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Last SongThe Cardigans

Released: February 18, 1994

Songwriter: Magnus Sveningsson

Producer: Tore Johansson

[Verse 1]
The night she died in the rented room
As the whole town was sleeping
She held her breath like a star in bloom
Could burn down tomorrow
The summer breeze was caressing me
As I walked through the market
The golden light of a friend beside
Had died out for good

[Chorus]
Now nothing can amaze me
As everything's behind me
No, nothing else can please me
Since all I had has been set free

[Verse 2]
The night before in the dining room
I recall it now
She said "I fear for you my love
Cause I'll soon be leaving"
The autumn comes just like other years
But I won't see the signs
The sun above is sowing magic seeds
But it wants someone back

[Chorus]
Now nothing can amaze me
As everything's behind me
No, nothing else can please me
Since all I had has been set free

The Cardigans

One of the most pleasing pop groups of the ‘90s, the Cardigans specialized in sugary confections that would grow annoying very quickly if they weren’t backed by solid musicianship and clever arrangements. The band’s 1995 breakout album, Life, reflected the Cardigans at their most saccharine – the sunny disposition of vocalist Nina Persson being the major argument in favor – and critics inserted the group into the space age pop revivalist camp. the Cardigans later proved that they were more difficult to pigeonhole, however.

Even the band’s origins showed that their later appearance was quite misleading; two heavy metal fanatics formed the group in October 1992 in Jonkoping, Sweden. Guitarist Peter Svensson met bassist Magnus Sveningsson in a hardcore group, though he had previously trained in music theory and jazz arranging. The two later grew tired of metal and decided to form a pop band with vocalist Nina Persson – an art-school friend who had never sung professionally – plus keyboard player Lars-Olof Johansson and drummer Bengt Lagerberg.

All five Cardigans moved into a small apartment in 1993 and began recording a demo tape that entered the hands of producer Tore Johansson later that year. He liked what he heard and invited the group to record at his Malmö studio. Signed to the dance-oriented Stockholm label, the Cardigans released Emmerdale in May 1994. The single “Rise & Shine” became a hit on Swedish radio soon after the release of the LP, and a readers poll in Sweden’s Slitz magazine voted Emmerdale the best album of 1994.

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