About Michael
Michael Jarlestrand is a Swedish pop singer that started his career in the mid 1980s in a band named United IC. They release a CD in 1990 titled My soul is satisfied. Michael left the group in 1992 when he already had started another career as gospel singer.
After 10 records with gospel songs and tours all around the world Michael is now ready to pick up his career with pop music.
His first single “Take me to the White House” is released on Tuesday the 20th of October. It’s an ironic song about the presidential election and the mystery that surrounds the White House.
The next single ”I will always be there” will be released on the 15th of November thru this homepage, Spotify and thru YouTube.
Om Mikael
Mikael Järlestrand är en svensk popsångare som började sin karriär i mitten av 80-talet i popbandet United IC. Bandet släppte en CD 1990 med namnet My soul is satisfied. Mikael lämnade bandet 1992 när han redan hade påbörjat sin andra karriär som gospelsångare.
Efter 10 inspelade skivor med kristna sånger och turnéer runt om i världen är Mikael nu redo att återuppta sin pop-karriär.
Första singeln släpps tisdagen den 20 oktober 2020. Det är en satirisk sång om presidentvalet i USA och mysteriet i och kring Vita huset.
Nästa singel, ”I will always be there”, släpps den 15 november genom denna hemsida, Spotify och Youtube.
Take me to the White House
Words & music: Michael Jarlestrand
Lead vocal: Michael Jarlestrand
Background vocal: Agnes Börsbo & Magnus Ahlgren
Keyboards: Ted Hector
Bass: Magnus Ahlgren
Guitar: Stefan Olsson
Drums: Anders Hedlund
Percussion: Oscar Eriksson Uggla
Producer & arranger: Magnus Ahlgren
Video: Ernst Samuel Svendsen
Photo & design: Daniel Karlsson
Recorded at: Slow Studio September/October 2020
Mix and Mastered by: Tobias Grenholm, Rockatown Studios, Stockholm
Take me to the White house
Music & Lyrics: Michael Jarlestrand
- Take me to the White house
give me all the keys,
Let me show you how to run a true democracy.
No more lies and no more fake, we need a higher stake,
To tell the truth and nothing but the truth
That all the difference makes
– - Take me through the White house, show me all the rooms,
I wanna know where Lincoln slept
and Clintons rendezvous
Tell me where the tapes were kept
That Nixon tried to hide
Where did Jackie renovate
Obama be my guide
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The White house where history is made,
The White house were the drama is displayed
– - Russia they are hard to trust, they’ll infiltrate again
And China they will scan your home, and probably your brain
And Europe always think they know,
whose next in the oval room,
But they don’t ever have a clue what Americans think or do
– - Mexico should pay the wall, so says our captain Trump
So if the’ll try to get inside they better swim or jump
And North-Korea is a very closed and mystery-land,
But lets go there pretend were friends
and shake each others hands
–
What a triumph that would be
To buy Denmark, It’s a superdeal
With Greenland we’re in full control
Of climate change with our oil and coal
– - Tell me folks what does it take
for me to reach the top
I heard that actors, farmers they were never ever stopped
And also there’s a place for such a skillful businessman
And even for a governor from down in Texasland
– - Yes, for me there’ll never be a single grain of hope,
’cause I am born in Sweden, this old socialistic hole
I wish you luck and yes I know the winner takes it all
But if you loose don’t shed a tear, accept the peoples call
–
The White house where history is made,
The White house where the drama is displayed
– - Some have slaved for Washington, ’bout forty years or more
some done much and some done less,
my question is therefore,
if you get the chance to drive, to sit in the front seat
Make sure that all lives matter, it’s no trick and it’s no treat.
– - So weather you’re a catholic, a Jew or protestant
liberal, a democrat or rightwing republican
Always do remember to be solid fair and just
Don’t forget what’s said on the bills
– In God, in God we trust
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The White house where history is made,
The White house where the drama is displayed