Dania O. Tausen

1. alt annað enn vanligt / anything but normal
lyrics & music: Dania O. Tausen

I’m thinking a thought
and it’s not very pretty
I’m hoping nobody is gonna
ask more of me today

A grey-haired man
is bored
reading the papers
inside me
and the kid I once knew
is lost and barefoot
running around heartbroken
trying to find back home
to my thoughts

My imagination is like hardened soap
and I wonder when it’s time for me
to get sick like everyone else
A fly is making noise inside my ear
and I can only understand the moment
when it’s already gone

So, I choose to be grateful for the noises
for feeling ill and the sound of forks
Grateful for feeling tired
and for my low self-esteem

‘Cause they crash to the ground
when you raise me up
Hold me tight and show me the way
to where nothing is normal

And the light is sweet
when it caresses my face
the sun is good
when nothing feels quite normal

The light is sweet
when it embraces my face
and the sun is good
when things feel anything but normal
like today

2. vit eru tað / this is us
lyrics: Dania O. Tausen
music: Benjamin Djurhuus, Dania O. Tausen

we’re trying all we can
to satisfy their judging eyes
before the time runs by
up the hill dying

we don’t have time for what
we want, we don’t want
to miss anything, we think
less of ourselves then of anyone else

but you’re the only hug
that can calm my anxiety
the only smile that makes me cry
the only picture
I’ll never take off my wall
the only memory
that I can feel
all the way down my stomach

this is what we are
we became this
and we’ll stay like this
this is who we are
and it’s OK
this is us
this is us

3. oyðilekjandi / destroying cure 
lyrics: Dania O. Tausen
music: Benjamin Djurhuus, Dania O. Tausen

hearing sounds, I don’t want to hear
what’s missing is lost
and finds its home inside me now
beside my feelings and pain and sorrow

the attempt to throw away
the thoughts and fizzling scream
only makes me more uneasy
but if it were to stop
freeze ones for all
I would too
I admit it feels kind of good

“I tried to comfort him, I said
but he left in the same mood as he arrived,
when he had come halfway to the doctor…”

What’s killing, taking, and eating
Breaking, confusing, frustrating
and filling my cup,
Is making me cope
helping me to face myself
get to know my low spirit
listen to what’s happening inside

“now he’s with me
he’s greeting me
“good day”
“yes, good day”, I say
“I’m not in a good mood”
“oh?”
“but, priest, let me tell you something…”

after crying comes laughter
but dozing off in the middle of the day
is not always rewarding
doesn’t only give pleasure
doen’t only give strenght
cure, rest, fury, it’s weird
to meet half ways
compromise
tame
find contentment

4. kólnað kaffi / cold coffee
lyrics: Dania O. Tausen
music: Benjamin Djurhuus, Dania O. Tausen

you poor the coffee
and it speaks your tea
tell me your story
with your voice
I know I lost focus before
but I want to know
how words become a sentence

my tear feels at home here
saltwater hurts
more the second time
I know I am too much
when you say
your coffee is getting cold

tell me your story

5. flytifuglurin / migratory bird
lyrics: Jóhan O. Tausen
music: Jóhan O. Tausen

bird left its nest
flies over land and ocean
where birds are singing foreign songs

sun warms spread-out wings
but inside chest is cold
why should heart be hiding?

when sun is resting
and moon has never been higher
thoughts go looking for that place

of pretty seashores and high palm trees
but then the sun rises again
and wings feel the heat again

even though my thoughts are heavy
I know one day I’ll be whole

for how long can a fish live on dry land?
for how long can a bird swim in the ocean?
for how long can I stay here?

one day I’ll fly back
where bays battered by surf invite me
to sing the songs I know
where rivers run

and the sun never shines
but the heart feels true warmth
even though my thoughts are heavy
I know one day I’ll be home

6. flugubein / fly-leg (checkmark)
lyrics: Dania O. Tausen
music: Benjamin Djurhuus, Dania O. Tausen

I always have to go
home where no one’s home
can you find me a house
that’s always baking?

crosswalk-talks
don’t touch that pole
jump between the lines
find yourself some pretty
stone to put in your pockets
travel from course to course
wind them around your neck
don’t set the table 
how you’re supposed to
find a rocking chair
creak hungerly
I always have to go
home where no one’s

leaving checkmarks
on my imagination
I’m searching
lift up my eyes
to the hills
searching

planting ashes 
into a lemon tree
that’s counting the days
for me to come

walking my head
to lighten my life
with the nothings and everythings
that came out of my nap
I’m digging into my skin
staring at starlings
waiting for the hunger
where the thirst has gone

and leaves checkmarks
on my imagination
I’m searching
lift up my eyes
to the hills
searching

7. tornarunnir tankar / thornbush thoughts
lyrics: Dania O. Tausen
music: Magnus Johannessen

when the passerines and we
find the wind
it sounds like
an answer on a tough day

now the leaves are growing
stronger
for you understand my garden
of thornbush thoughts

my sunday-plantation
is prettier in the winter
a postcard an artwork
of raindrops

now the trees are growing
stronger and higher
for you see more than a garden
of thornbush thoughts

today there’s a gentle breeze
under my feathers
a firework a gunshot
to decorate the wreath of flowers

the dull days become topsoil
for now new trees are growing
from fallen leaves
from thornbush thoughts 

8. eygnaregn / eye-rain
lyrics: Dania O. Tausen
music: Dania O. Tausen

snowstorms and waiting rooms
never come visit me
I went for runs in prison
found it right away

the gutter is upside down
wallpaper wet
I grew up with sleeplessness
looked like what I ate

It smells like broken lightbulbs
and raindrops that can’t be seen
you can hear them clearly in the dark

between rat-cries and thunder
the roof is in my room
slamming with doors and eyebrows
rolling eye-rain

the horse-eye didn’t see me
and my long day
I read between the lines
on the warm horseback

If I asked for a glass of milk
the cow-eye cried
I nodded myself disappointed
till the will stopped trying

maybe the snow doesn’t have to visit me this year
until my eyelids can taste
and my terror is ready
to get out of the heat
that slams with doors and eyebrows
rolling eye-rain

9. hvørt hús framvið vegnum / every house along the street
lyrics: Dania O. Tausen
music: Dania O. Tausen

Home is to greet cars that drive by
Home is to know the way home
To take the last piece of cake
            and to dare to say you’re full

Home is to hang out the washing
Snuggle down and read a book
Home is to throw around your things
and never find them again
The Home has no alarm

The Home doesn’t need any vacation
The Home laughs with us on game nights
The Home wants to join in on the pictures
And holds us up on the walls

The Home mixes all the smells together
            And the Home grows up with the children

Home is a kiss
Home is one word fewer than normal
Home is to spoon
And cry when you’re trying to talk

At home, I can lose hope
And pick it up again right away
Without playing it off naturally
Because at home I can change my mind

At home, I suck and am fine with it
At home, I’m not missing anyone
Home is a chair full of clothes that I never wash
Home is taking care of plants

Home is to brush your teeth
Home is to brush your teeth

At home is where I want to be
dreaming of another world
Singing too loud in the shower
At home, I’m ne-ver to laaaaate

Home is to know when to be quiet
Home is to ask too much
At home, it’s weird not to touch
Home is to name your car

And every house along the street
is a home to someone