Kuuntelun arvoinen: Hello Saferide
Olen ollut aina sitä mieltä, että laulujen sanat ovat usein kappaleiden tärkein anti.
Tänä aamuna kaipasin kauniita sanoituksia poimin soittolistaltani pitkästä aikaa Hello Saferiden. Ruotsalaisen Annika Norlinin bändiprojektista syntyi viime vuosikymmenen loppupuoliskolla pari levyllistä biisejä. Loistavia biisejä, pitäisi kai sanoa, sillä kappaleista yksikään ei ole huono.
Hello Saferiden sanoituksissa yhdistyvät nokkeluus, huumori, koskettavuus ja nerokas pari-kolmekymppisen naisen elämän hetkien tiivistäminen nasevasti. Eikä yhtään haittaa, että hittibiisin nimi on Anna (kuunnelkaa sen sanat, loistava kappale!)
Nykyisin Norlin on laittanut Saferiden telakalle ja keskittynyt ruotsinkieliseen bändiinsä Säkertiin. Sekään ei ole hullumpi, mutta Hello Saferide taitaa olla se bändi, jonka sanoituksista olen löytänyt itseni kaikista useimmin. Kuuntele itse!
Oletko kyllästynyt aikuisuuteen ja vastuuseen?
Mother, please make
my decisions
like you once did,
this time I won’t pester you about it,
I’ll surrender
Mother, these streets
are too cold for me
I’m standing by your door
A plant under each arm,
let me move back in
Mother, if that’s not enough
bring me all the way back to
my original address
to your womb.
I have trouble sleeping, but I don’t recall I had while in your womb.
***
Löydätkö jokaisesta popkappaleesta tarttumakohdan omaan elämääsi?
Kuuntele: I Wonder Who Is Like This One
People are like songs, it’s true
Some seem dull at first but then they grow on you
Me, I’m like ”Can’t get you out of my head”
Annoying at times, but I make you wanna dance
But you are the only one I’ve met who’s ”God only knows”
I liked you the first time I met you
And it grows and grows and grows
***
Oletko ihastunut varpaanpäitä myöten kultaasi?
Onnittelut, ja kuuntele: I Don’t Sleep Well
And suddenly, I don’t feel fat anymore
I don’t count my blackheads as a hobby
I don’t count the marks on the wall
And I don’t sleep well at all
There is someone else right beside me
He kept every secret I told
He giggled his way straight through fall
And I don’t sleep well at all
He knows when I’m happy and nods when I’m sad
And he puts out when I come home drunk
And suddenly I stand real tall
But I don’t sleep well at all
I have seen too many movies
I have read too many books
I’m the kind that sees sun and brings an umbrella
I have been to fortune tellers
And I know love will leave you all crooked
And I know he’ll start sleeping around
Or start listening to symphony rock
Or throw out the key and change the lock
But I don’t sleep well at all
***
Onko parisuhteesi on hankalassa, kyllästymisen kaltaisessa tilassa?
The obstacles we build for ourselves, my love –
creating decisions to make, my love!
When really, it could be this easy:
you and me, and house, and food
Your roots are stuck in the dirt of this land,
my questions all answered in the firmness of your hand,
I buried some hatred in the snow on the porch,
and when it comes undone, I will understand.
And the wind in the trees are all: sch-uuung, sch-uuung
And the trains that pass by are all: sch-du-dung, sch-du-dung
And you and me are like: let’s go out for a walk
And our feet in the snow are like: tsch-ooo, tsch-ooo
and the choir in my chest is like: oooo- oooo
And the Stockholm insecurity is like: I don’t exist
***
Oletko itsenäinen Lily-nainen?
Kuuntele: I Was Definitely Made For These Times
I was definitely made for these times
I can make the meanest daiquiri
I can quote all of High Fidelity
I was definitely made for these times
Would have gotten stoned or ridiculed
Maimed or trampled
Or died from poor nutrition
There have been times I thought it might be good though
If Mum and Dad could have chosen a man for me
Someone from the neighborhood with well-bred charms
Guess I’d still have thrown myself in the arms of you
I was definitely made for these times
A woman should obey her man
Sure – when he can do the things I can
I was definitely made for these times
Going in to Church on Sundays, ruining my TV fun day-ay
I’ll be holding you when you cry
I won’t commit to you but I’ll hold you when you cry
***
Kiitos Hello Saferide, että olet laulanut ne sanat, jotka minulta on juuri silloin ollut kadoksissa.