Apulanta

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Apulanta a Finnish rock band is founded in 1991. The members are now Toni Wirtanen (composing, lyrics, vocals, guitar), Simo "Sipe" Santapukki (back vocals, drums) and from year 2005 Sami Lehtinen (back vocals, bass). Along with rock the genres are alternately changed from punk to alternative rock, nu metal, pop rock and hard rock. Anyway the music has changed to a bit heavier style.

The head singer of the band Toni Wirtanen makes also the deep lyrics. He takes his time to  write the songs and the topics are based on hard issues like mental health and life itself.

Apulanta has also done two publications in English though their main language is Finnish. Fans of Apulanta you can find mostly from Finland and Germany but also from other lands in Europe.

The latest album Kuutio ("Cube") was released in 2008 and in 2009 Apulanta won Emma-Award thanks for the album.

I think the absolutely best thing about Apulanta is the lyrics. Sometimes they are hard to understand for they have so deep meaning and toughtful words. And yes angst of North you can find from their music... :)

 

Check also: Pahempi toistaan ("Both worse than the other"), Viisaus ei asu meissä ("Wisdom doesn't live in us"), Hiekka ("Sand"), Jumala (with english translation) ("God"), Trauma ("The trauma"), Ravistettava ennen käyttöä ("Shake before opening"), Runalla ("On the edge"), Bring me down (English version of "Reunalla"),Vasten mun kasvojani ("Against my face"), Armo ("Mercy"), Turvallista matkaa helvettiin ("Safe journey to hell").

KONEESEEN KADONNUT

music & lyrics Toni Wirtanen

Koneeseen kadonnutta
ei voi takaisin saada
Kulutettu, käytetty
ruokkimaan ympyrää

Luotettu ehkä liikaa
siihen että aika korjaa
se minkä vuoksi nähtiin
niin kovin paljon vaivaa

Että hajalle saatiin
Se mikä kauniiksi tarkoitettiin

*Kipu kuolee huutamalla
alastomana lattialla
Miten kauan sitä kestää
ei, sitä ei voi tietää
Kehen sattuu ja kuinka paljon
siitä kysymys enää tässä kai on
Kun on saavuttu siihen pisteeseen
ettei mikään ole varmaa*

Maailman pisimmät tunnit
niiden otteeseen jää kiinni
Niitä kantaa loppuun asti
vaikka itse ei aina huomaa

Millainen on se taivas
jota ei löydetty koskaan
Olen kuullut paljon siitä
osan jopa omasta suustani

Voi niin pitkälle jaksaa
kun itsellensä vakuuttaa

*Kipu kuolee huutamalla... *

Joku meistä on onneton
palanut mutta tunnoton
katuva mutta uskoton
enemmän kuin rauhaton

Periaate on ehdoton
perustelu on aukoton
yhtälö ehkä mahdoton
Miten niin muka armoton? (5x)

*Kipu kuolee huutamalla... *

GONE INTO THE MACHINE

Gone into machine

Can't get it back

It's consumed, it's used

To feed the circle

One has trusted maybe too much

In that time will heal

The one for what

One has worked so much

So that we broke

What was ment to be beautiful

*Pain dies by screaming

Naked on the floor

How much will it take?

No,no one cannot know it

To who does it hurt and how much?

That's the question - I guess

When we have passed the point of no certainity * 

The most longest hours of the world

They hold on you

And you will carry them to the end 

Though you don't notice it by yourself

What kind of heaven it is

The one we never found?

I have heard so much about it

Some things even from my own lips

So far you can carry on

When you convince yourself

*Pain dies by screaming... *

Someone of us is hopeless

Burned but numb

Remorseful but unfaithful

More than calmless

The principle is absolute

Explanation has no chinks

Equation maybe impossible

How could it be merciless? (5x)

*Pain dies by screaming... * 

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Los Ronaldos

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Los Ronaldos is now first gift of souvenir from my trip to Spain. The band is formed already in 1987 in Madrid. The five members of the Spanish band are Coque Malla (vocals), Luis Martín (guitar), Daniel Parra (percussion), Ricardo Morena (percussion) and Luis García (bass).  The song that I'll share with you "Adiós, papá" ("Goodbye, dad") is a hit from 80's. I heard it from the radio and I wrote it down for to find it back home. 

