Rushing by

Over-all, Rushing by is about when things suddenly move very quickly, when something slow picks up speed, and when life seems to fly right past your face. I grabbed the words in the title from somewhere in the first track. The last track, The weekend knife, is about one-night stands and what’s good or bad about them. Bare feet is sort of about the same thing, but a bit more specific and over a longer period. A couple of days. She’s tired is about… Or, okay: You just get tired sometimes of people telling you that you’re better off, and that you should just power  through, or whatever. The lady in She’s tired is exhausted after the end of a relationship, but gets up and keeps walking; on her own, even though people around her have tons of well-meaning advice. And it all ends well, so there you go. With Blessed I was getting a bit tired of listening to complaints from people who feel they have “so many options that it’s impossible to choose.” It always seemed like a pretty poor  excuse to just be lazy. It must be hard having the world be your mollusc. Rise and shine is a short message from a 28-year-old to an 18-year-old about what the next ten years are going to be like. Then there is o.o3 km/h about how a trip of eight hundred kilometres and around five years can suddenly feel like a very short journey and some very small numbers. These are my hands (like almost all the other songs) is about myself in various exaggerated versions.