Bygdedyret from Dagen Kommer by Lyngfarer
The village beast is the embodiment of an attitude you can find in smaller communities in Norway. Its basically an assumption that ideas, opinions or ways of being that are out of the ordinary or different are bad and not sustainable. This attitude lives in people regardless of insight and knowledge, and obviously makes it that much harder to be an art kid or be figuring out what you are all about. For me, growing up in the Norwegian countryside, it wasnt really that hard because I had cool parents and a neat little network of friends who started identifying with being outside of the norm. I was also able to move away on my own at a fairly early age. It was never dangerous or scary beyond how growing up is sometimes a little dangerous and scary. But the village beast gets dangerous and problematic when it rears its ugly head on matters of race or because of someones sexual orientation or gender identity. And thinking back on growing up in my little village I know that this thinking happened all the time around us. Its pretty heavy to think that that happened all around us (and probably through us as well) while we where more or less isolated from it in our little we-are-the-outcast-punkrockers-skaterkids world. We were children in a small rural community in Norway before the internet, but I still think about it whenever I play this song.
Tracklist
| 5. | Bygdedyret | 4:37 |
Lyrics
Så drev det oss på flukt og
Dermed var vi som en flokk
Hev oss etter pusten gjemt i rustninger av sjokk
At ingen visste helt hva som herja oss avted
Gjorde alle lydene så store og så fæle
Når det hveste
Inne i et hus vi alle hadde gjemt oss i
Rota det seg frem og fikk et tak og begynte å vri
Bada seg i blodet og heiv seg etter flere
Noen dro meg ut derfra jeg husker ikke helt
Vi var stille
Men det fant oss
Bygdedyret
Nå er lyset borte og vi gjemmer oss igjen
Drevet vekk fra verdighet og det som var et hjem
Bare jeg og broren min har overlevd til nå
Ingen kunne stoppe det som jakta på oss og
Plutselig er lukta og den lyden der igjen
Dyret det har øyne som det aldri lukker igjen
Og broren min var nærmest og så var han ikke der
Ord jeg aldri hørte før den tenna kom for nært
Vi var stille
Men det fant oss
Bygdedyret
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It drove us onwards and we behaved like a herd
We threw ourselves after our breaths trapped in armours of panic
The fact that no one really knew what was at our heels
Made everything that much bigger and scarier when we heard something
Inside of a house where we all had hidden
It tore itself onwards and bit down on something to destroy it
Bathed in the the blood and hurled itself after more
Someone dragged me out of there and i cant remember anything else
We were quiet but it found us
The village beast
The day is over and we are hiding again
Driven away from a sense of self and any sort of home
Its only me and my brother now
Nothing could stop that thing that hunts us
Suddenly the smell and the sound envelops us
The beast has eyes that never stop looking
My brother was closer and then he wasn´t there
Disappearing amongst teeth together with words i never got to hear
We were quiet but it found us
The village beast
Credits
Magnus Nymo - Resonator guitar, fiddle, concertina, upright bass, banjo, vocals
Knut Oscar Nymo - Vocals
Anna Karine Brække - Vocals
Ole Laurits Mosseby - Vocals
License
All rights reserved.
Lyngfarer is a moniker built around the songwriting of Norwegian multiinstrumentalist Magnus Nymo.
Its rooted outside of the cities in the countryside as well as having members who grew up in the worlds of punk, metal, diy and the lugging around of scifi novels.