The seventh and the latest album of los Ronaldos was released in 2008 though they had disbanded in 1996 (but united again in 21st century).

Check also: No puedo vivir sin ti ("I can't live without you"), Sí, sí ("Yes,yes"), Guardalo con amor ("Guard it with your love"), Hasta que digas sí ("'till you say yes"), Idiota ("Idiot"), Tú solo piensa en ti ("You think about yourself only")



ADIÓS, PAPÁ
Esta noche voy a cogerte bien
nos iremos a casa de tu papá
llamaré a la puerta, nos esconderemos
tiraremos piedras para no quedar bien

Y cuando piensen quién ha sido le diremos que no,
no han sido tus amigos, allí nadie quedó.
ya no sabes qué hacer

*Adiós papá, adiós papá,
consíguenos un poco de dinero más
consíguenos un poco de dinero más
más dinero *

Contarás las noches largas como serpientes
dormiras debajo de la cama otra vez
y todo el mundo escucha lo que les vas a decir
para decirte que está mal, para decirte no está bien
ya no sabes qué hacer

*Adiós papá... *

Esta noche voy a cogerte bien
nos iremos a casa de tu papá
llamaré a la puerta, nos esconderemos
tiraremos piedras para no quedar bien

Y cuando piensen quién ha sido le diremos que no
no han sido tus amigos, allí nadie quedó
ya no sabes qué hacer

*Adiós papá... *

GOODBYE, DAD

Tonight I'm gonna fuck you well

We'll go to your daddy's house

You'll ring the bell, we'll hide us

We'll throw the rocks for not to impress

And when they think who it was we'll say no,

No it was not your friends, there was no one

You don't know what to do anymore

*Goodbye dad, goodbye dad,
Give us a little more money

Give us a little more money

More money*

You will count the long nights, long like snakes

You will sleep under the bed once more

And the everybody hears what you'll say to them

To say to you that it's not okay, to say to you it's not enough

You don't know what to do anymore

*Goodbye dad... *

Tonight I'm gonna fuck you well

We'll go to your daddy's house

You'll ring the bell, we'll hide us

We'll throw the rocks for not to impress

And when they think who it was we'll say no,

No it was not your friends, there was no one

You don't know what to do anymore

*Goodbye dad... *

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Veronica Maggio

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Swedish/Italian singer Veronica Maggio published her first single in 2006 at the age of 25. Her music styles are pop and soul and she won a Grammis as "Newcomer of the Year" spring in 2007. Some have called Maggio's music as "style pop".


She started choir singing at the age of 9 but she got boored to it so she started to sing jazz too. She told to Findance.com that her music has got influences mostly from jazz, soul and hip hop but also from Swedish folkmusic and also the Northern sadness exists in the melody. She is half Italian and she lived her childhood in Italy. Maggio doesn't think to continue singing in Italian because she likes Swedish language so nice to sing. Maybe someday. Now she has conquering the North: Norway, Denmark and Finland.

Know more about Veronica Maggio by reading the interview in The Local (Sweden's news in English).

Check also: Nöjd? ("Satisfied?"), Havanna mamma ("Havanna mother"), Dumpa mig ("Dump me"), Kan inte säga nej ("Cannot say no"), Måndagsbarn ("Monday child"), Sjutton år ("Seventeen years"), Gammal sång ("Old song"), Stopp ("Stop)

I STADEN VÄXER INGA BLOMMOR

Ingen kan se dig
Ingen vill fråga dig om hjälp 

(Här i staden)
Alla ska bli nåt
Ingen är ingen speciell 

(Här i staden)
Ingen bryr sig
Ingen hör dig eller ser 

(Här i staden)
Husen skymmer
Inga blommor växer mer 

Här i staden

Allting är viktigt
Alla har bråttom, det går fort 

(Här i staden)
Sommar var det bättre
Alla ska bli en ny person 

(Här i staden)
Alla sliter
Alltid trötta från igår 

(Här i staden)
Allt kan bytas
Inget lever längre än ett år

Här i staden

För i staden växer inga blommor, nej

Oooh, för i staden växer inga blommor

IN THE CITY GROWS NO FLOWERS

No one can see you

Nobody wants to ask you to help

(Here in the city)

