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Paris​-​Stockholm

by Un Rodo Cora

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1.
Cyclo 01:03
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Sun’s in orbit ’round her hub moon go circling ’round the sun earth is cycling ’round the moon satellites the earth cocoons Winds are sweeping o’er her crust waves go rolling ’round coast to coast seasons chase around the globe man returns to where is home Dust to man and back to dust grow up and old and die we must blood is pumping in our veins sons repeat fathers mistakes Good times turn to bad then good ’n drought will follow rain and flood like time keep coming back to noon I keep coming back to you
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Aerial Vault 04:31
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Just beyond the branches of light your face lies, waiting for response an eyebrow triggering my mind an air of times long gone It wouldn't be so hard if there were only you and I it wouldn't be so hard if you'd just let that pedigree go is it always a coincident, always a surprise that everybody's making it except for little you No I wouldn't really call it a fact but maybe you're the end of that proud family line or maybe I am just full of crap or maybe the beginning of mine Hovering above us on the wall captured in gilded immortality the brilliance that made you all so tall the brilliance that set off your misery It wouldn't be so hard if there were only you and me it wouldn't be so hard if you'd let go of history ‘cause nothing seems to end that sad affair of yours with fate all your pretty messengers they all show up too late No I wouldn't call it a fact that maybe you're the end of that proud family line maybe I am just full of it or maybe the beginning of mine It wouldn't be so hard if there were only you and me it wouldn't be so hard if you'd let go of your family Maybe you're the end of that proud family line while maybe, I am the beginning of mine So kindly will you shut up and shut the light out too cause all I really want is you It's so easy so easy
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Shelter 03:40
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Hey there lady, wanna take a trip to far away? stay there ’n maybe find a shelter, live in luxury? la la la la la – El Dorado la la la la la - Paradise na na na na na - Utopia la la la la la - ¿Hola guapa, wanna find the happy hunting grounds? ’n Señorita all your margaritas are on the house Valhalla la la la - Elysium Shangri La la la la - my heaven Nirvana na na na - Utopia Nangija la la la - Just give me your throat and I'll give you a kiss I'll show you a place, something more than this I'll be your guide on this carpet ride uncover your throat and I'll give you a kiss an everlasting kiss No more dirty tricks, politics, black crusaders no more mango wafers, lemon trees or Sunday papers if you say no more Asians I say no Caucasians either ’n if you hear that there's no turning back it's nothing but jealous slander Valhalla la la la - Schlaraffenland Shangri La la la la - My Xanadu Nirvana na na na - Cucania Nangija la la la - Schlaraffenland Let's all get blissed on the isle of the blessed let us all capture the ultimate rapture get yourself beautiful beatitude uncover your throat and I'll give you a kiss everlasting kiss
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The Promise 03:09
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Blue Eye, do you realize that I’m just leading you on? I found you, or did you find me first, well first I found you so gone well up on your feet I’m a dead end street you won’t find nothing here please understand I’m a one man band before those blue will wear a shade of tears Don’t you realize that I’m holding you down? try to catch your breath and you will drown no nothing is far right here in the bar with you drinks and all that beer the distance there’s been is gone with the gin but tomorrow there’ll be nothing to drink but your tears It’s four o’clock in the morning I’m getting ready for bed ’n though she got my warning she didn’t get it, but heard instead a promise ’Cause just like she'd never trust a man who say he can’t be bought she would never doubt that man if he said he’s a fraud so what should I say what card should I play to make this really clear? seems there’s no way, no way you’ll be saved and tomorrow those blue will wear a shade of tears
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Exile in Bassville 02:01
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A little lost along the neck She is rehearsing with her rock & roll band she plays the bass just like me I wonder if her reasons are the same as mine convenience and complacency Thats: even if I never do my homework there'll be someone calling me up since there's a lack of bass players all the time and someone sooner or later will call me up and ask if I wanna form a band And soon I’m lost among the frets This is an; exile among the living, the loving, the happy to be, the artists, the poets, the enigmatic, charismatic, the life sucking, love draining, the beautiful, guitar posing, V-flying, longhaired, ever happy ever floating star people.
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Keeps 02:28
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She’s got everything you want her to have her black intellect her charm so blue she’s got all you ever want her to get but you So you give her your life trying to give her no choice and you show her a heart that’s begun to grow she’s got everything you want her to have but no So you’ll imitate her own technique being irresistible deep for two saying: ‘last night I burned myself to sleep doing nothing but thinking of you’ But she is so cold, a beauty in ice and when you tell her your line and expect her to melt she’ll just look at you, twinkle her eyes and shine She says: ‘my Sunday suit feels like a drum’ and then you understand that she never will ´cause she is so cold, a beauty with eyes on fire And you carve a way out of your soul just have to breathe, just not explode and that night you burn yourself to sleep doing nothing but thinking of her at all she’s got everything you want from her but nothing that you’ll get to keep Something’s stirring your determined mind your thoughts are winding And slowly you begin to doubt conceptions turning inside out upside down and backwards too when you is me and she is you And I’ll carve my way out of my soul just have to breathe, just not explode and that night I burn myself to sleep doing nothing but thinking of you and me she’s got everything I ever want but nothing that I’ll get for keeps
