Air Castle
Luftslottet ...
There is a castle of air on the plains
Where the winds are blowing hard
Its walls have lost its colours
And the door has rotted away
When you step inside its doorstep
You’re greeted by a horrible stench
A devil is lurching with his pipe
He wants to shoot your lungs to pieces
The dusk is lifting in the steps
You feel another sphere
There is a greeting on the table
It says something like this:
Make ready for the great journey
Make ready for the long great haul
Let’s bring Anders and Bo round the world
Please don’t sulk dear Mats
2
We brought our harps and fiddles
And boarded our rolling ship
The pressure increased in our chests
A tremor went over my lip
We leave our castle of air for the mice
To bite and chew and eat
We do not know why we’re leaving
Suddenly we just had to go
There is sound of music in the south
From the north I can hear a song
If you hear any drumbeats in the east
You know we are swinging along
Make ready for the great journey
Make ready for the long great haul
Let’s bring Anders and Bo round the world
Please don’t sulk sweet Mats
3
Silence! Hear the sound of the hammers
Hear the noise, the demanding shouts
We are building a castle for each and all
Who wants to empty the happy pint
So come all you broken souls
Come in and sit with us
We will play for you all night long
‘cause we know you want to hear some more
We are travelling across the oceans
To build new castles of air
But why they are always falling
We have never really understood
Make ready for the great journey
Make ready for the long great haul
Let’s bring Anders and Bo round the world
Please don’t sulk dear Mats
Hunting-Sjöstedt (Ellegård-Sjöstedt trans.)
Skapad år: 2009
