MAGDALENA

Almost White
A Shocking Lack Thereof
A Tribute to My Friends
Difficult Day
Disappointed in the Sun
Divebomb Djingle
Dream Sequence #1
Evergreen
Everybody's Weird
Everything Is the Same (Except No One Believes Me)

Fell Off the Floor, Man
Gimme the Heat
Glovesong
God of Small Things
Great American Nude
Guilty Pleasures
Healthinsurance
Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)
How to Row a Cat
I Don't Mind Whatever Happens
Instant Street
Intro
I Suffer Rock
It. Furniture in the Far West
Jigsaw You
Let Go
Let's Get Lost
Let's See Who Goes Down First
Little Arithmetics
Little Ghost
Lore in the Forest
Luxury
Magdalena
Me and Your Mother
Memory of a Festival
Middlewave
Morticiachair
Mr Dead Won't Let Me (Cos' Life Suits Me Just Fine)
Mute
My Little Contessa
My Wife Jan
Niche
Nine Threads
One Advice, Space
Only a Colour to Her
Opening Night
Overflow
Put the Freaks up Front
Right as Rain
Roses
Sam Peckinpah's Daughter
Sans Titre pour Sira
Secret Hell
Serpentine
Shake Your Hip
Sick Sugar
Sister Dew
Snuck Out
Song for a Jacket
Suds & Soda
Supermarketsong
Sweetness
Tenerife
Texan Coffee
The Horror Partyjokes
The Ideal Crash
The Magic Hour
The Magic Of New Popmusic
Theme from Turnpike
There
The Tugboat
Via
Violins and Happy Endings
Void
Wake Me Up Before I Sleep
W.C.S. (First Draft)
Whose Vegas (Is It Anyway)
Worried About Satan
You Can't Deny What You Liked as a Child
Zea


COVERS
A Little Is Enough
Black Eye
Clever White Youth
Eisbär
Famous Blue Raincoat
First We Take Manhattan
Gimme the Car
Healthy Sick
Hey
Kinderballade
Lovers and Place
Motoraway
Mute Fish
New Partner
Pa
Rock Me Baby
Sweet Child O' Mine
Teachers
Thirteen
TV Song
We're Going Out Tonight
You Will Miss Me When I Burn

existing versions

Magdalena (normal version)
- The Ideal Crash

Magdalena (live in Brussels)
- HUMO/dEUS CD-rom

lyrics

You drive too fast
Can you please shut up
I'll call the police
If you don't stop.

You're just trying to scare me
You want me to know
That you're not this precious
Little thing you hold

You're afraid to say (and you're never sure)
Of the coming day (if what you've seen before)
And I'm not that handsome (is what you'll see again)
Anyway (in remembering)

But i'm feeling good
And if you don't exist
You're still one illusion
That i can't resist

Now you're holding back
And I'm holding on
Heaven knows what you want
'Cause kicks like these
They're coming fast
We're watching how long they last.

It's a funny time
To fall in love
Feels like something pulled me up
To see me fall right off

And you drive too fast
But I don't care
Wherever's fine
Just take me there

Now I'm holding back
And you're moving on
Heaven knows what i want
'Cause on a day like this
I'd believe anything
I don't know where to begin

One for your coming
And two for your shoes
Your buccaneer loving
And suicide moods
I wanna move
Don't figure out much
Into the new
Out of the blue
Out of the darkness
Out of the blue ooh ooh
Out of the darkness
Out of the blue ooh ooh
Out of the darkness
Into the new ooh ooh
Out of the darkness

credits

Words by Barman & Ward
Music by Barman, Ward & Mommens

notes

This is a song about Tom's girlfriend, called ... Magdalena. He first didn't want to give this song her name, then changed his mind.

Funny thing about those lyrics : I first heard this song at an acoustic showcase in Copenhagen, three weeks before the album was released. Some people at the back of the room were talking, and when Tom sang the first lines Can you please shut up / I'll call the police if you don't stop, we all thought he was addressing them, and never imagined these were the real words of the song :)

MAGDALENA

 

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