“As the music for this song unfolded it took off in a different direction from usually what we do. Driven by its gentle, lush and shimmering rendition of melancholy it would take you for a waltz daydreaming of the past, longing for the happiest times of your life, only to find that when the dance is over, emptiness has filled another chamber of your heart. Both Jonas and Lasse enhanced these ideas into beautifully told lyrics and a simple, but very touching video.” Anders Nyström
Zanger Jonas Renkse over de tekst van het nummer: “Once I heard Anders’ initial demo for “Shifts” I had a feeling that it needed a timeless kind of lyric. The sentimental kind of music made me think of how memories of better days can keep one alive… and it had me writing down a vague, modest thought on war, how it separates people, and ultimately brings a certain death that would only be eased by the thought of past days and a loved one.”
Lyrics Shifts:
Spiralling nights in the void
Weathered coat and a dagger
If I dream back my youth I can still hear you sing
A voice that will die on a mountain
And I fear that I’ve stayed here just a little too long
I had to go where you couldn’t follow
In my weariness
I still hear you singing in my mind
And all the fortunes they took away
The shifting earth beneath us
The clouds at our feet
The sun was made a jewel
When at night it did sleep
Nothing to observe
Cast in a trench of fire
I see the sky is a ceiling
And when my heart dies down
I am long gone on the fields of summer’s green
Away from fall and famine
I am in every season
The one you have always known
Life did not reward you
So find your way to the river and let go