Curse of a crooner by Björn Jakobsson

Treplektra records (BeJiCD201)

All songs written by Björn Jakobsson
recorded January-April 2001 in Perch Alley Studios Luleå, issued June 2001

It's about wanting to open up your heart and let all the feelings flow while understanding that it is so far from what you would do, so it's almost impossible. One of my personal favourites.

lyrics:

I would like to scream my head off now and then
But if I do it, I’ll just lose my voice
So I just keep on crooning again and again
I really don’t have much of a choice
It would be nice if I could just pour out my soul
Serve my fate on a plate in a tune
But when I feel ready to just rock and roll
A voice says: “shut up boy, and croon!”

That’s the curse of a crooner
That’s the curse of a crooner
That’s the curse of a crooner

When all my inner feelings want to shout out your name
I’d like to hold you just for a start
I never show a single bit, it’s all just the same
Although you’ve tattooed your name on my heart
The first cut is the deepest, and I’ve been cut several times
But I heal more quickly now than before
I may have lost my way; I may have lost my rhymes
But I’ll never lose this dirty war

That’s the curse of a crooner
That’s the curse of a crooner
That’s the curse of a crooner

I’d like to cry like little Richard some day
I’d like to howl like a randy tomcat
But I know that Bing Crosby wouldn’t do it that way
And Perry Como wouldn’t do things like that

That’s the curse of a crooner
That’s the curse of a crooner
That’s the curse of a crooner