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God's Lonely Man

by Petur Ben

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Sandra A wonderful record of an amazing artist whom I stumbled across far too late in my opinion.
The songs surprise with unexpected changes in pace, key or rhythm and stretch out in front of you like a thick carpet of sound which invites you to float along.
The lyrics are beautiful and well thought-through, often dark and painfully honest. If it was only about talent in music business and if there was any justice in the (music) world, this guy would score on top of all charts! Favorite track: Ocean.
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1.
Pieces of the moon This lake is deeper than forever many have tried but most get lost out there summon all your courage if you got some step on the crack and know the ice will break then take the fractures and plaster them on your face like pieces of the moon like pieces of the moon It takes an ocean of trust to keep standing underneath our feet the constellations dance And the surface reflects our reveries like pieces of the moon like pieces of the moon you wait for sunrise and the white sky to sanctify us I pray for sunlight in your black eyes to redesign us I hope that someday you will take me by the hand to out there I know that one day we will be made of white light and mirrors like pieces of the moon
2.
It's open season on the ones who lost their reason an eye for an eye they all have to die the bone's been tossed and I'm the retriever I've had my times of doubt but I'm still a believer They don't know where I'm coming from I'm a dog with dirty tricks I'll do anything for kicks heading for the kingdom or the best one I can fix I read the stars in search for a meaning It's all been scripted be damned if I missed it Don't know my lines but my lines know where I'm heading out of this world and I'm not begging for your blessing but you should know where I'm coming from The die's been cast shit I'm tied to the mast heading for the kingdom just hope i can last Spare a thought for God's lonely man Cause even Jesus Christ Needed help from time to time I really don't give a damn if he's a man or God It's just those things he said help me wanna get out of bed it's just those things he said…. I believe in the spirit but not the institution we should all be praying for a goddamn revolution I believe in the one but not the one and only there's room for us too among the young and the lonely They don't know where I'm coming from I'm a dog with dirty tricks they won't see me when it hits heading for the kingdom or the best one i can fix I know you'd never like it but someones gotta show them a crooked dog but it takes one to know them Lift my eyes to the hills where you used to live Where does my help come from? cause I sure could use some I need a drink and a pair of eyes that know me I need a helping hand to guide and show me the beauty in the stars, the stars in your head, your head on my chest and forget about the rest Spare a thought for God's lonely man Cause even Jesus Christ Needed help from time to time I really don't give a damn if he's a man or God It's just those things he said help me wanna get out of bed it's just those things he said….
3.
Ocean 07:18
This is the road that I see when I close my eyes and it looks just like a river I drift to deliver tricky words, torn between hypocrisy and truth but my ride still drifts in devotion to the endless ocean in your eyes Remember when you told me how I could never love again well my head was disintegrating your laugh captivating and then we kissed in the mist between a word and the unsaid I was adrift in erosion lost in the ocean of your eyes Let me be the voice that awakens what hides beneath your smile let me be the kiss that cuts through your lies without warning we could love again, you and I just as the morning kills the speechless night all the time in a room full of smoke and howling dogs I find you drunk and disarming your twinkle so charming then I see a distant storm a shadow crossed your face and I know that you are as lonely as the endless ocean in your eyes (Chorus)
4.
Over the barricades Your naked arms float to the loins and over the barricades that God built in protection for his boys. but I gave up gave up your ghost I would rather be powerless now that I have seen beyond this post show me your teeth use all of your charm it don't seem like a threat cause I have tasted all the pleasures in your harm Bring out your guns and all of your hate it can do me no wrong no more for I woke up in a dissolution state I wanna touch like God need to feel the thrust, take you apart enough to make you choke killing me softly with every stroke Give me something keep me from drifting just a little something even if it's vanishing huffing and puffing looking for a way back inside Deactivate all that is mine there is nothing for you to take I've given all that I've got left to give and let me go into the dawn put the image of peacefulness aside for we have no use for it Now that we have no use for it Now that I live only to regret
5.
Cold as the stuff you think every ship will find a way to sink stay clear of the living room frontier your enemy's under the chandelier Sick of waiting for the first attack having to constantly watch my back this will never end and that's the curse the red button would kill both of us But look at me and watch me fall break down like the Berlin Wall we had an empire a long time ago I dug my self under a blanket of snow 'til I could speak no more Point your warheads at me I miss your missiles and your fragility oh you got nothing else to do -- I hear you going in peel the dress of your snowy skin there's no way I'll ever fall asleep it's to quiet and the couch is too cheap Another sun comes and blows away I never see it flicker anyway I've been wrestling with winter all year the days die before they open their eyes that's how it goes up here -- Point your warheads at me There's a place for us in the infinity oh you got nothing else to do
6.
Runes 07:08
Look at these runes my appeal, my excuse my remedial prayer a soft language drug designed to make up for what we lost on the way close your eyes now honey bunny Take the syringe in your hand and draw what you can from my opiate voice then give it back to me in a moment you'll see we really don't have a choice go to sleep now honey bunny and when we wake up everything thats kept inside of us will take on a different shape Naked words grow from me to you without restraints unapologizing truths Like the sun rivers will be running from your mouth and eradicate the curse ...The doors will slam so hard behind us, the tremors will cause a stir in heaven... Put your head on my chest and forget about the rest in Gods echoing sound like the perpetual tree in the fall we will be with our leaves on the ground close your eyes now honey bunny Turn your cheek to the left turn your heart to the One and let go of your string I'll gently put the needle into the vein in your neck you won't notice a thing go to sleep now honey bunny
7.
Visions 03:50
44 pictures in a frame they all look kinda the same but I'm not there I'm not there anymore I'm not there wiped out everything we built/wiped out wasted or spilled lift my eyes up to the hills but we're not there we don't live there anymore we're not there anymore Sunlight and silence are the same bleeding in to every frame 'till your not there your not there anymore your not there eyes wide pretending to be dead my dreams fall out of bed see them fall see their lifeless bodies dive and see them plunge through the floor I can not justify visions I have in the dead of night run run for shelter you'll turn to stone when you see the light The hours run by in a rush left behind one of us in a room in a gallery of blush in your room Your feet come walking through the door my clothes still on the floor but I'm not here I'm not here anymore I'm not here anymore
8.
I soak you up like sponge I'm full of ghosts like anyone but there is this thing I have a gift a curse a yellow flower they see me as they wanna see I get so sick of trying to be all that they expect of me the bridge the light the statue of liberty just wanna turn out the lights crawl - in to your nights be - one with your…… I may have eased the waves but my head swims in your caves I bathe you in my sleep in the water that was meant to give but not keep just wanna turn out the lights crawl - in to your nights be - one with your……
9.
Paper birds majestic and beautiful float around, on the ground like questions that no one dared to ask and I pray their headlined wings will carry them all the way to your place and sing what my songs could never say When we where young armed with easy confidence without a dime no sense of time we'd build cities that were destined to be drowned in the sand we gate-crashed the pearly gates dug too deep and fell asleep on promises that we couldn't keep but every road and bridge would spin every grain of sand vanished in Tomorrows Rain Bring back Tomorrows Rain oh let me have... Stupid words innocent and arrogant run around, on the ground like starving dogs fighting for a juicy bone And I wish that I could put an end to them in their bed, I'd shoot them dead and write them out in retribution red and every word and every tear every drop of blood would disappear in Tomorrows Rain (ad lip) The rain gives and takes away won't let nothing stay the same 'til all that's left is the love I misunderstood tomorrow holds a better day if we let go of yesterday and every word and every tear every drop of blood will disappear and all them questions never asked will vanish in Tomorrows Rain

