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Short Stories 'bout Nina

from There's A Girl That Never Goes Out by Tiny Tide

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And I’m totally sure I had some strange dream about Nina when “Life” album was released. “Carnival” was a hit and its video came out from Nina’s blue eyes on MTV like a blasting supernova. I was on a theatre club when I got into Cardigans and I remember me and some of its members going to a nearby town by the sea dubbing an interactive DVD game on a Machintosh point shop. At night, while it was closed. A strange and unforgettable experience. “Life” album is totally out of time, and I remember its song being played on those late hours while Goofy was running around the Mac’s screens on those mesmerizing Afterdarks screensavers. The owner of the shop passed me a copy on tape, and I had to wait to earn my first consistent amount of money to buy the whole band’s discography and get to know the titles of the songs!

Same period I was writing a book with a girl I never met. We wrote one or two chapters of the story each, saving the whole thing on a Floppy disk and sending it along with snail mail, as an attachment to a real hadwritten sheet. My friend introduced in the story that band, one of the characters was a hudge fan of. I really thought it was fictional, but just a year after the band had an impressive hit with a song called “50 Special”, and I was really surprised on discovering A) That they were real B) My friend had discovered a great talent before anyone could see it. I did quite the opposite! The main character I introduced was an afecionados of this little indie venue. They held fictional shows on sunday evenings, but nobody ever came to see the bands. One day it was time for a blond girl with amazing blue eyes from Sweden to play. Guess my dear friend will never know that her name was Nina

The song was played with Simona Rovida. She’s quite the Nina Persson type, plus she’s got an impressive voice too. I think the best part of the song it’s the dichotomy between my parts singing about this boy writing about Nina and Simona’s acting like her character is really leaving her situations without being aware of her writer. Marco did an impressive recording and editing job on that.

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Lying in bed I keep thinking of you
you drove me mad it’s so true
Since we got through on a carnival cruise
I spend my days with no clue

Nobody cared when I entered the room
It was a cold afternoon
ready to play on the smallest venue
Nobody came… but you

And you were just oversight
fancy dream to come alive
stuck in a trip between lines

Writing short stories ’bout Nina
Writing love stories ’bout you
Meeting my dear ballerina
Trying so hard to catch you

And I’m so very super blue
don’t turn off your Abajour

Writing sweet stories ’bout Nina
Inking more pages on you
faking a place I could meet her
Fool’s paradise coming true

Leading a band must be hard in the end
struggling with fans and the press
I hope someday you could get your revenge
you can hang on here’till then

It was a blast when the last light went off
rocking the cheap stage for sure
Your dreamy eyes set on me, eagerly
no secret you couldn’t read

And I am dust in your mind
Lazy boy get a life
You Shouldn’t waste all this time…

Writing short stories ’bout Nina
Writing love stories ’bout you
Meeting my dear ballerina
Trying so hard to catch you

Writing short stories ’bout Nina
Writing love stories ’bout you
Meeting my dear ballerina
Trying so hard to catch you

When it’s clearly a stupid lie
A bad fiction for juveniles
inner spaces that won’t be mine
throwing shadows on my blue eyes
Come grow up
please wake up

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from There's A Girl That Never Goes Out, released September 5, 2011
Simona Rovida on Vocals

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