If and when Hypem choose to pick up my blog for indexing mp3s again… I will return. So let’s hope they’re willing to pick up a small Lemur who’s ready to once again burst his heart open again for the music world he’s so lucky to be part of.

Kent is Sweden’s probably most popular pop/rock band (and, after The Knife, the BEST). This song ranks as one of their best (from their eponymous 1995 debut) and it measures up to the best Radiohead or Elliott Smith ever wrote and recorded. The lyrics in Swedish and in an English translation by me are found below. Just so you’ll “get” why I chose this as my comeback song. If you ask me, it’s one of the best ballads ever written.

Kent - Den Osynligen Mannen

Swedish lyrics

Kent - Den Osynlige Mannen

Fyll mig med luft igen
Gör mig synlig
Du får gärna avsky mig
Om det gör mig tydlig igen

Om du vill visa dig igen
Om du vill komma hit igen
Om du vill röra mig igen
Så måste jag vara i färg

Fyll mig med vatten min vän
Håll mig flytande
Jag låter dig avsky mig
Det gör mig tydlig igen

English translation (Free interpretation - out of necessity)

The Invisible Man

Fill me with air again
Make me visible
You’re more than welcome to loath me*
If it makes me visible again

If you want to show yourself again
If you want to come here again
If you want to touch me again
Then I’ll have to be in colour

Fill me with water, my friend
Keep me floating
I let you loath me
It makes me visible again

*This sentence could also be translated as “I gladly/willingly allow you to loath me”

The beauty and directness of the original language sort of disappears in a translation. But you probably get the point now why I chose it as my comeback song.

Curious personal trivia: this is my favourite drunk-song when I’m feelin’ blue, melancholic and am under the influence of alcohol.