Translation of the song lyrics Ballad på en soptipp - Cornelis Vreeswijk

Ballad på en soptipp (original)

Hare sitter jag p en soptipp och skdar mig dystert kring
Bland trasor och tombuteljer och mnga andra ting.
Det trillar en tare p kinden, jag fylls av melankoli.
Fare var dag blir det bttre, men bra lare det aldrig bli.
Fare var dag blir det bttre, men bra lare det aldrig bli.
Medborgare, ur spare are tiden, det hvdar jag bestmt.
Trhnda ni jagar standard?
Ja, jklar vilket skmt!
Den varan are ssom spa som man hftigt frsker ta.
Fare var dag blir den bttre, men den blir aldrig bra.
Fare var dag blir den bttre, men den blir aldrig bra.
Bakterier och baciller lare finnas I varje vr.
Medborgare, du kan ej se dem men de finns dare nd.
Den ena ger dig astma, den andra kolera.
Har du den kanske du blir bttre, men du blir aldrig bra.
Har du den kanske du blir bttre, men du blir aldrig bra.
Det finns ju s mnga varor, som mnniskan inte tl.
Herr Karlsson are svag fare kvinnor, herr Andersson fare alkohol.
Var och en fare vad han behver, detta kallas demokrati.
Fare var dag blir den bttre, men bra lare den aldrig bli.
Fare var dag blir den bttre, men bra lare den aldrig bli.
Jag are inte rdd fare pesten, den har jag ftt sprutor mot,
Men radioaktiv klda av radioaktiv sot
are vrre n tusen ddar I hetaste Sahara.
Ifrn den blir du aldrig bttre och aldrig nnsin bra.
Ifrn den blir du aldrig bttre och aldrig nnsin bra.
Ack, goda rd are dyra och dyra are skra don.
Frslagsvis ett pansrat soltak som kostar en halv miljon.
Men vart skall d de ta vgen som inga miljoner ha?
De som aldrig lare f det bttre och knappast lare f det bra?
De som aldrig lare f det bttre och knappast lare f det bra?
Jag skdar blott falska varor vartn jag ikring mig ser,
Och jag kan inte slppa tanken att allting are upp och ner.
Och var are det stora dundret, som en gng skall dra frbi?
Innan dess kanske det blir bttre, men bra lare det aldrig bli.
Innan dess kanske det blir bttre, men bra lare det aldrig bli.

(translation)

Hare, I sit on a garbage dump and look around gloomily
Among rags and tomb bottles and many other things.
There's a blush on my cheek, I'm filled with melancholy.
It gets better every day, but it will never be good.
It gets better every day, but it will never be good.
Citizens, save the time, I firmly believe.
Do you think you are chasing standard?
Yes, what a joke!
That product is like a spa that you desperately try to take.
Fare every day it gets better, but it never gets good.
Fare every day it gets better, but it never gets good.
Bacteria and bacilli can be found in every year.
Citizens, you can't see them but they are there.
One gives you asthma, the other cholera.
If you have it, you may get better, but you will never be good.
If you have it, you may get better, but you will never be good.
There are, after all, so many goods that people don't buy.
Mr. Karlsson is a weak risk to women, Mr. Andersson is a risk to alcohol.
Each fares what he needs, this is called democracy.
It gets better every day, but it will never be good.
It gets better every day, but it will never be good.
I'm not afraid of the plague, I've had shots against it,
But radioactive clothing of radioactive soot
are worse than a thousand days in the hottest Sahara.
Without it, you will never get better and never be good again.
Without it, you will never get better and never be good again.
Alas, good words are expensive and expensive are skra don.
For example, an armored sunroof that costs half a million.
But where will they take the road that no millions have?
Those who never learn better and hardly learn well?
Those who never learn better and hardly learn well?
I only damage fake goods wherever I see around me,
And I can't shake the thought that everything is upside down.
And where is the great thunder that will once pass by?
Before then it might get better, but it will never be good.
Before then it might get better, but it will never be good.