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***[Eluaeg olen tahtnud õue]
ELUAEG OLEN TAHTNUD ÕUE.
Mida see mulle tähendab?
See on hinge ainuke nõue,
mis mind elule lähendab.
Oo, kui raske on meie kliimas,
mis on umbusuudust hall.
Olen tädile kooke viimas,
metsatee on mu jalge all.
Metsas kohtan ma nümfe ja gnoome,
noori siivutuid preilisid.
Aga on ka rangeid aroome -
karme Lindasid, Leilisid.
Vana tädi see sööb minu annid,
seekord kohtamata jääb Hunt.
Õrnad lilled mu mängukannid
ja mu armastus - piiritu krunt.
ELUAEG OLEN TAHTNUD ÕUE.
Kas sa tead, mis see tähendab?
See, mu arm, on looduse nõue.
Ta meid asjasse pühendab.
From: Elulootus
Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1980
Audio production: ARM Music
***[All my life, I´ve wanted out]
ALL MY LIFE, I´VE WANTED OUT.
Do you know what it means to me?
It is something that life´s all about,
it is something that helps me be.
Oh, how hard it is in our climate,
which is the grey of the fog of distrust.
I´am taking some cakes to my auntie
through a forest of all kinds of lust.
There I meet some nymphs and some gnomes,
young girls of indecent ways
as well as some stricter aromas -
stern ladies of former days.
Old auntie - she eats what I´ve brought,
and this time no Wolf comes around.
Fragile flowers reside in my thoughts,
and my love is a borderless ground.
ALL MY LIFE, I´VE WANTED OUT.
Do you know what it means to me?
This, my love, is what nature´s about,
and it finally makes us see.