Joutsenlaulu [English translation]

You see the children outside again

Playing their games under your window

You stay there in your place by the window, you stay by the window

You fly years behind

Those memories possess you daily

They look for a singer for the Swan Song again, look for a singer again

When those moments from birth to death reflect in your eyelids

I guess it makes others believe in God, others in Satan, or whatever

But, however, not in this world

You once also found it

That love of a half-century

It was easy for you to be happy, to be happy

What do you do with you instincts now

When the birds have flown out of their nest?

Only yellowed photos are left, you browse them again, and again

You might not want my pity, it can't make the pain go dead

That pain writes this song, that pain catches anyone

That pain catches

I see your mourning veil, you used it five years ago

The Swan Song made you cry back then, made you cry

You'd like to be just like back then, when you were covered by a white veil

It's already been forgotten by time, just like you

(Solo)

I'd like to try and then remain above the water level

When I see the river flooding from its channels, when I see the river flooding

Those women in the markets with their carts and men in their favorite bars

They probably dream of the source of youth, and the pain languishes, or whatever

Again, one moment closer to death, the pain never fades

That pain writes this song, that pain catches

Anyone, that pain catches anyone it wants