Second Life on Mars

The lyrics are a quote from Aldous Huxley´s novel Doors of Perception. Cover art is made by Rose-Marie Gunnarsdotter.

The Schizophrenic

I wanted to find the core in Thursday's Child, this little ”pretty detty” in David Bowie´s production. It turned out that the colours I was comfortable to paint my cover version with were Tom Petty and the raw simplicity of punk rock.

Thursday's Child

In the Dirt I Shall Survive (Demo Version)

Why Do I Dream of Electric Sheep?

The Key

Only you can make me fall asleep 
Calling you with words we only share 
I close my eyes and find that you are inside my mind

I walk with you forever on a beach 
You and I the blue sky and the kids 
I shut my mouth and breath the universal sea 

Long kiss hello and long kiss goodbye 
Hearts on fire and hearts that are tired 
I open my eyes and see that you are part of me

Only you 
Only you 
Only you
Only you

Only you can make me fall asleep 
Calling you with words we only share 
I open my eyes and see that you are part of me

Only you
Only you

By Per Bronco Karlsson

The Key

Inorganic Beings by Per Bronco Karlsson. The lyrics are a few quotes from Carlos Castaneda´s novel The Active Side of Infinity.

Inorganic Beings

The Road

Blomster

Skvattram in the wood
What made that awful sound?
La la la la la 
La la la la la
You ran home with your birds
La la la la la

Summertime, summertime
There is a question in the wind
Bright, white light
pressing your head to the ground
It´s hard to face such clarity
and not fall apart

You are a shapeshifter now
You are a shapeshifter now
Shapechanger now
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Summertime, summertime
There is a question in the wind
Bright, white light
pressing your head to the ground
It´s hard to face such clarity
and not fall

Skvattram in the wood
What made that awful sound?
You ran home with your birds
And that wasn´t cute

Skvattram in the wood
What made that awful sound?
You ran home with your birds
And that wasn´t cute

La la la la la 
La la la la la
You ran home with your birds
And that wasn´t cute
And that wasn´t cute
And that wasn´t cute

Blomster

There´s no one Remix by Per Bronco, from single No Sociologies Accepted, by Per Bronco.

No Sociologies Accepted

There´s no one Remix by Per Bronco

The music in Romance de Franz is based on Romance d´amour, guitar piece by unknown author, the lyrics are from The trial by Franz Kafka.
Romance de Franz is on my album Retromancer (2016). 

I have a video for Romance de Franz on my Youtube account (photos from Prague by me): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I59wa-D_F18

Retromancer

Romance de Franz

Eight legged Doug - remaster, with Tibet in reverse, on album Retromancer 2016, original version on single Tales from Trollhättan 2013.

Eight legged Doug - remaster [with Tibet in reverse]

The Kitchen Albatross, from the album Retromancer by Per Bronco.

The Kitchen Albatross

Ling Ling at the bus stop, from the album Retromancer, by Per Bronco.

Ling Ling at the bus stop

Retromancer, Per Bronco with Tibet in reverse, from the album Retromancer, 2016.

Retromancer [with Tibet in reverse]

The original Exodus was included on the single Oscar Muur,  with Per Bronco Karlsson & Tibet in reverse, 2013. 
The song Exorcism is also included  on Exo, it is the same version already published here on SC, on the album All Rickety Here.

Exodus Remaster (with Tibet in reverse)

Hurry Love, single by Per Bronco. Cover photo by Aija Heiska.

Hurry Love

Hurry Love - cover photo by Aija Heiska (single, also on Mycelium 3.0)

The Rain, single by Per Bronco, with cover photo by Annett.

The Rain

The Rain - with cover photo by Annett (single, also on Mycelium 3.0)

The Mystery is Complete from album Mycelium 3.0 by Per Bronco, 2018.

Mycelium 3.0

The Mystery is Complete

A Stupid Old Goat from Mycelium 3.0, 2018.

A Stupid Old Goat

A Stupid Old Goat (with Tibet in reverse)

1018 from album Mycelium 3.0 by Per Bronco, 2018.

1018

Danger in the Sky from Mycelium 3.0, 2018.

