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Borrowed Time

by Birte Paulsen

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1.
Fool 04:08
I’d never do anything that I couldn’t do on my own Me, my friends and two men we don’t even know getting a family ticket That’s all I remember of home right now I am not losing sleep, I am not what you need Everything you heard is true, I’m no angel, I’m a fool And I guess it never meant a thing what you said and what I did And I need more than you taking all the best and leaving me the rest I don’t want to wait until you change your mind I don’t want you near me, go waste someone else’s time And why you lied to me I will never know So I crawl back into my shell where I have been before I’m prepared not to care should you reach for me once more I’m bleeding inside my cocoon but maybe I love you no more Plug me in and these four walls could keep me standing Maybe if I did my best and tried I wouldn’t need you to be satisfied I’m all right but I am so alone, I sit here and pick up the phone I’d never do anything that I couldn’t do on my own She’s preparing lunch right now and I just want to go home
2.
Tar Pit 03:28
I think of you And I don’t know why In the morning Or late at night How you shone When we were young How I thought You could do no wrong You will never think of me You will never think of me Your mind has wings And I watch As it takes off To greater things All that remains Is a tar pit for the soul And I’m forever trying To emerge unscathed and whole You will never think of me You will never think of me And I don’t believe that time will heal It never really changed the way I feel You will never think of me You will never think of me
3.
Rabbit Hole 03:52
You found your way Under my skin It’s almost like I don’t know Where to begin You claw and prise My chest apart With your slow smile Reach for my heart Down the rabbit hole All my good intentions Disappeared without a trace Down the rabbit hole Never to be seen again You’ve got me here By the throat And all I can think of is What you wrote Never to me But someone else instead Perhaps you should leave This whole thing for dead Down the rabbit hole All my good intentions Disappeared without a trace Down the rabbit hole Never to be seen again Down the rabbit hole I go to get away From you and all that you might do Down the rabbit hole I will cut you loose
4.
I wonder where he is As I go to sleep What my heart craves And what my mind believes Are such different things Five days for my heart to get its fix And my thoughts are up to Their old tricks Again and again I can still see him sitting there In the cold November air As I sharpened my claws As we were drawing straws And he came out on top Now I don’t know how to Make it stop Borrowed time is all I’ve got And I know he is lonely And I know he wants to leave This place where nothing heals Bruises can’t be concealed Under my skin Five days for my heart to get its fix And my thoughts are up to Their old tricks Again and again His words still burn like fire Deep in the vault of my desire And I wish he would go And let me heart explode Cause I’ve got sickness in my blood And I don’t know how to make it stop Borrowed time is all I’ve got
5.
In my dream I was there again Throwing stones into high grass Down by the old railroad tracks When you and I used to be friends Is there a place Where things go when they are broken And no one wants them anymore? Failures and mistakes All on a shelf Gather dust behind closed doors But you and I used to be friends In my dream I was there again Unchanged under blue summer skies And all of us so foolish again Choking on each others’ lies Is there a place Where things go when they are broken And no one wants them anymore? Failures and mistakes All on a shelf Gather dust behind closed doors But you and I used to be friends
6.
Berlin 03:42
Like a beautiful creature Wounded in war Your scars still a feature Unwanted and raw I’ve fallen in love With your sadness With your defiance I’ve fallen in love With those bullet holes And those used up hopes There was something so alluring About the way you didn’t care Your sweet insistence, my persistence Would not lead us there I’ve fallen in love With your sadness With your defiance I’ve fallen in love With those bullet holes And those used up hopes And those phantoms of the past With their whispers And their looking glass Laid to rest Made my peace at last I’ve fallen in love With your sadness With your defiance I’ve fallen in love With those bullet holes And those precious hopes
7.
Fresenhof 03:03
