Kaizers Orchestra – 170

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Slapp av me komme snart igjen
Du vett me får tilstrekkelig med stipend
Nå går eg inn som frivillig soldat
Når eg går ut har eg blitt far
Det var kveld og det blei dag og kveld igjen
Eg skreiv brev på brev men eg fekk aldri brev igjen
Et halvt år med skudd og åpne sår
Et halvt år. Herre Gud, tiå går så seint

Takk Gud for sanitetens personal
For de syr samen rekrutt og general
Dagen kom, eg venta på signal
Eg fekk min siste ordre i frå høgaste befal og han skreik
170 gå å sjå om det er klart
Nei general, la meg få sleppa general
Det er lett for deg å senda inn en frivillig soldat
men kven skal ta seg av min hustru og mitt barn?

170 er det klart, er det klart?
170 me vente på et svar!

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Track duration: 04:13


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    General Comment:This song is beautiful. Translating the text removes the unique way of writing that people in Norway recognize easily, and makes this song so damn moving that it never fail to give me shivers.
    Flag Mr. Crowleyon November 20, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I believe that the person in this song is Kristoffer, the same guy in Bris, and I belive its him in Død manns tango as well
    Flag giesjion January 09, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Is it possible that this is the story of Marcello Conradas' dad? Marcello mentioned him being a Spanish corporal. It wouldn't make sense if this is supposed to be during WWII and at the same time as the rest of "Ompa til du dør", though.
    Flag Haxorsiston November 30, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:not danish. norwegian. bryne dialect.
    the interpretations above are pretty spot on i think. thats what kaizers have said themselves.
    Flag mindscapeon April 07, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:I've never heard this song before and I didn't really understand it when I read the text at first because I'm not that good at understanding Danish so I liked when it was translated and I think it's a really beautiful text. I liked to understand the meaning f the song.
    Flag nothing lefton January 04, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:En av de beste sangene fra Kaizers, de har altid gjort det bra og det vil de også gjøre i fremtiden. Men når folk skal oversette disse sangene på Songmeanings.org blir det helt feil. Ingenting rimer og oversettelsene blir helt forvrenkt og det mister hele sjamrmen med Kaizers.
    Flag Rød][Snøon January 04, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:170

    Relax, we'll soon be returning
    You know we'll get sufficient funding
    Now I enlist as a voluntary soldier
    When I go out I've become a father

    It was night and it became day and night again
    I wrote letter after letter but never got one back
    half a year with shots and open wounds
    half a year! God, how time goes slow

    Thank God for the medical corps
    Cos they sew together recruits and generals
    The day came and I waited for a signal
    And I got my last order from the highest in command

    And he yelled;
    170 go out and see if it is clear!
    No, general, spare me. It's easy for you to send in a
    voluntary soldier
    But who'll take care of my wife and my child?

    170 is it clear, is it clear?
    170 we're waiting for a response

    As junkboot said, this song is about a volunteer soldier fighting in world war II. He enlists and finds out he's a father, just then he is called to battle, contacts home with no responce and after a long time of combat, bleeding, torment and suffering he still receives no responce. He is ordered to scout out in the battle but he asks the general if he could use a voulenteer, it would be easy, as he is wounded and fears dying before ever seeing his child. He is sent out anyways and this time it is him who makes no responce to the army.
    Flag Xiaoon June 28, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:this song describes a volunteering soldier, fighting in.. wwii is my guess, and enlists as he discovers he is a father. he is sent out, recieving no response from home, after half a year of fighting in the war.. suffering injury and torment of no word at home. he is then ordered to scout out for a high general, but hesetant for his child.
    he is sent out with never again a response

    i realize this isnt my interperitation, per se, but it shows many poeple what this absolutely gorgeous song is about, and the meaning it has.
    kaizers-orchestra.de/lyrics/…
    Flag JunkBooton April 04, 2005   Link

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