And we burn

They tell me to just walk quietly out the door

That I don’t have to fight every battle like it’s a war

My problem is, how we all shut up to save our own ass

And there will always be those who benefit from what we let pass

 

And soon the world will burn

But we will never learn

 

And now the whole world is some kind of a crime scene

All the angels work for the devil now

and your god, your god is just a fever dream

 

I can’t breathe in this world

No one is free in this world

and I can’t help it, I can’t close my eyes

And you pray and you pray and you pray

But all I hear is excuses and lies

 

The whole world is some kind of a murder scene

All the angels, they are sinners too

And paradise, your eternal kingdom

Is nothing but a fever dream

 

I can’t help it, I can’t close my eyes

And my ears hear only lies

And I try and I try and I try

But your god remains silent and I

I get no answer when I scream out «Why?»

 

And we burn

We burn

We burn

But we will never ever learn

 

 

Nothing but a fever dream

 

 

The past will not determine my fate part II

I walked right into your hell

You fell under some spell,

you would not let me go

Well, I think I knew then,

and I sure know now

You are everything they said, and more

And you truly are

rotten, all the way to the core

 

The past will not determine my fate

I wipe you out, I wipe the whole fucking slate

 

I was in doubt, to shut you out

You had my mind questioning fact

Like you know it all, that’s how you act

And me feeling like I was under some kind of contract

Embarking on some mission where I could not go back

But the last time I looked into your eyes, I realised just what it is that you lack

You got no soul in there, do ya

All this time

That truly is your biggest flaw

 

And I have hated myself for the connection

And hated myself for walking in your direction

But the past will not determine my fate

I wipe you out, I wipe the whole fucking slate

 

You would not let me go,

but I still went

Took me long enough, and

I regret every second I have spent

But I can’t change a thing, I can just move on

You really are everything they said, and more

And I searched through all of you,

and you really are rotten to the core

You got no soul in there, do ya

All this time

That really is your biggest flaw

 

And I have hated myself for ending up in your arms

Hated myself for not listening to the alarms

But the past will not determine my fate

I wipe you out

I wipe out the whole fucking slate

Yeah I wipe you out

I wipe out the whole fucking slate

And no matter what your last words to me might have been

The past will not determine my fate

The past will not determine my fate

I wipe you out

I wipe out the whole fucking slate

 

 

 

To die without dying- Songs for the lost souls

I thought I knew pain

I thought I knew trouble

Then you died

and it  completely burst my bubble

For years, it felt like I had died too

and for years all I wanted

was to be buried next to you

 

I didn’t know you could die without dying

and for so many years

I didn’t even believe in trying

Trying to pick life up and go on again

I didn’t know, but life can go on again

 

Have you ever felt like you died without dying

and after a while you were done with the crying

Still, the life that once was no longer felt like it’s yours

and you are stuck with a pain that has no cures

and you find yourself stuck in a room in hell, with no windows, no doors

 

I didn’t know you could die without dying, but then I did

and for so many years, I just curled up and hid

My bed was my coffin, my room was my crypt

I felt like a corpse that had completely been stripped

and no one understood this living dead I had become

Because I was still alive. but I was living under death’s thumb

and every passing day, I grew colder and more numb

 

For years, all I wanted was to be buried next to you

You don’t know you can die without dying before you actually do

And for so long, I didn’t even bother trying

To claim back my life and let go of this longing for dying

I didn’t know, but now I do

Life can go on again

Life can go on again

 

Yeah, life can go on again

Life can go on again

The hardest thing I ever had to let go was your hand

The next hardest thing was my own death that I planned

But life can go on again

Yeah, life can go on again

 

So don’t let go

Don’t let go

Even if you die without dying

Don’t let go..

You gotta, gotta know

Life can go on again

 

Do you even know how special you are- Songs for the lost souls

So many of the best people I know, experienced bullying at some point of their lives. This is for them. This is for all of you. Just because they said it, doesn’t mean it’s true!

