Portent
Life’s just a fleeting dream
A slip of the tongue
A shadow cast on a wall
A small portent of what lies ahead
When your heart’s content
There’s a promise that’s unbroken
A croak from the ravens beak
The grim reaper, riding in your backseat
A gathering of ghosts
They’re right by the windowsill
– Rat-tailed maggots!
A pointing finger, a toothless grin
An end to her torments
Or was it ours?
Bring out your dead
An empty vessel, the soul has fled
In the eye of the storm
The other side is real
In this eternal light
There’s no body, no turning back
Life’s just a fleeting dream
A slip of the tongue
A shadow cast on a wall
A small portent of what lies ahead
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2025
Experience
Staring at the ceiling spinning out of control
It makes you sick, it makes you weak
It makes you loose your fucking mind
Ignorance
Ignorance is bliss
Experience
Experience
When you lie there frozen, more dead than alive
It makes you fear, it makes it very clear
… there’s no helping hand
Ignorance
Ignorance is bliss
Experience
Experience
One may loose one’s way in the land of the dead
It makes a promise, it’s always there
It makes you face the living dead inside
Ignorance
Ignorance is bliss
Experience
Experience will carry you
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2025
Piglet
Shaded by tears
I’m not at peace
When someones’s knocking
I’m lost, I’m lost
In this rickety shed
Huffing, puffing, do me in
Words keep repeating
I’m the lowest of the low
Shaded by tears
I’m not at peace
When someones’s knocking
I’m lost, I’m lost
Feel no more
Feel no more
Feel no more
Feel no more
Shadows chase me
Through the night
When they break inside
This ghastly town loves a clown
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2025
Machine
Filthy
Greasy
Flickering screen
Double
Exposure
So very keen
Shady
Nasty
Pretty unclean
Shiny
Scary
Sloppy machine
Machine
Machine
Machine
Machine
Machine
Machine
Machine
F*** the machine
Beat up
Leaking
Plotting machine
Gazing
Rephrasing
Copy machine
Slipping
Sliding
Truth machine
Ruling
Class
Working machine
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2025
Fear
Standing waiting for a man to show
Wide-eyed, one eye fixed on the door
This waiting is killing me
It’s wearing me down
Day in, day out
My feet are burning holes in the ground
Darkness warmer than a bedroom floor
Want someone to hold me close forever more
I’m a sleeping dog, but you can’t tell
When I’m on the prowl, you better run like hell
You know it makes sense, don’t even think about it
Life and death are things you just do when you’re bored
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Sing fear’s a man’s best friend
You add it up, it brings you down
You add it up, it brings you down
Home is living like a man on the run
Trails leading nowhere, where to, my son?
We’re already dead, but not yet in the ground
Shake my helping hand, I’ll show you around
You know it makes sense, don’t even think about it
Life and death are things you just do when you’re bored
Sing fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
You add it up, it brings you down
You add it up, it brings you down
Fear
Say fear
Say fear
Say fear
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Say fear’s a man’s best friend
Written by John Cale 1974
Clean
Another life
Stuck again
Rotting away
Year after year
Ambitions faded away
As quickly as they rose
If your hear me crying
In this life and the next
In this life and the next
In this life and the next
Another life
Stuck again
Rotting away
Year after year
Ambitions faded away
As quickly as they rose
If your hear me crying
Another life
It’s nothing
In between
Just dying
Ambitions faded away
As quickly as they rose
If your hear me crying
My conscious is clean
I came out clean
Clean
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2025
Cut Me Up
I hate you
It’s mutual
I thought we were through
A single word from you
Cut me up
Cut me up
I hate you
It’s mutual
Through hell and high water
A single word from you
Cut me up
Cut me up
I hate you
It’s mutual
We’re hanging by a thread
A single word from you
Cut me up
Cut me up
I hate you
It’s mutual
Just go ahead
A single word from you
Cut me up
Cut me up
I hate you
It’s mutual
You have me by the throat
A single word from you
Cut me up
Cut me up
I hate you
It’s mutual
You have me by the throat
A single word from you
Cut me up
Cut me up
Written by Daniel Kaufeldt 1990, with additional lines written by Tomas Z Westberg 2024
It’s More Fun to Be Dead
I am in a dark place …
A sense of urgency
Of limited time
Of burning up too fast
I am the one
It’s more fun to be dead
Darkness, darkness all around …
My time has come
All signs point to here
There is no denying
I’m the one who’s dying
It’s more fun to be dead
Open the windows …
Or keep’em closed …
It is bound to happen
Life is for the living
Skip the horror and the fear
Embrace the fact the end is near
It’s more fun to be dead
It’s fun to be alive …
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2023
Give It to Me
All the shit I’ve been through
Give me all you’ve got
Give it to me all
I want it all
Give it to me all
Give it all to me
Give it to me all
I want it all
Give it to me all
Give it all to me
Give it to me all
I want it all
Give it to me all
Give it to me all
I want it all
I want it all
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2023
Until We Fall
Can I breathe through this experience
That this too shall pass
When better days are always at a distance
And this is the way things are right now
Dance dance dance
Until we fall
Dance dance dance
Until we fall
Just as I am in this moment
Relaxation causes vertigo I’m falling
These are thoughts that can not be silenced
