Älä vie mun kitaraa [English translation]

Sheets as curtains

Pizza does taste the same

'though you'd eat it with a plastic fork, sitting on the bed

You can, under the light of a lava lamp,

hug with that Erkki 1

No need to cut that yellow sofa in the middle

Where has my coffee cup gone

I've survived without cooking pots, too

You can take everything with you

I didn't even like that carpet

which appeared in the living room

It's just material to me

But don't take my guitar

Of this heartache,

I can write a hundred beautiful songs

Don't take my guitar

Some day our memories

will become something everlasting

And when they'll play this on the radio

You get to remember a thousand times

How, in the beginning, we were so lovely

And when they'll play this on the radio

You get to remember every time

How we were so pretty

Clothes in the suitcase

Ready for a new beginning

Still have to buy a toothbrush at the kiosk

These songs follow the minor key

Still, they carry the longing

But every chord heals

Like time heals pain

But don't take my guitar

Of this heartache,

I can write a hundred beautiful songs

Don't take my guitar

Some day our memories

will become something everlasting

And when they'll play this on the radio

You get to remember a thousand times

How, in the beginning, we were so lovely

And when they'll play this on the radio

You get to remember every time

How we were so pretty

You would always ask me to play some J. Karjalainen 2

Who will whisper love songs in your ear, now?

But don't take my guitar

Of this heartache,

I can write a hundred beautiful songs

Don't take my guitar

Some day our memories

will become something everlasting

And when they'll play this on the radio

You get to remember a thousand times

How, in the beginning, we were so lovely

And when they'll play this on the radio

You get to remember every time

How we were so pretty

1. Erkki is a man's name 2. Finnish schlager artist