 

 

The assholes from your past, and what they said

Memories are hard to erase, and hard to chase out from your head

But I’m so grateful they never stopped you from being you

And after all you’ve been through, you still stay true

To all the things that makes you, you

And maybe you don’t know, but there’s a million reasons why

someone can and will appreciate you

 

‘Cuz no one is walking around, just like you

And no one ever have, and nobody’s ever going to

 

Maybe the hurtful words they told you,

still rings in your head from time to time

And still you got this far

And now I gotta ask

Do you even know how special you are?

I hope you ask yourself and come up with a long list

‘Cuz you are special and I’m so glad you exist

 

It’s funny how they go after the best ones

Funny how what they find off is often your best traits

It’s sad, how words can be used as guns

and how heavy it can be to carry them around like weights

So I hope you let go of all they told you

‘Cuz just because they threw it in your face, doesn’t mean it’s true

and no one is walking around, just like you

And no one ever have, and nobody’s ever going to

 

Maybe the hurtful words they told you,

still stings in your heart from time to time

and still you got this far

And now I gotta ask

Do you even know just how special you are?

I hope you ask yourself and come up with a long list

‘Cuz you’ve always been special and I’m so glad you exist

I’m so glad you exist

 

 

 

Don’t bow, don’t break- Songs for the lost souls

I’ve been having a lot of conversations lately about the kids in my life that I love, and how we adults around them can help them through the unavoidable hardships and heartbreaks they will have to face at some point of their lives. And I think one of the most important ways is to arm them with confidence and a solid sense of self-worth. All kids should be taught this, but a lot of people grow up without it, and a lot of adults walk around lacking these tools (I am one of them at times). If there is one thing we can do for one another, it’s to help each other through the points in life where our confidence and self-worth has taken a serious hit. I think it’s one of the greatest gifts we could offer someone. And it’s so important to learn how to do it for ourselves! This song is ment as a gift to anyone that might need to hear these words right now. Don’t bow, don’t break- you deserve to live your life with your head held high, even if you fucked up, even if someone hurt you, even if you didn’t accomplish what you tried to achieve.. You still have worth!

 

 

There’s some lessons in life we just have to go through

There will always be some asshole that picks on you

and there will be stuff that you just couldn’t do

and at times you’ll feel like giving up

But even the things that didn’t work out

At one point you’ll look back, and you’ll see that you grew

 

Don’t bow, don’t break

Don’t bow, don’t break

Build your confidence on a foundation

That no one can shake

 

So you got dumped, you got picked on

Or the grass looks greener on someone else’s lawn

You loved someone, but now they’re gone

and now you ask yourself how will life go on

Well, lock eyes with yourself in the mirror and say

“I can survive that things doesn’t always work out my way”

and pick yourself up from the floor

Time to open a brand new door

 

Don’t bow, don’t break

Don’t bow don’t break

Build your self-worth on a foundation

That no one can shake

 

Someone told you something that really hurt

and now you question how much you are worth

You got fired, you failed, or you fucked something up

Something crashed, and you don’t have a backup

Or you got in the ring, and someone took a swing

And now you feel you can’t do anything

But you are not your mistakes

and you can get back on your feet, and that’s why I sing:

 

Don’t bow, don’t break

Don’t bow, don’t break!

You are worthy of a self-love

That no one can shake

 

Yeah, you are worthy of a self-love

That no one can shake

So please, please, please

Do it for you..

Don’t bow! Don’t break!

 

 

 

The past will not determine my fate-Songs for the lost souls

For years, I seemed doomed

My mind was a desert, a wasteland where nothing bloomed

I locked myself up in my room

and every night I wished upon a star

and begged death to take me, and soon

 

I’ve made mistakes I can’t erase

I’ve felt I was a hopeless case

and I don’t know if I can set the record straight

But the past will not determine my fate

 

They said “She’ll end up abusing someone or something”

They said for sure I’d die young

and for years, I could only hear the alarm ring

and I couldn’t explain myself to myself, I would only bite my tongue

Well, I reached 30 and then some

and now that I look back

I see just how far I have come

 

There’s tragedies and crimes in my past I can’t erase

and everyone thinks I’m still a hopeless case

Suicidal since the tender age of eight

But I learned that death can and will wait

And the past, the past will NOT determine my fate

It will not determine my fate

 

I guess it’s easy to just label me broken

Sometimes I think so too, and I look at all these wounds

that are still raw and infected and open

But I carried so much weight without breaking

and I stood my ground all the times it was shaking

and I’ve endured so many years with this intense, throbbing aching

and I am finally learning

just to let go

While I hang on

to myself..

