Lite Bättre [English translation]

[Verse 1: Jare]

Tjena mannen 1 from beneath the car dock 2

Stuck on a big ship

I wish I was already letting loose on Stureplan 3

I will not get in to the discos, as a finnish tourist I just drink more

Mellanöl 4 does not really work

I thought everything would be better in the neighbouring country

Lite bättre 5

[Verse 2: VilleGalle]

During Swedish exam I sat frozen

I knew how to sing "Den glider in", Ville Peltonen became a leader 6

I guess that was in Globen 7 but I wouldn't brag about it anymore

I flew there in two hours and saw Mats Sundin 8

Lite bättre

[Chorus]

There's ABBA and Fobba 9

The Volvo just doesn't stop

There's Zlatan and Ettan

Vad fan 10

Lite bättre

The ladys on Stureplan

Are like a dream to a Finnish boy

Kalle 11 doesn't have presidential elections but

Lite bättre

Melodies haven't been the same as Björn's and Benny's 12

Abba's kaviar paste, it's 13

Lite bättre

Bamse drives a skanska

Over the bridge to Denmark

Never through Finland, nej

Lite bättre

[Verse 3: Jare]

Lilla gubben 14, and all you mama's kötbullat 15

I did not come to get ladies

We took the gold already in the 90's

Whatever, we've taken many after the year 95

It's whatever, like 95 and never forget

Lite bättre

[Verse 4: VilleGalle]

Taxis drive a Volvo

Rödä Lacket 16 on their lip

But hey, titta på mig 17 in Sweden everybody's always so handsome

There's Henrik Larsson and Erik Karlsson

Oh beautiful blue and yellow, I always bitterly compare myself to you

Lite bättre

There's ABBA and Fobba

The Volvo just doesn't stop

There's Zlatan and Ettan

Vad fan

Lite bättre

The ladys on Stureplan

Are like a dream to a Finnish boy

Kalle doesn't have presidential elections but

Lite bättre

Melodies haven't been the same as Björn's and Benny's

Abba's kaviar paste, it's

Lite bättre

Bamse drives a skanska

Over the bridge to Denmark

Never through Finland, nej

Lite bättre

1. swedish: hello men 2. if you have a cabin underneath the car dock on the Swedish cruise, means it's a shitty cabin 3. square in Stockholm 4. swedish: beer (3,5-4,5% of alcohol) 5. swedish: a little better 6. "Den glider in" is a song written in 1995 by Peter Karlsson for the Swedish hockey team, assuming they would win the world championship that year. However, Finland won Sweden in the final and Finnish fans took the song as a winning song for the Finnish team - everybody in Finland knows the song and it's still sang when Finland wins in hockey (not often). Ville Peltonen was a star player on this Finnish hockey team in 1995. 7. arena where the hockey championship was played in 1995, written wrong in Finnish lyrics 8. famous Swedish hockey player 9. Peter Forsberg 10. Swedish: what the fuck 11. Reference to Carl Gustav, King of Sweden 12. Reference to Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson from the band ABBA 13. Abba here means a company producing fish products 14. Swedish: little guys 15. Swedish: meatballs 16. snus product 17. Swedish: look at me

• Artist:JVG
• Album:RATA/RAITTI (2019)