Everyone will become something

No one is no one special

(Here in the city)

No one cares

Nobody hears you or sees

(Here in the city)

A house gets dark

The flowers grow no more

Here in the city

Everything is important

Everyone is in hurry it goes fast

(Here in the city)

Summertime it was better

Everyone will be a new person

(Here in the city)

Everyone drudges

Allways tired from yesterday

(Here in the city)

Everything can be changed

Nothing lives more than one day

Here in the city

Because in the city grows no flowers, no

Oooh, because in the city grows no flowers

Alizée

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Alizée (Alizée Jacotey) is a French singer from Corse. Most of her songs are too sweet and shiny for me to listen (like J'ai pas 20 ans ("I'm not 20")). Nicely said they are too much for my ears. There are few songs that are on the limit:"JBG" (comes from "James Bond Girl") just because it's hilarious and the following song just because it differs from Alizées other songs.

Her latest and fourth album "Une enfant du siècle" ("Child of the century") was released this year.

She is married to the singer Jérémy Châtelain.

MON MAQUIS

*C'est un dédale inextricable
Impénétrable aussi
C'est mon Maq... mon lit :
C'est mon maquis *

C'est un refuge, chambre sans vue
Où l'air est pur, si pur
Est mon Maq... mon lit :
C'est mon maquis

C'est un dédale inextricable
De rires, d'éclats aussi
C'est mon Maq... mon lit :
C'est mon maquis

C'est un repaire, sûr comme un père
Sentiers secrets, sentiers de verre
Petit frère... c'est... aussi
Ta chambre et ton maquis

*C'est un dédale...*

C'est un jardin, dont le chemin
Est bien le sien aussi
C'est mon Maq... mon ici
C'est mon maquis

Partager tout, parler de tout
Et protéger aussi
C'est mon Maq, ici
C'est son maquis

Chambre cachette, chambre avec couette
De pirouettes en marionnettes
Petit frère, toi ici
Moi, je suis ton amie.

MY RESISTANCE

*It's a confusing labyrinth

Impermeable also

It's my Re... my way:

It's my resistance *

It's a refuge, chamber without a window

Where the air is clear, so clear

It's my Re... my way:

It's my resistance

It's a confusing labyrinth
Of laughs, of sparkles also
It's my Re... here
It's my resistance


It's a cave, safe like a father
Secret paths, the paths of glace
Little brother... it's.. also
Your chamber and resistance

*It's a confusing labyrinth.. *

It's a garden, where the road
Is also yours
It's my Re.. here
It's my resistance


A hidden chamber, a chamber with the cover
Of pirouettes of marionettes
Little brother, for you here
I am your friend

Lars Winnerbäck

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Lars Winnerbäck a Swedish singer, musician, composer and lyricist. Today he is one of the nominated in the ROCK BJÖRNEN AWARD competition. Let's hope he'll win. :) Though he has won many awards (Grammis-award and Evert Taube stipend...) before so also the others must win sometimes...

At first Winnerbäck played in a punk band called Snoddas. Later he started his own solo career. Winnerbäck's nineth album was released in sebtember 2009 and it's called "Tänk om jag ångrar mig och sen ångrar mig igen" ("Think if I regret and then regret again").

Now Winnerbäck is one of the most popular musicians in Sweden with his slow and beautiful songs with slightly bitter and regretful - fits for a northern man.

Winnerbäck has coworked i.a. with Laleh and Lisa Ekdahl.

This song is so powerfull with its meaningful lyrics, beautiful music and Winnerbäcks deep voice - one of my very favorites no doubt. The best in Lars Winnerbäck's music is the feeling.

Check also: Jag har väntat på ett regn (live) ("I have waited for the rain"), Kom änglar with Lisa Ekdahl("Come angels"), I dina ögon ("In your eyes"), Och det blåser genom hallen ("And it blows through the hall"), Innan mörkret faller ("Before darkness comes"), Ingen soldat ("No solder"), Över gränsen ("Over the boundaries"), Min helande tröst ("My healing cosolation"), Vad är det som bekymrar Sara Wehn ("What is that troubles Sara Wehn").



