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  1. Skoven

Music and Words: Karoline Hausted

This is a hymn to a specific forest in Denmark that Karoline lived near. There is no place like the earthly green cathedral of a forest; a place to be quiet and let one’s soul connect with the deep breath of the earth. Once this great gift of the trees - their warm, embracing silence - is received, a song of prayer is offered in return…

Lyrics

(English translation below)
Skov skov
kan du høre mig?
Jeg står hernede
under dit tag
Skov skov kan du se mig?
Jeg er kommet tilbage
Og du står her,
den samme
Med sølvblinkende kroner
I spejlet i havet
Bliver jord og himmel til et

Blå hav ved din side
Tærer på dine rødder,
storm og salt
Alt har det givet mig
Mine øjnes blå farve
Og jeg har rejst så længe
Og ofte kun i blinde
Men hvem husker
de timer
Fra nattens yderste kant?

Skov lad mig nu finde
Døren til dit inderste
grønne rum
Hvor alting synges
Med den samme stemme
Jeg hører træerne hviske
En gådefuld fortælling
Engang ord i familie
Mit hjertes forvandling
i dag

English translation:

Forest forest can you hear me?
I am standing here beneath your roof
Forest forest can you see me?
I have come back
And you are here, the same
With silver blinking crowns
In the mirror in the sea
Earth and sky become one

Blue sea at your side
Tearing at your roots, storm and salt
Everything it has given me,
The blue color of my eyes
And I have traveled for so long, often blindly
But who remembers those hours
From the edge of the night

Forest let me find now
The door to your most inner green room
Where everything is sung,
With the same voice
I hear the trees whisper
An enigmatic story
Once familiar words
Today the change of my heart