P.J. Olsson
P.J. Olsson : Words for living (1999)

1. Good dream
I can take you on a rollercoaster ride
You ride the front - I'll ride the back
We'll switch around and then
Attack the bird sanctuary
Where we can learn
about the damage we have done
We can turn and hold each other
Like it's this that makes us closer
I can tell you you're the one
You're the best thing that I've done
I've fixed some skis and mended lives
I've gotten low and high on knives
Watercolor tracing pennies
Tracing Snoopy
I can read my eyelids and it seems to be
Your story
Like someone wrote it long ago
It took me up 'til now to know
What I need is to have a good dream
I want the opposite of loneliness
Touch and love and feel and give
All words that I need to live
Ahhhahhhahhh
Some men have tied pink ribbons
On the trees I see - I want to steal them
Put them on the owner's car and let him be
chopped up and fed back to the earth
So I can see these trees smiling back at me
Oh smiling back at me
You ride the front - I'll ride the back
We'll switch around and then
Attack the bird sanctuary
Where we can learn
about the damage we have done
We can turn and hold each other
Like it's this that makes us closer
I can tell you you're the one
You're the best thing that I've done
I've fixed some skis and mended lives
I've gotten low and high on knives
Watercolor tracing pennies
Tracing Snoopy
I can read my eyelids and it seems to be
Your story
Like someone wrote it long ago
It took me up 'til now to know
What I need is to have a good dream
I want the opposite of loneliness
Touch and love and feel and give
All words that I need to live
Ahhhahhhahhh
Some men have tied pink ribbons
On the trees I see - I want to steal them
Put them on the owner's car and let him be
chopped up and fed back to the earth
So I can see these trees smiling back at me
Oh smiling back at me
2. Dandelion
Sometime I feel like a dandelion seed
floating in the wind
Where will I go, where will I land
Sometime I feel like a clown's smile
Turned up on its end
And for no reason at all
I've got perma grin
Sometime I feel like a starfish
feeding in the sand
An angelfish swims nearby
With a twist of its fin
Sometime I dream I am a whale
Swimmin' in the deep blue sea
My mind goes to the strangest places
How can this be
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
Sometimes I feel like a UFO
flyin' in the air
Wondering if I'm ever gonna be accepted
down there
Sometimes I fell like a snowflake
Stacking up on my friends
Feel the warmth of Mr. Sun
And I'm back to the earth again
On the wings of a butterfly
I fly over the flowers
Into the garden of your love
Where we melt into the colors
It's funny how this beautiful garden
Gives us what we need
I like the smell of balsa wood
I like the smell of weed
Sometimes I fell like a steam train
Barreling down the tracks
You, my friend, are waiting
For my caboose to pass
Sometimes like a hovercraft
Never touching the ground
Everyone is riding me
But it never weighs me down
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
Look at me
I'm a teardrop rolling down your cheek
Familiar with your sadness
It's enough to make me weep
Now I am a rolling stone
I feel like an accident
Right now I'm a boomerang
Like karma I come back
Like a guard growing dreams
Or a farmer with forever corn
I'm a filter for the ocean
An alphabet you don't have to learn
I'm spring's first flower
In love's first sigh
I'm all my dreams
I am the sky
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
floating in the wind
Where will I go, where will I land
Sometime I feel like a clown's smile
Turned up on its end
And for no reason at all
I've got perma grin
Sometime I feel like a starfish
feeding in the sand
An angelfish swims nearby
With a twist of its fin
Sometime I dream I am a whale
Swimmin' in the deep blue sea
My mind goes to the strangest places
How can this be
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
Sometimes I feel like a UFO
flyin' in the air
Wondering if I'm ever gonna be accepted
down there
Sometimes I fell like a snowflake
Stacking up on my friends
Feel the warmth of Mr. Sun
And I'm back to the earth again
On the wings of a butterfly
I fly over the flowers
Into the garden of your love
Where we melt into the colors
It's funny how this beautiful garden
Gives us what we need
I like the smell of balsa wood
I like the smell of weed
Sometimes I fell like a steam train
Barreling down the tracks
You, my friend, are waiting
For my caboose to pass
Sometimes like a hovercraft
Never touching the ground
Everyone is riding me
But it never weighs me down
