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Written by Mari Boine, Rawdna Carita Eira & Ole Jørn Myklebust. Live...
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Written by Mari Boine, Rawdna Carita Eira & Ole Jørn Myklebust. Live at the Oslo Opera House, October 2009. With Georg Buljo, guitar & vocals, Ole Jørn Myklebust, xaphoon & vocals, Svein Schultz, bass, Gunnar Augland, drums & percussion, and Herman Rundberg, accordion & vocals.
Here is my translation of what Mari Boine says in the intro to this song:
"Soria Moria Palássa is a place where they promise you happiness and prosperity and good days, and eternal youth, good neighbours, a better sex life - all this if you just buy what they have to sell. And you buy and buy and buy and buy. And you fill your home, fill your days with things. But still you wonder, where is the happiness they promised? The refrain here starts with the line "Naked and beautiful I came into this world", and that line is for my grandchild who was born at the start of this year. And the refrain continues with "Naked I leave when it's my turn to go, and nothing can I take with me, no matter how much I may have gathered." Soria Moria Palássa."
(Soria Moria is a dream castle, an illusion in the distance, in old Norwegian fairytales.)
What she says in Norwegian:
"Soria Moria Palássa er et sted hvor de lover deg lykke og fremgang og gode dager, og evig ungdom, gode naboer, snille barn, et bedre sexliv - alt det her hvis du bare kjøper det de har å selge. Og du kjøper og kjøper og kjøper og kjøper. Og du fyller ditt hjem, fyller dine dager med ting. Men fortsatt lurer du på, hvor blir det av lykken de lovte. Refrenget her begynner med linja "Naken og vakker kom jeg til verden", og den linja er til mitt barnebarn som ble født i begynnelsen av året. Og refrenget fortsetter med "Naken drar jeg den dagen det er min tur å dra, og ingenting kan jeg ta med meg uansett hvor mye jeg måtte ha samla." Soria Moria Palássa."
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