Stort liv [English translation]

The sun rises over house and alley-way

The spring is young and unused

The song echos from the heavens sent

It's a great life

I have seen how you struggle to come loose

How the voice exhort: Stand up and fight

How stupidity crackles like a sparkler

How the unsavoury mob screams: come with us

It's a tough life

My youth will never come again

I have so much reason to lose still

So I promise you nothing, my dearest friend

It's a short life

I probably never understood what they told me

When I sat by the desks where one educates oneself

I have walked the roads no one showed me

It's a high life

I went away to get something done

I thought the flame where somewhere else

But their clocks went just as fast

It's a quick life

I sat in a bar far eastwards

Where I feel at home and I've been before

In the telly they showed a happy ending

And everything suddenly looked a bit better

It's a nice life

I walked on a street towards an adventure

I came to a place where money rules

Where the liquor was cheap but the drunkenness expensive

You can easily understand why people flee

It's a hard life

I sat at a meeting amongst important men

They said: you've not found your market yet

But sign up for us and then we can talk

I went away and never came back

It's a free life

I went up a sky high mountain

I though life would change colour

But the vertigo quaked through bone and marrow

It's a dangerous life

I sat on a pier far away from home

The moon shone over silver straws

Maria was naked and step into the river

That's where I got my dreams from

It's a splendid life

I bet everything on dead man's hand

I dreamed about a suite at Grand

I ended up in a second-hand one-room apartment

So I bet that too, 'cause I got a whet appetite

It's a dearing life

I climbed down in an endless well

You have to experiance everything to be able to speak

The deapth is beautiful but the border is thin

It's a difficult life

The sun comes up over house and alley-way

The spring is young and unused

The song echos from the heavens sent

It's a great life

It's a great life

It's a great life

It's a great life...