Mando Diao

We call it lady nowdays, when you’re put down with your panties, issues maid! And when you’re making my bed, remember you have to make yourself But I don’t know where it’s going I’ve got a picture of ‘em all If it’s going deathrow? I’ve got a picture of ‘em...

There’s a town I know where all who enters mutter And the head has bought a crown that doesn’t fit So when coffee shops and supermarkets burn down I know They have only the sun for witness and believer that’s a shame ‘Cause the stars have closed their eyes...

Pull the trigger, break down in a love affair When I said I didn’t care, you started searching for tomorrow Pull the trigger, my girl you’re running all alone I said I was back home, but I’m far away And there ain’t no point in the words I write There ai...

Hey! Hey! I keep on longing for you Nighttime is when I hear you Couldn't see this storm'd be coming I need you I still dream about you Contemplating what we had Listen to the doctor's order I need you For all the things that I do to myself All t...

See the silver shrine on my nightstand how it shines in black and white I don't need life I don't need anything except you Like the fading heart in my tattoo I have lost the track of time I couldn't tell if it was day or night when I first saw y...

I was down in Amsterdam Almost hurt myself to death I pushed myself so hard Just like the redlight girls Well I cried and stopped to smile I thought my career was over And the dealer boys they had to bring me water I stumbled over mountains And the shadows of...

And I feel I feel the odd ones And I see that they are wrong 'Cause in my head it`s warning something And if you could see what I have done Oh, I bet you would be dissappointed 'Cause what I see is something wrong And in my head it`s warning something...

I was a stoned drunk silhouette of my past I lost my nerves when he took me on He was this high-healed smooth talking middleclass bastard Who tried to stab me for where I was from And though his words was covered in yesterdays mud The boys around him laug...

Better than running Stand and take a fight But dare you It's better than losing More than life itself Can you feel it? Another Black Saturday Another Black Saturday Yeah You think that it's funny I can see you're choking I hope you choke yourself...

I've got my Armageddon boots, brown shades and brand new leather suit Blue lining, blue lining, blue lining white trench coat I sue my own intelligence I wear it down til' the bitter end Blue lining, blue lining white trench coat Oh I'm going d...

I've gotta climb this mountain, yeah, I'll deal with you later If you burst into laugh then I will ch-ch-ch-choke you with my cough I am better of dead, I'm rolling high and I'll be gone for tomorrow So copying styles if you're a “one of a kind” Oh Yeah! Alri...

I don’t remember your name But I recall your smell I don’t remember your face But I still feel your skin That moonshine That starlight fall The tender lips of yours My body’s gentle thrill From that sleeping pill Don’t need chemicals When you are m...

Take you back through the suburb Catch the train I've been painting your pipeline We're so proud of you leaving him back home And the money at gate night Why so sad and disordered? The doctor never lies I've been planning for you to sleep in here With...

Stop your crying oh little boy 'cause I know a place that you will enjoy It's a place that's full of diamonds and toys And Chet Baker's playin' trumpet there So go there now Enjoy Go there Don't feel low 'cause Chet Baker's playin' trumpet alone For you Do...

She can smell her next day, but it ain’t gonna work if I cross her mind The latest news this weekend, man got raped, she replied, I’ll go out for bread Chi Ga -only she knows how to step forward and when it’s gonna come to an end Chi Ga -only fast women can d...

Child, I'm with you, all of the time When a shadow falls, I'm with you When you're down, where the darkness crawls I'm with you, you came down and a shadow fell Return to you, you came down and a shadow fell I'm with you, I'm with you (Verse) Sleep now...

You're feeling down And there's no one around who can see Why you keep your head up high Little sister's running around with candy And you don't Wanna suffer your pride so you shut up While your mommy's crying loud Daddy's decorating the wall A...

Ididn't feel the old umbrella I was was feeling my own self I catched the old spark Cinderella She was longing for James Dean She was that high-heeled Girl Which makes and twirls And twiggy cigarettes And all the papers they said The Queen is dead Bu...

You wanna worship its feelings The ones who’s squeezing the shame from every man And if mama says it’s dinner time, if she ruins your love, run away So you live in a prison So you’re wasting your life On a system you never will understand Are you the one...

If you like to get in touch with me someday I know just what you'll say useless empty words You close your eyes and try to talk me through no matter what you'll do, you know I'll be just fine So come on come on dress me like a queen confuse me, even...

