Lyrics

Noises (2024)

All lyrics by Lasse Girs. All rights reserved.

Gods and Masters

We didn’t just wade in
Whichever god’s water
We splashed it all around
And then we drained it

We control, we decide

We can be reckless
And lose control
Cause we have the powers
To fix it all

We control, we decide

We can adapt
We will evolve
Best of breed
Superior

We control, we decide
We are our own gods and masters.

Headspinner

This morning my alarm rang backwards and I was wide asleep
David Lynch was in my head, with a shaky camera and a bright headlight
Last night was such a trip, I remember little, understand even less
Is it morning or did I just wake up as I put my head down to sleep?

Chorus
The owls will never make sense
Wisdom is in acceptance

Oh to be one who enjoys the experience of life, and not solving it
Oh to have a spotless mind, I don’t care if it’s sunshine or raining blood
I worry so much that I worry about how much I worry
The line between surreal and pretentious is surprisingly fine

Chorus

(It spins and spins, the vicious circle)
Most of us are already insane
The owls will never make sense

My head is spinning I don’t know how to move
My body is shaking I cannot stay still
My heart is racing but I don’t know where to
My mind is crumbling I want out of this dream

I don’t know what this means but I want out of this dream.

Stella

A 70’s satellite from space
Stella crashed into my place
A soul adrift in the universe
Lost in the haze, couldn’t know better or worse

One night this falling star
Arrived quietly from afar
All the classic elements of desire
She came and came, set it all on fire

Chorus
Time stops
Diversion
Set, set
Set it on fire

I knew what I was getting into
The same old reasoned misconstrue
Every time she rotated through that door
A matter of minutes, her dress is on the floor

Unlike any time before
I approach every time like there won’t be more
Finding new details in her silhouette
Reconnecting circuits so she won’t forget

Chorus

Into the unknown

And if these flames don’t die
We’ll fly right through the sky
I’ll build that rocket ship

Set it on fire.

Dive

Down to the water
I go down to your beach
As the night gets darker
The pearls start to glimmer

I hear the call
I glide in
You can only do it once
It’s a one-time thing

Chorus
Let us dive in the dark
Turn of all of our lights
Follow the arc
The sea knows only tonight

Feel the earth move
Waves build up
Brace for impact
Too late to escape

Here it comes now
Floods roll in
Let go and lose control
It’s a primal thing

Chorus

Smooth waters
Calm after the storm
The distant horizon
Is ready for another one…

Here it comes now
Floods roll in
Let go and lose control
It’s a primal thing

Chorus

Deep, dark waters roll
This time don’t you run
Let go, lose control.

One Short Moment

I can read it from your face
A face without expression
And I can see it in your eyes
Looking but never finding
You never wanted to end up like this
I think you’re trying to find your way out
But your body has given up
And your mind’s no longer home

I see you want to say something
Your mind fights for words to form
But then you just give up
Surrender to the nothing
Helplessly we try to ask
Worried if you’re in pain
Maybe you no longer feel
Maybe you’re no longer here

And then we think of all those questions
We never got to ask you
And we think of all those questions
You got stuck with and never got to ask
Where was your real home?
Where are you heading now?
Yeah and who’s there waiting for you?
Will they know the real you?

And what if you don’t remember
when they ask you?
What if you’re still stuck in your maze
trying to find your way out?
Is that what your eyes search for?
Is that what you want to ask?
Just fuckin try to remember
if only for that one short moment

We know you’re gone
We lost you to that empty look
But I don’t want to lose you tonight
‘Cause no-one’s about to die tonight
We’re not done yet with this fight

For one short moment
Remember
For one, for one, for one short moment.

Send Somebody

Please send somebody over soon
I’m hurting someone and I can’t stop myself
I don’t know why and this isn’t who I am
Please come now, I can’t stop myself

Chorus
I kick and I punch
I bite and I choke
Please stop me before I kill
I’ve no control
And this is not me
Please send somebody

They’ll ask me questions, analyze me
But I will have no answers, nor will they
The switch is on and I can’t turn it off
Not a fuckin’ clue of where it is

Chorus

Send send send someone
Just send anyone
Someone
Anyone.

