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All songs composed by Hanna Enlöf

Lyrics written by Craig Stanton Thomas

Photos by Max Sjödin & Craig Stanton Thomas

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BRAVE FOR YOU

We pushed it before us 

Like a plow in a winter storm

We’d seen it all along

This blade that would cut us loose

 

But our then became now

Left us wetted and worn

As we rowed battered ships and called out

 

Brave

I will be brave 

Brave

I will be brave for you

 

Sat faithfully by your side

While machines worked to keep you alive

With only our prayers as a guide

We cried ‘til our tears ran dry

 

But our fears were abashed 

As you fought to survive 

And pulled back from the verge of the night

 

Brave

I will be brave 

Brave

I will be brave for you

 

Angels of trust, angels of mercy, angels of love

Hung above us

Then as now, and all of the days of our lives 

 

Brave..

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SOLITUDE

I’ve been waiting for warmer weather

All though this tardy cold Spring

I’ve been waiting for time together

Despite the perils this virus brings

 

Will this fear of nearing others

Infect our lives at long last

Will the hug between friends and family

Be a habit that is lost from the past

 

We can wish for smiles and closeness

We can hope for a touch so renewed

But as long as this death do so haunt us

We’re left in our solitude

 

Will the boredom of isolation

Be the doldrums of life’s new routine

As a wind dies near the equator

And leaves us in seas unforeseen 

 

But my eyes turn toward the heavens

In hope of a joy now returned

And hope for the healthy recovery

For those who lay bedded and spurned

 

We can wish for smiles and closeness

We can hope for a touch so renewed

But as long as death do so haunt us

We’re left in our solitude

 

As my heart longs for Summer evenings

My mind’s eye a vision of peace

Where death has been dealt such an arrow

And where hatred and strife have ceased

 

My hope is for such a kind future

Where truth is not turned into doubt 

Where lies are not routinely spoken

Where falsehood is brought to a rout

 

We can wish for smiles and closeness...

WHILE DAYS UNWIND

In the morning

When I awake

I come to wonder

Why my heart aches

 

Though my troubles are but few

In a world that seems so blue

​​I seek to find, presence of mind

But still my heart misses you

 

We went to look for

The August moon

She smiled so easily

Seemingly immune

 

To a future still unknown

Where I sing my songs alone

I sought to find, your hand in mine

But still my heart misses you

 

And now, who am I without you

Redefine who I am on my own

Though I know you will always 

Be a part of me

 

We took a walk in

The September sun

You shined so brightly

On all that we had won

 

I still wait for something new

See your face in all I do

I seek to find, while days unwind

And still my heart, misses you

 

I still miss all of those little things the everyday brings

My hands miss a making a mess of your hair

I miss those philosophical, theological wonderings

Your everyday tears over life’s beauty and tragedy

Your way of scratching your back on the door jam like a horse

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YOUR OLD, MY NEW

I met you past your median

Though I was yet in Spring

And longed for every moment

As a bird upon the wing

 

That flies to heavenly perches

Or at times lands on the ground

We loved and played and sang our songs

And together we were bound

 

But the years have fled so quickly

And time did catch us yet

Your old, my new

Your age, my youth

Our fates have now been set

 

So I pack my things together

Though each a memory bears

The tears that come are rueful

And lay my feelings bare

 

The day our parting nears us

A count so marked by tears

And night has left me sleepless

Though you are lying near 

 

But the years have fled so quickly

And time did catch us yet

Your old, my new

Your age, my youth

Our fates have now been set

 

We did the near impossible

But could not stop the bell

As time itself refused us

And sealed our last farewell

 

Though friends tried to dissuade us

Our love their symbol of truth

We knew a way much truer

To walk this path so blue

 

But the years have fled so quickly...

