In Rosa's heart (3.01)
(Ron Hicks)(Linda Wier Music-BMI)
(Single #1, Alone too long 1990)

Down in Rosa's heart she sheds a tear
For someone so far away while I hold her near
Thought I give her sympathy
Her kisses are not meant for me
Down in Rosa's heart he still appears

I'll take a walk an talk her off my mind
I feel that soon she will be leaving me behind
I can never take his place
We just can't go on this way

Down in Rosa's heart she cries
She says she loves me
But the words don't ring true
Her fantasy is breaking me in two
I pledge my love and I play my part
I'll always be second place in Rosa's heart

If I could only make him fade away
I know that she'd be truly mine some day
Oh will there always be
A shadow hangin' over me
Down in Rosa's heart he stays

I'll always be second place in Rosa's heart

Vocals and acc.guitar - Steinar Albrigtsen
Acc. high-string guitar - Knut Reiersrud
Bass - Bjørn Kjellemyr
Drums - Tore Wilthauer
Background vocals - Ottar Johansen / Jørn Hoel / Steinar Albrigtsen
Strings - Strings Unlimited
Violins - Einy Langmoen / Anne Strengehagen
Viola - Gro Elisabet Sille
Cello - Christine Bugjerde
Strings arranged and conducted by David Chochron

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen



I just wanna fall in love (3.06)
(Steve Carter)(Manus)
(Bound to wander)
1992

I keep thinkin' 'bout that first kiss
Our walk together hand in hand
I was afraid it would lead to this
I just want to fall in love again

I'm not tryin' to fool myself
To lead you on or reel you in
I don't want to find someone else
I just want to fall in love again

Let me know
What's on your mind
When I'm with you
It just gets better all the time

I'm not certain that you're the one
To be a lover and a friend
But gettin' there is half the fun
I just want to fall in love again
In love - again

Vocals and acc.guitar - Steinar Albrigtsen
High-string and baryton guitar - Knut Reiersrud
Bass - Øyvind Madsen
Drums - Thorsten Dulsrud
B3 organ - Per Kolstad
Dobro - Morten Sand
Accordion - Kristin Skaare
Drums and triangle - Knut H. Johannessen
Background vocals - Jørn Hoel / Steinar Albrigtsen

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen



Not just waitin' (3.51)
(Erik Moll)(Erik Moll Music-Ascap)
(Alone too long)
1990

I remember the sound of your laughter
And how softly you can sing
Wonderful ways you look after me
Fine times of those little things
It warms my heart you're not just waitin'
I'm so glad we're not wastin' time
I love the way you keep activatin' me
Feel so good walk this line know you're mine

I recall all the days we played together
Yes and the endless nights of love
Fireworks and hot Texas weather
Big moon and lots of stars up above

I'm havin' so hard times without you
Loneliness closin' in on me
Glad these fantasies I have about you
Will soon be sweet reality

Vocals and acc.guitar - Steinar Albrigtsen
Baryton and acc. guitar - Knut Reiersrud
Steelguitar - Morten Sand
Bass - Bjørn Kjellemyr
Drums - Rune Arnesen
El. piano and organ - Per Kolstad
Background vocals - Ottar Johansen / Jørn Hoel / Steinar Albrigtsen

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen



Poor Stanley (3.10)
(Steinar Albrigtsen/Tom Pacheco)
(Warner Chappell Music Norway/Polygram Publishing Norway)
(Single #3, Life is good)
1996

Stanley's always rushing out to somewhere
Lookin' at his watch with no time to spare
When he's at his work or home
Talkin' on the mobile-phone
The family sees him but he's never there

Always in a taxi or an airplane
With his laptop livin' in the fast-lane
Stan is such a busy man
Leather briefcase in his hand
Does he know it is a ball and chain

And as time goes tickin' by
The bluebirds fly across the sky
Singin' songs he'll never hear
Stanley is preoccupied
Even when he sits beside his granny
He's a million miles away
Poor Stanley

While at meetings at his corporation
He missed his children's graduation
His blood pressure's way too high
Doctors tell him he might die
Business is a risky occupation