JAG HAR VÄNTAT PÅ ETT REGN

text&music: Lars Winnerbäck

Imorse hängde man Saddam
Jag har ingen skuld i det
Jag kan ha verkat lite tyngd eller nåt
Men det är nog sån jag är

Jag sköt en överdos av Eken
Jag klev över varje gräns
Jag ville vara hjälten eller boven
Jag ville vara nåt som känns

Det är trängre här på gatorna
Fast vi är längre från varann
Det står ett tornhus vid fjärden här
Där inne gör dom vad dom kan

Kanske kommer en förändring
En dag när banden stärks
Kanske finns en plan I huset där
Fast dom vill inte att det märks

*Jag har väntat på ett regn jag kan förlora mig I
Jag hör ett hjärta som slår
Inatt har jag bett för stunden dimman drar förbi
För en välkommen vår *

Vi gick långt här du och jag
Kanske så långt vi kunde gå
Kanske fanns ingen ärlig chans för oss
Men jag ser det inte så

Det är som jag burit en förbannelse
Ibland med ryggen rak
Ibland med både hopp och tro
Men det är ändå samma sak

Jag har spridit lite värme
Jag har spridit lite frost
Jag är varken hjälten eller boven
Jag är bara lite lost

Från fönstret ser jag tidens tand
Kedjor komma och gå
Ingen är del av den här trenden
Alla bara hälsar på

*Jag har väntat på ett regn... *

Jag har köpt så kalla saker
Jag har gått den kalla gatan ner
Nu har jag frusit allt för länge
Jag ska inte vara kall nåt mer

Har du sett nån i ögonen
Jag hittar inte dit
Jag kan inte reglerna i spelet
Men du får gärna komma hit

Nu smakar jag försiktigt
Skiljer varmt ifrån kallt
Jag måste lära mig från grunden
Jag måste omvärdera allt

Du är svår att leva utan
Jag är svår att leva med
Imorse hängde man Saddam i ett rep
Jag har ingen skuld i det

*Jag har väntat på ett regn... *

I HAVE WAITED FOR THE RAIN

This morning they hung Saddam

I'm not the one to blame

I may have seemd oppressive or something

But that's just the way I am

I had an overdosis of Eken

I climed over every limit

I wanted to be a hero or a gangster

I wanted to be something that feels

It's more narrow here on the streets

Though we are more far away from each other

There is a tower besidde the open sea

Inside there they do what they can

Perhaps a change will come

One day when chain will break

Maybe they got some plan inside that house there

Though they don't want us to notice it

*I have waited for the rain for to loose myself in it

I hear a heart that beats

Tonight I have beggd for a moment the mist draw away

For a welcome to spring *

We went far here you and me

Maybe so far we could go

Maybe there is no honest chance for us

But that's not the way I see it

It's like I have carried a course

Sometimes holding my head high

Sometimes with both hope and belief

But it is still the same thing

I've spread warmth a little

I've spread coldness a little

I'm not a hero or a gangster

I'm just a little "lost"

From the window I see the tooth of the time

Chains come and go

Nothing is part of this trend

Everybody just says hello

*I have waited for the rain...*

I have bought so cold things

I have walked down the cold street

Now I have been cold foor too long

Ain't gonna be cold anymore

Have you seen something in the eyes

I don't find ther

I can't the rules of this play

But you can come here gladly

Now I taste carefully

Warmth differs from coldness

I have to relearn starting from basics

I have to revalue everything

You are hard to live without

You are hard to live with

This morning thay hung Sanddam with a rope

I'm not the one to blame

*I have wated for the rain...*

Mari Boine

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Now before new latin artists we head to the North. More closely to the North of Norway. Mari Boine Persen is Sámi singer whose music is somewhere between folk, jazz, rock and world music. Sámi singing is called joik which is the Northern native way to sing. In her music you can also find traces of African traditions. Along with solo career she has composed music inter alia for a German fairytale film adaptation of "Hans and Greta".

In her music Mari Boine has influences of Laestadian movement for her first musical experiments she had inside that group of believers.

The latest album Sterna Paradisea was released in 2009. She has also English tracks but most of the tracks Mari Boine sings in her native language because her lyrics have deep meanings. She also has thought "maybe too much" about her lyrics which are normally about the nature or the struggle between the nature, traditions and the western world. Mari Boine has performed in Europe and USA.

