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Darker Days

by Peter Bjorn And John

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It’s a dream, it’s a dream and we’re gonna rein it in, reap the rewards of what we’ve grown It’s a team, it’s a team I’m the keeper of the scene but I don’t wanna play this part alone Keep a close watch on the good thing you’ve found clear out the cobwebs of the mind We can rise above unwise and unkind, leave all that pettiness behind Ain’t all gold that glitters but it’s mine! Decades in you wake up all in a daze yet all of the goals so far away Time’s a thief, a hardened act to defeat but we’re built to last and run the course This one’s for the team, this one is yours! (A voice in the wilderness) -There’s no one coming home tonight I’m out here on my own tonight! (Answer) -It might be a bumpy ride but we’re still here by your side
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Every other night when the last light of your life hits your eyes Every other night there's a feeling that we're bound to make it right But I need a ghostwriter to make my words brighter cause every single day I lean over to the shadows Don't slip in our footsteps cause we're running with the devil Don't slide into regrets there's too much to unravel I was brave and gave you a promise from now on I would only be honest Kicking myself in the morning Kicking myself at night Every other day when you open up your eyes and check your head Every other day when you wake up and regret the things you've said I need a hard reminder or the thickest blinders cause every other night I believe that we can make it Don't slip in our footsteps cause we're running with the devil Don't slide into regrets there's too much to unravel There's a map, there's a path through the madness but the dirt snaps back like a magnet Kicking myself in the morning Kicking myself at night
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Gut Feeling 03:02
Talk, I guess we need to talk I didn’t know what I was doing And I was doing it way too fast It’s getting worse than I expected You know how it goes now I guess we need to talk about it If we don’t wanna live without it I guess we need to talk about it Everybody knows why You know how, you know how, you know how it goes now You know how it goes now Where the wind blows now A gut feeling there’s something wrong Woke up on the wrong side We’ll be getting so tired A gut feeling we’re not as strong A gut feeling A gut feeling there’s something wrong I can’t complain when no one’s listening Need to fix it like it used to be Can’t understand what got into me You know how it goes now
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In the backseat of the car that you’re attempting to drive Information doesn’t stick, you pick it up on the fly So tell me, can you honestly say that you know me? Can you honestly say that you’ve known me now for so long, well..you don’t Now you know, no means no This is the life that I believed that I would lead when I was 5 years, Living the dream This is the life that I believed that I would lead when I was 10 years Mirror mirror in the morning, such a weary old sight but I won’t back down on myself so easily without fight So show me, you’re redrawing the map, how to sell me, I don’t hold it against you but tell me now, how long you think it’ll last? Now you know, no means no This is the life that I believed, that I would lead when I was 5 years, Living the dream This is the life that I believed, that I would lead when I was 10 years Living the dream This is the life that I believed, that I would leave when I was 12 years, Living the dream This is the life that I believed, that I would lead when I was 15 Living the dream This is the life that I believed, that I would lead, when I was 20 Living the dream This is the life that I believed, that I would lead, when I was 22 Living the dream
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Velvet Sky 02:53
Down the street, side by side with a dust cart Waking up but we never went to sleep And we take a seat in a beat up city There's a sign saying don't fear the reaper Too many sun-kissed lies against a velvet sky At the table, the sound is turning hollow We dissolve, it's beginning to dawn on me From a weeping smile to a broken vow Looking up just to stare into your red eyes Make it brief, just tell me it's over It's over There's a million ways to die There's a million ways to die Under a velvet sky
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Nothing we can do or say is gonna make it go away It’s another time now Even if you had my name we’d be feeling just the same I don’t wanna be around, can’t be around, I can’t be around When we're going down Don’t wanna sing that song Don’t wanna play along Tell me what’s going on We’re getting wrapped around the axle Don’t know what we have done Don’t know what’s right or wrong Tell me what’s going on We’re getting wrapped around the axle Everything we ever planned everywhere we used to hang It’s another time now I know something's on your mind it keeps nagging all the time You don’t wanna be around, can’t be around, you can’t be around When we're going down
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Dark Ages 03:20
Now the dark ages are back We all spread the disease, brought us down to our knees Now the dark ages are back No world leader pretend, could predict such an end And in all my days of traveling on, no it never crossed my mind While I tended my garden, wool in ear, from where I stood it seemed fine but now the dark ages are back All the prophets wear black, love’s gone under attack Now the dark ages are back Ice is melting away, we just shut up and play Money, poverty, dignity is a mix up hard to shake We’ve been stomping this ground for a million years, now the earth’s about to break I can feel it, I can see it falling apart, it strays and bends I can’t heal it, I can’t rip it up and just start over again Lend a friend a hand Can you hear me? We’re stuck in the dark here, no light & no way out Can you tell me? Is it way too late or too hard to make it right? Lord, don’t let me down! Now the dark ages are back Corrupt kings in the wings is what tomorrow will bring Now the dark ages are back The new mornings in mourn how take care of their newborns?
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I'm sick and tired of the comical It won't be funny for a long time I'm sick and tired of the cynical Because I'm always on the wrong side You’re going on and on Like only shadows do And when you’re gone gone gone It's getting black and blue Is there a way to make it okay Is there a way to make it right Watching the tide come rolling in Everybody's changing Don’t wanna know why you're not around Don’t wanna know why you departed Don’t tell me where you been hanging out I can’t do anything about it Don’t need to fight it You can't deny it Nowhere you can hide It’s getting overridden Don’t get too excited Heaven's getting crowded Once you're inside it You be feeling lifeless Watching the tide come rolling in Everybody's changing Watching the tide come rolling in Don’t need to find no medicine
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You’ve kept it in the dark, the secrets of the heart but finally they will have you all figured out What makes you laugh and cry, they have it in their files so they can add it up to your unique SP After all is said and done, you much rather be left alone but someone’s got your number, someone’s got your e-mail Someone puts a name on your door Someone knows the things you’ve been longing for All those digits aren’t illegit They got it all mapped out for you Someone puts a price on your head Someone’s making sure that you’ve been well fed and that status in hiatus won’t stay like that for long, not very long This social psychopath, all decked out in the bath A shower head might well be a fly on the wall I’m afraid to talk to you I’m hoping that a text will do until I have to meet you again eye to eye Could call it Orwellian, he’s begging to be read again Collecting all the data, they catch up with you later
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Holding your hand while it's pouring down Clouds letting go like a breathing spell Learning to draw a line Between Heaven and hell Tear out a page from a magazine Holding the eyes of a famous man Pushing the envelope Dragging us back Painting myself with a trembling hand Knowing it's not easy to be grand A sunset in black and white A pat on the back Dreading the day as I used to do (Himlen är nära) History throws itself back at you (Helvetet) An untuned piano Your voice in the dark Drowning in a flood of memories (Himlen är nära) Sights getting dimmer from all I've seen (Helvete) Hug me when I'm too blurred Shake me to sleep Ignore a lost soul on the subway train Facing myself in a carousel In the burning daylight Heaven and hell

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The secret to longevity is reinvention. Or, at least, it’s the secret to Peter Bjorn and John’s impressively long career, which has spanned nearly two decades and eight albums. Darker Days, the Swedish trio’s eighth full-length offering, is evidence of how evolution and a willingness to shift methodology can bring vast rewards.

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released October 23, 2018

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Peter Bjorn and John will celebrate their 20-year anniversary in 2020 with the release of their ninth full-length studio album – Endless Dream.

Endless Dream is an album of undeniably catchy indie-pop songs that Peter Bjorn and John have become known for.
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