Nio liv [English translation]

Once I drove racing while drunk,

among Italy's breathtaking mountains.

One time the Towers blew up in the air,

right after I left.

One time I drifted out towards the sea,

when I practiced swimming in the night.

Once I jumped right over the Straits,

to save my beloved cat;

I was crazy, but the crazy ones have luck.

Once I fell out from the balcony,

in a snow pile I had just collected up,

Once it began to burn in the woods,

when I looked at ants with a magnifying glass.

Once I crept away out of a scrap heap,

which once looked like a car.

Once I got a snake in the boot,

when I hid myself from the police;

I was crazy, but the crazy ones have luck.

My aunt moans and shakes her head -

she is so anxious about how it should go.

She says "Boy, will you never be an adult?

You are exactly the same now as then!"

But when I see those I kissed in school,

go with a frizzy permanent and with hat,

and when I hear what they teach their youngsters,

so an old rebel becomes a little weak;

Because I want to have children who one day can tell,

what one writes in a southern French toilet.

and how one blow the casino in the air,

and that one never ought to know their place;

Who are crazy, yes, crazy,

who are crazy because the crazy ones have fun!

• Artist:Björn Afzelius
• Album:Nio liv (1985)