Om Gud var jag - Nordman

Jag sprang i regn, längs vägar utan slut

Det var natt och tystnaden skrek

Och bland skuggorna

Hördes steg och snabba andetag

I från någon som var dold för min blick

Amuletten som du hängde runt min hals

Som skulle ge mig tur, kom från en okänd hand

Eller hur…

Men om du var jag

Hade du då ändå trott

Att vi styr allt som sker med egna val?

Ja, om du var jag

Hade du då fortsatt gå

Fasten tiden runnit ut

Fasten allt ditt hopp var slut

Om Gud var man och gick bland alla oss

Tror du han, känt ensamhet då?

Såg han Djävulen

Som onskefull och skrämmande

Eller någon som nådde hans blick?

Om Gud var jag

Hade han då ändå trott

Att vi styr allt som sker med egna val?

Ja, om Gud var jag

Hade han då fortsatt gå

Fasten tiden runnit ut

Fasten allt hans hopp var slut

Hade du, hade jag, hade Gud fått

Hade någon av oss fått en likvärdig chans

Hade Gud gjort

Så som jag gjort

Eller gått en väg någon helt annan stans

Ja, om Gud var jag

Hade han då ändå trott

Att vi styr allt som sker med egna val?

Ja, om Gud var jag

Hade han då fortsatt gå

Fasten tiden runnit ut

Fasten allt hans hopp var slut

I ran in the rain, along endless roads

It was night and the silence screamed

And among the shadows

Heard steps and quick breaths

In from someone who was hidden from my eyes

The amulet you hung around my neck

Which would give me luck, came from an unknown hand

Right…

But if you were me

Had you believed then anyway

That we control everything that happens with our own choices?

Yes, if you were me

Did you then still go

Fasting time has run out

Although all your hope was gone

If God was man and walked among us all

Do you think he, felt loneliness then?

He saw the Devil

As wishful and frightening

Or someone who reached his gaze?

If God was me

Had he believed then anyway

That we control everything that happens with our own choices?

Yes, if God was me

Had he then continued to walk

Fasting time has run out

Although all his hopes were gone

Had you, had I, God would have received

Had any of us been given an equal chance

Had God done

Like I did

Or gone a way somewhere completely different

Yes, if God was me

Had he believed then anyway

That we control everything that happens with our own choices?

Yes, if God was me

Had he then continued to walk

Fasting time has run out

Although all his hopes were gone