BIO
Norway based lyricist with folk-indie, rock and soul influences. Inspired by the abstract, layered stories and symbolism.
High award position and 5/5 score for multiple lyrics in worldwide competition (UK Songwriting Contest).
SAMPLE LYRICS
Something heavy sits in the air
It is a lullaby for me
Death is disguised as a bedtime story
The last air is yet to breathe
It was clear that same day
Before the night took over
I remember this burdened feeling
Wanting it to be over
And so, it was as the darkness fell
Prayers answered or fate commenced
It’s hard to say what came before
This heavy feeling or a dying’s thought
It crossed my mind
That we shared this lullaby
And as we both were sent to sleep
One only would settle in
I am alive and I’ll try again
The likes of you is nothing less than
We don’t choose where lightning strikes
And we don’t choose the battles we fight
Bear roots in the ground that’s been made
I see signs of what you’ve done
Light will pass every road ahead
Still, you cannot see home
All that was needed, a darker shade
Levitation marks the beginning
Came out of a frozen haze
Until now you’ve been dreaming
Fall down, deeper than ever
I hear the echo of your past
Fall down, remember who you are
Step out of the shade that you cast
Show me how to conquer the world
Would you like to breathe with meaning
Get on your knees to cross the blue
Know some worlds are deceiving
The day is setting, in my favour
I see a window to your mind
There’s no more time, in helping others
A day will come when you can’t hide
Trek along, one of four sides
Kick the sand away
Stand where he stood when he reached the stars
You always knew you’d be great
For all the stories that
The English sons told
I take your headpiece and I
Fill the cracks with gold
As I do this for you
You’re tearing us apart
I’m getting weak, I beg you
Show me your heart
Water reflects a pale mind
You are the one
All the temptations that you hide
From the sinful tone
A dynasty of thorns
A wilted family rose
Look out of your window
Watch while the world grows
You bleed a path along
A long empty road
I see the sunlight strips you
Of the lonesome you’ve become
But as you mend your roots
The rose will fade to dark
And now my shame remains
For how you killed the lark
Water reflects a pale mind
I am the one
To understand what’s in your past
From your sinful tone
A dynasty of you
Could never escape the sorrow
And as the wilted burn
I watch with harrow
I have known you all my life
Madness brought words of the free
I have heard before, you cannot hate
The hand that helped make me
Oh, I have no fear to give
As you sit down next to me
It’s always a paradox between
Knowing life and knowing thee
Looking down makes me real
Freedom does not cross lines
I turn to the ground to see
In the end what is life
People gone have crawled through life
Thinking only of one thing
It’s a fate they could not escape
Were they not different from me
See I rely on ghosts
On gods and haunted things
Life was brought on by a curse
What does evil really mean
I see you smelling daisies
But what’s inside your mind
Speaking of bees and summer’s days
Your words will never die
So, to the moon that I see
When I’m in the dark
You make me think that I could be
Truly alive
I’d sooner die than follow you
I want to hide deeper inside
Show me the carriage of which you speak
And the driver with hollow eyes
All these dreams will crush me
If I can never change
I will study you and
In death I will celebrate
Do not pin this on him
For how else were you made
Had you not crossed you’d see
You sealed your own fate
The way you trust in death
Like you know you’ll always be
A net made just to catch you
Strings of immortality
It’s funny how the storm hits
But after it’s gone
Come world’s end, come Janus
Sticks are chilled to the bone
For we break with new beginnings
At the mercy of our home
For we seek what we had just a minute
Putting paper into tome
Oh, winter blues, someone depends on you
Shiny blizzard, you grow mountainous
Oh, winter blues, you took from me my muse
And now I’ve learned of hunger
These doors are carved never to open
Just as there is light
Come back to us, come Maia
The cold holds us so tight
As long as our heart’s beating
Some will just pretend
Look to the skies and realise
This will never end
Hands on stone and touched souls
