Aina ku Aira [English translation]

Forever old and big in Japan

My poor family, I'll be back home by Boxing Day

I've started to call those pubs harbours

I'm just sailing between them

What do the years 25 plus have to offer anymore?

I just took a taxi from the investment bank

I could be at the summer cottage pushing my kids on the swing but

I'll mail them from Malta at midsummer

A sip of Koskenkorva1 from the Holy Grail

So that I won't reveal my wrinkly soul

Behind the rage I have a hideaway

Where we never become adults

Knowledge to pain,2 live and learn

Not even Jesus could comfort me

But I'm still dancing and believe so

I'll be here always, like Aira Samulin3

Life begins so slowly, slowly

That you don't even notice it passing you by

Slowly I'm beginning to understand your finiteness

And we promised to

Always be young, always young, always

Always be young, always young, always like Aira

When we promised to always be together

It meant at least until next Saturday

I fumbled you behind the school

But I operated only over the shirt

Things were how they seemed like anyway

I didn't know what was the result of boobs yet

I wasn't good enough at math4

And I think I never thanked you for the experience

I was busy growing up, a friend of mine had a car

And still you knew everything about everything

If the condom had broken we would have kept the kid

Because you can only ruin your youth once

I nostalgize, faute de mieux

I drink my Hendrick's with cucumber because I can

I got something, no, everything I wished

But I could give it all away

Life begins so slowly, slowly

That you don't even notice it passing you by

Slowly I'm beginning to understand your finiteness

And we promised to

Always be young, always young, always

Always be young, always young, always like Aira

1. A Finnish alcoholic beverage2. this is a literal translation. The lyrics are from the Finnish idiom "tieto lisää tuskaa", literally meaning "knowledge adds to pain" or "Ignorance is a bliss".3. Finnish celebrity who's of respectable age but still lively and cheerful. In Finnish media she's referred to as being forever young4. lit. laskupää = calculation head, "math brain"