One Simple Rule

There is no chosen one
There are no spirits or other invisible forces
No holy or other kinds of ghosts
There is only us
Our bodies and our minds
And maybe something like a soul
The only things that matter
Are our actions and their consequences

Chorus
We had one simple rule
Leave everything the way you found it
We had one simple rule
And yet we failed ourselves

Let us prey
Hunt down all that is alive
And re-create it
Into money, poison and waste
Build walls, fences and hierarchies
To control what is left
Achieve our final goal and purpose
Destruction of all

Chorus

Funny how we say she’s our mother
And yet we show no respect
Compare that to the father
The one who’ll judge us all
Oh yeah, Judgement Day is coming
But it’s not coming from up above us
It’s coming from right beneath our feet
And we’ve earned every part of it
It’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming…

Chorus.

We’re Not Yet Alright

There is more love in this room
Than I’ll ever find at home
Someone is always here

A sincere smile to greet
At the always open door
All the promise of relief

Chorus
Don’t send us home tonight
We’re not ready for the light
No longer lost but found
Don’t send us home tonight
We’re not yet alright
At least another round

Stories etched into the walls
And the wrinkles of these friends
A sanctuary for the ones with empty homes

Let us drown into
all these shades of gold and not spare
any thoughts to the next day

Chorus

Vacant hearts
Holes to be filled
Stories to connect
Lost souls to be found

We’re all fucked
So let’s be fucked together
We’re all fucked
So let’s be fucked together.

Noises in My Head

(Come to me, my sweet pain
Inject yourself into my veins, my sweet pain)

I wanna be
A woman
I keep tearing my skin off
It’s bad and dirty

I wanna be
A drunk
I want to be an alcoholic
It runs in my veins

Chorus
Won’t show it
Can’t show it
All these noises
In my head

I wanna be
In constant pain
Like the great ones
A troubled poet; I will never be

I wanna die
But I don’t hate myself
I’m just a lost soul
swimming in this bowl of shit

Chorus

I’m not a good man
We should establish this from the start
It’s a chronic condition
Eating me up inside
I will conceive you
Then I’ll hurt you, leave you scarred
And yet you’ll love me
For my beautiful darkness

(Noises, noises, noises)
Chorus

(Come to me, my sweet pain
Never leave, my sweet pain).

Accelerate

Here comes the multi-universe taxi, baby
I’ve packed a few bottles of booze and some smokes
I know you won’t forget to take your hat, baby
Wear that black dress and bring all your hopes

The ride is merely an excuse, the story is you
A thousand tales in your eyes, desire on your lips
No words spoken, yet all of them true
We both go down to face the eclipse

Drain me in your waters
Leave your smell on my face
Let my veins know you have arrived
The length of that dress is perfection

From one world to another we drive
Not a care of where and how long
Dancing to the highs
Your well never running out

Go fast, go slow, accelerate

Chorus
Go fast, go slow, accelerate
Take a turn, go low, radiate
Open your mouth, shut down my mind, and elevate me
Across these universes, we congregate

Go faster until we crash and burn
Both broken in a compatible way
Nothing to fix, just step on it
I hope you didn’t forget your hat, baby

Chorus.

Unfinished Films (feat. DD Slick)

There were no ever afters
No happy endings or airport meets
Just a long list of great plot ideas
None of them finished

Now all that is left in the script
Is a static entity without an expression
How do you film something like that?
Nobody would ever watch it

Chorus
All the tones of the black and white tape
Lost their spirit and disposition
Turned into a monotone landscape
An undeveloped, lifeless condition
Another scene from an unfinished film

There were no reconciliations
There was no genuine forgiveness
Nothing will be forgotten
There will be no healing

Chorus

Drop the string arrangements, drop the fireworks
No beauty from joy, no beauty found in sorrow
Another promising manuscript with meaningless words on a screen
Another story of anticipation never making it until the end

Chorus

Another scene from an unfinished film.

The End

This is the day, this is the time when everything that was built
must be torn down
It’s a surprise, a sudden twist, faith playing tricks on our behalf
there was no stopping it
Once I pull my head out my ass and face the facts, cause and effect,
we had it coming
I’ll take the blame, I’ll take the punches, but it will never be me
cause I knew it along

Chorus
C’mon join me tonight
In this beautiful end

We built it tall, we built it high, with views to die for
yeah but now it must come down
World’s tallest building, yeah but whose world is it this time, can you say?
And how does one get there?
Have no remorse, have no regrets, the dynamite is in its place
It’s all set for the push
So what’s the use of writing songs no-one will hear, least likely you -
a coward’s apology

Chorus.

