Great song . So much better sung in Swedish and backed by the orchestra. The actual performance at the final didn't compare with this . The best argument for having a live orchestra at Eurovision and for countries to sing in their own national language.
Should I repeat, what some Germans say about Skandinavian languages?: 1.) Otto Waalkes in the 1970ies: knödeldirödel; 2.): Thomas Gottschalk as German speaker in Lausanne 1989 in his comment: hödlnödldödl; a German taxidriver in Bad Harzburg, a Northern-German town with many guests from Skandinavia: ösesmösesmörebröd ...
It doesn't. The English version is not a direct translation... or anything close. It's a different sense of the words. The title for instance; A Thousand and One nights!
