All songs written by Jukka Takalo. Translations from the Finnish ©1996 Chris Burman, Robert Cumming, except `Kuin kaipaa sukka jalkaa' and `Tavallista elämää': Kimmo Sääskilahti and Robert Cumming.
I remember a painting at my grandparents place there's a lake and some houses on the beach, under the trees there's a girl waiting for her fiancé I am here and now for you I haven't gone anywhere Like a sock longs for a foot I'm longing too like a foot's troubled by the cold I'm troubled at nights as well For 5000 years and 5 days I've been following you We met in Cairo and in the library too Were you lost in history? I am here and now for you I haven't gone anywhere Like a sock longs for a foot... I check my fishtrap and visit India are you there nowadays? Are you a sugarcube that melts when stirred? I am here and now for you I haven't gone anywhere Like a sock longs for a foot...
She went to take the garbage bag out I stayed in, spending the night in front of the TV She never came back back to the living room This is life, ordinary life This is life, ordinary life Half for me, half for you That's how we share everything We pack your bags and escape from here Run away as far as our feet can carry us until our shoes wear out and the Fiat breaks down This is life, ordinary life This is life, ordinary life Learn to fly again and fly out into the world follow the birds, they know how to navigate Take your own name back don't let yourself turn into a shadow in the valley This is life, ordinary life This is life, ordinary life
Yes, into the boat I go now I'm going rowing where there still flow free waters I don't want to shepherd concrete pigs any more I'm going to free the pigs into freedom into freedom I go now into freedom Freedom is a great prison in the song by Pelle Miljoona I listen to Hassisen Kone too I listen I want to get to freedom to the place where there still flow free waters I'm going now to the place where there still flow free waters My Datsun is my steed it can do almost 200 we run out of speed at a concrete pig at a pig Yes, I'm going to change it for a boat my blue Datsun I'm finally going to do it that's what I'll do I want to get to freedom... Out at sea I'll take out the plug I'm going now where there still flow free waters to freedom
Your step reminds me of a bird I mustn't forget anything even though I may never meet you we'll always be walking together I come into your conservatory into the porch of your house into the eye of the hurricane into the deep calm of the moment Happiness is here now and it presents happiness in a matchbox Happiness is here now and it lives for a while in our clothes The sun goes down behind the sea I'm frying a sausage the frogs craok soon we'll go and wrestle in the marshland We can hardly wait for the the ledum to flower quick showers fall on our necks we dry ourselves under the firs Happiness is here now...
I'll exchange my Ferrari for a Fiat if you want me to I'll even join Greenpeace if you want me to I'll even do civil service if you want me to if you want me to I suppose I ought to look at others after all you look at others the forests are certainly filled with trees but you can never cut them all down Even though the world is half-filled with women there's only one who can cut it all down Even though the world is half-filled with women there's only one who can cut it all down I exchanged my Ferrari for a Fiat because you wanted me to I joined Greenpeace too because you wanted me to I did civil service too just as you wanted I did what you wanted But what made you hitch-hike away from me? What made you keep your knees together even though you went along at once when a Harley-Davidson man took you to sauna? Even though the world...
One day the game was a game no more Five got into trouble Donald Duck flies into the rubbish bin when you listen to your beard growing You can't forget it when 'Asterix and Cleopatra' was found on the floor in the attic Kalle's hiding place was found under the bed when Regina ran out of air because of the heat The day is clear and the sun is shining the neighbour is painting his house your dog escaped into our yard when you come to get it you ask me to come with you You can't forget it when 'Asterix and Cleopatra'... Your blouse hugs your breasts and when we row out to the island I ask you to light my beach cigarette-end but you show a bit of midriff You can't forget it when 'Asterix and Cleopatra'... (Repeat first verse, etc.)
Moments are different from each other people disappear from one another there's only a big lamp in the sky One person waits for another another reaches another neither can catch the other The heart is a pump it pumps blood it pumps blood into the brain the heart is a pump if it breaks oxygen runs out, thoughts disappear Nothing ever happens no one comes to get you the days roll on by themselves It's already much later we've never been to Leningrad or even St Petersburg The heart is a pump... The sky is blue again when the days are starting to go better and better Take the clothes out of the washing machine I'm becoming detached from my body I flow away with the water The heart is a pump...