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
Look at me
I'm a teardrop rolling down your cheek
Familiar with your sadness
It's enough to make me weep
Now I am a rolling stone
I feel like an accident
Right now I'm a boomerang
Like karma I come back
Like a guard growing dreams
Or a farmer with forever corn
I'm a filter for the ocean
An alphabet you don't have to learn
I'm spring's first flower
In love's first sigh
I'm all my dreams
I am the sky
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
I'm a dandelion seed
Float, float, float away
3. Through rock songs
I am the one who can make things happen
And I am the one who falls onto the floor
Where are the words, where is the day
Where are the things that I wanna say
If I believe and you believe
And we can believe
That it's a world made up of dreamers
In a distant hum I can feel the world love
Everytime that I go out
I can feel her arms around me
I got this part from your telephone calls
Wish I had a videophone
You make me wanna buy a gun and
Blow holes in my home
God speaks your name to me
Through rock songs
You know it's true
What He says to me, He might say to you
What He says to me, He might say to you
You can throw stones hard
You can throw stones far
Bounce off of me
Might break my guitar
Cause I am a boat
I am a lake
I am a storm that don't wanna wait
I come and you give to me
I give and you come to me
I dream that you give to me
I dream that you come to me
You can throw stones hard
You can throw stones far
Bounce off of me
Might break my guitar
Cause I am a boat
I am a lake
I am a storm that don't wanna wait
You make me wanna buy a gun
So I can blow holes in your home
do do do do
And I am the one who falls onto the floor
Where are the words, where is the day
Where are the things that I wanna say
If I believe and you believe
And we can believe
That it's a world made up of dreamers
In a distant hum I can feel the world love
Everytime that I go out
I can feel her arms around me
I got this part from your telephone calls
Wish I had a videophone
You make me wanna buy a gun and
Blow holes in my home
God speaks your name to me
Through rock songs
You know it's true
What He says to me, He might say to you
What He says to me, He might say to you
You can throw stones hard
You can throw stones far
Bounce off of me
Might break my guitar
Cause I am a boat
I am a lake
I am a storm that don't wanna wait
I come and you give to me
I give and you come to me
I dream that you give to me
I dream that you come to me
You can throw stones hard
You can throw stones far
Bounce off of me
Might break my guitar
Cause I am a boat
I am a lake
I am a storm that don't wanna wait
You make me wanna buy a gun
So I can blow holes in your home
do do do do
4. Visine
Got my Visine
Got my box
Got my wishes
Got my underwater cymbal filled with energy
To get me through this minute
TV star from my childhood
Come and screw me now
I am man enough for wooden benches
Seal this note with my juicer
Use the liquid from your womb
Season to taste
Romeo came with crystal
Said my house is clean except for this
And I held up my marijuana
If you think it's a crime
I'll take a piss
A piss on your grave
Had a dream 'bout Joseph Stalin
Was his son haulin' out of Moscow
On a jelly bean with wheels
There is one thing we have in common
It's the torture of growing old
You must stand there now
You must agree
The time is near now
We're children no more
No more (x 4)
The ozone like a clit
Dripping sunshine on my lips
Call me social disaster
There's still me comin' after
A piss on your grave
Got my Visine
Got my box
Got my wishes
Got my underwater cymbal filled with energy
To get me through this minute
My wishes
This minute
My wishes
This minute
My wishes
This minute
Got my box
Got my wishes
Got my underwater cymbal filled with energy
To get me through this minute
TV star from my childhood
Come and screw me now
I am man enough for wooden benches
Seal this note with my juicer
Use the liquid from your womb
Season to taste
Romeo came with crystal
Said my house is clean except for this
And I held up my marijuana
If you think it's a crime
I'll take a piss
A piss on your grave
Had a dream 'bout Joseph Stalin
Was his son haulin' out of Moscow
On a jelly bean with wheels
There is one thing we have in common
It's the torture of growing old
You must stand there now
You must agree
The time is near now
We're children no more
No more (x 4)
The ozone like a clit
Dripping sunshine on my lips
Call me social disaster
There's still me comin' after
A piss on your grave
Got my Visine
Got my box
Got my wishes
Got my underwater cymbal filled with energy
