Den vänstra stranden [English translation]

I take the long way home

Over the bridges one morning on Västerleden

They have built car parks over the apple orchards

Where we recorded our films

I take the long way home

The gravel crunches, dust in the spring sun

Tussilago like gold by the ditch's edge

You said that you never want to see me again

And I said it will come

And here it comes again

Like a rain over warm waters

Like tears and blood in the sand

Like a murderer through the night

Come and meet me on the left bank

A white rose in your hand

Now there is no simple way back

But I try anyway to reach you one last time

Just want to say that I am awake now

That I believe that maybe we can start over like new

Like a rain over warm waters

Like tears and blood in the sand

Like a murderer through the night

Come and meet me on the left bank

A white rose in your hand

Even if 24 years have gone by since the last time, I can still

remember every detail - your silent little one bedroom apartment in the rain

And "In Liverpool" on repeat

Though we live on different continents, now a million miles

from each other, so I still remember those days as the best, they glided into us both and disappeared

Like a rain over warm waters

Can you say when we disappeared

Like tears and blood in the sand

Between my fingers like sand

Like a murderer through the night

Can you say when we disappeared

Come and meet me on the left bank

A white rose in your hand