This is a small track I made for the game "Svipugong" that I made for the DragonRuby gamejam on Itch.io. 
The game is rythm based, and thus the 120 BPM is quite important. 
It was fun to try to create music that was a bit similar in feel to the computer games I played in the 80:s :)

You can find the game here: https://nerdur.itch.io/svipugong

120 - From the game Svipugong

This track was composed and recorded for the VimJam2 Gamejam (https://itch.io/jam/vimjam2).

You can find the game here: https://nerdur.itch.io/the-boss

The "Boss" picture on the track cover is from the Polygon Office Asset pack (https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/props/interior/polygon-office-low-poly-3d-art-by-synty-159492)

This song will most probably be made into a full length version also, so stay tuned. 

Lyrics
=====
I'm the Boss
I'll let you watch me when I floss
I don't care what nothing costs
I'm always right 'cause I'm the Boss

Don't you disturb my peace
You should give me what I need
I don't care to hear your thoughts
You should know, 'cause I'm the Boss

I'm adored by all my staff
My jokes always makes them laugh
They seek my wisdom when they're lost
'Cause I'm so smart yeah I'm the Boss

I was born to take the lead
Everyone wants to be like me
You may think I am a god
And you'd be right 'cause I'm the Boss

I've got a house that is cool and incredibly big
I've got a wife and a girlfriend and a dog and some kids
I park my cars where I want since the rules ain't for me
I've got a lawyer that makes sure I can do as I please

'Cause I'm the Boss

The Boss

The Boss (Game Version)

Birthday

I was asked to sing Hello as a singing exercise and ran a bit with it with these results. Quite raw and unpolished but better shared than gathering dust on my hard-drive :)

Hello (Cover)

Finns även på Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0F8GBAEGqfVhxlLb36yXlo?si=GksgrKdwSvGNjplFeyrnlQ

Blev lite inspirerad att skriva om sista veckorna 2022 i Trelleborg...

Det finns en liten stad här där slätten tar slut
Inte känd för så mycket, vill inte sticka ut
En stad full av musik och stolt historik 
Som tyvärr är mest känd för sin politik

Om man ska få slå sin kvinna, eller ha en sagostund
Bryta lit' mot lagen för ett handslags skull
Dra ner på verksamheten för alla utom societeten
Där blir det dubbelt upp

Har mycket vill ha mer, utan någon måttfullhet
Makten korrumperar, så mycket kan vi se
Trelleborg är känt nu i hela vårt land
Som de tondövas huvudstad

Våra fritidspolitiker som gör så gott de kan
Får möta folkets vrede när de ansvariga försvann
De litat på sina ledare, att de vet vad de gör
Men kejsaren var både naken och döv

Har mycket vill ha mer, utan någon måttfullhet
Makten korrumperar, så mycket kan vi se
Trelleborg är känt nu i hela vårt land
Som de tondövas huvudstad

Spotify

Tondövas Huvudstad

Sometimes I can't really help using the guitar. A lot. 
This is a song about reflecting over ones life. If you think the guitar dominates the song you're absolutely correct. It does :) 
Anyhow, I hope you like the song.

Thoughts From My Coffin

This is the final version of Lies as published on iTunes and Spotify. It's a bit heavier and with added electric guitar but still the same song as before. 

Lyrics and more information about the song can be found here: http://sverrirv.com/tracks/lies.html


Lies-final

A dream of a future that isn't all that easy to realize

Lyrics
====

It’s getting clearer
Every day I dream 
I see you there

Standing outside
you smile at me 
wind blowing in your hair

A smile to die for
so beautiful
makes me fall in love again

I can see it
It’s not so far away
but still not here

We’ll have to swim
across the water
full of sharks
they’ll try to get us

It will hurt
No one will help us 
But we’ll have the life we want

Just image
Breakfast with the 
ocean by our side

Our children playing
on the beach
Together just outside

I can see you standing there
Your dress moving lightly
With the breeze

Our youngest with you
Just outside our house
By the sea

Its right there
Just by the water
Its within reach 
Just have to go there

Just image
Every morning
Waking up
Together there

A smile to die for
Makes me want to spend my life with you

A House By The Sea

Till Trelleborg

Indie

Din värld

This is a song about addiction..  http://sverrirv.com/owned

One morning I woke up with this song in my head and it wouldn't go away. So I wrote it down and now recorded it. 

Lyrics

So
Where all this is going I don’t know
Keep pushing you away but you won’t go
Sometimes it seems you’re leaving
but I know
That is an illusion, just a hope
I am owned

By you
I can’t resist you when you come to close
Feels to good to fall for you, let go
Just give in and feel the rush, it flows
I know it isn’t right, should let you go
But I am owned

Ref
Falling
No one sees it
Won´t say it

Falling
By myself
together with you

Falling
Can’t explain it
though I’d want to

Falling
Love the feeling
It’s landing that brings me down

Guilt
Is all that I can feel when you are gone
I shouldn’t fall this easy, should be strong
Don’t really understand why I give up
I know what I am doing is just wrong
(guess) I’m not that strong

Try
All I can really do is just go on
Someday I might defeat you, but I’m wrong
You’ll always be around me, I’m not free 
You’ll hide there in the shadows, tempting me
Since you own me

You’re all I’ll ever be




Owned

Tänkte lite på turerna runt magasinet i Smygehamn, stiftelsen och kommunen. Hade gitarren nära till hands så det blev en liten låt av det. 
Inte så noga inspelad och skulle kanske behöva putsas lite i texten, men min åsikt i frågan hoppas jag går fram.. Kommunen har ställt till med detta och borde vara en stor del (drivande) för att lösa det.