To get me through this minute
My wishes
This minute
My wishes
This minute
My wishes
This minute
5. Ready for a fall
You sit there in my shadows
And you call it your relief
Don't be the one with bad eyes for
The things that I could see
Don't give me that
The darkness has no armor
Need protection from the air
High hopes through time passing
When I see I want you there
chorus :
I can't believe
You're the one for me
If it was this easy to find you
I should be ready for a fall (x 2)
Now my wonders rally
Around the person I once was
Like a bird that I've been helping
Hope you're healed and strong
You never know when you might have to fly
bridge :
Where will you go after me
Where will you go after I set you free
And I don't know you from a page in my book
Though I should (x 2)
chorus :
I can't believe
You're the one for me
If it was this easy to find you
I should be ready for a fall (x 3)
bridge :
Where will you go after me
Where will you go after I set you free
And I don't know you from a page in my book
Though I should
bridge :
Where will you go after me
Where will you go after I set you free
And I don't know you from a page in my book
Though I should (x 3)
And you call it your relief
Don't be the one with bad eyes for
The things that I could see
Don't give me that
The darkness has no armor
Need protection from the air
High hopes through time passing
When I see I want you there
chorus :
I can't believe
You're the one for me
If it was this easy to find you
I should be ready for a fall (x 2)
Now my wonders rally
Around the person I once was
Like a bird that I've been helping
Hope you're healed and strong
You never know when you might have to fly
bridge :
Where will you go after me
Where will you go after I set you free
And I don't know you from a page in my book
Though I should (x 2)
chorus :
I can't believe
You're the one for me
If it was this easy to find you
I should be ready for a fall (x 3)
bridge :
Where will you go after me
Where will you go after I set you free
And I don't know you from a page in my book
Though I should
bridge :
Where will you go after me
Where will you go after I set you free
And I don't know you from a page in my book
Though I should (x 3)
6. People
I can't handle falling down
Oh no, don't go
You say that sad songs get you down
But you know, they make you grow
And if you give that song a chance
You might just give us a chance and
If there is someone who will stand up
And tell me that love has a reason
You can be the strong one
You can be the word man
People want to hear what they're feeling
On the inside
Please don't be that soft with me
I'm hardcore love
You knock me down with your misery
And I make love to your angry soul
As the coach comes around the bench
I am small but I'm feeling tall
Took two years to get a hit
But now I'm smokin' every day
And if you give that song a chance
You might just give us a chance and
If there's someone who will stand up
And tell me that love has a reason
You can be the strong one
You can be the word man
People want to people want to hear
People want to hear what they're feeling
On the inside
People want to hear what they're feeling
On the inside
People want to hear what they're feeling
On the inside
People want to hear what they're feeling
On the inside
Oh no, don't go
You say that sad songs get you down
But you know, they make you grow
And if you give that song a chance
You might just give us a chance and
If there is someone who will stand up
And tell me that love has a reason
You can be the strong one
You can be the word man
People want to hear what they're feeling
On the inside
Please don't be that soft with me
I'm hardcore love
You knock me down with your misery
And I make love to your angry soul
As the coach comes around the bench
I am small but I'm feeling tall
Took two years to get a hit
But now I'm smokin' every day
And if you give that song a chance
You might just give us a chance and
If there's someone who will stand up
And tell me that love has a reason
You can be the strong one
You can be the word man
People want to people want to hear
People want to hear what they're feeling
On the inside
People want to hear what they're feeling
On the inside
People want to hear what they're feeling
On the inside
People want to hear what they're feeling
On the inside
7. Thorazine
I think I'm gay
I think it's all right
I think it's all right
Cause I think I'm gay,
I know I am straight
So can we just wait
Sit here master
Master come on
Love is my Thorazine
Lithium hell and hand cream
Love is my Thorazine
Lithium hell and hand cream
Hand cream
Hand cream
She came to L.A..
