Тексты к песням Secret Service

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Перед тем, как продолжать публиковать аккорды к песням, решил ещё раз вернуться к теме расшифровки текстов. Думаю, лучше всего будет опубликовать здесь тексты всех песен ещё раз с указанием вносимых изменений. Для примерно половины всех песен теперь есть вариант текста, который можно считать "официальным" - тот, что опубликован на официальном сайте. Оставшаяся половина есть в этой теме, но в "разобранном" состоянии, и лучше их ещё раз свести воедино. Этим и займусь в ближайшее время.

TEN O’CLOCK POSTMAN
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “OH SUSIE” (1979)

Chorus:

Ten o'clock postman
Bring me her letter
Ten o'clock postman
Make me feel better
Been so many days
Since that I've met her
Ten o'clock postman
Bring me her letter
Bring me her letter

I'm walking all over the room
Wonder why I don't stop biting my nails
Why carry this feeling of doom
A couple more hours and I'll get the mail
I'll get the mail

Finding it’s so hard to eat
The toast and the eggs they just don't taste the same
Hearing a noise in the street
I run to the window and cry out in vain

Chorus

Remembering that she said for sure
I'll write you the minute I'll get off the plane
Nothing, not one single word
It must come this morning or I'll go insane
I'll go insane

Now it's been almost five days
Could she have sent it by air or by rail
I hear someone's comin' this way
This must be it, yes it must be the mail

Chorus

Примечание: "официальный" текст на 100% совпадает со здешним. Тем не менее, я предлагаю одно изменение:

Finding it so hard to eat ->
Finding it’s so hard to eat

Иначе получается просто восхитительный смысл, в совокупности с предыдущей строчкой: "Я получу почту и найду, что её очень сложно съесть"


HEY JOHNNY
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “OH SUSIE” (1979)

Hey Johnny don’t tell her
I think I saw her face today
Hey Johnny don’t tell her
I thought my knees are made of clay
Don’t tell her I’ve told you
I think I saw her face today
I miss her more and more each day

Meeting a friend
Hoping to hear that she’s changed her mind
I try to pretend
I left her so far behind
Deep down inside
Holding back on my loathsome lies
Much more than pride
I’m aching for love in her dark blue eyes

Hey Johnny don’t tell her
I think I saw her face today
Hey Johnny don’t tell her
I thought my knees are made of clay
Don’t tell her I’ve told you
I think I saw her face today
I miss her more and more each day

Whispering her name
Nothing’s so sweet when the light’s grown dim
I am to blame
Letting her out to him
Maybe I’ll try
To show the world that I don’t really care
Look in my eyes
There you can see that pain everywhere

Hey Johnny don’t tell her
I think I saw her face today
Hey Johnny don’t tell her
I thought my knees are made of clay
Don’t tell her I’ve told you
I think I saw her face today
I miss her more and more each day

Примечание: взят официальный текст. Он отличается от здешнего следующей строчкой:

Nothing’s so sweet when the life’s grown dim ->
Nothing’s so sweet when the light’s grown dim

Отдельная история со строчкой

Holding back on my loathsome lies

На официальном сайте оставлен именно такой вариант, да и по смыслу он правильный, хотя в песне совершенно определённо слышится lonesome, а не loathsome. Но у Secret Service бывают места, когда в вокале глотаются какие-нибудь звуки или наоборот, появляются несуществующие. Так что, думаю, в данном случае стоит полагаться на официальную версию.


GIVE ME YOUR LOVE
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “OH SUSIE” (1979)

I keep knockin’ doors
One by one
I keep climbing floors
'Til the day is done

Kept goin’ on by your inspiration
Driven on by my ‘magination
But I can’t hold it back
Just can’t hold it back

Give me your love
Just give me your love


Your love is mine, my creation
There to find inspiration

I can see your face
Inside my mind
I will find the place
I read the signs

I’m getting all of my information
Closing in on my love’s creation
But I can’t hold it back
Just can’t hold it back

Give me your love
Just give me your love
Your love is mine, my creation
There to find inspiration

Примечание: взят официальный вариант, отличающийся от здешнего следующими изменениями:

I keep climbing force ->
I keep climbing floors

I'll read the signs ->
I read the signs

Closing in on my last creation ->
Closing in on my love’s creation

Также на форуме озвучивалась идея в строчке

'Til the day is done

заменить 'Til на Till. Честно сказать, не понимаю, что от этого изменится, поэтому пока оставлен официальный вариант.

