Preface
These are newly written songs with their own musical voice. In terms of genre, they are at the interstice of ballads, folk songs and jazz.
The lyrics consider love as expressed in interpersonal relations. They are also about feeling insignificant and in need of comfort – and what it is like to feel resilient, joyful and just slightly marvellous. But above all, they are about longing for the essence of love.
The songs and their message resonate with the belief that there is a greater force of love out there – a love that goes beyond everything and everybody, which is Everything; a love of which we are born, and into which we enter when we pass on.
Every day we are bombarded with sombre news flashes that come all too close. We want to give our listeners a sense of promise, of mercy and kindness, and of light and hope – buoyed by the belief that those things to which we devote attention will flourish.
The ability to love needs to be cultivated. This requires will. For us, therefore, the prime necessities for the good life are love and will.
Tone Marie Roren, writer
June Baarøy Myhrstad, composer and musician
A Silent Halleluja
There in me, where I cannot see,
my body ‘s reaching out for
the sacred place in me.
And I can hear a silent Halleluja.
Here in me, a glimpse of golden light,
witnessed by eternity,
illuminates my sight.
And I can hear a silent Halleluja.
Here in us, the Great Reality,
whispering of love divine,
bringing us serenity.
And we can hear a silent Halleluja.
A silent Halleluja.
A Little Fantastic
I am a little fantastic.
I am unique, so to speak.
I` ve got mysterious eyes,
and my heart beats
to an alien drum.
I float above myself.
Above myself!
I` m, quite simply, more than
I can become.
I am a little fantastic.
I am unique, so to speak.
I am a bundle of charm,
seductively kind.
My brain` s got a plain touch of gold.
A plain touch of gold.
It` s exclusive and
completely mine!
I am a little fantastic.
I am unique, so to speak.
I am a flower, rare,
and heavenly blue.
I` m fragrant, fragrant and mild,
I` m tender and wild.
I` m the very special one of the
- chosen few!