It’s All Right if You Gotta Go

Gotta open the blinds and let in some air
This darkness is making me restless
The comfort of booze and delightful high
Don’t cut it no more, I feel helpless

Now in writing this song, all I really want
Is to figure out if I’m really hollow
If I make it all the way ‘til the end
You’ll be the first one to know

Chorus
It’s all right if you gotta go
‘Cause I don’t think we’ll ever be all right, be all right again
It’s all right if you gotta go
‘Cause I don’t think we’ll ever be all right, be all right again

I think most of my life I’ve collected dirt
And lately it’s been pouring down on it
My vast collection now is just mud
And I spend my days staring into it

There is beauty in the shades of shit
There is beauty at the bottom of the sea, just like
It’s obvious, the reason
I don’t trust you is I don’t trust myself

Chorus

There must be something better
There must be something that makes some sense
We shouldn’t be this lost

Chorus.

Conspiracies, Threats and Chaos (2021 EP)

All lyrics by Lasse Girs. All rights reserved.

Kings and Queens

(Verse 1)
Daylight fades again
The emperor has new clothes
Smooth, black leather
Spikes, zippers and chains
The working man prepares
Just survived another day
Tonight he’ll be the king
Time to give some back

(Chorus)
Kings and queens
And criminal queers
Bodies bare but never sincere
Kings and queens
And these criminal queers
Behind these walls no-one hears their screams

(Verse 2)
Oh here comes the dawn
But the mask stays on
We go our separate ways
After all, we’re not the same

Weak and Wrong

(Verse 1)
Ignorance, racism, capitalism,
greed is profit, and success
Nationalism, sexism, bigotry
We got fame, status, power
Tolerance is a negative trait
In the fascist playbook
The white man has earned his rank and position
Don’t be weak, don’t be wrong

(Chorus)
Don’t be weak, don’t be wrong (don’t be different)

(Verse 2)
We see everything. No need to hide.
You know it. We all know it.
There is nothing you can’t do, won’t do
No consequence, the game is rigged
How many generations to change
You don’t care, you’ll be long gone
How many generations lost
You don’t care, you never did

(Middle 8)
Build more machines to run your world
Automated bias protects and serves
Artificial replicas of your mind
Driven by the same fears, same lies, your lies

(Verse 3)
Your desperate attempts to confuse
Conspiracies, threats and chaos
It all works, we are too weak

Cut Me Open

(Verse 1)
Cut me open
Sink your teeth in
My flesh and my mind
Down to my bones
Frail and desolate
Don’t be gentle
Pull the knife now
Cut me open

(Chorus)
I want to get lost again in that universe you hide
That is black as the night, the only glow is the blade of the knife
Reflecting all my shadows as it cuts me open

(Verse 2)
No remorse
No regret
This is all we have
This is all we are
The deeper you go, the less it hurts
Get it all out, no going back
Cut me open

(Outro)
Sharpen the knife, I won’t run
My skin is hard, old and scarred

Entertainment

(Verse 1)
Tonight we’ll get loud
It’s been a while, yeah, it’s been too long
We’ve all made it, we’re the lucky ones
Good to see you all
We’ve earned this night of entertainment
Drinks and rock’n roll
One for those who could not make it
Raise your glass - we must never forget

(Chorus)
Here we are now
Let’s do some entertainment
Turn on the PA
Let’s lay waste to the bar
Gather around
Down your drinks
We missed you
And you missed us
Let’s get pissed and count to four
1-2-3-4

(Verse 2)
What’s your poison tonight
I’ll have a beer and I’ll have a whisky
The sheriff’s in town with his lone star
He’ll see you tonight at the Barley & Bait
We’ll curse the pandemic, depression and politics
Share stories about our friends
Before the music you know it’s shot time
We count to four and down ‘em on one

(Middle 8)
Let’s feel really bad tomorrow
Who’s to know what kind of sorrow
The future has in store
No-one gets to be a bore
C’mon, let’s not waste another night

It Began as a Mistake (2020)

All lyrics by Lasse Girs. All rights reserved.

