For Music of the Week, we are listening to the opening theme song, “Forgiveness,” of a Danish TV crime series, The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey. The song was written by acclaimed Danish film composer and Emmy Award winner Jacob Groth. Groth has composed the music score for over 30 movies, among them the famous trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, based upon the bestselling crime novels by legendary Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.
The song is performed by singer Misen Groth, at the time married to Jacob Groth, with whom she released three albums. In 2016, Misen published the book Jeg kan da stadig synge (I Can Still Sing) about her life as a mother and singer with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
I, I'm a roamer in time
I travel alone
Throughout an endless journey
Home, where is my home?
Fragments of a love life
I won't surrender
When the spirits are calling my name
Then I will have passed all the sorrow and pain
And I'll go to heaven with you
I'll lay down my head on your pillow
And ask for forgiveness
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