Minä olen, sinä olet [English translation]

I've watched as time passes

Like a lingering pain in my clocks

I've waited night and day

Like the Vatican waits for a white smoke

But now the couch is many kilometers long

How do I cross its icy surface to you?

I have waited a long time for you

I have stayed up a long night

Inhaled the fear of a biting winter

Tightened the holes on my belt*

I have waited a long time for you

I have, you have

I have plowed a path into the snow

With the heavy yoke of winter on my shoulders

I have defied the edge of the gorge

I have tried to be a different man

But the chess pieces remain stalemated on the table

I'm drifting away from you, although you don't see that

I have waited a long time for you

I have stayed up a long night

Inhaled the fear of a biting winter

Tightened the holes on my belt*

I have waited a long time for you

I have, you have

I have waited a long time for you

I have stayed up a long night

Inhaled the fear of a biting winter

Tightened the holes on my belt*

I have waited a long time for you

I have, you have

I have, you have

I have, you have