LYRICS “WILDHORSE”

CALIFORNIA

Lyrics/melody: Malin Pettersen

California, my heart's beating for ya

California poppies blowing in the wind

Out in the fields

You know how I feel

About the gold

Angel city, everybody's pretty

And the highway makes you feel 

like you're alive

The wind is blowing

The sun is showing

Off the gold 

The gold

I wonder what I'll remember

I wonder what I'll forget

I wonder what I'll hold on to

I haven't got it figured out yet

Take me back there, take me back where

Native bones are telling 

stories we should hear

Out by the hills

You know how they feel

About the gold

About the gold

I wonder what I'll remember

I wonder what I'll forget

I wonder what I'll hold on to

I haven't got it figured out yet

California, my heart's beating for ya

California poppies blowing in the wind

The sun is shrinking

And I am thinking

About the gold

HOME TOWN

Lyrics/melody: Malin Pettersen

I left my worries in my hometown

The people there had really 

gotten me down

If you’ve been through it 

you know what I mean

It’s the same old people 

The same old scene

If you know

You know

I gotta go

I left my worries but I took control

If you ask me I'd say I’m on a roll

People back home would say I’m on a spin

But the same old people 

don’t know where I’ve been

I gotta go

Gotta go

If you know

You know

I gotta go

Gotta go

If you know

You know

It’s not that I don’t like that small town feeling

It’s just that I’ve got some dealing to do

I’ve got my cards 

not gonna sit on my hand

Hoping I can always come back to you

I left my worries in my home town

The people there had really gotten me down

If you’ve been through it you know what I mean

It’s the same old people 

The same old scene

Gotta go

Gotta go

If you know

You know

If you know

You know

I gotta go

PARTICLES

Lyrics/melody: Malin Pettersen

I hear scientists say particles 

move in the strangest ways

That some can move in waves

and sometimes even fly through space

Not the strongest telescope 

can see it’s flight, but yet we know

That it has to be there because it has to be so

Just like the love I have for you

I don’t know if you feel it always but it’s always true

The love I have for you

If you think it’s gone it’s just beyond your reach

Just like the stars above

There are bad times up ahead and politicians power play

And while we are watching we will be tempted to say

That as long as they are fighting all the good is dying fast

But I know there’s a secret that will make the good world last

Just like the love I have for you

I don’t know if you feel it always but it’s always true

The love I have for you

If you think it’s gone it’s just beyond your reach

Just like the stars above

And as the planet moves through space

Gravity will leave behind it’s trace

What we do don’t mean a thing

Except for things that we give meaning

Just like the love I have for you

The love I have for you

If you think it’s gone it’s just beyond your reach

Just like the stars above

If you think it’s gone

If you think it’s gone

If you think it’s gone it’s just beyond your reach

Just like the stars above

HOLDING LONELY

Lyrics/melody: Misa Arriaga

Perfect on paper

Wish I could fold you

Save you for later

But now’s not the time

Now’s not the time

You had me mistaken 

For a stranger

Who needed saving

But now’s not the time

Now’s not the time

Any other night

You’d probably change my mind

Any other night

I’d lay you down

But I can’t keep you companied

No, that won’t make things right

I’ve been holding lonely

Way too tight

I could lie

And you’d believe it

Tell you I’m who you needed

But I’m not the one

No, I’m not the one

Well, a good girl’s 

Gonna find you

Open every door that you walk through

But I’m not the one

No, I’m not the one

Any other night

You’d probably change my mind

Any other night

I’d lay you down

But I can’t keep you companied

No, that won’t make things right

I’ve been holding lonely

Way too tight

Any other night

You’d probably change my mind

Any other night

I’d lay you down

But I can’t keep you companied

No, that won’t make things right

I’ve been holding lonely

Way too tight

LET’S GO OUT

Lyrics/melody: Malin Pettersen

Sometimes you know what you want

You just don’t want to admit it

The future’s not too far away

Just stay close to me baby

Let’s change each other’s lives now

We both think they’re fools right

Talking about what’s right

Doing what is wrong

They listen to the music

Not hearing the song

Let’s go out

Let’s go out

Let’s go out

And let’s stay out

Let’s go back in 

when it starts feeling alright

But let’s go out

Let’s go out

Sometimes you think that you see

Some truth in other people like me

Sometimes you’d be right

Sometimes you’d be wrong

Baby let’s keep stringing each other along

Go on I’ll let you change mine first

As long as we get rid of this thirst

Get your keys and confidence

And forget the rules that you learned

Let’s go out right now 

And leave no corner unturned

Let’s go out

Let’s go out

Let’s go out

And let’s stay out

Let’s go back in 

when it starts feeling alright

But let’s go out

Let’s go out

Let’s go out

Let’s go out

Let’s go out

And let’s stay out

Let’s go back in 

when it starts feeling alright

But let’s go out

Let’s go out

Let’s go back in 

when it starts feeling alright

But let’s go out

Let’s go out

Let’s go out

Let’s go out

ARKANSAS

Lyrics/melody: Malin Pettersen

I hear you can dig for diamonds

In the Arkansas state park

I hear you can still find gold in Denver

I hear somebody’s trying to make gold out of something else

I think there are some things 

they forget to remember

And the people are going crazy

I hear you can dig for diamonds in the Arkansas state park

The stores will give you two for one and then three for the same price

I hear that they’ll just give’em away if you get there

I hear somebody’s trying to agree on a border line