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OH SUSIE
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “OH SUSIE” (1979)

Chorus:

Oh Susie, we've run out of time
Oh Susie, say what's on your mind
We've got nowhere to run,
We were much too young

Love is warm and understanding when you're seventeen
Love is cold, kills your dreams and schemes
Much too young
The words are comin' like a neon-light
Off and on, bringin' back last night
Bringin' back last night

Chorus

I'm in love and nothing else can make me feel this way
Now I'm lost, not much more to say
Radio, the song they're playing,
Can’t be rightly sung
Off and on, singin' much too young
Singin' much too young

Chorus

Текст полностью совпал с тем, что выложен на официальном сайте.


DARLING, YOU’RE MY GIRL
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “OH SUSIE” (1979)

You are my real love
And you’re always last
Inside my mind
Close off the past

Something you got
Nothing can change
Something you got
Makes it so strange, so strange

Darling you’re my girl
My broken heart will never mend
Darling you’re my girl
Don’t try to tell me it’s the end
I wanna hold you again and again
Stay with me

You keep me alive
And dry all my tears
A part of my dreams
That kills all my fears

Something within
Makes it all true
Something within
Holds on to you, to you

Darling you’re my girl
My broken heart will never mend
Darling you’re my girl
Don’t try to tell me it’s the end
I wanna hold you again and again
Stay with me

Этот текст также полностью совпал с официальным.


SHE WANTS ME
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “OH SUSIE” (1979)

Crying out she said she wants me
Showing off like the refugee
Thinking that love is a game

Trying hard she now justifies
{Bad to see / That you see} that her restless eyes
Telling me I am to blame

Baby, I’ve been through this before
And I don’t want it anymore
And our love has come from good to bad
And now I’m glad - I know that it’s time to go

You don’t seem to have understood
When I said I’ll be gone for good
Baby, this time it’s for real

Baby, I’ve been through this before
And I don’t want it any more
And our love has come from good to bad
And now I’m glad - I know that it’s time to go

Seems to me some things just don’t change
You and I - always {out of range / unarranged}
Baby, I know {this one here}

Crying out she said she wants me
Showing off like the refugee
Thinking that love is a game

Примечание: хотя этот текст и был в файле, на официальном сайте он не выложен. В нём по-прежнему есть несколько не до конца разобранных мест.

1. Showing off like the refugee предлагали заменить на Showing off like a refugee. Мне кажется, там чётко прослушивается the, поэтому текущий вариант оставлен.

2. Изменил:

Seems to me something’s just not changed ->
Seems to me some things just don’t change

3. Есть несколько очень сомнительно звучащих строк:

{Bad to see / That you see} that her restless eyes
You and I - always {out of range / unarranged}
Baby, I know {this one here}

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WHY DON’T YOU TRY TO PHONE
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “OH SUSIE” (1979)

I never see you
No not anymore
{Being almost too weak come prided}

You stay outside
It’s not like before
{It ain’t just as} you came my way

But don’t push your luck
Don’t push your luck
I may not
I may not be here later

Why don’t you try to phone tonight, love?
Don’t wanna cry alone tonight, so
Why, why, why?
Won’t you gimme a call?

Why don’t you try to phone tonight, love?
Don’t wanna cry alone tonight, so
Why, why, why?
Won’t you gimme a call?

They tell me it is
Part of your act
Making it so exciting

Whatever they say
I know it’s a fact
That you strike me down like lightning

But why keep it up
Why {give/keep} it up
Why don’t you {call my roll hiding}

Why don’t you try...

Примечание. Этот текст публиковался здесь только один раз в качестве черновой версии. Я внёс в него несколько изменений, но осталось довольно много "тёмных мест". Все они выделены красным. В некоторых случаях я абсолютно уверен, что текст неправильный, как, например, в строчках

{Being almost too weak come prided}
Why don’t you {call my roll hiding}

Но, как мне кажется, лучше уж иметь бессмысленный вариант с более менее подходящей транскрипцией, чем совсем никакого.