Shine

A collision of bodies causing a swirl
Creating a strange, parallel world
It spins and spins in a different direction
Its motion driven by a profound connection

This could be our last attempt
To shine a light into our dark
We’ve travelled far, we’ve given up, oh yeah
Now everything will be all right

All of these stars we see are the same
Even in this new upside down way
Everyone’s broken, no light shines bright
Where the broken pieces join is our light

Dark

We should hurry now
I wanna be there when the band begins to play
I want the music loud
I want it to numb my pain

Why am I haunted by this again?
I need these thoughts and dreams away
I won’t sleep tonight, let the
monsters loose in my mind
and shadows appear
Will you

Dream?
Like me, will you see the same?
I wish your story is new
I wish you’re something else than where you’re from

One thing dies for new
The sun sets one last time
Shadows creeping in and it gets dark

It’s not death that scares me,
it’s life, and the final calls
The show is over, the night is quiet,
and I hear it all

Cheap Beer

One of us stepped in front of a train
Out of the blue, there was nothing he said
The word was out he’d been drinking alone
Lost his future for reasons unknown

One of us learnt to never let go
He got it young, the way his folks would show
One, two, three, always time for one more
He’s got a child now, will he pass it on?

Cheap beer, rock songs, Friday nights
Small boys with dreams of bright lights
Cheap beer, rock songs, Friday lights
How we dreamt of bright nights

A daughter’s pain would not go away
8 years old it won’t help if you pray
The diagnose, yeah, it starts with a ‘C’
But she’s a fighter, stronger than you and me

This song’s been sang a million times
and this our rendition
A tradition, we carry on
We still pick up our guitars and
plug them in and crank them up, and play
our songs loud, like we always have

Some of us survived and some didn’t
Some lives ended, some are only beginning
We used to dream, never knowing what’s next
That future’s past, not quite what we expected

Let’s have a drink for those who are gone.

Two-Minute Punk Song

She’s a two-minute punk song
She’s the queen of fuck offs
Words come at you fast
Smart wit, mean tongue

She’s got the fastest blast
And the highest smoke
You’re either with her
Or you are against

Are you feelin’ it
What’s this gonna be
That is her teeth
Sinkin’ in

Got monkeys as slaves
Slaves as monkeys
Naked in black tie
An empress on her throne

In her golden suit
Made of their skin
Ripped off in a ritual
Are you feeling this?

You won’t
make it
out alive
This is your end

Break Me

When you have everything you ever said you wanted in your life
But it’s clear to all that you’re still discontented

Maybe the problem is not in everything that is around you
Look inside, you’ve got some soul searching to do

You can taste me
You can shake me
But what you make me
It will break me

Even when the sky is clear dark clouds keep you company
And everyone around you becomes a casualty

Next time maybe try a new approach to your life
Commit to one home and not just cheap hotels

Chemicals and Conversation

Never saw this coming when you broke the news
When you said you’re not the one I thought I knew
Yeah, you say you are and they say it too,
but they’re not your bloodline they’re not dependent
They don’t have death patrolling outside every night

Right here in this moment in time
we need you to be here with us

They don’t speculate each day who you are,
they don’t share the room with your darkness
And I know, and I know, and I know,
it’s not about us, it’s about you
It’s about the voices only you hear,
about the feelings only you feel
About the void you’re in all alone,
is it your perception or reality?

Right here in this moment in time
we need you to be here with us

And when none of it really matters,
when we don’t even have the right questions to ask
Rely on chemicals and conversation,
on lithium and listening
On luck, hope and some of us prayer,
on reason and the power of thought
All the time recognizing that your monsters…

They’ve infiltrated that reason,
they’ve skewed our logic, they’ve planted fear
Yeah but right here and now
in this moment in time we need you
To be here with us
To be here with us

We were always the same
Now everything has changed
I don’t know who you are
If you die by your own hand

Tiny Changes

“While I’m alive, I’ll make tiny
changes to Earth” was the line you wrote
And while you laid it all out
We were all so helpless

You brought me back to my youth
All those nights of thinking
What it would be like if I
was no more in this life

The bridge, the water, carrying us away
From our demons, tormentors and shadows
No more darkness or anxiety
One solution to all our problems
Let’s swim out and then just stop

Outside’s getting darker
Nights getting colder again
Our minds wander of, as they do
Uncontrollable thoughts