We go down with the tide
A thousand pieces of a road
Revealing a forked life
Dominoes played by a king’s fall
Torment holds the red line
A body not cut but it’s soul
Burnt out and cast aside
If only there was a shadow
To follow
Sweet nightmares can be so cold
So cold
Run bridges, run for war
Volleys fly across the moat
The paling light of singing bones
The front line is marbled
Moving prisons need walls
The wind whispers only to one
History makes slaves of us all
How it must feel to hollow someone
Weak iris, why should you reign
Foreheads are marked in turn
A lash to the sky, a crash to the earth
In this land the prayers burn
I know what you go through
Let go of your thoughts
I’m transparent just like you
And I carry an alien heart
Your take-off to a far place
Another life hangs in a thread
You try to rush the ending and
It’s obvious you’re afraid
I see the wings to break
To save your life again
This burden that I carry
For us both
I hear a phantom’s song
To replace your own
There are too many ghosts
Upon your throne
Twins born out of sorrow
Those who see us are few
Look at me, I am kneeling
Maybe I’d fly away with you
I see the wings to break
To save your life again
This burden that I carry
For us both
I hear a phantom’s song
To replace your own
There are too many ghosts
Upon your throne
It takes someone like us
To see the truth
To know what we have to learn
To care for you
Your madness drives me
As two worlds collide
You gaze through the lens
From midnight to sunrise
And somehow your view
Gets you what you want
To avoid imploding
And to lose your mind
Oh, but a northern king
On a busy road
Did not earn his crown
His prey stalked for long
Afraid your cold hands
Cannot warm her blood
Will the rivers run dry
Of your stolen gold
Time to eat away your faith
I draw from impatience
Tell me how to know her
When the inside is empty
You say it’s the last chance
To have your soul satisfied
But for the riches in your head
Your hearts will be worlds apart
You say that the blue of the day
Gives you something to spare
That the stars beneath your feet
Are somehow your fate
And so, you say
That the road you destroyed
Cannot touch me again
With no beginning and no end
I put knives to those words
To start just a little
Meanings are thinning out
The art of whittle
But I won’t forget where they’re from
I’ll never forget you
Let the music revive everything
That’s been lost in you
I wonder if your weakness
Has shut your eyes
And should your lungs be filling
I’ll be surprised
When everything grows different
At the next light
My limits are to be stretched
I will make you proud
For everything that I've stolen
This doesn't come close
Hearts are heavy to carry
Through the sand and the snow
The ending begins with your voice
And how you travel in fear
I didn't mean to show you this side
But your echo hit me near
I know the shape of your feet
As you hide
I know the sound of your skin
Brushing pine
Shake the clouds above me
Gods make it rain
Burn it to the ground
But darkness doesn’t melt
Shake the clouds above me
But darkness doesn’t melt
Lies have brought me to you
But how I wished that I’d known
Yet again I have run out of time
With a knife to my throat
A carved handle shows me
Time spent in the wild
A future you could have predicted
Oh, songbird’s almost mine
I know the shape of your feet
As you hide
I know the sound of your skin
Brushing pine
Shake the clouds above me
Gods make it rain
Burn it to the ground
But darkness doesn’t melt
Shake the clouds above me
But darkness doesn’t melt
Shake the ground below me
There’s nowhere safe
Burn my two faces
Oh, darkness you have felt
Birds gave you away
Ride the wave to the top
Handed paper and a throne
But you are not enough
After you
So see-through
Where do you lie in truth
Nations rise with you
Hangman in his cage, his cage
Whisper the words again
They will forget your name, all of your names
You won’t
Run far today
Hangman in his cage
Your sound, a shallow tune
I aim my cross hairs
I’ll take my time with you
Make it a good breath
Chase you
One day break you
Shade your life in blue
Nations rise with you
Hangman in his cage, his cage
Whisper the words again
They will know my name, all of my names
You open
Line is broken
I’ll miss you hangman
Birds gave you away
How fickle a look
You have a sentence
But you’re not enough