Lyrics and translation deLillos - Nitten åttifire

Nitten åttifire

Vannet frøys på bursdagen min
Men da var jeg på tur med deg og noen venner
Og da jeg kom hjem dagen derpå
Hadde kattene driti tre nye steder
Bare ikke i kassa si
Vet ikke om jeg heller hadde gjort noe der
Og platene mine lå strødd utover gulvet
Uten cover og flasker og aske overalt

Og en fyr lå i senga mi
Og det var kaldt
Den kaldeste dagen
Overalt

Den kaldeste dagen i Nittenåttifire

Og dagen gikk med på å varme opp rør i kjelleren
Og skaffe en parafinovnsekspert
Og snakke med en striptease-danserinne
Som hadde med en presang til min bror
Det er han jeg bor sammen med
Og Maya hun er kvart sigøyner rund og skjønn og god
Hun tror hun elsker ham
Mens han drikker øl og spiller gitar dagen lang

Og det er her vi øver
Selv om det er kaldt
Og det er et stor hull i taket
Ute snør det overalt

Og jeg ønsket intenst at du var nær
Og ikke der at du var her
Det ville lindret og vært varmt selv uten klær
For bare du kunne fått meg i ordentlig godt humør
Jeg satt der og røkte og frøs
Og ønsket at jeg var født mye lenger ser
Hvis du bare hadde vært der hadde alt vært greit
Hvis du bare hadde vært her hadde alt vært greit
Hvis du bare hadde vært der hadde alt vært greit

Men dagen etter elsket jeg igjen det gamle huset
Der det stod og ristet
Lenge etter at trailerne hadde kjørt forbi
Jeg hadde litt ved jeg satt der og nøt det
Og se sola viste seg det var det som skulle til
Og noen der inne spilte og sang for meg
Og jeg hadde allerede gjort en fornuftig ting
Ringt deg

Eighteen Eighty Four

The water froze on my birthday
But then I was on a trip with you and some friends
And when I came home the next day
The cats had shit in three new places
Just not in their box
I don't know if I would have done anything there either
And my records were scattered on the floor
Without covers and bottles and ash everywhere

And some dude was lying in my bed
And it was cold
The coldest day
Everywhere

The coldest day in Eighteen Eighty Four

And the day was spent on heating up pipes in the basement
And getting a kerosene stove expert
And talking to a stripper
Who had brought a present for my brother
That's the one I live with
And Maya, she's a quarter gypsy, round and beautiful and good
She thinks she loves him
While he drinks beer and plays guitar all day long

And this is where we practice
Even though it's cold
And there's a big hole in the roof
It's snowing heavily outside

And I wished intensely that you were near
And not there that you were here
It would have been soothing and warm even without clothes
Because only you could have put me in such a really good mood
I sat there smoking and freezing
And wished I had been born much later
If only you had been there, everything would have been fine
If only you had been here, everything would have been fine
If only you had been there, everything would have been fine

But the next day I loved the old house again
Where it was creaking
Long after the trailers had passed by
I had some wood, I sat there enjoying it
And look, the sun showed itself, that was all it took
And someone in there was playing and singing for me
And I had already done something sensible
Called you