Kategoriarkiv: inspiring songs
Jag läser dig in i mina drömmar (I read you into my dreams)
Vägen är lång och verkar vara utan ände. Jag minns dig min vän från innan dagarna vände. Men även om du nu är borta och mitt hjärta känns tömt, finns du ännu i allt vad jag en gång drömt. Jag … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i about writing, dreamers, dreaming, inspiring songs, inspiring writer, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, remembering, Tranströmer, words, writing
Märkt dreams, poetry, reading poetry
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Old and battered
I’m so old and battered in my soul and body by people and events and sicknesses, never a day without pains, some days more than unbearable, I see only two ways to go to become free and find joy, … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i alienation, arduous times, armed loneliness, become old, beliefs, changes, coping skills, courage, create life, darkness, fears, hard times, illness, inspiring songs, life crises, Living with chronic pains, old age, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, reading life, reality, sadness, sickness, words, writing
Märkt chronic pains, consolation, old and battered, sicknesses, sounds of slilence, words, writing
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Take a chance on me
Translated into English below De hårda vindarna har lagt sig. Regnbyarna har dragit sig tillbaka. Dunkel dager, gråmulen himmel och klart kyligare. Jag står vid middagstid utanför sjukhuset och väntar på en taxi hem. Den är … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i Autumn poems, diseases, gloom, hope, inspiring music, inspiring songs, joy, living with sickness, moods, poem in English and Swedish, poem in Swedish translated to English, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, trust
Märkt confidence, coping life, create life, dreams, frame of mind, hope, living with illness, mood
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A soldier of love
I have a lover man in my stable: what to do with a domestic who does not want to be free? I have nothing at all to offer him as my heart and body are drier than all the … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i body image, changes, diseases, fatigue, fragility, gloom, inspiring songs, life and love, life crises, life turns, living with chronic diseases, living with sickness, loneliness, lost, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, sadness, sexuality, sickness, unhappiness
Märkt aging, baldness, borders, broken heart, cancer treatment, coping life, fed up, loneliness, longing for freedom, lost appearance, lost flavor, lost joy, lost lust, lost strength, love and life, powerless, relationships, repression, weakness
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”Lover please!”
You don’t want me anymore, but I miss you, he wrote I will never stop love you, my dearly beloved, he wrote I tried so hard all the time to please you and the more I tried, the more I … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i inspiring songs, lost romance, love story, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, relationships
Märkt breaking up, dream of love, love obsession, missing, rebellious lovers, relationships, repression
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A ”Dear John” letter, answering ”Missing you”
(pastiche) In English below Käre John! Om jag nånsin tänker på dig drar jag en lättnadens suck Jag är fortfarande här ensam och du långt härifrån Jag antar att du undrar varför jag dumpade dig, men hur länge kan ett … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i absence, armed loneliness, create life, heartbreaker, hjärtekrossare, inspiring songs, leaving, life and love, longing, loss, lost romance, poem in English and Swedish, poem in Swedish and English, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, relationships, remembering
Märkt A Dear John Letter, alone, dream of love, loss, love story, missing you, pastiche, rebellious lovers, repression, sadness, Waite Missing you
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A poor man’s longing for love and a woman
Dan Andersson “Jag väntar vid min mila”. Translated to English by me (note, for private use only on this blog, not to pass on in other contexts). I’m waiting at my charcoal pile I’m waiting at my wood fire while … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i copied lyrics, create life, dreamers, inspiring literature, inspiring music, inspiring songs, inspiring writer, loneliness, loners, longing, lost romance, love poem, love story, melancholy, poem in Swedish translated to English, poems by vonnely, romance, Swedish "culture", Swedish artists, Swedish poem to English, translations by vonnely
Märkt Dan Andersson, dream of love, Indian sitar, loneliness, lonely heart, longin, longing, poor peoples dreams, sad heart, Swedish poet, Swedish songs, working class man, working class writers
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Moses Tegnell med sin stafettpinne leder svenska folket genom Corona-pestens ökenlandskap
Moses Tegnell with his baton leads the Swedish people through the desert landscape of the Corona plague De rör sig ur dunkla dis, de sågs aldrig komma I fängelser utan dörrar, tror vi att vi ska överleva… De dirigerar förlusterna … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i abuse, alienation, armed loneliness, betrayal, borders, copied lyrics, creativity, culture values, darkness, desirers, dreamers, faith, falsity, fragility, frihet, gloom, hate, hope, human cruelty, human rights, inspiring literature, inspiring music, inspiring songs, left aside, lies, living in the world, loneliness, longing, loss, lost trust, melancholy, memories, morality, opportunities, parenting, poem in English and Swedish, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, reading, rebellious lovers, repression and borders, roots, sacred, satire, Sweden view, Swedish "culture", Swedish conditions, Swedish souls, to die, transformation, translations by vonnely, troubled life, visionaries, vulnerability, walls
Märkt "Sverigebilden", Anders Tegnell, Fadime, finding light, free interpretation, fri tolkning, J M Baule, mortality, samhällsbilden, society and the individual, Sweden Corona solutions, tidsbild, time image, translations, unga döda, Yahya Hassan, young migrants
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Married to the blues
Married and buried in longing for you, my loneliness singing a blues forever. I wonder who’s kissing you now and if you eat properly? Is it any raining out? Do you still go to the mall on Saturday to then … Fortsätt läsa
Jag trivs bäst bak låsta dörrar med 7tillhållarlås (travesti på Ulf Lundell, Öppna landskap)
“Öppna landskap” (Open landscapes) is a ballad by the Swedish rock icon and author Ulf Lundell. The song is often sung and well known to Swedes, sometimes called “The unofficial Swedish Anthem”. It was released in 1982 but the Swedish … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i inspiring music, inspiring songs, living in the world, morality, poem in English and Swedish, poem in Swedish and English, poem in Swedish translated to English, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, politics, repression and borders, Sweden view, Swedish "culture", Swedish artists, Swedish conditions, Swedish souls
Märkt closed borders, living in the world, Lundell, rebellious lovers, repression, repression and borders, travesti Lundell
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A future without the other
I wanted it differently and so did you as far as I know. Though I’m helpless against your anger, hell no I will allow you drown me in your self-righteous black sea. Of all unskilled male lovers in the world … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i blues, inspiring music, inspiring songs, loss, lost, melancholy, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, romance, sadness
Märkt dream of love, foggy, inspiring blues, loneliness, lost in fog, love poem, romance, unskilled lover, vanishing love
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Song in autumn rain: Clapton, a man with the blues in his hands
River of Tears Eric Clapton from the album Pilgrim released 1998 It’s three miles to the river That would carry me away Two miles to the dusty street That I saw you on today … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i autumn, blues, copied lyrics, grief, heartache, inspiring songs, life and love, longing, loss, love poem, missing, sadness, unhappiness
Märkt Clapton copied, Eric Clapton, Lyrics, River of tears, sadness, tears over lost love
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August rains but doesn’t cry any tears
August is supposed to be a summer month, at least here there I live. But this year autumn seems to come early. And since it’s raining day after day, the sky is so much darken blue and cloudy that … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i autumn, grief, heartache, inspiring music, inspiring songs, loss, poems by vonnely, unhappiness, writing
Märkt August rain, autumn, blue feelings, bored, colors, music, red rowan berries, rhythm, sadness
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All I could write was because of you
A tribute to all (female and male) muses that give the romantic poets the ink in their pens (An attempt to translate ”L’encre de tes yeux” by Francis Cabrel to Swedish and English. I’ve put the Swedish translation first as … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i about writing, inspiring songs, poem in English and Swedish, poems, poems by vonnely, secret love, sentimentality, translations by vonnely
Märkt dream of love, Francis Cabrel to English, Francis Cabrel to Swedish, love and life, love poem, rebellious lovers, romance, secret love
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Freezing night, glowing heart
Poem by Karin Boye living 1900 – 1941, my translation for private use only I gladly stand here and freeze at a street below for to see those two windows at a gable glow. The … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i copied lyrics, inspiring literature, inspiring music, inspiring songs, love poem, poems by vonnely, Poetry, romance, secret love, Swedish artists, Swedish poem to English, translations by vonnely, Winter heart
Märkt courting, dream of love, Lemma Boye, passion, Reading Boye, rebellious lovers, romance
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Hen house
Part I, Saturday It’s the weekend after Sweden voted for new leaderships in counties and parliament. The mandates for the parliament after the final statement is 144-143 to the favor of red/green bloc, but Swedish Democrats receives 62 mandates. The … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i immigrants, inspiring music, inspiring songs, lost trust, maturity, obstacles, old age, poems by vonnely, politics, reading, repression and borders, right wing, satire, Sweden view, Swedish "culture", Swedish conditions
Märkt beröringsskräck, coping life, creating hostilities, dödläge, deadlock, deadlock Sweden, environmental disaster, hönshuskackel, igelkottaskinn, living in the world, mångkultur, multi culture, repression and borders, skapade konflikter, svensk blockpolitik
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Forsaken lover
Har du övergett mig? Aldrig mer din mjuka röst? Vintern kom tidigt! Have you forsaken me? Never more your soft voice? Winter came early! Two great Swedish music artists: Totta Näslund sings the lyrics written by … Fortsätt läsa
An eloquent man
He once began as an eloquent young man with very little to say. What people liked then and still like with his novels is hard to say. But even if his admirers normally are no bookworms, they seems able to … Fortsätt läsa
Zelda’s bad dreams (that came true)
I’ve got dreams, dreams to remember Many, many dreams Hard dreams and bad dreams to remember I dreamed one day I won’t to be with you that you were so far away an air plane could not reach you I … Fortsätt läsa
A perfect woman’s dilemma
Through the sound of murmuring voices from people in audiences who talk and walk and eat and dance and maybe don’t care of anything that matters strong voices sings from the big scenes … Fortsätt läsa
Lyrics to It’s all wrong, but it’s alright by Eddie Hinton
It’s hard to find the lyrics to his music on line, but here I’ve wrote the lyrics to ad great song by him and his coworker Marlin Greene. Eddie Hinton It’s … Fortsätt läsa
Eddie Hinton, Cover me, lyrics
Eddie Hinton Cover me (written by Eddie Hinton and Marlin Greene) Cover me cover me spread your precious love me and love me oh, can’t you see the need in me oh cover me (cover me) Hide me, hide me … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i inspiring music, inspiring songs
Märkt Cover me lyrics, Eddie Hinton Cover me
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I have met so many beautiful people
The Swedish parliament politician Roland Utbult sings his speech on December 4, 2017 I have met so many beautiful people holding mercy in their arms they don’t point finger at the weak ones, but meets them with a stretched hand … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i create life, inspiring songs, living in the world, love story, morality, politics, Sweden view, Swedish poem to English, walk of life, walls
Märkt create life, December darkness, lightning, mercy, repression and borders, singing in the parliament, The Swedish Parliament, trust
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To be frank about the nature of our love
I woke up from my late afternoon nap. And then I missed him. Or to be frank – I missed to have the warm tenderness between two people being together and liking each other. … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i create life, inspiring songs, loneliness, longing, love poem, love story, morality, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, relationships, walk of life, with or without you
Märkt break up, coping life, dishonesty, dream of love, frankness, honesty, loneliness, love and life, loving friend, true love
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What makes you happy, some notes about how to interpret lyrics and poetry
When you are young you brag with knowing as many tea labels as possible. Or beer brands. And how to drink it. You know best. You brag about how many poets you have read and talk insightful about something in… … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i create life, dreamers, inspiring literature, inspiring music, inspiring songs, love story, poems by vonnely, Poetry, writing
Märkt blogging, Bob Dylan, create life, diktanalyser, Joost Nillissen, love story, Mark Knopfler, poetics, poetry assays, rebellious lovers, relationships, Romeo and Juliet
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Aging rose
This is a song from Emmylou Harris youth. I don’t know if she is the songwriter. A video of an event with her on a TV show 1970 was published on Youtube this year. She never recorded this song. And … Fortsätt läsa
Fallen Angel
Lately I have been listening a lot to Tracy Chapman. I love her lyrics, but one line in a song annoyed me: “I received an honest answer / When a lie would do”. Because personally, I can’t cope with lies … Fortsätt läsa
A thousand and one nights with and without you
Late in night I listen to a sentimental love song and in spite a female choir seductively humming in the background and in spite honey sweet violins playing the melody – too artistic excessive – still the words stands strong … Fortsätt läsa
Publicerat i dreamers, inspiring songs, love story, online romance, Poem in Swedish, poem in Swedish and English, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry
Märkt courting, dream of love, hope, kärlek på distans, kärleksdrömmar, long distance love, love poem, min dikt på svenska och engelska, poem Swedish English, romance, tusen och en nätter med och utan dig
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