FINAL DIVIDE

I seek you in the morning hour

Still watch as the day lingers on

And mourn your loss in evening hours

And weep as the night passes on

 

I know that we have left all hope

A parting as final as night

Our farewells were quietly spoken

Life’s venture took on a new flight

 

Oh, and though we’d foreseen this

Oh, and though we have thrived

Oh, if time could be frozen

And turn this final divide 

 

Your eyes were my window to love

Your hands more caring than I could hope

Your embrace worth all I could offer

True friend and cherished love

 

Oh, and though we’d foreseen this

Oh, and though we have thrived

Oh, if time could be frozen

And turn this final divide 

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PLACE OF REST

Peaceful quiet in the evening

Sitting on the porch

In the light of the last few rays

The sun is willing to give

 

Moonlight, soon to be our comfort

Searching out my dreams with its silver beams

Reflecting, from afar, a life giving light

 

Come still a heavy heart

Come give a weary mind

Some rest

 

Hoping to open up a new door

Walking thru to new

Warming, enticing rooms

Where love is truly found

 

Wishing to root myself completely

A home more lasting than I’ve known before

In beauty, from within, a life giving spark

 

Come colors of the rainbow

Come flowers in my windows

Come grow

 

Growing in your loving presence

Your hand upon my shoulder

Your will bound in my all

Your seed in our future hope

 

Aging in a place of rest

Resting in a life well lived

Live side by side, lives intertwined

True to our call in the years to come 

 

Come that I may live

Come all that is meant

Come now

 

Oh, come that I may live

Come all that is meant for us

Come now

INTE NU

Aldrig vågat ta farväl av dig

Har aldrig nånsin vågat se

Att tiden bryter inga mönster

Formar inga nya tankar

Utan dig

 

Ville aldrig ta ett steg

Jag ville aldrig vända bort

Jag vet det måste hända, men du

 

Inte nu nu nu

Inte nu nu nu

Inte nu nu, inget händer nu

 

Stanna, tiden verkar rusa iväg

När allt jag vill är att stå still

Har stått så stadigt här

Har skjutit upp det som är svårt

Det väller över nu

 

Ville aldrig ta ett steg

Jag ville aldrig vända bort

Jag vet det måste hända, men du

 

Inte nu nu nu

Inte nu nu nu

Inte nu nu, inget händer nu

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ECHO OF THE NIGHT

Dreams they fill the cracks between our tales

The morning washes memories and

Stories noble mysteries away

Away they fade, and all those

 

Brilliant colors fade to scales of grey 

Contours lose their form and names

In shadows lurk the fears that we avoid

All that’s left is just the echo of the night

 

Waking fills the day with light and truth

We wander onto paths so safe and green

Stepping lightly as we sway

Sway in time, and all those

 

Trees they grow and cover over head

Their leaves do block both sun and rain and

Gather in their will to do us well

And all that’s left is just the echo of the light

 

So much love and beauty in this broken world

So much friendship and loyalty

So many promises solemnly given and kept

Many vows never broken

 

Between friends and family

Between strangers too                    

And all we ever wanted

All I ever wanted

Was to be the echo of the light

SHALLOW WATER

I’ve been swimming in shallow water

I’ve been digging in stony ground

I’ve been searching in hidden shadows

I’ve been searching in vain

 

Wait, do I need to wait till I die

Stay, will you stay through the night

So I might just for once let go

 

I’ve been thirsting in arid deserts

I’ve been drinking from drying wells

I’ve been striving without direction

I’ve been striving in vain

 

Wait, do I need to wait till I die

Stay, will you stay through the night

So I might just for once let go

 

If I’d wade thru a thousand waters    

Make my way thru a million tears

If I’d wait for your loving laughter

Then I guess I could wait 

 

Wait, I guess I could wait till I die

Stay, promise to stay through the night

And then I will for once let go

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JACKIE'S WAITING

Jackie found a box of roses
In a bedroom dresser drawer
The pedals all dried out and mourning
As if they remembered a life before
 
The colors were all but faded
Their life lost and hidden for years
Their beauty abandoned and waning
And falling like Jackie’s own tears
 
Jackie’s been desperately waiting
For a future that never arrived
She mourns for a loss so grievous
It’s a miracle she ever survived
 
The miracle of walking on water
That so inspired her passions of youth
That a song could ever really save her
Was obviously not the whole truth
 
So what is left to revive her
Are there songs that can bury her fears
Who will sing that song now so fabled
That could lead her to new frontiers
 
As Jackie now hides her sorrow
Enclosed in a prison so blue
She waits for a morning to wake her
For a sunrise that lifts to renew
 
But what will finally happen
If hope has been lost for too long
And her gift of love never taken
And the giver forgotten and wronged

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