Jag läser här i min tidning
och börjar så smått förstå 
Att den verklighet som jag trodde var sann
inte gäller några få

Jag är naiv och tror på löften
som ges av vettigt folk
Att man ämnar att göra som så
som man är överens om

Men det gäller inte här i Trelleborg!
Här lovar vi stort och skryter på gator och torg
Sen kommer vi med ursäkter
och byter ut  våra politiker
Och då gäller ingenting, vi startar på 0.

 De har en liten sport
 Att lura gammalt folk
 De bländar dem med jurister och prat
 om att de ska fixa så flott

"Kommunen kan man ju lita på"
tror de stackarna då
Och det skulle såklart varit helt rätt
om de bott en bit härifrån

Men det gäller inte här i Trelleborg!
Här lovar vi stort och skryter på gator och torg
Sen kommer vi med ursäkter
och byter ut  våra politiker
Och då gäller ingenting, vi startar på 0.


Politikerna de gör vad helst de vill
under majoritetens sigill
Försöker få oppositionen på fall
kosta vad det vill

De tror att folket bryr sig
Om deras listiga spel
Men allt vi vill är att de gör som de sagt
och slutar göra fel

De hade varit bra för Trelleborg
Bevara vårt arv och utveckla gator och torg
Sluta komma med ursäkter
Och gör det ni ska som politiker
Vi vill känna stolthet över vår stad

De hade varit bra för Trelleborg
Bevara vårt arv och utveckla gator och torg
Sluta komma med ursäkter
Och gör det ni ska som politiker
Vi vill känna stolthet över vår stad

Skrev lite om detta här: https://nerdur.com/magasinet-och-kalkugnarna-i-smygehamn.html (men det säger inget annat än det du precis läst :))

Inte i Trelleborg

Lyrics

I see my self
I am old
I sit outside
Im not alone

All has settled
long ago
The road was long
but we came home

All I see
and all I feel
I can’t believe
it’s just a dream

The time we steal
Helps to heal
makes our dream
feel like it’s real

We don’t know
where to go
how to get out
makes us low

Cause all we see
Is where well be
When we’re older
When we’re free

Your hair has changed
to mountain grey
But not your eyes
they shine the same

Looking at you
I can see
Only beauty
Love still real


Just A Dream

This is a re-recording and slight re-composition of a track I made a few years ago that I never thought I finished properly although I liked it. I think this is a better version and I hope you like it as well..

This is a song that I wrote after listening to P3-Morgonpasset one morning on my way to work. They were discussing difficult situations and some guy told about when they had stopped someone who was following a woman at night. This is a song about not being that brave..

Late at night
Not feeling sober
On my way
Walking through the darkness down town

Hear some one shouting
Look around
I see a shadow
Following a woman, crying for help

I don’t care since
I don’t know her
I’m afraid
I’ll just ignore her

I turn away
I don’t want hear her
I’ll just mind myself
and leave this place

Morning sun
Reaches my eyes
Waking up
Not feeling right

I can’t let go
though I try
I should just mind myself
and leave the rest alone

'cause

I don’t care
I don’t know her
I was afraid
I just ignored her

Why should I
have to save her
She's not my problem
I have my own

I’m feeling guilty
I can’t deny it
If I was her I’d hoped for help

I don’t deserve to feel any better
I was a coward, all because..

I didn’t care
since i didn’t know her
Now she haunts me
I could have saved her

I don’t know
what came of her
but I should have
been her friend

I was scared
I was a coward
Not a man
Ran away

Wish I could go back
And just shout to her
It’s so little
I had to do



No Man (v2.1)

This is a short song I wrote one day and could just sit and play over and over again, just me and my guitar.
Here I added quite a lot of other instruments, but the song really has its own special character even if it's very short. 

Lyrics

No one holds your hand
No one asks your mind
No ones there for you
No one wonders what is true

A haaaa aha

No one hears you cry
No one wonders why
You go forward with a smile
Cause on the surface you are fine

A haaaa aha

They see you there
They know your name
But they don't care
You take all blame
Cause without you
It’s not the same

There no chance
They’ll let you in
It’s to scary
You might win
So much better to
lock you in



No one cares

An english version of my song "Draugur". Not quite the same song, but as I liked Draugur som much I just had to make an english song with the same music.

More information: http://sverrirv.com/tracks/ghost.html


Spotify link

Ghost

Those like me, we wander
We think we know the way
None of us returns
I know I'll do the same

Thinking we are masters
of our actions and the like
turns out we are mere puppets
of the gods, who run our lives

They’re hiding here among us
Pretend to fit in
They see us all as simple fools
for them to use at will

Do you ever lay awake at night
thinking of your life
how you could become someone
to boast about with pride

You know the maze is rigged against you
riddles, traps and spies
Jareth's there to guard it all
and keep you from your prize

They’re hiding here among us
Pretend to fit in
They see us all as simple fools
for them to use at will

But you keep smiling
Believing that you'll be there too
You should be crying
Cause theres nothing here for you

No Hope

Icelandic nerd in Sweden

I write and perform all my music myself and I make the music I feel like making. Sometimes it's a synth song, sometimes the guitar is burning..  Don't expect consistency. 

Please share and comment if you find anything worthy of your listening time.

You can find some of my music on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/artist/3ovGsNmBtK0vrn0MowKSwv
and on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/se/artist/sverrir-valgeirsson/id594273562

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