Fade away... All that we have dreamed of Bergman said it all, the magic is in the fall, so true... When you see him tell him all that you don't know all how much we've grown so I cry but like always, I don't feel that much in here so I sit by your si...

Bad boy-Jimmy says where it’s at? Down the hallway of kids playing flipper with the Jax And the tax for the trench coat I bought Measures up for the fines that we paid today And for those who couldn’t run away Well they got beaten up and thrown in jail...

Break your happy home Learn to sing along To the music, to the music Clap your hands and shake On a summer's day To the music, to the music [Chorus 2x] I'm falling in love with your favourite song I'm gonna sing it all night long I'm gonna dance with...

Well I don’t wanna hang around with you I’ve got my motor baby and I’m gonna see you through You think I wanna be alone with you It doesn’t matter baby cause you’re overreacted too But since you’re down there, where will I just be I’m getting fine girl, d...

Loving is hard when it’s stopped by cemetery Baby I hope those tears were meant for me Even when it hurt it was always you who shined Blinded by starlight, heartbeats and my mind She come on homewards. Wanna fly? She come on homewards. Wanna sigh I’m dri...

Faithful to the sun, moon and stars i will rest my sword when i'm all forgotten the duel of the dynamite here and we welcome it with all we have to offer You'll see the day but when my love i can not say my eyes are so tired my legs they can barely carry me...

Jag såg en sovandes Höjda haka, Det svarta skägget Låg ungt och vekt, Vid silverkanten Av tröjans halsrand Omkring ett ansikte Stolt och blekt Jag såg en sångares Vemodspanna, Det mörka håret I ädelt fall, Den manligt svärmiska Sorgsna läppen, S...

She tried to breath but it's too hard under sea I saw her trying from the shore I didn't dare to save her beautiful life, the water liked her anyway For the tears For the tears For the tears I took her life They tried to scream but it's too har...

Jimmy you never feared the life ahead you never lived the life I gave you when I hold you Daddy said you're gonna get it You're gonna burn before the dawn Your blood is poisoning your people your own people your addiction in the one the sweetest one,...

Well now, she don't need to see the sun ahead don't need that help from god above If you're losing her don't be sad cause she will offer you heart attacks She's tired of problems that you caused her mind Tired of all those lies in your freak sho...

You and me, you and me Will always find a salty sea To clean our wounds and find our self esteem It's you and me forever Funeral, I hope my time will come when all is gone, When all the violins play the saddest songs My love for you will rise up and si...

Well I turned left just like you told me to I get excited by the moves you do I’m on a mission and I’m gonna get away Well I saw her standing all colored in red I felt the blues just by the things she said I want my mission so I can escape today God kno...

Twilight in my Eye, then I can see for seven million miles Twilight in my eye tonight Dreams become clear, the fog gets thicker every time I inhale Stars look the same to me Oh my God I went Gold when I saw your smiling face I went Gold when I went through th...

I've been walking down the street With a Tambourine on my feet I'm holding every beat steady and low Well if it would've been me I would have turned into the factory And chase that little girl back and blue Now I'm bleeding And I'm freezing And I'm crying one...

Share some thoughts for all the pretty people Bless the gods and all the wealthy fellas See how they run, see how they try To give their best for all our beauty They wear dignity like the falling angels Proper shoes and the velvet trousers We were tramps and...

Ohh you got me shaking to that moan you made last night Ohh my body's aching from that naked summer light Ohh my mind's setting you on It's just a game we play High heels have got me falling down on my knees High heels have got me falling down on my...

How would you react, in a situation like mine When all birds they aint singing I don’t know how to say it But you can go know So please girl, go now You make me laugh you make me shiver Isn’t that a fabulous thing Don’t be here now don’t be here anytime...

I don't care what the people say I wear my pain everyday people say it's a waste of time I say it suits me just fine you- what's on your mind last time I saw you, you hide I don't feel very right my mom says I'm December child I don't care what the people sa...

(Verse) If I don't have you Then how am I supposed to get it on? It's been a long cold war in a lonely cell But I'm still hanging on If I don't have you Then how am I supposed to breathe again? In this lonely cell I will wait for you Till my time has...

Take my hand of funeral flowers in white why did you hurt me so? You said that you never stood out So go kiss Ann on the cheek she's never week she likes the way you betrayed me But don't forget If I don't live today, then I might be here tomorrow If I don't l...

Burning your fiddle that’s an easy job If you set the twilight reeling I’ve got 15 cents is that alright with you? No you didn’t want that, bad And your dad is rich but your brother’s poor And your children sing come on, come on Join my circle now make m...

