Per Gessle

På Väg
Hjärtats Trakt
Om Du Har Lust
Timmar Av Iver
Regn
Indiansommar
Historier Vi Kan
Den Öde Stranden
Fiskarnas Tecken
Rädd
Tända En Sticka Till
Syrenernas Tid
Överallt
Man Varnade För Halka
När Morgonen Kommer

On My Way (På Väg)

I'm on my way to somewhere
I've let the train take me with it
An empty coupé - oh God, I'm tired!
Sitting quiet with closed eyes
Far away I hear
laughter and noise and playing
On their way her beside
towards the same direction and autumn
From one day to another
it's always about the same thing
To catch the feeling of knowing
that you're alive
It's always about the same thing
I don't know where
I dare to step off and build a nest
in peace and quiet, there's short of time!
But maybe down the coast
there I've always had
a thread and belief
a brook and bridge
among the gull's scream

The Heart's Region (Hjärtats Trakt)

He wanted to find a sea
and a horizon
a beach where he could walk
A sky that stretched out blue
He wanted to find a ship
that took him out
where he had never been before
He wanted to find a woman
who could stay and bloom
when the lilacs' time had bloomed
He wanted to find a sea
and a horizon
A meadow which he could wander on
The blackest earth
with the proudest sea
A sun that shone above
He wanted to find a road
vast and wide
towards the card
which love had laid
He wanted to find a woman
who could bear him again
to another country
nearer the heart's region

If You Want To (Om du har lust)

Just like the sky and the sea
become one with eachother over again
so stay together
with an old friend
I take your eyes
and look into mine
I take your hands
Come and lead me home again
If you want to
then I want to live
If you want to
then I want to be
If you want to
then I want to love
If you want to
then I feel the same
Just like the wind and warmth
come back over again
then I'm probably the same
though you don't recognize
Come take my thoughts
and give me yours
Come take my lips
Come and lead me home again
If you want to
then I want to live
If you want to
then I want to be
If you want to
then I want to love
If you want to
then I feel the same
If you want to
then I want to live
want to feel give and take
If you want to
then I stay a little longer
until the night has become day
If you want to
then I want to live
If you want to
then I want to be
If you want to
then I want to love
If you want to
then I feel the same

Hours Of Eagerness (Timmar Av Iver)

It's hours of eagerness
then when I long
long and long
away from here
Hours of eagerness
when I travel in my mind
lost in the brain
and drive like a fool
These slow times
turn into hours of eagerness
It's hours of eagerness
when I think feel
your back, your hands
ears and mouth
Hours of eagerness
when you're so far away
Would have given all I own
for one single second
These constant times
turn into hours of eagerness

Rain (Regn)

I'm Sitting in a window
and looking down at all the people
August morning
you're reading and combing your hair
We have nothing to do today
so come and sit here for a while
and listen to the rain against your roof
Rain rain rain
a summer day passes
Rain rain rain
makes the air clean and mild
oh hold me tight to you
so I feel that you can and want to
dare and want to
love me
I'm sitting in a window
looking up
but see only rain clouds
Your eyes have the colour today
that the sky had yesterday
And tell me, what had I've had
without the strength
which you give and I take?
Rain rain rain
a summer day passes
Rain rain rain
makes the air clean and mild
oh hold me tight to you
so I feel that you can and want to
dare and want to
love me

Indian Summer (Indiansommar)

no lyrics

Stories We Know (Historier Vi Kan)

Talking to myself again
and wondering:
Why do you do what you do?
Travel around on the same road
in the same tracks as before
Oh stories we know
If everything was taken away from you
and disappeared
then I can still see her
in a hotel room somewhere
listen to stories we know
Find a guitar
with worn body and neck
with many years behind it
for no money at all
and the cracks in the varnish
and the gashes in its bands
tell the stories it knows
Oh stories it knows
about all the songs
which it has breeded
I wish we sat
in a hotel room somewhere
and listened to stories it knows
So if you are on tour
and play every night
and time goes by so fast
and you wonder by yourself
why you don't take a train
and jump off somewhere
then answer with stories you know
Oh stories you know
Before you and I
part from each other
I wish that we sat
in a hotel room somewhere
and listened to stories we know

The Deserted Beach (Den Öde Stranden)

Summear dies
that is why
I'm sad tonight
Summer dies
that is why
I'm sad tonight
I'm fighting by its side, but
you can feel the autumn at nightfall
Deserted beach
meets the wave
when it strikes landn
Deserted beach
meets the wave
when it strikes land
There are no summer children left
only the fisherman with his net
Summerchild summerchild
minds her legs
Summerchild summerchild
minds her legs
She gets scared when wave gets cold
then gets scared of the wave's surge
My lovechild
takes the summer with her
when she goes to town
My lovechild
takes the summer with her
when she goes to town
Left is only loneliness
loneliness and solitude

