Dive - Same Old Town

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  1. Tikal's Avatar

    Tikal said:

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    The lyrics are not in the web, please help me.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9wiLaz9Naw
     
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    Really nice song !
    Dive (Krister Linder & Erik Holmberg)
    Album: Where the River Turns to Sea 1990 (Polygram & Mercury)

    Same Old Town

    It's closing time at Shaggy John's Cafe
    Life goes on -
    Here all different kinds of people spend their afternoons
    Dreaming on -

    Spend it here on planet earth
    Refugees from a lost time
    Washed up on the same shore
    or the same old bar,
    Trying to count the stars.

    Look at the old man
    Still around after all these years
    Still counting the rounds and cheers*
    Looks like he's comfortable here
    In the same old town,
    In the same old town.

    Lights go down, the small town falls asleep
    Safe and sound
    Through the TV set they travel all around the world
    Safe at home
    Afterall, who wants to risk
    getting lost in the jungle?
    The old man in his living room
    seems quite amused
    by the small town blues.

    What is the world - explore.

    Waitin' there for the ones who love it
    Offering all the fruits within it
    Maybe I'm too comfortable here
    In the same old town, in the same old town.

    Waitin' there for the ones who love it
    Offering all the fruits within it
    Maybe I'm too comfortable here
    In the same old town, in the same old town.
    Forgotten town. Lonely town.

    Still around after all these years
    Still counting the rounds and cheers
    Looks like he's comfortable here
    In the same old town.
    In the same old town.

    [Couldn't catch first line of the next bit in the video ( I'll keep trying) but here's what I could make out:]

    Travelling by night
    Leaving first light (?)
    Storms ahead, storms ahead
    This is the voice calling you
    This is your life -
    explorer, explorer,explorer.

    Note: 'rounds and cheers'
    a round - in the sense of a being in a pub or bar, a round means a 'round of drinks' - i.e. when everyone takes turns in buying their friends a drink. 'cheers' An English toast like Prosit! (German) 'Skol', (Scandinavia). You can use the gaelic 'Slainte' in Scotland.
    Last edited by bluejacket; 05-15-2012 at 12:54 PM.
     
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    Tikal said:

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    Thank you bluejacket, I really appreciate your help.
     
  4. f_oliver2003 said:

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    Here's what I heard

    Stranded here on planet earth
    Refugees from...

    This is the first time
    It is the last
    Travelling by night time
    Leaving the past
    Storm's ahead
    Storm's ahead
    This is the voice, comunicate
    This is your life, experiment
    Appreciate, explore, explore, explore, explore..
     
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    bluejacket said:

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    Your welcome Tikal.

    Yep, think that's it.; although I still hear 'explorer, explorer, explorer, explorer, explore' at the end - but the '-er' I hear might be an artifact of a Swedish accent........

    This is the first time
    It is the last
    Travelling by night time
    Leaving the past
    Storms ahead *
    Storms ahead
    This is the voice, communicate (two m's in 'communicate' - I know I am a picky so-and-so !
    This is your life, experiment
    Appreciate, explore, explore, explore, explore, explorer.

    *(I assume this is a definite statement - storms ahead, not Storm's 'storm is ahead' which is what's implied by the apostrophe.
    Last edited by bluejacket; 05-21-2012 at 12:15 PM.