Joutsenlaulu - yö

Translated by : Criedahl Joutsenlaulu - Swan song Again, you see the kids playing in the yard Playing their games below your window Again, you stay standing still next to the window, You stay next to the window. You fly years back Those memories overpower you daily Those [memories] again seek a singer for the Swan song, Again seek a singer. Those moments from birth to death When reflected into eyelids Makes others believe in God perhaps, Others in Satan, or in anything else But however, not in this world. You once also found it That love of half a century It was easy for you to be happy, To be happy. What use you have for your instincts now Now when the birds have flown from their nest All you have are yellowed photos, You page through them again, And again and again. Maybe you don’t need my sympathy It can’t numb away the pain That pain writes this song That pain reaches anyone That pain reaches. I see your mourning veil, Five years ago it got to breath At that time the Swan song made you cry, Made you cry. You’d like to be as back then, When you were cloaked in a white veil That [moment] is already lost in time As you are. I’d like to try Then I’d stay floating on the water When i see a river flooding over the banks, See a river flooding. Those women in the markets with their carts And men in their haunt[bar]s Dreaming of the fountain of youth perhaps, And the pain dilutes, or whatever. Again a moment closer to death, The pain never fades away That pain writes this song, That pain reaches Anyone, That pain reaches Whomever it wants