You might end up in travellers despair
Not bringing enough along in the air
With that rumbling faulty fart
The closest garment split apart
In your hand luggage always pack an extra pair
Better safe than sorry, ha de Gött!
Crippled like a lame crow
I got IT mouse elbow
Now I got to pray
Computer writes what I say
Everything I write must be a dictate
Does that make me a dictator
A twelve-week regime
With exercise extreme
This I must obey
To chase the pain away
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth over-doing. But it will cost you, ha de Gött!
It sometimes feel like life is passing by.
On the other end of the tunnel.
Where there is always a brighter side.
You must pass thru the shadows.
Reach the end before the gate closes.
Dare to take a leap of faith.
Or forever be stuck in the darkness of,
what if!
Svensk version
Passerar förbi
Ibland känns det som att livet rusar förbi
På andra sidan tunneln.
Där det alltid finns en ljusare sida.
Du måste passera genom skuggorna.
För att nå änden innan grinden stängs.
Våga ta ett kliv i förtröstan.
Eller förbli fast i mörkret av,
tänk om!
Choose carefully, ha de Gött!
In our time,
We have none
Too precious to waste,
Rushes past us,
Do we rush past it?
The only thing we have in abundance,
Until it leaves us behind.
An illusion of the past,
Chasing an unknown future.
Live!
Here and now,
Worrying about the future,
Is paying interest
On loans not yet received.
Each day has enough
Of its own troubles.
Our best time is now, is now, is now!
Tick, tock, ha de Gött!
Written and recited by yours truly at our choir summer concert on the Swedish National Day, 6 June 2025.
Endlessly moulding
Elements flow
Freely
To see what, today
Can become, tomorrow
The universe strive
To chaotic order
Floating
Like grain of sand
Through the fingers
Of God
Svensk version (Swedish version)
Skulpterar
Oupphörligt formar
Elementen flödar
Fritt
För att se vad, idag
Kan bli, imorgon
Universums strävan
Mot kaotisk ordning
Flödar
Likt sandkorn
Genom fingrarna
På Gud
Are we not, only a grain of sand in the universe? Ha de Gött!
The jetty disappears into the fog.
Into the mystic silence.
Going to nowhere.
Sometimes you need to go back to move forward, ha de Gött!
They dance together.
Rock and water.
Accompanied by the wind.
Ha de Gött!
Even the straight and narrow.
Offers choices.
Enter or stop.
Stay curious but be careful, ha de Gött!
Over the horizon.
Will I find the path.
Or should I walk safe.
In my accustomed steps.
You’ll never truly knows what tomorrow brings, ha de Gött!
Hägring
Allt du byggt är en hägring.
Rinner snart genom dina fingrar.
Kvar kan du bara lämna kärlek.
Tiden visar oss ingen nåd.
Som sandkorn för vinden.
Är vi jämlika i tidens öken.
Mirage
Everything you built is but a mirage.
Soon slipping through your fingers.
Only love you can leave behind.
Time show us no mercy.
Like grains of sand in the wind.
We are equals to the desert of time.
It is better to be loved than remembered, ha de Gött!
UlleHaddock 