Paroles et traduction Ulf Lundell - Jolly Roger

Jolly Roger

(Hr pianot frn fnstret dr Nn spelar fr en sol
Som aldrig vill g ner bakom brinnande tak
Det r tomt i den hr stan alla har kt nnstans
Lmnat oss ensamma hr Det r bara du och jag
Lgg det dr t sidan och se p mej nu
Du var en sknhet nr vi trffades men du r nnu vackrare nu
Drrarna slog hr och vggarna sjng
Det var som ett hem ibland - ibland som ett stkigt hotell
Dom har checkat ut nu - gsterna som skrek
Dom enda som skriker hr nu r svalorna denna frsommarkvll
S vad gr vi nu - du och jag med varann?
Ska vi stanna hr eller bryta upp ge oss av till ett annat land
Och hissa Jolly Roger stta segel och g
Tvrs mot vinden och blsa vra sjlar rena
Se vad som skingrats vad som glidit isr
Se vad som kan terfrenas
Eller skiljer vi oss nu Gr ifrn varann
Jag med en annan kvinna Du med en ny man
Blir dom vi aldrig varit dom vi lngtat att bli
Dom vi gmt lngst drinne i
Ibland kan jag knna att vi skilt oss allihop
Som om vi lmnat varann och glmt bort dom vi var
Det r kanske oundvikligt - kanske bara tidens gng
Varje vandring har sitt ml och hr r vi nu idag
Vi behvde varann s lnge vi behvde varann
Nu r var och en sin egen bde kvinna och man
Och lgtrycket vandrar in ver detta gamla land
Som dom alltid har gjort, men ikvll str taken i brand
Av en sol som glder det r en ynnest en nd
Att ntligen f vrmen hit dr kylan r s hrd
Som om den har satt sig i mrgen i vra sjlar dessa dar
Vi hade nnting ihop en gng finns nnting av det kvar
Kan vi hissa Jolly Roger stta (segel och g
Tvrs mot vinden och blsa vra sjlar rena
Se vad som skingrats vad som glidit isr
Se vad som kan terfrenas
Eller skiljer vi oss nu Gr ifrn varann
Kper oss fria frn alla gamla band
Blir

Jolly Roger

(My piano by the window here / I play for a sun
that never wants to set behind burning roofs.
This city's empty, everyone's gone somewhere,
leaving us all alone here. It's just you and me.
Put that aside and look at me now.
You were a beauty when we met, but you're even more beautiful now.
The doors swung open and the walls sang.
It was like a home sometimes - sometimes like a seedy hotel.
They've checked out now - the guests who were screaming.
The only ones screaming here now are the swallows on this early summer evening.
So what do we do now - you and I with each other?
Should we stay here or break up, leave and go to another country?
And hoist the Jolly Roger, set sail and go.
Against the wind and storm, cleanse our souls.
See what has dispersed, what has drifted apart.
See what can be reunited.
Or do we part now? Leave each other?
Me with another woman. You with a new man.
Will we become those we've never been, those we've longed to be?
Those we've hidden deep inside.
Sometimes I can feel that we've all separated.
As if we've left each other and forgotten who we were.
Perhaps it's inevitable - perhaps just the passage of time.
Every journey has its destination, and here we are today.
We needed each other for as long as we needed each other.
Now each of us is their own person, both woman and man.
And the low pressure moves in over this old country,
as it always has, but tonight the roofs are on fire,
with a sun that shines for all it's worth, a blessing, a necessity.
To finally bring warmth here where the cold has been so harsh
as if it has settled in darkness in our souls these days.
We had something together once, is there anything left of it?
Can we hoist the Jolly Roger, set (sail and go?
Against the wind and storm, cleanse our souls.
See what has dispersed, what has drifted apart.
See what can be reunited.
Or do we part now? Leave each other?
Buy our freedom from all the old ties.
Will