Check also: It šat duolmma mu ("You don't step on me no more"), Idjagiedas ("In the Hand of the night"), Gula Gula ("Hear the voice of the tribe's mothers"), Mu Ustit Engeliid Soglas ("My friend of angel tribe"), Songs & Lyrics & Videos,

LENE MÁJJÁ
text: Rawdna Carita Eira/Mari Boine
melody: Mari Boine/ Svein Schultz/ Ole Jørn Myklebust

Lene Májjá jorada
Johkagierragis riegádan
Lene Májjá diehtá sus ii leat go jođašit 

Guoikkaniski geasuha
Stuora geavgŋá hástala 

Go gullá amas jiena doppe huradeame

Lene Májjá jorada
Buđđosajis besada 

Lene Májjá oaidná movt dál earát jorbbodit
Ii leat mihkkege všalaš 

Son gal dovdá gamus dan
Su čuorvu amas jietna, ii leat ovdal gullan dan

Gii su spihčče 

Gii su vuojet
Álo mannat olgolii
Gii su spihčče
Gii su vuojet
Álo mannat iige bissánit

Lene Májjá jorada
Mággárušša, niegada 

Lene Májjá diehtá áigi hurgá johtlilit
Erát sihtet orustit
Lene Májjá jaskkodit!
Go gullá amas jiena, son bidjala fas

Lene Májjá jorada
Jeagonheapmi, juonalaš
Diktá, atn`al earát jodofierpmis gišvvardit
Joga njálmmi meattilda
Gullá mearra máraida
Son juksá amas jiena, ja suinna juoiggasta

Gii su spihčče 

Gii su vuojet
àlo mannat mannat fal
Gii su spihčče 

Gii su vuojet
Álo mannat iige bissánit



LENE MAJJA

Lene Majja keeps on swirling,
She was spawned at the river's source.
Lene Majja knows she was born to move.
The great waterfall challenges her.
The rapids summon her
As she hears a new humming.

Lene Majja keeps on twirling,
Gets past the weir in the river.
Lene Majja sees others confused.
There is no danger:
She knows deep inside
She has never heard the voice that calls her now.

What is that drives her?
Who is that keeps her moving?
What is that always compels her
To go further and further right to the limits?
Who inspires her to continue and never to settle for less?

Lene Majja keeps on whirling,
Not giving up but dreaming.
Lene Majja knows that passes swftly.
The others try to stop her
And keep her silent!
She hears that enchanting voice and moves on.

Lene Majja keeps swirling.
Disobedient and cunning,
She leaves others to wriggle into the weir net.
She passes the mout of the river,
Hears the roaring of the sea.
She reaches that magical sound
And their voices become one

What is that drives her?
Who is that keeps her moving?
What is that always compels her
To go further and further right to the limits?
Who inspires her to continue and never to settle for less? 

(The lyrics and the translation are from "Sterna Paradisea" album of Mari Boine.)

Now there will be a little bit bigger break for I'll go to Spain (yeessss B) !!!) and I hope I have new CD's with me when I come back... 

So ¡adios amigos!

Chimène Badi

Chimène Badi is French - Algerian singer. Her first single was "Entre nous" ("Between us") and it was a hit for she was already known from Pop Stars - a French Idol type singing contest. She wasn't the winner but she is very popular in spite of that. Her first album was also a succes: it was the fifth on the  French list of bestsellers in 2003. 

Her musical style is mostly pop but also soul and  R&B. Her voice is deep and strong - stronger than you'd think a 28-years-old woman have.

Chimène has also sang the French version of the theme of the movie "The day after tomorrow" called Le jour d'après("The day after").

This year she has released her fourth album "Laisse-les dire" ("Let them say") and shortened her name. Now her artist name is pithily just Chimène.

Check also: Malgre tout("In spite of everything"), Retomber amoureux ("To fall in love again"), Une femme à qui l'on ment  ("A woman to who they lie"), Le miroir ("The mirror"), Je ne sais pas son nom ("I don't know his/her name"), Je viens du sud ("I come from south"), Tellement beau ("So beautiful"), listen to Chimène Badi's music, Interview (in French).

