Sabaton - En livstid i krig (Lyrics Svenska & English) 

Something else that the Swedish version captures that is a tear jerker is the fact that the person in the song is forgotten within the masses of the dead

CrescentGuard I started crying the most as the lyrics kept singing on but the sound faded away along with the lyrics... As the one singing was being forgotten.

+CrescentGuard The dynamic between the Swedish and English versions of the Album is fascinating. In Lion from the North it does not say "good vs. evil" while in the Swedish version it explicitly says: Good (Protestant/Swedish) vs Evil (Catholic/Imperialists) and so on. I think this is because in English there are to many people that would be offended. (Though they should not be offended)

+CrescentGuard I'm new to Sabaton and I'm Canadian. (Not that that makes any difference; I'm just illustrating that English is my native language.) So, will Sabaton really change the meaning of a song when translating the song from their mother tongue just because the politics may be interpreted differently in the region where that language is spoken? If so, that is very cool. Not a lot of bands are that prudent.

MrEgofreak Oh yeah, it's not even a translation sometimes. The translation of Lifetime at War/En Livstid I Krig is wildly different based on the version. The English one is basically just talking about the war itself in a sort of bardic, story telling way; the Swedish one is a sort of soliloquy by a soldier in the war. Some of their songs change the wording for musical reasons (direct translations between the two not exactly sounding all that great) but go for similar meanings. This one, however, is the biggest example I can think of where it's just a completely different meaning based on the language.

That's so cool! Respect from Canada and thank you for your service to your country.

thats badass

I thank you for your service. Even though I am from the US I still salute you for serving your country.

tack!

Is their army very big? I don't really see Sweden as a military powerhouse today, no disrespect.

Thought you were saying sabaton does glorify war was gonna leave a negative comment lmao

Yeah some people dont seem to understand that sabaton doesn't glorify war they just honor the heroes of war.

They make awesome songs about history for what it was, nothing more and nothing less.

Same goes with "Men vem sörjer mig?" (But Who Will Miss Me?)

Zis is so epic... Nobody can't cry at this moment.

It merely displays a man who will never ever return from the place he calls home because he will die in battle.

comes, not come Implying it's the same person, and that each life is connected to multiple others

JUMALATION1 Joakim’s delivery of “hem” is just orgasmic to listen to.

Maibe is something from a past life you remember but dont know

Definitely have to agree with you.

The two version actually work in concert to make a single song. One (the English version) that focuses on the politics and greater history of the 30 Years War. The other (the Swedish version) that focuses on the personal and human aspect of the 30 Years War. It is these two versions in concert that express the combined vision of the band. Thus neither is superior and merely two sides of the same coin.

The One Why don't you just listen both?

It actually shows how realistic war is.

@@Tsumanne Quite right! The way I see it, the English version is a general overview meant to teach you about the broad strokes of what the song is about. The Swedish version, naturally, is written with a Swedish audience in mind. Swedes are more likely to know their own history, so Sabaton could go into a little more emotional detail in the Swedish version. In college terms, the English version is Swedish Empire History 101. The Swedish version is AP Swedish Empire History 221.

Amen.

China will grow larger!

no everything is about sweden

I agree...

Both are sad, but this version is downright making me tear up.

Its like the english version is of an englishman looking upon the 30 years war and the struggles the swedish soldiers are going through, where as this one is of a soldier himself.

this one feels more personal

@Txtspeak What the hell happened while we were not there? -A English of the XVII century, probably

Also it makes sense that the personal version is in Swedish, since it's from the perspective of a Swedish soldier.

That is why I love this album so much.

since you werent really waging war, you dont have to feel guilty. A wise man once said: Bad men do what good men think.

Men are expendable. Glory is forever! Ad victoriam!

Sacrifices were made to Rome whole again, to make Europe under 1 rule again. :'(

@trhghrwshfdsghdf dfhgdfghfddhfd War is our destiny, there is no escape.

