Just try to stop a teenage girl from falling in love,
a bride from getting anxious on the eve of the wedding.
Just try to stop me from clinging to you.
Just try to get a drunkard to get drunk on holiness,
a fat child to relinquish their chocolate bar
Just try to get me to let go of you
[Refrain:]
I hang from you like from a gallows,
lily-of-the-valley flowers in my mouth and without any concerns
I hang from you like from a gallows,
like a puppy on a bone, poor lunatic
Just try to prevent my mind from dimming
from lining up into your embrace in Mikonkatu's night
Just try to prevent me from drowning in you
[Refrain]
Soon I am broken, soon I am exhausted,
if the boat doesn't get finished and the nails fall into the river
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