ANGEL ON WHEELS
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “OH SUSIE” (1979)

(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Oh-oh my angel on wheels
(Angel)
My little angel on wheels
(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
I get my rolling skates
(Angel)
And then we fly - roll on all eight
Angel

Her hair and T-shirt were both black
And in my mind the one-way track
My eyes have stuck as glued
When I saw the way she moved

It’s hard to say just how it feels
When you meet that angel on wheels
When you see the sunny smile
Rolling fast in the flashy style

(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Oh-oh my angel on wheels
(Angel)
My little angel on wheels
(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
I get my rolling skates
(Angel)
And then we fly - roll on all eight
Angel

It didn’t start off all too well
I stick, I stumble and I fell
But in the end I saw the light
And we roll it to the night

It’s hard to say just how it feels
When you meet that angel on wheels
When you see that sunny smile
Rolling fast in the flashy style

Этот текст был в файле, но на официальном сайте почему-то проигнорирован наравне с She Wants Me. На мой взгляд, этот текст в дальнейшей доработке не нуждается.


FAMILY DELIGHT
Axel Gårdebäck - Björn Håkanson]
From “OH SUSIE” (1979)

Little sister, mama, you have grown
You send me rocking like a knock-out blow
It’s hard to handle, you amaze me
Sixteen candles drives me crazy now
Drives me crazy now

Little sister, you got {Norma’s / mama's} eyes
But they’re not showing her fantastic lies
Before I kiss you let me first say
I wanna wish you happy birthday now
Happy birthday now

Family delight
Family delight
At night

Little sister, such a precious pearl
Why don’t you let me show you to the world
You hold a power to enslave me
A brand new flower here to save me now
Here to save me now

Family delight
Family delight
At night

Примечание: текст существовал в черновом варианте. Вроде бы в нём всё правильно, и единственное расхождение мнений возникало только по поводу строчки

Little sister, you got {Norma’s / mama's} eyes

Возможно, там должно быть именно mama's eyes, и по смыслу это подходит чуть больше - но вот произношение говорит об обратном. Впрочем, иногда стоит руководствоваться принципом "не верь ушам своим", так что вопрос по-прежнему открыт.

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OLA+3 - FOXY
(Кто авторы - не знаю...)
From “DET KANNS SOM JAG VANDRAR FRAM” (1979)

I can hardly stand
When you {run a turn}
I can {barely tip}
When the lights are down

I don’t love enough you
But you’re sex appeal
Yes I think you’re foxy

You {want / won’t} have the scene
Walking down the street
‘Cause you run the stage
With your dancing feet

I just wanna tell you
Just how much I feel

Yes I think you’re foxy
{Under} way you do your thing
Yes I think you’re foxy
And I love the way you sing
Yes I love the way you sing

Примечание: текст публикуется впервые. Поскольку участники проекта Ola+3 те же, что и в Secret Service, да и стиль тот же, на мой взгляд, целесообразно рассматривать их совместно.

Вокал не очень разборчивый, да и имеющаяся запись не самого лучшего качества. Все "сложные" места выделены красным.


L.A. GOODBYE
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “YE SI CA” (1981)

Captain's telling me that I am welcome
He's saying that soon this bird will fly
He says the forecast's looking fine

’Cross the runway I can see you
Looking lost and trying not to cry
I see you getting smaller
I wish that I could stall her
Leave this plane but

Chorus:

L.A. goodbye, ooh ooh ooh
L.A. goodbye
L.A. goodbye, ooh ooh ooh
Two hearts in love that will die

In just a minute says the captain
We'll take off from here and ride the sky
He says it's still "No Smoking"

All along we knew that this would happen
We just tried to hide it from ourselves
We tried to stay together
As if it was forever
Oh forever

Chorus

L.A. goodbye
From way up high
L.A. goodbye
Two hearts in love that will die

Стопроцентное совпадение официального и здешнего вариантов текстов.