POURQUOI LE MONDE A PEUR

(text: Elio/Julia Fajerman/Guillaume Dahan

music: Elio/Guillaume Dahan/Gerard Garocci) 

¤ Pourquoi le monde à peur
Qu'est ce qui nous rend si fou
Pourquoi même quand il pleure
On le met à genoux
Pourquoi le monde se meurt
Qu'est ce qui nous tient debout
Pourquoi même dans nos coeurs
On oublie,malgré tout ¤

On dit les lois,l'amour
Les droits et la guerre
J'en vois prier le mal
Et peu s'en défaire

On sacrifie nos frères
On se fait vivre un enfer
Ca tourne à l'envers
Depuis des millénaires

*J'ai mal pour eux
J'ai mal pour nous
Pour nos enfants
C'est plus comme avant*

J'ai mal comme eux
J'ai peur pour vous
Pourquoi ne pas rêver
Que les Hommes puissent vivre en paix

¤ Pourquoi le monde... ¤

On regarde loin devant
Pour ne plus voir dehors
On laisse toujours faire le temps
Pour ne plus voir nos torts

On voudrait d'autre ciel
Et trouver le meilleur
Rêver d'être ailleurs
On en perd l'essentiel

*J'ai mal... *

J'y crois pour eux
J'y crois pour vous
Pourquoi ne pas rêver 

Que les Hommes puissent vivre en paix

¤ Pourquoi le monde... ¤

On voit la Terre pâlire
Le désert grandir
Le sang,les vents ont tourné
Mais rien n'a changé

On est pas éternels
Faut pas perdre l'étincelle

¤ Pourquoi le monde... ¤

WHY IS THE WORLD AFRAID

¤ Why is the world afraid?

What makes us so crazy?

Alltough he already cries

Why do we force him to his knees?

Why does the world die?

What keeps us standing

Alltough in spite of everything

We forget him in our hearts
We forget - in spite of everything ¤

We say the laws, the love
The rights and the war

I understand to pray for the bad
And to let go a little

We sacrifice our brothers
And we let the hell on

It turns around
After a thousand years

*I'm hurt like you

I'm hurt for us

For our children

It's more than before*

I'm not well like you

I'm afraid for you

Why not dream

That people could live in peace?

¤ Why is the world... ¤

We are looking far to the future
For not to see back anymore

We never try to find time
For to see our faults

We would want to other heaven
And to find the best

Dreaming to be elsewhere
We loose the essential

* I'm hurt.. *

I believe in it for you

I believe in it for us

Why not dream 

That people could live in peace?

¤ Why is the world... ¤

We watch the earth fading away
The deserts growing

The blood and the wind have turned
But nothing has changed

We're not eternal
We cannot loose the spark

¤Why is the world.. ¤

Lisa Ekdahl

Lisa Ekdahl a Swedish pop, jazz singer and musician is known around the Europe though she sings mostly in Swdish. She also has whole albums in English and her latest gigs were in Finland, in Turkey and in Switzerland...

She has released albums since 1994 and in 2009 was published her nineth album.

For some her voice is too odd to listen. I know people who hate her for she is so exceptionel.

Check also: Vem vet ("Who knows"), Hon förtjänar hela himmlen ("She deserves the whole heaven"), Jag tror han är en ängel ("I believe he is an angel"), Now or never, Du var inte där för mig ("You were'nt there for me"), Sakta,sakta ("Carefully"), Gå dit ifall du minns ("Go there if you remeber").


BORTOM DET BLÅ

¤¤¤ Jag såg en man vada ner i vattnet
Jag frågade vart han skulle gå
Han sa: "Jag går dit benen bär mig
Det ska inte va svårare än så"

Han talade om himmelen och havet
Han valde de slitnaste ord
Men orden fick liv då de kom ur hans mun
Ja, det var som om jag plötsligt förstod ¤¤¤

*Att vi är många som talar om havet
Men få har havet i sin blick
En gång mötte jag en man med såna ögon
Men ingen jag frågat vet vart han gick
Och vi är många som talar om himlen
Men få kan förstå en evighet
Jag såg en man han bar himmelen inom sig
Men var han finns nu finns det ingen som vet*

