Paroles et traduction Katinka - Luftballoner

Luftballoner

Det var det liv, du fik foræret
Du må selv klippe dine rødder fri
Du ser dig selv i alle citater
Og får for eventyr, for meget poesi
Du taler om bristende vulkaner
Men du er smukkest uden din fiktion
Du ka' imitere alle forfattere
Men hvis man er alle, er man så nogen?

Og du går i ring
Og du ser ingenting

For alt dét, du ventede
Var meget mere spændende
End dét, de talte om
For her' ingen luftballon
Og folk er gået, før du kom
De sender ingen postkort nu
Så du lukker din dør
Og alting er lige så stort som før

Du søsætter ingen skibe
Men griner af min kødelighed
Det er så let at grine ad livet
Når man aldrig ta'r afsted

Og du går i ring
Men du rør ingenting

For alt dét, du ventede
Var meget mere spændende
End dét, de talte om
Og her' ingen luftballon
Og folk er gået, før du kom
De sender ingen postkort nu
Så du lukker din dør
Og alting er lige så stort som før
Ja, du lukker din dør
Og alting er lige så stort som før

Balloons

Such was the life they handed you
You must cut your own roots loose
You see yourself in every quote
And dream up too much poetry
You talk of volcanoes that erupt
But you're most beautiful without your fiction
You can imitate all writers
But if one can be everyone, can one be anyone?

And you go in circles
And you see nothing

For all that you expected
Was much more exciting
Than what they spoke of
For there's no balloon
And people had left before you came
They don't send any postcards now
So you close your door
And everything's just as vast as before

You don't set any ships to sea
But laugh at my carnality
It's so easy to laugh at life
When you never set sail

And you go in circles
But you touch nothing

For all that you expected
Was much more exciting
Than what they spoke of
And there's no balloon
And people had left before you came
They don't send any postcards now
So you close your door
And everything's just as vast as before
Yes, you close your door
And everything's just as vast as before