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Kysstu t​í​maglasið

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It took Svavar 8 years to write this one about his father, who died in an avalanche in 1995.

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Á dögum eins og þessum
Breytist ég, breytist ég
Í risastóran saltstólpa
Af eftirsjá, eftir þér

Ég hefði ekki átt að fljúga
Svona fljóttí burt frá þér.
Svo margt ógert, svo margt ósnert
Svo margt sem aldrei verður sagt

Ég kyssi tímaglasið
Horfi á sandinn flæða burt
Saltur koss
Kyssi tímaglasið
Vertu sæll
Kyssi sandinn bless

Ég hélt við hefðum tíma
Til að tala um svo margt
En stundum bresta vonir
Stundum brotna tímaglös

Þú kvaddir mig með hlátri
Sem hljómar ennþá inni í mér
Þú sagðist sjá mig aftur
Bráðar von, en fer sem fer

Kysstu tímaglasið
Sjáðu sandinn flæða burt
Saltur foss
Kysstu tímaglasið
Vertu sæll
Kysstu sandinn bless

Ég veit að það er borin von
Að líma saman brotin, sundurtætt
Það sem Guð hefur sundrað,
Getur enginn maður bætt

Ég kyssi tímaglasið
Horfi á sandinn flæða burt
Saltur koss
Kyssi tímaglasið
Vertu sæll
Kyssi sandinn bless

Vertu sæll

Kysstu tímaglasið
Söltum kossi
ég sakna þín
ég sakna þín
Kysstu tímaglasið
Vertu sæll, vertu sæll


English translation:

On days like this
I turn into a pillar of salt
from regret for you.
I shouldn't have flown
away from you so soon
so much undone, so much untouched,
so much that never will be said.

I kiss the hourglass
watch the sand flow away
a salty kiss.
I kiss the hourglass,
be well. Kiss the sand goodbye.

I thought we had time,
to talk of so many things.
But sometimes our hopes break
and sometimes hourglasses shatter.

You bid me farewell with a laugh
that still resounds inside me.
You said we'd see each other
soon enough, but things go as they go.

I know that it is beyond hope
to glue together the shattered pieces.
What god has torn apart
let no man repair.

I miss you...

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from I can't believe it's not happiness, released May 5, 2007

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