Say we would meet
We would laugh, lift, and lie down
We would sigh in relief
Say we would talk
We would search for words
To share what we seek
I'd speak your mind as you'd speak mine
Say we would fall
We would fold up
And find ourselves in isolated time
Have heart, keep upbeat, and trip the light
We would laugh, lift, and lie down
We would sigh in relief
Say we would talk
We would search for words
To share what we seek
I'd speak your mind as you'd speak mine
Say we would fall
We would fold up
And find ourselves in isolated time
Have heart, keep upbeat, and trip the light
03:30
Am I awake
Or am I cold
When I’m without a fight
Am I a hollow shell
That shielded itself
Am I sound asleep
Or simply a spirit in slumber
I can’t choose to look up
And see with vibrant eyes
I miss my own quiet enlightenments
When will this dulled-out mind
Turn troubled
As it tries to solve
A seamless puzzle
Frostbitten trees
A paralysed bird
The fleeting warmth
Of a silvering sun
I will wait for the wind
I will wait for the wind
The blazing white
A circling track
The colourless vibe
Of an overlit photograph
I will wait for the wind
I will wait for the wind
I will wait for the wind
I will wait for the wind
Or am I cold
When I’m without a fight
Am I a hollow shell
That shielded itself
Am I sound asleep
Or simply a spirit in slumber
I can’t choose to look up
And see with vibrant eyes
I miss my own quiet enlightenments
When will this dulled-out mind
Turn troubled
As it tries to solve
A seamless puzzle
Frostbitten trees
A paralysed bird
The fleeting warmth
Of a silvering sun
I will wait for the wind
I will wait for the wind
The blazing white
A circling track
The colourless vibe
Of an overlit photograph
I will wait for the wind
I will wait for the wind
I will wait for the wind
I will wait for the wind
04:35
A blank of stillness lingers
Between these four white walls
A floral dream intrudes
Through the window of my mind
Now in these pale surroundings
I am with coloured trees
That softly shift through
The seasons of my mind
Outside prismatic places
Time swiftly passes by
At ease when I am
Within the depths of my mind
This white room
Outside prismatic places
Time swiftly passes by
At ease when I am
Within the depths of my mind
This white room
Like white light
Contains color
Between these four white walls
A floral dream intrudes
Through the window of my mind
Now in these pale surroundings
I am with coloured trees
That softly shift through
The seasons of my mind
Outside prismatic places
Time swiftly passes by
At ease when I am
Within the depths of my mind
This white room
Outside prismatic places
Time swiftly passes by
At ease when I am
Within the depths of my mind
This white room
Like white light
Contains color
03:48
The scientists have found
A new shade of blue
But the breaking of dawn
Brought me down with the same old blues
I’m stressed, I am swamped, all I need is air
Take a number and wait in the line
You’ll be fine, you’ll be fine, you’ll be fine
Take the seasons one season a time
Over and over
Keep your composure
Studied the ways of the hawk
To find out how the lonely
Struggle but still make their way
As they float around calmly
I’m tense, I am tied, all I need is air
Take a number and wait in the line
You’ll be fine, you’ll be fine, you’ll be fine
Take the seasons one season a time
Over and over
Keep your composure
Écoutez, mes amies
Rendez-vous dans la nuit
Go out, have a laugh
Remember to inhale
Drink up your drink now
Keep your composure
Go out, have a laugh
Remember to inhale
Drink up your drink now
Take a number and wait in the line
You’ll be fine, you’ll be fine, you’ll be fine
Take each quarter note one at a time
You’ll be fine, you’ll be fine, you’ll be fine
Take the seasons one season a time
Over and over
Keep your composure
A new shade of blue
But the breaking of dawn
Brought me down with the same old blues
I’m stressed, I am swamped, all I need is air
Take a number and wait in the line
You’ll be fine, you’ll be fine, you’ll be fine
Take the seasons one season a time
Over and over
Keep your composure
Studied the ways of the hawk
To find out how the lonely
Struggle but still make their way
As they float around calmly
I’m tense, I am tied, all I need is air
Take a number and wait in the line
You’ll be fine, you’ll be fine, you’ll be fine
Take the seasons one season a time
Over and over
Keep your composure
Écoutez, mes amies
Rendez-vous dans la nuit
Go out, have a laugh
Remember to inhale
Drink up your drink now
Keep your composure
Go out, have a laugh
Remember to inhale
Drink up your drink now
Take a number and wait in the line
You’ll be fine, you’ll be fine, you’ll be fine
Take each quarter note one at a time
You’ll be fine, you’ll be fine, you’ll be fine
Take the seasons one season a time
Over and over
Keep your composure
04:06
Don’t look, but damn she looks lovely
How the window mirrors her hair
The raindrops keep falling sideways
Or maybe it’s this train that’s heading the wrong way
The countryside that seems bleaker than ever
Is caught between highways
A farmstead behind glass
Oh why would you talk so loudly
No one dares to ask
Can someone explain this?