¤¤Jag såg en man... ¤¤

*Att vi är många som... *

Han såg solen i ögonen
Han var lätt som en vind
Han såg bortom det blå på himmelen
Då han gick föll en tår på min kind

*För vi är många som.. *

BEYOND THE BLUE

¤¤¤ I saw a man wading down in the water

I asked where he was going

He said" I go there where my legs carry me

It will not be  so hard"

He told about sky and sea

He chose the most used words

But the words came alive when they camo out his mouth

Yes, it was like I suddenly understod  ¤¤¤

* That we are many talking about the sea

But few has sea in the eyes

Once I met a man with eyes like that

But none of them I asked knew where he was going

And we are many talking about the sky

But few can understand the eternity

I saw a man carring the sky inside him

But where is he going there is no one who knows *

¤¤¤ I saw a man... ¤¤¤

*That we are many.. *

He saw the sun in the eyes 

He was light as the wind

He looked beyond the blue of the sky

When he went fell a tear to my cheek

*For we are many... *

Eisblume

Picture is from here

Eisblume ("Ice Flower") is in 2007 formed pop band from German. As their German homepage says Eisblume is spherical, psychedelic and experimental band. "A flower that grows through organic and electronic world of voices."

Eisenblume consist of five members: Sontiria Schenk - called "Ria" (vocals), Philipp Schadebrodt (drums), Benny Bauman (guitar), Philipp Schaedt (bass) and Golo Schultz (keyboards). Ria sings both in German and in English.

Eisblume is a quite new band and their hit in 2009 was "Eisblumen" a new version of Subway to Sally's metal one in 2005. And this year was released their French version "Fleurs de glace" of it with a French singer Jena Lee who looks like she's rias sister :). 

This song and video are so sad and touching... There's nothing more to say.

Check also: lyrics,videos,music, Eisblumen/Ice Flowers/Fleurs de glace, Hand in Hand feat LaFee, Überleben("Survive"), Leben ist schön ("Life is beautiful"), Alles ist schwarz ("Everything is black") ,I am a flower, Zeit zu gehen ("Time to go").

LOUISE

Sie waren verliebt
und fast noch Kinder
die Ewigkeit - entfernt und doch so nah
er trug ihr Bild
in seiner Seele
und niemand wird verstehn was dann am Meer geschah

Louise-mein Herz
du bist so schön
die Rosen wollen verblühen wenn sie dich seh'n
Louise-mein Herz
du musst verstehen
nur ohne Dich wird unsere Liebe währen

die Zeit verrinnt
die Blätter fallen
Nacht schwebt heran
Tag ohne Wiederkehr
ein Schatten naht
verdunkelt alle Welt
löscht seine Schritte
nimmt dich mit sich fort

Louise-mein Herz
wo willst du hin
das Wasser trägt uns jetzt ins Morgenlicht
Louise-so kalt
und es wird still
umsorgt von der Unendlichkeit des Augenblicks
er ist da

Louise-mein Herz
vergib mir nicht
die Welt hält an will sich nicht weiter drehen
Louise-und doch
die Schuld trifft dich
ich ließ dich gehen aber du verlässt mich nicht

Wellen über mir
greifen nach uns voller Gier
kein Wort, kein Weg bringt dich zurück

Louise-mein Herz
jetzt komm zur Ruh
mit meinen Tränen decken wir uns zu
ich und du

LOUISE

They were in love

And still only children

The eternity - so far and still so near

He carried her image

In his soul

And nobody will understand

What happened then at sea

Louise - my love

You are so beautiful

The roses want to wither when they see you

Louise - my love

You have to understand

Only without you will our love last

Time runs

The leafs fall

After floating colser

Day of no return

A shadowed night

The world gets dark

Your steps fade away

You'll be harassed

Heavily

Louise - my love

Where do you want to?

The water takes us now to the morning lights

Louise - so cold

And it becomes still

Taken care of unendlessness of instant

He is there

Louise - my love

Forget me not

The world holds me

And it will not carry on

Louise - and still

The blame comes to you

I let you go

But you won't let me

Waves over me

Catch us with full lust

No word, no road brings you back

Louise - my love

Now comes peace

With my tears we cover us

Me and you