Summer is like a swallow

by Sara Forslund

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1.	River of dreams 05:16	lyrics	buy track
RIVER OF DREAMS I want to go to the river Oh the river of my dreams There I am gonna find a wild stream To throw all my broken flowers to I am gonna sing a silent tune By the river of my dreams Sing my love Sing again Like you use to in the morning Bring it back The light from then Bring it back before It gets dark again I am going down to the river Oh the river of my dreams There I am gonna dive into the water Til I find my soul on the bottom I am gonna talk to my father By the river of my dreams
2.	Summer is like a swallow 03:48	lyrics	buy track
SUMMER IS LIKE A SWALLOW How can you tell when the heart will break How can you tell the story of anyone else How can you tell when spring will come How can you tell when the leaves will fall at your door and when they will dance I gave you I gave you I gave you my heart heart How can I love when your body is like the winter That turns cold How can I love when the summer is like a swallow That flies away How can I kiss anything else but the breeze How can I kiss when the kiss I kissed doesn’t stay I gave you… How can you hold anything at all How can you hold something so beautiful as a soul How can you know when the season will change How can you know when what you know Is melting in the snow
3.	Seagull 03:58	lyrics	buy track
SEAGULL Here I come rolling round round again Here I am strolling down down the sun There you go running away away from home There you are soaking up in the mud Nobody knows she carries a shell of gold Cause what she unfold is sometimes a tree of mold But she will live oh so free like an eagle Then she might die oh so bright like a seagull Here I come crawling around around the tree Here I am floating down down the stream There you go humming away what you use to know There you are holding on but not to me Nobody knows… Here I come hoping around around your eyes Here I am creaking down down like a chair There you go strumming away the color of the moon There you are kissing a star instead of me
4.	Know 02:04	lyrics	buy track
KNOW I gave you my love in Ireland when the sky wasn´t blue I whispered my desire and the day was new You better know, know, know how I love, love you so You´re the one, one, one I´d break my bones for Dont you know, know, know the wind´s gonna Blow, blow, blow But our sun, sun, sun will always Shine, shine, shine I hummed you my sorrow and the birds were singing to I touched your face with my lonliness It told me you´ve been blue
5.	Hard 03:31	lyrics	buy track
HARD Where is my man where does he stand I told him to come I told him who I am Was it hard hard to hold my hand Was it hard hard to hold my hand Where is my fortune is it hidden in the sand I sold my soul to a black eyed dog now I want it back Now it’s hard hard my heart Now it’s hard hard my heart Where is my child where does she stand I gave her to the mountain I gave her the wind Was it hard hard my heart Is it hard hard my heart
6.	The lily and the grave 03:24	lyrics	buy track
THE LILY AND THE GRAVE I want love of a different kind I think you´ll love me if I drown I want to shine like the bones in the ground I want to drink the mud from your cup Will you love me when the water gets high Will you hold me when my lips are dry I want rain on a summers day I think you´ll love me when my clothes are falling down I want the sun crying in my bed I want to laugh again by the well Will you love me… I want your kiss to tell me what I´ve missed I think you´ll know me when I am dead I want your hunger beneath your hips I want to touch you by the lilys and the grave
7.	Achilles heel 04:45	lyrics	buy track
ACHILLES HEEL Oh don’t be quiet now don’t be still my Achilles heel No one no one can be sad forever Oh so lovely now when he tries to hold me still He doesn’t know that I am the wind It’s so ironic now how life can treat you really beat you You might never know what it was all for What was it all about Take me somewhere the water isn’t dry What have I done Take me to a never-ending sun Oh so quiet now my heart is sleeping always sleeping It doesn’t know yet of the heartache it´s gonna face Oh so lovely now when he lies there beside me I cannot tell him that he is all my reason It’s so ironic now how life can break you take you You might never know how you got there in the first place
8.	Gone 03:54	lyrics	buy track
GONE Something told me you will never learn The sun will rise over our heads and you will get burned Someone held you with open arms Darkness turned into light She fell for your charm Love, is it gone, gone, gone Love, I need your sun, sun, sun Something moved me The breeze dancing with the leaves I trembled like the tree Someone kissed you With an open heart Pain turned into rain He fell into your arms Something changed me Your eyes looking into mine I cried like a dove Someone loved you Like you never been loved before Winter smiled like spring I fell like a stone
9.	When love was sweet 02:26	lyrics	buy track
WHEN LOVE WAS SWEET I always thought love was sweet I always thought you´d love me Til the end of time My mama said don’t be bad Nobody wants a woman who is sad All the time I always had a trembling voice I always dreamt of green green grass And yellow fields I always did what you should not I always kissed the moonlight and the wrong boy
10.	Toad 07:24	lyrics	buy track
TOAD I’ve been holding back by old thoughts of green grass I’ve been sleeping rough by the waves of love I’ve growing old by the fake tree you left me Dream a dream a quiet dream by a stream made of heartache Make a quilt a lover’s quilt stitch by stitch made of tears I’ve been sitting by the road waiting for someone to hold I´ve been talking low to sticks and stones and And a wounded toad I´ve been falling down in the rabbit hole you left me Dream a dream… I found a spot in the pine tree where I can be free I seek the light in the morning when everything is bright I turn to dust whenever the bluebird goes to die