How do I steer my thoughts?
News flash, about war and corruption
A raging fire, the blameless behind bars
Turn the page, you’ve seen enough now
Raise your head, to the station that we’re driving towards
Please don’t feel like it all should be better
‘Cause nothing is great when you’re thinking this way
Wait, did she just look back at me?
Either way, would it change anything?
Can someone explain this?
How do I steer my thoughts?
Can someone explain this?
How do I steer my thoughts?
Can someone explain this?
Someone explain this?
How the window mirrors her hair
The raindrops keep falling sideways
Or maybe it’s this train that’s heading the wrong way
The countryside that seems bleaker than ever
Is caught between highways
A farmstead behind glass
Oh why would you talk so loudly
No one dares to ask
Can someone explain this?
How do I steer my thoughts?
News flash, about war and corruption
A raging fire, the blameless behind bars
Turn the page, you’ve seen enough now
Raise your head, to the station that we’re driving towards
Please don’t feel like it all should be better
‘Cause nothing is great when you’re thinking this way
Wait, did she just look back at me?
Either way, would it change anything?
Can someone explain this?
How do I steer my thoughts?
Can someone explain this?
How do I steer my thoughts?
Can someone explain this?
Someone explain this?
03:14
So how are you?
My dearest friend
I’ve been wondering where we are
And I wonder where we’ve been
Thinking back to those late-night talks
That would blend in with the sound
Of our record player
Fields have grown tall
Around Franciscus
We drank
We spilt
Our youth
We tried
To come up with the words
To soothe our spirits
Our intent to feel
Our intent to shape
The way to lead our lives
By our own standard
Fields have grown tall
Around Franciscus
We walked in schools and darkness
Trying to see straight
Fill me in on your current state
Are you still playing hide and seek
On a cold, barren platform?
Are you setting sail
Or have you found
Your way to a place unknown?
We walked in schools and darkness
To see straight
We learned from books that blind us
We spoke of sounds that stir us
My friend
Let's make sure we
Keep in touch
Fields have grown tall
Around Franciscus
My dearest friend
I’ve been wondering where we are
And I wonder where we’ve been
Thinking back to those late-night talks
That would blend in with the sound
Of our record player
Fields have grown tall
Around Franciscus
We drank
We spilt
Our youth
We tried
To come up with the words
To soothe our spirits
Our intent to feel
Our intent to shape
The way to lead our lives
By our own standard
Fields have grown tall
Around Franciscus
We walked in schools and darkness
Trying to see straight
Fill me in on your current state
Are you still playing hide and seek
On a cold, barren platform?
Are you setting sail
Or have you found
Your way to a place unknown?
We walked in schools and darkness
To see straight
We learned from books that blind us
We spoke of sounds that stir us
My friend
Let's make sure we
Keep in touch
Fields have grown tall
Around Franciscus
03:57
On your own you're free to linger
Chasing air, you are happily heading nowhere
Does this straight line really take you further
You’ve convinced yourself
Things just won’t ever start to waver
Face the tide and slip into discomfort
Reappear, as you were
Reassured by the sight of steady waters
Face the tide and slip into discomfort
It takes her eyes to see through this discomfort
Chasing air, you are happily heading nowhere
Does this straight line really take you further
You’ve convinced yourself
Things just won’t ever start to waver
Face the tide and slip into discomfort
Reappear, as you were
Reassured by the sight of steady waters
Face the tide and slip into discomfort
It takes her eyes to see through this discomfort
04:53
When the night falls upon your town
And the birds sleep
When your skin feels chilled
And the doors are locked shut
Know then, you'll awake
When the day breaks in your town
And the birds sing
When your skin feels warm
And the doors are ajar
Know then, you're awake
When this moment flees
Know it will come back again
If you
You cannot help
But shiver
Unfold
Your arms
See if you can
Unwind
And the birds sleep
When your skin feels chilled
And the doors are locked shut
Know then, you'll awake
When the day breaks in your town
And the birds sing
When your skin feels warm
And the doors are ajar
Know then, you're awake
When this moment flees
Know it will come back again
If you
You cannot help
But shiver
Unfold
Your arms
See if you can
Unwind
04:06
Plastic words and printed trees
Air is dull with dim beliefs
Phony smiles and painted cheeks
Dreams are foul, we howl asleep
We all bleed for nature's best
The truth is we crawl
We all dress ourselves in fur
