Sondre Lerche

Released: January 8, 2021

Songwriter: Bob Dylan

Today, and tomorrow, and yesterday, too
The flowers are dyin' like all things do
Follow me close, I'm going to Bally-na-Lee
I'll lose my mind if you don't come with me
I fuss with my hair, and I fight blood feuds
I contain multitudes

Got a tell-tale heart like Mr. Poe
Got skeletons in the walls of people you know
I'll drink to the truth and the things we said
I'll drink to the man that shares your bed
I paint landscapes, and I paint nudes
I contain multitudes

A red Cadillac and a black mustache
Rings on my fingers that sparkle and flash
So, tell me, what's next? What shall we do?
Half my soul, baby, belongs to you
I rollick and I frolic with all the young dudes
I contain multitudes

I'm just like Anne Frank, like Indiana Jones
And them British bad boys, the Rolling Stones
I go right to the edge, I go right to the end
I go right where all things lost are made good again
I sing the songs of experience like William Blake
I have no apologies to make
Everything's flowing all at the same time
I live on a boulevard of crime
I drive fast cars, and I eat fast foods
I contain multitudes

Pink pedal-pushers, red blue jeans
All the pretty maids, and all the old queens
All the old queens from all my past lives
I carry four pistols and two large knives
I'm a man of contradictions, I'm a man of many moods
I contain multitudes

You greedy old wolf, I'll show you my heart
But not all of it, only the hateful parts
I'll sell you down the river, I'll put a price on your head
What more can I tell you? I sleep with life and death in the same bed
Get lost, madame, get up off my knee
Keep your mouth away from me
I'll keep the path open, the path in my mind
I'll see to it that there's no love left behind
I'll play Beethoven's sonatas, Chopin's preludes
I contain multitudes

This guy is an LA-based Norwegian songwriter, artist. His eclectic and melodic debut, Faces Down, written and recorded at 16, was listed as one of the most remarkable debuts of 2002 by Rolling Stone, also winning a Norwegian Grammy for Best Newcomer. Anticipated follow-up Two Way Monologue was a 2004 Album Of The Year in Uncut, and he toured extensively across the world both solo, with his band, and with the likes of Air, Stereolab, Elvis Costello, Milton Nascimento. In 2006 he scored a surprising Billboard Top 5 Jazz album, Duper Sessions, recorded the rambunctious, raw Phantom Punch, as well as the soundtrack for the Steve Carell/Juliette Binoche hit movie Dan In Real Life. Said the LA Times about 2009’s lush Heartbeat “No matter what genre he’s working in (…) his refrains always pay off”. Lerche co-wrote “Dear Laughing Doubters” for the 2010 comedy Dinner For Schmucks. In 2011 he made his second appearance on David Letterman’s Late Show, performing from his spirited self-titled album, while in 2012 he had the honor of appearing on an official postage stamp in Norway. The 2014 release of his score for Sundance indie-hit movie The Sleepwalker, was followed by Please, which Popmatters called “a pop masterpiece”, naming it one of the best albums of the year. 2017’s groovy and flamboyant Pleasure was a "thrilling sonic reboot”, according to Allmusic, followed by an extensive 100-date world tour, and, in 2018, the stripped down come-down, Solo Pleasure, as well as an album of new music written for the beloved Norwegian children’s character Fantorangen.

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