1. A Swedish alternative metal band including members of In
Flames. Now filed under Passenger (SWE).
2. A Brighton (UK) based alternative folk band.
3. A San José, Costa Rica hardcore/screamo band.
4. A Mesa, Arizona based acoustic rock band.
5. A rap artist from Texas.
6. An old alias of DJ Tiësto.
7. A Chicago-based instrumental rock band.
8. A psytrance project of MFG's Guy Zukrel.
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Passenger was formed in 1995 by Sten and Engelin. Both members wanted to do something that was not Thrash metal or Melodic death metal unlike the bands they played in. At its early stages the band was originally called "Cliff". Under the name Cliff they recorded two demos in Studio Fredman that were never released. After a break in the band and after Engelin was hired as a session guitarist for In Flames' Whoracle tour, Anders Fridén, the vocalist of In Flames showed interest in Passenger and joined the band.
In the year 2000 the band came back from its break and went on to record a demo. In 2001 the band recorded another demo in which early versions of the songs "Used", "In My Head", "Circus" and "Drowning City" were recorded. After a third demo the band finally recorded and released their debut album entitled Passenger. A video for "In Reverse" was also released.
Sten noted in February 2004 on their official website that they were in the process of recording their second album. However, since then, Fridén, lead vocalist of both Passenger and In Flames has been noted saying that he has very little time for the project, due to other commitments, and the group is currently on hold. In an interview with Fridén he stated that as soon as he gets a break from In Flames, he wants to get all the group together to record a second album for early 2010. This did however not happen as Anders continued touring with In Flames until October 2010 when they entered their studio to record their next album.
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The brainchild of 26-year-old Brighton born singer/songwriter Mike Rosenberg, Passenger is redefining the troubadour for the 21st century. Formerly a five-piece band, Passenger has now pared back to basics, quite literally bringing music to the streets on a series of lengthy busking journeys across Australia, America and the United Kingdom. A classic journeyman musician, cut from the same mould as Van Morrison, Neil Young and John Prine, Passenger has the unique ability to move from the humorous to heartbreaking with every song.
After a year spent crisscrossing the UK and US with his debut album Wicked Man’s Rest, Passenger’s markedly stripped down and soulful second album Wide Eyes Blind Love was brought to the public as it was created: on the road. Setting up on street corners across the UK and Australia, Passenger halted passers by in their hundreds; all connecting to the mellifluous tones and powerfully hewn lyrics emanating from this lone figure and his guitar. This is music as Passenger means it to be, unvarnished and honest, just pure talent and powerful tunes that tap straight into the heart of the crowd.
Struck by the dynamic freedom of the troubadour life, Passenger developed the grass roots method of Wide Eyes Blind Love into the germ of a new album. Impressively and entirely self funded through busking income, Passenger set about recording a series of collaborations with musical friends met along the way. Flight Of The Crow is the remarkable result of Passenger’s intrepid journey, with Australian artists Lior, Josh Pyke, Katie Noonan, Boy & Bear, Kate Miller Heidke, Philadelphia Grand Jury, Brian Campeau and Elana Stone, Matt Corby, Jess Chalker and Dead Letter Chorus all lending their voices to this serendipitous creative venture. Flight Of The Crow was recorded in Sydney’s famous BJB studios over February and March of 2010, and co-produced by Berkfinger (AKA Simon Berkleman from Philadelphia Grand Jury).
As a second album born of the road, Flight Of The Crow speaks to the compelling quality of Passenger’s music and the striking sincerity of his lyrics, both of which are matched by his dedication to this grass roots style of craftsmanship and collaboration. How utterly remarkable that a lone musician can travel the globe, and literally from the street, connect with some of Australia’s finest musical talents to produce a self-funded album. This is the stuff of legend, with Passenger clearly evoking the humble, hardworking creativity of the troubadours of old.
www.myspace.com/passengerofficial
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Passenger or PSNGR is an active hardcore/screamo band formed in San José, Costa Rica born in 2004. Their EP "Get OFF the Rails!" (tentative title) will be out in 20/01/09. Band members: Alejandro Pacheco (vocals & guitar), Grego Rojas (guitar), Andres Moraga (bass), Jose Vargas (drums). www.myspace.com/passenger
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Passenger the acoustic rock band was formed in late 2000. They have a large archive of both original music and cover songs. They released their first pressed album, entitled "Four Letter Word", in September 2004 on indie label Crop Circle Records.
