1)Eyes on the Prize (                                               )
2)Fuel For Fire          (    These are not recorded  )
3)Sad, Sad Song      
4)Poison Cup
5)Clean Slate
6)Fools Says
7)Vincent O’Brien
8)Outta My Head
9)Whole Lotta Losin’
10)Four Hours In Washington
11)I Get Ideas
12)Primitive Girl
13)Me And My Shadow
14)Paul’s Song
15)Helicopter
16)To Save Me
17)Rave On
18)Chinese Translation
19)Never Had Nobody Like You
20)To Go Home
21)Rollercoaster

M. Ward Live In Mexico City

September 2, 2014

While travelling through midwest America some time ago I stopped at a gasstation and bought a WWJD bracelet for $1.99 and insisted that it stood for ‘What Would Jens Do?’. I would look at it when I felt indecisive, think about what Jens really would do and then do the opposite of that. I thought that would be a good way to find some new paths in life, and to get away from the paths I kept taking that didn’t lead me anywhere good.

WWJD is a song about regrets, learning from your mistakes, and bettering yourself. I wrote it last year, recorded it quickly and felt it didn’t fit in with most of the other songs I was writing. Together with ‘What’s That Perfume That You Wear?’ and ‘I Remember’ they weren’t adhering to the rules I had set up for my next album but they were also too good to forget. So I weaved them in exclusively on this mixtape where they are stations on a longer journey, where loops and smaller fragments, ideas for songs and favourite songs by others swoosh by outside the window. Feel free to open that window and feel the breeze in your hair.

Yours truly
Jens Lekman


0:00 - Jens Lekman - WWJD
3:05 - Bunny Maloney - Baby I’ve Been Missing You
6:18 - David Byrne - Theodora Is Dozing
7:59 - The 11:08 Train Swooshes By
09:52 - Jhene Aiko - Stranger
11:34 - Jennifer Lara - Our Love
13:10 - Georges Delerue - Theme from Camille
15:25 - Jens Lekman - What's That Perfume That You Wear?
18:47 - Ralph MacDonald - The Path
20:33 - All Your Sorrows Reversed
26:25 - Jens Lekman - I Remember

Contains smaller fragments from: The Philly Devotions - Yeah Yeah Girl. The Duprees - Why Don’t You Believe Me? Soul 2 Soul - Back To Life (acapella). Beethoven - Stringquartet no 5 in A Major. Dalida - Salma Ya Salama. Fairouz - Zourouni. Angel Haze - Same Love. Syl Johnsson - I Hate I Walked Away. Hermeto Pascoal - Musica da Lagoa. Crue-L Grand Orchestra - (You Are) More Than Paradise (Freaks Switching Channels 12inch Mix). Paul Johnson - Where Can You Be. Jim Nabors - With These Hands. Israel Vibration - The Same Song.

Lilian Paunovic Olsson sings harmonies on ‘WWJD’.

Thanks to Sara, Luís and Malin for the inspiration. 

WWJD MIXTAPE

Postcard # 26

Story sent in by Kristin
Music and lyrics by Jens Lekman
Vocals and guitar by Jens Lekman
Bass and vocals by Lewis Rogers
Drums and vocals by Addison Rogers
Recorded by Jason Sebastian at CAC nov 16

I went to get my cat certified as an emotional support animal
Because having a cat in my building was considered illegal
The therapist was awkward and bumbling
but I ended up telling him
the darkest secrets within

He was the kind of therapist who helped you solve your problems
Using metaphors from business and basketball  
I did get to keep the cat, 
Elliot,
but when it came to emotional support he was terrible. 

A few months later I was at a Mormon dental students party
when a new student walked in. It was the man from the therapy
He had decided to make some drastic career changes
Trade psychotherapy for fillings and braces
He pretended not to recognize me when we shook hands
I thought of all the things I had said to this awkward man

He had been the kind of therapist who helped you solve your problems
Using metaphors from business and basketball  
I did get to keep the cat, 
Elliot,
but when it came to emotional support he was terrible. 

The therapist and his wife moved into my neighborhood then
became members of my Mormon congregation
His wife was obnoxious and gossipy
It took me an epiphany
to recognize my own worry
and then as a miracle it just let go of me

He had been the kind of therapist who helped you solve your problems
Using metaphors from business and basketball  
I did get to keep the cat, 
Elliot,
but when it came to emotional support he was terrible. 

Emotional Support Animal

땡 (2018)

Produced by SUGA, EL CAPITXN
(SUGA, EL CAPITXN, RM, j-hope)

Keyboard – EL CAPITXN
Synthesizer – EL CAPITXN
Additional Production – Supreme Boi
Recording Engineers – SUGA @ Genius Lab
RM @ Mon Studio
j-hope @ Hope World
Mix Engineer – Yang Ga @ Big Hit Studio
Mastering Engineer – Yang Ga @ Big Hit Studio

2018 BTS FESTA

땡 - RM, SUGA, J-HOPE

written and recorded one evening in my hotel room in manchester sometime in 2016. will probably put some other sets of songs up soooon...

HOTEL SCHMOTEL 2

Bed?