 

It’s not too late

No, it’s not too late

I tore myself free from this miserable state

I balance the thin line between love and hate

And all i know, all I know

Is the past will not determine my fate

The past will not determine my fate

 

 

High school dropout – Songs for the lost souls

It started with the rap and the rhymes for me, and I think that will always be my jam.

 

Still got nightmares about it

I dream about my teacher warning me

»If you miss out on more now, what do you think you’ll ever be»

I always knew that if I dropped out, I might just never find a way back to a normal life

Bye to the kids, the picket fence, the damn dog, being somebody’s wife

But life happens, life crashes, and life sometimes stabs you with a knife

 

High school dropout, I’m that high school dropout

I know everyone thinks it was an easy cop out

But depression hits hard, and it hits you fast

and you’d be surprise how long that shit can last

I was so damn young, but I got stuck

Yeah I got stuck in the past

 

My best friend called, she said «What the fuck is going on»

and after a while no one even bothered to blow up my phone

I guess they saw that the girl I used to be, she was gone

I was like a living dead, I was haunted in my head, and the friends I had they all moved on

 

High school dropout, I’m that high school dropout

and everyone probably thinks it was a cop out

but depression hits hard and it hits you fast

and it doesn’t help that when everything falls apart

Pretty soon all you are, is an outcast

Yeah, all I am is the outcast

 

I stressed myself the fuck out, ‘Cuz I knew that if I dropped out I’d lose it all

But you’d be surprised at how fast and how hard you can fall

I couldn’t get up in the morning, all I wanted was to die

I lost all my reasons, I no longer had a ‘why’

I wanted to die, and damn it I would even try

But what do you know, I failed at that too

What a shock, huh, I fail at everything I do

 

High school dropout, I’m that high school drop out

Everyone thinks it was an easy cop out

Nah, I just wanted to be cropped out

I just wanted to not exist anymore

I didn’t just close that door, I wanted to close every door

You lose all perspective when you are flat out on the floor

Depression hits hard, and it hits you fast

and you’d be surprised how long that shit can last

So I dropped out, I dropped out

and now I am the outcast

I’m the, I’m the outcast

 

High school drop out, but I’m still alive I guess

Soon 35, still trying to figure out this mess

I guess not a lot of people would call this success

Then again, I kinda do

After all I’m the only one who knows

all the shit I’ve waded through

 

High school dropout, I’m that high schooldrop out

High school dropout, shout out to my high school dropouts

and to everyone who knows what it feels to be knocked the fuck out

 

 

Love won’t call my name- Songs for the lost souls

I got this uncomfortable feeling

That I’m not ment for anything, and I’m not ment for anyone

and sometimes I lose track completely

of who I’m fighting for, who I’m dreaming of

Who is it again, that I want to become

 

Love won’t call my name

Love won’t call my name

I am forever lost

Forever lost..?

I’m losing the game

 

I see myself as this old, sad woman

I think I’m destined to be her, be her

and I don’t know the steps to take to escape this fate

There’s a voice in my head telling me

I am already too late, it’s too late

 

Love won’t call my name

No love won’t call my name

I am forever lost

Forever lost..?

I’m losing every game

 

Sometimes it feels like everything I’ve endured was all in vain

Sometimes the only thing I can feel fully, is the pain

But there is a fire burning deep within

and I know I can grow thicker skin

until I am strong enough, strong enough

To go all in the game, any game, and I might just win

I might just win..

 

Love won’t call my name

No love won’t call my name

But loving myself, that’s where I aim

Yeah loving myself is where I aim

and that kind of love, that kind of love

Now that’s a love I could claim

 

In the end, all I know is..

Death will call my name

Yeah, death will call my name

If you are born, that’s the only end to the game

Death will call my name

 

Death will call our names

Death will call out our names

So let’s pick up whatever remains

And break free from these chains

Let’s break free from these chains!

