Paroles et traduction deLillos - Elektrisitet

Elektrisitet

Jeg så det på blikket til min bestefar
Og de va'kke fordi han var så gammel og rar
Da han slo på en bryter og ble imponert
Av at rommet ble opplyst av elektrisitet

Han hadde jo levet en tid uten strøm
Så han opplevde dette hver gang som en drøm
Nå kunne han styre over tiden sin selv
Og fortsette dagen til langt ut på kveld

Han gledet seg stort over utviklingen
Og følte nok selv at han deltok i den
Men det skjedde noe som var utenfor hans kontroll
Og dette kalte man en natt for Rock'n Roll

Unge mennesker begynte straks å dyrke seg selv
Ville ikke ta ansvar over styre og stell
Og verden ble nok aldri slik som den var
Da elektrisiteten ga sin makt til en gitar

Og noen trodde at de så på Jesus Krist
Der oppe på scenen han var solo gitarist

Og bestefar sa at de var noen fjols alle sammen
Idioter

Electricity

I saw it in my grandfather's glance
And it wasn't just because he was so old and strange
When he flicked a switch and was amazed
That the room was lit up by electricity

He had of course lived a time without power
So he experienced this every time as a dream
Now he could control his own time
And continue the day long into the evening

He was delighted by the development
And probably felt that he himself was taking part in it
But something happened outside his control
And they called this one night Rock 'n Roll

Young people immediately began worshipping themselves
Didn't want to take responsibility for governing
And the world was never again the same
When electricity gave its power to a guitar

And some thought that they were looking at Jesus Christ
Up there on the stage he was solo guitarist

And my grandfather said that they were all fools
Idiots