Kent releases new song “På Drift?” for free

Listen to a new, free song by Swedish band Kent

Swedish rockers, Kent, which we have previously covered several times here at Silent Sound Waves, released a brand new song for free through their website right before Christmas. The new song is called “På Drift?”, and was written specifically to be used in a Swedish commercial against bullying among teenagers. Listen and download the tune, find translated lyrics, see the commercial and steal our homemade cover-art for the song inside!

You can download the original version of the song in a variety of formats from the offical Kent website (download by right-clicking the file-sizes and selecting save as), and you can listen to it by using our media player below.

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Just because we love you all so much, we have a translation of the lyrics for you so that those of you who don’t understand Swedish can still get an idea of what the song is about. Be aware though, the translation doesn’t do the original lyrics any sort of justice at all:

We have no secrets anymore I guess
But it’s so fucking cowardly to leave
The bohemians and poets are pigs
And On The Road is the stupidest shit I’ve read
Because Heroes and Heroines stay put
With their backs up against the wall
Just skin against the sharp edge
And they scratch and punch and bite
For their lives or someone else’s
They get no reward
But they ask for nothing
They just do it, bite down and shut up

Darling what we want most of all
Is something that can never be ours
November is a wall of wet concrete
Where a silly dream of escape is born
To crash and then die
But Heroes and Heroines stay put
They spit hard against the wind
And they warm our hands
So we won’t let go
Of the love we deserve
They dare to believe and hope
That someone up there is watching us
Someone who’d rather forgive us than condemn us
For something we didn’t know we did
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In addition to this version, there is also another version created and written specifically for the mentioned commercial. This version features slightly different lyrics, but most notably it is being beautifully performed by a young girl. I personally love the last line of this version, and it goes: ” There is no reward and I demand nothing at all, only never to be forced to shut my mouth ” – Watch the video below.

In closing, we are painfully aware of how terrible it is to have a song or more without an album cover in our iTunes, so below is the full version of the ones we created just to have something to fill up the grey space with. Feel free to use it yourself should you like it!