Bahamas – All I’ve Ever Known

Album

Bahamas Is Afie is the third album from Canadian musician Bahamas, released August 19, 2014 on Brushfire Records.

The album features guest contributions by Don Kerr, Jason Tait and Felicity Williams.

The album won the Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2015, and Afie Jurvanen won Songwriter of the Year for "All the Time", "Bitter Memories" and "Stronger Than That". CBC Radio One's arts and culture magazine show Q also named the album as the best album of 2014.

It was a longlisted nominee for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize.

Artist

Afie Jurvanen (born April 28, 1981), known by his stage name Bahamas, is a Canadian musician born in Toronto, and raised in Barrie, Ontario. He is of Finnish ancestry.

Jurvanen taught himself guitar. He worked with a variety of musicians that includes The Lumineers, City and Colour, Feist, Howie Beck, Jason Collett, Jack Johnson, The Weather Station, and Zeus.

Downtown Music Publishing represents Bahamas songs. Jurvanen recorded his debut album, Pink Strat, in a cabin in rural Ontario in 2008. He released the album under the name Bahamas in 2009 and was subsequently nominated for a 2010 Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo.

In every breath there's life
Between my teeth a knife
Pronounced us man and wife
For evermore

'Cause once you've found your thrill
You move in for the kill
I'd chase you up the hill
And all through time

And now my memory
Seems to be failing me
What once was fantasy
Is all I've ever known

The thing I miss the most
Lives in some demon host
I know you're not a ghost
Just down the street

I am a spinning man
A living ceiling fan
If two could only hang
In the same room once again

And now my memory
Seems to be failing me
What once was fantasy
Is all I've ever known

In ogni respiro c'è vita
Tra i denti un coltello
Ci ha pronunciato marito e moglie
Sempre più

Perché una volta che hai trovato il tuo brivido
Ti trasferisci per l'uccisione
Ti darei la caccia su per la collina
E per tutto il tempo

E ora la mia memoria
Sembra che mi stia deludendo
Quello che una volta era fantasia
È tutto quello che ho mai conosciuto

La cosa che mi manca di più
Vive in qualche ospite demoniaco
So che non sei un fantasma
In fondo alla strada

Sono un uomo che gira
Un ventilatore a soffitto vivente
Se solo due potessero bloccarsi
Nella stessa stanza ancora una volta

E ora la mia memoria
Sembra che mi stia deludendo
Quello che una volta era fantasia
È tutto quello che ho mai conosciuto