The Sign Of The Pisces (Fiskarnas Tecken)

Born with the moon
in the sign of the pisces
Something tells me
I should be off from here
And you, you have your books
maybe you know what I'm thinking
but you look at me so
that I don't know what I should believe
Why do you take me to unknown waters
where I've never sailded before?
Tell, tell me!
Who are you?
Are you going to bet on the pictures and houses
you know that I own
The stars and planets
which stand in my position?
but you, take it easy
'cos I'm not prepared
to leave from here
without a future worth believing in
You take me out on unknown waters
which I've never sailed before
Tell, tell me!
Who are you?
And you, take it easy
'cos I'm not prepared
to leave from here
without a future worth believing in
Why do you take me to unknown waters
which I've never sailed before?
Tell, tell me!
Who are you?
Who are you?

Scared (Rädd)

She took the phone
and called a number
to yet a voice
which she hoped wanted to understand
Wanted to listen,
wanted to know one minute
of a long long life
He answered: "Hello!"
and she said: "It's me! How are you?
Time goes, yes, faster for every year!"
lighted candles,
open eyes, tense senses
but here's dark as in a grave
- Come someone and shine for me!
Scared to feel
Scared to doubt
Scared to live
Scared to die
Scared to listen
Scared to think
Scared to wake up
Scared to grow a seed
He took the last bus
in the last minute,
watched the winter
through the misty pane
Come and fight,
world of steel
Can you afford it?
I'm made of your most expensive glass!
He painted the meadows
green and beautiful
and it was always near to land
and the sky was blue
Wanted to win
and disappear a minute
of a long long life
Scared to feel
Scared to doubt
Scared to live
Scared to die
Scared to listen
Scared to think
Scared to wake up
Scared to grow a seed
Scared to love
Scared to fail
Scared to say
Scared to hurt
Scared to learn
Scared to forget
Scared to live
Scared to die

Light Another Match (Tända En Sticka Till)

I have a friend
that I can go to
when it's quiet and it's late
When everything I have has fallen down in front of me
and changed me to something I am not
She says: " You, we are each other's wings
you fly me exactly where I want
Light another match
and shine for someone else
I have a friend,
you don't know who I mean
She's just as brittle
as your finest straw
but she is strong
like June's first sunshine
when she looks at me and says:
"I understand,
you think you are so unique on this earth
but I need you
like you need me
to light another match
and shine for someone else"

The Lilacs' Time (Syrenernas tid)

I found my way in
through an unlocked heart
sometime around midnight
when no one was watching
I wanted to wait
until the time had come
until we were alone
just the two of us
and when I so knocked and opened
in a symphony of warm and cold
then I felt the scent
so clear as clear cristal
We live in the lilacs' time
Excist and and breathe in the lilacs' time
Walk together in the lilacs' time
Come and stay a while
in the lilacs' time
Got a journey
to my childhoods summers
in the middle of a dawn
when the sun sneaked up
I found my way in
through an unlocked heart
next to the morning
which blooming burned
And I saw the town wake up in the dew
Before the cars followed on
And I was back in that time
just as intoxicated and stunned of life
We live in the lilacs' time
See and feel in the lilac's time
Go and dream in the lilacs' time
Come and stay a while
in the lilac's time

Everywhere (Överallt)

It's not enough that your boat has weighed anchor
And not that you whisper with your hand
And not that you caress my thoughts
Because I want you everywhere
Everywhere, every everywhere
Now when the time is so cold
Everywhere, every everywhere
Yes, I want you everywhere
You give me shelter from the wind when it turns
From coast and sea and makes my heart cold
You get me to show what I feel
I want you everywhere
Everywhere, every everywhere
Now when the time is so cold
Everywhere, every everywhere
Yes, I want you everywhere

One Warned About Slipperiness (Man Varnade För Halka)

You called in the evening
You said that you would work overtime
So you couldn't come
And you didn't know when
I really wanted to meet someone
So I took a walk
through snowflakes and cold
All the way to the city
It was in the beginning of December
The snow had just begun to fall
One warned for slipperiness
Days short, nights cold
She sat down when I came in
And I took a seat
with a beer in one hand
And in the other even more
She offered me a Marlboro
And I loneliness
I wanted to take a taxi
to her apartment
It was in the beginning of December
The snow had just begun to fall
One warned for slipperiness
Days short, nights cold

When The Morning Comes (När Morgonen Kommer)

When the morning comes
and the moon has gone
A new day begins
which has forgotten everything that has been
But it's the same
toungue that speaks
Same thoughts that strike
Same feet that walk and walk
Same heart that doesn't reach anything
So it should be given
It should be
written in the stars
that each time the morning comes
you should get
strength to start over