Kjærleiken II

O love, stay in my heart,

the weight of lovers,

the weight of loneliness drown me.

I hear my own words

like hearing someone else

speak of what only I knew,

you, the only one I loved.

 

I could fall dead

only to start talking

as if a curse existed

that makes me my own enemy,

you, the only one I loved.

 

I hear my own words,

o, stay in my heart, love,

and without this open heart

you are stuck in the pits of hell,

you, the only one I loved.

 

– Tone Hødnebø

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