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Losing A FriendThe Cardigans

Released: October 14, 2005

Songwriter: Peter Svensson Nina Persson

Producer: Tore Johansson

[Verse 1]
You're losing a friend
You got it all wrong
It's not about revenge
But you're losing a friend
I didn't see it coming
With my head stuck in the sand
But now I'm losing a friend

[Chorus]
And it's keeping me up
It's the ribbons I tied
I would rather just die
Go to hell and crawl back
Than let you go

[Verse 2]
You're losing a friend
You jeopardize me
Bad, bad blood on your hands
And see, you're losing a friend
I'm fickle and I'm vain
And you trick me over and over again
And now I'm losing you

[Chorus]
And it's killing me
It's the strings that I tie
I would rather just die
Go to hell and crawl back
Than let it all go

[Outro]
My mistake to lose you
Oh no, oh no
So this the end now
I'm losing you
Oh, look at you
Look what you're wasting
You're losing a friend
Oh no, oh no
I'm losing a friend
Oh, oh oh no

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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