Kari Iveland  - Lille Ville

Country - NORWAY     Players - Trond & Klaus

 

I tiden etter dagen som gikk
ble hun til - i timen før et øyeblikk
Det noen fikk se, men ingen forsto
måtte hun forklare uten ord.

Drømmen måtte reise
Drømmen måtte dra
Så langt herfra

Lille Ville vet
og Ville ser
at ingen lenger trenger henne mer
Lille Ville tror
for Ville ber
for dager - ingen finner henne mer

Huden er kald bak tynne slør
Hun fryser og stenger en lukket dør
Det som var det var og går mot kveld
Det som er skapes av seg selv
In the time after the day that passed
she was born - in the hour before a short moment
What someone got to see, but no one understood
she had to explain without words.

The dream had to leave
The dream had to go away
so far from here

Little Ville knows
and Ville sees
that no one needs her anymore
Lille Ville thinks
because Ville prays
for days - no one can find her anymore

The skin is cold behind thin veils
She is freezing and closes a closed door
What has been, has been and turns into night
What exists is created by itself

 

Player's comments:

Here is the information about the Norwegian entry: Kari Iveland with the song "Lille Ville"
("Little Ville" - Ville is a name of a girl).

Kari Iveland has for many years been a background singer for lots of famous Norwegian singers and even been background singer in the Eurovision Song Contest. She has also written lyrics for a long time, but only for other singers... Kari suffered of eating disorders since an early age. She always
had a strange attitude towards food, while she grew up in India with her missionary parents.
No one knew that she was suffering or had problems with food, until she collapsed two-three years ago. After working through her problems she decided for the first time to present the world her own most personal lyrics that she had never shown before, and also sing them herself.
Her debut album "Vektløs" ("Weightless") was released after her recovery in 2002. Kari has written all the lyrics in the album speaking about the eating disorders, feeling invisible, her mother's death and so on, while Hilde Heltberg has made most of the music.

"Lille Ville" is a song about a girl feeling invisible from her birth and living in her own private world where no one cares to enter... This is a description of how Kari Iveland felt as a child when her mother and father focused on helping the starving children who needed them more than Kari did.
They didn't know the outcome of it...