Lyrics: The Build-Up Album: Riot On an Empty Street Artist: Kings of Convenience   The build up lasted for days, lasted for weeks, lasted too long. Our hero withdrew, when there was two, he could not choose one, so there…

Lyrics: Misread Album: Riot On an Empty Street Artist: Kings of Convenience   If you wanna be my friend You want us to get along Please do not expect me to Wrap it up and keep it there The observation…

Lyrics: Surprise Ice Album: Riot On an Empty Street Artist: Kings of Convenience   When past sometimes takes you with soft hands, forcelessly pulls you to your chair. Hides you away from these half days, sunless at the end of…

Lyrics: Homesick Album: Riot On an Empty Street Artist: Kings of Convenience   I’ll lose some sales and my boss won’t be happy, but I can’t stop listening to the sound of two soft voices blended in perfection from the…

Lyrics: Parallel Lines Album: Quiet is the New Loud Artist: Kings of Convenience   What’s the immaterial substance that envelopes two, that one perceives as hunger and the other as food. I wake in tangled covers, to a sash of…

Lyrics: Love Is No Big truth Album: Riot On an Empty Street Artist: Kings of Convenience   All I do is sleep all day, and think of you. A memory of the cushion life I’m clinging to. The image of…

Lyrics: Know-How Album: Riot On an Empty Street Artist: Kings of Convenience   Riding on this know-how. Never been here before. Peculiarly entrusted, possibly that’s all. Is history recorded, does someone have a tape? Surely, I’m no pioneer, constellations stay…

Lyrics: I Don’t Know What Can I Save You From Album: Quiet is the New Loud Artist: Kings of Convenience   You called me after midnight, it must have been three years since we last spoke. I slowly tried to…