BROKEN HEARTS
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “YE SI CA” (1981)

Rainbow colours cross the sky
To find the pot of gold
Voices cry: “Follow!” down in my soul
Down in my soul

Unresponsive like the rock
My eyes look sad and grim
Wondering what she is doing with him
Doing with him

Broken hearts can turn to stone
I fell apart when left alone
Broken hearts can turn to stone
When left alone, I am alone

On the sidewalk yesterday
I saw her passing by
I wanted to cry out: “How could you? Why?
How could you? Why”

Hope her new love understands
To take good care of her
Chasing that rainbow holding my girl
Holding my girl

Broken hearts can turn to stone
I fell apart when left alone
Broken hearts can turn to stone
When left alone, I am alone

Текст существовал в черновом варианте, и, в принципе, его можно считать чистовым. Единственное место, к которому остались вопросы:

Chasing that rainbow holding my girl
Holding my girl

Возможно, здесь должно быть holded вместно holding (это утверждал один из форумчан). Если ориентироваться на слух, то там именно holding, но и от holded пока полностью отказываться не будем.

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ANGELICA & RAMONE
(Claes Af Geijerstam)
From “YE SI CA” (1981)

On a morning in May
On a beach outside Monterrey
She walked alone in the sand
With her shoes in her hand
And let her mind go astray

He was a Santa-Cruz boy
He held his head up
With pride and joy
And he was riding the surf
To where the sea meets the turf
And every wave was his toy

And then he saw her and smiled
He never knew such a lovely child
With a curly brown hair
Flying loose in the air
Looking gentle and mild

She pretends to be shy
And makes a motion to passing by
He is handsome and strong
She doesn't walk very long
Turns around and says “hi!”

And his name is Ramone
And her name is Angelica
What ever made them both reach
The same spot on the beach
Always will be unknown

There are stories that tell
That the tide has a magic swell
And that the hundred year pine
Has a secret divine
That is sung by a shell

And they smile and they know
’Cause their young bodies
Tell them so
That they're alone in the world
Unseen and unheard
For the feelings to show

So in the warm morning sun
While the sandpiper makes his run
They make a beautiful love
And the blue sky above
Blessed the day that begun

Two hearts that fly like a dove
As seagulls are circling above
Names that are carved in a stone:
Angelica and Ramone

And they smile and they know
’Cause their young bodies
Tell them so
That they're alone in the world
Unseen and unheard
For the feelings to show

So in the warm morning sun
While the sandpiper makes his run
They make a beautiful love
And the blue sky above
Blessed the day that begun

They make a beautiful love
And the blue sky above
Blessed the day that begun

Текст полностью совпал с официальным.


FRIDAY NIGHT
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “YE SI CA” (1981)

Friday night
When we say goodbye
Oh Friday night
Then summer will die
Just one look in your eyes
When you go
And summer will die
Oh what a Friday night

When I wake up early tomorrow
And I walk down in the morning dew
I turn my head when the sparrow
Sings a song to you

There’re the flowers that grow in my garden
Stand in season – blue, white and red
But without you here I won’t see them
To me summer’s dead

Friday night
When we say goodbye
Oh Friday night
Then summer will die
Just one look in your eyes
When you go
And summer will die
Oh what a Friday night

For a moment {cool} breeze on the terrace
Sounds like your voice, so gentle and mild
An illusion that will surface
All from time to time

Like a child who is chasing the rainbow
I’ll try to trust in days ahead
Until the day in my sorrow
To me summer’s dead

Friday night
When we say goodbye
Oh Friday night
Then summer will die
Just one look in your eyes
When you go
And summer will die
Oh what a Friday night

Примечания:

1. В официальном варианте строка For a moment {cool} breeze on the terrace приведена как For a moment а breeze on the terrace. Может быть, так изначально и задумывалось, но в записи совершенно чётко в этом месте прослушивается какое-то слово, и это точно не артикль. Поскольку cool также подходит и по смыслу, я на данный момент оставил этот вариант.

