Now you’re gone…

Saw a TV report last night that was about how a Swedish singer is top of the UK charts. The song in English is called “Now you’re gone” and is about young love gone awry and has such touching lyrics as…

“now your gone
I realize my love for you is strong
I miss you here now your gone
I keep waiting here by the phone
with your pictures hanging on the wall”

Beautiful and meaningful…

The Swedish version of the song which was number 1 here in 2006 was called “Boten Anna” and was the romantic tale of a young man who thought that a software robot had been placed on his IRC chat channel and it turned out to be a girl. (How sad are the youth of today?)

I thought the song was about a guy who had a boat and the boat was called Anna. Kind of a Swedish Thomas the Tank Engine. I was wrong.
The Swedish lyrics in English are…

“I know a bot,
her name is Anna, Anna is her name
And she can ban, ban you so hard
She cleans up in our channel
I wanna tell you, that I know a Bot

That always watches everyone here
And keeps us out of trouble
There is no Take-over that succeeds
Remember that it’s I who know this Bot

The bot that no one else can beat
And she kicks even if she shouldn’t
She gets rid of everyone that “spams”
Yes, nothing can beat our Bot

(Ready for take off)
(Are you ready?)

And then came the day I didn’t think was real
The channel was out of control
I never thought I would be so wrong
But Anna wrote and said
“I’m not a Bot,
I’m a really beautiful girl”
Which is, unluckily, now very strange to me
But nothing needs to be explained
Because for me you will always be a Bot”