Cover songs

2021

2025

Umarell

It starts off pretty well
I'm all confidence, I'm stationary
And tired enough to tell
There's that window, throw the load I carry

Bring me that holy holy balm again
That bottled lightning

From thereon downhill fast
I'm an hourglass, a lineless figure
Too mindful of the past
To make smaller thoughts, they all grow bigger

Bring me that holy holy drop
Let me stop
And tune out

You make it look so easy
But born broken, I don't have that power
the hum of it will tease me
Gently pull towards the witching hour

Bring me that holy holy fundamental function
Mental injunction, please

FTL 2: Witching Hour

You're a name in the big book
A line I found at 21
When the brake light flickered
I set a prime meridian
How to drive and to not look
Cover unfamiliar ground
You cut a skyward figure
As Orion steps out

You let me loom over us
You let me loom over us
Let me loom over us

I abided by old rules
Tried the new ones best I could
Took a wholesome, teary, lonesome drop
And I stopped when it got good
I'm not trying to stall you
It's just me, all I find is
Gentlemindedness
And feebly violent ends
Watch out, here we go again

Now she'll move over us
She'll move over us
She'll move over us

Prime meridian

Cover of the Bee Gees song "How deep is your love" for the Great Cover Song Challenge 2021. All rights Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb; I'm just playing around :)

How deep is your love (Bee Gees cover)

When you're alone, you don't believe
You think you'll never find me
But come on home and speak your piece
I'll wait til you remind me
Of what I wanted, tower before me
Say 'look here, see what I did'
Be done with broken roller-coasters
And disappearing blindly

Be alien and dewy eyed
It's never getting easier
So be the gentle agitation
And get yourself to freewheeling
Be animal enough to know
A concept clearly pleasing
Get up there in the face of fearful stasis
Say, 'release me'

(Be alien)

Be alien and dewy eyed
It's never getting easier
So be the gentle education
And get yourself to freewheeling
Be animal enough to know
A concept truly pleasing
Get up there in the face of fearful stasis
Say, 'release me'

(I dare you)

Kong: Larrabee Parameters

a hundred hours on the phone with your ghost
following close, one two funerals
the radio silence when I needed you
most people would go for at least humanoid
I didn’t mean that you should hide it
just leave space for me 
inside of the bluesy newsreel

but oh, what do i know
about starting over
after years of windows and doors
slamming closed
do i think you owe me
(thoughts come out colder)
44 in common so it’s just me
crazy but i believe
you dole out punishment that silently
ten-year-olds, you and i
cross-hearted, hope to die
i sit and wonder why

who is the bad friend here
me or you
like jack would say, you can’t handle the truth
you’ll say that i don’t understand what you’re going through
well sure but i’m me
and you are you
so what more can i do

Bad Friend

mådde ganska bra
nästan varje dag
den svaga kraften tar
ett litet tag att fatta
förbi vanningen
hundrabussen hem
noll mot tjugofem
cykel sen sa du

vad du vill ha
vem du vill va

det finns så många sätt
att säga fel på
rätt är inte lika lätt
så jag ska aldrig säga
nånting nånsin mer
det blir bara fel
och ingen ska få se mig
stänga av sa du

vad du vill ha 
vem du vill va
(det ordnar sig alltid
du kan ju komma hem igen)

har du letat klart
och med vem och vart
är du färdig snart
kan du kanske sitta
lite still med mig
så jag får se på dig
hör du sången säg mig
kan du nöja dig
nån gång

Vanningen

I'll try the better lie
Up in Leon County
Wreckage all around me
As I wile away the hours
Of the disconnected boiling heat
On Bronough Street
Where I roam and roam
Who thinks of me at 5.15
Nevermind, I'm going home

They have the bigger dream
Being open, not soft-spoken
And never choking on your needs
Say 'hey how's it going'
Let those Carolina Reaper words
Seduce the earth
Be in full control
If you think of them at 4 am
They won't know that
Know that, no

We had a better plan
To first understand
How the motions of the ocean
Shape the sands of St Joe
Then head west
Through the fully-nested grand design
Flee the doomy signage
Not on my own
Think of me being brave and free
As I go back
Go back home

