Vasshus is a band based around singer-songwriter Hanne Vasshus.
Sometimes I play all by myself accompanied only by my piano. Other times there will be a guitarist and sometimes the band will be eight musicians.
So every time I play these songs they will end up something different, but the constant on both record and in concert is some amazing vocals.
She left me
by the house
She left me all alone and now
I can’t find myself
Now that she’s gone away
Gone to a place
And all these questions
about life and love
And now where can I turn
who can i trust
Cause I’m allowed
to find the secrets of life
I see so clearly
what she sacrificed
She was the one to tell me
that I needed to be safe and sound
Oh, but when I’m all alone
trying to find that place
and don’t know where
But I know that I’m allowed
to find the secrets of life
Yes I’m alive
to be the best in this solitude of mine
But don’t you know
can’t you see
that the fire is out
And when the burden releases
you will find yourself
Went into that darkness
there’s no peace I’ll find
Cause I’m allowed
to spread my wings up high
Don’t you know that we’re alive
to be the best in this solitude of ours
Lyrics by Hanne Vasshus
Melody by Hanne Vasshus & Simen Ytre-Arne
Oh, so many things just going on now
and oh, so many things I’d like to see
Come with me please
don’t be deceitful
I’ve been playing where
I should’t be playing now, baby
And you’ve been doing wrong
for ever so long
I´m trying to breath
I’m trying to hold on to you
I’m trying to speak
I’m trying to hold on to you
Waiting for the second time around now, baby
We’ve been moving back and forth
being late
Now what you wanna, what you
are you really gonna say
really gonna do
I’m trying to breath
Cause I´m trying to hold on to you
Cause there’s oh, so many things
just going on now
And oh, so many things I’d like to be
Come with me please
don’t be deceitful
Waiting for the second drop of tear to fall down your face
I’ve been waiting all this long to see your disgrace
Won’t you please come on in I’ll make you some tea
You see I’ve forsaken this I need some guarantees
Cause I’m drowning myself in this shame I have caused
No one under, no one near me
I’m the one who stands to fall
And I don’t know what the blackbird said or what the roses did
but it wasn’t in the chicken run or underneath the bed
I don’t know where to start it happened all to fast
I tried to prevent my soul from hurting you at last
Cause I’m drowning myself in this shame I have caused
No one under, no one near me
I’m the one who stands to fall
And I looked inside the summer house it wasn´t ever there
And I´ ve tried the Thames at Maidenhead and Brighton´s bracing air
won’t you say love me, love me
won’t you say love me, love me
love me
Cause I’m drowning myself in this shame I have caused
No one under, no one near me
I’m the one who stands to fall
And I don’t know what the blackbird said or what the roses did
but it wasn’t in the chicken run or underneath the bed
Favourite girl paints colours on her walls
a plan she’s been working on for long
Favourite girl can’t make it all alone
Favourite girl walks down the memory lane
Needs a colour to hide away the blame
of empty chairs and empty hearts of disguise
Cause nobody listens anymore
and the feeling just makes her insecure
Favourite girl remembers all the joy
of dipping her toes in the fresh blue
Favourite girl can’t always see the sun
Favourite girl been hiding all her tears
with a laughter of poverty and fear
Favourite girl can’t make it on her own
But she knows they won’t let her swear
an empty life around the fear
Oh, looking back her bottles getting wet
of losing face on what she now regrets
Favourite girl can’t make it to the test
But the need of becoming someone
to see and the thought of it all
Makes it tougher to breath
she lies awake
They can’t see
her fail
Favourite girl paints colors in her heart
Favourite girl paints pictures on her walls
Favourite girl can’t make it all alone
It wasn’t mine, my mistake
this time you did it all, by yourself
It isn’t easy to say goodbye
but I know that I needed to find a place
to call my own
We said goodbye, right at the door
our picture hanging on the wall
But this time you did something right
like you knew we couldn’t leave it all behind
So roll down the curtains let me drown
this isn’t how I thought it would feel to fall apart
make decisions
pay the price
oh, words can only heal if there’s something left to save
So please,
baby let me fall
you better let me fall
Another year or maybe less
I can’t recall cause it was a fucking mess
It was a good thing to let go
but this wound now can’t seem to find it’s soul
So take me deeper
make me harder
break me in pieces, don’t put me back in place
all shall pass
also this
We weren’t made to be
It wasn´t you and me
So please,
baby let me fall
you better let me fall
Run run run
you better run now child
Run run run
run away
I said run run run
you better run now child
run run run
run away
It’s been fifty years or more
since they took your land now child
And you’ve been running for that wall
ever since that day my child
But they’re never gonna let you go
No, they’ll never gonna loose their control
They sent you all to war
to protect the land my child
And they left your mother at home
to cry her tears out at night
but they’ll never gonna let you go
No, they’ll never gonna loose their control
No, they’ll never gonna let you go
No, they’ll never gonna loose their control