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Passenger is an Austin, Texas based MC. Born in Massachusetts, he spent most of his younger days growing up in New York and Houston, Tx eventually moving to Austin, Tx in 1996 attending college to try his hand as a sound engineer. During these years, his musical versatility had him playing bass in an alternative rock band, singing in another side project, DJing house, jungle and hip hop music at various venues in Austin. Eventually he became a full time DJ for the reggae/ska/hiphop/punk band, Indofin, which he was a member for years touring the country. His love for hip hop provoked him to purchase an MPC and has been making beats and rhyming ever since. "The Brick In A Glass House", his debut album, contains production from Nozebleed, Lazerbeak (Doomtree), amongst others as well as his own and has guests from Austin's own Emcee, Justin Cook, Weezel, as well as a few others. Currently, you can find him playing shows around the Austin area and will begin to venturing out to other Texas cities. He is also working on putting together a live band to back him at shows and working on new material.
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Passenger is also an old alias of DJ Tiësto. Tiësto only produced 2 tracks under his old Passenger-alias: "Blackspin" and "F.A.H.", both appearing on a record released on Momentum Records in 1996.
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Passenger began winter of 2002 when guitarist dustin covert and bassist/vocalist david mata collaborated on the bands first full length "alive" an 8 song full length about a disoriented and dark but intriguing view of love and romance. the album explored dissonant melodies and agonizingly slow chord progressions with the use of mark sampson on drums and sam billen on piano. in 2003 passenger progressed to a four person line up with michael oberlin on drums and james demis on keyboards and sound and began to play various rock venues in chicago, illinois and used silent film to accompany their live performance. numerous line-up changes took effect during the next year and a half, but in 2005 the concrete line-up of Dustin Covert and David D'Antonio on guitars, David Mata on Bass and Samuel Vincent on drums was achieved. In winter of 2005 Passenger recorded "The Owls are Restless", a 2 hour and 40 minute concept record about an ancient war between owls and rabbits and was recorded and engineered by Steve Whitney in a warehouse in Aurora, Illinois. Shortly after the recording drummer Samuel Vincent tragically passed away. Without his talent and with the grief of losing a dear, dear friend the band decided it was impossible to continue performing the material or anything that involved Passenger. These unfortunate events occurred before "The Owls are Restless" was able to achieve any sort of record label attention, and when it finally did it was too late. The remaining musicians have continued creating in their band White Devil, named after the vintage moog synth/organ that Sam would play in collaboration with his drums in Passenger.
myspace.com/whitedevilchicago
Let's Go
Passenger Lyrics
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Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
Hoping one day you'll make a dream last
Dreams come slow, go so fast
You see her when you close your eyes
Maybe one day you'll understand why
Everything you touch, oh it dies
But you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast
Well you see her when you fall asleep
Never to touch and never to keep
'Cause you loved her too much and dive too deep
Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
So let her go
Oh oh
let her go
Oh, mmh
You let her go
Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
Passenger's Let Her Go is a song that reflects on the realization of love's true value after it's gone. It is a beautifully written piece that recognizes how one can take love for granted until it's too late. The first few lines express how we only appreciate things when they're gone, just like how we only miss the sun when it's cold or the light when it's dark. We often don't realize the value of what we have until it's no longer there.
The song then moves on to describe how it's only when we let go of love that we realize its true value. When we lose someone we love, it hurts, and we start to see things differently. We start to miss the things that we used to hate, like the road that used to make us exhausted, and when we're struggling, we long for the comfort of our homes. The repetition of the line "Only know you love her when you let her go" drives the song's message home - the realization that we need to cherish love while we still have it and not wait until it's gone.
The following verse talks about dreaming and how dreams come so slow, but they can go so fast. It goes on to say how everything we touch dies, which comes across as a metaphor for how something that we invest so much love and energy into can easily pass us by. The final verse repeats the themes from the first and second verses as the singer talks about laying in bed, still feeling empty and clinging onto the memories of what once was, never to experience it again.
Overall, the song Let Her Go is about an individual who had taken love for granted and lost someone that they love deeply. Through this experience, they have learned the value of love and how important it is to cherish it while it's still present.
Line by Line Meaning
Well you only need the light when it's burning low
You often take things for granted until you lose them or they are not there for you anymore.
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
You only realize the value of something when it's not there anymore or when it's too late.
Only know you love her when you let her go
Sometimes you don't realize how much you love someone until they're gone.
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
You have to experience the lows of life to appreciate the highs and the good times.
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Being away from people or places that you love makes you appreciate them more and can make you feel lonely or homesick.
Staring at the bottom of your glass
Being lost in your own thoughts and consumed by your emotions, often accompanied by drinking alcohol.
