=oh jens=

"if you're gonna write a song about this, then please don't make it a sad song" which was something a friend once said to me.
I didn't think much about it when I wrote it but there is a feeling on this album as if I was aware that every time I write a song,
I have the power to decide if it's going to be a happy memory or a sad memory.
If there is a way out or not.

it's about these people and it's like they're sitting in a waiting room, waiting for life to start.
and then the nurse comes out and says "life will see you now"

Here's what I ended up writing about:
I wrote about being close to someone who's seriously ill but not knowing exactly how close you are.
About fear of conflict and the first big fight in a relationship.
About a wedding I once played where I had to do some last minute counseling.
About choosing who you want to be with.
About a perfume that's been haunting me for years and the memories attached to this perfume.
About the sadness of not being able to express love or being vulnerable with another man.
About a mormon missionary I once met.
About figuring out why we're here on earth.
About the bridges we cross and how they burn behind us.

- from artist notes on album.

Latest Jens Lekman album is gorgeous.
His songwriting is up there with Jarvis Cocker and Alex Kapranos lyrics for me.
See for yourself:

( story of how we met, the long version )

And one old song with a perfect video:

=♥=

Masters of Sex has ended and I was starting to miss his 300Wt smile, then came the NEWS:
Michael Sheen will play angel Aziraphale in Good Omens adaptation for TV.

"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions:
that he was English, that he was intelligent,
and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide."