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Riddles And Rhymes

by Viktor Wilhelmsen

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the winter is long where I come from we used to be wild, but now we're just dumb what do I care if it gets out of hand up here we don't see, we don't understand I'm sure that you must know how it feels I come from the land of ice and steel my neighbor gave five, but I gave ten it sure feels good being a good citizen the left hand's for dreamers, the right is for force we'll send them all back without any remorse sometimes the news just seems too surreal I come from the land of ice and steel we've gotten so far, let's turn back around upside down with our heads in the ground I stand up against evil, I'm righteous and just I do what I can, but mostly what I must I've only heard rumors, don't know if they're real I come from the land of ice and steel steel I sleep through the night, but I wake in a dream I said I'd go south, but I'm not very keen angels and demons making love in the snow they don't see the man with no place to go he's been places where they know what we deal I come from the land of ice and steel
2.
he lost his mind and he went under time stood still for a while the watcher of the night did wonder why did he go down with a smile in the dark alley's of the mind he wanders some say his trying to get home but I know he's travelling yonder to where the unknown roams shadows in his eyes keep fighting some times it's hard to tell who's who some times his words seem so enlightning you pinch yourself to see if it's true and finally he found the question and said 'can I get the answer too' I've already given my confession what else can I do? everyone is up here waiting he left us just to get away everyone around's translating what they thought they heard him say to live oustide the wall is madness to live inside is just the same to deal with all the pain and sadness is better outside the game
3.
walking down the same road as before passing through those same old doors following the same path as yesterday can't find no place I want to stay sharpening my knifes, preparing my tools but when you're not with me, I feel like a fool the world keeps on turning, chained to the sun I keep on yearning, when you're gone facing my life, accepting what I've got trying to accept all that I'm not when we're together I'm laid back and cool when you're not with me, I feel just like a fool people they hurry, they fuzz and they fret they blindly accept the course that's been set people are stuck here, I know it's so always chasing some invisible foe people are stupid – maybe I'm just cruel but when you're not with me, I'm also a foo
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I came into the room, I looked around Looked like any other room in any other town the light was dim, the curtains drawn I could hear laughter out on the summer lawns Remnants of nights, of a hundred moons of too many mornings that came too soon Writings on the table , paintings on the walls are just voices from a farther room, belitteling it all somebody's knocking on my door I know what they're knocking for me and them can never be the same I can never be that picture in a frame I've been watching the circus from this place thinking 'bout our first kiss - our first embrace words and rumors, empires will fall but these voices from a farther room, they're belitteling it all There are lines in the rubble, just like a river flows how to break out of this bubble, no one really knows I've been living in the forrest, trying to break free every hour, every minute , I've been longing for the sea sometimes it seems like a second, sometimes like a million days I've been trying to get to you, but time is blocking my way we are all just waiting out in the hall where these voices from a farther room, are belitteling it all
6.
we stood together on the old balcony I asked her where she came from, she pointed out to sea a moment seemed a lifetime, time was standing still she whispered «subtlety may win me, force never will» they lingered for a while, he seemed a bit distressed he may have thought she was putting him through a test she knew he was blinded, by his need for a thrill she thought «subtlety may win me, force never will» I turned away for a moment, and then she was gone was like someone drove my heart into the burning sun all was lost, her last words lingered still «Subtlety may win me, force never will» the high crescent moon did indeed make him feel the delightful well known feeling, strange and unreal was like the world from beyond whispered from behind the hill «subtlety may win me, force never will» he climbed the slope, he walked all day, he crossed the frozen lake he searched above, he searched below, he took what he could take he said «if I don't find you soon, I will have to kill» she said «subtlety may win me, force never will» he saw the shadows, he saw their trail, but he didn't hear their song he was to proud to think that he might've been wrong now he's doomed, to spend his days unfulfilled 'cause subtlety may win you, force never will so now I'm still going on, I see her now and then she still feels the same, she will always be my friend right now I'm going up, but soon I'll bee going downhill subtlety may win her, force never will
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I thought I'd see rain falling from the sky turning into truth as it hit my eye I thought I'd see lights, shimmering like gold I thought I was the one now that thought is gone I thought that I was wise, but I'm just getting old I thought I'd hear the voice of mother earth giving me the answer I lost track of after birth I thought that this surmise, was something to uphold It's all just blood and steel at least I know how that feels I thought that I was wise, but I'm just getting old I thought that I'd hear the song of ancient stars flowing through the universe, from where ever they are I really thought that it was I, who'd tell what's still untold I thought I'd be more than I was before I thought that I was wise, but I'm just getting old I think I'll stop before it gets out of hand I think I'll stop, before I fully understand I think I'll stop telling lies, stop trying to control I've had more than I can bare and I'm not nearly there I thought that I was wise, but I'm just getting old
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miserable clouds are gathering in the sky It's a miserable fact which you can't deny It's a miserable world full of murder and theft it's nine o'clock in the evening and I'm wondering how long I've got left can't change the world with metaphysical conceit gonna tuck myself in a blanket of concrete been ten long days feeling numb and deaf it's nine o'clock in the evening and I'm wondering how long I've got left seems like this is gonna last a while might as well put on a smile thirty long years feeling lost and bereft it's nine o'clock in the evening and I'm wondering how long I've got left
9.
I followed the rules, I did what I was told to I worked all day, but I knew it was all in vain darling I don't know how could you please explain where are you right now? trains pulling in and there's people all around they claim to be free, but all that I can see petals on a wet black bough I guess they're like me, but where are you right now? I live by the law every minute of the day I'm locked in chains I've been making as I go I'm tied up in the crowd but all I want to know where are you right now?

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Recorded in Brygga Studio in Trondheim, november 2014. Additional musicians: Pål Brekkås - Bass; Stian Lundberg - Drums. Mixed and mastered by Håkon Aaltvedt.

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released May 8, 2015

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