Beautiful Golden Calf
I bow to your will
and I fall to the ground (before you)
Almighty god of wealth
Beautiful Golden Calf
For your sake1 I bear
everything and I give
my life2, my only god
Listen when
the lord of heaven speaks!
Fire and thorns3 you will gain
It's useless to squirm
I shall burn the whole land4
It's useless to be pedantic
One after the other
you will come to bow
and surrender entirely
Golden Calf
Pray (it) for mercy!
The Golden Calf
is now to be slaughtered!
The end times
have now dawned
You shall have to scour5
the seven seas
These final times
you have requested
In your greed
you have ruined6 everything
Never will you look at the sun!
There beauty and my power do shine!
Never will you look at the sun!
Blind men!
Madmen!
Your finger is on the calculator
right away after your birth
The game is over, but still
you're playing, on and on
You cheer before you know
who will win in the end
and when you die off
someone else will start over
You raise dirty water
from your bottomless well7
it fills up again and again
from your futile rage
The beast of the Revelation8
is just a fairytale for you
You cannot even regret!
You can't save us any longer
nor punish us
You strike to late with your hate
You could kill nations perhaps
and (whole) worlds
but who are you to strike at us?
You left us here by ourselves
to play (with each other)
and to wage war against each other
We sat down at the table of the gods
Don't you see?
There we rage9 amongst you
1. lit.: 'your star I bear' - this is a phrase from the bible, I think2. could also mean 'spirit' or 'breath'3. lit.: 'fire and waste fabres' - 'tulta ja tappuraa' means something explosiv, powerful, passionate. I translated it to 'fire and thorns' because ' orjantappurakruunu' means the crown of thorns from the bible, also do names of thorny shrubs contain 'tappura'4. or 'ground'5. lit.: 'to plow endless, deep waters'6. or 'spoiled'7. 'kankkulan kaivo' means a bottomless well or a pit, and is often referred to when public funding goes into the same8. refers to the Book of Revelation in the bible9. can also mean 'play intensely', I guess the double-meaning is intended