long way from land
Gone are the days, and failed are the plans
The tide's coming in and you're stuck in the sand
These are the things we will never discuss
As we stare down the barrel of a blunderbuss
And this year, I fear, could be the last Year of the Dog
Then I picked up the scent of a friend I once knew
No one would know now that friend once was you
Now you bury your head in a mountain of light
A dog ‘gainst a screen - that just ain’t a fair fight
A new year and a new distrust
What you got up your sleeve for us?
And this year, I fear, could be the last Year of the Dog
Toss me a bone, solitary, in the park
I’m that dog in the collar and I flash in the dark
My tongue hanging out as my feet hit the track
When I'd tug on the leash you would take up the slack…
Now why don’t you tell me to sit or to stay?
Would you wake up if I ran far away?
I once was a foundling and soon I’ll be a stray
And things will work out in their own messed up way
Your mind is cold and it’s filled with fog
Life’s passed you by like the leaping frog
And this year, I fear, could be the last Year of the Dog
I’m that dog in the collar and I flash in the dark
My tongue hanging out as my feet hit the track
When I'd tug on the leash you would take up the slack…
All of the rabbits have now gone to ground
We wander the dunes but we don’t hear a sound
Soon the new king of the hill will be crowned
Til then I’ll chase my tail round and around
These are the things we will never discuss
As we stare down the barrel of a blunderbuss
And this year, I fear, could be the last Year of the Dog
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When you're an old soul in the body of a child
There's only so long you can play meek and mild
Longed for the day when my feet would touch the floor
Leg's in a trap and I’m chewing off my paw
Now I could just mourn the me dying in the dirt
And chasing anything with a pulse in a skirt
You dreamed I’d stay, take the reins and saddle up
But here in the cold light I’m losing my grip
If you plant the seed, then expect the wood to grow
Piercing the old flagstones, shifting under your feet
Say the apple never fell farther from the tree
There’s a worm inside me, like it’s eating its way free
Don’t go changing on me now
I want the same thing every time, every time
Just let me be
Brother, I’m the fruit that fell farthest from the tree
And there are dark ancient forests in me
One day will I straighten my back and stand up proud?
Home is where the heart dares not speak its name aloud
The dam has broken, the flood is coming down
Well, am I s’posed to just wait here to drown?
Don’t go changing on me now
I want the same thing every time
This ink and paper, you question what it's worth
But a man needs more than the food on the table
You think I'm cracked, turned the whole world on its head
But I am hungry and I speak with the dead
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Pinewood Walk
03:24
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We passed it on a pinewood walk
That place where the path does fork
Tween the brook and the hollowed out tree
Your self relent took it out on me
You asked it on a pinewood walk
Out where the words don’t talk
I drove a stick through a dried out clod
And you replied with a silent nod
We left it on a pinewood walk
For every one thing that I’ve done wrong
There’s another take and another song
For every right that I’ve made wrong
There’s another path that is bright and long
We passed it on a pinewood walk
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Beige
04:24
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Everything is one color now
I think my eyes deceive me somehow
But I get the feeling that I’ll never get it back
That whole rainbow color pack
In the deep bite of January
There’s a hard longing for the spring
No blue sky to make me free
No blue sky following
All the lights out in our home
Now its a faded shut down monochrome
Pull the shoes back onto my feet
Hit the neon lit late night back streets
It’s that same old melody
That comes around haunting me
On a beige stool at the bar’s back
Have I moved on or do I hold back?
Everything is one color now
As dawn breaks in København
And I get the feeling that I’m slowing down
As the trucks speed right out of town
But soon the blue sky gonna set me free
Soon the blue sky’s gonna set me free
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7. |
9 Out Of 9
03:31
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Nine out of nine times it’s the same
My mind and your mind on this train
Give me a heart full of light
A world where we might
But nine out of nine times
We refrain
The doors are always open on this plane
I find when I jump out, I’m back again
Show me a world without chance
As I forget how to dance
But nine out of nine times
Beyond the pale
The window is shattered
An old man hands you his cap
No winner can give yer
Another life back
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8. |
Joy In The Darkness
02:50
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Jewel in the darkness
Joining the black mass
Falling the right way
After a long day
No one knows how feral I get
Some of us would like to forget
I’m going out, you stay in and fret
You won’t know how feral I get
Take me to the good times
Then get out of my mind
Stinking of last night
Running from the daylight
Get into trouble
Hide in the rubble
Bursting your bubble
I’m not your good kid
You don’t know the trouble I’m in
Every last inch of me covered in sin
Come back home so dirty, so thin
Eating my lunch straight outta the bin
No one knows how feral I get
Someone stop me, I need some frightening, I’m chasing the lightning
You need some me time
I’m out of my mind
Inside I’m flying
I hear you sighing
Smoke in the nighttime
Just me and the skyline
This is a fine time
To tell me that we’re done
No one knows how feral I get
Look at us, all furry and wet
I take something for the regret
No one knows how feral I get, get, get, get
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9. |
Arrivals
04:03
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I’m done waiting here at Arrivals
Grounded, climbing the walls
How did it end up being ‘bout survival?
Keep swinging until one of us falls
Swinging until one of us falls
I’m off the shelf, and you, you’re one-size-fits-all
One of us must have missed a trick
Tied up in knots like a pretzel
Tied to a house in the sticks
The darkness always waiting
The air I breathe, the sea I’m drowning in
I’m quitting on quitting on giving a damn about
About getting at you, getting the poison out
There’s the kind that you drink from a bottle
And the kind that you bottle up
And I’m quitting on giving it up
Is that your heart beating?
Beating me to death, hon
Bloodstains on bedlinen
My skin piercing your skin
A you-shaped hole shot through the me you knew
A me-shaped hole where I used to be in you
You go cold when I slip into the present tense, and then
When I look again, we don’t make an ounce of sense
What are we now but creepers where the tree fell
Where we fell down
We all fall down
These days I’m too humpty-dumpty
Maybe time I left the country
Or we could spend a few more years on this roundabout
String it out so no-one goes hungry
Maybe time that I left the country
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10. |
I Praise You All
02:18
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I praise you all
All of you that helped me
All of your engagement
It moved me into a better place, yeah
I praise you all
Without your help I would never have gone anywhere
Without your help I would never have finished anything
Without your help I would’ve been going crazy
I praise you all
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Own Road Denmark
One of the Danish alt-folk scene's finest songwriters.
Never one to follow the latest trends, he has for more than
a decade charted his own unique course through the Danish music scene. Ultimately the destination is always the same: the great flowing river of song, which he has a rare gift for tapping into with melodies that feel at once brand new and ancient.
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