mistranslations that could get awkward.

[cimorene]

okay, i just suddenly realised that kräm means cream, not hug (hug is kram. shut up! it was an easy mistake to make back when i first listened to it, and i don't really listen to the early albums much). so then i read the lyrics for the first time and whoa is this song not about what i thought.

cim: it starts about a hug, so i just thought it was about one. but it isn't, it's about, um, oral sex, i think.
perhael: that's a great mistake to make!
cim: okay, now that i translate it to english i realise it's not even really that subtle.

cream (nobody is allowed to get that close)

i want your spine here
fasten it in me
i always feel the safest when
you are a little bit away
a movement in the corner of my eye

lie down in the grass now
you are so warm here
i want my tongue there
you are so close that you get wet
but nobody is allowed to come that close

lie down exactly
like you always do when
i want to put my tongue there
you are so close that you get wet
but nobody is allowed to come that close





Text / Kräm (så nära får ingen gå)
Text: J. Berg
Musik: J. Berg / M. Sköld
Skiva: Verkligen


Jag vill ha din ryggrad här
Fäst den i mig
Jag är alltid tryggast när
du är en liten bit ifrån
en rörelse i ögonvrån...

Lägg dig ner i gräset nu
Du är så varm här
Jag vill ha min tunga där
du är, så nära att du blir våt
men så nära får ingen gå...

Lägg dig ner precis
som du alltid gör när
Jag vill ha min tunga där
du är, så nära att du blir våt
men så nära får ingen gå...