We all turn too late
Hollow eyes and happy fears
Blissful void, we note no tears
Hungry flies and hasty lives
Love’s on hold, for gold we strive
We all feed on blueish milk
The truth is we crawl
We take pride in stolen horn
We all turn too late
I am taking this ghost out for a walk
We all bleed for nature's best
The truth is we crawl
We all dress ourselves in fur
We all turn too late
Paper shoes and posted cars
Houses creak, how bleak we are
Air is dull with dim beliefs
Phony smiles and painted cheeks
Dreams are foul, we howl asleep
We all bleed for nature's best
The truth is we crawl
We all dress ourselves in fur
We all turn too late
Hollow eyes and happy fears
Blissful void, we note no tears
Hungry flies and hasty lives
Love’s on hold, for gold we strive
We all feed on blueish milk
The truth is we crawl
We take pride in stolen horn
We all turn too late
I am taking this ghost out for a walk
We all bleed for nature's best
The truth is we crawl
We all dress ourselves in fur
We all turn too late
Paper shoes and posted cars
Houses creak, how bleak we are
03:58
Bearly awake, motionless
We all hibernate, down deep like grizzlies
Sunken in sleep, with slow beating hearts
We are drowning in dreams, ready to surface
We are losing our ways, wasting away
We are soft and afraid, stop turning your pillows
Craft and play, taste and shout
Call your brothers, find your ways again
Take this sullen heart, toss it to the ground
Why is it we always
Relapse into this sorry state
And why do we need to fall
To get up again in solar days
We all hibernate, down deep like grizzlies
Sunken in sleep, with slow beating hearts
We are drowning in dreams, ready to surface
We are losing our ways, wasting away
We are soft and afraid, stop turning your pillows
Craft and play, taste and shout
Call your brothers, find your ways again
Take this sullen heart, toss it to the ground
Why is it we always
Relapse into this sorry state
And why do we need to fall
To get up again in solar days
02:32
The firelit sky
The girl that gave me a caramel kiss
Has been taking a hold
The firelit sky
The glimpse of a smile
So playfully bliss
It could swallow me whole
The firelit sky
The firelit sky
Fluid and strange
We’re floating around
In a maple syrup stream
The firelit sky
And along comes a wave
Together we gently wash ashore
You take me
Take me along with you
You take me
Uncovering lines
We’re wondering about
In this cut-off world of ours
Where pine resin clouds
Swiftly pass by
In the absence of time
The firelit sky
In amber hue light
In amber, you glow
I am shaken with love
The firelit sky
All these unknown surroundings
Are so pleasing to the eye
You take me
Take me along with you
You take me
Take me
To a space, where my senses awake
Where my heart feels in place
The girl that gave me a caramel kiss
Has been taking a hold
The firelit sky
The glimpse of a smile
So playfully bliss
It could swallow me whole
The firelit sky
The firelit sky
Fluid and strange
We’re floating around
In a maple syrup stream
The firelit sky
And along comes a wave
Together we gently wash ashore
You take me
Take me along with you
You take me
Uncovering lines
We’re wondering about
In this cut-off world of ours
Where pine resin clouds
Swiftly pass by
In the absence of time
The firelit sky
In amber hue light
In amber, you glow
I am shaken with love
The firelit sky
All these unknown surroundings
Are so pleasing to the eye
You take me
Take me along with you
You take me
Take me
To a space, where my senses awake
Where my heart feels in place
05:42
With charcoal-like outlines
White birches stand tall
An ivory landscape
A faint bluish haze
The glimpse of a creature
With a near-silent wingbeat
A delicate dance with
A watery sun
Father Time,
Had long forgotten about this place
But he will not falter
The moment he walks in
Grey cold fumes of machinery
Oily tears, the smell of kerosine
Asphalt appears to have cut up the scenery
All these ancient creatures
Slowly change their features
Only to shape the fate of their species
Dissolve into strange worlds
Where snow turns to mud
And colossal chimneys
Darken the skyline
Father Time
Will not feel anything
He will not falter
The moment he shows up
The quick advance of the industry
Sounds of steel from the factories
This all has passed the verge of mockery
So quickly turn the hourglass
Quickly turn the hourglass
White birches stand tall
An ivory landscape
A faint bluish haze
The glimpse of a creature
With a near-silent wingbeat
A delicate dance with
A watery sun
Father Time,
Had long forgotten about this place
But he will not falter
The moment he walks in
Grey cold fumes of machinery
Oily tears, the smell of kerosine
Asphalt appears to have cut up the scenery
All these ancient creatures
Slowly change their features
Only to shape the fate of their species