Manic to be punctual
When the car broke down she left it
Ran like she was haunted
by a danger in the sky

The predator is googling her
She can feel it cast a shadow
in the room where she´s supposed to live her life

Inclusion is a premium club
for thoughtless exclusion
and there is no way around
and no way out

Deliriously she spoke of John Ajvide
and his existential field
We didn´t trust her
and we didn´t trust ourselves

Talking like an actor
Not exactly in a film
Not exactly in a show
Not exactly in a play

You have to understand, she said
This is not Enola Gay
It´s an ancient danger in the sky

The archetype´s on sale again
in Europe and America
The Shadow is a clown
in every mousy head

The collective unconscious
should be observed from outside
Wonder if Jung
was ever close to that?

You have to understand, she said
This is not Enola Gay
It´s an ancient danger in the sky

Copyright Per Bronco Karlsson. All rights reserved.
www.perbroncokarlsson.com

Danger in the Sky

Danger in the Sky (with Tibet in reverse)

Melancholia

The Power and the Glory, single by Per Bronco, 2019

Our world is a dangerous planet with dangerous leaders. My new song The Power and the Glory draws attention to this and suggests that we in opposition to them act for a positive attitude towards the immediate future.

The Power and the Glory

Mycelium from album Mycelium 3.0 by Per Bronco, 2018.

Mycelium

I listened to a lot of versions before I decided to make a cover on David Bowie´s The Bewlay Brothers. But I didn´t want it to sound Hunky Dory. I wanted to meet him in the wardrobe where he disappeared after Lazarus, and ask: "David, I'm as heavy as can be, help me speak of senseless things".

The Bewlay Brothers

Kallocain from the album Kallocain The Little Match Girl, by Per Bronco Karlsson, 2020. Lyrics from Karin Boye´s novel Kallocain.

Kallocain The Little Match Girl

Kallocain

Buy Sell Tomorrows, single by Per Bronco Karlsson 2020.

For me, this song is about the climate crisis. How will humanity act on constant economic growth?

Buy Sell Tomorrows

The Fruitcake Associations Bank from the album Kallocain The Little Match Girl, 2020.  Recorded together with Tibet in reverse.

"Just kicking against the pricks."

The Fruitcake Associations bank

The Fruitcake Associations Bank (with Tibet in reverse)

My new song Only God Forgives is a little story about climate and nuclear weapons. I think all countries should ratify TPNW, Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 

How is your country doing? 

https://www.icanw.org/how_is_your_country_doing

Per Bronco

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Only God Forgives

Rock the World with a nuclear bomb
It´s good for everyone
If the climate is too hot for some
Then we´re too close to the sun
Rock the World just a meter or two
Just like a large asteroid would do
We can do it and it will be fun

Only God forgives

Some guys believe that the Earth orbits the Sun
Some guys believe it´s the other way around
But they are all wrong
Cause we´re the crown in the creation
It all evolves around us
And when I look in the mirror
I see a king looking back
I make the planet rock again
I only rule what is mine
I only do what a king is expected to do

Only God Forgives

Copyright Per Bronco Karlsson. All rights reserved.

Only God Forgives

My new song The Box is inspired by Stephen Hawking.
- If we were large enough to cross The Box in one step, how long would it take?

The Box

Per Bronco Karlsson: Context Creator. Singer-Songwriter. DIY Musician.

Music on SoundCloud:

Blomster (Single) 2024

The Road (Single) 2024

Inorganic Beings (Single) 2023

The Key (Single) 2023

In the Dirt I Shall Survive (Demo Version) 2022

Thursday's Child (Single 2022)

The Schizophrenic (Single 2021)

Second Life on Mars (Single 2021)

The Box (Single 2021)

Only God Forgives (Single 2020)

Buy Sell Tomorrows (Single 2020)

Tracks from the album Kallocain The Little Match Girl 2020: Kallocain, The Fruitcake Associations Bank (with Tibet in reverse)

The Bewlay Brothers (Single 2019)

The Power and the Glory (Single 2019)

Melancholia (Single 2018)

Tracks from Mycelium 3.0 (Album 2018): The Rain (Single 2017, also on Mycelium 3.0), Hurry Love (Single 2017, also on Mycelium 3.0)

Exo (EP 2017, Exorcism on All Rickety Here)

Retromancer (2016)

No Sociologies Accepted (EP 2015)

All Rickety Here (2015)

Crowgirls (2014)

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