Swedish Winter Tale (cont'd)

I am adding some here in English to EH's post about Monica Törnell's classic song about the Swedish winter from 1984, Vintersaga (Winter Tale), written by Ted Ström.  The original song is on Youtube.  It really describes the Swedish winter and its people in a melancholic way, all the darkness, cold, ice, and isolation. Here is a quick translation to English.  The geographic names are all over Sweden, making this song relevant for all parts of Sweden. I grew up with this song and for many, including me, it symbolizes Swedish winter and Swedish moods...

A coastal tanker is pushing through the drifting ice in Kvarken

A training pass at Ullevi in fog

The border station in Torneå, a woman on a ice kicker

Landsort's lighthouse where the snowstorm is pulling in

Dense snow is sticking on Mariaberget's slopes

Hot and sweaty at the Hotel in Härnösand

A truck in drifting snow between Kiruna and faraway

barely alive lights in Visby harbor

This is when the big moodiness is rolling in

And from the sea is a icy, gray cold wind

 

In Malmö the fog is etched by the sirens of the ferries

And on the other side of the strait the world starts

A lonely Volvo pushes in the wind on the Tjörn bridge

The Lappland train groans like a wild animal in the night

The farms are turning down their lights

A storm-whipped Marstrand prays its Pater Noster

Stockholm city is waving in its intoxication

 

This is when the big moodiness is rolling in

And from the sea is a icy, gray cold wind

 

Truck traffic in Docksta in the highway shadow

An overdose at Skärholmen station

Snowed in roads somewhere on Österlen 

And the drunkenness is growing at Mommas pub

Frozen thirst in the queue to the city pub in Luleå

Frozen dreams in the monarchy

The love has to live between the night shift and the dreams

The love lives on cheap wine

This is when the big moodiness is rolling in

And from the sea is a icy, gray cold wind