This is the first song performed by Hatari at the 2017 KEXPort show, the one misidentified as Ógleði on YouTube, where Matthías rages at the audience while Klemens sings of everything burning. It was also performed at punk festival Norðanpaunk in 2016. This transcript is mostly based on the KEXPort video. As so often, it’s very hard to tell what Klemens is singing, but I gave it my best shot and I think I’ve got most of it figured out.

The first “verse” here is an intro that I think Matthías just improvises for each show; the one in the Norðanpaunk video is quite different. (I have already transcribed and translated that intro too and will be posting that later.)



Icelandic transcript



MATTHÍAS:



Við erum Hatari!

Við erum öll Hatari!

Við erum varan og neytandinn!

Við erum múrverkið og mótmælin!

Við erum glæpurinn og böðullinn!

Við erum Bastillan og við erum byltingin!





Þrælar!

Gengilbeinur ræningja!

Sníkjudýr brauðmylsna!

Tannlausu kjölturakkar!

Blindingjar og aumingjar!

Neytendur og klámhundar!

Grindhoruðu betlarar!

Marklausu peð!

Leiksoppar hrægamma!

Hö!



Úrhrök!

Sameinist, ómagar, bak í bak og dansið!





KLEMENS:

Ómagar





MATTHÍAS:



Dansið, eða lútið oki kúgarans!





KLEMENS:

Kúgarans





MATTHÍAS:



Það er núna eða aldrei!

Dansið eða deyið!





KLEMENS:

Dansið eða…





MATTHÍAS:

Varpið hulunni af hendi myrkrahöfðingjans!

Steypið af stóli þrælapískaranum og látið hann súpa eigið meðal!

Sameinist, ómagar, og þrælið aldrei framar!

Sameinist, ómagar, bak í bak og dansið!

Dansið eða lútið oki kúgarans!





KLEMENS:

Kúgarans







MATTHÍAS:



Það er núna eða aldrei!

Dansið eða deyið!





KLEMENS:

Mín(?) fagra, kæra,

vertu hjá mér þegar allt mun brenna

Fylgi þér hvert sem er



Við munum saman líta



hug minn klofna á enda veraldar



Fylgi þér hvert sem er



Mín fagra, kæra,

vertu hjá mér þegar allt mun brenna

Fylgi þér hvert sem er



Mín fagra kæra,

vertu hjá mér þegar allt mun brenna

Fylgi þér hvert sem er







Transcription notes

It took me a while to grasp “Við munum saman líta hug minn klofna á enda veraldar”, but when I did it was suddenly pretty much all at once. “Fylgi þér hvert sem er”, on the other hand, took a tip from someone else. Damn it Klemens, sing clearer.





English translation

MATTHÍAS:

We are Hatari!

We are all Hatari!

We are the product and the consumer!

We are the masonry and the protest!

We are the crime and the executioner!

We are the Bastille and we are the revolution!





Slaves!

Servants of robbers!

Parasites on breadcrumbs!

Toothless lapdogs!

The blind and the pathetic!

Consumers and degenerates!

Emaciated beggars!

Meaningless pawns!

Puppets of vultures!

Huh!

Wretches!

Unite, rejects, back to back, and dance!





KLEMENS:

Rejects





MATTHÍAS:

Dance, or submit to the abuse of the oppressor!





KLEMENS:

Oppressor





MATTHÍAS:

It’s now or never!

Dance or die!





KLEMENS:

Dance or…





MATTHÍAS:

Unmask the hand of the dark lord!

Dethrone the slave-driver and give him a taste of his own medicine!

Unite, rejects, and slave away no more!

Unite, rejects, back to back, and dance!

Dance or submit to the abuse of the oppressor!





KLEMENS:

Oppressor





MATTHÍAS:

It’s now or never!

Dance or die!





KLEMENS:

My beautiful dearest,

stay with me while everything burns

I’ll follow you anywhere



We will watch together

as my mind splits apart at the end of the world

I’ll follow you anywhere



My beautiful dearest,

stay with me while everything burns

I’ll follow you anywhere



My beautiful dearest,

stay with me while everything burns

I’ll follow you anywhere







Translation notes

The word I’ve translated as “degenerates”, “klámhundar”, is literally “porn-dogs”, which sounds pretty silly but it’s an established Icelandic word. Maybe “perverts” would’ve been more accurate, but I was trying very hard to maintain the merciless, angry but extremely articulate tone of the original, and degenerates just works better.

The “end of the world” at which Klemens’ mind will split apart is a place, not a time.