what it takes to live

today nazi boots will march through gothenburg to make us tremble of fear for what they can do to us
they have only one language, that of fear and scarcity
in a country that is among the wealthiest in the world
where most people have a roof over their head, most people get some food each day, where people are not searched for by mobs from different thribes and violent war masters

i don´t believe in their language, so today i have chosen to do as usual
to do what i have planned, to not allow their attempt to create fearfulness find me

i will talk to everyone i meet about the beauty of being human, of living an ordinary life
i will talk about all those people whose only wish is to have a usual day
who have risked their lives so that their children could have a usual ordinary dull life
go to school, complain about homework, run to catch a bus, get an ordinary dinner

i will talk about our ancestors who went to america to get away from starvation and oppression because they wanted to live an ordinary life, they wanted to live
i will talk about all those people who build the wellth of the country we live in, the finns, the dutch, the english, the polish, the norwegians, all those who build gothenburg, the canals, the railways, the iron industry, the forest industry that we thrive from today

i will talk about what it takes to live