And though his kids are almost grown
There's a love they've never known
The time he spent out on his own
Through the years they've missed so much
His guiding hand - a gentle touch from daddy
Now it's too late
Poor Stanley

Vocals and acc.guitar - Steinar Albrigtsen
Soprano saxophone - Morten Halle
El. guitar - Roger Ludvigsen
Bass - Bjørn Kjellemyr
Organ - Per Kolstad
Drums - Rune Arnesen
Percussion - Knut H. Johannesen

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen and Steinar Albrigtsen



Till the morning comes (3.53)
(Jonas Fjeld/Hugh Moffatt)
(Manus / Grey Mauser Music BMI/Atlantic Music Corp. BMI)
(Single #2, Alone too long)
1990

I've heard restless winds calling you
Seen the colors in your eyes
Running wet from troubles deep within
Leaving comes as no surprise

Stay with me till the morning comes
Let me hold you one more time
Stay with me till the morning comes
Maybe I can change your mind

Seems a shame to waste a night like this
Big old moon shining bright
Come to me and close your distant eyes
Just until the morning light
Time changes everything
Let's leave the past behind
It's not forever
It's just one night at the time

Vocals and acc.guitar - Steinar Albrigtsen
Acc. and el. guitar - Knut Reiersrud
Bass - Bjørn Kjellemyr
Drums - Tore Wilthauer
Organ - Per Kolstad
Harmonica - Sven Zetterberg
Percussion - Paolo Vinaccia
Background vocals - Hilde Heltberg / Ottar Johansen /
Jørn Hoel / Steinar Albrigtsen

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen



Life is good (4.42)
(Steinar Albrigtsen/Tom Pacheco)
(Warner Chappell Music Norway/Polygram Publishing Norway)
(Single #2, Life is good)
1996

Woke up to the morning light
Had a restless sleepless night
Worry wound my insides tight
Got up and put a pot of coffee on
I lit the fireplace up
The room was quickly warm
I looked out the window out at the blue sky
Over the fields and woods
Life is good

Turned the radio on low
Poured some milk in my cats bowl
Got my mail and read it slow
>From my oldest friends
The ones I treasure most
Who would be there when
Others had gone home
I look at a robin up on a rooftop
Singen' the way he should
Life is good

Life is good - Life is good
Life is good - Life is good

Took my coffee went outside
Felt the sweetest breeze go by
Saw a painted butterfly
Dancin' in the air flirting with the flowers
Making me aware of a greater power
Though trouble may test us
Sorrow arrest us
Let it be understood
Life is good

Vocals and acc.guitar - Steinar Albrigtsen
Saxophone - Morten Halle
El. Guitar - Roger Ludvigsen
Bass - Øyvind Madsen
Piano - Per Kolstad
El. Piano - Knut Koppang
Drums - Knut H. Johannessen

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen and Steinar Albrigtsen



My haunted heart (4.07)
(Erik Moll/Jim Varsos)
(Erik Moll Music Ascap/Island Bound-Famous Ascap)
(Outtake from The Troubadour, 1994)
Re-recorded 1998.

Now that you left me what am I gonna do
I can't imagine living life without you
All by myself under the cold moonlight
Tryin' to forget you layin' awake all night

Outside my window pane
The wind cries out your name
I see you movin' through the shadows
In every memory
I see you dancin' free
Just like you're here with me
Though I know
It's my haunted heart

Now I'm so empty feel like my soul's been lost
Will you come back I'm still possessed by the thought
Wish you were near me and you were holding me tight
Baby I know it's gonna be a long long night

Vocals and acc.guitars - Steinar Albrigtsen
Bass - Andy Nesblom
El. guitar and baryton guitar - Knut Reiersrud
Steel guitar - Morten Sand
Drums - Rune Arnesen
Piano - Knut Koppang
Background vocals - Hilde Heltberg/Knut Koppang

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen and Steinar Albrigtsen



She belongs to the rain (3.54)
(Tom Pacheco)(Polygram Publishing Norway)
(Single #1, The Troubadour)
1994

She reminds me of November
In the steel-blue in her eyes
It's her soul I will remember
Wise and ancient as the skies

She's a traveller she's a gypsy
Passin' through and movin' on
And I knew when she was with me
She's no singer she's the song

