Agnostic Dreams

## Track Listing

**"Agnostic Dreams"** is the second track from Ängie's album in collaboration with Tail Whip, *Heartburn*.

## Background

On August 11th, 2019, Ängie posted a photo with the title of the song and a photo with some of the lyrics of it. She also changed the profile picture of her Instagram with the name "Agnostic Dreams". In October of that same year, she performed the song live at MaMA Festival 2019, but only a small snippet of the performance was posted on the web.

In April 2020, Ängie did a live-stream on her Instagram where she played a snippet of the song and confirmed that it was going to be on *Heartburn*.

In an interview for the french magazine Têtu, Ängie mentioned the song and said that she took almost two months to write the final lyrics to it: "I have a title in the *Heartburn* album which is very moving for me. It talks about the loss of a friend and it took me a while to find the right words."

On October 28th, 2020, Ängie premiered the song in its entirety on AMK Morgon, a daily morning radio show that plays in Stockholm, Sweden and on various podcast services (the song is played at about 53 minutes).

In the week the album was going to be released, Ängie posted a photo on Instagram detailing the dream she had with her friend, which led to her writing the song.

## Theme

In a live-stream on Instagram, Ängie confirmed that the song is about her friend and agent Nicklas Högberg, who tragically died of heart failure in 2017.

Ängie talked about how it felt losing someone so close and how it affected her in an interview for Freak Fanzine: "It was really a bang on the jaw when he died. I felt that I was not immortal and that it could die if I continued to live the lifestyle that I did. Even if I didn't die, someone else I loved could die. [...] Around that time I lived a very decadent lifestyle and it scared me when he died. It was the first time I lost someone so close to me. I don't want to go through it again. It's the most awful thing I've been through."

## Lyrics

Oh, if it weren't for you

I'd still be ignorant

Oh, if it weren't for you

Things would be different

Oh, if it weren't for you

So pure and innocent

Oh, if it weren't for you

I'd still know what it meant

You're my ghost in my dreams

Wish that you could stay

You're my golden memory

That never fades away

A dead rose on my skin

I'll show you someday

I'll keep you deep within

Until my last day

Agnostic dreams, stuck in the same dream

Agnostic dreams

I see you when I sleep

Agnostic dreams, stuck in the same dream

Agnostic dreams

I see you when I sleep

I wish it wasn't true

Love you so desperatly

I wish it wasn't true

I guess it was destiny

I wish it wasn't true

God is my enemy

I wish it wasn't true

I'll see you eventually

You're my ghost in my dreams

Wish that you could stay

You're my golden memory

That never fades away

A dead rose on my skin

I'll show you someday

I'll keep you deep within

Until my last day

Agnostic dreams, stuck in the same dream

Agnostic dreams

I see you when I sleep

Agnostic dreams, stuck in the same dream

Agnostic dreams

I see you when I sleep

Agnostic dreams, stuck in the same dream

Agnostic dreams

Agnostic dreams, stuck in the same dream

Agnostic dreams

Agnostic dreams, stuck in the same dream

Agnostic dreams

Agnostic dreams, stuck in the same dream

Agnostic dreams

## Trivia

* Ängie led people to believe that the *Dust* music video was for this song using a picture from the music video with the name of this song on her profile picture. The photos were deleted quickly after being posted.

## References

<references>

1. ↑ https://angie-wikia.fandom.com/wiki/Têtu
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/fckingangiebr/status/1321465181076148225
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/fckingangiebr/status/1255224649924972545
5. ↑ https://angie-wikia.fandom.com/wiki/Freak\_Fanzine