Cause they’ll never never gonna let you go No, they’ll never gonna lose their control
Forgive them for their sins
just run away my child
There’s no protection from
these walls
when they hold their hands up high
Run run run
you better run now child
I said run run run
run away
I said run run run
you better run now child
run run run
run away
I didn’t know
I didn’t feel
I didn’t know when i was right
what I felt
I stopped believing in myself
I would choose to die
Another phase
oh oh oh
you shot me
you shot me down
oh oh oh
he shot me
he shot me down
oh oh oh
he shot me down
and I was dead dead dead
I didn’t know
I didn’t know
how it would be
I didn’t know that I would feel this for you
I didn’t know that I would be the one
laying in front of you
Well, I told you all my dreams last night
Yes, I told you I had dreams last night
and I told you that you were all fine
And then we slept in the bed all night
Morning, evening, all morning
ah aoh
And then we slept through the evenings
and the mornings and the dinners and the oh oh oh
But you shot me
you shot me down
oh oh oh
he shot me
he shot me down
oh oh oh
he shot me down
and I was dead
dead
dead
There was a time
there was this young girl
oh traveling the world
for her it seemed unfurled
She had a lust for life and love
and hoped that they were true
the word she heard above
oh, sister
She met a man
He was the blackest sun
he promised her gold and fun
now if she would be the one
She didn’t know if he was her dream
she cannot judge the things
she haven’t seen
oh, sister
oh, sister
oh, sister, don’t you cry
Sister
oh, sister
oh, sister, don’t you cry
She packed her bags
and moved to London town
In hope for happiness
and that he would wear the crown
He said oh, lover,
oh won’t you come over
She took her biggest chance
and went with open hands
To many things can make you fall apart
small little lies can break a broken heart
but I know that you’ll be safe
oh, oh sister, won’t you stay
oh, sister
How long am I suppose to wait
To feel your bliss
Keep me like a dog on a leach
I`m waiting for your kiss
I`ve been climbing these walls
You`re nowhere to be found
Played my heart like a sad old song
But you can hear my sound
This may be a house
But not a home
If I`m gonna feel this bad
I can do it alone
I gave you my best years, baby
You read me like a book
I opened up my heart like a page
You just rip them up
This may be a house
But not a home
If I`m gonna feel this bad
I can do it alone
This may be a house
But not a home
Breaking the spell for a thrill
Made by you
Well the storm is coming around
And nobody knows what you`ve done
This may be a house
But not a home
If I`m gonna feel this bad
I can do it alone
This may be a house
But not a home
If I`m gonna feel this bad
I can do it alone
This may be a house
But not a home
Lyrics by Hanne Vasshus & Malcolm Burn
Melody by Hanne Vasshus
When I neede you most you were there
Made me feel like the one you could care
By the time I was down I was up
Never knew when I had enough
This tree won`t stand any longer
These winds will sweep me away
I stood as strong as I could muster
It`s a hurricane
Cause ev`rything has changed now
Nothing is the same now
All I fell is shame now
You stripped me to the bone
Cause ev`rything has changed now
Nothing is the same now
Little left of me now
I rattle when I walk
There`s a house by the sea painted red
Where the waves clear the noise in my head
I`m a child, I`m a sister, I`m a friend
Not the ice queen you screamed when I left
This tree won`t stand any longer
These winds will sweep me away
I stood as strong as I could muster
It`s a hurricane
Cause ev`rything has changed now
Nothing is the same now
All I fell is shame now
You stripped me to the bone
Cause ev`rything has changed now
Nothing is the same now
Little left of me now
I rattle when I walk
I`m not the same girl you met in Oslotown
I was broke, didn`t know in or out
Faced my demons realised they were yours
I`m not uncertain not the least insecure
This tree can`t stand anylonger
These winds will sweep me away
I stood as strong as I could muster
It`s a hurricane
Cause ev`rything has changed now
Nothing is the same now
All I fell is shame now
You stripped me to the bone
Cause ev`rything has changed now
Nothing is the same now
Little left of me now
I rattle when I walk
Melody & lyrics by
Hanne Vasshus and Sandrine Burn
Here we are once again
We`re all alone and we`re back where we began
Same old story same old song and dance
A broken record spinning `round
I`m out on the boardwalk
where the north wind blows
I look to the hill top
where the warm lights glow
I`ve made excuses in the past
For ev`ry time you put me down
Funny how I always stay for you
While you just walk away
I`m out on the boardwalk
where the north wind blows
I look to the hill top
where the warm lights glow
Is this just a bad dream or a passing phase
Once more will I wake up to your sleeping face
Melody & lyrics by Hanne Vasshus, Ida Jenshus and Malcolm Burn
All these incidental words don`t mean anything
But I want to let you know that you do for me
You strolled in my life when I sit and watch the candle burn
I think of you and me
You came into my life not like a storm at all my love
You just lifted me every time we talked
Maybe that you liked me very much indeed
Oh that was my fantasy
Cause oh when I look into those eyes
Well I get so carried away
they remind me of what I`m supposed to say
That I can feel so free
The hardest part is always in the endings where we meet
I have you a moment for myself before you need to run away