Hoping one day you'll make a dream last
Having a desire for something that is fragile or fleeting and hoping that it will become a permanent reality someday.
Dreams come slow, go so fast
Often it takes a long time for good things to come into our lives, but they can disappear quickly and unexpectedly.
You see her when you close your eyes
Thinking about someone so often that you can visualize them even when they're not with you physically.
Maybe one day you'll understand why
Hoping that one day you'll know the reason why things happened the way they did or why you feel the way you do.
Everything you touch, oh it dies
Feeling like you're cursed or like everything in your life seems to go wrong or fall apart.
'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast
Love can take a long time to develop, but can also be lost quickly or unexpectedly.
Never to touch and never to keep
Feeling like the person you love is out of your reach or unattainable, and that you can never truly have them.
'Cause you loved her too much and dive too deep
Taking risks and sacrificing a lot for someone you love, even if it means getting hurt in the end.
So let her go
Realizing that sometimes it's better to let go of the things you love and move on, even if it's difficult.
Oh oh
Expressing a feeling of sadness or longing.
let her go
Repeating the idea that it's time to let go and move on.
And you let her go
Acknowledging that you have made the difficult decision to let go of someone you love.
Lyrics © DistroKid, Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Michael David Rosenberg
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Passenger
Hello everyone !!
Hope things are good with all of you …
Here is the very last video from the runaway series !!! Number 28 I believe ….. its been quite a journey and I am so so thankful to all of you who have come along for the ride :-) one last massive thank you also to jarrad seng , stu larsen and chris vallejo for helping me bring this ridiculously ambitious project to life !!!!!!
This final one is “lets go” and its a big mashup / montage of the entire road trip .
It was all shot on an old super8 camera that jarrad seng borrowed for the trip . The idea was that we would have it lying around and it would be up to all four of us to pick it up every now and then and film a load of little snapshots of our adventure .
The thing is , unless you’re an expert its very difficult to know if the thing is actually working or not so we had no idea if we were doing it right and if there would be anything to show for it all at the end …. Luckily it did work and the video below is the result .
It feels like a very long time ago now that we were cavorting around America filming all of this . So much has happened since . I’d like to sincerely thank all of you that have bought / streamed / watched / shared and listened to the album . The love has been phenomenal . Also to the thousands of you that came along to the shows - thank you for supporting me and my music and for making the gigs so special .
Thank you also to my wonderful touring family - thomas , chris , simon , Ian and Roxy and also my management team - dan , rebekah , Fran and everyone at i.e . Thank you for caring so much and working so hard .
One last special thanks to my amazing support acts - lucy rose , ken yates , winterbourne , chris simmons , stephanie fisher , luke thompson and eddie berman . What a damn pleasure !!!!
We have two more left for the year - PERTH this evening which is sold out and then on Sunday we’re at the @3 oceans winery in MARGARET RIVER for which there are still some tickets available so if you’re in this neck of the woods then come down and celebrate the end of this massive year with us :-)
I will be doing a small amount of touring next year too and we have some really exciting news on that coming shortly so watch this space ….
In the meantime though . A genuine and heartfelt thank you for allowing me to make the music that I love and share it with the world .
All my love .
Mike xxxx
Madhusudan Depawat
One shine like an oil spill
Or rainbow and cartwheels
A dirty coin in the snow
Go fly like a kite
In the wind and you might
Not ever come down or come home
'Cause if life is an ocean
Then love is an island
And freedom is a boat you can row
So let's go, ah, yeah
Oh, take a chance if it feels right
Dance 'neath the street lights
Get drunk and howl up at the moon
Sing loud and sing strong
Sing all the words wrong
We sing your own tune
'Cause if life is a journey
Then love is a sign post
And freedom's a fork in the road
So let's go, ah, yeah
Let's go, ah, yeah
So go on sprinkle like starlight
Like Christmas and car lights
Like gold on an old wedding rings
That your grandmother gave when she
Passed away, to teach you
People were more precious than things
Hey, hey, hey
So maybe just one time
Lay 'neath the sunshine
See the faces and shapes in the clouds
Go out in the rain like a runaway train
And run till the road runs out
Live life, don't dream it
Love like you mean it
Being free as the river that flows
Let's go, ah, yeah, yeah
Let's go, ah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, oh
Amulya Praneet
"Let's Go"
One shine like an oil spill
Or rainbow and cartwheels
A dollar coin in the snow
Go fly like a kite
In the wind and you might
Not ever come down or come home
'Cause if life is an ocean
Then love is an island
And freedom is a boat you can row
So let's go, ah, yeah
Oh, take a chance if it feels right
Dance 'neath the street lights
Get drunk and howl up at the moon
Sing loud and sing strong
Sing all the words wrong
We sing your own tune
'Cause if life is a journey
Then love is a sign post
And freedom's a fork in the road
So let's go, ah, yeah
Let's go, ah, yeah
So go on sprinkle like starlight
Like Christmas and car lights
Like gold on an old wedding rings
That your grandmother gave when she
Passed away, to teach you
People were more precious than things
Hey, hey, hey
So maybe just one time
Lay 'neath the sunshine
See the faces and shapes in the clouds
Go out in the rain like a runaway train
And run till the road runs out
Live life, don't dream it
Love like you mean it
Being free as the river that flows
Let's go, ah, yeah, yeah
Let's go, ah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, oh
Passenger
Hello everyone !!
