Torekov is a locality situated in Båstad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 863 inhabitants in 2010. It is still a fishing village but it is today known as a summer resort.
In August, 1971 Torekov hosted a meeting in which it was decided to strip the king of all but his symbolic formal political powers, known as the "Torekov Compromise".
According to an old legend, the town is named after a girl later known as Saint Thora who was drowned by her stepmother, found on the shore of Torekov, and buried by a blind man who then regained his sight. However, the more prosaic explanation refers to two old words thora meaning height, and kove meaning cabin or hut.
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Rise and fall, beneath it all...
not once reaching the surface
All his dreams are borrowed,
traded for his service
Strength in numbers
Nothing alone
Rally together
Die as one
The party line makes thinking old,
his dreams are his brother's
Pride in living as he's told,
his life as every other's
Sheep in numbers
Never divide
Rally together
Die a tribe
Can't see himself, can't be himself...
just one more proud believer
Used, betrayed, thrown away...