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Eyes Up
03:55
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Feels like I've gone blind
I can't imagine a new thing
It's been so long
Feels like I've gone blind
What's this thing I've been losing?
It seems so gone
Baby lift my empty eyes up to the horizon
Or I'll stop
Help me fill my empty eyes up with a horizon
Feels like I got lost
Which day am I seizing?
I’m standing still
How did I get lost just by blanking and freezing and standing still?
Baby fill my empty heart up
I need a heartbeat or I'll stop
Babe, you lift my heavy heart up to the horizon
Baby lift my empty eyes up to the horizon or I'll stop
Help me fill my empty eyes up with a horizon
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The forest of time is budding now
Tiny moments on every branch
They're waiting to have their moment in the sunshine of your mind
Rolls on through to summertime
A green ocean blocks out the sky
Fighting their way into your attention
Into your eyes
One of these days you'll find yourself in a wind
Moments flying
Yellow and red
Dying or dead
So beautiful
You never saw
The forest floor is covered so
You know
The branches all are naked so
You know
The forest floor is covered so
You know
That from moments you'll never know
They grow
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While you were drinking
She looked at you
The bartender smiled
And the bouncer too
While your evening grew
While you were smoking
Out in the cold
Behind your swaying back
You were stories told
You were bought and sold
While you were sleeping
She looked at you
Until the day you died
You never knew
It turned a half-lie true
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What If
04:31
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What if all the miserable looking folks are actually miserable?
What if all their sneering condescension’s nothing personal?
What if they're miserable?
What if the hardest part of growing up is simply giving up?
Feeling good about being paid to feel bad is all they ever had
And all they want to want
What if I get myself together and try for real to really try to heed their warning
And I spend most of what I have to give in life just getting up in the morning?
What if all the miserable looking folks are looking out for me?
What if all their looks are sizing up something that's there that I can't see?
A chance at harmony
What if all these doubts and what ifs and chills are all I'll ever feel?
What if all these goddamn doubts and chills and droughts and drills and sleeping pills
Is all I'll ever feel?
The other side of the divide between me and the world might not be worth the trip
What if I get myself together and try for real to really try to heed their warning
And I spend most of what I have to give in life just getting up in the morning?
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This is not Nothing
06:14
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Before a sun could make a dawn
The great nothing yawned
And mu was split in two into you and anti-you
As you walk the stages they'll take those same steps back
The sum never changes
Just add and subtract
How long have you been here?
It's been years and anti-years
But the sun this morning: The dusk never took it down
The equation is torn and this is not nothing
And once there's a point, there's direction
If direction is real then you're flying
Pulled by interstellar appeal
It's multiplying into flowers of light, constellations
And if there’s a point in the sky, there’s direction
There's no going back to the lie
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I've got a System
03:49
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I've got no roots here
Nothing to prove
I'm ready to make my move
Been spending years on the wind-up
The pieces are all lined up
And I've got a system of pure symmetry in my mind
So please stop growing on me
I've got no roots here
Nothing to leave
That's just my arm up my sleeve
I always paid to hear you sing
I don't owe this town a thing
And I've got a map that leads right out of here in my mind
So please stop smiling, my dear
Your melodies made me haunted by memories I don't want and
You come to me when I sleep and it's gonna be hell to keep away
Why did you hug me last night?
What do you mean I'm "all right"?
Why did you hug me last night?
Why do you hug me all the time?
In my mind
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Mehmet
04:56
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You saw the pattern during your fourth detention for something you didn't do
And sure, you could have done more to stop it, but everything is not on you
Your pants begin to sag
The teacher's notes are piling up inside your bag
You might as well get paid if this is how they're gonna treat you anyway
Outside the youth club's always been a seller’s marked
He should be happy you don't take more
You used to play Mario Brothers at his mom's apartment
Now he only calls to score
Your parents' favourite friend
When school is out you'll never see that guy again
You might as well get paid if this is how they're gonna treat you anyway
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Untakebackable
10:49
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Sometimes the truth will come and change the map
Rise up and stay in the way of where you're at
It's untakebackable
It won't disappear
You're living around it now
Someone you love has finally had enough
She drew her breath for weeks to call your bluff
It's unmistakable
You don't wanna hear how it sounds when she spells it out
It's untakebackable
It won't disappear
You're living inside it now
Someone that you thought you knew has always loved you
Someone that you knew you loved has barely known you
Someone that you knew to love are finally breaking
I wake to seagulls fighting in the alley
I wake to find myself at the finale
I sit upright awake to find I've gone unblind and the horizon just came over
It's turning me over
It's turning me over
I want to go slower
It's turning me over
I swim in the ocean of people who believe me
And I float in bright bright flashes on the TV
And I drown in my mother's eyes
Alone at night and she plays it over and over
Turning me over
Turning me over
All that I owe her is turning me over
It’s turning me over
The ghosts are coming home tonight
To testify and cry and turn me over
Turning me over
You're turning me over
It's not getting colder - you're turning me over
Get off my shoulder - you're turning me over
The joke's getting older - you're turning me over
Nanana-na-na-nana-na-na
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The Switch Oslo, Norway
Pop-rock outfit from Oslo, Norway, founded in 2010. Released their debut album “Big If” in 2014. It was followed by “B for the Beast” and “We’re Fooling no one” in 2015, and “The Switch Album” in 2016 which earned a Spellemann (Norw.Grammy), for best indie release In september 2019, The Switch released “Birds of Paradise” Macca/Jawakka 1 came out march 2020, and Macca/Jawakka 2 in January 2021. ... more
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