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.