Desire Avenue

Could someone kindly translate this song Stina wrote for Monika Zetterlund? Daniel perhaps? Thank you...

Ensam p? havet

Ensam p? havet i n?dflaggad b?t

Ensam p? ok?nda vatten

Jag har f?rs?kt sova men ruffen er v?t

Nu v?ntar jag bare p? vatten



F?rr?den er slutt jag har tappat min logg

Men jag tror at vi seglar mot ?ster

Jag har vakat f?r l?nge och seglat f?r l?ngt

Jag sv?r det jag h?rte var r?ster

Jag kan inte gl?mma hur f?runderligt det l?t

H?r rofylld och tjusad jag blev

Nu sitter jag stilla med rodret i l?

I aktern och v?ntar og ler



Dom sagt mig att sj?man f?r l?ngt ifr?n land

f?rlorat b?d sans och f?rst?nd

Kanske jag ocks? sett syner ibland

Men Jag sv?r det jag h?rde var s?ng

Jag har sl?ppt mina segel, f?rl?rat min kurs

Jag har st?tt hela dagen och lyssnat

Mot vind?ga v?nd d?r jag h?rde den f?rst

Men s?ngen i masten har tysnat



Och jag hoppas det klarnar f?r resan blir l?ng

Och natten s? m?rk utan stj?rnor

I natt tar vi hem till sirenernas s?ng

I natt g?r vi utan latternor

Alone on the Sea

alone on the sea in a distressed boat,
alone in unknown waters
I have tried to sleep but the cabin is wet
now I just wait for the water

I'm out of supplies and I've lost my log
but I think that I'm sailing eastbound
I've been waking too long and sailed way too far
I swear that what I heard were voices
I can't forget how wonderous it sounded
how quiescent end enchanted I got
now I sit here with the rudder in lee
in the stern and I wait and I smile

they've told me that sailors, when too far from land
have lost both sense and intelligenge
maybe I too see visions sometimes
but I swer that what I heard was singing
I've let my sails go, I've lost my course
I've been standing all day listening
turned against the wind, where I heard it first
but the song in the night has become silent

and I hope that it clears for the hourney is long
and the night is so dark without stars
tonight we fare home to the singing of sirens
tonight we go without lanterns

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Typically Stina... but of course no direct translation can even come close to her exquisite verse... The rythm is just... amazing.

But here you go nonetheless.

Oh and there are some errors in the Swedish one by the way... but they may just be typos.

Thank you very much Daniel!!
That's beautiful...

I bet it's so much more beautiful in swedish. One day i'll find out.

It's even awesome in english. Thanks daniel (and dave of course for postin it!)