Envoys: Hedgehog Road

ENVOYS
-1192
Hedgehog Road
Hedgehog Road
KKA-1191
6115

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Hedgehog Road
ENVOYS
Hedgehog Road
Lennart Klang – piano, orgel, synth; Anders Lindell – gitarr;
Carl-Johan Melin – bas, gitarr, synth; Lars Göransson – sång;
Göran Sjöholm – trummor; Kée Tengblad – gitarr, mandolin, synth
Stråkar ur Tonica-orkestern: Viveca Bertilsson, Karin Henricson, Lena Henriksson
Inspelad 2010-2011 i Korphult Studio.
Producerad av Envoys och Jonas Göransson
Inspelning och mix: Jonas Göransson
Inspelning gitarrsolon för 2, 3 och 8: Dable Studios.
Mix av 5 och 7: Anders Oredsson.
Mastering: Hans Olsson Brookes, Svenska Grammofonstudion
Omslag, foto: Seagen
www.envoys.nu

1. IT’S YOUR LIFE 2:32
(Tengblad-Göransson)
2. EGO 2:45
(Tengblad)
3. ENKEL BILJETT 3:54
(Melin-Tengblad)
4. NATT I STOCKHOLM 3:24
(Carlberg-Melin-Tengblad)
5. No5HIT (A Song for Will) 4:17
(Melin-Göransson-Klang-Sjöholm-Lindell-Tengblad)
6. COME JOIN THE PARTY 3:39
(Göransson)
7. HEDGEHOG ROAD 3:25
(Melin-Göransson)
8. MORNING OF MY LIFE 4:29
(Tengblad-Göransson)
9. TRO PÅ MIG 2:37
(Göransson)
10. A SUMMER ELEGY 3:03
(Melin-Göransson)
KKA-1192
ENVOYS
Hedgehog Road
KKA-1191
© P 2011, Korphult Kompani AB.
www.korphult.se
7 340065 006115

It’s your life
The garden of Eden has closed for the season
and you’re desperately trying to find a good reason
Feels like having a key but no lock
But life doesn’t have any riddles in stock
REFR And you can make it, you can break it
and remake it.
And the choice is yours if you want it,
Just don’t break it
Cause this is what it all adds up to:
It’s your life
Lyrics: Lars Göransson
Music: Kée Tengblad
© 2011, Tengblad, Göransson
You know it won’t happen till hell freezes over
Still you put your trust in a four leaf clover
But the lotto office won’t have to pay
when finally your numbers come up one day
REFR And you can make it...

Ego
Too many people, standing all alone
Feeling rather miserable, right to the bone
The magic word of today, is not we
Hypnotize your ego
Set yourself free
REFR I – Ego
Empathy, sympathy, relics from the past
Concentrate on yourself, to make things last
Don’t bother ‘bout the others
Express violent abuse
Disregard your next of kin
They are of no good use
Lyrics & music: Kée Tengblad
© 2011, Tengblad
REFR
Too many people, walking all alone
Waiting for the call on their mobile phone
Communication, but not a living soul
Care about each other
At the edge of the black hole
REFR

Enkel biljett
Kliver upp, det är tidig morgon,
Kroppen känns så slö
Ruttet väder, ruttna tankar
Jag vet att jag kan dö
Ingen vet, hur djupt jag kan falla
Ingen vet, hur jag ska ta mig upp
Ingen vet, jag döljer det för alla
Så ingen kommer att förstå
Jag går ut, nedåt mot stationen
En sista cigarett
Tåget kommer, allting snurrar
Jag köper min biljett
Lyrics: Kée Tengblad
Music: Carl-Johan Melin
© 2011, Melin, Tengblad
Ingen vet, om jag kommer tillbaka
Ingen vet, vad tåget har för mål
Hur som helst, ingenting att sakna
Jag skyndar mig ombord
Med expressfart, mot evigheten
Allt känns stilla nu
Som mjuka vindar, i mina drömmar
Långt utanför finns du
Ingen vet hur länge jag ska sova
Ingen vet, när tiden tagit slut
Inga löften, inget kvar att lova
I tanken lever jag ändå

Natt i Stockholm
Vi spanar ut i natten
Hör alla ljuden, alla skratten
Sinnet mjukt som sammet
En glädje växer där i glammet
Hej gamla Stockholm
Du är nog världens bästa stad
När jag är i Stockholm
Så blir jag alltid glad
Och sjunger..
I gryningsljusets dimma
Ses svanar långsamt simma
Vilande på vatten
Staden vaknar efter natten
Lyrics: Kée Tengblad
Music: Carl-Johan Melin,
Claes Carlberg
© 2011, Melin, Carlberg,
Tengblad
Hej gamla Stockholm
Du är världens bästa stad
När jag är i Stockholm
Så blir jag alltid glad
Jag sjunger…..