Jeanette my love don’t use the elevator Don’t climb and rise don’t lick it in the times of war Tell him that I was more than him in the bed My hands are bigger and I’m taller as well Catch me little girl don’t try to run, Don’t try to hide yourself from M...

Josephine is not your kind She believes in magic and rhymes You tried hard to make her fine But she sleeps with acid Do her parents know it's for real When she asks them to be high I don't know But they will sure beware of it She smokes clouds every single n...

Bombs over the street, bombs all over the subway Bombs on your mind when there's no one around In your garden there was never a problem But now you're standing on the street Bombs for you dad, bombs for your mommy Bombs that passed a long time ago And i...

It feels like I'm water What do you mean son? It feels like I'm crying flesh It looks like tears have dropped on Messiah And all of the flood can fit into your screen It must be the soil I was using To stop ghosts from feeding my brain, Lost in the woo...

Don't you stumble, turning your head upside down And don´t get the feeling that I've been dreaming here all alone Sell the new dimension to my pal he's in need of help but I´m so busy Teach me how to loose my friends and give me the sign of love ‘cause I w...

If I said something smoothly, could it be a little symphony Breathing a break, oh that’s what you want me to do Riding along emotions unaware of my own age, darling Lauren, I’m growing much faster than you And if that Andy drew my soul, I will tear me ‘till...

I’ve got a brand new hand if you wanna perform A 30 year old army turning fire into storm I’ve got a vicious little soldier, I know he’s alright He’s gonna catch some women tonight, that’s alright He’s gonna catch some women tonight He’s spinning round ‘n’ ro...

She said "I like just lying on the bed" Beneath the ceiling with her head upon my pillow There's nothing else I'd rather do And I said I'd rather do it on the couch Or in the kitchen whereabout You seem so down child Like nothing could destroy your world But...

Maybe back in June you find All you ever want Thats what people say to me On my crying days Step into my dreaming space Hide behind the door Demons stole my pride when they got bored Try to get away for good Leaving on a train Find that all that mat...

Take this forever sigh, and close your eyes as I step in to get the mother-blow when you're not there to get the mother-blow when you're not there I fake, when you make something beautiful of nothingness get the mother-blow when you're not there to get the mot...

Did you stand in front of me with another guy? Did you know you just awoke the lion? So I tried to scream your name You don't know who I am I'm just gon' take you away Wind is turnin', love is burnin' I'm gonna make you mine I'm gonna make you mine...

Come on children Let's get out From a bunker in the underground Let's pick the train to A place we can hide And see what all the soldiers are Talking about Are they happy Or maybe just sad Are they proud of the upper class Is it easy For them to feel free O...

Let me take you for a ride far away from the upper side we're going down to the mean street Johnny's got a brand new 38 he thinks it's gonna cure his hate Ah it's all done in the mean street It's the state of grace and It's all done in the mean stree...

Went to new Mexico with dependencies and lies you met a girl that smack you in your bed She said in June you'll find me but in august I'll be gone and I will leave you crying on the ground and the rings we switched I melted them down to pure gold I pawned the...

La la la aaaa In a house on an island there's a tale that must be told of our mysterious Misty Mountains behind all the songs I wrote lives an old man in his shadow and they're whistling day and night for whatever whatever its worth for they are whistling for...

Saw you dancing with another man Do you know how I feel? My world is trembling underneath Now you know how I feel Dandy Juliet Money doesn't make you a man x2 Sweet poison is burning in my head Fire, walk with me Dissolution lays a promised land Fir...

I caught a zombie he was stuck in the night his sweat was melting from the sun in my eyes I guess I'm 'bout to fall - the moonshine fever I met my maker in the deepest of dreams my eyes was burning from a movie I've seen I guess I'm 'bout to fall - the...

You smashed her right between her blue eyes You didn't think ahead, yeah that's what he said Then everyone of us just turned our backs to him and said That was not a nice thing to do I can't believe he was so cruel But you love brothers No matter what they sa...

I said go, I said baby don’t wanna go I said freeze, I said baby don’t wanna freeze And if it’s night or day we don’t care if what we get along whatever you do And it won’t be long ‘till they get my file and turns it black as black as afternoon And turns it bl...

Mr Moon, Mr Moon, maybe your time is coming Mr Moon, Mr Moon, what’s happening in that room Well search your heart, before you die, before your time fades away It was given as a promise to each and every man “I wanna love you but I’m growing old ten little so...