She belongs to the rain
She belongs to the wind
She belongs to the storm blowin' in
She belongs to the stars
She belongs to the sea
She belongs to the deepest of all mysteries

I can see her in my memories
Staring out across the bay
Like a restless seagull ready
To rise up and fly away

And the time we spent together
Was a magical romance
I was fortunate to know her
Not too many get that chance

Vocals, harmonica and acc.guitar - Steinar Albrigtsen
Acc. and el. guitar - Roger Ludvigsen
Bass - Øyvind Madsen
Drums - Rune Arnesen
Background vocals - Jørn Hoel

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen and Steinar Albrigtsen



Till I met you (2.32)
(Tom Pacheco)(Polygram Publishing Norway)
(Single #2, Big storm comin')
1993

I once was like an airplane that was circling forever
Flying solo with no runway I could land on
You came from the blue skies, all golden hair and green eyes
The only solid ground that I could stand on

There never was somebody who could reach down in my soul
And open up my heart the way you do
I never knew that feeling that you feel the whole way through
I never knew true love till I met you

Life is always changing turning cartwheels re-arranging
You need someone there to share whatever happens
You're the one I want so much every kiss and every touch
Without you there is only one hand clappin'

Vocals and acc.guitars - Steinar Albrigtsen
Bass - Olav Kamfjord
Dobro - Morten Sand
Percussion - Rune Arnesen

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen



Blue skies hot sun (3.57)
(Steinar Albrigtsen/Tom Pacheco)
(Warner Chappell Music Norway/Polygram Publishing Norway)
(Single #1, Life is good)
1996

I got off work, you can get off too
Grab your blanket bring your bathingsuit
Weatherman says that it's 32
We're going to the beach baby me and you
-We got

Blue skies hot sun
You and I by the ocean
White sand summer wind
Take my hand and we'll take a swim

We'll feel the water running through our toes
Might find an antique ring who knows
I love your legs and I love your hips
I taste the salt when I kiss your lips

-By the

We can lay down - by a palm tree
Noone around - just you and me

This empty bottle has got our names
We'll throw it out to sea it might wash up in Spain
Your suntan oil smells like coconut
Tonight I'll see how tanned you've got
-From the

Vocals and acc.guitars - Steinar Albrigtsen
Acc. and el. guitar - Roger Ludvigsen
Bass - Øyvind Madsen
Organ - Per Kolstad
Drums - Rune Arnesen
Vibraphone - Torbjørn Ottersen
Percussion - Knut H. Johannessen

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen and Steinar Albrigtsen



Beaches of Rio (5.32)
(Duet with Tom Pacheco)
(Tom Pacheco)(Polygram Publishing Norway)
(Single #1, Big storm comin')
1993

He's a catholic priest in Rio in the shantytown heat
Taking care of young children thrown out like stray cats on the street
Where the shopkeepers pay the police to kill kids by the score
Just one more criminal who won't bother the rich anymore

And he walks through the slums and the garbage dumps each day at five
Hoping the twins he fed last night might still be alive
Last week a child shot to pieces was left at his door
Just one more criminal who won't bother the rich anymore

On the beaches of Rio
Where the hotel lights shine
You can hear bossa nova
And drink Portuguese wine
On the beaches of Rio
Money perfumes the air
Poverty is a nuisance
You pretend it's not there

There's a 10 year old prostitute kissing a smiling old man
Who could be her grandfather except he owns banks in Japan
Her brother was murdered for stealing some fruit from a store
Just one more criminal who won't bother the rich anymore

The catholic priest sees a gang of small boys selling drugs
Working as runners for big time Colombian thugs
If they get too smart they wash up like dead fish on the shore
Just one more criminal who won't bother the rich anymore

Vocals and acc. guitars - Steinar Albrigtsen and Tom Pacheco
Accordion - Kristin Skaare
Trumpet - Nils Petter Molvær
Mandolin - Torbjørn Økland
Bass - Øyvind Madsen
Percussion - Rune Arnesen

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen



Southbound train (2.48)
(Duet with Jørn Hoel)
(Graham Nash)(BMG Music AB)
(Outtake from Get together)
1997

