Playing Endlessly

This Sigur Ros song makes me feel like bursting...I love it more than I've loved a song in a long time. Not just like, wow, that song made me feel melancholy. Or, what a great riff. I just love it. Today I put it on in the car and started singing to Cati what I was making up as the translation of the lyrics...something along the lines of "It's a new day, everything is good, it's getting better, your wife loves you, death ain't so bad, life is wonderful, the sun shines" etc...She giggled understandably, but I still felt like bursting and crying and smiling all at the same time. Sometimes music just does things to me I can't explain.

Well, I came home and looked up a translation of the lyrics, and I was stunned to see I wasn't far off. Was it my ancient Icelandic blood translating, or is it just how the music itself is entertwined in the words? You be the judge:

Við spilum endalaust (We Play Endlessly)

We drove all around
Through sun and pebbly dust
We all saw so much
Even the cradle and asphalt of the world

We played
(hopelandic)
We played
(hopelandic)
We played

The day flows, ever-young
Endless, and the brightness
Smoke stings the eyes
It pops up in my head and now I remember it

We played
(hopelandic)
We played
(hopelandic)
We played everywhere

We all saw so much
Saw all and everything in a new light
The day flows, ever-young
It pops up in my head and now I remember it

We played
(hopelandic)
We played
(hopelandic)
We played everywhere
(hopelandic)

We play endlessly
We play endlessly together
We play everywhere together
We sing all together

(hopelandic)