What if we found a ray of light
What if someone knew where we were
What if we are not alone
What if there is a cure for us

The bridge, the water, carrying us away
From our demons, tormentors and shadows
No more darkness or anxiety
One solution to all our problems
Let’s swim out and then get back

Ships

Another ship sailed away
And you chose to stay
Controlled by your shadow
There is no tomorrow

All these ships passing by
You try to deny
They take something from you
You can’t undo

And then time passes by
And slowly your light
Grows dimmer until your
Shadows are no more

It will hit you hard
When all of your scars
Remind you you’re losing
Yeah, you need to start moving

I’m a hard-working coward
Old enough to be scared
Of moving forward
I just can’t be bothered

Content with today
Looking forward as well
Just as long tomorrow
Is like today

I’m sure you can see
For every day
That goes by your start to
Look more like me

I am you tomorrow
We’ll share the same shadows
Don’t you stop tryin’
Yeah, you need to get movin’

Bad Time

I feel like shit
’Cause I don’t really care
Yeah I don’t
This time this is it

So why’d you write me
It’s been two years
Oh you’re lost now
And you’d like my words

Not a single day goes by
Without remorse of what was never heartfelt
Most of us leave these things behind
But not me, not these ones; we’ll forever hold on

Yeah this is
a bad time
But let’s not fool anyone
It won’t be the last

To words that meant so much but in different ways
To stories that grabbed us but for a different cause
One day maybe we’ll share
An understanding of what never was

Surreal Experiment

This is a surreal experiment
In the age of post intellect
Got concentration camps and arm salutes
White torches on parade, nights of broken glass

How did we let this get so far
How did we lose our direction

Lies upon lies, amplified by
The voice of State Incorporated
Authority shoots another unarmed
Another child locked up to become a slave

How did we let this get so far
How did we lose our direction
We’ve moved so far right that we have
Lost sight of what’s right

The extreme is the new norm
The unthinkable is real
The war against the bastards
And the war within ourselves

We all need a break but the fight goes on
Cause not a fuckin day goes by without
Another soul crushing story
Our senses become numb we have to look away

The Rush

My head is spinning I can’t stop shaking
These vicious images make no sense
Just like me they go astray
I’m in head first, give me some more

No shame for letting it out
Intention is irrelevant
Unleash the true beast within
Don’t hold it back any more

The true you is in this nightmare
It’s time to set it free
Unleash the true beast within
It will dance on your… on your grave

I cannot make this trembling stop
My hands, my mind and my heart
Same old poison in my veins
One day I’ll learn – it’s not today

Don’t feel shame
Don’t hold back
Let the rush set yourself free again

In the Gutter

Woken up by the hard tiles of the floor
The squares on my shoulders prove it all
Engraved into my skin so I won’t forget
Doesn’t fade away like all regret

Tell me was it worth it this time
This room stinks of all I did last night
Tell me how I ended up here
Let’s dig into all my deepest fears

My master calling to join him
In the gutter
My sweet temptation
Never too early to start
I feel it coming
Give me my sedation

The emptiness that they described
Before their suicides
Is it this nagging feeling I have?
Just sitting here staring into nowhere

It wrenches my guts, I can’t explain it
I can see this being the same familiar shit
This fuckin’ thing that makes our souls sink
Let’s reminisce over a drink

Feel it coming
Let’s reminisce
Over a drink
In the gutter

New World Order

Hooray for the right-wing capitalist
caught up in his lie
About free markets, will and choice
none of which exist

Hooray for the left-wing radical
all caught up in himself
He wants attention, wants to shock
but never gets his change

It’s a new world order
Where it’s not ‘what’ it’s ‘how’
We gave control to loudness
To lazy, greedy ignorance
That made it all black and white
And we’re too far up our own ass
To take a look around

Hooray for the compromise,
a watered-down meaningless pact
A display of determination to drive
that doesn’t mean a thing
Hooray for the wise ones,
the introverted tiny souls
With opinions and critique to share,
just not their own name

Hooray for the commercial media,
selling us the news we buy
Fuck their educational duty,
sensation’s what we deserve
Hooray for the sarcastic cynic
writing his piercing prose
Shreds ideologies and naive beliefs
but doesn’t have any of his own

Hooray
Hooray
Hooray