Billie Eilish – The End of the World

I fredags såg vi filmen Greta. En fantastiskt bra dokumentär, men det som fick mitt öra var musiken, musikvalen och ljudproduktionen. Musiken av Rebekka Karijord och Jon Ekstrand var känslomässig, diskret och repetitiv, helt i min smak (finns på TIDAL), men det som verkligen stack ut var en låt som spelades ungefär mitt i filmen. Det lät som Billie Eilish men jag kunde inte hitta låten någonstans. Jag frågade Rebekka Karijord själv på Twitter och fick veta att det mycket riktigt var Billie Eilish som sjöng en cover av en Rob Dickinson-låt, The End of the World, ackompanjerad av sin äldre bror, Finneas O’Connor.

Jag kunde dock inte hitta den låten på TIDAL eller någon annan musiktjänst. Det visade dig vara en liveupptagning av BBC Radio 1, men lyckligtvis fanns den på YouTube.

Breathe the air again, it’s a beautiful day
I wish this moment would stay with the Earth
Some primal paradise
But there you go again, saying everything ends
Saying you can’t depend on anything, or anyone

If the end of the world was near
Where would you choose to be?
If there was five more minutes of air
Would you panic and hide
Or run for your life
Or stand here and spend it with me
If we had five more minutes
Would I, could I, make you happy?

And we would live again
In the simplest of ways
Living day after day
Like some primal animals
We would love again
Under glorious suns
With the freedom that comes with the truth

If the end of the world was near
Where would you choose to be?
If there was five more minutes of air
Would you panic and hide?
Or run for your life?
Or stand here and spend it with me?
If we had five more minutes
Would I, could I, make you happy?

So it finally came to pass
I saw the end of the world
Saw the madness unfold like
Some primal burial
And I looked back upon
Armageddon
And the moment of truth
Between you and me

If we had five more minutes of air to breathe
And we cried all through it
But you spent them with me
On our last few drags of air we agree
I was and you were happy