Skip to content
Lyric
Dive
Public playlists
My playlists
Search
Sign in
Anders Hillborg. The Strand Settings: I. Black Sea
Renée Fleming & Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under Sakari Oramo
Popularity · Low
+
🇬🇧 English · Original
0
0
YouTube
Searching YouTube...
Lyrics
Original
Translation
Bilingual
One clear night while the others slept
I climbed the stairs to the roof of the house
And under a sky strewn with stars
I gazed at the sea, at the spread of it
The rolling crests of it raked by the wind
Becoming like bits of lace tossed in the air
I stood in the long, whispering night
Waiting for something, a sign
The approach of a distant light
And I imagined you coming closer
The dark waves of your hair mingling with the sea
And the dark became desire, and desire the arriving light
The nearness, the momentary warmth of you
As I stood on that lonely height watching the slow swells of the sea
Break on the shore and turn briefly into glass and disappear
Why did I believe you would come out of nowhere?
Why with all that the world offers would you come only because I was here?