EU4? What's that?

dalsenov respect from Romania :3

you alredy said this on the other video

are you romanian tho

idk if u romanian but i am so respects from Sighisoara

salutari din micu paris

"Men vem saknar mig?"

Here, take this: Ö :D

I yell this out loud and get weird looks but it’s worth it

Best Sabaton song ever

They have got a lot of good songs. But there are no bad.

Đorđe Cvetković "Has man gone insane" is the great part about the English version tho, even if I like the Swedish version more the more I listen to it

You are both missing the concept of both. One is looking at it from the present if the war was still going on 3rd person (English) and 1st person (Swedish). The English gives an overview of the war and what is was like overall, it doesn't tell you the feelings of one man it tells you the feelings of many and what was happening it tells you the horrors and what they all faced that war was continuous and how many battles were actually fought, there we get a sense of scale, vs the Swedish where we get a sense of Emotion into what the soldier who left his homeland to come fight in a war he has no real attachment to feels, he views the other side as evil and in the English it purposefully doesn't distinguish between the two as it really wasn't distinguishable as to who was in the wrong. Same as WW1 take an account of an English WW1 soldier and the Germans would be seen as the Worst things in the world but if we look at an overview we see neither side was in the wrong, just a tragic series of events that lead to war being inevitable. The song does an incredible job at highlighting the war from 2 different perspectives: 1st vs 3rd.

#FosterFarms

I’m sorry for what happened to you, do you mind if I ask where did you serve?

@@ziomeke5580 I deployed to Iraq in 2013

I such deep respect for you and all the others who answered your comment ❤️

I haven’t ever served but I was a back up for Ross Kemps Afghanistan trips where we film what it like on the battle field. I will always remember at around 5:30 GMT a mortar going off around 20 meter away from the tent we (the Cam crew) were sleeping in.

as a mortarman of the Finnish Army, thank you for your service brother, with the war in Ukraine raging the knowledge that the Uncle Sam's Misguided Children are there to extend a helping hand to us should I & my countrymen ever need it puts my soul at ease, Semper Fidelis!

Just a youth Barely a man when duty called me If I ever see my home again That I don't know

Amongst friends from my village I went out to fight

And the world burned

For war it can Destroy a man I give my life For my homeland

But who will mourn me?

This whole song can literally make a person cry I can't believe we actually force innocent men and women to fight for something so mere pointless where innocent families cultures and history get destroyed

@@thatonequeergundamfan71 World War I was basically a pissing match between distant family members. Wars like that make me angry. World War II, on the other hand, was pretty much Germany’s response to The Treaty of Versailles. It’s not their fault a madman used the resentment created by the unfair treatment for his own ends. WWII is an example of justified war, war with the goal of stopping a madman.

Yes for fuck sake that is my fave part of the Swedish version too I'd also as how joakim sings "Fader och son" who never come home Fuckin shakes my dumb mushy brain

Also "Amongst friends from my village I went out to battle" Makes me choke on my salty tears

@brotherdavid9806 spoken like a true Jew

ITS SWEAT, THATS OUR STORY AND WE'RE FUCKIN STICKING TO IT

It's ocean water. Tears? What are thoses

It's the transparent blood of your wounded heart

"You may cry manly tears"

It’s the ninjas cutting the onions

kallade du just dig själv för danskjävel?

anton t we have always nagged on eatch other but that is what made us family and it will always be there we are here for you brother danskjävel .

^

We Swedes and Danes have had our fights in the past, but nowadays, we're like siblings. Yes, we occasionally insult each other like all siblings do, but when push comes to shove, we're brothers and we will stand together.

We will always fight and nag eachother, but it wouldn't be brotherly love other wise!

A little... A lot

Max Wooks dude what

@Max Wooks ... Not happening.

