Alice [English translation]

She lived by the railroad

Where her father had work

She had blue jeans and a leather jacket

And a straw hat with feathers on top

I met her there

Every day after school

In an abandoned goods wagon

On an overgrown track

Sometimes we sat on the trackbed

And we dreamt away

While the wind caught our hair

Like pages in a book

We split

We went out separate ways

Everything was a loan

Her father on the other side of the railway bridge

In a grave underneath a rock in the graveyard

I sit underneath the chestnut by the old canal

It's all memories now

The houses and the streets in the city

And that's strange

That I've never seen it this way before

So I guess I'll continue for a while more

In or outside of the law

Alice, heaven can wait

There are a path and a place in the sun

For every human

Alice, heaven can wait

Put on your leather jacket

It's a long road and you're walking alone

Your tears falling down your cheek

When you apply makeup

Is like rain in September

And only the wrong things get said

Yes, it's hard when nothing happens

Even harder is growing old

I have tried to learn

But not even I can

Walk with me across the fields

Follow me down to the ocean

If there's something I want to show you

It's this way

When time catches up to us

We'll have something else to think about

And both you and I know who

Is the most eager

Alice, heaven can wait

There are a path and a place in the sun

For every human

Alice, heaven can wait

Put on your leather jacket

It's a long road and you're walking alone

The years return

I remember S:t persgatan1

I remember a little boy

That always sat in the window and gawked

At the motorcycle gang outside Rialto2

On the way to the world's end

There was no road back

With black leather jackets

And hair like Elvis Presley

They hoisted us up into the air

So the pistols fell out of our belts

When the streetlights lit

Everyone was outside Rialto

And I was a little boy

Three stairs up in a window

And the snow fell, and the snow fell, and the snow fell, and the snow fell

Snow-fall and plough-cars one winter evening

Ambulances and trams racing together

I saw the Lucia's Day Parade with gnomes and trolls3

Zamora and Bajdoff4 and a mega-football

And the snow fell, and the snow fell, and the snow fell, and the snow fell

I saw the Labour Day parade with swaying banner

Horses and police sitting in the saddles

Graduate's parades5 carried the hopes of the future

Elephants and clowns from Circus Scott

Miss Norrköping6waved and I waved back

Then came Floyd Patterson

On the back of a truck

I learnt to work

I grew up into a man

Good years and hard years

Replaced each other

Now I walk beneath the skies

Of the barn slope

Alice I sill see you in those blue jeans

And the straw hat by your neck

May the doors behind you

Always stay open

And I wear your leather jacket

Close to my heart

Alice, heaven can wait

There is a path and a place in the sun

For every human

Alice, heaven can wait

Put on your leather jacket

It's a long road and you're walking alone

1. In English: "Saint Peter's Road", a street in sweden2. Probably referring to a movie theatre3. Saint Lucy's Day is celebrated in Sweden on December 13th, usually, choirs host small "parades" where they sing Christmas/Lucia songs and dress up.4. Names/Nicknames of two football players5. When you graduate high school here in Sweden it's common to ride with your class on the back of a truck through the city and play loud music.6. City in Sweden where the band is from.