Darker Values

Simon Heggum – Darker Values (January, 2014)

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Atom Storm Gospel of a Nonbeliever Falling from the Sky Crossword Girl Darker Values

Atom Storm I am out of form In the atom storm I am breaking norms By the light of dawn The bells of noon Ringing way too soon I drift and drool In a pit of wool I want a soft caress And some tenderness I must suppress This emptiness My headache comes Like banging drums They're raising thumbs For the dying scums In the atom storm It is loud and clear All that I hold dear It's through the fear From all my peers I am out of form In the atom storm Out on the lawn Where I sit a mourn In the atom storm So here I come to take my place To find my way, embracing grace So see me come right back to life I am a bee out of my hive The atom storm blew me away I am condensed air inside a spray The atom storm blew of my hair Now I am shattered everywhere So sit around and let the flowers Grow and fade away in hours See me implode, see me inhaling I am reborn, regenerating The atom storm that blew my mind It brought my soul right back to life So here I come to save the day Like Andy Kaufmann, blown away

Gospel of a Nonbeliever (Heggum/Trad: Let My People Go) The gospel of a nonbeliever May be a cold and lonesome way No Moseses to give you values No Jesuses to take the blame Force yourself to be a renegade A rebel against the page Simple minded Christian values Won’t save you from the modern age So go down stranger Way down to heavens gates Tell your pharaoh To let your spirit go And when you’re walking up the mountain No spirit greets you at the top You just have to reach the conclusion That it’s only you who’s climbing up So come on and join the choir Shout it high and sing the song You don’t want another lawyer To condemn all that you’ve done wrong So go down…

The gospel of a nonbeliever The only way to save your soul Just reach out for your logic senses Raise your voice and take control Feel the holy ghosts that leaves you Feel all your faith has gone Feel no revelations inside you Feel the fresh air in your lungs So go down…

Falling from the Sky In the middle of the road There is a flickering light And it twist and turns As a warning sign I will drag my bones Through the streets so I Could catch a glimpse of your Wrecking pride In the middle of the road You are a calming presence That heals my wounds From the past to present The most beautiful devil I have ever seen Force me into shapes In which I have never been 'Cause in my mind You will always be the one Falling from the sky And you will hit the ground With a shattering sound In a pool of light And in my head You will walk on water I will be baptized By the waters of Nazareth By the river of my life If you are an alien or an angel I really don't care A cheap duplicate Of love and despair Just as long as you smile When you walk past my side And disappear away There is hope for mankind 'Cause in my mind...

So stand astride I will sing so loud I was touched by your hands In my holy vow And I pray for mercy By your trumpet-playing No matter how loud This is me saying:

That in my mind You will always be the one Falling from the sky And you will hit the ground With a shattering sound With all your might I am on my knees Right in your church I am stigmatized And on the cross You will hang with me In your mercy I'll cry And in my mind...

Crossword Girl You mesmerize me You tranquilize me You make me look for clues There is no sympathy For you and me And it makes me stick like glue I want you bad It drives me mad I want to solve your puzzles To reach the goal And get your soul And in my mind you dazzle You are the crossword girl You are one of a kind I wanna write your words Down and make you mine You are a crossword girl Villain of the week And it’s that rush of blood That makes me weak You leave me hanging While you’re demanding The right to know the way out Aboard my love-boat You take your raincoat And you are out and about But there is silence Inside your violence Where I find solitude You’re the demon I am the semen For all your sin-fruits You are a crossword girl You are one of a kind But no atlas or answers Can make you mine You are the crossword girl And you are a blurred excuse To find someone in this world To seduce You are the crossword girl You are one of a kind...

Darker Values Where have you been?

Have you seen the lights go dim?

Where have you been?

Do you come to murder him?

When the lights go out When the murder shows When the lights go out No one knows No one knows Where have have you been this time of year?

Have felt the need to go?

Do you see me Do you see me as a main-man?

Or do you see me as a hole?

When the lights go out And the murder comes When the lights go out No one knows No one nose...