Agnes Obel was born Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel in 1981. Living in Copenhagen, and coming from a musician family, Agnes Obel learned piano at a very young age. Her mother used to play Bartók and Chopin at the piano. During her childhood, Agnes Obel found inspiration in Jan Johansson's work. Johansson's songs, European folk tunes done in a jazzy style, have influenced the young musician a lot.
She attended high school at Det frie Gymnasium and university at Roskilde University.
At the age of seven, Agnes Obel worked in a little band where she used to sing and play bass guitar. The group appeared in a festival and even recorded some titles.
Later, and with the help of Danish musician and producer Elton Theander, Obel founded the Copenhagen based band Sohio. After few years of collaboration, Obel debuted as a solo singer with her first album Philharmonics (2010).
Agnes Obel writes, plays, sings, records and produces all her material herself.
She is influenced by artists such as Roy Orbison, Joni Mitchell, PJ Harvey and also by the French composers Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Eric Satie.
Obel lives in Berlin.
Website: http://agnesobel.com
Golden Green
Agnes Obel Lyrics
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want to be but never could
It's coming at, it's coming at, it's coming at my heart
To spoil my soul with fire
All my eyes can see is
born out of your imagery
It's coming at, it's coming at, it's coming at my heart
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
Who are you to take over my mind
with your eyes on me
All for you I am climbing the sky
of golden green
Angel green and blue
I'm gonna leave my mind with you
It's coming at, it's coming at, it's coming at my heart
I know, I see, I wanna be just free
I know, it craves, it's running through my veins
To spoil my soul with fire
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
Who are you to take over my mind
with your eyes on me
All for you I am climbing the sky
of golden green
Green
Green
Green
Agnes Obel's "Golden Green" is a song about the enigmatic, uncontrollable power of love. The lyrics highlight how this force attacks the singer's heart and soul, transforming them irreversibly, and leaving them with a burning desire and unquenchable thirst for the object of their affection. The songwriter confesses how everything they are and ever wanted to be is wrapped up in this love, which they can't fathom controlling or escaping. In addition, the lyrics are filled with vivid imagery, as the singer compares their love to scorching fire and rising to the sky of golden green.
The chorus of the song emphasizes the singer's eagerness to know the true source of this overwhelming love. It's a plea for their lover to be honest about their feelings and intentions, so the singer can understand how to make sense of what's happening to them.
The Angel green and blue symbolize a place beyond the material world where the singer goes seeking freedom. Though love's power is intoxicating, it is also confining, preventing you from thinking for yourself, and taking control of your own life. The song is an attempt to understand the nature of love, its transformative power, and its role in shaping a person's identity.
Line by Line Meaning
All I have or should want to be but never could
My desires and aspirations have never been attainable, nor could they ever be.
It's coming at, it's coming at, it's coming at my heart
To spoil my soul with fire
These unattainable desires consume me with a passion that burns like wildfire.
All my eyes can see is born out of your imagery
The very fabric of my perception is woven from the narratives and mythologies you've created around me.
It's coming at, it's coming at, it's coming at my heart
To scorch the earth with fire
This perception shapes reality and can set the world ablaze with passion or ruin.
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
Who are you to take over my mind with your eyes on me
Who is it that holds such power over me, to invade my thoughts and shape my reality with their very gaze?
All for you I am climbing the sky of golden green
Yet I remain ever drawn towards that which holds that power over me, in the hopes that one day I may ascend to their realm of the divine.
Angel green and blue
I'm gonna leave my mind with you
In this pursuit, I may surrender my very consciousness to that which holds such control over me.
I know, I see, I wanna be just free
I know, it craves, it's running through my veins
To spoil my soul with fire
Despite this, I crave the freedom from such control, yet the desire continues to burn within me, consuming me like a wildfire.
Green
Green
Green
Repeatedly calling to this divine power, I remain forever consumed with a passion that may ultimately prove to be my undoing.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: AGNES CAROLINE THAARUP OBEL
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All I have or should
Want to be but never could
It's coming out, it's coming out, it's coming out
It's coming out, it's coming out my heart
To spoil my soul with fire
All my eyes can see is
Born out of your imagery
It's coming out, it's coming out, it's coming out
It's coming out, it's coming out my heart
To scorch the earth with fire
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
Who are you to take over my mind
With your eyes on me
All for you I am climbing the sky
Of golden green
Angel green and blue
I'm gonna leave my mind with you
I know, I see, I wanna be just free (It's coming out, it's coming out, it's coming out)
I know, it craves, it's running through my veins
To spoil my soul with fire
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
Who are you to take over my mind
With your eyes on me
All for you I am climbing the sky
Of golden green
Songwriters
AGNES CAROLINE THAARUP OBEL
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Golden Green Lyrics
[Verse 1]
All I have or should
Want to be but never could
It’s coming at, it’s coming at, it’s coming at my heart
To spoil my soul with fire
[Verse 2]
All my eyes can see is
Born out of your imagery
It’s coming at, it’s coming at, it’s coming at my heart
To scorch the earth with fire
[Pre-Chorus]
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
[Chorus]
Who are you to take over my mind
With your eyes on me
All for you I am climbing the sky
Of golden green
[Verse 3]
Angel green and blue
I’m gonna leave my mind with you
It’s coming at, it’s coming at, it’s coming at my heart
I know, I see, I wanna be just free
I know, it craves, it’s running through my veins
To spoil my soul with fire
[Pre-Chorus]
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
[Chorus]
Who are you to take over my mind
With your eyes on me
All for you I am climbing the sky
Of golden green
[Outro]
Green
Green
Green
this is amazing!
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OLÁ AMIGA, SOU BRASILEIRO. BEIJO
_Jasmin_
Yay ich bin nicht die einzige Deutsche.
Alena
Melina Sophie
Ich liebe diesen Song auch ♡
Außerdem bin ich ein großer Fan von ihr und von dir Melina♡
Somedude Thatguy
I finally came up with a genre for you Agnes. Modern contemporary psychedelic chamber music.
Victoria Bunnag
Lol. Very Clever!!! Lol.
Thomas Drake
For a ketamine infusion or a magic mushroom
Nat_XR
Ah yes I do so love MCPCM
TheDinofou
Tho the clips are weird, psychedelic doesn't rly fit. Good try :)
Janice Lamsa-Bloch
I thought this was about love and my lover, it is because he's unavailable to me. So it's very meaningful because it's about envy.