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Jens Lekman – Speak To Me In Music (2025) | Track profile | Dork

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Jens Lekman
Songs for Other People's Weddings
Speak To Me In Music

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Speak To Me In Music

Release date: 11th September 2025

From Songs for Other People's Weddings

Track 5

5:52

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"Speak To Me In Music" is a track by Jens Lekman, from the album Songs for Other People's Weddings, released 11th September 2025. The track is 5:52 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Jens Lekman.

About the Artist

Jens Lekman

Jens Lekman

Lyrics

Speak To Me In Music

For every wedding I play, I offer to write a song
Over a coffee, I ask the lovers where they went wrong
Why are you doing this to yourselves? Blink twice if you need help
And they laugh, and then the nervousness is gone

I say, "Close your eyes and focus
Think of the first thing that you noticed
The first thing that drew you to the other"
And the cliches start pouring in
I chew on the pencil 'til I get lead poisoning
But like a journalist I wait until they start talking

'Cause in there, the answer lingers
She says they're just like two country singers
When she takes the lead, he joins in on the harmony
He says she gives his notes space to breathe
Then says sorry his answer lacks poetry
I take a sip of coffee and say, "No, I disagree"

You know on love I've read all the books
I've read Fromm and Barthes and hooks
I guess they taught me some, but I wouldn't know how to use it
No, instead, let's talk string arrangements
Let's speak in a language ancient
If we're gonna talk about love, let's talk about music

So now the song is taking shape
I've got a chorus, a hook, and a break
And the words are slowly falling into place
But I don't feel anything yet
No passion and no pain
I need to inject myself into its veins

So my mind wanders off
For a thousand miles away
To the streets of New York where morning's just broken
Where she is hurrying through the rain
Huddling on the subway train
I picture what she looks like newly awoken

And all my longing and gratefulness
Carries the song home
It seeps into every word and every chord
I give the couple a hug
And tell them, "See you Saturday"
The song is finished, but it's not for them anymore

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Track details

From Songs for Other People's Weddings

5:522025

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Album

Songs for Other People's Weddings

12th September 2025

Track number

5

Release year

2025

1The First Lovesong
4:04
2A Tuxedo Sewn For Two
5:00
3Candy From A Stranger
3:45
4Two Little Pigs (feat. Matilda Sargren)

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Jens Lekman has confirmed new album 'Songs for Other People's Weddings', a companion piece to a book of the same name

Jens Lekman has confirmed new album 'Songs for Other People's Weddings', a companion piece to a book of the same name

Swedish artist Jens Lekman announces album inspired by his wedding singer career, alongside companion book co-written with David Levithan.

11 Jul 2025 • 10:10 pm

4:06

5Speak To Me In Music

5:52

6With You I Can Hear My Own Voice

7I Want To Want You Again (feat. Matilda Sargren & Peter Oren)

9Wedding in Brooklyn

11Increasingly Obsolete

12On a Pier, On the Hudson (feat. Matilda Sargren)

13Wedding in Leipzig

15You Have One New Message (feat. Matilda Sargren)

16Just For One Moment

17The Last Lovesong

—I Want to Want You Again