I've forgotten my first summer and I've forgotten my first winter with snow but I still have a photo my father took I've forgotten my first football but it's hard to say if it matters at all I still have a photo my father took I've forgotten my first bicycle but I still have a golden key to my memory I still have a photo my father took I remember our first plane trip and I remember a rain-shower once I still have a photo my father took
Is it wrong to fight on a summer's day? I take a breath surely we've got more than that in common if not the whole of life would be lonely feedback, chives, birdsong I think you're playing with my patience am I supposed to stay here smiling? you've changed my ears I long for noise! feedback, chives, birdsong
Sure I can sound ridiculous but that hardly matters now the desire is possible if the will is flexible let us so once more be united all those old things can be forgotten if we subdivide my heart will turned to stone
I hesitate to say anything at all but note that there are words there anyway I don't need to stretch my arm at all so you don't need to dislocate it relocate me [2] The doctor said I was ill and I hesitated for a minute I'll hurt myself if I want to it's more painful to think 5 metres up in the air I don't need to show where I stand for people who can never be wrong listen, I refuse to swallow what you said congratulations you still have your job of course I'll hurt myself if I want to it's more painful to think the doctor said I was ill although my legs carried me The doctor said I was ill and I hesitated for a minute the doctor said I was ill although my legs carried me 5 metres up in the air
A bridge a shoe a stone a branch a picture of father out in the army my mum's mum, my dad's mum my mother and her brother my birthday my friends and me a happy one a silly one my team my room my class an ice-cream Jonas and Niklas Christmas Day in Klippan a summer in Scotland my cousin and me again America and Spain On saucer and ice-skate LA and San Francisco our car our house a pile of gravel a girl from Stockholm a pilsner from Lyckholms a New Year's greeting a beginning with no end my photo album
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Notes:
[1] Figuratively, 'allt på ett kort' means something like 'all [one's] eggs in one basket'; literally, it can mean 'everything on one card/photo'.
[2] These two lines 'du behöver inte vrida den ur/led mig härifrån' play on two different uses of 'led'. 'Vrida den ur led'='turn [the arm] out of its joint' and 'led mig härifrån'='lead me away from here'.