Norway
Beach House * Track #3 On Teen Dream
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Norway by Beach House
Release Date
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Beach HouseWrited by
Victoria Legrand & Alex ScallyAbout
On a journey through Norway in 2008, a Norwegian TV reporter joined them on a train from Bergen to Oslo and asked them to write a song during the duration of the trip and then recorded a video of them performing the song acoustically when they arrived to their destination.
Some have mistaken the ch...
Norway Lyrics
[Verse 1]
We were sleeping 'til you came along
With your tiny heart
You led us in the wooden house
To share in all the wealth
[Chorus]
Don't you know it's true?
Norway
Norway
[Verse 2]
Seven figures leap the hungry mouths
The beast, he comes to you
He's a hunter for a lonely heart
In the season of the sun
[Chorus]
Don't you know it's true?
Norway
Norway
[Bridge]
Where you thinking that you're gonna run to now
With the beating of a tiny heart?
You hang onto the things that you're supposed to say
Millions of stars, they hold onto your breath
[Outro]
Norway
Norway
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Norway Q&A
Who wrote Norway's ?
Norway was written by Victoria Legrand & Alex Scally.
Who produced Norway's ?
Norway was produced by Beach House & Chris Coady.
When did Beach House release Norway?
Beach House released Norway on Mon Jan 18 2010.
What did Beach House say about "Norway"?
“Norway” is a song we started writing in Norway. It’s probably the pop-iest perhaps. A lot of the visuals in the song are inspired by the landscapes of the country but then I abstracted them of course. To me it’s a song of fantasy and longing. There is an icy imaginative quality to it.
– Victoria L...
What have artists said about the arrangement for the song?
We recorded “Norway” first singing it acoustically on a train and it had all of these magical feelings to it. Then we wanted to make it into a full electric song and still use the same chord progression. For some reason when it went electric it felt way too dark. So we tried to build it up, kept cha...