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Slime 03:08
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Some people say most men are mostly pieces of slime well let me add it goes for about five out of five just think of the boy you followed home he seemed to be the kosher one but when he’s had his little fun he’ll take his Y-fronts and run We are all sleazy slimy creatures deep within I made a famished friend last night her fully-fed fiancé was away she lived her humdrum life down in the doldrums ’n I followed her there ’n stayed the night Maybe it’s a part of being human how we got the monkeys out-manouvered a gift god added to his creation a short cut to world domination They call the cocktail Happiness survival of the fascistest drooling over the election buffet we’re all voting with our wallets We are all sleazy slimy creatures deep inside and further down I think we’re all quite satisfied Look at the longhaired bald rock star revitalized but still bizarre and the successful architects who ruined this town in a few decades ‘n when the taxman shows no mercy we're moving our fax machines to Guernsey ‘n the poor Finnish commie party going bancrupt on the stock market think of the liquid that they serve calling it coffee takes some nerves while you're still too young to be aware they're pointing their loaded god at your head the crap that these stations play it's always format before taste I could go on and on and on really on and on and on…
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Don't Feed The Beggars 03:33
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Pick parents wisely wear an education help useful people cultivate relations R.E.M. sleep light decaff breakfast listen to your heart (follow your brain) Fluent in french Sundays in torpor grow healthy habits and don’t feed the beggars Marry the right one go call your mother buy a nice pyjamas and don’t feed the beggars ... ... ... Tables and chairs are friendly creatures the future is for beginners two religions makes a third three religions makes the first the past is the real thing no one has met William Shakespeare let the pupils be the teachers starvation is a way of living Tall trees got better view than short trees some books burn better than others some people got better views than others money should be sold for half price armies should always fight together, on the same side don’t forget to die those who go first get the best seats ... ... ... One day she woke up one leg before the other and said to herself: maybe they're right maybe it's one woman for herself maybe it's one race for itself maybe it's one nation for itself maybe one religion is the right yes maybe their is the right maybe the fatwa is actually sanctioned by god maybe it did rain fishes and what if jehovas witnesses are right and Darwin wrong? we'll share beds with the veggie lions in paradise on earth (but only the good lions can join, of course, those that are baptised and never been to a discoteque) and she said to herself: what if the rope is needed to put out the evil in this world the sword mightier than the word? maybe love it's just a four letter word like bull like shit and she went to work that day with a new look on her face her old eyes replaced with a set of newly picked, plucked ones and the cars on the street seemed smaller not so dangerous the buildings seemed pygmefied and she was no longer afraid of crossing the park on her way home and when she got home (left the door unlocked) made herself a large nice sandwich with penguin oil and mushrooms on top opened a bottle of red wine and sat down by the fire with her memories with photographs from her childhood large building and evil cars and she sat there in silence long after the fire was out in the darkness in silence then finally she got up pulled that curtain down and went to sleep
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Je ne parle pas népalais 03:41
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This is the beginning this is nothing but a start this is just an interactive lecture of the heart if you take this country, all these mountains, flatten 'em out into the sea it'd be the biggest of them all if you ask me Shiva singing noso poro makes this boy so happy that he promises to the earth and sky they'll one day meet the sea and annie with the panny making tsampa somewhat runny she could be the mother of it all if you ask me oh oh oh oh eyes that scan the land oh oh oh oh my mind is high again je ne parle pas nepali mais pourtant c’est tellement clair And heaven is there if you turn left around the corner and if you turn right there is hell The wealthier the wiser so I'm outwitting the taxi driver afterwards he says I must be smartest in the world then he rips me off, my rupies fly away, I’m not taking notice blinded by the fact of being smartest in this world oh oh oh oh voices sigh again oh oh oh oh I am high again je ne parle pas nepali mais pourtant c’est tellement clair And nothing else outside this life will ever matter to me
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The Waiting 03:02
