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Translation
Logical
It's so logical, everyone gets it but you
you have no idea, you have no idea, idea 1
it's so logical, everyone gets it but you
you have no idea, that I think about you right now
Hi my name is Petter, 33 something
barely know in from out, I don't know shit2
I'm filled with desire, it's eating me up
blinded by myself and my own career
I drink too much, but I deny it
if you ask me for the truth then I'll stutter3
I miss smoking weed, just a little joint4
I'd also be a drug addict if it weren't for my psychosis5
I'd be addicted to a lot if I hadn't been careful 6
because partying has a hefty price when you're messing with your mind
when I drink too much I tend to blame it on the pressure
a bottle a night, it's so far from being sober7
I try to hide my ways but it often goes awry
you may recognize my problem
that's when I hate myself, because I'm pathetic
and wake up in hell, and just feel like a looser 8
It's so logical, everyone gets it but you
you have no idea, you have no idea, idea
it's so logical, everyone gets it but you
you have no idea, that I think about you right now
Hi my name is Petter, I am egocentric
completely different but look the same 9
could die for my wife, but that's not the truth right now
I'll hit the wall and just fall to pieces
before I understand what happened and what bridges I've burned
I use the '12-step-program', those and everyone I know
I'm more green-eyed than most, but it used to be worse
sometimes when you left me my world turned grey
I barely know what is good with me
why you endure and just want to be with me
because I don't see my family enough, and when I see them
I constantly work and barely give them any notice10
I mostly think about money and my own progress
but I sometimes see the truth behind the curtain11
that's when I hate myself, because I'm pathetic
it's like living in hell, fuck 12I'm such a looser
It's so logical, everyone gets it but you
you have no idea, you have no idea, idea
it's so logical, everyone gets it but you
you have no idea, that I think about you right now
Hi my name is Petter, my life is like yours
don't know if you've noticed, but it resembles my shit
because I see everything black on white, always unhappy with something
ponder over things that I've never understood
depressed time to time, my yoke is heavy13
I pity myself when I work too much
promises I don't keep, but still have something that keeps me going
I like those who share my view and fly within my sphere
I might have lost it all, played to many cons 14
painted myself into a corner, gotten whacked
that's when I hate myself, and realise it
because I have no fucking clue of what the hell I'm doing 15
It's so logical, everyone gets it but you
you have no idea, you have no idea, idea
it's so logical, everyone gets it but you
you have no idea, that I think about you right now (x3)
- 1. you could replace idea with clue here, just that I'd have to rephrase it (you haven't got a clue), which kinda sounds out of place for the song, I tend to try staying true to the rhythm/beat of the song if I can
- 2. literall: I don't get/understand anything
- 3. the more literal translation would be "hesitate"
- 4. 'gås' usually means goose, but it's also slang for a joint
- 5. 'torska' usually means to lose, but in this context it's used as "i would have failed and used drugs..."
- 6. 'hålla sig i skinnet' is a Swedish saying, meaning that you're staying out of trouble
- 7. "vinare" (or properly written/said "vin" means whine, so a bottle of whine
- 8. 2 things, "ba" is an old "youthful" slang used instead of "bara"; and "dekis" is slang for "dekadent" (decadent, reclining)
- 9. "skalet identiskt" = identical shell; meaning that you look the same way outwards
- 10. "knappast tid med dem" may be a bit more towards "barely give them any time" as in not spending time with them, just felt that I'd repeat myself so didn't write that; BUT what I wrote is still implied through the lyrics so it's fine ^^
- 11. "bakom ridån" = behind the scenes, more or less. Can mean that he sometimes sees reality from outside his 'artist life/bubble' and realise how 'off' his sense of reality is and how iffy his justification for what he does really is. BUT that's a subjective view and might not at all be what he means, just my five pennies worth ^.^
- 12. "fan" is an old word for the devil, mostly used in the same way as 'fuck' and 'shit' are used in English
- 13. yoke/burden
- 14. cons/games/charades
- 15. 'jävla' comes from 'djävul', meaning devil; 'vafan' is a compound (joining 2 words to make 1 shorter word, usually for spoken language) of 'vad' + 'fan' (What + fuck), Swedish cussing lessons WOOP WOOP
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Idioms from "Logiskt"
| 1. | Behind the curtain |
| 2. | Behind the scenes |
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