Lyrics of Om Gud var jag - Nordman

Om Gud var jag (original)

Jag sprang i regn, längs vägar utan slut
Det var natt och tystnaden skrek
Och bland skuggorna
Hördes steg och snabba andetag
I från någon som var dold för min blick
Amuletten som du hängde runt min hals
Som skulle ge mig tur, kom från en okänd hand
Eller hur…
Men om du var jag
Hade du då ändå trott
Att vi styr allt som sker med egna val?
Ja, om du var jag
Hade du då fortsatt gå
Fasten tiden runnit ut
Fasten allt ditt hopp var slut
Om Gud var man och gick bland alla oss
Tror du han, känt ensamhet då?
Såg han Djävulen
Som onskefull och skrämmande
Eller någon som nådde hans blick?
Om Gud var jag
Hade han då ändå trott
Att vi styr allt som sker med egna val?
Ja, om Gud var jag
Hade han då fortsatt gå
Fasten tiden runnit ut
Fasten allt hans hopp var slut
Hade du, hade jag, hade Gud fått
Hade någon av oss fått en likvärdig chans
Hade Gud gjort
Så som jag gjort
Eller gått en väg någon helt annan stans
Ja, om Gud var jag
Hade han då ändå trott
Att vi styr allt som sker med egna val?
Ja, om Gud var jag
Hade han då fortsatt gå
Fasten tiden runnit ut
Fasten allt hans hopp var slut

(translation)

I ran in the rain, along endless roads
It was night and the silence screamed
And among the shadows
Heard steps and quick breaths
In from someone who was hidden from my eyes
The amulet you hung around my neck
Which would give me luck, came from an unknown hand
Right…
But if you were me
Had you believed then anyway
That we control everything that happens with our own choices?
Yes, if you were me
Did you then still go
Fasting time has run out
Although all your hope was gone
If God was man and walked among us all
Do you think he, felt loneliness then?
He saw the Devil
As wishful and frightening
Or someone who reached his gaze?
If God was me
Had he believed then anyway
That we control everything that happens with our own choices?
Yes, if God was me
Had he then continued to walk
Fasting time has run out
Although all his hopes were gone
Had you, had I, God would have received
Had any of us been given an equal chance
Had God done
Like I did
Or gone a way somewhere completely different
Yes, if God was me
Had he believed then anyway
That we control everything that happens with our own choices?
Yes, if God was me
Had he then continued to walk
Fasting time has run out
Although all his hopes were gone