 

 

If I could have talked you out of it- Songs for the lost souls

Til ho tante Else, til alle som avsluttet livet sitt, og til alle som tenker på å avslutte livet sitt.

 

 

There’s no way to reach you now

Now it’s too late to pick up the phone and call

and maybe if I had known, if I had done it

It would not have changed anything at all

But I know how it feels, longing to just disappear

I know how it sounds, when death whispers in your ear

Still, I had no idea someone as vibrant, someone as lively as you

That you heard those whispers, that you felt drawn against death too

and even after all these years, it’s still hard to accept that death got you

 

If only I knew

Maybe there was nothing I could really do

Still, I wish that I knew

‘Cuz I know that you had what it took

To push, to live it through

 

I know all too well

Life can be heaven, but it can also be hell

and sometimes we all need someone to tell

That life is a storm right now, but it can all turn out well

We can turn out well

and there is a way, a route

that leads us out of hell

 

If I could have talked you out of it

Maybe I couldn’t, but I would have wanted to try

There’s so much I’d like to say before I had to say goodbye

More than anything I wish I’d known

That you were in a desperate place, in need of an ally

 

I know all too well

That the darkest thoughts can feel like being under a spell

and sometimes we all need someone to tell

That life is a storm right now, but it can all turn out well

We can turn out well

And if there’s a way in, there’s also a way out

A way out, away from our personal hell

 

If I can talk you out of it

Maybe I can’t, but I’d like to try

There’s so much you can do, before you say goodbye

More than anything, I want to say

I’m here, if you are in a desperate place, in desperate need

of an ally..

 

If I can talk you out of it..

The way I’ve talked myself out of it

If I can talk you out of it

If I can motivate you just a little bit longer

Give it time, give yourself the time

You got what it takes, to be stronger

You got what it takes

and the heart can endure so much before it breaks

and even broken hearts can heal

You can heal

and just know you are never alone, you are never alone

No matter how lonely and lost you may feel

 

If I can talk you out of it

If I can reach you in this darkness

There’s only one of you, you know, and no one can replace you

Give it time, give yourself the time

You deserve to give yourself time

Wanting to die, is not a crime, it’s not a crime

But if you are at the bottom, you can climb, you can climb

Life is a storm right now, but it can all turn out well

You can turn out well

and if there’s a way in, then there’s gotta be, gotta be

a way out, a way out..

Of our own personal hell

 

There is a way out.

 

 

 

We can, we will, we must- Songs for the lost souls

For my partners in crime ❤️

 

 

 

Come on now, baby

Yeah, the drugs they call on you

But don’t pick up, don’t pick up

You are ment for so much more than that

So keep going, keep going, don’t stop!

 

Life likes to put us to the test

The night offers no time to rest, no time to rest

But remember, bad girls are the best

Yeah, that’s what I said: Bad girls are the best!

So come on, come on now

I hope I’m that someone that you can trust

Come on now, join me- a better life is waiting

We can, we will, and we must!

 

Come on now, darling

Yeah, life gave you one right in the socket

and now you’re standing still, with your hands in your pocket

Ah, life is unfair, that’s just the way it is

But you got the balls and the backbone to live through this

You can live through this!

 

Life, life is this one long quest

and some of us are cursed, very few are blessed

but remember what I told ya, bad girls are the best

Yeah, that’s what I said, bad girls are the best

So come on, come on now

Don’t let your faith turn into dust

Come on now, join me- a better life is waiting

and we CAN, we WILL, and we MUST!

 

I see that look in your pretty face, babe

You’re hurting and doubting and wondering why

and in your head you’re thinking “I shouldn’t even try”

But baby, there’s always the time to die

There’s always a time to die

So look into my eye

and tell me, would I lie?

Nah, so I’m just letting you know

You are the brightest shining star on the entire fucking sky

 

Yeah, sometimes the heart burns inside the chest

and life can throw us more than we are able to digest

So why do I keep saying that bad girls are the best?

‘cuz I am one, and I know some, and that’s why I can attest

Yeah, bad girls are, bad girls, are, bad girls are the best

So come on now, come on now

I hope I am, hope I am

Someone you can trust

Come on, come on, a better life is waiting

and WE CAN, WE WILL, WE MUST