Liberty laughin' and shakin' your head
Can you carry the torch that'll bring home the dead
To the land of their fathers who's lives you have led
To the station at the edge of the town
On the southbound train goin' down

Equality quietly facing the fist
Are you angry and tired that your point has been missed
Will you go in the backroom and study the list
Of the gamblers using the phone
On the southbound train goin' down

Fraternity failin' to fight back the tears
Will it take an eternity breakin' all the fears
And what will the passenger do when he hears
That he's already paid for the crown
On the south bound train goin' down

Vocals and acc. Guitars - Steinar Albrigtsen and Jørn Hoel
Mandolin, lap steel and el. guitar - Geir Sundstøl
Drums - Anders Engen
Bass - Øyvind Madsen

Produced by Jørn Hoel
Co-produced by Steinar Albrigtsen



Richland women's blues (3.04)
(Mississippi John Hurt)(Manus)
Recorded live in studio 18.06.1990
(Alone too long)
1990

Give me red lipstick
And a bright puppy rouge
Shingle bob haircut
And a shot of good booze

Hurry down sweet daddy
Come blowin' your horn
Now if you blow to late
Sweet mama will be gone

Stop at the fashion shop
Get the one that looks best
Your sweet mama wants
A brand new dress

Red rooster says:
Cackle do-do-do
The Richland women says:
Any dude will do

Come along young man
Everything's settin' right
My husband's away
Till next Saturday night

Every Sunday morning
To Church you watch me go
My wings spreaded out
The preacher told me so

Dress shirt cut high
Then they cut low
Don't you think I'm a sport now
Keep on watchin' me go

Acc. fingerpicking guitar and vocal - Steinar Albrigtsen
Acc. bottleneck guitar - Knut Reiersrud
Harmonica - Sven Zetterberg

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen



Brown eyed girl (4.27)
(Van Morrison)(Polygram Publishing AB)
(Recorded February 1991, for Amnesty campaign
"Rock, Love And Understanding")
(Bound to wander)
1992

Hey where did we go
Days when the reigns came
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game
Laughing and running hey hey
Skipping and a jumping
In the misty morning fog with
Our hearts a thumpin' and you
My brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl

Whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standing in the sunlight laughing
Hiding behind a rainbow's wall
Slipping and sliding
All along the waterfall with you
My brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl

Do you remember when we used to sing
Sha la la la la la

So hard to find my way
Now that I'm all on my own
I saw you just the other day
My how you have grown
Cast my memory back there Lord
Sometime I'm overcome thinking 'bout
Making love in the green grass
Behind the stadium with you
My brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl

Vocals and acc.guitars - Steinar Albrigtsen
El. guitar - Knut Reiersrud
Bass - Øyvind Madsen
Drums - Tore Wildthauer
El. piano and B3 organ - Inge Kolsvik
Background vocals - Rick Danko/Jonas Fjeld/
Grethe Svensen/Hilde Kjeldsen

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen



Now and then (5.00)
(Byron Hill/Mike Dekle)(Sonet Music AB)
(Single #2, Bound to wander)
1992

Now and then
Are two different places in time
Now it's today
And then was when your love was mine
You think by now
My memories of then would be few
But somewhere between now and then
I forgot to stop loving you

Now and then
You come on like a freight-train in the night
Speedin' through the darkness in my dreams
And I walk into your open arms again
We said goodbye
Oh but only one of us has let it end
Forever I keep holdin' on to you
Every now and then

I was sure
I`d find someone to fill the empty space
Now I know
There're just somethings that cannot be replaced
Like the love
The kind of love we felt when it was new
That keeps me lookin' back till yesterday
Back when I had you

Vocals and acc.guitar - Steinar Albrigtsen
Acc. and el. guitar - Knut Reiersrud
Bass - Øyvind Madsen
Drums - Rune Arnesen
B3 organ - Per Kolstad
Steel guitar and dobro - Morten Sand
Percussion - Knut H. Johannessen
Background vocals - Jørn Hoel / Steinar Albrigtsen

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen



For once (4.54)
(Steinar Albrigtsen/Tom Pacheco)
(Warner Chappell Music Norway/Polygram Publishing Norway)
(Life is good)
1996

