Great songs: Stoppa Mig Juni (Lilla Ego) - Kent

This is one of the saddest songs ever. This is what you feel when all hope is lost in your love life and you are just so so sad. And I really love this song, melancholic as I am.. hehe.. It's somehow so so so straight from the heart and you can really feel the pain. Jocke Berg must have been so so sad when he wrote the songs for Hagnesta Hill, the album it's from. The whole melody is so haunting and the lyrics made me cry the first time I sat down and listened to it. At the same time it feels really good.. It's something about the fact when all hope is lost that makes one feel free because it can't get any worse and that's quite liberating in a way. Here is the video. Below you find the lyrics. I have also found the lyrics in English though it is 100 times better in Swedish.. You loose some of the details in the English translation.



Someone has said that I'm a coward
Little Ego be ashamed
That I always stood there behind and agreed
You can feel the truth
I've followed you secretly in the cold
For a whole day
To return
the excuse
that I stole

Take the two and sit alone in the back
Little Ego sit still
I've walked in your footsteps all day
To Hagnesta Hill
The first snow has fallen, everything is slippery
And I left my scarf
at a bus stop
outside town

I gather all my courage there at the alley
Little Ego has escaped
I screamed with breaking voice "I hate you"
As a child I was cruel
This feeling I have
is not mine
It stayed behind, is it yours?
It tastes like you

It is tears
Can one cry like a man?
Please forgive me
I forgot who I was
Please stop listening
Forget everything I said
I'm fine
You have to leave me alone

It is tears
Can one cry like a man?
Please forgive me
I forgot who I was
Please stop listening
Forget everything I said
I'm fine
You have to leave me alone

I don't need any help
If you want to help, help yourself
I don't need any help
So leave me alone
Leave me alone

Någon hade sagt att jag var feg
Lilla Ego fy skäms
Att Jag alltid stod där bakom och höll med
Sanningen känns
Jag har skuggat dig i kylan
en hel dag
för att lämna tillbaks
den undanflykt
som Jag stal

Tar 2:an sitter ensam längst bak
Lilla Ego sitt still
Jag har gått i dina fotspår hela dan
till Hagnesta Hill
Den första snön har fallit allt är halt
och min halsduk blev kvar
på en hållplats
utanför stan...

Jag samlar allt mitt mod där vid allén
Lilla Ego har rymt
Jag skrek med målbrottsröst jag hatar er
som barn var jag grym
Den här känslan som Jag har
är inte min
Den blev kvar, är den din?
Den smakar som Du...

Det är tårar
Kan man gråta som en karl?
Snälla Du förlåt mig
Jag glömde vem Jag var
snälla sluta lyssna
Glöm allt Jag sa
Jag mår bra
Du måste lämna mig i fred

Det är tårar
Kan man gråta som en karl?
Snälla Du förlåt mig
Jag glömde vem Jag var
snälla sluta lyssna
Glöm allt Jag sa
Jag mår bra
Du måste lämna mig i fred

Jag behöver ingen hjälp
Vill Du hjälpa hjälp dig själv
Jag behöver ingen hjälp
så lämna mig i fred
Lämna mig i fred

Musical Memories: Kent

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My relation to Kent started all the way back in about 1997. I must have heard the single "If you where here /Om du vär her" somewhere and on our class trip to Praha we drove through Sweden. The song somehow summed up the whole feeling of being away from someone you love. I had a long-distance-byfriend at the time, so I really identified with it. On a gass station somewhere in Sweden I bought my first Kent record "Isola". I listened to the cd all the way to Praha and back and was utterly hooked on all the great guitar melodies, the lovely vocal of Jocke and his great lyrics and what I have found out later is that special Kent rhytm. it's the same in all their songs and very very Kent, and makes it good no matter what they do. It's a kind of slow groovy 4/4. Kent later released the album in english and I still can't belive that such a great album can sound that horrible in just another language. No sir, Kent it English does not work at all for me.

In 1999 came Hagnesta Hill with some, if not the, greatest lyrics of Kent. At the same time, I started University and at some point in 2000 I was standing outside the institute of theatre and music and started talking to a girl. In a few minutes we realized that we both loved both Kent and The Wannadies and was utterly thrilled that there were someone else in the world that knew about this great music and loved it at much. This became the foundation of a great friendship that still has a strong flavor of the common love of great music.

I saw Kent for the frist time in this periode somehow... I do not really remember when, and in might even have been later. I was just a few meters awway from the stage and it was great. Mew also did the warm-ups so we also discovered another great rock-band that night. Ah,.. I found it now... May 2002. I also saw them again the same summer when I was at the Quart festival. This turned out to be the greatest year so far when it comes to sucess for Kent in Norway. In October 2002 they actually played the biggst stage in Oslo , Spektrum, for 8000 people. At this time the hype started to kill my Kent-feeling, because half of the people there was just there to sing along with the monster-hits from the album that was released that year "Vapen & Ammunition". I was quite happy when they said "Let's play some old rock'n'roll" and did the song " Kräm". Then you could see all the "new-comers" get shocked and all of us "oldies" jumping violently.

Here is Kräm (it's still one of my favorite songs):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py9c079V3Dg

That whole hype of 2002 killed my Kent interesst for some time. I just couldn't help it. I know it's very stuck up and posh and anything to not like things when they are to hyped, but I am just like that. When people has to many opinions on what I should think of a certain song or band or cd I can't listen to it... I just have to wait...

So ... I haven't actually really listened to the two latest Kent Albums... The fact that one of the bands to guitarplayers left the band also contributed to me not wanna listen to them because I have always love the guitars of Kent so.. It has been a bit sad, but I just couldn't. About a few weeks ago though my friend sendt me a great link. It was a summer calender of Kent clips from their new studio, so I had to watch, and the more I watch them I realize that I have missed them, so now I think it's about time to really dig into those two last albums that I haven't really listened to.... I think it might be time now to refind old long lost love... hehe ;)


Om du var här (with english subtitles): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAKCjZ4AkM

Vinter 02 (One of the greatest music videoes and greatest guitar-tunes of all time): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uYa8gWs2rE

Kärleken väntar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veew6nzWDCU


Kents channel on YouTube where you can see and listen to a lot about them :
http://www.youtube.com/kentchannel

Kent's official homepage : http://www.kent.nu/