She knows that if she ever breaks free That she will never see the light of day She’s been blinded by the stars and dreams she craved And if they ever let her go She still be bound to all her fears And all the medicine they forced her to take On and on and on...

He went twenty thousand light-years from home And agreed he’ll be the next to be lowered And though he knew that life ain’t just a good start The advance did break him Filling textures on some tear-weathered note And on purpose he just spelled them all w...

Paint the picture with my final sunrise Paint the ocean with the tracks of my tears I wanna be the only one The only one who knew you when I’m gone And flown away When you’re near me I feel so secure and When you feared me I felt, I felt even more I wa...

Well I saw her in a limousine she smiled and hugged a man so tight I stood there like a fool and she was out of sight She was lovely like a summer rose I wanted her oh, so, near but out from what I fear that dream is gone and clear and it's not a perfect day...

You were so down child last time I saw you Tears in the rain no one will notice Life doesn’t have to be such a struggle Beat you to sleep awake you with anger It’s a bitter world and it’s getting worse As it drags you down as it tears your heart You’re...

I feel dizzy all laid back and I'm too blind to see What's going on outside my lonely window I'm turning on the TV screen watch the news for a while Then I fall back to sleep again And I'm dreaming 'bout times, times that are gone Times when I lived alone in...

Take the road on your wheelchair roll it out tonight! Cause there's only one option for us right now One of us got to get down If you don't hear my call for help, You're in another world boy! I've lost my faith in the pure, blue skied summertime I've been lyi...

Drove around ‘til five o’clock, it was drivers day I drove the drivers way, Now I must speed up get up wipe up everything I’ve got Wanna hit the pretty ice in my big city, with my big clichés And if I get out, give up, get along with myself I’ve gotta get it...

She ain’t as beautiful as me, but she’s as beautiful as she can be She ain’t as cold as she want but she wants it to boil She ain’t as cold as she can be, don’t you see It takes a fast mind to figure out, what’s on this whole earth this is all about Let ‘em ri...

she's covered up with glaze some of us know theres beauty cling on i saw her walking by, saw her shimmering light with no one around just the shadow and me there well its so hard to see through you and so easy to know oh its so hard to define you but i j...

Stick around your neck and see what it can bring Lonely stands the butcher on the ground Little angel fly, fly among the stars Jupiter will comfort you with love So who are you gonna follow Are you going out somewhere Can it be the new thing money enoug...

Last night I was waiting for your call You know I don't have anything to do Then I must have fainted on your couch I guess I couldn't waste another night Waiting for your lies to give me something Cause I'm tired of running further from the pain Waiting...

I'm going down as crazy getting cream from a man in leather and it that ain't high enough what can I do? He told me son you'd better try this It turns you on while you're asleep but if that ain't well enough I'll give you more And I I opened my mind today fr...

I've been waiting patiently For your love to set me free Been starving for too long on my own Gravity can hold you down Shooting through my lonely mind Won't you take me home? Shake me all around Shake me to the ground Shake me with no fear Shake me...

There’s something in the way when she smiles When she’s leaving home and then arrives There’s something in the way that she walks That makes people shout, makes people talk Talk about the annoying weather, while where together, while we’re all bound to see B...

Yeah, yeah, yeah! Well, I aim at the first one who'll dare to stand still Oh Lord, you're tension is making me ill You've got no friends in your home You've got no family stone You can't go, yeah, yeah, yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Everyone, in every town, on eve...

She was an alcoholic artist With too much makeup round her eyes And I never knew her real name She was sunbeam wrapped in lies But I love her and I'm sorry And that's all there is to say It's like a fairy from the ancient time And I hope it, I hope it stays th...

Det är skimmer i molnen och glitter i sjön, det är ljus över stränder och näs och omkring mig står den härliga skogen grön bakom ängarnas gungande gräs. Och med sommar och skönhet och skogsvindsackord står min hembygd och hälsar mig glad, var mig hälsad...

Oh please Jesus won't you give me a sunnier day? Cause I'm lost and there's no one around I lost my baby in the springtime Now she's gone with the wind And I won't be glad until your light has come And I won't sleep with my own demons Lord I think you got it...

Get your motor runnin’ cause my engine’s too hot And the cooler’s runnin’ dry as a pimp Get your things together cause I’m blowing my mind And that Ronnie is an MTV star It’s my soul honey, that’s up at eighty And my sweet ride has blown my lady away Soon, m...