Bigger dream

even though i knew it was a lot
likely too much for me to handle
i settled into the experience
how lovely in my head i'm almost limitless
let's second guess me though
anymore of this and i might cry
well sure but if you don't want to 
you don't need to
head on home, forget it's what you came for
but you are strong and you are fully equipped to handle it

you forget my VLA brain
maybe not so bad and i shouldn't complain
but sometimes all the noise can jam the circuits
at 27 operational, now one central spinning mess
and i confess i always hoped that i'd get over loving theories
of thoughts inside another messy head
are we OK to leave this universe for dead
please talk to somebody who's not me
i advise a quiet life in case of stressed belief
in leaden words that take you through the earth
but not along with it
jump over all the fundamental pieces
you don't touch them but do you feel them
if not, try and try again
there's no real energy in elevation
for the sake of elevation
pull the risky trick of full transparency
go ahead, watch life arrive outside your door
and let the mediators bargain for a minute
they might fight but it's alright
it's never you, it's just another kind of me thinking
of another view, one of you, one of me
what would it mean

i'm alive i guess
and i shouldn't complain

du är den du är
och du vet ingenting
alltid sammanfattande
vaken på natten
du håller väl med mig
vi är nånting mer än bara sakerna
som håller oss tillbaka
du är den du är
och du vet ingenting

nu kan du det du kan
och du låtsas som ingenting
det var samma sak ibland
redan innan dom försvann
hur hänger du med när nån gör nånting
alltid vänta in
tänka bort alla hinder
du kan det du kan
men du låtsas som ingenting

jag trodde nog att blåsten skulle bromsa lite bättre
fastän inget blivit av än så hade jag redan sett det
minnet av att finnas där, innan allt var klart
när jag står still och jag är glad, och vi bor i samma stad
men det är som det är
och det var som det var
och jag måste stanna här vid havet

jag vet att du vet
men du vill tro att allting
kommer hålla formen
se månen ser enorm ut just nu
och du vet vad du vill just nu
vara ganska snäll
och kunna somna på kvällen
det är som det är
och här är mitt öresund

Image borrowed from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bird_illustration_from_Svenska_F%C3%A5glar_(Swedish_Birds)_by_the_von_Wright_brothers_from_rawpixel%27s_original_edition_of_the_publication_00316.jpg

Öresund

hey 
do you want to leave
this universe
travel somewhere else with me
all that i never knew
black hole blues in every song
suddenly here i'm made to think
more clearly

how about a little love
for the slow-burning journey
iani chaos
me and my heart on fire
counting colours in the broken valley
at hello you had me
broke down the weight
cut through the winding wire in me

how about a little time
up the gravity well with me
goodbye becquerel
i'll try to tell the truth now
counting colours 
and the hope of something new
all that i never knew
only you
waited for me
could never bore me

and i don't want to worry about it anymore

Mawrth Vallis in December

Chaotic covid cover of Kate Bush's "Hounds of love", from the album with the same name. All rights belong to Kate Bush, I am just a fan.

Hounds Of Love (Kate Bush cover)

Vem vet om du minns det 
När du har kommit hem
Är känslan på väg
Kan det bästa leva kvar
När du landar
Den dimman den finns i en annan stad
Det är dom vanliga valen
Det är det du har
Och där du hamnar

Men kan du hålla andan som jag
Kan du
Ingenting hinns
Kan du se var du hamnar
Men kan du hålla andan som jag
Kan du
Ingenting syns
Tror jag vet var vi hamnar

Hamnar (stökig version)

Ooh could you stop
Do you not know what you've got
Think before you cut them off
'Cause you know that they won't grow back

I'm a nice man
I'm steady weather
I thought you were the missing piece of me
Thought we fit together

In your grand plan
How's this any better
Than surrendering, going peacefully
Letting nothing matter

Ooh could you stop
Do you not know what you've got
Think before you cut them off
'Cause you know that they won't grow back

Here's a warm wind
Find your good manners
Wile the witch that is watching over us
From another planet

You know no one
Is the whole package
So why are you sinking the ship and leaving me
In the wooden wreckage

Ooh could you stop 
Do you not know what you've got
Think before you cut them off
'Cause you know that they won't grow back

Your Monsters

There'll come a day when these machines
Will take advantage of the freedom we grant them
Are we the only ones that see
That we're in actual danger
There was a moment in the street
When I imagined that you wanted me
But that's just me, feeling things

Sorry, I'm heartsick
Make the connection
I can't stick around all night
To wait and see who you pick
Pick me, I won't let you down

I choose direction by the wind
The wind is very indecisive
I can't let anything begin
Til I've imagined every ending
There'll come a day when all these screens
Will make me wonder what the point is
Now on towards the expiration of our dreams

Sorry I'm just so tired
Worked all through the night to put out the fire
And the fire inside of me
Burns uneasily now

Why are you so far away
I'll be fine in the morning
Now say what you came to say
And go fall in love again

Remember when you asked what I was thinking
And I said 'nothing'
Well no one ever thinks of nothing
Unless they're a machine
And I'm human
You know that I'm human
You showed me we're both human
So do what you will with this information

Scheming Robots

Scheming Robots (dive bar version)

13 Sep

I saw the real world 
On fire in your eyes
Pushback and problems
Blown fuses, fried wires
I'll be tracing your spirit
Through the lows and the highs
And I'll wait as you're making your mind up