2. В официальном варианте уточнена строка:

I’ll try to trust in day sad ->
I’ll try to trust in days ahead


I KNOW
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “YE SI CA” (1981)

I know, I know,
It’s making me remember,
I know, I know
The heartache of September don’t go
Oh please, it’s making all my memories glow
When you play me a song that I know

Open all night, never closes - just the place I need,
And I sip my coffee, studying faces, hiding what I feel
Someone’s standing at the jukebox
Choosing something slow
And I hear the beat,
I can’t stop the tears
When you play me a song that

I know, I know,
It’s making me remember,
I know, I know
The heartache of September don’t go
Oh please, it’s making all my memories glow
When you play me a song that I...
You play me a song that I know

Morning finds you close beside me
Fingers touch my face
And we laugh together, sharing secrets,
Welcoming the day
Suddenly your smile is fading
Yesterday is gone
And I hear you sing your favorite tune
When they play me a song that

I know, I know,
It’s making me remember,
I know, I know
The heartache of September don’t go
Oh please, it’s making all my memories glow
When you play me a song that I...
You play me a song that I know

Тут полное совпадение с официальным текстом. Я только скорректировал переход от куплета к припеву, убрав лишнее.

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YE SI CA
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “YE SI CA” (1981)

I was young and alone
And my heart searched the world for a home
She was free like a bird
And sang songs to me I never heard

She sang Ye-Si-Ca
She sang Ye-Si-Ca

Well, the sound of her voice
Made it plain that she knew about boys
I brought wine to her taste
And we didn't let much go to waste

She sang Ye-Si-Ca
She sang Ye-Si-Ca

And the boys in the band at the hotel
They played it all over again
I knew it by heart in the morning
And her body was more than a friend

She sang Ye-Si-Ca
She sang Ye-Si-Ca

Late at night when the wind
Passes by like the touch of her skin
It will bring to my mind
A song and the sweet smell of wine

She sang Ye-Si-Ca
She sang Ye-Si-Ca

She sang Ye-Si-Ca
I sang Ye-Si-Ca

And the boys in the band at the hotel
They played it all over again
I knew it by heart in the morning
And her body was more than a friend

She sang Ye-Si-Ca
We sang Ye-Si-Ca

And the boys in the band at the hotel
They played it all over again
I knew it by heart in the morning
And her body was more than a friend

She sang Ye-Si-Ca
She sang Ye-Si-Ca

По этому тексту - полное совпадение с официальной версией, но я всё-таки изменил пару строк во втором куплете (которые отмечены красным):

We sang Ye-Si-Ca ->
She sang Ye-Si-Ca

Согласен, что по смыслу, применительно к предыдущему тексту, здесь чуть больше подходит вариант с we. Но даже если невнимательно слушать песню, сомнений не остаётся: здесь поётся she. Варианты с we и с I начинаются только ближе к концу. В общем-то, это мелочи, конечно...


KING AND QUEEN
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “YE SI CA” (1981)

I was king and you - my queen
We ruled the world had the wildest dreams
And I read our future in the stars
We skipped school like everyone
And we made love in the morning sun
Since then we've traveled oh so far

I stand and gaze at the old oak tree
Where I carved out “Susie loves me”
You said:
Let’s stay and meet the morning
Stay and greet the light
Now you miss the sunrise
You praise the night

I was king and you - my queen
We ruled the world had the wildest dreams
And I read our future in the stars
We skipped school like everyone
And we made love in the morning sun
Since then we've traveled oh so far

Tomorrow came as a big surprise
One day is born, another dies
You said:
We only live one lifetime
We only get one try
Now I can see the sorrow in your eyes, in your eyes

I was king and you - my queen
We ruled the world had the wildest dreams
And I read our future in the stars

Текст этой песни на официальном сайте довольно серьёзно поправили.

We ruled the world happy wild this means ->
We ruled the world had the wildest dreams

Since then we've trevelled not so far ->
Since then we've traveled oh so far

I'll stay I'll leave the morning ->
Let’s stay and meet the morning

Stair I grieve the light ->
Stay and greet the light

Now you means/meets the sunrise ->
Now you miss the sunrise

Со всем этим остаётся только согласиться...


CROSSING A RIVER
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “YE SI CA” (1981)

Starting up tracing you on my own
Starting up facing {claims/crimes} all alone
Crazy I know
Crazy I know
Oh no

I wanna stop feeling guilty
‘Cause nobody’s put me in trial
I gotta find me a lawyer
And find out that justice is blind

Crossing a river again
Crossing a river
Tossing a needle
To find me a way

Starting up tracing you on my own
Starting up facing {claims/crimes} all alone
Crazy I know
Crazy I know
Oh no

I gotta find some detective
Who works for one dollar a day
{I/And} put in my case together
A pleading that you wanna stay

Crossing a river again
Crossing a river
Tossing a needle
To find me a way

Текст этой песни существовал только в черновом варианте. Здесь пока остаётся много спорных моментов.