@@carolusrex3910 RIGHT! I don't know much Swedish (I had started taking courses about 10 years ago) and my pronunciation is not always the best, but as I was singing along I was thinking to myself "How is my pronunciation so off?" The second chorus is when I realized the words were switched around. I love the lyric videos, but that almost ruins this one for me.

Oh yea

That's cool, Might i ask where you are from?

@@gustavforsen657 According to his Name he ist German

thanks for learning our language

+Charlotte Sjöström No problem, friend! It's very beautiful.

So, have you learnt it yet?

I will second the "Much love from Canada" statement!

Robertsson …I live in Miami, and I'm the only hispanic in my class. And Hispanics probably beat more ass than any others.

Robertsson Ever heard of Portugal and Spain getting their ass kicked in South America? And the 1941 invasion of Aruba, where Venezuelan forces singlehandedly destroyed German and Italian naval units?

Robertsson Who said anyone liked Argentina? I'm Venezuelan lol.

Robertsson May I ask how old you are? You can't be an adult. If you act this way, you are not an adult. And I'm in college, so don't go saying, "Oh you're not an adult either, so shut the fuck up!". It's all bullshit. You want to start a South American badassery lesson? I'll be the professor. And I'll be handing you a fucking detention for being a little jit in class.

Robertsson Not all are dark-skinned, most are white Spaniards, learn what race is before judging it.

I feel that they're each great in there own way. In Swedish is more poetic and is attempting to portray the 30 year war from the perspective of a Swede. While the English version is trying to give a message on human conflict while using the 30 year war to do so and doing it behind a more global outsider perspective. I personally have difficulty saying what version I like the most. I adore them both and I think they accomplish what each sets out to do. P.S. Something you might, for example, want to take notice is the rest of the album in English and Swedish although (of course) the wording is different in the respective songs the message is understandably the same and they try to keep the sentiment as similar as possible while Lifetime at War and En Livstid I Krig have completely different sentiments. So I really don't think they just grabbed whatever they could to attach it to the music (seeing again how they did such a good job with the other songs at keeping them as similar as possible) but it was really to give a different emotion such as (example) being told about WWII and how horrible it was but necessity to keep European nations as they are and hearing the personal accounts of veterans who (on both sides) didn't care about the grand scheme of things but were fighting for their homelands. Or at least, that's how I see it.

Since I'm completely reliant on the English translations to understand this masterpiece, could you list some of those ambiguous meanings?

I wish this was directly translated into English it wud be just as gud even if it didn't rhyme

@@TechTehScience En livstid i Krig actually translates to A lifetime IN war

I was gonna say Ariana Grande, but I doubted she would pull off something this grand.

Yeah it must be frustrating that this album is as much about you guys but it goes largely unrecognised. There rely was no difference between swedes and swedes from Finland at this time. 10% of the population in Stockholm spoke Finish and Carl XII and Gustav II was as much your kings as ours. Whit out Finland Sweden would not be what it is today. You guys sure you don't want to join the old fatherland again? We sure need you.

I did the same thing. This is a great way to keep pace with the song, though I changed the words a bit.

A few people were in tears

+Vespasiaan Gaming im trying to learn this song on piano, how did you do it?

We had to spend a few weeks getting an accurate english translation down that fit with the rhythm. It was incredibly difficult.

+Vespasiaan Gaming What lyrics did you come up with?

These, we had to add a few words, but for the most part it was the same. Fit the rhythm well.

Both are great, but this one is probably better yes. Also; Primarch-Progenitor, to your glory and the glory of Him on Earth!

I actually like both. The English version, as befits a more common language (no offense anybody, but more people speak English the Swedish) talks more about the war as a whole, but the more local Swedish language is about a more personal story.

***** I concur. This one is superior. Also; Death to the false emperor!

Whokilledlenin Long live Charlemagne!

Whokilledlenin Stalin.

+Володимир Худич I have never realize one Ukrainian say something like that. P.S I do not scorn you but full of wondering itself.

