Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Part ONE of the Endless Dream story is here. It's called IDIOSYNCRASY.
But who's that scruffy dude in the taxi?
And where is he heading?
Here’s what John has to say about the track;
"Some rare days, when you are in the middle of a creative process, you can experience an overwhelming feeling of invincibility.
That you are some sort of a genius and that no one else could ever create what you are now in the process of creating.
The next day that feeling is usually totally gone and instead, you are desperately trying to understand what the hell you were doing yesterday.
So, I wanted to write an exaggerated lyric about when you let that inflated emotion take control of you.
About when you love yourself a little bit too much, about the thin line between mindfulness and madness.
When I wrote it, I was listening a lot to blues from the 20s and 30s so this track shaped itself into some kind of odd, self-aggrandizing blues.
This song might also work in a self-therapeutic way when you think that all the people around you are idiots.
Good luck!"
Read more about the song and the video on Consequence of Sound Origins: consequenceofsound.net/2019/12/peter-bjorn-john-idiosyncrasy-origins-stream
VIDEO CREDITS
Director: Henry Moore Selder
Producer: Katarina Tjernström/Balthazar Film
DOP: Joakim Törnquist
FX Make Up & Hair: Helené Norberg
Carpenter: Henning Rehnström
Art department Assistant: Nova Lee Branting
Runners: Katarina Wallenborg
Production Coordinator: Josefin Söderlind
Post & Grade Nico Knudsen
Thanks to Teater Tribunalen, Peter Geschwind, Taxi Stockholm, St. Erik Markutveckling
Listen, merch store and all other links to Peter Bjorn and John:
bio.to/peterbjornandjohnYT
open.spotify.com/artist/6u11Qbko2N2hP4lTBYjX86?si=V1xu6_eLSqiA2KKK6oS-OA
peterbjornandjohn.com
https://x.com/peterbjornjohn/
instagram.com/peterbjornjohn
facebook.com/peterbjornandjohn
LYRICS:
Behind the wall of modesty
Comes the sound of my poetry
I call out twisted lies,
Words that rhyme
Life is a waste of time in your state of mind
Got a tremendous ability,
A narcissistic ebriety
I’m too vain to be insane
It’s not you, it’s not you it’s me Idiosyncrasy
Live to let myself free
Egocentricity
Superficially I’m all that matters to me
Hear me laugh like a maniac
When I glide through the cul de sac
I stab a hole in the everyday
With the needle from a haystack
Step aside my borderline
It’s not you, it’s not you it’s me Idiosyncrasy
Live to let myself free
Egocentricity
What you think of me is all the same to me
Idiosyncrasy
Got my Skeleton key
Egocentricity
Superficially I’m all that matters to me
Part ONE of the Endless Dream story is here. It's called IDIOSYNCRASY.
But who's that scruffy dude in the taxi?
And where is he heading?
Here’s what John has to say about the track;
"Some rare days, when you are in the middle of a creative process, you can experience an overwhelming feeling of invincibility.
That you are some sort of a genius and that no one else could ever create what you are now in the process of creating.
The next day that feeling is usually totally gone and instead, you are desperately trying to understand what the hell you were doing yesterday.
So, I wanted to write an exaggerated lyric about when you let that inflated emotion take control of you.
About when you love yourself a little bit too much, about the thin line between mindfulness and madness.
When I wrote it, I was listening a lot to blues from the 20s and 30s so this track shaped itself into some kind of odd, self-aggrandizing blues.
This song might also work in a self-therapeutic way when you think that all the people around you are idiots.
Good luck!"
Read more about the song and the video on Consequence of Sound Origins: consequenceofsound.net/2019/12/peter-bjorn-john-idiosyncrasy-origins-stream
VIDEO CREDITS
Director: Henry Moore Selder
Producer: Katarina Tjernström/Balthazar Film
DOP: Joakim Törnquist
FX Make Up & Hair: Helené Norberg
Carpenter: Henning Rehnström
Art department Assistant: Nova Lee Branting
Runners: Katarina Wallenborg
Production Coordinator: Josefin Söderlind
Post & Grade Nico Knudsen
Thanks to Teater Tribunalen, Peter Geschwind, Taxi Stockholm, St. Erik Markutveckling
Listen, merch store and all other links to Peter Bjorn and John:
bio.to/peterbjornandjohnYT
open.spotify.com/artist/6u11Qbko2N2hP4lTBYjX86?si=V1xu6_eLSqiA2KKK6oS-OA
peterbjornandjohn.com
https://x.com/peterbjornjohn/
instagram.com/peterbjornjohn
facebook.com/peterbjornandjohn
LYRICS:
Behind the wall of modesty
Comes the sound of my poetry
I call out twisted lies,
Words that rhyme
Life is a waste of time in your state of mind
Got a tremendous ability,
A narcissistic ebriety
I’m too vain to be insane
It’s not you, it’s not you it’s me Idiosyncrasy
Live to let myself free
Egocentricity
Superficially I’m all that matters to me
Hear me laugh like a maniac
When I glide through the cul de sac
I stab a hole in the everyday
With the needle from a haystack
Step aside my borderline
It’s not you, it’s not you it’s me Idiosyncrasy
Live to let myself free
Egocentricity
What you think of me is all the same to me
Idiosyncrasy
Got my Skeleton key
Egocentricity
Superficially I’m all that matters to me
