Seat 12C SAS Copenhagen to Stockholm Stockholm would be my first choice for a European second home Feel like I live there in another life I dreamed that I lived in an old flat there once And it was Christmas time In real life, I brought home a lot of nice gifts from Sweden A [?] from Malmö and some ice-cube trays from IKEA And a collection of old silverware that an ex-girlfriend's father sold me from his antique shop And she gave me a beautiful blue ceramic bowl that's still on my kitchen table
Got a lot of good memories here in Stockholm Last time I saw Elliott Smith was at the Accelerator Festival July 5th 2000, a beautiful sunny day I wish I would've hugged him goodbye But I figures I'd see him again another day Maybe in San Francisco or L.A But as things turned out it didn't work out that way
And my favorite restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden Is right down the road It's called Pelican I like the salmon but I never eat the reindeer Something about the idea of eating reindeer brings my eyes to tears I don't understand how any of you can eat reindeer When I was a little kid my favorite Christmas special was Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer He had that stuff nose voice And I still love Rudolph I saw a reindeer carpaccio on the menu recently And i wanted to shoot myself I love you Sweden I really do But please let the reindeer run free For the sweetest animals kill a moose or a buffalo If that's what you gotta do to taste gamey meat Please leave the reindeer alone Please pass on that reindeer dish Please do it for me Please grant me this one wish Please leave the reindeer alone Please pass on that reindeer dish Please do it for me Please grant me just this one wish
The first time I ever played Stockholm A kid walked up to me on stage And said, "Mark, do you realize that you are god in Sweden?" I said, "You're very young and that's a foolish thing for you to say and you're tripping Like I said you're young You're gonna see that somebody else is gonna come along and be god in Sweden" And later on came José González and Sigur Rós If I die tomorrow, I'll be blurbs on online magazines for 48 hours You'd all be fine, you'd say, "Hey I met him once and he didn't seem like he wanted to talk to me" Then you'd say, "Look who's headlining at Roskilde? The Gorillas"
So back to Sweden and all the things I love about it A good friend is her and I always make time for her When she sees me I think something about me makes her glow And when I see her something about her makes me glow She's one of those friends I'll always know She uplifts me and I uplift her And that's an essential part of being on the road and being on tour So much stress on the road and it can make you edgy So surround yourself with the people who care about you and make you happy Who don't bring you down and who love you unconditionally As my lawyer says, "Never engage with crazy" And Isaiah says, "To further yourself you gotta step over the dead bodies"
There is something to me about how sweet to me that is meditative Everyone seems like they're on some kind of sedative When I was a kid I loved [?] And [?] Valium When I'm in Sweden, I kinda feel like I'm on 5mg of Valium Because the Swedish people, they seem like they're on Valium Or they smoked a little bit of pot It's in their eyes, they look so tranquil They're like cats they don't blink a lot Don't know if it's the darkness or if it's the things that they're eatin' There's a serenity I feel whenever I'm in Sweden
I like the candles in the doorways of the hotels I like the candles on their dinner tables You guys put candles everywhere You even put them in the hotel elevators That's one of my favorite favorite things about Sweden The candles The candles The candles The candles The candles The candles The candles The candles The candles The candles The candles The candles The candles The candles The candles
'Cause when I was a kid my dad wouldn't let me burn candles I'd light incense or candles in my room And my dad would walk up and say "Goddamnit Mark, put those fucking candles out You're gonna burn the whole goddamn house down" And let me tell you a story My dad turned out to be right Later on in 2004 I left a candle burning beside a flower pot It was the summer and all of the flowers were dried up I went for a walk to the marina and back But when I was gone, those flowers went up And when I came home, my door was all boarded up with firewood I broke it down, it looked like my whole apartment floor was covered in charcoal And I looked around and my whole kitchen wall was gone Some guys were doing construction in the building next door And they saw the fire and they called the fire department Luckily for me the fire department is two blocks away from my apartment So they came and they put the fire out Had they not been there to see it I would surely be doing theater for a licenses in San Quentin prison Burning an apartment down and killing a few people in America That's called third degree murder That's when you kill somebody And being careless I used to get pissed off at my dad when he'd tell me what to do And he'd have a fit But as it turns out with the candles he was not clowning around He was right and not wrong I was spaced out my head was in the clouds And I almost burned my whole apartment building down But the Swedes seemed to be in control of the candle situation The Swedes are smarter and more organized than Americans I know this isn't much of a song and the ending is even worse It could've been better But stewardess came around and just told me to shut my laptop off I have more things to say in regards to how much I love Stockholm And all the things I love about it besides candles and more clocks and doff blue ceramic bowls But like I said, the stewardess came by and said, "Sir, please put your laptop away" I said, "Jesus Christ, what the fuck? I've got this huge concert tonight in Stockholm And I have this perfect song I was going to sing to my audience" She said, "Sir, please put it away now" I say "Okay, goddamnit" And I close my laptop down And that's my unfinished song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my unfinished song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my unfinished song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my incomplete song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my incomplete song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my incomplete song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my incomplete song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my incomplete song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my incomplete song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my incomplete song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines from Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my unfinished song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my incomplete song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my incomplete song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my incomplete song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to Stockholm And this is my incomplete song From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen to StockholmTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
