Joutsenlaulu [English translation]

Again you see the children in the yard

underneath your window playing their games

Again you stay there frozen in the window, stay in the window

You fly back to times gone by

Those memories overwhelm you every day

Again they seek for a singer for the swan song, again seek for a singer

When those moments from birth to death are reflected on your eyelids

It makes some people have faith in God, others in Satan, or whoever

But not to this world

Once upon a time you also found it

That love of half-a-century

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

What will you do with your instincts now

When the birds have flown from their nest

Only yellowed photos remain, you browse through them again, and yet again

You may not yearn for my pity, it won't numb the pain

That pain writes this song, that pain catches up to anyone

That pain catches up

I see your veil of sorrow, five years ago you let it breathe

The swan song made you cry back then, it made you cry

You'd like to be as you were back then, when you were veiled in white

It has already been trampled by time, just like you

(solo)

I would like to try and hope to stay above the water's surface

When I see the river overflow its brims, when I see the river overflow

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

Maybe dream of the fountain of youth, and the pain subsides, or whatever

Again a moment closer to death, the pain never evaporates

That pain writes this song, that pain catches up

Anyone, that pain catches up to anyone it wants