+Володимир Худич I like ukraine and I'm Swedish )))

+Володимир Худич This song is not patriotic. It is about the cruelties of war.

+Humanistic Rise Bah. Trust an undoubtedly anglosaxon 'humanist' to mis the point. Good comes out of self sacrifice. By contrast, the pursuit of individual wellbeing only leads to environmental pollution and global warming.

+apud harald I am German. Global warming is the product of industrialisation. You have missed the point, that's what I think. In the end, no one can for shure say what this song is about, because we cannot look into Sabaton's minds.

For me, it reminds me of my Grandpa... he got drafted to the flak when he was 17, and after the war ended, he was sent to a French POW camp, which was the worst possible of the western allies you could get captured by... He passed away last year, he had a long life, a good life after the war... others weren't so lucky.

ever heard WAR NEVER CHANGE

Well, it doesn't. War will allways be about someone fighting someone for something.

no doubt on it!

shogun4636 thank you

+Augustus IV But fucking hard to learn (believe me, I know)

Juu olen.... Miksi muuten olisin kansan ääni ja suomen lippu

+Kansan ääni finnish is MUCH harder

+dimapez Yeah as a Dutch dude I can recognize (at least similarities of) a lot of words, some words are the exact same, others just sound like Dutch words said with a heavy accent. Finnish is Uralic, and is extremely hard to learn if your native language is Germanic

+dimapez I see everyone found their "brothers" ,the germanic people, the latins and the slavs....... and then I recognized , that I'm a Hungarian.... with my unusual language.. haha :/ :)

I agree with all of this, but the Swedish Empire era (Also called the Great Power era or the Baltic era) is probably one of the biggest subjects in history. It's vikings, medieval era, great power era, freedom era, world wars and cold wars. The Great Power era is by no means brushed aside. I do think that Charles XII is mostly ignored in the schools, who mostly seem to focus on the first half of the era. But regardless, the era is still talked about *a lot*

I think you should visit Skokloster Castle Outside the city of Uppsala, which was built by one of the world's wealthiest people at the time, the general and admiral Carl Gustaf Wrangel. Thanks to his raids in Denmark, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, he was able to build a castle that today is considered the world's most well-preserved and lavish Baroque castle. At the top of the castle you will find the world's largest collection of weapons from the Baroque era. Even with a Greenlandic kayak from that time. To describe Wrangel's greed during the raids, an event in the Czech Republic in 1648 can be a good example. The Swedes had occupied half of Prague, the side on which Prague Castle is located, and Wrangel loaded 70 wagons with precious stolen goods, such as the Silver Bible and the Devil's Bible, which are still in Sweden today.

They have the same Germanic root. Swedish and English are closely related languages we even share the same grammar.

@@TheSlyngel Did you know that some of the English words comes from old norse, like for example Knife

in Swedish there is an old word for forgetting which is "förgäta

In this case, albeit some similarity can be perceived by the layperson, this pair does NOT share the same root. "Förgöra" means etymologically "to undo" - “göra” means “to do” - and it is used in these more poetic settings to convey the act of destroying thoroughly, of annihilating (often by means of bloodshed). The most common Swedish word for destroy is actually "förstöra", which has the same root as German ”zerstören”. As pointed out just above my comment, Swedish even has a less used synonym for "forget" in "förgäta" (it sounds more antiquated than the often used “glömma bort” and in this case both verbs - “forget” and “förgäta” - are not false cognates).

Now begins the inner war of wanting to go see their family one more time, but they can't.

Not exactly fitting, but as patriotic song says: "Kto przeżyje, wolnym będzie/ Kto umiera, wolnym już" (Who'll live will be free/ Who dies is already free.)

Unknown soldier is also a good song

That pic made it less serious xD

From the looks of it I really don't want to know what Surstromming is

Swedish is one of the prettier Scandinavian tongues

Jeffrey Stanley If I remember correctly it's rotten fish they eat in Scandinavia

coyote47713 ... people eat rotten fish?

