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Singer-songwriter Hafdís Huld was born in Reykjavik, Iceland and now divides her time between the UK and Iceland. From the age of 15 she sang and toured the world with iconic Icelandic collective Gus Gus. When they weren’t touring, Hafdis took time out to star in several Icelandic films.

Synchronised Swimmers is the second album from Hafdís Huld. It contains two Icelandic number one hits – Kónguló, which means spider in Icelandic and is about urban climber Alain Robert, and the title track, Synchronised Swimmers. The album finds that special place just left of center in the sphere of deliciously melodic and witty pop. The mood is playful and the touch is light on songs that sound like they were recorded with all participants sporting an ear-to-ear grin.

• Action Man

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    I think he lives across the hall
    And I don't know him at all
    But I have a plan
    In it he's the action man

    He shifts across the street
    I can't see his feet
    He can save me anytime
    From this little life of mine

    I'm wishing, I'm wishing, I'm wishing
    Away by my window every day
    While he's on a mission
    For a damsel in distress I'm almost
    Happy and I guess
    I can live without the action man

    He will rocket and sky dive
    In order to survive
    Catch him if you can
    He's the action man

    Never needs a second chance
    Brave with big strong hands
    Makes everything okay
    Always knows just what to say, what to say

    I'm wishing, I'm wishing, I'm wishing
    Away by my window every day

    While he's on a mission
    For a damsel in distress I'm almost
    Happy and I guess
    I can live without the action man

    We'll have a moment in slow motion
    And I replay in my head all the clever
    Things I could have said

    Wishing, I'm wishing, I'm wishing away
    By my window every day
    While he's on a mission
    For a damsel in distress I'm almost
    Happy and I guess
    I can live without

    Wishing, I'm wishing, I'm wishing away
    By my window every day
    While he's on a mission
    For a damsel in distress I'm almost
    Happy and I guess
    I can live without my action man

    Live without my action man
    Live without my action man
    Action man

• Oldest Friend

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    Over noodles from yesterday
    I'm attempting some kind of a talk
    Not that it matters anyway
    It's a lonely road you walk
    Life size cut-out in the living room
    Of a woman that should be cold
    I think it's safe for me to assume
    That you need to be told

    Not sure what I'm doing here
    But you're my oldest friend
    Things were so much easier at school
    This grown up world is tricky
    I'm holding out my hand
    It's unwritten but it's the rule

    The green clock on the table
    Tells me you should be dressed by now
    You might feel slightly unable
    But you'll get back up somehow
    Were it the other way around
    I know you'd sit in the dark with me
    Until the courage could be found
    To get on with plan B

    Not sure what I'm doing here
    But you're my oldest friend
    Things were so much easier at school
    This grown up world is tricky
    I'm holding out my hand
    It's unwritten but it's the rule

    There's a storm in the cup of coffee
    I'm about to drink
    In it you are treading water
    Trying not to sink

    Not sure what I'm doing here
    But you're my oldest friend
    Things were so much easier at school
    This grown up world is tricky
    I'm holding out my hand
    It's unwritten but it's the rule
    It's unwritten but it's the rule

• Kónguló

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    It was a swing from a cable
    That sat by the tabourn EK
    Suffer you for your even way

    This could style and still betide the police
    Just wait he'll come down on one heath
    He's lucky poor that's the risk I note
    Feeling almost tight as butterflies shows

    They call him kongulo
    You never see him in an elevator
    It's most too slow
    See you later, see you later
    Let's hope the winds don't blow
    Watch out
    Here comes the kongulo

    Afraid of hides when it comes to flights of sex
    But when it starts to move
    Nobody gets
    No safety-line he takes his time out-there
    Stops for coffee
    And rests the first years there
    The side before there is a risk I know
    Feeling almost tight as butterflies shows

    They call him kongulo
    You never see him in an elevator
    It's most too slow

    See you later, see you later
    Please don't make it snow
    Watch out
    Here comes the kongulo

    It made us so even keener
    When he hits the the right
    With the window cleaner
    Human kongulo say yeah
    Now it's on tv who took him about his hand

    They call him kongulo
    You never see him in an elevator
    It's most too slow
    See you later, yeah see you later
    Let's hope the winds don't blow
    Watch out
    Here comes the kongulo
    La-la la-la la-la la-la-la
    Watch out
    Here comes the kongulo
    La-la la-la la-la la-la-la
    Watch out
    Here comes the kongulo
    La-la la-la la-la la-la la-la la-la la-la la-la a-la la-la la-la la-la la-la-la