To us it’s just between a place and somewhere

Let’s go to Arkansas

Let’s find what they’re digging for

Lets forget about the troubles hangin’ round

And let’s go digging for diamonds in the Arkansas state park

I hear you can still find fish in the rivers if you catch luck

I hear you can still pick apples from the apple trees

But I hear they might be 

fencing them in so don’t wait around

Cause they’ll make you dig for them and they’ll do with ease

Let’s go to Arkansas

Let’s find what they’re digging for

Let’s forget about the troubles hangin’ round

And let’s go digging for diamonds in the Arkansas state park

Let’s go to Arkansas

Let’s do what we came here for

Let’s forget about the troubles that we’re in

And let’s go digging for diamonds in the Arkansas state park

I DON’T CARE

Lyrics/melody: Malin Pettersen

I don’t care for water

And I don’t care for milk

I don’t care for cotton

And I don’t care for silk

I don’t care for crying

For what good would it do

I don’t care for laughing

For it would be untrue

I don’t care for breathing much

But I don’t care to die

And I don’t care for living

Seems like I’m bound to try

I don’t care for cleaning

Nobody comes around

Important stuff to care for

There’s not much to be found

I don’t care for sleeping

I don’t care to walk the floor

And I don’t care to go out

Don’t do much anymore

And I don’t care for darkness

There’s too much in this place

Don’t care to turn the light back on

There’s too much empty space

And I don’t care for breathing much

But I don’t care to die

I don’t care for living

Seems like I’m bound to try

WEIGHTLESS

Lyrics/melody: Malin Pettersen

When I was young

All I wanted

Was to be mysterious

To hide myself

Inside my head

And always act so serious

I wanted to be shy

I wanted to get high

But I wasn't

And I didn't 

Except for a couple of times

When I was young

I didn't see it

A couple of times I even tried to flee

I hid myself 

Inside my head

And I was someone else instead

I wanted to be careless

I wanted to be weightless

But I wasn't

And you know,

You know that I ain’t

People used to tell me still water was the deepest

I used to hope I'd lose my tongue

But know I'm older and I know better

And I know that they were wrong

And now I wanna live

With everything that I’ve got

Cause everything I've got I have to give

And everything I give I get in return

I wanted to be shy

I wanted to get high

Be weightless

But I wasn’t and you know

You know that I ain’t

And now I know that I ain’t

MR. MEMORY

Lyrics/melody: Ryan A. Keith/Logan Ledger

Lately, I’ve been hanging 

with a brand new kind of crowd,

Down at Bobby’s Ballroom 

where the lonely go to drown.

I was trying to forget you with a glass of hard-luck wine,

When who should come 

through that door, 

but an old-time friend of mine.

Mr. Memory, meet Mr. Bottle.

He’s the only true friend I’ve ever known.

Mr. Bottle, meet Mr. Memory.

He’s the kind of friend that just won’t leave you alone.

Mr. Bottle don’t remind me of all the things that I do wrong;

All the things that you tell me 

are the reasons that you stay gone.

Mr. Memory, he don’t care 

about me or my lonesome crew;

All he wants to brag about, is why I can’t have you.

Mr. Memory, meet Mr. Bottle.

He’s the only true friend I’ve ever known.

Mr. Bottle, meet Mr. Memory.

He’s the kind of friend 

that just won’t leave you alone.

WILDHORSE DREAM

Lyrics/melody: Malin Pettersen

Being on a plane

Is like leaving all the pain behind

What I listen to

What I eat

And who I’m gonna meet

It all gets lost in time

It’s like time’s not even time moving forward 

But just movements that help us keep track

Don’t know how long it takes to get there 

Or how long I’m gonna stay 

Or if I’m ever even going back

Always somewhere in-between

What I am leaving and a different scene

What I think about

What I wear

And who will meet me there

It’s the potential of a wild horse dream

It’s like the dream shows me dreaming is living

It’s just living with your eyes wide shut

Don’t know how long it takes to get there 

Or how long I’m gonna stay 

Or if I ever even will wake up

Oh, your eyes are like wildfire

Blazing across the clouds I see

Is there anything more beautiful

Than a wildfire in the sky

Don’t know how long it takes to get there 

Or how long I’m gonna stay 

Or if I’m ever even going back

Don’t know how long it takes to get there 

Or how long I’m gonna stay 

Or if I’m ever even going back

Queen of the Meadow

Lyrics/melody: Malin Pettersen

I want Queen of the Meadow on my grave

And if I’ve owned anything you like then that’s what you save

Do some tiding today

Clear the room

But do the dishes in the morning

I hope somebody laughs at the wrong place

I hope somebody smiles through tears covering their face

All their voices humming low

A Swedish song I used to know

Through the smell of Queen of the Meadow

Because the good times were plenty

And the bad ones won’t bother me now

I’ve learned more that I knew 

my mind could, somehow

And as a memory of all the good life gave

I want Queen of the Meadow on my grave

Share some drinks on the porch and stay up all night

Talk about the good 

talk about the bad 

talk about the life

Go to bed when silence is 

The only thing that’s left to say

And go to sleep with the smile I love

Because the good times were plenty

And the bad ones won’t bother me now

I’ve learned more that I knew 

my mind could, somehow

And as a memory of all the good life gave

I want Queen of the Meadow on my grave

Some day in a thousand years 

when it’s all gone

Ain’t nobody’s gonna know it’s my grave

I hope somebody will pass this place

As the summer sun hits low

And smell a wild bush of Queen of the Meadow

Because the good times were plenty

And the bad ones won’t bother me now

I’ve learned more that I knew 

my mind could, somehow

And as a memory of all the good life gave

I want Queen of the Meadow on my grave