I look around and see my home disappear
My time back home now feels way too short
Just a youth, barely a man when duty called me
If I'll see my home again, I just don't know
With kinsmen from my village, I went to war
I give my life for my fatherland
Father and son who'll never come home
Went to war for Sweden, was baptized in blood
Out there awaits death, not heroism
In fields where kinsmen fall, no song is heard
Challenging our fates, yet again
Baptized and to die in battle
I give my life for my fatherland
Father and son who'll never come home
And when my time has run out
Does a soldier get a worthy end?
I give my life for my fatherland
Father and son who'll never come home
I give my life for my fatherland
Father and son who'll never come home