1. В строку Starting up facing {claims/crimes} all alone, я предлагаю вариант crimes вместо claims. Не знаю, как насчёт смысла, а по транскрипции он точно подходит больше.

2. Crossing a river again. Если это и again, то очень странно произнесённое.

3. На пустое место вроде бы подобрался приемлемый вариант:

Who works for (?) ->
Who works for one dollar a day

4. {I/And} put in my case together . В начале, мне кажется, I.

[NoSmile]

DON’T GO AWAY
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “YE SI CA” (1981)

Don’t say goodbye
Don’t say goodbye
Don’t make me cry out
I need you when day is done

Don’t say goodbye
Don’t say goodbye
Don’t make me cry out
I need you I need you now

Hide my tears in the rain
Pretending it will soften the pain
Single girl is that your game?
I love you

In missing heart you hear that song
Once it burned your blood and turned you on
Radio inside my car
Sings I love you
I love you

Don’t say goodbye
Don’t say goodbye
Don’t make me cry out
I need you when day is done

Don’t say goodbye
Don’t say goodbye
Don’t make me cry out
I need you I need you now

The lonely {parts / voice} of my night
{Stays / It’s just} before the morning light
Reaching over of my {right / ride}
I love you

Don’t you think a fool {can cry / get pride}
{Heartbeat is wrong} and {I} wonder how
He’s going to survive
Knowing he loves you
He loves you

Текст существовал только в черновике. Первый куплет я поправил и, думаю, там получилось более менее правильно. Во втором же куплете очень много неразборчивых мест (выделены красным). В строке {Heartbeat is wrong} and {I} wonder how (во второй её части) I обязательно должно быть по смыслу, но я его там улавливаю с большим трудом.


STAY HERE THE NIGHT
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “YE SI CA” (1981)

Stay here the night
I don't wanna be alone
Say it's alright
That you don't have to go on home

Baby listen you know I care
You light a fire when you are here
Let me forget all my pain
Tell me that you will remain

Everybody that I know
Has gone to some midnight show
You and I are on our own
There's no need for you to go on home

Stay here the night
I don't wanna be alone
Say it's alright
That you don't have to go on home

Don't say you’ll leave and walk away
Tell me you care oh I want you stay
Stay here the night
I don't wanna be alone

Let's light the candles, open the wine
Let us sit down and just feel fine
Baby I can understand
Why we can find a promised land

Say it's alright
That you don't have to go tonight

Здесь всё совпало с официальным текстом, за исключением одного уточнения:

Don't say you leave and walk away ->
Don't say you’ll leave and walk away

[NoSmile]

Впереди самые сложные для разбора альбомы - 1982 и 1984. Обидно, что периодические откаты форума унесли с собой наработки по некоторым текстам. Хоть в обменнике кое-что нашлось...

OVER TOWN
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “CUTTING CORNERS” (1982)

Long legs, a pair of red shoes
One smile, I know {your hot} news
Bad talking friends will bring me down
(Will bring me down)

Not moves a la sensation
Over night my imagination
Makes me the fool over town
(Fool over town)

Stories are growing my darling over feather
Only because we my darling are together

Small talk round sweet {get betting}
Old song is all I'm getting
Blackboard again
(Over town)

Red shoes left in the ashes
Blue marks of your eye lashes
Bad talking friends will bring me down
(Friends over town)

Stories are growing my darling over feather
Only because we my darling are together

Only because we my darling are together
All stories are growing my darling over feather
Only because we my darling are together
Scandals are spreading my darling over feather

1. Строка One smile, I know {your hot} news была помечена как нуждающаяся в доработке. Оставил этот вариант, потому что по транскрипции он подходит достаточно точно.

2. Заменил:

I'm living cause we my darling are together ->
Only because we my darling are together

Small talk round sweet detecting ->
Small talk round sweet {get betting}

3. Добавил трудноразбираемую строчку в конце:

Scandals are spreading my darling over feather

Немного сомневаюсь насчёт spreading. В этом месте бэк-вокал поёт (почему-то) Only because we my darling all together, и если мысленно отделить в этом наложении одного от другого, то вроде бы всё совпадает.