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released November 12, 2012

Pétur Þór Benediktsson - vocals, guitars, bass, celesta, cellos, monotribe, vibraphone, percussion
Anna Kristín Guðmundsdóttir - vocals
Ása Diljá Pétursdóttir - vocals
Óttar Sæmundsen - bass, double bass
Þorbjörn Sigurðsson - rhodes and sk20
Sigtryggur Baldursson - drums
Kippi Kaninus - electronics
Frank Hall - guitar
Davíð Þór Jónsson - piano (plucked and struck) and hammond
Kjartan Guðnason - cimbalom, chimes and timpani
Katie Buckley - harp


María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir - violin

Hildur Ársælsdóttir - violin

Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir - viola
Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir - cello
Sindri Már Sigfússon - backing vocals
Snorri Helgason  - backing vocals
Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir  - backing vocals
Magnús Jónsson  - backing vocals
Hjörvar Hjörleifsson  - backing vocals
Tómas Axel Ragnarsson  - backing vocals

Written, arranged and produced by Pétur Ben
Recorded at Sundlaugin Studio and Drekabælið
Recorded by Birgir Jón Birgisson, Elisabeth Carlsson and Pétur Ben
Mixed by Birgir Jón Birgisson
Mastered by Birgir Jón Birgisson
Artwork/Art Directors Jónas Val and Halldór Andrésson
Photos by Marino Thorlacius

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