oh it's healing - bang bang bang
I can hear your cannons call
you've been aiming at my land
your hungry hammer is falling

and if you want me I'm your country

I'm an angel bored like hell
and you're a devil meaning well
you steal my lines and you strike me dumb
come raise your flag upon me

and if you want me I'm your country
if you win me I'm forever - oh yeah!

'cause you're the storm that I've been needing
and all this peace has been deceiving
I like the sweet life and the silence
but it's the storm that I believe in

come and conquer and drop your bombs
cross my borders and kill the calm
bear your fangs and burn my wings
I hear bullets singing

and if you want me I'm your country
if you win me I'm forever - oh yeah!

'cause you're the storm that I've been needing
and all this peace has been deceiving
I need some wind to get me sailing
so it's the storm that I believe in

you fill my heart, you keep me breathing
'cause you're the storm that I believe in

and if you want me I'm your country



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    Song Meaning:The way the singer yearns for a bad boy to shake up her life...is this akin to a small, newly industrialised nation wanting to play with the big boys (rich countries) by opening up its borders, which will supposedly make it wealthy, developed etcetera?

    Just a thought.
    Flag namipoon June 28, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Great song!!! one of my favourite...
    Flag loneroadon July 17, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I pretty sure this song has nothing to do with war.
    It's about love and that she met a man that changed her life and gave her the exitment she needed.
    Her life was boring and peacefull before, but then she met a man that made her life exiting and opend her eyes.

    Parts like "come and conquer and drop your bombs, cross my borders and kill the calm" are just metaphors. This part means come and conquer my heart and cross the boarders into my life and make it exiting.
    Flag Pekz0ron January 07, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This is one of the few songs I have ever seen sung by a woman that perfectly understands men -- most songs sung by women about relationships tend to be about an idealized guy and what she wants, not what guys really are and really feel. Us men can be blunt and want to be truthful in relationships. It can be violent and forceful.
    Flag GuyinGAon September 30, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." --Carl Jung

    This song is about everything! A relationship between opposites reveals the storm that rages within everything around us everywhere we look. No other song reveals this more to me than this song. It's been my favorite song for years. It is not the perfection in the world or perhaps the universe which makes it beautiful, it is the flaw, the imperfection, the scar that enables the beauty to occur. There's no light without darkness, no light without shadow, no pleasure without pain, no good without evil. Both are necessary, they need each other to define themselves. It is the storm that rages and is present in everything that exist everywhere we look. The storm is like a kind of magic, wonderful, terrible unsettling, dangerous, mesmerizing and hypnotic. It makes you feel kind of dizzy, unsafe, uncomfortable and liberated! We must have more of this whatever it is! There's a storm coming and it's freaking beautiful! It's unsafe. It is the very opposite of the very comfort zones most people live in. Everyone needs to feel this way to feel happy. We crave excitement to release the adrenaline, cortisol and endorphins that allow us to cool out physically, mentally and spiritually. We need to unbalance ourselves and fall back to the center where we can find balance again. We do this constantly over and over again because it is impossible to be in the center all the time. Everything moves and so we must move with it like equilibrium or be washed away in the current and become hopelessly lost at sea. Life is like sailing or riding the storm out. The storm brings release from whatever we're attached to. Storms are necessary to bring the calm that follows closely behind. The storm frees us. Thats what this song means to me anyways. It means a lot! Maybe I'm just a little crazy, like a storm?
    Flag t bearon June 22, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I don't think this song is romanticizing war, but rather making the connection between love and war. Like the uncertainty of war, there is uncertainty in love and both require taking chances. It seems to be about her paralysis as an "angel" that prevents her from being able to take chances and therefore her inability to go out and find love. She believes in it, but she's incapable of allowing herself to go for it, she needs a "devil" who is somewhat dangerous in the sense that he will take the chance and take her high pretensions away and conquer her so to speak. She's asking for someone to see beyond her angelic nature and realize that what she needs is a good passionate relationship to bring her back down to earth.
    Flag alovelyfadeouton June 13, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:"All's fair in love and war" and "divide and conquer" taken to another level. Definitely about the trials and tribulations of sex and a relationship and telling the guy if he takes a chance, she won't say no.

    I've always loved the other imagery alongside the war stuff, with the angel/devil angle. She's been "good" for a long time(an angel), taking time out from the dating game probably, but when he comes along and suggests things and asks for stuff(like a devil) she realizes that while she was free of worry and stuff during this time of "calm," it was really boring. The hectic business of romance is what she wants in her life. She wants to do more than just exist, she wants to live life.

    I love the nautical feel of this one in the music itself.
    Flag delialon January 05, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I want to like this song, but i have a hard time with them romanticizing war. whatever.
    Flag kickintheshinzon December 15, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:The war words are just diction- she is choosing them to set up and support her metaphor which is what everyone has been saying love/sex.

    I think its both love and sex. She recognizes she loves him and he is good for her. Now, she wants to challenge him to make her seize her and take things to a new level. I think it doubles to challenge him to not only have sex with her but to want her all to himself all the time. Oh yeah. I love this song.
    Flag kilimonianon July 21, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:This is definitely a song about the American war in the Middle East--from a Swede's point of view. Don't you see all the war terms? I guess it could be about love or sex too, but there is DEFINITELY a war theme going on here. It's all over the song, people!
    Flag Looking_glass_eyeson May 21, 2007   Link

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