FIRE INTO ICE
(Ulf Wahlberg – Björn Håkanson)
From “CUTTING CORNERS” (1982)

When I came I was a stranger
Spanish boots just walking by
At your house I saw the danger
So alone and terrified

Can’t you see me bleeding?
Can’t you hear me call?
Can’t you see what you are reading?
What I’ve written on the wall?

Nothing ever scares me like the silence
Turning all your fire into ice
Candles that get darkened by the violence
Twisted words another sacrifice

When I came I was much stronger
Touching souls and tasting more
Shadows now seem so much longer
Selling grace from door to door

Don’t you know I’m leaving?
Don’t you care at all?
Don’t you find that make believing -
Wasted time to learn to fall?

Nothing ever scares me like the silence
Turning all your fire into ice
Candles that get darkened by the violence
Twisted words another sacrifice

Текст взят с официального сайта. Отличается от здешнего следующими моментами:

At your house I saw that danger ->
At your house I saw the danger

Candles that kept talking by the violence ->
Candles that get darkened by the violence

Touching souls and tasting moon ->
Touching souls and tasting more

Selling raise from door to door ->
Selling grace from door to door

Don’t you know I’m meaning ->
Don’t you know I’m leaving?

Ways we’re tryin’ to learn to fall ->
Wasted time to learn to fall?

[NoSmile]

CUTTING CORNERS
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “CUTTING CORNERS” (1982)

Cutting corners to get into your heart
Cutting corners to be sure that I reach you
Cutting corners to get into your heart
I gotta get {to have} start to get into your heart
To get into your heart

Only guy who ever counts
Is the guy who comes in first
Second-best {ain’t} just {as worth / a scrap}
Coming third - {greet ‘em} worst

{There was summerset}
I’d never ever have a chance
Got to say that I
Would never ever {wait to} glance
Look what I've got in my hands

Cutting corners to get into your heart
Cutting corners to be sure that I reach you
Cutting corners to get into your heart
I gotta get {to have} start to get into your heart
To get into your heart

Never say you’re out of luck
When you find you’ve lost a game
Only you can make a change
So don’t try to fix {that lane}

{There was summerset}
Why do you even wanna try?
Go at home and see
Her walking with some other guy
Second-best today must die

Cutting corners to get into your heart
Cutting corners to be sure that I reach you
Cutting corners to get into your heart
I gotta get {to have} start to get into your heart
To get into your heart

Судя по количеству красного, текст нуждается в большой доработке.

1. I gotta get {to have} start to get into your heart

По произношению, наверное, получше будет вариант I have, но тогда это уже просто набор слов, а не предложение. Вариант to have, впрочем, ненамного лучше - как-то с трудом представляется, что в песне могли использовать такую навороченную конструкцию. Ради смеха: у меня был ещё вариант I've got a gat to have start... ("у меня есть револьвер"), и это даже неплохо сочетается со строчкой Look what I've got in my hands...

2. Строки

Second-best {ain’t} just {as worth / a scrap}
Coming third - {greet ‘em} worst

при внимательном прослушивании дают огромное количество вариантов, но ни один из них не удовлетворяет смыслу. Оставил то, что ближе по произношению, хотя это бессмыслица.

3. {There was summerset}

Наверное, самая загадочная строка в песне. Она повторяется два раза и явно нужна для обретения понимания всего смысла песни. Пока что возникали самые разные варианты - от There was a song they said до There was Andersen - но нужного варианта по-прежнему нет.

4. Would never ever {wait to} glance

По транскрипции, кстати, лучше wait your glance, но это заведомо неправильно.

5. So don’t try to fix {that lane}

Тоже слегка спорно...