To be something more for someone else
And I just can`t hold myself back
Cause oh when I look into those eyes
Well I get so carried away
they remind me of what I`m supposed to say
That I can feel so free
But lately I`ve been thing
That this boat is sinking
Maybe we should talk
But oh then I look into those eyes
Well I get so carried away
they remind me of what I`m supposed to say
That I can feel so free
Yes oh when I look into your eyes
Well I get so carried away
they remind me of what I`m supposed to feel
That I can feel so free
Yes that I can feel me
Oh that I can be me
Melody & lyrics by Hanne Vasshus
You told me be patient
Good things will come
I waited anticipated
Tough my mind said run
I blossomed under your
Warm Nordic sun
Then your cold winter swept
Turned my skies dark
And we thought we were in serendipity
Tried so hard that we lost along the way
If we get just a moment of sanity
Slip into serendipity
I hate my simple trust
I hate my love
I`d light a big bon fire
And burn them up
And we thought we were in serendipity
Tried so hard that we lost along the way
If we get just a moment of sanity
Slip into serendipity
Into the fire, into the fire
Find another way to bring me home
Into the fire, into the fire
Out the other side I can be strong
And we thought we were in serendipity
Tried so hard that we lost along the way
If we get just a moment of sanity
Slip into serendipity
And we thought we were in serendipity
Tried so hard that we lost along the way
If we get just a moment of sanity
Slip into serendipity
Slip into serendipity
Slip into serendipity
Melody & lyrics by Hanne Vasshus and Sandrine Burn
I should have known better than to fall
Somewhere inside me I knew it from the start
I was lost on my own when he offered his hand
I should have known better than to be fooled again
We stayed up for hours drank the night away
Talked of the future how the sun would shine our way
He was strong I got soft there was no game to play
But I should have known better than to be fooled again
In his eyes I saw a home
In his plans lied my soul
Oh everything becomes all right
When he calls me his wife
Oh I should have known better than to be fooled again
I wish I was wiser by the scars on my soul
I should`ve remembered all the nights that he stole
We made rules somewhere in Main as we walked in the rain
Oh I should have known better than to be fooled again
Find myself waiting for this man to call my own
Feel more alone than before I knew his hand
Gave him all that I had believed every word he said
I should have known better than to be fooled again
Now I know what he has done
And I see what I`ve become
But everything is all right
when he calls me his wife
I should have known better than to be fooled again
I should have known better than to be fooled again
I should have known better than to be fooled again
Melody by Hanne Vasshus and Malcolm Burn
Lyrics by Hanne Vasshus
Remember how we used to walk
Full of light easy talk
We used to laugh
At the same you and I
Don`t say goodbye
I`ll start cry
Nothing stays the same
Nothing stays the same
You were old I was young
There was no trouble to find
You made me smile
From the bottom inside
I`ll hide my tears
To comfort this fear
Nothing stays the same
Nothing stays the same
You held my hand in darkest nights
In your eyes I saw the light
A rose of love
With a kiss from the sky
Takes time to grow
A life on your own
Nothing stays the same
Nothing stays the same
You showed me to run far
Run run run for the stars
You taught me to fight for
All the beautiful things life has in store
Now you`re gone I`m all alone
Strolling down the street with song
You`re always here
Right by my side
Fly far away
I remember you sang
Nothing stays the same
Nothing stays the same
Melody by Hanne Vasshus and Malcolm Burn
Lyrics by Hanne Vasshus
Eg vandre rotlaust rundt ein nye skog
med farger som eg aldri før har sett
De dukka opp den dagen då du dro
og siden har eg trødd her uten tro
For du, du e’kje lenger her med meg
Du får ikkje oppleva ein nye vår
Eg finne ingen fred fra alt eg ikkje sa
Kossen kunne eg vêr blinde siste dag
Skulle vært med deg og holdt dine hender
så alt var sagt og eg kanskje kunne forstå
At du ikkje lenger er her hos meg
Du får ikkje oppleva ein nye vår
Ta meg med hjem
La meg bli
hos deg
Eg lovte deg å leva drømmen ut
Å aldri gje opp har blitt mitt bud
Eg lukke øynene ser deg klart i meg
Kjenne varmen din der den sprer ditt håp
Men du, du e’kje lenger her hos meg
Du får ikkje sett dette ein nye vår
Du e’kje lenger her med meg
Me får ikkje oppleva ein nye vår
Ta meg med hjem
la meg bli
hos deg
Melody & lyrics by Hanne Vasshus
I`ve been waiting a long time baby
For a man of my own
Saturday I`m so lonely baby
I can never stay home
And it`s a long night on the town
When I go I go all the way out
And it`s a long night on the town
Tonight
Sitting round I get antsy baby
Had myself to much wine
Gonna put on a skin tight sweater
And my heels are sky high
And it`s a long night on the town
When I go and I go all the way out
And it`s a long night on the town
Tonight
Tonight
I`m just a face in the crowd
It`s getting dark in here now
I`m alone in the crowd now honey
I can be who I want
I can be Tina Turner Gaga
Nothing stopping me now
And it`s a long night on the town
When I go I go all the way out
And it`s a long night on the town
Tonight
Tonight
I`m just a face in the crowd
It`s getting dark in here now
Melody & lyrics by Hanne Vasshus, Sandrine Burn and Malcolm Burn