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Igår kväll blev jag medbjuden till Bergwaldhallen för att se och lyssna på Ola Salo och Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester. Rosie hade en biljett över och jag är så tacksam att hon frågade mig om jag ville följa med. Det var väldigt stämningsfullt och bra. Han har ju värsta rösten den mannen! Bara lite besviken att de inte spelade någon Queen (eller så gjorde de det, men någon som jag inte kände till). Bäst var nog It takes a fool to remain sane och Calleth You Cometh I. Men många andra stycken var också bra.

Här kommer texterna.


It takes a fool to remain sane

Whatever happened to the funky race?
A generation lost in pace,
-Wasn't life supposed to be more than this?
In this kiss I'll change your bore for my bliss
But let go of my hand and it will slip out
in the sand if you don't give me the chance
to break down the walls of attitude,
I ask nothing of you
not even your gratitude

And if you think I'm corny
then it will not make me sorry
it's your right to laugh at me
and in turn, that's my opportunity
to feel brave
Because ridicule is no shame
it's just a way to eclipse hate
it's just a way to put my back staright
it's just a way to remain sane

Every morning I would see her getting
off the bus the picture never drops
it's like a multicoloured snapshot stuck in my brain
it kept me sane for a couple of years
as it drenched my fears
of becoming like the others
who become unhappy mothers
and fathers of unhappy kids
And why is that?
'Cause they've forgotten how to play
or maybe they're afraid to feel ashamed
to seem strange
to seem insane
to gain weight
to seem gay
- I tell you this:

That it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh It takes a fool to remain sane
Oh It takes a fool to remain sane
Oh In this world all covered up in shame
(-Oh, take it to the stage!)

So, take it to the stage in a multicoloured
jacket take it jackpot, crackpot,
strutting like a peacock
nailvarnish Arkansas
shimmy-shammy featherboah crackpot haircut
dye your hair in glowing red and blue,

-Do, Do, Do! What you wanna do, Don´t think twice,
do what you have to do,
Do, Do, Do, Do, let your heart decide
what you have to do that´s all there is to find
Cause it takes a fool to remain sane,
Oh It takes a fool to remain sane
Oh In this world all covered up in shame
Oh It takes a fool to remain sane,
Oh It takes a fool to remain sane
Oh It takes a fool to remain sane
Oh In this world all covered up in shame
-Oh, it takes a fool!..


Calleth You Cometh I

And I know we were both too young
Way back when we had our thing
And you're not the one that I think of
Every time that the telephone rings

And I know that what we had
Would not be called love by the ones who know
And I know it's been many years
And a hundred love-affairs ago

I know all that so well
But I also do know this:
Calleth you, cometh I
And that's just how it is
And how it's always been
It's where my reason stops
And something else comes in
I know it doesn't make sense, but still...
Calleth you, cometh I
-And that's how it is

And I know we became restrained
Every time we were among friends
And I know how it was last time
And how bitterly it always ends
And I know we were both too young
To know what real love would be like
And I know that our communication
Didn't always work out right

I know all that so well
But I also do know this:
Calleth you, cometh I
And that's just how it is
And how it's always been
It's where my reason stops
And something else comes in
I know it doesn't make sense, but still...
Calleth you, cometh I
-And that's how it is

And I've been waiting for this so long...
A-waiting to sing this song, for you...
Calleth you, cometh I

And I've been waiting for this so long...
A-waiting to sing this song, for you...
Calleth you, cometh I