FLASH IN THE NIGHT
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “CUTTING CORNERS” (1982)

As the break of dawn came closer
All my hopes seemed so forlorn
The mist hid signs of laughter
And the light eluded all
And my despair was caught in motion
A face just barely true
Shadows in blue

A flash in the night
A flash in the night

In the changing of the season
Releasing one lost name.
And the scar once healed forever
Dissolving in the rain.
A twig snapped in the clearing
A glimpse on golden skin
My face within

A flash in the night
A flash in the night

And my despair was caught in motion
A face just barely true

A flash in the night
A flash in the night

Текст взят с официального сайта. Там его доработали следующим образом:

As a break of dawn came closer ->
As the break of dawn came closer

There’re misty sounds of laughter ->
The mist hid signs of laughter

And my despair was caught emotion ->
And my despair was caught in motion

A face just paly true ->
A face just barely true

In the changing of the seasons ->
In the changing of the season

[NoSmile]

CRY SOFTLY (TIME IS MOURNING)
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “CUTTING CORNERS” (1982)

Fingers walk the edge of time
We don't know just how to taste it
Like a blue and wailing song
Our time runs in
And then runs out - wasted

Rubbing sleep out of your eyes
Waking up to find me calling.
Let's not wait or take too long
The castle you once built so strong is falling

Cry softly time is mourning
Longing for you at the dawning.
Baby dreams will last forever.

Tell me your heart is burning
Knowing that the tide is turning
Baby dreams will last forever
Forever

See the night pass in my eyes
Feel the pain inside me crying.
Like a blue and wailing song
Out time runs in
And then runs out - dying.

Cry softly time is mourning
Longing for you at the dawning.
Baby dreams will last forever.

Tell me your heart is burning
Knowing that the tide is turning
Baby dreams will last forever
Forever...

Текст взят с официального сайта. В нём только одно отличие от здешнего варианта:

See the nightmares in my eyes ->
See the night pass in my eyes


IF I TRY
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “CUTTING CORNERS” (1982)

Questions never described
I’m on my feet and flyin’ high
That is a lie

If you know what I mean
Just stand up and tap the tambourine
Sign on to the team

Time is right
And no one’s ever wrong
At least not all the time
Late at night
I wish I knew today
What else I left behind

It’s just that if I try
Never give it up
If I try
Oh-oh-oh
Holding on to you
Won’t you tell me not to worry
If I try
Never give it up
If I try
Would I lie to you?

Answers runnin’ around
I’ll pay the cost and turn them down
If they are found

Outside mapping the stars
Diamond girls are playin’ cheap guitars
Showing off their scarves

Rendez-vous
And I’ll be seeing you
If you don’t stop and stare
After you
I think I rather stick around and play in here

It’s just that...

Текст с официального сайта. Вариант, обсуждавшийся здесь на форуме, содержал ряд неточностей:

I’m on my feeder flying high ->
I’m on my feet and flyin’ high
(причём такой вариант на форуме предлагался)

Say «no» to the team ->
Sign on to the team

I know what’s ever wrong are pleased more over time ->
And no one’s ever wrong at least not all the time

I’ll pay the cost to turn them down ->
I’ll pay the cost and turn them down

If you don’t stop this care ->
If you don’t stop and stare

I think I always stick around up there and here ->
I think I rather stick around and play in here


LIKE A MORNING SONG
(Tim Norell – Björn Håkanson)
From “CUTTING CORNERS” (1982)

Down the back streets of my mind
Some old friends get left behind
But I'll never leave you there
I will always be there

Should I wake up some morning at dawn
I will call your name {yes / as} every single time
And I'll go on chasing a dream
I will call your name {yes / as} every single time

Like a morning song
Someone singing "Woah-oh I miss you"
A morning song
Slowly fading "Woah-oh I miss you"
And the echo calling out your name to me

And the footsteps you might hear
Floating softly in the air
It's me running through your mind
If you look back in time

Should you wake up some morning afraid
You can call my name, {my needle’ll turn out right}
Now I know the meaning of love
I just call your name {yes / as} every single night

Like a morning song
Someone singing "Woah-oh I miss you"
A morning song
Slowly fading "Woah-oh I miss you"
And the echo calling out your name to me

Текст взят из обменника и слегка доработан:

Some old friends can left behind ->
Some old friends get left behind

Are we call ??? your many years every single time ->
I will call your name {yes / as} every single time

You can call my name I needn't turn off light ->
You can call my name, {my needle’ll turn out right}
(Здесь приведён вариант, наиболее подходящий по произношению.)