Bläckfisken [Blaeckfisken] [English translation]

I am a little octopus with wide ambitions.

I am a little bloodsucker who earns millions.

I wander and hug and suck out your life,

and when I have gotten an arm around you, you never will be free.

Perhaps I am like the night, but my color is dark blue.

I live in the water preferably, in the swamp, I can best go there.

I have one arm in the North sea and one in the Spanish sea.

but I love the Mediterranean, I want to reach around in it.

The operations go smoothly,

there is much to take.

I have made bloodsucking

Into a real science.

I am sucking subtilty - take a little bit at a time.

Otherwise they will be afraid and won't want to know about it

I give great trust - one asks for my patronage.

But when I cut the meat from them, then I hit them on the back.

Everything I take is paying off,

and I am growing

The wrath of God awaits me,

then I can calm myself.

I dream of holding the whole earth in an iron grip,

and invite competitors to a real rebuttal.

We octopus are hard, but we live as we learn.

To eat up each other is a labor of love.

• Artist:Björn Afzelius
• Album:Vem är det som är rädd? (1974)