• One of Those Things

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    When you're angry
    And you're walking away
    Waiting for them to stop you
    But they don't

    Then it's ok
    To wait for a while
    Before you go back there again
    With a smile
    It's just one of those things
    I wish someone had told me

    If you're hurting
    Needing a tear
    That is the time when they just don't
    Seem to fall

    It gets better
    You give up the wait
    And they come streaming down your face
    When it's too late
    It's just one of those things
    I wish someone had told me

    If I had the answers to all my questions
    There wouldn't be anywhere to go from here
    If I had the answers to all my questions

    There wouldn't be anywhere
    There wouldn't be anywhere
    To go from here

    When you're happy
    And you just don't know why
    Don't waste precious time
    Don't even try

    If you're dancing
    And nobody's there
    Enjoy the fact that you don't
    Even care

    It's just one of those things
    I wish someone had told me

    If I had the answers to all my questions
    There wouldn't be anywhere
    There wouldn't be anywhere
    There wouldn't be anywhere
    To go from here

    It's just one of those things
    I wish someone had told me

• Boys & Perfume

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    Nothing makes sense in the mornings anyway
    So feelings are back in demand from today
    Close my eyes and hope for a better one
    'Cause life goes on

    Boys and perfume from a pound store
    Cheap Mona Lisa print on the wall
    And I feel like the girl who's got it all
    I feel like the girl who's got it all, got it all

    Misery feels so out of place
    Moment's happiness staring you in the face
    Can't find love, then lust will do
    I'm playing with you, I'm playing

    Boys and perfume from a pound store
    Cheap Mona Lisa print on the wall

    And I feel like the girl who's got it all
    I feel like the girl who's got it all

    Nothing like my boy needs to be
    It all happened so soon
    They can't tell me what works for me
    Let's have Christmas in June
    Christmas in June

    Boys and perfume from a pound store
    Cheap Mona Lisa print on the wall
    And I feel like the girl who's got it all
    I feel like the girl who's got it all
    I feel like, I feel like I've got it all

• Synchronised Swimmers

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    Like synchronised swimmers
    In an ocean of sounds
    We're only beginners
    Still looking around
    It's a little bit deafening
    How my inner voice is shouting out

    What a lovely mess
    Through the days we walk
    There's liberating loneliness
    In how you never talk
    It's a little bit deafening
    How my inner voice is shouting out

    They'll come around
    Just leave you be
    Feet firmly on the ground
    When you're standing next to me
    Feet firmly on the ground
    When you're standing next to me

    Maybe we're different
    Different from who
    They so wanna tell us
    When they thing we should do

    It's a little bit deafening
    How my inner voice is shouting out

    They'll come around
    Just leave you be
    Feet firmly on the ground
    When you're standing next to me
    Feet firmly on the ground
    When you're standing next to me
    Shouting out

    It's a little bit deafening
    When my inner voice is shouting out
    It's a little bit deafening
    It's a little bit deafening
    It's a little bit deafening
    When my inner voice is shouting out

    Shouting out
    We're synchronised swimmers
    Shouting out

• Daisy

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    I don't want to smile
    You can't make me
    I've been dumped for a girl called Daisy
    And it hurts
    I picture her eating apples
    All glowing happy and healthy
    Girl next door

    My blue bikini's faded
    And I don't even care
    I think she's over rated
    With really stupid hair

    I think the sun is wasted on me
    I think the sun is wasted on me
    I've taken a vow of misery
    That's why the sun is wasted on me

    I wear my purple dress
    And walk like I mean business and I do

    She sounds like a greeting card phrase
    Little Miss Daisy at the door

    Not the best beginning for my fantasy catfight
    I've painted on a smile
    But I'll be back tomorrow night

    I think the sun is wasted on me
    I think the sun is wasted on me
    I've taken a vow of misery
    That's why the sun is wasted on me

    I think the sun is shining on me
    I think the sun is shining on me
    I've broken the vow of misery
    That's why the sun is shining on me
    Shining on me, shining

• Time of My Life

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    Orange car people sit in trees
    Hard to digest all the memories
    Fell off a bike the blood still fresh
    Focus on saving my party dress

    I'm in bed it's after dark
    Still hear them playing in the park
    Run around and laugh out loud
    That is it I'm sneaking out