about

All songs written by Sara Forslund.
Recorded August 2016, Stockholm, Sweden.
Produced by Sara Forslund and John Wood.
Mixed by John Wood in Fraserburgh, Scotland
except River of dreams and Toad mixed
by Thomas Harsem in Uppsala, Sweden.
Mastered by Simon Hayworth in Devon, UK.

River of dreams, Achilles heel and Hard
arranged and coproduced by Johan Eckeborn.
Summer is like a swallow & Seagull arranged
and coproduced by Gustaf Spetz.
Toad arranged and coproduced
by Gustaf Spetz and Johan Eckeborn.

»Forslund seems to view the world from a slightly different elevation to the rest of us and that allows a unique and always personal perspective, that considers love, life and happiness through a dreamy vision of the natural world« Nordic Music Review (UK)

»This is an album you can sink into, cosseted by the intricacies and soft layers, as you become comfortable with your uncomfortable parts.« Get In Her Ears (US)

» Cozy as the quiet sea of winter, refreshing as the sun's rays make their way through a melancholy gray sky. « Tristesunset (IT)

»The album gives back its real scope to Folk music (...)
Timeless, haunted writing « JD Beauvallet Les Inrocks (FR)

»Forslund embarks us on a new musical journey resolutely peaceful and sumptuous. It's all about acoustic fingerpicking and a quasi-mystical honeyed interpretation« Les Oreilles Curieuses (FR)

»Pretty but not precious and with contempo intrumental-production touches that avoid sounding grafted on« The vinyl district (US)

»A feminine extention of Sufjan Stevens melancholic eloquence« Magic Revue Pop moderne (FR)

»She delivers a richly detailed but sober album which is really of a crippling beauty« Da Subjectivisten (NL)

»An artist outside the box, who can be said to have developed her own personal formula of shadowy modern folk« Music wont save you (IT) ALBUM OF THE WEEK

»Forslund seems to take the listener with every track on a journey through a dreamy world« HIFI (NL) HIFI gives Summer is like a swallow 9½ out of 10

»An emotional sound carpet that certainly gets under the skin« Gezeitenstrom (DE)

The track “Toad” was picked by historical editor in chief JD Beauvallet for Les Inrockuptibles in their section “On our turntables” 2018-10-31 Les Inrock (F)

» A voice that makes you want to close your eyes and lay motionless «
– NPR Music (USA)

» An amazing songwriter «
– BBC Radio Ulster (UK)

» With her new album ‘Summer is like a swallow’ Sara has maintained her unique blend of deceptive simplicity and intimacy «
– John Wood (known for his work with Nick Drake, Pink Floyd, John Martyn and many more)

» There is something really reassuring about her songwriting «
– Nordic Music Review – Nordic Music Review featuring “Summer is like a swallow” and “Hard”

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