Mirror And Me

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Här har jag "spegelvänt" en bland de ABBA-låtar som jag håller absolut högst. Det är ME AND I (från 1980). Jaha, säger somliga, den kan vi inte minnas. Nå, även fast jag fattar att den aldrig blev en världssingel och inte (i sig självt) har allra bästa melodistoftet i sig, så är Bennys musik perfekt i varje aspekt, klangvärldens sammansmältning mellan lyckligt upplyftande disco och science fiction-mässig, mörk mystik, samt texten mer djuplodande än det mesta Björn dittills smitt ihop. OK, I'm mixing parts of both my and their version here:



Verse

Often when you're glad
there's a fear to lose
that sure makes you extremely bad

["Sometimes when I'm mad
there's a part of me
that seems to be a little sad"]

Always when you dream
there's an eye outside
that sees your mind is really real

["Sometimes when I scream
there's a voice in me
that says "You shouldn't be so mean!"]


Bridge

yeah, yes
yeah, YES

["oh, no
oh, NO"]

Whole of you is absent
while the parts are playing wild
Well, you are to the world
what memory can be to a child

["Part of me is acting
while the other stands beside
Yes, I am to myself
what Jekyll must have been to Hyde"]



Refrain, part A

You're like double sides forever
Always you go wrong but clever
now and then

["We're like sun and rainy weather
Sometimes we're a hit together
Me and I"]

Sunny laughs and disillusion,
introverted shy explosion
inside out

["Gloomy moods and inspiration
We're a funny combination
Me and I"]


Refrain, part B

You just feel you're home here
like you're really like yourself
Look through someone elses mirror,
then we'd seen the open error
No one's like herself

["I don't think I'm different
or in any way unique
Think about yourself for a minute
and you'll find the answer in it
Everyone's a freak"]




Verse

Constantly you kill
your young body like
you've lent it just for easy thrills

["Sometimes I have toyed
with ideas that
I got from good old Dr Freud"]

Devil in disguise,
it's so sure to me
you want to close your dreaming eyes

["Nothing new of course
It may seem to you
I try to break through open doors"]


Bridge

yeah, yes
yeah, YES

["oh, no
oh, NO"]

You must listen to
each double meaning of this song
since that gives understanding
of where whole your life belong

["I just wanna say
a lot of that applies to me
'cause it's an explanation
to my split identity"]


Refrain again and Again








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