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01 | 4:46 | november 14, 2011
TRADITIONAL 84 If I’m part of a new generation / When should I feel like I’m holding the future? When do the roads expose the horizon / Instead of circles and endless U-turns? ¶ “Everybody I know here are worthless / Shaped from success and expected to fail /Without a clue where the roads will take us / No idea how the roads were made ¶ It takes a thief to know one / All I know is everybody gets robbed / If it’s not of the things in your pocket / It’s of the time that you’re chasing a job ¶ But when you got it all to begin with / Then how do you know when to fight? / And if you never get any older / Then how do you know you’re alive? ¶ So we parade for the land we were promised / From before we were even born / For the movies and models in mirrors / And forget where we started to run / They tell me the sky is the limit / But the sky is a clingy fog / They tell me to follow the rabbit / But the rabbit went ahead and got shot ¶ Shot by our parents and uncles / Stuffed up the ass of a pig / Served with a pad on the shoulder / And a lively, shiny grin ¶ They keep keeping up appearances / Like nobody told them they’re old / Like pristine figurines / So sanctimonious you want them to choke ¶ I know that it’s not their intention / It’s just the ways of these modern times / They think that the road they paved us / Is the same that we’ll walk in line ¶ So if I’m not supposed to trespass / Then how am I to find my own way? On a map that is covered in crossroads / And not an inch of elbow space ¶ So I have no clue where the roads will take me / No idea how the roads were made / And I’m not supposed to trespass / So how am I to find my way again? ¶ They tell me the sky is the limit / But the sky is a clingy fog / Cause if you got it all to begin with / Then how do you know you’re enough?
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03 | 4:33 | august 11, 2010
PLACE IN THE SUN 02 | 3:16 | april 27, 2012
PARTY OF FRIENDS Did you lose it, when you lost someone? / I’m not as useless as my comfort is off / I can’t take it on me / But you can take it out on me / When you hold on to a bygone on hold / But the shoulder just never turns from the cold / I can’t turn it on for you / But you can take it out on me ¶ Count on me, and count to ten / Count me in on your party of friends / You can’t win ‘em all, but you can’t lose / Cause to me you have nothing to prove ¶ Could you take it, when you took on too much? / Did you feel naked, when you covered it up? / I’ll be passing you pots and plants and plates and curve balls / As you take it out on the walls ¶¶ It’s just never enough to get what you want / You try to do what can with whatever you got / So you try to make it right from all of your wrongs / Turn the rough around the edges into soft corners / But what you need was there all along
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Did all your dreams and aspirations / Carry the load for too long? / Did the best in you get the best of you? / And did you know it before it was gone? / So you take what you need / But you don’t need anything / All the emptyness you’re harboring inside / Is the heaviest load to hold in your misty old eyes ¶ There’s a place in the sun for you ¶ So forget ‘bout the past / Cause it’s never coming back / What has gone, has gone to waist / But tomorrow - tomorrow is never too late ¶ ¶ I’ll be waiting at your place in the sun / And everyone you’ve ever loved is waiting at your place in the sun / Waiting at your place in the sun / Your Summer, waiting for your Summer to come
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04 | 3:47 | november 30, 2010
LOST IN THE WOODS We’d get lost in the woods, looking for adventure / Climbing trees and abandoned houses, busting our knees on the textures / Fishing in muddy holes, stepping on slippy stones / This place could never hold us back / But somehow we’d always find our way back home ¶ We wanted something / Something to happen / If it’s the last thing that we ever did, at least we’d know that someone tried something / To make it happen / We had a hunger for this life - with a passion / Oh, oh, this life / Does anybody even crave for it, can anybody keep up to pace with it / Past 25? ¶ We’d play football against the walls and hockey on the lake / Whatever games we played, was whatever games we made / All the apples we stole from the neighbours, they tasted like a triumph with every bite / And the fireworks they formed on the road would keep us up all night ¶¶
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05 | 3:53 | may 23, 2012
ON THE ROPES (OUT OF LINE) You’re so out of line, you don’t even know / With all that drama inside, you always put up a show / You have no idea what you really want / Is it whatever you say, or just me to be wrong? / You’re like your father / Nothing but a drunk ¶ If you ever do anything, you do nothing at all / T oo old to make a difference, too young to make the calls / You’re on the ropes / You really figured out how to corner us both / You’re on the ropes / You’re like a stone at a crow, it must be why your smile is so cold ¶ The games you play don’t have any rules / So when you’re down on your luck, the dice are down too / You lie to yourself and blame everyone else / Cause you’re afraid of the truth and what it might tell / You’re like your mother / You behave like a child ¶¶ With a kid for a mom and a drunk for a dad / An offended kind of irony was the best thing I ever had / With an affinity for alcohol, no empathy in general / I’m estranged from whatever you hold dear / Like a wound that won’t heal / An empty void I can’t even fucking feel / I’m so lost / Lost, out of hope and out of time / Lost, on the ropes and out of line
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06 | 2:15 | march 3, 2011
