Sun Kil Moon - Candles lyrics

Seat 12C SAS Copenhagen to Stockholm
Stockholm would be my first choice
For a European second home
Feel like I live there in another life
I dreamed that I lived in
An old flat there once
And it was Christmas time in real life
I brought home a lot of
Nice gifts from Sweden a from Malmö and some
Ice-cube trays from IKEA
And a collection of old
Silverware that an ex-girlfriend’s
Father sold me from his antique shop
And she gave me a beautiful blue ceramic
Bowl that’s still on my kitchen table

Got a lot of good memories here in Stockholm
Last time I saw Elliott Smith
Was at the Accelerator Festival
July 5th 2000, a beautiful sunny day
I wish I would’ve hugged him goodbye


But, I figured I’d see him again another day
Maybe in San Francisco or LA
But as things turned out it
Didn’t work out that way
And my favorite restaurant in Stockholm
Sweden is right down the road
It’s called Pelican i like the salmon but I
Never eat the reindeer
Something about the idea of eating reindeer
Brings my eyes to tears
I don’t understand how any of
You can eat reindeer
When I was a little kid my favorite Christmas
Special was Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
He had that stuff nose voice
And I still love Rudolph
I saw a reindeer carpaccio
On the menu recently
And i wanted to shoot myself
I love you Sweden I really do
But please, let the reindeer run free
For the sweetest animals kill a
Moose or a buffalo
If that’s what you gotta do
To taste gamey meat
Please leave the reindeer alone
Please pass on that reindeer dish
Please do it for me
Please grant me this one wish
Please leave the reindeer alone
Please pass on that reindeer dish
Please do it for me
Please grant me just this one wish

The first time I ever played Stockholm
A kid walked up to me on stage
And said, "Mark
Do you realize that you are god in Sweden?"
I said
"You’re very young and that’s a foolish thing
For you to say and you’re tripping
Like I said you’re young
You’re gonna see that somebody else is gonna
Come along and be god in Sweden"
And later on came José González and Sigur Rós
If I die tomorrow, i’ll be blurbs on online
Magazines for 48 hours
You’d all be fine, you’d say
"Hey I met him once and he didn’t seem
Like he wanted to talk to me"
Then you’d say, "Look who’s headlining at
Roskilde? The Gorillaz"

So back to Sweden and all the
Things I love about it
A good friend of mine is here and
I always make time for her
When she sees me I think something
About me makes her glow
And when I see her something
About her makes me glow
She’s one of those friends I’ll always know
She uplifts me and I uplift her
And that’s an essential part of being on
The road and being on tour
There's so much stress on the road
And it can make you edgy
So surround yourself with the people who care
About you and make you happy
Who don’t bring you down and
Who love you unconditionally
As my lawyer says, "Never engage with crazy"
And Isaiah says
"To further yourself you gotta step
Over the dead bodies"

There is something about Sweden to
Me that is meditative
Everyone seems like they’re on
Some kind of sedative
When I was a kid I loved and Valium
When I’m in Sweden
I kinda feel like I’m on 5mg of Valium
Because the Swedish people
They seem like they’re on Valium
Or they smoked a little bit of pot
It’s in their eyes
They all look so tranquillike cats
They don’t blink a lot
Don’t know if it’s the darkness or if
It’s the things that they’re eatin’
There’s a serenity I feel
Whenever I’m in Sweden

I like the candles in the
Doorways of the hotels
I like the candles on their dinner tables
You guys put candles everywhere
You even put them in the hotel elevators
That’s one of my favorite
Favorite things about Sweden the candles
The candles the candles
The candles the candles
The candles the candles
The candles the candles
The candles the candles
The candles the candles
The candles the candles
‘Cause when I was a kid my
Dad wouldn’t let me burn candles
I’d light incense or candles in my room
And my dad would walk up and say
"Goddamnit Mark
Put those fucking candles out
You’re gonna burn the whole
Goddamn house down"
And let me tell you a story
My dad turned out to be right
Later on in 2004 I left a
Candle burning beside a flower pot
It was the summer and all of
The flowers were dried up
I went for a walk to the marina and back
But when I was gone, those flowers went up
And when I came home
My door was all boarded up with firewood
I broke it down
It looked like my whole apartment
Floor was covered in charcoal
And I looked around and my
Whole kitchen wall was gone
Some guys were doing construction in
The building next door
And they saw the fire and
They called the fire department
Luckily for me the fire department is
Two blocks away from my apartment
So they came and they put the fire out
Had they not been there to see it
I would surely be doing theater for
A licenses in San Quentin prison
Burning an apartment down and killing
A few people in America
That’s called third degree murder
That’s when you kill somebody for negligence
And being careless
I used to get pissed off at my dad
When he’d tell me what to do
And he’d have a fit
But as it turns out with the
Candles he was not clowning around
He was right and not wrong
I was spaced out my head was in the clouds
And I almost burned my
Whole apartment building down
But the Swedes seemed to be in
Control of the candle situation
The Swedes are smarter and
More organized than Americans
I know this isn’t much of a song
And the ending is even worse
It could’ve been better
But stewardess came around and just told
Me to shut my laptop off
I have more things to say in regards
To how much I love Stockholm
And all the things I love
About it besides candles
And more clocks and doff blue ceramic bowls
But like I said, the stewardess came
By and said, "Sir, please
Put your laptop away"
I said, "Jesus Christ, what the fuck?
I’ve got this huge concert
Tonight in Stockholm
And I have this perfect song I was
Going to sing to my audience"
She said, "Sir, please, put it away now"
I say "Okay, goddamnit"
And I close my laptop down
And that’s my unfinished song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my unfinished song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my unfinished song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my incomplete song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my incomplete song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my incomplete song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my incomplete song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my incomplete song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my incomplete song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my incomplete song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
From Copenhagen to Stockholm

And this is my unfinished song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my incomplete song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my incomplete song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my incomplete song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm
And this is my incomplete song
From seat 12C Scandinavian Airlines
Copenhagen to Stockholm