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En pessimist i sitt livs form
Jag vädrar blod, det luktar sorg
En utomjordings kärlekstörst
En undran vem som svek vem först
Ät fett och socker tills du spyr
Eller blir en fyra-tonsmartyr
Sälj dig, sälj dig dyrt
Kom låna törnekronan min
Lid för konsten eller brinn
Jag slåss och håller kroppen varm
En dröm om mammas ömma famn
En utomjordings kärlekstörst
En undran vem som svek vem först
Och jag blir gärna en martyr
Vi behöver nog en ny
Sälj dig, sälj dig dyrt
Ett långfinger åt döden
Vi gick över lik
Och skylta' med vår kärlek,
vårt rika inre liv
Men plåtarna till himmlen
var slut när vi kom dit
Och priset vi betalat
För att klassas som elit
Var att vi blev som dom andra
Vi blev som dom andra
Vi blev som dom andra
Och vi kommer inte längre
Vi är tillbaks på noll
Men ingen kommer sörja
Vi har spelat ut vår roll
Vi glömmer hela skiten
Det betyder ingenting
Vi skulle kommit längre
Men räckte inte till
Vi blev som dom andra
Vi blev som dom andra
Vi blev som dom andra
but the rest is fun and i make up my own english lyrics since i can't speak swedish and i can't translate what they're singing about. it's kind of fun.
I always get happy when this song runs and I see your comment. Makes me think of my own Lotta :)
Kent is another of those bands that make me want to learn Swedish. Sweden produces so much great music (not abba, oh god no).
Does Bill have have relatives there? 'cause he's responsible for my crush on Swedish music?
What's wrong with Abba? My sister and I would pretend to be Abba when we were little.
Gotta love it when a song in a foreign tongue (although, an English cognate) is catchy enough to sing and whistle along to! Love RP, too!
A foreign tongue? UK is so small town
My rating up from 9 to 10 Heja Sverige !
+1 Heja heja
Does Bill have have relatives there? 'cause he's responsible for my crush on Swedish music?
Hey, if you've got anything newer from them, send it in! I'd love to hear more up-to-date music.
My rating up from 9 to 10 Heja Sverige !
This sounds like the Swedish chef "borked" Radiohead
Kent! When i listening to music, I almost always end up again with the favourite band Kent!
Never been able to see them live, but this October, I will see them before they breakup in December.
They have a album called Isola, the album is out in both swedish and english check it out!
All Kent albums will be realised on vinyl during this autumn.
Lkw wrote:
Agreed. Thank you, bikinikaratebabe. Even in English, the words have their own nuance and evocative presentation. I had never heard this before, but I like it a lot. More so now that I have an idea of what's being conveyed in the lyrics. Very interesting phrasing and some wicked-good imagery. Giving this a 7 until I hear it a few more times...
Thank you @bikinikaratebabe!
Miss you Cynaera...
A lonely woman is searching a man.
Answer to: The heart tells the truth.
A pessimist in it's way of life
I sense blood, it smells like mourning.
An alien's thirst of love
A question of who betrayed whom first.
Eat fat and sugar till you throw up
or become a four-tons martyr.
Sell yourself, sell yourself at a high price.
Come borrow my crown of thorns
Suffer for the art or burn.
I'm fighting and keeping my body warm
A dream of being in my mama's tender arms.
An aliens thirst for love
A question of who betrayed whom first.
And I will readily become a martyr
We most likely need a new one
Sell yourself, sell yourself at a high price
Flip off death
we walked over copses
and flashed our love,
our rich inner lives.
But the plates (note: i guess to walk on) up to heaven
were no more when we got there.
And the price we payed to be classified as elite
was to become like the others
We became like the others
We became like the others
And we aren't getting further
We are back at zero.
But no one will mourn
We have played our parts.
We will forget this shit
it doesn't mean anything.
We should have gotten further
But we weren't good enough
We became like the others
We became like the others
We became like the others
well, as i realize now, the song doesn't really work as well in english. it's something about the lyrical way Kent sings this song (and all other songs) in that just can't be translated. but now u at least know what the song is about. in my opinion it's about how everybody is trying to be special, and in this pursuit everybody ends up as the same...
Thanks for this. I picked this up in Sweden on a visit a couple of years back, and although I could understand only a tiny fraction of the words (thanks to watching Wallander :)) I really love the sound of their singing in Swedish. It's nice to have a good idea of what the song's about.
I do envy Scandinavians as your languages are so close, so your average Swede/Norwegian/Dane has 3 languages even before s/he picks up English (which many speak better than the English) and German.
paradise use to be sooooooo good. Really
Must be you. RP is still the best radio station in the world.
paradise use to be sooooooo good. Really
Agreed. Thank you, bikinikaratebabe. Even in English, the words have their own nuance and evocative presentation. I had never heard this before, but I like it a lot. More so now that I have an idea of what's being conveyed in the lyrics. Very interesting phrasing and some wicked-good imagery. Giving this a 7 until I hear it a few more times...
Normally I hate whistling, but it works here.
I wish they would come to the US on tour, but I doubt that's going to happen.
Sounds like the Eagles' "Last Resort" the way you describe it there ;) Different point of course, but still...
I always wondered what they were saying in this song. I wish they would do a few more songs in English, but maybe it's a lot of work to try and translate.
I know that my Swedish
bikinikaratebabe wrote:
Equivalently: everybody tries to be a non-conformist and ends up being... a conformist. Adolescence angst to a T.
Or let's try an ecological spin with a distinct American and Canadian flavour:
Everybody wants a big honkin' house on hectare of land in paradise. Then everybody builds the same big honkin' house and the next thing you know you have a valley or hill side full of similar houses in what has become a boring low-density suburb. Now the place looks like crap.
Thinking parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, increasingly the interior of British Columbia.
And yes, all these places used to look beautiful and very special.
Is the disproportionate number of superb Swedish musicians, producers and songwriters a product of their early years music education?
I have no idea why, but agree with the your premise that there seems to be a disproportionate number of superb Swedish musicians. Since RP is curated, we should consider the possibility is that it is due to a bias.