Mikä merkitsee [English translation]

What matters in the end

Is it the fact that I did something selfish

Did I maybe achieve something great

Did I scrape together lots of earthly gold

Has my name been on people's lips

Did I get to stand on big stages

Are those on my behalf the day I die

or will I be forgotten after burial like everybody else

refrain:

What counts?

What matters?

Who decides that, those others or me by myself?

Is it important that I'd be like all the others

Those that can behave, those who are self-conscious

Those who look good, those who say the right words

Do I have to repeat the same sentences after them

Do they laugh if I show them who I am,

if I show what's inside me, what I am thinking

and when I stand before them completely naked

do they make me crawl all the way down

refrain

I can't keep denying the person in me

Thousand notes tangled inside of me

I try to clear them up, to untangle them

way too much and I don't have time for a break

I'm afraid of those who are afraid even more

Some of them disappear, some of them stay

Can I be good for those people

who are there for me, do I cause them

a disappointment when I show my weaknesses

do I give delight for anyone or only harm

Do I do right, do I do wrong when I step up

Before their eyes I'm stumbling, getting dumber getting wiser

And what do I do when I'm out of all questions

Is there any other options than that

I'll be quiet.