the spirit of Bob Dylan lives on ... oh wait, he's not dead, is he ? :-) This is wonderful, great vocals and lyrics

brilliant and wonderful, one of your very best songs !

Man, this is great! Sound, production, vocals... and the lyrics, wow the lyrics! I have a soft spot for "real" songs and this one is an instant bullseye in my book. Awesome Mr. Bergman!! :)

@ronan-kearney: YES. . . .i love that Bergman sound. . ..thank you kindly for the re-post too my kind sir. Thank you very much

excellent song mate , really loving the harp , really good 

wow , like a class a drug , very moreish , so I'm told ! loved that mate, an epic song

the wine inspires my nights and your music is very inspiring ... when I listen to this one I hear a little bit of Dylan

Recordings: 2012 London, Vocals & mix: 25 September 2013 Grimsholmen Sweden

"I Dream of Kings"
music&lyrics: Bergman

all of this don't mean a thing
simple rhymes you hear me shout
unless you to these imperfections bring
your imaginary forces out
i wander the streets of East Cheap
where mice and men beside women sleep
oh god knows i'm drowning dear
and you're describing the water here
bring me out of this shady world
i'll give it all up in blink
or i'm a goldfish in a sink
you gotta help me out of here my guurl
always been a gun for hire
not gonna die as a king
on a funeral pyre
done some bad things you see
jurisprudence plays tricks on me
summoned to my father's den
about my whereabouts again
oh there i listened to sermons on
the virtues of someone else's son
of all his success 
where i have none
oh i promised him there on a whim
i've saved my best for a rainy day
goodbye to Falstaff he heard me say
the wine inspired my days
deadened my nights in many ways
there was a man i came to know
fat as butter and dough
who came to stay in my vicinity
a rascal from head to toe
always made me laugh i loved him so
his wicked humor tickled me
yes i know it's all in a dream
sorry to wake you up to watch me break
it's been about to surface for some time
would you please lock the door in the morning when you go?
i'm staying in
i undressed you only to reveal
more layers to peel
could have sworn i saw you 
in a different light or was it just the moonlit night
our favorite records on repeat
i was born the day Sgt Pepper came out
very brave of him no doubt…
we smoked the grass and drank the barley and wheat
you kept your word to me
you locked the door and threw away the key
oh man there i was 
unleashed and free in a 3x3
rallying the troops at Agincourt
we few we happy few we band of brothers come for you
my father would've liked what he saw
as the year came to a close
the lowlands filled with wolfs that bark
from London Fields to Albert Hall
over Ealing to the Cutty Sark
structures in stone all that remain 
as the Thames joins the Rhine again
and i lied in front of the monolith
got bored of dreaming called the locksmith
told him to get me out of here
be my whetstone babe
help me sharpen the ideas in my head
tell me when i miss the point
when i'm nowhere near
i'm not sure the Greeks have a word for this
take my hand give us a kiss 
whatever it was i feel fine
love your eyes wanna suck on your lips
let's dance let's shake those hips
how could i for a moment leave this behind?


I Dream of Kings

Looking at you
Looking at me
Two mirrors reflecting mine
Smiling at you
Smiling at me
The edges of my life define

My life was in color
Now the details I can see
And I knew what love was
But it never felt so deep
Looking at you I see
The very best of me

Laughing at you
Laughing at me
Two notes in harmony
Crying with you
Crying with me
Makes my sorrow taste so sweet

My life was in color
Now the details I can see
And I knew what love was
But it never felt so deep
Looking at you I see
The very best of me

Feeling your little head on my shoulder 
Holding your little heartbeat a little closer
How could I know as you grow a little older
This is a love I won't get over

Growing with you
Growing past me
Taking steps I feared to take
Hoping that you
Never lose hope, dear
This world is yours to make

My life was in color
Now the details I can see
And I knew what love was
But I never felt so deep
Looking at you I see
The very best of me

The Very Best Of Me

Reverie

Amazing Grace - Tribute to Randy Travis

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THE RAILWAY SONG

I wrote this in January 2005, and have performed it solo many times but it took a while to get it recorded.

Each verse (and the bridge) is a scene from the Ithaca, NY area.

Lyrics:

a flash of gold
a flash of green
a flash of something old you
thought you never should've seen
a flash of alabaster
a flash of white, and after that
a flash of insight into
something gray you'd thought was unclean

rolling down the hillside,
tired and in no gear
the city lights below you,
up ahead a deer just crossed the road
 
you missed the sign,
but it occurs to you that
you are here.
 
you bought your ticket,
you paid the price:
you made your way here
slogging through the snow and ice
the sound and motion
wake you from sleep, mm
but it's the silence
that pulls you in deep.
 
come and dance with me,
i'm sitting very still
come sing your passion to the rooftops
and in the mumbled echo you might hear your name
 
there's only one way
to find out whether
you are here.
 
circling to land
the end of the line
no connecting flights
there's only one way to travel,
and that's forward in time.
 
i had a vision,
it went like this:
a quiet sunbeam
and a forest kiss
it led me forward, but
now it's so far away
and when I glimpse it, it
only leads to yesterday
 
how can i run in darkness, flying into fear?
but if i listen close and stay standing here,
will it come to me?
 
it all comes to this,
and this is you,
and you are here.

Unstoppable

Olivia

I evigt perspektiv

Winter Song

[Verse 1]
I know you think that I shouldn't still love you
Or tell you that
But if I didn't say it, well, I'd still have felt it
Where's the sense in that?
I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder
Or return to where we were

[Chorus]
But I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

[Verse 2]
I know I left too much mess and destruction
To come back again
And I caused nothing but trouble
I understand if you can't talk to me again
And if you live by the rules of "it's over"
Then I'm sure that that makes sense

[Chorus]
But I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

white flag

Dear SC friends, I have a new album "Embers" on Spotify. https://spotify.link/cbJ583K3mDb

And Apple music, youtube etc...

/Bergman

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