Steps
(Music by Live Maria)
Branches grow towards the light
Roots grow through darkness
And I think I am going somewhere
Love's in the deepest eternal surrender
Now I'm happy that I don't know where
I'm burning the pieces
That suddenly don't speak to me
Out in the night
I let the winds holler through me
You're here now, we welcome you
You're here, let us bury you
In all of us
In darkness
In love
This endless staircase seems
to lead into nothing
But I think I am going somewhere
Sometimes I hear laughter
When I thought I was on my own
And my eye sees another stare
I'm burning the pieces
That suddenly don't speak to me
Out in the night
I let the winds holler through me
You're here now, we welcome you
You're here, let us bury you
In all of us
In darkness
In love
©1997 Live Maria Roggen
Elephant Climbing
(Music by Lars Andreas Haug)
See the picture building up
Right before your eyes
It used to be so hard to see
Heavy as an elephant
You keep climbing up that tree
Na na na na
Still, you must carry on seeing
Only what's important
While climbing, climbing, climbing, climbing up
There is not much use in wishing
A monkey to be
See the picture building up
Right before your eyes
It used to be so hard
©1997 Live Maria Roggen
Sleeping Clowns
(Music, and textual idea, by Lars Andreas Haug)
Look, the clowns are a-dancing
Dancing in their sleep
Don't go near
You'll be pushed away
Mind their stumbling feet
Rotting grass in the gardens
Silent birds in the sky
Phony people in shopping malls
Days just passing by
©1997 Live Maria Roggen
Of Wishes and Desire
(Music by Live Maria)
If I could just belong a little bit everywhere
There would be more of me
If I could just belong a little bit everywhere
There would be less of me
Going around spreading vague love
Feeling happy leaving behind
What did not feed me after all
If I could just belong a little less everywhere
There could be more somewhere
Going around spreading vague love
Feeling happy leaving behind
What did not feed me after
Feed me after all
Flying through
The small realities
Leaving less
But losing more
If I could just belong
Completing the journey
Collecting the pieces
Building more of me
If I could just belong
If I could just belong
Here
©1997 Live Maria Roggen
Alone, now
(Music by Thomas T Dahl)
Please, don't wake up now that I'm
Going away
Let the silence of this morning
Continue to
Fill the space I didn't want to take
I didn't want to make
Please, let me leave by myself
To look for a sign
Something that can tell me
Why we are here
And why
We should keep living the lies we make
As if the world's at stake
©1997 Live Maria Roggen