Råskog - Split Pea Soup Text (lyrics)

It’s my first day off for a long long time
Tuesday the 8 th February 1952
Split pea soup in the cooker
I’m out of thyme so a pinch
Of salt and pepper will do
I also have a table a chair
A bed and the radio
Chanel two operator just announced
A Special with Brahms
That goes round n round through the weekend
I read the morning paper
Without really getting
The big picture of it all

My hands don't even seem familiar anymore
It's like someone borrowed them and returned
It all hard and scourged
Instead a cup up coffee takes me
Back to that morning in 1929
You’d just walked out the shower
When we heard that some
Brokers just jumped out of buildings
In New York City
You made a mess on the floor with all that
Water from the shower and you started to cry
It can be like that sometimes I suppose

My hands don't even seem familiar
Anymore it's like someone
Borrowed them and returned it
All hard and scourged

When you left a year later I
Wasn’t myself anymore for some time
I guess it was around about that
Time I started to smoke cigarettes
The illness came to us as a big surprise and
I couldn’t stand seeing things
In a clear light
And the smoke really helped to blur out the
Lines and the contours of the past times
From my window I can see cars come
And leave the general store in Pawnee
Oklahoma it used to be all slow around
Here but it seem that
The pace of time has picked
Up even in these backlands
Even in these backlands

My hands don't even seem familiar
Anymore it's like someone
Borrowed them and returned it
All hard and scourged
Even in these backlands
Even in these backlands
Even in these backlands
Even in these backlands