Höstvisa / Fall Song
A good old Swedish song, full of melancholy.
I translate for you:
My road was very long and I met no one I knew,
Now the evenings are early and cold.
I'm feeling pretty tired, but I want to sit with you
So I don't feel so lonely and old.
I never saw so clearly the setting of the sun,
Or felt each cloud when they its brightness hid.
There are so many things that I should have said and done.
And it's so very little that I did.
I'm looking out for something that might have missed my eye,
For something that you might help me find.
It always seems so short when the summer passes by,
Regrets seem to linger in your mind.
For autumn blazes brightly before the twilight falls,
But the meadow is a dry and empty tomb.
Perhaps we find each other, perhaps some new warmth calls,
Some way to bring the golden fields to bloom.
Come to me, tenderness, haste to me, love,
Minute by minute the darkness draws on,
Strike me a flame while night gathers above,
Soon the last blossoms of summer are gone.
Now storm winds blow outside, and summer's closed the door,
And it's too late, for soon it will be snow.
Perhaps it's true, I do love less strongly than before,
But maybe it is stronger than you know.
Along the autumn coastline, they're lighting all the fires
I hear the waves, all wild in the weather,
There's one thing that's important, and that's the heart's desires,
And that we face the winter storms together.
