They never say good bye from this way, they will make something magic and special, because they give us something unbelievable, like a force, like something wild behind us, Royksopp, the end or not my soul will rest in every note of your music
I love it when their songs put me in that melancholic and sad mood. I know this might sound weird but my favourite Röyksopp are the ones that make me cry.
This gets immediately to my top 3 R- songs.
There was a time, dark and divine,
Exciting and new, shameful and true
Free to explore we had it all.
Towering trust, insatiable lust
Clouding the truth both of us knew
This sordid affair is ending in tears
Yes we was go on knowing the wrong
Until the day it was taken away
Oh, all our love fell down to Earth.
Here, broken and cold, with great remorse
But for a while it all made sense
It might have been just a dark pretense
But you had me
And I loved it
To be with you, to be the one,
To live a lie
It really got me all excited.
I felt wanted
Then in the night a sorrowing sigh
Was taken away. Deliverance came
Fell from the sky. Heaven replied
Salvation in streams, silent and clean.
All that we were, all that we knew
Faded away with tears in the rain.
Yes all that we were, all that we knew
Is fading away like tears in the rain.
All that we were, all that we knew
Fading away
This song brought me back to the old days, when i first discovered Royksopp. I had my headphones on, at Nordkapp , Norway, listening to only this moment and enjoying the breathtaking view from the cliff on a cold november day :)
This song is heartbreaking in the best possible way. The lyrics are simple and clear but the honesty and vulnerability really make what's being said into something beautiful, sad, and also universally relatable. And of course it has that classic Royksopp warmth.
Reminds me of my relationship with my first love that ended badly. She left me for someone else & to justify it, she shut me out, made me out to be a monster, and painted our relationship as a bad one. All these things couldn't be farther from the truth. Not in my own head, but from everyone (family/friends) that were close to & knew us. It's such a shame. Sordid indeed. Great song.
These lyrics describe perfectly what I have been through in the last month and a half - a proper sordid affair.
This song has been a good - though melancholic - company in this very weird moment of my life.