Suomen muotoisen pilven alla [English translation]

What if I got all seven numbers right and won the lotto1?

What if Razzle2 never died, and Hanoi3 had made it big?

Would Finland's self esteem have gotten out of the rut, if Leijonat4 already got gold in Lillehammer5?

One of these can only be helped by God, the other can be helped with a Friday drunkenness

But you can't make it here by giving up, under a cloud shaped like Finland

You are my bringer of light, until the Lord has mercy upon us

You can't make it here unless you make love, under a cloud shaped like Finland

What if Irmeli and I had gotten engaged?

What if the medical bag had not been forgotten at the Shell gas station?6

Would there still be use for Nokia's headquarters in Keilaniemi, if the managers had equipped the phones with touch screens?7

One of these can only be helped by God, the other can be helped with a Friday drunkenness

But you can't make it here by giving up, under a cloud shaped like Finland

You are my bringer of light, until the Lord has mercy upon us

You can't make it here unless you make love, under a cloud shaped like Finland

We make the world better by sipping liquor in the kitchen,

We chain smoke under the broken range hood.

And past five o'clock in the morning when also the neighbors' booze has been drunk, it's good to go to bed when the world has been created anew

One of these can only be helped by God, the other can be helped with a Friday drunkenness

But you can't make it here by giving up, under a cloud shaped like Finland

You are my bringer of light, until the Lord has mercy upon us

You can't make it here unless you make love, under a cloud shaped like Finland

1. Finland Lotto is a traditional jackpot lotto game, which uses a so called matrix 7/39. This means you have to choose 7 lucky numbers from a range of numbers from 1 to 39.2. Razzle was the drummer of Hanoi Rocks3. Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish Rock band4. Finland's national ice hockey team5. The 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway6. This is a reference to the Finland skiing team drug scandal in Lahti, Finland 20017. By the turn of the millennium, Nokia was at the top of the game of the mobile phone market. However, in the new millennium they failed to adapt the touch screen and software based user interface that was pioneered by Apple, and the rest is history...