Jens Lekman – Just For One Moment (2025) | Track profile | Dork

Jens Lekman – Just For One Moment (2025) | Track profile | Dork

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Just For One Moment

I met a friend at a bar last night
And a song came on I hadn't heard in a long time
A song I knew by heart, a song so fine
A classic in its own right
Turned to my friend and said, "I love this tune"
He laughed and said, "Of course you do"
Then I realized the song was mine

The Swedish spring was dressed in yellow
Lemon butterflies and tussilago
And people moved to the song
They hugged their friends and sang along
The bartender cranked up the stereo

Sometimes I feel an envy for them
The curse of a songwriter is to never get to experience
The experience, what the listener can sense
To never be on that other side of the fence
But for a couple seconds in that bar I was
I heard it all, it was glorious
And humbly I thought, "Who knew I was a freakin' genius?"

And the curse for a human is to never know how another person feels
For them deep down below
If you ever truly reached their soul
I hadn't seen you in a while
But then some photos flickered by
Your haircut and your jacket were new
In those photos you looked happy as if nothing had transpired
I wondered if I'd left something in you?

If just for one moment, I reached in
If you'd felt what I had felt, somewhere within
If just for one moment, it was love
Or if that question is answer enough?

An offer came in
It'd been a while since I'd played any wedding but this one felt different
These two women, something about them
Set them apart
Their story touched a distant place in my heart
I sat down by the piano to write for them
And lost myself for hours in
Melodies and chords that felt like
They had been sent to me from heaven

I thought of us, how we'd gone wrong
I thought of how the point of a song
Is not the note you end it on
But to sing and dance while it goes on

If just for one moment, I reached in
If you'd felt what I had felt, somewhere within
If just for one moment, you felt the same
Then wasn't it worth the tears, worth the pain?

I ran through what I'd written
Scribbled down the chords and lyrics on a napkin
Hailed a cab and arrived just in time to begin
Turned to the couple and started to sing

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