MORTEN HARKET - A KIND OF CHRISTMAS CARD

A KIND OF CHRISTMAS CARD

MORTEN HARKET

SONGWRITERS: HÅVARD REM & MORTEN HARKET

COUNTRY: NORGE

ALBUM: WILD SEED

LABEL: WARNER BROS RECORDS

GENRE: TECNOPOP

YEAR: 1995

Wild Seed is the second studio album and first English-language album by Norwegian pop singer Morten Harket. The album was released on 4 September 1995 through Warner Bros. Records. After a-ha went on a hiatus in 1994, Harket began recording Wild Seedwith British record producer Christopher Neil, who previously worked with the band on their fourth studio album, East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1990). Wild Seed charted at number one in Norway and at number 89 in the United Kingdom. It has since sold 160.000 copies in Norway.

All you folks back home

I'll never tell you this

You're not supposed to know

Where your daughter is

There are ways of life

You never understood

It's right here

Downtown Hollywood

It's afternoon on Sunset Boulevard

I've got a stolen moment trying hard

To write a kind of Christmas card

But I am burning out again

Tonight there is fever in my veins

Mama, dear

All the love you gave

I guess there's really nothing

Nothing much to save

This place is as steady as I feel myself

There are still some riches

At the Roosevelt

That evening prayer

Those memories

In my little bedroom, mama, on my knees

That's where I am at

Down in Los Angeles

And I am burning out again

And I must rise above the shame

Tonight there is fever in my veins

Just think of the girl I used to be

You were my age once, mama

twenty-three

I can still hear some of the songs you used to play

From that summer of love in '68

Seems it's turned into a winter of hate

And I am burning out again.