I'm big and majestic and I don't fly with the wind I'm like this you're like that And we'll both go to heaven our own fatties' heaven fatties' heaven la la la Do you hear the call of delicacies smell they're calling us to come and taste I'm like this you're like that And we'll both go to heaven... Come on, let's all go and taste a splendid delicious feast I'm like this you're like that And we'll both go to heaven...
When the birds start to sing they keep on singing they never stop When the sun starts to shine it keeps on shining it never stops Where do unknown roads lead to? to faraway foreign lands to different fates in possible worlds Morning dreams are beautiful with you Morning dreams are the best beautiful dreams I don't feel like getting up in the morning The bars have already closed their doors closed shut and the people have gone home There's nowhere else to go nowhere else only home Where do unknown roads... Morning dreams... I dream, I dream Aaah aah aah aah I'm so sleepy
Tonight the plastic [card] complains with bloody gums I wish I could borrow even a little sense so I could make it through this Am I growing the tooth of wisdom? Does it have to hurt so much? I wish I could borrow even a little sense so I could make it through this Does the tooth of wisdom bring wisdom? Will it always hurt this much? I wish I could borrow even a little sense so I could make it through this
From the country to the town we both moved why did we end up in different places? you went south I stayed in the north why didn't you? 9-0-1-2-0 it's not good to be alone 9-0-1-2-0 repair me I'm at the depot I'm afraid and I can't sleep at night I'm afraid somebody might steal you The autumn puts us under pressure the winter wears us down are we up to waiting for the spring? 9-0-1-2-0... I saw a falling star and the star fell towards you did you see the falling star? The clocks round here limp with their arms bent the weeks don't pass at all 9-0-1-2-0...
Could she have been a hero? Little Miss Secretary so grey, so very grey The secretary became an angel when she noticed it was easy so easy In the net, it's good even though you can't get loose she'd rather be an angel You left a message on the answering machine the weather here is too grey, so grey You said you were going to travel away from here to Europe to Paris or Athens In the net, it's good... It's easy to love it's easy to forget da da da da da The secretary became an angel when she noticed it's not difficult, very difficult In the net, it's good even though you can't get loose the angel, the angel is caught In the net, struggling and can't even get loose an angel, rather be an angel
This night is made for us who have started on the business of making love Nature calls us and drives us Bite half an orange come into my dreams burn me into the bottom of a pot Everybody has another side take it off, don't worry you don't have to remind me you don't have to remind me We need we need we need a condom now we need we need we need We are on heat a spell turned us into dogs we sniff each other under the table It's all the same to the weather spread your legs over me the ice breaks and the rivers overflow overflow Everybody has another side... We need we need...
I'm an Eskimo (ice cream) I want to melt onto your fingers you dive into my lap we're up to our necks in water And we promise each other we'll return to the beach and now We go we go to the beach again we go we go together at night and we don't need to go to bed we don't need to sleep in the summer Summer day turned into autumn night before we noticed you'll be a doctor you'll move to a big town We promise each other we'll return to the beach We go we go to the beach again... In May under the bridge I wonder if you still remember me every evening in July I return to the beach I wait for you the way we decided when we met at the beach for the first time We go we go to the beach again... We won't go to bed we only sleep in the winter the summer's not for sleeping in
We are wistful slavic feeling already rented for a year The fax says 'rax' the love affair could hardly get hotter Memories disappear, go away the ship leaves its wake stays you die from hunger like you die from boredom Love grabbed you by the lapels longing hit you in the groin from town to town The towns are far away from each other Finland makes me sorrowful We put the songs in their cans and carry them into the cellar we'll always make it through one winter Memories... Hear, listen, wait for me Hear, listen, wait for me from town to town from town to town
On Mondays I've no worries When we're 65 We've always had it good we don't care about others Slowly, quickly the days go by and disappear On Tuesdays we always go to the bingo hall at the Martha society behind the wall the ladies listen to Dingo refr. Wednesday is the day for sports we play cards day and night We've no time to be sad refr On Thursday it's band practice We have to play heavy it recharges the genes and your arse doesn't get wider (instrumental break) On Friday at the dance we're as hot as a sauna I play the bass and you listen at the door refr On Saturday the children arrive the granchildren with them we eat under the birch-tree and remember the old days refr On Sundays we have no worries When we're 65 We've always had it good we don't care about others