I'm a alone, together with sweet wet dreams Don't let go never lose it, just holding on to sweet dreams You were the one to open up me Long time ago, so far away No I don't want to get down on my knees I'm letting my mind just drift away. I'm alone, to...

I’ve played that song from long ago When every morning longed to fall It broke my sighs and my regrets It stumbled on the steps You’ve build for climbing towards me Now it feels like sinners in the sun When I say – I said I’d die for you Or was it in my head...

Baby, why’d you leave me On the airport with my fingers Put together while I was praying for your lover I wasn’t keen on love at the moment I didn’t even like your modesty hairstyle But then I froze when you left me for another Don’t tell me this dream...

I shut the light cus it bugged my mind insane She tried to hurt me in the puring summer rain I cut her angle and attacked her heart with soul It's in her skin the lack of sin, I know She walks she talks she lives in the dark x3 She takes your hand in the...

She was only 21 But so much older than she's now Now she passed the 24 I guess it's time to say goodbye Here's the new Here's the real Here's the life you'd like to live Now here's the new boy taking on the world tonight When we met She smelled like honey Wh...

See my both hands tied beneath our freezing sky guess my fortune's out silent dream silent shout clock tick slower now Armageddon creeping on I'm waiting for the dawn to come and free my soul But it's you, I see my love come shining through but it'...

Well there's something in the way She said I hate you 'cause you breathe It's not the first time that I heard it But this one is out of reach I got my mind set on destruction And if it will strike me hard Will you remember me? Oh it's in the way you set your...

I don’t love no longer you see that this is the modern day my friend and yesterday when you were something you’d understand and I don’t see no bright sky you see that this is the modern day my friend and this time it’s for real I hope that you understand t...

Get on the train cause I'm tired of you, boy You can come back when you're dressed in blue You won't get a penny of using me I'm gonna send you home and hit you on Sunday Don't look so small, I'm not bigger than you but I've got blues enough to smash your...

I had a heart attack and boy it brought me back To where I was before I started to believe in myself I didn't need no gun I didn't need no sword I didn't even know the meaning of the terrible war I didn't need you And you didn't need me And no matter what you...

Take this to the emperor, tell him his dirty army is defeated Tell him I'm the last of soldiers that stands today And tell him, he don't have to fear me, but I hold his wife and Daughter in a basement they don't need no light or food from hands bloody From you...

Take this to the emperor, tell him his dirty army is defeated tell him I'm the last of soldiers that stands today And tell him, he don't have to fear me, but I hold his wife and daughter in a basement they don't need no light or food from hands bloody from...

Gunned down in a fight It was a bloody pleasure Though I couldn't walk I'm not dead I smell the pavement At the end there's a light And so pretty women Though I couldn't see I'm not blind and inside my mind Fright night on the radio starving Junkies on the TV...

Fill my glass I'm going now To drink and smoke and laugh and shout I know it's been done but I want more Yesterday's no longer here And all my problems disappear I've got my boys behind me once again And somewhere in my head I still feel the elephant roa...

Smile you're on tv again You must put up a happy face Your mother told you to on Christmas day Oh you must do what they say Now you're thinking of happy thoughts Like no one did you harm and it was all 1234 Life's so brilliant but why? I'm not so sure You reme...

Yellow burning thing, it’s a dirty sin I know I’m on the pavement of my own mind it’s silly Silly as the weather in June, March or December Silly as a man can be, and I’m down, yes I’m down And I sang my: La la teacher my, la la teacher for you (I’m com...

Youve been trying to reach heaven Felt really sad when it was just dead and grey Youd like to get back to the days when you were strong But until youre free youll have to wait until tomorrow Cause loneliness kills you in the wintertime Loneliness kills...

I was walking down the street with my chains tied up to my feet I leaned instead of jiggie with the sidewalk Now this street tells the same old boring tale that has failed in so many ways of life To trust its stories you’ve got to be dull as them And all...

You came a long way you didn't know my name girl You thought that I was just a gigolo And you told all your friends that I was strange and weird But that's a lie that I'm sure you know So I'm telling you where to start But you're not interested at all 'Cause...

Demons, killers, all of your evil You got nothing on, you got nothing on me Fascists, warriors no matter what you'll say You don't understand, you don't understand me And you got, you got nothing on, you got nothing on me And you got, you got nothing o...

Belgium or France maybe England Reading your lips and they could be easily for me so fine and free Well I went down here for your number but your colours were grey I obeyed the fact that you were small, so silly small But I’m easy for your lover’s nerve I’m ea...