Pal Moddi Knutsen kortweg Moddi is een Noorse singer/songwriter, en zijn lied House By The Sea was één van mijn favorieten van 2014. De tekst is werkelijk schitterend en gaat over thuiskomen en thuiszijn.

Het nummer staat op het album Set The House On Fire (2013). Deze versie van het lied is opgenomen in de Noorse plaats Kvam. Moddi wordt daarbij begeleid door de Nederlandse violiste Roosmarijn Tuenter.

House By The Sea
They say home is the place where your heart is.
Then I am home now, though I am far away.
For so long I’ve let the forest guard it.
And now it’s begging me to stay.
And I’m trying my best to be tough.
To pretend that I am strong and can siphon it off.
But I’m not who I wanted to be.
In my heart I belong in a house by the sea.

They say home is a place where you’re needed.
Then I am home now, but I am leaving.
To feel my feet being kissed by the seaweed.
And I will be silent and kiss it back.
This is not who I want you to see.
It’s just adding on weight to the darkness in me.
And from the little I have understood,
I believe that a house by the sea would do good.

Some say home is a place you can choose to be.
So I’ve decided to carry home inside me.
So it’s not really as if I am leaving.
There is just something pulling me.
‘Cause behind everything that I do,
I just want to forget, and lay down beside you.
And fill my lungs with the sweet summer air.
In my heart, in my mind I am already there.

Yeah behind everything that I do.
I just want to come home and lay down beside you.
And then I’ll be who I wanted to be.
In my heart I belong in a house by the sea.