| — Är Du Glad?
| - Are you happy?
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| — Glad? | - Happy? |
| Vad är det för fråga?
| What kind of question is that?
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| — Man vill vara glad, vill man inte det?
| - You want to be happy, do not you want it?
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| — Glada människor som inte vet bättre
| - Happy people who do not know better
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| Inombords frös min själ till is och jag hatade den tiden
| Inside, my soul froze to ice and I hated that time
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| Jag föraktade till och med solen för jag visste att jag aldrig skulle få leka i
| I even despised the sun because I knew I would never play in it
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| dess varma sken
| its warm glow
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| Jag frös av hat när
| I froze with hatred when
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| Jag hörde de andra barnen
| I heard the other children
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| Skratta och leka på gatorna utanför
| Laugh and play on the streets outside
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| Döden var att föredra framför mina
| Death was preferable to mine
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| Utsikter att uppleva någon sorts lycka
| Prospects to experience some kind of happiness
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| I det ögonblicket, hatade jag gud
| At that moment, I hated God
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| Mer än någonting annat i universum
| More than anything else in the universe
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| Hade gud fått veta om hur hårt
| Had God been told how hard
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| Jag hade fått kämpa
| I had to fight
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| Och bara stått vid sidan om och tittat
| And just stood by and watched
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| På hur situationen hela tiden förändrats
| On how the situation has constantly changed
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| Inombords förvandlade jag guds namn
| Inside, I changed the name of God
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| Och önskade att jag aldrig blivit
| And wished I never became
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| «Maybe I should have killed four, five hundred people. | «Maybe I should have killed four, five hundred people. |
| Then I would have felt
| Then I would have felt
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| better. | better. |
| Then I would have felt like I really offered society something.»
| Then I would have felt like I really offered society something. »
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| «Måtte djävulen ta alla fruntimmer!»
| "May the devil take all the ladies' time!"
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| «There is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. | «There is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. |
| And though I can hide
| And though I can hide
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| my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe
| my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe
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| you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable…
| you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable…
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| I simply am not there.» | I simply am not there. » |