To learn the hip-hop non-stop feeling
Position up-down
But I got the scissors
To make your clothes cool
I'm not on the edge
I think it's absurd
So sit here master
Master come on
Love is my Thorazine
Lithium hell and hand cream
Love is my Thorazine
Lithium hell and hand cream
Hand cream
Hand cream
Further inside
I'm like a wrinkled folley folk fun hero
I've gathered my things and thoughts
It's time to go
I think it's all right
I think it's all right
Cause I think I'm gay,
I know I am straight
So can we just wait
Sit here master
Master come on
Love is my Thorazine
Lithium hell and hand cream
Love is my Thorazine
Lithium hell and hand cream
Hand cream
Hand cream
She came to L.A..
To learn the hip-hop non-stop feeling
Position up-down
But I got the scissors
To make your clothes cool
I'm not on the edge
I think it's absurd
So sit here master
Master come on
Love is my Thorazine
Lithium hell and hand cream
Love is my Thorazine
Lithium hell and hand cream
Hand cream
Hand cream
Further inside
I'm like a wrinkled folley folk fun hero
I've gathered my things and thoughts
It's time to go
8. Whisper in time
C'mon now
Let's whisper in time
Got the lover in roll
Got the lover in rhyme
Lay down with luster
And the soul will agree
That this picture of love
Is this picture of me
You know you take me away
Looking back on your yesterdays
You know you gave me the signs
You didn't know I only listen in rhymes
Put me on a plane to your garden
You're comin' up sweeter than green
It's in the strength of horizons baby
I'm smokin' someone else's dream
Strangest thing to see a man with your eyes
He was down on his clover
He was unrealized
Wanted to bring him to you
Give him a home
But he opened his mouth
And the evil awoke
A walk in the morning
Is this city all done
Gives us prostitutes talkin'
To a gangbanger's son
I see that they're OK
There's love in their eyes
In a city of dreamers
I'm paintin' the sky
Put me on a plane to your garden
You're comin' up sweeter than green
It's in the strength of horizons baby
I'm smokin' someone else's dream
Put me on a plane to your garden
I'm jumpin' bridges into your stream
My hope is in the horizon baby
I'm smokin' someone else's dream
Put me on a plane to your garden
I'm jumpin' bridges into your stream
My hope is in the horizon baby
I'm smokin' someone else's dream
You know you take me away
Looking back on your yesterdays
You know you gave me the signs
You didn't know I only listen in rhymes
Let's whisper in time
Got the lover in roll
Got the lover in rhyme
Lay down with luster
And the soul will agree
That this picture of love
Is this picture of me
You know you take me away
Looking back on your yesterdays
You know you gave me the signs
You didn't know I only listen in rhymes
Put me on a plane to your garden
You're comin' up sweeter than green
It's in the strength of horizons baby
I'm smokin' someone else's dream
Strangest thing to see a man with your eyes
He was down on his clover
He was unrealized
Wanted to bring him to you
Give him a home
But he opened his mouth
And the evil awoke
A walk in the morning
Is this city all done
Gives us prostitutes talkin'
To a gangbanger's son
I see that they're OK
There's love in their eyes
In a city of dreamers
I'm paintin' the sky
Put me on a plane to your garden
You're comin' up sweeter than green
It's in the strength of horizons baby
I'm smokin' someone else's dream
Put me on a plane to your garden
I'm jumpin' bridges into your stream
My hope is in the horizon baby
I'm smokin' someone else's dream
Put me on a plane to your garden
I'm jumpin' bridges into your stream
My hope is in the horizon baby
I'm smokin' someone else's dream
You know you take me away
Looking back on your yesterdays
You know you gave me the signs
You didn't know I only listen in rhymes
9. Pray I don't die
You with your wagon
And me with my lamb
You by the water
And me as your hand
Reach inside
If you believe me
This hold will last
Just as long as I can handle
This emotional harassment
And I pray
Pray I don't die
Why me, why you
Everybody's turning blue
I never asked him
To help me at all
He's never been there
While I watched the world fall
If you're left with nothing
You can call yourself true
But by the time that you are cool
