D.S.B. Blues [Intercity Århus-København] [English translation]

I am sitting here on the train,

and guzzling bad wine.

I am unshaven and sweaty,

and I smell like a pig.

But last night I was handsome,

last night I was the best.

It was a strange party.

I was seduced by a woman,

she thought I was handsome.

Now I have burn blisters on my knees

and lacerations on my back.

I worked so hard I saw stars,

she thought I was tame.

She was a strange woman.

I sat a while with the conductor,

he looked just like me.

He thought Hemingway, and Strindberg

and Östergren were good.

He wanted to kill Suzanne Brögger

if she came to Copenhagen.

He was a strange man.

But I am sitting here and drinking,

I am drunk and nice soon.

I am on my way home to my daughter,

she is waiting for me this evening

But she knows my vices,

so she loves her father.

She is a strange child.

I have been singing my songs

for more than 10 years,

and it is fewer and fewer who listen

the longer time passes.

I have become more alone,

soon there is no hope,

I have a strange job.

Yes, I am sitting here and thinking

and I am dreaming about Paris.

I want to be buried there,

I want to end my life there.

I want to be buried under the river

a hundred meters deep.

It will be a strange ending.

• Artist:Björn Afzelius
• Album:Afzelius; Sång & gitarr (1984)