Hope things are good with all of you …
Here is the very last video from the runaway series !!! Number 28 I believe ….. its been quite a journey and I am so so thankful to all of you who have come along for the ride :-) one last massive thank you also to jarrad seng , stu larsen and chris vallejo for helping me bring this ridiculously ambitious project to life !!!!!!
This final one is “lets go” and its a big mashup / montage of the entire road trip .
It was all shot on an old super8 camera that jarrad seng borrowed for the trip . The idea was that we would have it lying around and it would be up to all four of us to pick it up every now and then and film a load of little snapshots of our adventure .
The thing is , unless you’re an expert its very difficult to know if the thing is actually working or not so we had no idea if we were doing it right and if there would be anything to show for it all at the end …. Luckily it did work and the video below is the result .
It feels like a very long time ago now that we were cavorting around America filming all of this . So much has happened since . I’d like to sincerely thank all of you that have bought / streamed / watched / shared and listened to the album . The love has been phenomenal . Also to the thousands of you that came along to the shows - thank you for supporting me and my music and for making the gigs so special .
Thank you also to my wonderful touring family - thomas , chris , simon , Ian and Roxy and also my management team - dan , rebekah , Fran and everyone at i.e . Thank you for caring so much and working so hard .
One last special thanks to my amazing support acts - lucy rose , ken yates , winterbourne , chris simmons , stephanie fisher , luke thompson and eddie berman . What a damn pleasure !!!!
We have two more left for the year - PERTH this evening which is sold out and then on Sunday we’re at the @3 oceans winery in MARGARET RIVER for which there are still some tickets available so if you’re in this neck of the woods then come down and celebrate the end of this massive year with us :-)
I will be doing a small amount of touring next year too and we have some really exciting news on that coming shortly so watch this space ….
In the meantime though . A genuine and heartfelt thank you for allowing me to make the music that I love and share it with the world .
All my love .
Mike xxxx
Tony Clement
Love is a beautiful thing
Sabrina Batalha
dude you're amazing I'm from Brazil and I love you so much, I admire you so much your amazing work you are amazing I love you thank you for being part of this hard time in my life making me so happy
Rhonbeni Kikon
Love you, from Nagaland . Thank you for not being unfazed by fame and popularity. Stay the same . Bless you !
iara Pierobon
Perfeitaáaaaaaa🇧🇷😄💓🙆♀️
hippyable
A very handsome gentleman who went his own way! God bless!
Bogdan Dukic
My favorite song the album. So much positivity in this song. It helps me to get through the dark, cold and foggy days of the winter here in Switzerland.
Bili Eyelash
I live in switzerland too 😊
Sami Ghidini
Agreed. My favourite song too
Madhusudan Depawat
One shine like an oil spill
Or rainbow and cartwheels
A dirty coin in the snow
Go fly like a kite
In the wind and you might
Not ever come down or come home
'Cause if life is an ocean
Then love is an island
And freedom is a boat you can row
So let's go, ah, yeah
Oh, take a chance if it feels right
Dance 'neath the street lights
Get drunk and howl up at the moon
Sing loud and sing strong
Sing all the words wrong
We sing your own tune
'Cause if life is a journey
Then love is a sign post
And freedom's a fork in the road
So let's go, ah, yeah
Let's go, ah, yeah
So go on sprinkle like starlight
Like Christmas and car lights
Like gold on an old wedding rings
That your grandmother gave when she
Passed away, to teach you
People were more precious than things
Hey, hey, hey
So maybe just one time
Lay 'neath the sunshine
See the faces and shapes in the clouds
Go out in the rain like a runaway train
And run till the road runs out
Live life, don't dream it
Love like you mean it
Being free as the river that flows
Let's go, ah, yeah, yeah
Let's go, ah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, oh