Opium För Dig
Recording Artist: Louise Hoffsten
Writers: Jim Vallance
Brian Allen
Scott Kreyer
Louise Hoffsten (Swedish lyric)
Date Written: March 1982
Albums: Yeah Yeah (1989)
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Also recorded by Toronto, Ian Lloyd
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Louise Hoffsten is a Swedish rock singer, well-known in her home country, but I have to admit I'd never heard of her prior to her recorded version of "Opium För Dig" (a Swedish translation of the song "You're A Mystery To Me").

A quick web search produced the following bio:

Louise comes from Linköping, but now lives in Stockholm. Her dad Gunnar Hoffsten plays trumpet in a jazz band and also works in a record shop called Skiv-City in downtown Linköping. Her brother is an artist and also lives in Linköping. Besides having produced several albums, Louise is a first-class on-stage entertainer. She writes her own lyrics and music, sings, and plays the harmonica.

In 1997, Louise acknowledge that she is suffering from the degenerative disease Multiple Sclerosis. Despite this however, she made an unexpected comeback in the fall of 1998 as a "Children's Radio" story-teller.

In 2004 Louise was appointed an "honorary doctor" by the university of Linköping for her extraordinary musical contributions and for publicly sharing her personal experience with MS - (thanks to Andreas Ekstrom for the update).
Lyrics: Hon ar ett opium for dig
Ja, ett opium for dig
Kan du inte se
Hon ar ett opium for dig

Jag kan se att nagonting har skett
Har du totalt tappat bort allt vett?

Du ar langt borta i en annan varld
Man kan tro att du haller pa att byta atmosfar

Hon ar ett opium for dig
Ja, ett opium for dig
Kan du inte se
Hon ar ett opium for dig

En kick for stunden av en injektion
Har gjort att du inte tar reson

Forut sa talfor men nu ar du stum
Ar det sa att hon trollar bort orden med sin mun?

Hon ar ett opium for dig
Ja, ett opium for dig
Kan du inte se
Hon ar ett opium for dig

Vill du saga till nar du har trottnat
Det kanske finns en chans att jag finns kvar

En kick for stunden har hon gett till dig
Och jag vet att du inte fatt den utav mig