Get all 8 Svaj. releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Until We Fall (We Repeat Ourselves Remix), Maggots, Cut Me Up, Until We Fall Remixes, Until We Fall, Fallback, Still Standing, and Rewind.
1. |
Portent
04:28
|
|
||
|
Life’s just a fleeting dream
A slip of the tongue
A shadow cast on a wall
A small portent of what lies ahead
When your heart’s content
There’s a promise that’s unbroken
A croak from the ravens beak
The grim reaper, riding in your backseat
A gathering of ghosts
They’re right by the windowsill
– Rat-tailed maggots!
A pointing finger, a toothless grin
An end to her torments
Or was it ours?
Bring out your dead
An empty vessel, the soul has fled
In the eye of the storm
The other side is real
In this eternal light
There’s no body, no turning back
Life’s just a fleeting dream
A slip of the tongue
A shadow cast on a wall
A small portent of what lies ahead
|
||||
2. |
Experience
03:04
|
|
||
|
Staring at the ceiling spinning out of control
It makes you sick, it makes you weak
It makes you loose your fucking mind
Ignorance
Ignorance is bliss
Experience
Experience
When you lie there frozen, more dead than alive
It makes you fear, it makes it very clear
… there’s no helping hand
Ignorance
Ignorance is bliss
Experience
Experience
One may loose one’s way in the land of the dead
It makes a promise, it’s always there
It makes you face the living dead inside
Ignorance
Ignorance is bliss
Experience
Experience will carry you
|
||||
3. |
Piglet
03:19
|
|
||
|
Shaded by tears
I’m not at peace
When someones’s knocking
I’m lost, I’m lost
In this rickety shed
Huffing, puffing, do me in
Words keep repeating
I’m the lowest of the low
Shaded by tears
I’m not at peace
When someones’s knocking
I’m lost, I’m lost
Feel no more
Feel no more
Feel no more
Feel no more
Shadows chase me
Through the night
When they break inside
This ghastly town loves a clown
|
||||
4. |
Machine
04:14
|
|
||
|
Filthy
Greasy
Flickering screen
Double
Exposure
So very keen
Shady
Nasty
Pretty unclean
Shiny
Scary
Sloppy machine
Filthy
Greasy
Flickering screen
Double
Exposure
So very keen
Shady
Nasty
Pretty unclean
Shiny
Scary
Sloppy machine
Machine
Machine
Machine
Machine
Machine
Machine
Machine
F*** the machine
Beat up
Leaking
Plotting machine
Gazing
Rephrasing
Copy machine
Slipping
Sliding
Truth machine
Ruling
Class
Working machine
Beat up
Leaking
Plotting machine
Gazing
Rephrasing
Copy machine
Slipping
Sliding
Truth machine
Ruling
Class
Working machine
|
||||
5. |
Fear
04:16
|
|
||
|
Standing waiting for a man to show
Wide-eyed, one eye fixed on the door
This waiting is killing me
It’s wearing me down
Day in, day out
My feet are burning holes in the ground
Darkness warmer than a bedroom floor
Want someone to hold me close forever more
I’m a sleeping dog, but you can’t tell
When I’m on the prowl, you better run like hell
You know it makes sense, don’t even think about it
Life and death are things you just do when you’re bored
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Sing fear’s a man’s best friend
You add it up, it brings you down
You add it up, it brings you down
Home is living like a man on the run
Trails leading nowhere, where to, my son?
We’re already dead, but not yet in the ground
Shake my helping hand, I’ll show you around
You know it makes sense, don’t even think about it
Life and death are things you just do when you’re bored
Sing fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
You add it up, it brings you down
You add it up, it brings you down
Fear
Say fear
Say fear
Say fear
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
|
||||
6. |
Clean
03:19
|
|
||
|
Another life
Stuck again
Rotting away
Year after year
Ambitions faded away
As quickly as they rose
If your hear me crying
In this life and the next
In this life and the next
In this life and the next
Another life
Stuck again
Rotting away
Year after year
Ambitions faded away
As quickly as they rose
If your hear me crying
Another life
It’s nothing
In between
Just dying
Ambitions faded away
As quickly as they rose
If your hear me crying
My conscious is clean
I came out clean
Clean
|
||||
Svaj. Stockholm, Sweden
Voice, electronics and bass. Minimal, experimental and industrial, yet melodic and danceable. Truly independent and DIY to the core. Tomas Z Westberg and Anders O Öhgren are Svaj. – the dark synth duo from Blackeberg.
If you like Svaj., you may also like: