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Translation
You saved me just in time
What did I know when I left that summer
A stressed-out woman without a life, what was there for me
out there in foreign lands
But I got off my train, I know so well,
it said on my ticket
This is the final station, further than this
no poor person has traveled as far as anyone has seen
That's when a woman came up to me
She was so young
She was carrying a small, small bundle
She was so serious
and her voice was heavy
when she said: "You're the right one, let's make a swap"
I'll take your loneliness,
in return you'll get my child
What matters most is her well-being
and she'll be safe and well with you
We looked each other deep in the eyes
and so we made our pact
She vanished as she had appeared
and in my arms I had you
You saved me just in time
I took care of a child
as best I understood
With love, imagination and joy,
and, I assume, a mother's patience
My heart startled each and every time
I heard the sound of your voice
Mostly, it was filled with laughter
and the crying, well, I always saw it
as a chance to comfort you
She was waiting for someone,
a wandering soul
who had lost everything
and therefore has everything to win
And so she saw one
and said goodbye
to her invaluable burden, and disappeared
I was speechless and could only
feel the weight on my arm
What was it that she had given me
and that made me so calm and inexplicably warm
But her action surely had
its reason and ground
Maybe she wanted that one day
I would tell you how
you saved me just in time
For every day that's passed
my gratitude has grown
for now I know what she gave me
The child of love I got
and nobody knows
if she hadn't been there, what would have been of me
We looked each other deep in the eyes
and so we made our pact
She vanished as she had appeared
and in my arms I had you
You saved me just in time
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Helen Sjöholm: Top 3
| 1. | Du måste finnas |
| 2. | Vinterhamn |
| 3. | Kåta Maja |
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