The Cardigans

I know that something has to happen in him
I see there's a change behind his mood
I know 'cause I have been blind
I could be half-alive to you

You know that this is I the ultimate feeling
You see that you're the will that needs to be broken
And you know the smile when you leave in the night
And you want to know

I live a lie
No, you just lie
You bleed life

He said 'o-hoo'
She said 'out of time'
You said 'goodbye now'
Cause I'm not so easy
And you're to dig my earth

He knows the best chances fall to the floors
He sees inside himself and runs to the doors
He knows that he's lost control
And I'll be his best friend, he knows

I live a lie
No, you just lie
You bleed life

He said 'o-hoo'
She said 'out of time'
You said 'goodbye now'
Cause I'm not so easy
And you're to dig my earth'
And you're to dig my earth

I live a lie
No, you just lie
You bleed life

He said 'o-hoo'
She said 'out of time'
You said 'goodbye now'
Cause I'm not so easy
And you're to dig my earth

He said 'o-hoo'
She said 'out of time'
You said 'goodbye now'
Cause I'm not so easy
And you're to dig my earth
And you're to dig my earth
And you're to dig, and you're to dig

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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