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149. The world

After the text “147. Hand in hand” April 15, where I wrote about the song “Vi ska gå hand i hand” (We shall walk hand in hand), I have had the title on the B side of this single in my thoughts, “Jag ser en värld” (I see a world). The A side is dated 1967, the B side is dated 1968. The last words in the song on the B side, are “I see my world.”

How the song “Jag ser en värld” (I see a world) is about the world, has got me to think about how the criminals also can have wanted to change people’s view on the world, to be something a person do alone, by thinking about oneself and one’s own. I write this, because I think the criminals have wanted to influence people to think as individuals, instead of as fellowships. Of course we are both individuals and fellowships. I think about that the criminals want to ruin how we can think as fellowships, when that is the best for us to do, to realize our interests. We must have good fellowships, to be able to have good individual lives. We must also have good politics, to be able to have good societies. A good society depends on an interaction between different human activities in the society. A society must be alive in a good way. A society develops because of the humans.

These two songs have got me to think in this way. I don’t know what the criminals have done to influence our cultural life. But I think it is likely that they have wanted to influence how the cultural life gives expression to people’s thoughts and feelings. And I have started to think about that, because of these two songs.

After thinking about this for some days, I now also write a translation of this song. These two songs are only two examples for what I think about. Sweden and Norway are neighboring countries. Our languages aren’t exactly similar, but there are small differences, and we easily understand each other. Songs that become popular in Sweden, also typical become popular in Norway. Cultural workers from Sweden and Norway easily work together, and there are a great deal of coexistence between Sweden and Norway.

I see a world

One day can be gray
although the sky still is blue.
Just then I can see
my life, as it is.

I see a world like in dreams’ haze,
it is empty wherever I see.
I see a world in my own way,
and wonder still about everything which I see.

But what I feel, shall always exist.
Above everything on earth, I stand without words like in haze.
I see a world.

A day which we remember,
can be light as a cloud.
A day to get to see,
to have, to maybe get to give.

I see a world take a new shape,
when my dream now is over.
I see a world that you give me,
just the life that I missed and longed to get.

A wonder that always gives the future light.
Every day that moves on, comes to long years,
and I see, I see my world.

Gunnar Wiklund, 1968 (1935 – 1989)
Written by: Marcus Österdahl (born 1943)
and Bengt Sundström (1938 – 1994)

April 19, 2017, David H. Hegg