No5 Hit (A Song for Will)
Juvenile deliquants, linger round the city streets
Leather boys stand pale, awaiting dawn
The lonely preacher searching God, accepts his defeat
Children just to wild to be born
Bridge
REFR
Everything she said, why did she have to say it?
And the game she staged, why did we have to play?
Everything we made, our destiny to make it?
We are all children of the war
World is round, but my mind is square
Good intentions won’t do
Selling my love at the country fair.
Watch my flowers grow
Lyrics: Lars Göransson, Kée
Tengblad, Carl-Johan Melin,
Lennart Klang, Göran Sjöholm,
Anders Lindell
Music: Carl-Johan Melin
© 2011, Melin, Göransson,
Tengblad, Klang, Sjöholm, Lindell
The chosen few, our band of brothers, watch the solemn scene
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
To sleep, perhaps to dream, is what his plea is all about
There is no mercy here, the jester frowns
Bridge
Everything she said, why did she have to say it?
And the game she staged, why did we have to play?
Everything we made, our destiny to make it?
We are all children of the war
Everything she said, she said without compassion
The sunlight fades, on sadness and despair
Everything we hailed, it soon went out of fashion
Have pity on the children of the war
REFR
REFR
Bridge
World is round, but my mind is square...
World is round, but my mind is square...
Everything she said, why did she have to say it?
And the game she staged, why did we have to play?
Everything we made, our destiny to make it?
We are all children of the war
Everything she said, she said without compassion
The sunlight fades, on sadness and despair
Everything we hailed, it soon went out of fashion
Have pity on the children of the war

Come Join the Party
I still remember
The people I knew
Way back then,
In my early days
I’d be a comrade and a friend
If I only would
Sign on
To their smart ass ways
They were pushin’ and pullin’
Humpin’ and hollerin’
Twistin’ and turnin’
To put me on a shelf
’If you’re not with us
Then your dead set against us’
That’s how they said it:
Don’t think for yourself
Lyrics & music: Lars Göransson
© 2011, Göransson
REFR
Come join the party
We’ve got booze and grass
And it will all – be a gas
Come join the movement
Don’t think and don’t wait
Being righteous – feels so great
I toddled along
The path of my life
Trying so hard
To do things right
I did’nt hear when they said
(or maybe I did’nt want to)
’If the king is against us,
Then the king must die’
REFR
Come join the party...
From a burning building
Through an open window
A desperate man was calling for help
A loud gunshot
Took him out of his misery
And then the illusion ended for me
REFR
Come join the party...

Hedgehog Road
Let’s take the tram to a place of dreams
To a room, without a view
And just as long as one and one is two
– We won’t back down or surrender
Bridge
REFR
You’ll never be
What people want you to be
And in a trap
The cheese is always free
So fiddle your licks
Make noises with your sticks
And follow your thought
Though some may say it’s nix
Down on Hedgehog Road
The guys are there and playing
Down on Hedgehog Road
– The beat goes on
Down on Hedgehog Road
Continuing your story
Down on Hedgehog Road
– We carry on
Lyrics: Lars Göransson
Music: Carl-Johan Melin
© 2011, Melin, Göransson
The tram is rolling, passing by
We respond to the call
And in this tiny place, there’s room for all
– and you know time, means nothing, nothing
Bridge
REFR
You’ll never be...
Down on Hedgehog Road...

Morning Of My Life
It was a rough ride, I rambled on
Mistakes I made, were mine alone
I took a turn, where the road went on
I went astray and was all gone
Nothing easy, nothing clear
The art of being: To beware,
To weigh and measure, and to compare
To win or lose, but never care
REFR
It has been raining,
All through the night
But daylight is breaking
It’s the morning of my life
Lyrics: Lars Göransson
Music: Kée Tengblad
© 2011, Tengblad, Göransson
Bridge
My road it ended, what can I say
All of a sudden, no card to play
And then I finally could really see,
Love is a word spelled simplicity
You may meet trouble, may meet despair
You’ll meet betrayal and you’ll be scared
But there’s a way, that will see you through
Just meet yourself and you’ll start anew
REFR
It has been raining...
You may meet trouble, may meet despair
You’ll meet betrayal and you’ll be scared
But there’s a way, that will see you through
Just meet yourself and you’ll start anew

Tro på mig
Stjärnorna styr ditt liv,
det tror du
En ängel skyddar dig,
här och nu.
Ja du verkar kunna tro
på otroliga ting
– men ingenting
får dig att tro
på det jag vill ge dig
Du tror på mineralers
helande kraft
Och bland kristaller
du smyckar dig med krafs
Din aura lyser klart
men jag kan inte se den
– och ingenting
får dig att tro
på det jag lovar dig
Lyrics & music: Lars Göransson
© 2011, Göransson
Du är så viss och säker
i din tro
Och jag så vilsen och vek
Det verkar bara vara jag
kvar på moder jord
som tror på vanlig, enkel, simpel kärlek....
Du är så viss och säker
i din tro
Och jag så vilsen och vek
Det verkar bara vara jag
kvar på denna jord
som tror på vanlig, enkel, simpel kärlek....
Du tror på healing
och alternativ
Vad är väl Treo
mot indisk terapi
Du verkar tro på allt
som slutar i mystik
Men ingenting
får dig att tro
den kärlek jag ger dig

A Summer Elegy
The tired wizard packs his trunk
Preparing for to leave
But you remain there in your seat
Still eager to be deceived
A silent rain falls when you walk home
You wonder what did go wrong
You say ‘tomorrow’s another day’
But soon your summer’s gone
A lonely hobo wakes up and leaves
After stealing your pearls
You ask for justice in the crowded court
But they just want your purse
Your town is burning with flames of rage
But the firemen just yawn
You hope to leave for a better place
But your summer is almost gone
Lyrics: Lars Göransson
Music: Carl-Johan Melin
© 2011, Melin, Göransson
The dogs of war they praise their actions
And this way make their peace
Your anger makes you heart beat faster
But you’ll soon be at ease
You raise your head, the sun has set
You find yourself alone
The day is gone, are you prepared
Cause now your summer’s gone