And this is the way things are right now
Dance dance dance
Until we fall
Dance dance dance
Until we fall
Confusion, anger and despair comes crawling
Just gaze into that darkness
Without this tension I’d be lost with no calling
And this is the way things are right now
Dance dance dance
Until we fall
Dance dance dance
Until we fall
Dance dance dance
Until we fall
Dance dance dance
Until we fall
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2023
Don’t Go
Don’t lie to me
I want the truth
Make me believe
Help me, I’m calling
Don’t go
No
Never let me go
I don’t want you to go
No
No
Don’t go
Don’t go
I don’t want you to go
Don’t leave me here
I’m not ready
I’m not OK
I never will be
Don’t go
No
Never let me go
I don’t want you to go
No
No
Don’t go
Don’t go
I don’t want you to go
Don’t be mad at me
I know I’m a handful
Don’t make it small
Make it just right
Don’t go
No
Never let me go
I don’t want you to go
No
No
Don’t go
Don’t go
I don’t want you to go
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2023
Rebound
We are living in a dark age, we’re going down
Like lambs to the slaughter, we’re standing in line
The first and last thought, is why should we care
We are the chosen ones, it’s not our cross to bear
There is nothing to see here, this nothing is unreal
We are moving faster now, we’re not even here
The truth is useless, just echoes from a past
Lies are all that matters now … that’s who we are
This is a rebound
We’re gonna pay
We are living in a dark age, we’re going down
Like lambs to the slaughter, we’re standing in line
The first and last thought, is why should we care
We are the chosen ones, it’s not our cross to bear
There is nothing to see here, this nothing is unreal
We are moving faster now, we’re not even here
The truth is useless, just echoes from a past
Lies are all that matters now … that’s who we are
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2023
Fallback
Fallback
Fall back when all is gone
(Lost control)
All is gone
Fallback
Fall back to memories
(Another truth)
To memories
Fallback
Fall back and fall apart
(Drift away)
Fall apart
Fallback
Fall back on our love
(Nothing else)
Our love
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2023
Rewind
Maybe I got rid of some delusions
I certainly made a few conclusions
I don’t really keep a score
There is little new in store
My journey is inbound
It’s a full rewind
Perceptive, yet unaware
I guess I’m not really here
I guess I’m not really here
I guess I’m not really here
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2022
Dream Telepathy
Machines don’t care about days and nights
They just stay idle with their blinking lights
Machines don’t care about days and nights
They just stay idle with their blinking lights
Nightmare …
At the break of dawn there’s no sweat or fear
Just a bag of bones that lies dead right here
At the break of dawn there’s no sweat or fear
Just a bag of bones that lies dead right here
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2022
The Freaks
When life is boring and gets me down
I listen to the calling of my kind
We’re the freaks we have more fun
Down below down underground
When I feel low about to lose myself
It helps to know I’m not the only one
We’re the freaks we have more fun
Down below down underground
When walls are crumbling and falling apart
I find comfort knowing they are near
We’re the freaks we have more fun
Down below down underground
Stars shine bright
Come out tonight
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2022
Still Standing
Endless lines of
Slaps in the face
Lost control of
All that matters
Sleepless nights
Eaten up inside
Time’s long gone
Battle’s lost
Still standing
Insight’s slowly dawning
You gotta play the hand that’s dealt
All pressure
Withheld
Stand still
The message is clear
And pinned to the board
Just tell us
What to do
Still standning
Fascist movement
Gaining momentum
It’s a full blown nightmare
Unfolding
Still standning
Nothing will be kept
In the end
What’s the point of
Anything
Stand still
The message is clear
And pinned to the board
Just tell us
What to do
Still standning
Fascist movement
Gaining momentum
It’s a full blown nightmare
Unfolding
Still standning
Nothing will be kept
In the end
What’s the point
Never comply
Stand still
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2022
Ashes
I won’t be here forever
Nothing really matters
Yet there’s so much to be done
And time is running out
Even as my ashes
Spread in the wind
I fear I won’t be ready
I fear I won’t be ready
Even as my ashes
Spread in the wind
I fear I won’t be ready
I fear I won’t be ready
I will leave my work behind
It cannot be undone
Though there are no regrets
There’s more I could have done
Even as my ashes
Spread in the wind
I fear I won’t be ready
I fear I won’t be ready
I’ve been keeping busy
To keep the pain away
It was the only time I had
I wish I’d spent it with you
Even as my ashes
Spread in the wind
I fear I won’t be ready
I fear I won’t be ready
Written by Tomas Z Westberg 2022
Brända Barn
Sitter här å tittar ut
Ångesten tar aldrig slut
Svart å grått
Människor i skräck
Alla är vi främlingar
Titta rakt framför dej
Akta dej för allt å alla
Måste fly på nåt sätt
Från detta helvete
Brända barn – döda bland de döda
Brända barn – ingenting å göra
Brända barn – va’ ska bli av oss?
Brända barn – döda bland de döda
I hopp om att finna nåt
Försöker vi med allt
Gränserna är borta
Måste fly till varje pris
Nu e allting bra
Nu e allting fint
Tanken på morgondan
Gör mej sänkt igen
Brända barn – döda bland de döda
Brända barn – ingenting å göra
Brända barn – va’ ska bli av oss?
Brända barn – döda bland de döda
Written by Anders Brodin/Mikael Svensk 1980