Hiya people! 🙂
Today I’d like to share with you a Norwegian pop song which I’ve been liking for a long time, so I’m actually kind of surprised that I haven’t already done it because it’s really cool, and I think it has a huge brainworm/earworm potential. It is a song by Sondre Justad who is a very popular Norwegian singer and who comes from northern Norway, which, as with most Norwegians, is easy to figure out from his dialect. He wrote the song together with Magnus Eliassen and it’s the closing track of his 2018 album Ingenting i Paradis (Nothing iin Paradise).
Below is an English translation written by Bibiel, it was quite easy to write, but there’s just one phrase that I absolutely wasn’t sure how to best translate into English, namely in the line “They never properly reached in”. There is the verb “nådde inn” and it does literally mean “reached in”, but I don’t think the verb “to reach in” is used in English in this context. But I just couldn’t think of an alternative that would sound good enough and convey that meaning, while it seems to me that even though “reach in” may not be used like that, it’s pretty understandable in English as for what it’s supposed to mean.
I’m pulled towards you
Into the light
Everything around us fades out
Have been searching
Have gone in blind
It feels as if the wind has turned around
Inexplicably I become brave
And vulnerable at the same time
We both have closed eyes
My hand finds yoursYou are not like the others
You are not like the others
I want to be with someone like you
You are not like the others
You are not like the others
I need someone like youIncessant like the wave
Life washed over me
You are new, you are something else
To think that we would meet here
This world is odd
But not as strange as you
Painted picture, new colours
And show me how I lookYou are not like the others
You are not like the others
I want to be with someone like you
You are not like the others
You are not like the others
I need someone like youSo many layers I should have interpreted
It gave me nothing
Have travelled and met so many people
They never properly reached in
But you I can understand
You have no filter and are direct
They wanted to have something unattainable
You wanted something genuine
Is this genuine?You are not like the others
you are not like the others
I want to be with someone like you
You are not like the others
You are not like the others
I need someone like you
My Inner MishMash 
Its a nice song! Thanks for translating it too! Xx
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It is very nice indeed. My pleasure with the translating. 🙂
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O wow, you just reminded us to listen to more Norwegian songs
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That’s a great idea, there’s so much fabulous Norwegian music! 🙂 I’ve liked it for years but now that I’ve actually started learning Norwegian last year I’ve been listening to Norwegian songs even more.
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💞❤
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Thinking “nådde inn” can be “they never connected deep within” but it’s quite unwieldy.
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Yeah, I was thinking about something around the word “connected” but it seems difficult to come up with something that wouldn’t feel a bit clunky in song lyrics.
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