Jeffrey Stanley From Wikipedia Surströmming (pronounced [ˈsʉ̟ːˌʂʈrœmːɪŋ], Swedish for "sour herring") is fermented Baltic Sea herring that has been a staple of traditional northern Swedish cuisine since at least the 16th century. Just enough salt is used to prevent the raw fish from rotting (chemical decomposition). A fermentation process of at least six months gives the lightly-salted fish its characteristic strong smell and somewhat acidic taste. Almost rotten

It's two perspectives of the same war. It's a macro and micro view. The whole war, and a soldiers view.

these lyrics makes the english one seem like a happy, joyful song

Moribax85 yeah.

As I said to another comment; 'I don't agree. I think the idea that the Swedish version is sadder is completely neglecting the point of the English version. The English version isn't suppose to be sadder. It's suppose to give a direct message about the horrors of war from the perspective of an outsider. If anything it's suppose to be the closest thing to our actual, modern perspective when looking back. While the Swedish version is an attempt at looking at the same conflict from the perspective of a Swede in that period and his personal thoughts on the conflict instead of it just being us looking back it. They're very clearly done differently on purpose and are meant to accomplish different things - and they do their tasks amazingly. So I don't think claiming the Swedish version is far superior as people are trying to evaluate this while using the point the Swedish version was suppose to accomplish as the standard.' Essentially, if you listen to the rest of the album Sabaton essentially just swapped a few words in all the English versions but kept the same meaning. Lifetime of War has a different feeling and meaning in English and Swedish on purpose. If anything, they're meant to be two heavily different perspectives on the same story. The English is a more global view questioning why man was going to war and the insanity behind it, asking on its motives, the heavy death toll, and so on. The Swedish is a personal story a man detailing his reasons for going to war, his experiences, and questioning what the aftermath will be, for him.

Spot on. The Swedish story works much better for a native swede. The lanuage is kinda archaic and pulls the heart strings of a Swede. Its difficult to explain but your native language goes straight to the heart the english version tells a very different story. The English version is great but it's a bout a common tragedy. This is a bout a poor great grandparent who died sadly in a harsh time.

Rhyan Bennett translate it, please. Post in the replies so I can see.

Hmm, die Aussprache ist ein bisschen komisch, aber wenn man den Text hat kann man es als Deutschsprachler gut verstehen. Besser als Norwegisch, würde ich sagen.

Doulingo is an app that can help you

Most of my online friends are polish, respect from Sweden 🇸🇪🇵🇱

We are all one.

Ale Kenphyxia Swedish is quite similar to English and German, some vocabulary is indeed changed but there are similarities, take it from another romance-speaker

Alberto Hinojosa Thanks dude, I'll try to do my best (:

+Ale Kenphyxia​ You can do it, fratello

How did it go? Lärde du dig lite svenska?

Ale Kenphyxia I find the Germanic tongues to be fairly simple, actually.

Stop.

fuck slaves, this is about the nordic people

*****English also has relations to Swedish

TheLolistan English has more relation to West Germanic. Quite a few words are related to scandinavian languages however too.

i know im just saying it has relations occasionally if you notice witch i believe you do

***** Indeed, I am Swedish and I speak German, I can read Dutch quite well.

+Bundeswehr des Vaterlands While I don't know much German, it seems like the hardest thing about Swedish is some of the diphthongs are different. Sjung doesn't sound like how it looks, but then again my native language is English so I don't have much room to speak lol.

Norwegian and Swedish are very similar (technically dialects of the same language but neither of us will admitt so publicly). Danish too in theory but not so much in practice.

Ian Bluemink I'm a Croat and I fucking love Swedish! I feel like it's a superior language in this particular setting. A Swedish band singing about the Swedish Empire/history in Swedish. My soul is at peace haha

I ain't no Swedish and that part bothers me. Thanks for pointing it out.

Yes,the best!!!!;