Steven Hale
Jan 31, 2021

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Excellent choices.

My favorite contemporary lyricist is Annika Norlin (who sings in English as Hello Saferide and in Swedish as Sakert!). I think she's the Bob Dylan of the present generation.

“Hey Ho” is one those songs that keeps you awake at night (and being kept awake at night is depicted in the video at the end).

How can you improve on lines like

"And when the streets wake up at nights, we'll go there

Singing 'Hey, Ho'

Hey ho, to the plans that slip away before we have them

Catching soup with forks without lamplight"

The video will break your heart: https://youtu.be/2OJcN0hzwfM

Lyrics ("passes by" should "pass us by" I believe): https://genius.com/Hello-saferide-hey-ho-lyrics

“Raspberry Lips” from the same album is another utterly devastating song. (lyrics — missing the first line “Big Bang sure knew its way around aesthetics”)

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Steven Hale
Steven Hale

Written by Steven Hale

Music: Discovering the lost and forgotten. Politics: Exposing injustice. Screenwriting: Emotional storytelling.

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