My life was empty without a direction
I felt so incomplete and oh so sad
Su much rejection too much reflection
Relationships they all gone bad

Then on the darkest day of the winter
You appeared just like a ray of sun
I never planned it don't understand it
You chose me honey I was stunned

For once I finally found someone
Who loves me just as much
As I love them for once

I'd given up searchin'
Had enough hurtin'
True love in my life would never come
Love an illusion a poets delusion
A price that never could be won

But now you're sayin'
That you will be stayin'
Beside me until our days are done
How can I measure such a great treasure
I feel my life has just begun
Hold me darlin' hold me tighter
Hear that wind outside the door
You make every burden lighter
I'm not lonesome anymore

Vocals and acc.guitar - Steinar Albrigtsen
Bass - Bjørn Kjellemyr
Piano - Per Kolstad
El. piano - Knut Koppang
Vibraphone - Torbjørn Ottersen
Trumpet - Nils Petter Molvær
Percussion - Knut H. Johannessen

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen and Steinar Albrigtsen



Sweet desire (3.13)
(Hugh Moffatt)(Grey Mouser Music/Atlantic Music Corp. BMI)
(New recording)
1998

Sweet desire coming over me
Like a fire when you're close to me
Burning brighter when you call my name
Take me higher in your gentle flame

Your lips on mine thrill me so
Time after time never gets old
Oh baby watch out yeah what you do
Won't be much left of me when you get through

There in your eyes I see the love
It feels so right it always does
Tell me baby what can I do
I want you next to me my whole life through

Vocals and acc.guitar - Steinar Albrigtsen
El. guitar - Knut Reiersrud
Steelguitar - Morten Sand
Piano - Knut Koppang
Bass - Andy Nesblom
Drums - Rune Arnesen
Background vocals - Hilde Heltberg/Knut Koppang

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen and Steinar Albrigtsen



The beginning of the end (3.05)
(Ken Smith/Wendell Mobley)(Warner Chappell Music AB)
(Single #1, Bound to wander)
1992

Back to back again
Lyin' in our bed
And I can't go to sleep
>From the cruel things that were said
I've been through this before
And now it's happening again
Through my tears I can see
The beginning of the end
Going through the motions
Is all that we do now
And the rare times that we kiss
There's just no feeling there somehow
We used to be lovers
But I'm not sure now if we're even friends
It looks like we've reached
The beginning of the end
It's such a bad feeling to know
That I can't stop this I lay here helpless
'Cause you don't know where to begin
And I know I'm looking at
The beginning of the end

Vocals and acc.guitar - Steinar Albrigtsen
Acc. slide guitar and el. guitar - Knut Reiersrud
Bass - Øyvind Madsen
Drums - Rune Arnesen
B3 organ and piano - Per Kolstad
Background vocals - Jørn Hoel / Steinar Albrigtsen
Violins - Henrik Hannisdal/Andrea Manger/
Andre Orvik/Anne Strengehagen
Viola - Marek Konstantynowicz
Cello - Morten Hannisdal
Strings arranged by David Chocron

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen



Broken piano (4.05)
(Tom Pacheco)(Polygram Publishing Norway)
(The Troubadour)
1994

There's an old Grand piano alone in the heart of the desert
Standin' upright in the shine of the full moon above
They say it was left there a long time ago in the 60's
By a man who had written a song to the woman he loved

Now it's falling apart from the sand and the heat and the decades
Rattlesnakes live in a space by the rusty ol' wires
They say that the song was a hit we would all recognize it
A beautiful melody only love could have inspired (but)

Love has a way of changing from sunlight to shadow
Love has a way of changing from gold into tin
All that's left to recall what has been
Is a song they know from LA to Berlin
And a broken piano in the Arizona desert wind

There are those who have camped at the site of that strange wooden statue
Who say that it plays when the first morning sunrays break through
They gaze at that sad instrument with the cactus beside it
A shrine or a tombstone dependin' on your point of view

Vocals and acc.guitar - Steinar Albrigtsen
Bass - Øyivind Madsen
Piano - Per Kolstad
Background vocals - Jørn Hoel
Cello - Bjørg Værnes

Produced by Sverre Erik Henriksen and Steinar Albrigtsen