Jens Lekman - On a Pier, On the Hudson (feat. Matilda Sargren) [Official Video]

"On a Pier, On the Hudson” by Jens Lekman featuring Matilda Sargren from ‘Songs for Other People's Weddings' on Secretly Canadian Stream/Order “Songs for Other People's Weddings”: https://jens-lekman.lnk.to/SFOPW https://www.jenslekman.com/   / jenslekman   https://x.com/JensLekman   / jenslekmanofficial   Credits: Filmed and Edited by Rena Johnson Produced by Daniel Fagerström and Jens Lekman Mixed by Daniel Fagerström Recorded at Magix Playground, Studio Rymden, Studio Fabriken, Sockerbruket Engineers: Daniel Fagerström, Jens Lekman, Daniel Bengtsson, Johan Hjalmarsson Mastered by Gustav Brunn at All In Audio Matilda Sargren: Lead Vocals Jens Lekman: Lead vocals, Programming, Synthesizer Loulou Lamotte: Backing vocals Axel Bauer: Additional Production, Programming, Synthesizer, Drums, Rhodes Daniel Fagerström: Drums, Percussion, Programming, Synthesizer Erik Lydig: Bass Lyrics: J: New York City’s a reflection of how you feel If your heart is full you’ll feel the warm pavement under your heels But if your heart is empty then it’s just a pile of concrete and steel A desert where nothing blooms, a graveyard for dreams V: We find a pier on the Hudson, as far out as we can go My mind still repeats the word ”obsolete” from the song you wrote I know you didn’t mean to, but the song made me feel old For you the river stands still, your dream’s fulfilled for me it’s just started to flow J: if you don’t want to go backwards, why can’t I go forwards with you? How can you leave the door open and tell me not to walk through? J: ”I hate this, I hate this more than anything” V: I know, I do too J: “No, you don’t. If you hated it, it wouldn’t be happening.” V: ”I know, that’s true” J: ”Tell me you love me, tell me you want me in your life again” V: ”I can tell you the first but… not the second” V: You see those lights on the other side I saw them on TV when I was a child In the darkness I grew up in, where that TV was my only light I never dreamt that I’d get here, even less this could be my life And now it’s like a spell, I’ve become someone else someone who has to travel light V: I don’t wanna go backwards, but I can’t go forwards with you Whoever I’m turning into, whatever I have to do I don’t wanna go backwards, but I can’t go forwards with you Those are my last words, that’s all I can give you J: And that’s how you leave me standing, you order a cab and go You let me hug you and I should refuse but I don’t And behind the New York skyline, the Tsar Bomba explodes I imagine the heatwave approaching, how it swallows me whole - Jens Lekman - On a Pier, On the Hudson (feat. Matilda Sargren) [Official Video] #JensLekman #OnaPierOntheHudson #SongsforOtherPeoplesWeddings