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By The Way

by Annika And The Forest

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    PREORDER AND HELP FINANCE a book with photos by Annabel Salesa and written portraits and songs by Annika Grill during a three month road-trip; at night, mid day, in the morning, on the beach, in the car, in crummy motels, beautiful motels, sometimes real hotels, … during hard moments, dark moments, fructuous moments, wonderfully boring moments, extremely funny moments, lost moments, sometimes found moments, no illuminated moments, surprising moments…

    All these moments just happen to be crisscrossing the USA from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean then all the way back to the Atlantic before heading over and out: back to Paris, France.
    Unforgettable.

    The photos, videos, poems and texts were put online on a daily bases on themeltingpots.tumblr.com during the road-trip, the songs by Annika And The Forest were finished in France.

    ANNIKA AND THE FOREST

    Annika Grill – Songs, texts and lyrics
    Alexis Anerilles – Arrangement on “Just Rests and lies”
    Naim Amor and Valentine Duteil – Arrangement on “Stolen sun dampened clouds”

    DINING IN MIAMI Annika Grill: vocals/synths
    RESTS AND LIES Annika Grill: vocals - Alexis Anerilles: piano/synth/trumpets/ bugles - Victor Paimblanc: guitars/bass - Charlotte Patel: cellos – Franck M’Bouécké: drums
    WHEN THE WIND WHIPS THE EYES: Annika Grill: vocals/percussions – Franck M’Bouécké: vocals - Victor Paimblanc: vocals – Caroline Geryl: vocals/percussions
    STOLEN SUN, DAMPENED CLOUDS: Annika Grill – Vocals/bass/percussions – Naim Amor: Guitars and percussions – Valentine Duteil: Cellos
    THE END OF A SONG: Annika Grill - Vocals
    FRECKLES OF SNOW: Annika Grill: vocals/bass/synth/percussions – Gregg Anthe: synth/guitars/bass – Victor Paimblanc: guitars - Caroline Geryl: drums

    Mixed and Mastered by Mathieu Marietti At Ome
    Recorded by Annika Grill at Honey I’m Home, at Afternoon Sessions and in
    Miami/ Louisiana/ Texas/ New Mexico/ Colorado/ Arizona/ California/ New York

    Photos by Annabel Salesa

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MIAMI Cold beer and a white sun, and I know I’m not the only one. There you are, and you all look like stars. The sun is cold and the moon is hot, and I see everything inside out. Palm trees in a pool and I’m the fool, because I never figured you out.
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DINING IN MIAMI My lonely heart, Can’t get over you My lonely heart, Won’t be over you I don’t know when you’ll part From my heart I don’t know when to part From my heart My lonely Heart My lonely Heart My lonely Heart Won’t be through My lonely Heart My lonely Heart My lonely Heart Won’t be through
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LOUISIANA Tiered is the wind, That falls from your sky, Dark is the sun, That hides from your clouds, Weak is the wind, That just rests, and lies, Just lies, and lies. Just lies. The snow doesn’t fall, On this ice cold day, It just hangs in the sky, Like it never got weighed. It just rests, and lies. Just lies, and lies. Just lies. Your anger has frozen, In some deafening way, It just won’t go away, It just rests, and lies. Just lies, and lies. Just lies.
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NEW ORLEANS Blue, blue, blue You make me so you, You, you, you You make me so blue, Black and blue, black and blue, black and blue. Would you take my bundle of tears, And lay them out to feel, Because it seems that I won’t heal, Unless it all seems real. So take me in and make it right, After all my messed up fights, Let me rest and leave this quest. Give me blue, only blue, only blue. Then save some jazz for all the rest.
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TEXAS When the wind whips the eyes, Well I don’t want to cry, But you see, I don’t want to lie, Because the wind whips the eyes, And although I don’t cry, My heart feels like I’m living a lie. And whilst I’m running wild, My mind’s keeping me sound, But my heart just skips round and round. Because my head’s just the thing, That brings darkness within, And it might as well have me again. Because here it is in my head, It isn’t black, only red, And it’s coming back, just like I said. Yet tomorrow I’ll swallow, My tears like I’m hollow, And I’ll lie down again and be wed. And when I stop drinking, I won’t be sinking, And may be some day, I’ll be thinking, That although I was wed, Thinking love was as said, I’m still free as can be On my knees. Yes down on my knees, I’ll be begging you please, Set me free, let me be, let me leave. And I’ll leave on my knees, On me knees, I’ll be free And be begging you please let me be, And be me.
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ARIZONA Stolen sun, Dampened Clouds, In the faith of love and things. Steeling sunshine, To seem like I am fine, Steeling daytime, to seem like I’m all right. Stolen time, Cooler winds, In the faith of life and things. Steeling daytime, To feel like I’m all right, Steeling sunshine, to seem like I am fine. Till then I’ll be all right, till then I’ll be all right. No regrets, Nothing’s gone, I’ll find my way, before you’re gone. I’ll steel the skies, and take in all their pride, I’ll skip the night, to seem like I’m all right, Till then I’ll be all right, till then I’ll be all right. I’ll go to the sea, And steel the wind, They’ll bring me back to my old things. I’ll steel the day, to feel like I’m all right, I’ll steel the sunlight, and bring it to the night.
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NEW YORK It’s the end of a song. And I thought that I belonged, The lights are still flashing away, But there’s no music is being played. So here I am on the stage. Me, myself and my rage, Naked, scars seen by all, And you won’t catch me if I fall. Like a favourite song, That’s been played and re-played, Nothing’s left anymore, And I’m faced with what’s in store. So here I am on the stage. Me, myself and my rage, Naked, scars seen by all, And you won’t catch me if I fall. My favourite song is gone, And it’s time to move along, Let life’s chapter be revealed,
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Snow 03:32
BROOKLYN When I see you, dreams turn out loud. There’s no beginning To explain what they’re about. Because it’s snowing outside, And we’ve already taken cover, From the soft and gentle clouds, That slowly toss out freckles of snow That I will, I will follow. I will let it snow. I will, I will follow. I will, let it snow, The sun will rise and the snow will melt some day, right beneath this old oak whilst I wait And watch the wind that gently blows Away the freckles from your skin, Till then I don’t know where I’ll go, Because it’s a part of why we follow through the snow And I will, I will follow. I will let it snow. I will, I will follow. I will let it snow. Because though it’s snowing outside, And we’ve already taken cover, From the soft and gentle clouds, That slowly toss out freckles of snow, I will, I will follow. I will let it snow. I will, I will follow. I will let it snow.
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released January 13, 2014

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ANNIKA AND THE FOREST
Annika Grill is a Swedish composer, based in Paris/France. The music is melancholic as is often Nordic music but the southern sun is always close behind...
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