GOD SAVE HENRI The mirrors inside our parliament must surely be shattered / From partying too hard and spinning mad as a fucking hatter / They go for tea with the queen and pick her rotten apples / And pass them on as oranges to the ravelling rabble ¶ I reserve the fucking right / To fuck up my fucking life / If that’s what I want / And that’s what I want ¶ So what’s the price on liberty in a modern regime? / The tag down at the grocer says whatever you need / Health care’s on sale along with a treadmill and a leash / When all you want is to be left alone, a smoke and another beer ¶¶ I just wanna be a lot like Henri
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07 | 4:46 | november 16, 2011
AROUND HERE Come on in, and mind your own business / Remember where you were from / We got houses and hedges and fences / To guard whatever you want / We look directly into the mirror / And our neighbour straight in the eye / We never lock the doors or windows / Cause we never go outside ¶ You think you’re alone when you dance on the cobbles / Like you’re the only one to hear / When you whisper your dreams and fears / You’re never alone when you dance on the cobbles / You’re not the only one to see / What you wanted yourself to be ¶ Taverns, museums and flagpoles / Ramshackled, abandoned and closed / The names that you’ll read in the pavement / Were carved with a heart of stone / Our roads are all on the compass / Named after local roads / So if you find yourself in a corner / You’ll know we take care of our own ¶¶ No sirens or engines or door bells / Just the wind and the leaves of the Fall / The silence you’ll face at the sea shore / Will sound like a lion’s roar ¶¶
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08 | 2:54 | october 21, 2011
FOREVER, AGAIN & THEN SOME I wrote you a letter, you don’t have to read / It’s just a few silly words, if you know what I mean / I’m so W.C. Fields / Cause you double the man in me ¶ There’s no way to say it, it can never come across / I, I - Love you with all that I’ve got / I know it’s a cliché, I know that it’s blunt / I, I, I, I I’ll love you forever, again and then some / I’ll love you forever / Forever, again and then some ¶ With your hair in your smile, there’s a look in your eye / It’s not a question or answer, it’s a glow or a light / It’s a simple little sigh / That let’s me know that you’ll always be mine ¶¶
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09 | 2:29 | february 8, 2011
MAKE IT HERE I You can’t tell me anything that I don’t already know / I hope your bloated satisfaction turns on you and chokes / On the edge of our town there’s a shadow on the road / And on the other side is another town and another entry toll / You can never get to another place that’s not quite the same / Everyone you’ll ever come across can tell from where you came ¶ If you can make it here, you’ll make it anywhere ¶ You can’t show me anything that I’ve not already seen / I’ve seen the writing on the wall, there’s no American Dream / And your fortune and luck won’t get you further down the road / Than the house that you grew up in, and you’ll die in when you’re old / You can laugh all that you want to, but the joke is on you / And if you still think that it’s funny, something’s finally sinking through ¶¶
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11 | 3:35 | november 15, 2011
I’M A MAN 10 | 3:36 | april 21, 2011
MAKE IT HERE II Where did you go? / What became of all your plans? / What did you find? / Did you find what you were looking for by chance? / Did you get far? / Far enough away from these lands? / These heather and naked badlands / These timid and tainted badlands ¶ Godspeed - If you stop now you’ll leave me with nothing / But an echo of hope in my heartbeat / I’ve been pounding forever for you ¶ Where did you go? / Did you realize your plans? / What did you find? / Was it hidden in the places you glanced? / Did you get far? / Further than you knew beforehand? / Further than you wanted, but you can’t turn around and go back? ¶¶ And if you ever feel like you’re losing the fight / Just remember what you left behind / What you got inside / You and I / We can make it if anywhere we find
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I don’t mind to take out the garbage / But I don’t take shit / I’ll carry you around and about / If you’d just get off of my back / Baby, you can have my heart and all the letters from my ex / But you can never have those parts of me that make me the man you respect ¶ Maybe I’m not quite the man of your dreams / But I’m a man / And that white horse supposed to sweep you off of your feet / It got worn out in fairy tales and now you got me / I’ll tell you I love you for every breathe that I take / There, I said it - and I’ll say it again / But I can’t change / That I’m a man ¶ I don’t want you to do anything you don’t want / But is it only me or do you ever know what that is? / Baby, you can try every dress you own and my answer will stay just the same / You look beautiful, but does it matter if you feel another way? ¶¶
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music by
The Floor Is Made Of Lava photographs by lyrics by
Tobias Kippenberger produced by
Gitte Kippenberger Peter Amstrup Karin Tang Vibeke Gjessing
The Floor Is Made Of Lava the floor is made of lava is mixed and co-produced by
Mads Nørgaard recorded at
Tobias Kippenberger / Vocals & Acoustic Guitars Simon Visti / Bass Lars Rock / Guitar & Piano Asbjørn Nørgaard / Drums & Backing vocals
Max Peber HQ - June 2012 mixed and additional recordings made at
Awesome Wells - July 2012
Carsten Holm sings backing vocals on “On the Ropes (Out of Line)” Joy Sun-Ra Pawl Hoyle sings backing vocals on “Forever, Again & Then Some”
engineered by
Mads Nørgaard and The Floor Is Made Of Lava except make it here i & ii, engineered by
We owe a great deal of respect and gratitude to our families, girlfriends, people who work with us and people who believe in us - thank you for everything. www.thelava.dk
Jens Benz management mastered by
Ulrik Ørum-Petersen for VOLCANO
Alex Kloss, Time Tools Mastering booking artwork by
Brian Nielsen for Skandinavian
Lasse Høgh www.lassehogh.dk
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