Murheellisten laulujen maa [English translation]

Without a say

He was born

Into this northern, cold country

Where already the ancestors

Drunk, of course

Beat their wives and kids, if they could catch them

That boy wanted to

Avoid the traditional fate of a man

"I'll never buy an ax

And I'll never drink booze

Otherwise I'll drink the house down"

The snow blanket calls for the family every winter

But he never wants to do what daddy did

But when the employment office doesn't employ

The hand of fate gives him spirits to drink

And thus the Destructive Danny is awakened again

And the shenanigans of lords grab the farmhand

He runs rapidly to the liquor store

It drives a man to desperation

When the frost destroys the grain

From amidst the cold soil silently

A cold eye stares

When the ax rises

From amidst the graves

From the soil of the earth

Fathers look proudly upon their sons

Unemployment, booze, an ax and a family

The snow blanket, the police and the final mistake

This land of thousands of sorrowful songs

Of which thousands of lakes are ran into by

A rough-worn folk who's amount of self-pity

Cannot be measured by common sense nor will Kärki decide

In every songs the keycards of life are lost

And so the gates of Heaven stay shut

They tell stories of Dave Desperate