Spårbunden [English translation]

I live near the tracks right here

Hear the iron wheels dash by

Songs are born, from railway shafts and tracks

On a gravel bed

A tunnel brings me through the mountain

A steel bridge across rivers and valleys

Meter for meter, mile for mile

Hear the steam puffs and the boxcars groan

Through soot and smoke and fire

On the tracks, the train rolls forward swiftly

Hear the steam puffs and the boxcars groan

Through soot and smoke and fire

The locomotive, the tender, then follows car after car..

From North to South, From East to West

Through plains and through the woods

The steam drives us forward

Ore and timber pulled the locomotive

Day and night the wheels are turning

Over the embankment the heavy train rolls forward

Meter for meter, mile for mile

Hear the steam puffs and the boxcars groan

Through soot and smoke and fire

On the tracks, the train rolls forward swiftly

Hear the steam puffs and the boxcars groan

Through soot and smoke and fire

The locomotive, the tender, then follows car after car..

The railbound train lives by railbound blood

The joints create a heartbeat , Joint after joint (1)

Meter for meter, mile for mile