    Waiting for things to run around
    Summer should have a different sound
    Sad situations too much of a wait
    The time of my life is starting late

    With mum in the early morning rush
    People watching the on the bus
    Day after day always the same
    And they don't even know my name

    Waiting for the things to run around
    Summer should have a different sound
    Sad situations too much of a wait
    The time of my life is starting late

    Dreams of impossible happiness
    Sugar coated truth
    I need to wake up
    And shake off my youth

    The time of my life is starting late
    The time of my life is starting late
    The time of my life is starting late
    The time of my life is starting late

• Homemade Lemonade

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    A girl in a nylon apron serves me cinnamon toast
    On a plate with a picture of a cat
    The man on the next table pretends to read the paper
    We all know he's asleep under his hat

    Look out on the street
    And I see a lady feeding birds too fat to fly

    Everything is basic in a town like this
    You get your picture in the paper if you catch a fish
    Dwelling on if onlys on a rainy day
    Just like Dolly I will get away

    Goodbye to homemade lemonade

    The girl with the apron talks way too loud on the phone
    About a boy she wants to snog
    They still have that sign up
    But someone has decided that
    Patch doesn't count as a dog

    Look out on the street
    And I see a lady feeding birds too fat to fly

    Everything is basic in a town like this
    You get your picture in the paper if you catch a fish
    Dwelling on if onlys on a rainy day
    Just like Dolly I will get away

    Goodbye to homemade lemonade

    Everything is basic in a town like this
    You get your picture in the paper if you catch a fish
    Dwelling on if onlys on a rainy day
    Just like Dolly I will get away

    Goodbye to homemade lemonade

• I Almost Know a Criminal

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    Flying high as a kite
    With proper starts there in the night
    Just when she's starting to shine
    Gets tangled on a power line

    From looking at her face
    She's the nicest person in this place
    They clearly don't know
    She's putting on a little snow

    And she tries so hard to prove
    She's got nothing to prove
    Every little fall is a signature move
    She's made a deal with the devil
    You can't take those back
    She will always be
    The prettiest insomniac around here

    I almost know a criminal

    Pushes them out of her head
    Thoughts when she's alone in bed
    She'll get away with it
    Looks nothing like her photo fit

    And she tries so hard to prove

    She's got nothing to prove
    Every little fall is a signature move
    She's made a deal with the devil
    You can't take those back
    She will always be
    The prettiest insomniac around here

    Fear eats my sanity
    I say I like her dress
    This time she doesn't shout at me
    We must be making progress

    Tries so hard to prove
    She's got nothing to prove
    Every little fall is a signature move
    She's made a deal with the devil
    You can't take those back
    She will always be
    The prettiest insomniac around here

    I almost know a criminal
    I almost know a criminal
    I almost know a criminal

• Robot Robot

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    I'm gonna build a robot and I'll name it after you
    I've got everything I need
    Using nuts and bolts and just a little bit of glue
    And some tin foil on his feet

    We'll go for walks
    And feed the ducks with bread
    He scares them off
    With the lasers on his head
    Remote control
    Needs no compromise
    The look of love
    In this bright red eyes

    I'm gonna build a robot and I'll name it after you
    I've got everything I need

    Using nuts and bolts and just a little bit of glue
    And some tin foil on his feet

    He doesn't breathe
    And never needs to sleep
    His hardware heart
    Never skips a beat

    I'm gonna build a robot and I'll name it after you
    I've got everything I need
    Using nuts and bolts and just a little bit of glue
    And some tin foil on his feet

• Vampires

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    We live in a house with a blue door
    When we're going out, they're coming home
    And if sometimes all day, the curtains are drawn
    It's just that we'd rather be left alone

    They think we're vampires
    That could be cool
    But we're not vampires

    We're just me and you
    Here in the dark
    Me and you and our little spark
    They think we're vampires

• Winter Sun

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    Somehow it hurts to be happy
    In your head
    I see your seasonal sadness setting in
    So much unsaid

    Somehow it hurts to be happy
    In your head

    Learn to let it go

    I tell you things will better
    Just wait and see

    You shake your head in disbelief
    And whisper not for me

    Learn to let it go
    Learn to let it go

    As the days become longer
    Glimpse of winter sun
    I see you smile
    Spring has begun

    Learn to let it go
    Learn to let it go
    Learn to let it go
    Let it go
    Let it go
    Let it go

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