The Songs of Brennende Drømmer

Alienation is the underlying subject of Incognito city, and the city mentioned in the song is strongly influenced by apathy. Everybody speaks, but nobody is listening and nobody cares. The inhabitants of this city are beings without any identity. Who are they? Do they have names?

Dvergenes palass (The Palace of the Dwarfs) tells the story of the dwarfs who created the world. The dwarfs can symbolise all the small human beings who made the world as it is. The song is an attack on all attempts to explain what can’t be explained. There must be a room for myths and fantasy even nowadays.

Nostradamus gives a poetic account of the visions of Nostradamus. Many have dreamt of being able to look into the future, but none of them would have liked to see the gloomy future that Nostradamus saw. It’s better to live in uncertainty and hope for the best.

Pilegrim (Pilgrim) is an epic song about a wandering wise old man. He is asked where he is heading, but has no other answer than “farther”. Man is searching for meaning and comfort, but even wise old men haven’t got any soothing answer to give. All they say is  “walk on!” 

Jublende rekker (Jubilant Ranks) poke fun at the strict frames that people tend to make around their own lives. Our lives are full of regulations and structure down to the smallest detail, but anyway we consider ourselves free to do whatever we want. How come so few do what they really like then?

Middelveis (Halfway) is about all the choices that we have to make. Distinct from our shadows we can choose where to go. Some ways are safe, but also boring. The alternative is to choose an unsafe direction, which might on the other hand be more exciting. What will you choose?

Berg og dvale (Hills and Hibernation) has got it’s motif from the medieval ballads, in which people could be spirited off into mountains. All these creatures must still be there, and what will happen when they break out of their imprisonment? The song is an attempt to bring the vision of a mystical nature from the past to a new audience.  

In Døende stein (Dying stones) we meet a poet who is sitting in his attic, writing poems about bombs and war. A few years later he got the power to turn these horrible visions into reality. The song is based on the life of Radovan Karadsic, and the chorus contains fragments of one of his poems. 

I tåketimen is a description of what might happen when we find our way through the door to  “The lake of the frozen dreams.” At the lake we can climb on board the ship of dreams and sail away to new harbours, and inevitably surrounded by mythical characters.

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