There will be nothing left for you
And I pray
Pray I don't die
Why me, why you
Everybody's turning blue
Why me, why you
Everybody's turning blue
Why me, why you
Everybody's turning blue
Everybody's turning blue
And I pray
Pray I don't die
And me with my lamb
You by the water
And me as your hand
Reach inside
If you believe me
This hold will last
Just as long as I can handle
This emotional harassment
And I pray
Pray I don't die
Why me, why you
Everybody's turning blue
I never asked him
To help me at all
He's never been there
While I watched the world fall
If you're left with nothing
You can call yourself true
But by the time that you are cool
There will be nothing left for you
And I pray
Pray I don't die
Why me, why you
Everybody's turning blue
Why me, why you
Everybody's turning blue
Why me, why you
Everybody's turning blue
Everybody's turning blue
And I pray
Pray I don't die
10. I am the sun
I can't handle these Hollywood kids
With their faces right and their stomachs tight
Money in the pocket of Mr. Decisions and
That man has his own sideburn agenda
I'm not down with his plan
It's hot in the Beverly sun
Want the truth told for everyone
Oh for everyone I know
You and I both know
Love is everywhere you go
It's hard to keep it down when you're around
Troubles come as passion
As we figure an umbrella
For a rain that's coming
Up from beneath the bed
I am the sun (x 2)
Hug, hug and warm everyone
I am the sun (x 2)
That man behind me
I think he's a serial killer
As he drives on by, by
Video replaced that liquor store
And the schools are never gentrified
Everytime she rumbles
Wait for the whole thing to come on down
You and I both know that
Love is everywhere you go
It's hard to keep it down when you're around
Troubles come as passion
As we figure an umbrella
For a rain that's coming
Up from beneath the bed
From underneath the bed
I am the sun (x 2)
Hug, hug and warm everyone
I am the sun (x 2)
Toe tag busted
Realization thrusted
Karma calling, country's falling
TV make me cry
I am the sun (x 2)
Hug, hug and warm everyone
I am the sun (x 2)
Graham cracker fever eating
Healthy while unwealthy
Keying in on the hundred spare
I don't dare to take it on
With their faces right and their stomachs tight
Money in the pocket of Mr. Decisions and
That man has his own sideburn agenda
I'm not down with his plan
It's hot in the Beverly sun
Want the truth told for everyone
Oh for everyone I know
You and I both know
Love is everywhere you go
It's hard to keep it down when you're around
Troubles come as passion
As we figure an umbrella
For a rain that's coming
Up from beneath the bed
I am the sun (x 2)
Hug, hug and warm everyone
I am the sun (x 2)
That man behind me
I think he's a serial killer
As he drives on by, by
Video replaced that liquor store
And the schools are never gentrified
Everytime she rumbles
Wait for the whole thing to come on down
You and I both know that
Love is everywhere you go
It's hard to keep it down when you're around
Troubles come as passion
As we figure an umbrella
For a rain that's coming
Up from beneath the bed
From underneath the bed
I am the sun (x 2)
Hug, hug and warm everyone
I am the sun (x 2)
Toe tag busted
Realization thrusted
Karma calling, country's falling
TV make me cry
I am the sun (x 2)
Hug, hug and warm everyone
I am the sun (x 2)
Graham cracker fever eating
Healthy while unwealthy
Keying in on the hundred spare
I don't dare to take it on
11. Beautiful woman
Because I love a beautiful woman
I get in trouble in my mind
Because I love a beautiful woman
In the mind
Traveled through blues, soul
Everything that I know
To show how wrong a man can be
When a woman dreams her dreams
Things are known
It don't feel right
To look and think the things I do
How's a man to respond
When beauty is defined by you
A song gives me strength
And I can't do without
I get in trouble in my mind
Because I love a beautiful woman
In the mind
Traveled through blues, soul
Everything that I know
To show how wrong a man can be
When a woman dreams her dreams
Things are known
It don't feel right
To look and think the things I do
How's a man to respond
When beauty is defined by you
A song gives me strength
And I can't do without
12. Cool effects
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