Wenn de Wind dör de Bööm weiht Un Gras nich mehr wassen deiht Un geel all ward Denn kummt bald de Tied Wenn de Storm över't Feld geiht Wo lang schon keen Korn mehr steiht Un Mehl all ward Denn ist bald sowiet, Dat de Dag kötter ward Un de Nach de duert lang Un de Kinner vun Naber De warn in Düstern bang Wenn de Regen vun't Reetdack dröppt Mien Söhn buten gauer löppt Sonst ward he natt Denn snurrt bin'n de Kat Wenn de Wind dreiht, vun Nord weiht Un Reg'n geg'n de Finster neiht, De Schieb'n daal rennt Denn föhl ik mi wohl. Wenn dat Füer in Kamin brennt Un jeder di bi'n Vörnam nennt Weil he di kennt Denn is uns Hus vull Denn de Nabers sünd disse Tied Ok nich geern alleen Un de Teepunsch an't Füer Mokt de Wedder weder schön Wenn de Bläder sik brun farvt Un Water steiht inne Groof Denn ward dat Harvst Op uns Fresenhof
8.
Well I sit here all quiet and I look At your picture And I drink to your health and I hope You feel better I have built my dreams around you And I’ve changed my world around for you Still I’m a peasant and She’s the queen Some things will never change I’m not what you needed Me to be Can you tell me who is to blame? For how long can I hide you Inside of my head? Covered in sugar and lies Tugged under pillows In my bed Hoping no one ever finds Traces of you Well, I sit here all quiet and I look At your picture And I drink to your health and I hope You are closer Just a little closer than before
9.
Blue winter skies And arms that pull me close I dream of making them mine Blue winter eyes See straight into my soul But turn away from what they find I wish I was back in Georgia Underneath those willow trees Where I thought that I knew you Where you said you’d wait for me Blue winter skies So sad and beautiful I will forever hold you close Blue winter eyes And a heart so full Like a landfill about to overflow I wish I could lock you in here And throw away the key So that you could never go back to her So that you would stay with me Blue winter skies And arms that pull me close I dream of making them mine Blue winter eyes See straight into my soul But turn away from what they find
10.
Black Thumb 04:58
I believe it’s true History is repeating itself And your eyes so green and blue Will never look at me like that, never again Cause I have the black thumb Everything I touch runs dry I’m so tired of being strong Just want to curl up and die You wear a t-shirt in wintertime As we meet up in the street And all your words sound so sublime You’re all I had but could not keep Cause I have the black thumb Everything I touch turns black I’m so tired of being wrong Teach me how to forget And among all those empty chairs Fortune slips right through my hands again This time it’s too much for me to bear This time it does not feel the same I have the black thumb Everything I touch runs dry I’m so tired of being strong Just want to curl up and die
11.
It seems I can still see you Coming up the drive In the fading October sun In another life If you could play me backwards The pictures you would see Frozen flowers in your backyard They would look nothing like me You never said you loved me As you were lying on my bed Drinking old Irish whiskey And playing games with my head It seems I can still see your Face through that screen door And my books and magazines All scattered on the floor I’m still up there on Mulholland I still breathe the air I swear You might not see me anymore But I am still there You never said you loved me As you were lying on my bed Drinking old Irish whiskey And playing games with my head If you could play me backwards See pain you will never feel Another loner moving onwards Another cut I know will heal
12.
From the playground and the school yard To a winter night in spring You were the angel and I played my part As the devil who broke your wings It’s been a whole long lifetime And I tried hard to adjust Since I got caught up in my own lies Since I forgot just what I lost And love might be the only thing That I have never had And love might be the only thing That I would want instead You were alive again last night As I drove down Sunset Boulevard And I wished I knew how to cry As that pain ripped out my evil heart And love might be the only thing That I have never had And love might be the only thing That I would want instead Like day and night in this city Everything is a broken heart disease I’ve come all the way from nowhere And I am down on my knees And although we were childhood friends Flowers on the wall of my memory Never wishing on stars but ourselves in the end I let you die inside of me And love might be the only thing That I have never had And love might be the only thing That I would want instead

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released June 30, 2016

Birte Paulsen - guitar, vocals
Alfie Weedon - double bass, ukulele, vocals, percussion
Mishkin Fitzgerald - piano, accordion
Ben Weedon - violin

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Birte Paulsen Brighton, UK

Inspired by Folk, Chanson, Americana and Scandinavian eccentricity, Birte Paulsen and her band deliver dark Indie Folk with a sigh of Nordic melancholy and vocals that have drawn comparisons to Ane Brun, Lene Marlin or Agnes Obel.

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