Music from the heart. From an island called Iceland. A record that wants to… Read Full Bio ↴Music from the heart. From an island called Iceland. A record that wants to boil over because of all its energy, lust and sometimes also funniness. A record, equally peculiar as idiosyncratic. As the pot is that huge 26-year-old Benni Hemm Hemm throws all possible ingredients in.
And it is that peculiar as all the different ingredients do not spoil the paste in the end. It’s a little big band with little big songs. The greatest of them takes only 2 minutes and 58 seconds: „Beygja Og Beygja“.
There is the emphatic brass section of Northern Soul. And, last but not least, there is a Benni Hemm Hemm who holds all that together, who once is the inward, suffering man, the passionate narrator, and then the crafty entertainer. There are real,
honest love-songs on this album. And there are songs one simply has to love.
The tracks of this album were written during a stay in Italy lasting several months. Maybe it was this new, distanced perspective on usual correlations and
interrelations has contributed to the casual complexity of this debut-album. A debut-album, by the way, that was awarded as the best album of the island state on the occasion of the Icelandic Music Awards. Besides, Benni Hemm Hemm and his band were elected as the best newcomer. In September 2005 the record was released on the small label Smákökurnar, based in the Icelandiccapital Reykjavik for a first time.
Now it is re-released on Sound of a Handshake, Morr
Music’s small, curious sister. A new home for an album that will grow with each time one listens to it. Equally as
Benni Hemm Hemm’s band changes with each concert. In
the centre there is Benni with his fervour, a mischievous smile, his acoustic guitar and his arrangements. Around him there are guitars, glockenspiel and the brass section.
Around him there are raging waves and a deep, pure sea. You should listen to this record loudly. And often, but you will find that out by yourself anyway

Fight
Benni Hemm Hemm Lyrics

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I wake up
and it's raining outside
and it's much too late

I'm cold
cold to the bone
cold to the bone

Then you make coffee
to make me feel good
then we have a fight
and you loose

I want to fight with you everyday

everyday
and you know, I want it never to end

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Benni Hemm Hemm's song "Fight" can be perceived as a depiction of a turbulent and bittersweet relationship. The opening lines, "I wake up and it's raining outside and it's much too late" sets a gloomy and somber mood, implying that things have taken a turn for the worst. The following lines, "I'm cold, cold to the bone" reinforces this mood, evoking a sense of loneliness and isolation.

However, things take a turn when his partner makes coffee in an attempt to comfort him. This signifies that despite the disagreements and fights, there is a deep-seated affection and care for each other. However, the line "then we have a fight and you lose" indicates that the conflict is inevitable and perhaps even necessary to keep the relationship alive.

Line by Line Meaning

I wake up
My day starts

and it's raining outside
It's a gloomy weather outside

and it's much too late
I woke up late

I'm cold
I feel chilly

cold to the bone
I feel cold to the core

Then you make coffee
You prepare coffee for me

to make me feel good
To cheer me up

then we have a fight
We argue

and you loose
You lose the argument

I want to fight with you everyday
I want to argue with you daily

everyday
Each day without fail