Dissolve into strange worlds
Where snow turns to mud
And colossal chimneys
Darken the skyline
Father Time
Will not feel anything
He will not falter
The moment he shows up
The quick advance of the industry
Sounds of steel from the factories
This all has passed the verge of mockery
So quickly turn the hourglass
Quickly turn the hourglass
04:04
You take your time
To regulate your thoughts
And picture all outcomes
But to make up your mind
As to finding your purpose
Make a simple draft
You said you felt like
You were wholly covered with heavy feathers
Don’t strive for bird’s-eye view
Just live your silver years
You don’t care about cold hearted conflict
Over mindless spillage into murky waters
But when you start to drift off
You get stressed out, you fall apart
Your chest pressed down by swollen air
Why not live your silver years
Take it as it comes
There’s always a choice to be made
To regulate your thoughts
And picture all outcomes
But to make up your mind
As to finding your purpose
Make a simple draft
You said you felt like
You were wholly covered with heavy feathers
Don’t strive for bird’s-eye view
Just live your silver years
You don’t care about cold hearted conflict
Over mindless spillage into murky waters
But when you start to drift off
You get stressed out, you fall apart
Your chest pressed down by swollen air
Why not live your silver years
Take it as it comes
There’s always a choice to be made
04:08
Spiral shadows of stone forgotten
Ingrained within the sand
Our youth remains
Carefully, your little footsteps weigh down
The way that winds towards the endless ocean
These are your days
Take in all you see
This is your turn
To leave a trace
Test these young eyes!
This burning sense sighs
Quench your thirst!
And leap in
These are your days
Take in all you see
This is your turn
To leave a trace
Lie back down upon the waves my child
Ingrained within the sand
Our youth remains
Carefully, your little footsteps weigh down
The way that winds towards the endless ocean
These are your days
Take in all you see
This is your turn
To leave a trace
Test these young eyes!
This burning sense sighs
Quench your thirst!
And leap in
These are your days
Take in all you see
This is your turn
To leave a trace
Lie back down upon the waves my child
04:36
Flickering thoughts break up the sight
Of common days I've come to live in
A shivering sound suddenly spills
Between the steady waves I've come to live with
Purple flares followed by a humming in shimmering twilight
Colourless hovering of bees against a heather background
I'm taking this ghost out for a walk
To get it off my chest
Of common days I've come to live in
A shivering sound suddenly spills
Between the steady waves I've come to live with
Purple flares followed by a humming in shimmering twilight
Colourless hovering of bees against a heather background
I'm taking this ghost out for a walk
To get it off my chest
02:25
Tired mind, lay down your arms
It’s here
To shake up all that you have known
Sleep tight
This violent dream
It freezes time
You cannot move
You can't even cry out
This violent night
Lets out the light
Come closer
I don’t mind
Come closer
Come closer
My friendly foe, I don’t mind
Come closer
I don’t mind
Come closer
I don’t mind
It’s here
To shake up all that you have known
Sleep tight
This violent dream
It freezes time
You cannot move
You can't even cry out
This violent night
Lets out the light
Come closer
I don’t mind
Come closer
Come closer
My friendly foe, I don’t mind
Come closer
I don’t mind
Come closer
I don’t mind
04:33
I am soul, I am change, I am
You can't seem to find your garden
When days are dull you feel sullen
You don't seem to grasp this buzzing in your ears
But these days all end in the gutter
You’re hauling
In glaring neon lights you go out
And you stumble down the sidewalk
With a broken smile
I am soul, I am force
And I am all fragile components
You don’t cut like me
You can't seem to find your garden
When days are dull you feel sullen
You don't seem to grasp this buzzing in your ears
But these days all end in the gutter
You’re hauling
In glaring neon lights you go out
And you stumble down the sidewalk
With a broken smile
I am soul, I am force
And I am all fragile components
You don’t cut like me
02:39
Biography
Hailing from the northern Netherlands, Vikings in Tibet are based in their self-built studio in the catacombs of an abandoned university complex. With a sound that sounds like the impossible combination expressed in their name, they contrast elements to create a raw, rhythmic pulse that makes its way through vast and other-worldly atmospheres. Since their debut performance in a pub in the Welsh mountains, Vikings in Tibet have been moving forward on their musical journey.
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