I'm not a good mirror
But more so than you are
And more sure of my own
Great talent for boredom
Oh let something be mine
Let this one thing be mine
And wait as I make my whole mind up

24 Sep

My mind a swarm om bees
You're a mire of memories
We sink in deep
But I leave you cold I see
And I can't keep up
It feels like the real you needs me
But the real you is
An untold story
One that could never bore me

30 Sep

What does meanwhile mean
Time is a stone
I'm mining my own life
For moments thinner than paper
Thicker than smoke
Lines left unbroken
Words in the open
I'll see what more it could be
If only we had time to be younger
I could follow you easily
Years passing peacefully
If only you had time to be young
With me

September sketches

Dolls

i count your reasons
and you don't think about me
i track the seasons
and you don't think about me
here's me breaking in 
to clean the windows of your house
hello don't mind me
darling just don't mind me

i map your shifting lines
and you don't worry about me
i mourn your tired mind
and you don't worry about me
here's me plucking weeds
along the faultlines in your garden
and you not noticing
you never noticing anything at all

i try hard to make you smaller
forget the words you never wrote
still the colour of your eyes
lodges boulders in my throat
i know my weekends should be mine
i want to leave you far behind
but there's the shoulder of orion
and here's your holy hand in mine


Kingkeeper

Allt du kunnat
Allt du tagit tag om
Allt du undrat varje dag om

Allt du somnat till
Och älskat, vilsen
Suttit still och lyssnat till

Allt du ville ha som var nån annans

Allt det saltaste

Allt det saltaste




I hide my body inside your Sunday
All the while it's 'why not try'
And me with my 'why should I'

But hear the wind, how it's sighing 'one day...'
You're not born to burrow
Not doomed to cry all the time





Day 1

Body
Why won’t you relent
Just let me pick my poison
Not voiceless in the shower
Not power-drunk for hours
It’s happening again
Brake lights on 
The best of me 
Lost behind imaginary lines
And I don’t want to see

No I don’t want to see violence in sickening colour
I don’t want to have silence winding its clock inside me
Nothing but brain rain
Let’s call it all weather
Nothing is easy 
No everything ever 
Is hard
Could we go there
Could we go there 
Together

Brain, rain

Cover of Despacito (Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber)
I own no part of this song!

Despacito (cover)

Cover of "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes. Written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector. (i.e. does not belong to me in any way!)

Be my baby (Cover)

Cover of General Public's "Tenderness". I own nothing.

Tenderness (General Public cover)

Teacher I need you (Elton John cover)

Blood bank (Bon Iver cover)

Bandcamp salvage :)
All songs by Pernilla Borgström, except "Deeper and deeper" (songwriters: Madonna/Shep Pettibone/Anthony Shimkin).

Deeper and deeper (Madonna cover)

Apollo

no i get it
you're not mine
but it's hard you see
since i was 23
you've pulled a red thread
through my timeline
and when we quiet down
you say that it was about
all it was
and all it wasn't
and i'm lost

i am building rome
and you're a stone
in a quarry i don't own
you're the eye inside the dome
sunday window in the holy home

you fly northward
for the winter
make no move to stay
i fly the other way
like sleeping seabirds
that dream of summer winds
to shut the silence out

i am building rome
and you're a stone
in a quarry i don't own
you're the eye inside the dome
sunday window in the holy home

Apollo 2

Cover of "L'amour toujours", written by Luigino D'Agostino, Carlos Montagner, Paolo Sandrini, Diego Leoni. I own nothing! Illustration by Matilda Borgström https://www.instagram.com/matildabatilda/

L'amour toujours (Gigi D'Agostino cover)

what i would want to be
as you hold your hopes for me
who let you run wild and free
all the way home

from lines to be pushed and won
they form as they come undone
and you aren't the only one
in the holy rage

i waver as they all will
the fire to roar, hold still
this floor, i'm the pyre
til you fold me up, store me

somewhere with better views
weather of wilder hues
where i'm not the oldest news
nor younger than the old me

let these tenets that bind and bend
be massively mourned, the end
then cry like you mean it, friend
and all the way home

pick your hill to die on

Hills to die on

Tuesday, heaven's a phone
How'd you get all this way on your own
Timelines run in parallel
Homes turned into parking spaces
For the bleary-eyed and old
You're reminded of gold
An unforgiving hostess
Tracking your progress
With cold facts and figures

Mondays, right
Let's go, holed up, glued shut
Poorly but clean-cut
Try again, now with 2D emotion
The motion spent letting go
Still good to know
That no, I'm not only the most
Unfamiliar ghostly planet
Of airlocks and codes
How do we stand it

A contract:
When your heart attacks
Maybe don't fight back
Do approach the cracking weight
Of people finely grained
They will only shape you
Never break your brain

Mariner One

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