Election Day

I wake up early on Election Day I've already voted so I’m timewise ok Today, Göteborg feels like my head Slow, gloomy and grey My train departs soon, we meet up at the station You just came in from Bergen, how are you Jens Lekman? I eye everyone, try to guess What they're voting for And this is what we speak of: that when you know someone likes you - as a friend or a lover or a listener - you still don't know WHY they like you So you take a guess Based on their appearance But people are always much more complicated Than you think, than you think that they are A woman comes up, she says she’s a clairvoyant She says thanks for this Friday, I went to your concert I like you, cause I can tell you were a warrior In a past life On the train I buy an apple It's so huge, it's astounding And I get so upset I'm by myself, can't show no one I fight an urge to show the girl sitting next to me But she looks like a model, probably doesn't want to see it It's amazingly large, this apple, and I gram it But it gets very few likes And outside the window, the trees flaunt their shit And the fields, and the flowers, and the lakes that are glittering Behind me, two people in suits Say climate change is fake news And I take my huge apple And I shove it down their throats I say that's not a topic you can argue about It is what it is, it’s not up for debate Do you really think I would be stuck on this train Twelve hours today If it was optional That last part was I lie, I’m a pacifist But I enjoyed making that up I have to admit Lets not forgot I was a warrior In a past life The results are like life on Election Day news No one really won, and all are confused It's quiet, but feels like a bomb with a really long fuse And I like you cause you talk about the same things that I do Telling stories and TV, and being on tour It makes me feel like an extrovert And that is nice for a change And I like me because I always crash I wallow and complain, and then I bounce back If a clairvoyant came up in a hundred years I think she would have said to me: In your past life, you were lame but at least you tried Now those fumes will choke you so get inside Now its time to sleep on Election Day