Poppies and Peonies - Christian Kjellvander

I wanted you to need me

And I wanted to need you

But the days they proved different:

I wanted you to need me

And I wanted to need you

But the days they proved different:

Took action for truth

It’s plain it wasn’t in the cards for you and for me

'cause you can’t live off laughter and luxury

When you couldn’t be loved

You were left with feared

Passed admiration contempt is reared

Considered all the things i had with you

Considered all the things i had to do

I wanted you to need me

And I wanted to need you

But the days they proved different:

Took action for truth

It’s plain it wasn’t in the cards

For you and for me

'cause you can’t live

Off laughter and luxury

You spin your web of sorrow and dreams

Your life’s a poem, or so it seems

One too many drunken nights

One too many unfeathering fights

I wanted you to need me

And I wanted to need you

But the days they proved different:

Took action for truth

It’s plain it wasn’t in the cards

For you and for me

'cause you can’t live

Off laughter and luxury

So move on, move in, move out

There’s a light that lurks in the shadows of doubt

Carry on, carry in, carry out

In this action is what you carry about

So I found a girl who needed me

And you know I need her too

And it’s plain that it’s all in the cards for her and for me

'cause you can’t live off love, laughter and luxury

Yes, you can live like poppies and peonies