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Some people say they're searching death and everything they say could be their final breath they hope for something to blow out their light but they better be careful, something just might Well it's not right to trash another life and to end it is not very polite and to really make their point of view down death row I'm heading, and it's true Some people say, some people do some people say just what they do and others do just what they say this man was really one too many and I told him so quite clearly I told him once or twice and then I beat him quite severely Well it's not right to trash another life and to end it is not very polite and to really make this point of view down death row I'm heading, and it's true If my life was your life if your life was my life if my life was my life alone if this life was his life if his life was this life if his life was his life alone The worst part is really waiting Well it's not right to kill another man and we must fight it with everything we can and to really make this point of view down death row I'm heading, and it's true Some conflicts are really hard to handle they despise me for blowing out his candle this enemy that could've been a friend of me so down death row is where they now are sending me
11.
What The Anthropoids Missed 02:10
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I could've been a satellite a shooting star in the night a rocket ship on the way to mars live my life among the stars I could've made myself a name in the anthropoids hall of fame Somewhere up there in the dark sky looking down on all of this but I'm just a stupid boy a very very stupid boy And I know it's in my head the inability to thrive the shortcomings, the misplaying it is always in the head in a shuttle of gold as the parachute unfolds taking aim from above n descend upon the world unpredictable as trust reliable as rust Somewhere up there in the dark sky looking down on all of this
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Surpritze 02:31
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I can't believe I'm gonna tell you I can't believe I'm gonna say I can't believe I'm gonna tell you all the things I'm gonna say You'll never know what hit you never know who killed the light never know the fangs that bit you ‘n sucked out the delight You can't imagine all the pain you can't imagine all the fear you can't imagine all pain I'm gonna shove into your ear It will hit you like a hammer it will hit you like a train it will hit you like an arrow and explode into your brain
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There's Always a Reason 02:45
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All I ever do is put you down down, down, down, down As I’m inhaling this Vermeer looking into your eyes reflections give a bitter salty taste ‘cause what I see is just a mirror me in your disguise I realize that Jago is your name and as your eyes meet mine I know that we‘re two of a kind and if it’s true, then baby it’s goodbye there is no use such a waste Why do we put each other down? down, down, down, down smeared out on the ground down, down, down, down ‘Cause if you ever do to me just half the things I’ve done to you I swear to god I’ll cut you up in pieces I say this most reluctantly ‘cause I still think we could’ve pulled it through but it’s understood it’s too late now for dreamers and if you think this came suddenly and that I’m acting hastily then don’t forget there’s always a reason often somewhere just out of reaching I’ve been so blind blind, blind, blind, blind how you’ve put me down down underground From now on you’re going down down down is where you’re bound now wanna see you hit the ground can’t wait to hear that smashing sound all you ever do is punch me down... down, down, down
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Dance? 00:35
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Wonder why they dance with me but not with you? wonder why they dance with me but not with you? When the pass you by like that, they should be ashamed ooh it makes my little heart crack up Wonder why they dance with you but not with me? wonder why they want with you but not with me? But when I think about it, me I do the same So maybe I should really just shut up
15.
Fly 05:18
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So here we are again high above all the others I can see them all foes, friends, lovers, my mother my Father is the one I’m gonna meet There’s the boulevard street of dreams, they look like toys now I can see the girl, faceless, nameless teach clueless boys how this will never be the one she'll teach 'Cause the sky is blue it blows my mind because the wind is high it makes me cry Here upon this bridge from then to then via now I see it all so clear all these days, weeks and hours but soon they'll pull the bridge from under my feet So speak to me as I stand here before you betray me now or let me come inside the eyes, the face, the force, I do adore you the light, the voice that tell me I can fly Here I am again, high above the world take good care of my little girl just think of me as another satellite the moon, the stars, you know I fell in love a small step for a man, and I fly
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Fin 02:05
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I'm trying to figure out what all this is about but I haven't a clue do the words in my ear come from there or in here? (it seems it's not for me to know) turn the inhale on shut the exhale off count down get ready take-off perhaps we'll meet again don't know where don't know when till then bye bye goodbye

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released June 12, 1999

Album: Paris-Stockholm
Released: 12/06/1999
Recorded at Airplay Studios and Park Studio, Stockholm, Sept 95 – May 1999
Engineer: Niklas Sjöberg
Mastering: Mia Lorentzson, at Polar Studios, Stockholm
Songs by: Bo Christo Schager
Cover photo: Nina Tallec

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Un Rodo Cora Sweden

Seamless pop smarts drawing from a wide spectrum of genres and time periods.
Un Rodo Cora is a Stockholm based group of musicians with links to both USA and India. They are somewhere between a solo project, a band and a collective, centered around the songwriter Bo Christo. Although a number of musicians form the core of the band the actual line-up is as fixed as a recipe for pizza. ... more

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