Hyvät hautajaiset [English translation]

It was a good funeral

With even distant relatives present

I would have wanted to tell everyone

Thank you for coming

It was a Wednesday when Kekkonen1quit

That was when real life began and taught us a lesson

We collected money for bankruptcy estates

And our team spirit didn't see another summer

Finland changed, even the old currency was gone

Going back in time with CRT TV to when Tarva2 still lived

An endless game of toss-up, I'm here to win the lottery3

It's lucky to be able to fly straight from school to unemployment register

In my dreams I go to eat my grandma's rye porridge

But what do I do with those withered memories?

I have nothing, I already lost myself

Old times never come back

It was a good funeral

With even distant relatives present

I would have wanted to tell everyone

Thank you for coming

It was a good funeral

You were there with our children

And if you sing and let your tears flow

Flowers can sprout from the grave

You're terminally ill, sick of life

Youth in shambles, even though you present yourself as an adult

Already thin, always on a new diet

You kept your good humour by tucking a cannula under your arm

Walls broke down, we broke down with them

We don't exist if we don't get upped into the cloud

Who will have our backs now that even Karpo4 is sick

The search engine keeps tabs on us, this is voluntary work without the name of the game

I'm already so tired of holding up the whole sky

Don't expect them to thank you for your hard work

Hold my hand until the lights go away

I want to get to a place where there is no pain

It was a good funeral

With even distant relatives present

I would have wanted to tell everyone

Thank you for coming

It was a good funeral

You were there with our children

And if you sing and let your tears flow

Flowers can sprout from the grave

The moon moves on its orbit

Everything takes its time

And you are there

Things are broken again

We shouldn't say that things were better before

Iron rusts away around the edges, we must simply accept that

Even though you were left incomplete

You know that in the end life stands in its own way

It was a good funeral

With even distant relatives present

I would have wanted to tell everyone

Thank you for coming

It was a good funeral

You were there with our children

And if you sing and let your tears flow

Flowers can sprout from the grave

1. Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland 1956-19822. Niilo Tarvajärvi (1914-2002), radio and TV host3. Reference to the saying "Being born in Finland is like winning the lottery."4. Hannu Karpo, journalist