When I play live this might be my most requested song.  It’s a little odd to me, because it is very quiet and very slow. This was written during one of my lowest points in life. I worked as a substitute teacher, but got laid off. I wrote new songs at fever pitch, but no one wanted my songs. I drank way too much, lost my apartment and had to sleep on my sister's coach for three months. She even had to lend me money… During this period I had a recurring dream. I woke up one morning and decided to write down what I kept seeing in that dream. It became this song. 
Enjoy!

Wasteland

This is a playlist with three version of the my song "Don't You Walk Away".


Mix 2 is produced and mixed by Brian Sperber (Three Doors down, Alterbridge)

Don't You Walk Away (Sperber Mix)

Jesus, John And I

A true story about a woman who gets the ashes of her mother stolen.....

Heaps Of Ashes

A haunting song about finding yourself and / or hanging on to yourself. Recognize and own everything that is good about yourself. The rest you can work on. 

Bring Home The Angels

Everybody feels ugly at times. Who can love that part of you? Who can love and embrace ugliness in others? Can it be done? Those were the questions, at the deepest level, writing this song. 

The Ugliest Girl In The World

"Crows on the wire" is the first single off of Ben Lorentzen’s new album “Pains & Pleasures of Intimacy”. 
It’s a dark, roots oriented song where the rock, blues and country influences are audible.  

Lorentzen calls his music Suburban Noir, a kind of confessional country blues. Living in a suburban area in New Jersey himself, Ben says he feels at home in a space between the beautiful mundane and the ongoing strangeness of the life we live and the relationships we are creating. 

This is reflected in the music and in the lyrics. Ben Lorentzen’s songs are by turn tender and violent and tends to explores the dark underbelly of human life, the leaps of faith we have in ourselves, the push and the pull that creates the outer rim of most peoples existence.   

The timeless feel of this release is well beyond the fads and fashions of popular culture. The sound is classic and  familiar. But Ben’s rich, strong and sensual vocals with a slight hint of a nordic accent creates a new palette.

Crowes On The Wire

I want all my dirty secrets to “be out there” so by the time I go to the next world and everything will be revealed anyway, I want nothing hidden, nothing unknown, no skeletons left in the closet. You can hide for some time, but you cannot hide for ever. There are no secrets. And while this song and this album has a confessional quality to it, I do not believe in finger pointing. It is not the president. It’s me. I am the start and the end of my problems. And as we take that in we must always be remembered to make our love grow, also towards ourselves. Hatred grows on it’s own.

Dead Man In The Closet

Ben Lorentzen - En Sangers Flukt

This is one of the most personal songs I have written.

I wrote this one to my kids. It was clear that I would break up from their mom and I knew it would hurt them. It wasn't their fault. Of course. But there was no way to go on. 

Guilt ridden I wrote this one to them. The song came quickly. I didn't have to think about it too hard. It was more like a guttural outburst of sorts. I had to get it out of me, onto paper.

Isn't it every parents deepest regret? To inflict pain upon your own kids? 

This song is heavy. But it is heart felt. It is truly a song asking for forgiveness.

Ben Lorentzen

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