Produced by Agust D, Pdogg
(Agust D, Pdogg)
 
Keyboard - Agust D, Pdogg
Synthesizer - Agust D, Pdogg
Vocal & Rap Arrangement - Agust D
Background Vocals - ADORA
Digital Editing - Hiss noise
Recording Engineers - Agust D @ Genius Lab
                              ADORA @ Adorable Trap
Mix Engineer - Ken Lewis for iProduceMusic.com @ Katalyst Studios, NYC (Assisted by Dominik Rivinius)

사람

Still With You (2020)

Produced by Pdogg, Jung Kook (Jung Kook, Pdogg)
 
Keyboard - Pdogg
Synthesizer - Pdogg
Guitar – 정재필
Background vocals – Jung Kook
Vocal Arrangement – Pdogg
Recording Engineers - Pdogg @ Dogg Bounce
                                     - 정우영 @ Big Hit Studio
Digital Editing – GHSTLOOP, Summergal
Mix Engineer – Yang Ga @ Big Hit Studio
Mastering Engineer - Yang Ga @ Big Hit Studio

2020 BTS FESTA

Still With You

Still With You by JK of BTS

I adapted the Jens Lekman's Julie in Spanish and this is the result. 

WARNING

I can't sing, BUT I deeply enjoyed doing this besides I found a clip of Jens performing it live in Swedish, so i decided to put in as background to add the melody to this version, it's crazy, but I love it.


and thank you so much to this human being for giving us great music. 

The song from the background is a clip recorded in 2011 and uploaded on Youtube by 
Anna Dormer Volgsten, here's the clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBIeeCcJ5IU


Gracias, Jens, eres un tipazo bien bacán

Julie en español por LaLillyLand

Snow Flower (feat. Peakboy)(2020)

Produced by V, Peakboy
(V, Peakboy)

Drums - Peakboy
Guitar - 이지호
Bass - Peakboy
Background Vocals - V, Peakboy
Recording Engineer - Donnie J @ neuron studio
Mix Engineer - Make Will @ neuron studio
Mastering Engineer - 권남우 @ 821 Sound

Hey snow
It's coming today
뭘 준비하면 돼
널 반길 준빈 ok

회색
캔버스 위에 fallin
네가 덮어주면 돼
세상을 네게 줄게

차가운 계절 속에
네가 오는 건 이벤트
내 blue and grey를
녹여줄 따뜻한 네게

Christmas without you would just not be Christmas at all
Bright mistletoes up above us, it's just you and me

‘I love you’

온 세상이 하얀 꽃들로
우리의 시간을 더욱 특별하게
멈춰진 시간들 속에서
슬픈 네 미소에 꽃이 내려지길

아름답게 세상이 하얗게 물들 때
빛바랜 그 색들을 너와 번질게
올해는 여기저기 하얀 천사들이 많잖아
숨을 크게 쉬고 너를 닮은 저기 꽃들을 봐
내 옆에 따뜻한 온기를 느껴줘
차디찬 네 고운 손으로 날 잡아줘
널 계속 지켜줄게
평생 너와 하얀 눈을 같이 맞을게

Did you see the snow?
Like your eyes
Believe in Santa Claus?
너와 따뜻한
선물을 가져갈게
코끝과 같이 이 계절이 올 때마다
Fall in love
I’m just feeling
내 곁에 있어줘
너와 발을 맞춰
이 노래를 부를게

‘You make me wanna be a better man’

온 세상이 하얀 꽃들로
우리의 분위길 더욱 깊어지게
멈춰진 가로등 아래에서
웃는 네 미소에 꽃이 내려지길

Snow Flower by V of BTS (feat. Peakboy)

Blue Side (2021)

Produced by Hiss noise, ADORA
(j-hope, Hiss noise, ADORA)

Keyboard - Hiss noise
Synthesizer - ADORA
Guitar - Hiss noise
Vocal Arrangement - Slow Rabbit
Digital Editing - Hiss noise
Recording Engineers - Slow Rabbit @ Carrot Express
			                j-hope @ Hope World
Mix Engineer - 박진세 @ Big Hit Studio
Mastering Engineer - Chris Gehringer @ Sterling Sound, New York, USA

모든 게 변해버린 우리 사이 나 홀로 외쳐 Blue
너로 인해 물들어 새파란 눈물이 맺혀 Blue
봄 여름 가을 겨울 항상 그 느낌 그대로 Blue
돌아가고 싶어 아무것도 모르던 그때로 Blue

Blue Side Blue Side
Back to Blue Side Blue Side

Blue Side Blue Side
Back to Blue Side Blue Side

Blue Side Blue Side
Back to Blue Side Blue Side

Blue Side Blue Side
Back to Blue Side Blue Side

차가움에 태양이 비추고 구름이 감싸준 Blue
하늘 바람 타고 지금 이 순간 그곳으로 Blue
지금 날 위로해 주는 내 마음의 Blue
파란 달빛 아래 나 홀로 Blue

어둠 속 내 아픔을 토해낼 때
한숨으로 찬 공기가 죄어올 때
난 느꼈어
무지개다리에
파란 길만 걷고 싶단 걸
I’m singing my blues
Singing my bloom
Back in my room
그립다 그 시절 파란 나와 가벼운 숨
냉정과 열정 사이 그 무게를 재보지만
지금 난 그저 파랗게 타서 죽고 싶다

Blue Side Blue Side
Back to Blue Side Blue Side

Blue Side Blue Side
Back to Blue Side Blue Side

Blue Side Blue Side
Back to Blue Side Blue Side

Blue Side Blue Side
Back to Blue Side Blue Side

Blue Side
Back to Blue Side
Blue Side
Back to Blue Side

내 파란 꿈속에
널 담을래
아니라고 해도
내 눈 속에

내 파란 꿈속에
널 안을래
안 된다고 해도
내 품속에
 
Blue Side
Back to Blue Side
Blue Side
Back to Blue Side

Blue Side
Back to Blue Side
Blue Side
Back to Blue Side

Julie en español por LaLillyLand

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