An acoustic session that we did on the radio...

One of those things (live + acoustic)

A track from a live acoustic session we played on the radio :)

24 Hours (live + acoustic)

A taste from an acoustic session we did on the radio

Absolution (live + acoustic)

Simplicity (live + acoustic)

Going Down (live + acoustic)

Vienna Lullaby (live + acoustic)

My mind is open 24 hours a day
It never closes down
Even when no one’s around

Like one of those all nighter shops
It never ever stops
To have pretty things on display

And when they day is bright then
All might seem quite ordinary there
Quite a dull afair
No reason to stare, to stare, to stare, to stare

But my mind is open 24 hours a day
It never closes down
Especially when no one’s around

But come back in the middle of the night
It’ll be a different sight
People half-forgotten wander there
No one will care if
Someone throws up somewhere in the corner
And the light is way too bright
For those gaunt faces and the filth

But come back on a weekday late at night
It’ll be a different sight
Empty aisles with music blaring loud
Someone half-alive is standing
At the check-out
And your coffee tastes like shit
You’ll be awake for another bit

24 Hours

It started out as a thought
Which became a memory in my mind
And it started out as a dream
And your voice replied in kind

It started out
As a melody in my mind
It started out
When I was feeling blind
It started out
As a simple twist of fate
When I tried to leave it was too late

And it won’t go away
It might make me stay here forever
I can’t leave your side
So much more than we might have been together
We might have been together from the start

It started out with a breath
Which then became a sigh
And the sigh turned into a word
Which turned into a cry

And the cry became a yell
And the yell became a roar
And it was so hard to tell you
How sweet we’d been before

It started out so sweet
It became something so bitter
I could end it in a beat
But I know it would not matter
I know it would not matter to me now

Something Sweet

Simplicity ‒ standing next to me
Right now, and adding simple numbers
In a bubble of deception you carry me away
But not today

It’s an enormous lie
That I’m fading into you
If I live, and cut out all the thinking
While within there’s a face
And it’s staring back at me
It blows a kiss

And oh I wish
I didn’t care about it
I didn’t care one single bit at all
But still I care, no matter if I sing or scream
Or run away

Hear it rattle as I walk
Hear my lungs defy
All the things that I have sworn to try never to try
Let my thoughts be put to bed
Let my sadness fade
Hear my song digress ‒ it’s getting late, oh way too late

Tranquility ‒ living within me
Do you like the things that you’re finding
Do you scuttle about or hide while I’m out to add you up

So keep yourself busy
‘Cause history might repeat and you’ll get stuck
Be taken to the gallows
For a crime you didn’t know you had committed
And the birds will sing in the courtyard when you bring me to my knees

Learn to keep my mind busy
Squandering its verve
Stop it turning on itself, losing all its nerve
Let my thoughts be laid to rest
Let my sadness fade
Hear my song digress ‒ it’s getting late, oh way too late

Hear it rattle as I walk
Hear my lungs defy
All the things that I have sworn to try never to try
Let my thoughts be laid to rest
Let this sadness fade
Hear my song digress ‒ it’s getting late, oh way too late

Simplicity

When you left this town I thought that life would be the same
Though we were never gonna talk again
But between the beers I drank I felt a little sad
And the conversation lagged

At times your friendship felt like shouting down an empty well
Waiting for an echo to come back and tell
Me those laughs we shared were more than just some noise to fill
This silence we could never bear

Maybe the hope
Was stronger than the will
To really see what’s going on
And realise that it has taken me too long
Oh I was wrong

Now I know that things are never gonna be the same
Tomorrow it is gonna rain again
And I’ll be at home and wonder ‘bout this void that seems
To have settled in my chest

And I’ve had the same thoughts wandering through my mind of late
‘Bout the people left behind to fade
Into the background of the present, making fun of me
And all I’d really like to be

So many laughs
Amount to so little fun
And so many words
Don’t help me now

The Pause Between Beers

Above the rooftops of the quaint city of Bern, we dream music and play words...
Our songs often start simple - a sentence that captures a feeling, a few notes on the acoustic guitar. Then they grow, take on a life of their own, with voices added and melodies that give them depth. We'd like for them to be catchy enough that you can hum to them immediately, yet interesting enough that you feel like listening more than once. There's always something to discover: sometimes, it's in the lyrics, sometimes in the music, or in both at once, when a harmless, mellow melody coincides with lyrics that are less than nice. No matter if they are cheerful or melancholic - we hope that glowfish's songs stay with you.
We are: Joanna Nowotny (songwriting, lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Lugi Luginbühl (electric guitar, stomp box, backings), Tobias Nägeli (bass, backings) and Martina Schönbächler (backings)

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