Magdalena

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

Releases / notes / credits

Released on:
The Ideal Crash
Humo/dEUS cd-rom (live in Brussels)
TB & GVN Live (acoustic)

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 :)

See also: Snuck Out

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