Syksy rannalla [English translation]

1st verse:

The bay has already received its brittle cover of ice.

I’m doing my chores.

I remember how we slipped into the water,

our hair drying in the heatwave.

Clouds pregnant with thunder,

we were expecting rain.

The night brought us some cooler air.

 

Chorus:

I wonder what would you say now if...

if I just called you,

looked up your address

came over to see you?

I’ll head north-west,1

would we then fall over on your bed,

or would I have done that trip all in vain,

only to find a girl gone cold?

 

2nd verse:

The bushes on the waterfront

soon have shed all their leaves.

Only just recently, two pairs of light footsteps

were leading down there.

The frosting ground

makes a rustling noise under my boot.

Don’t know what it is

that makes me shiver about it all.

 

(Chorus)

(Guitar solo)

(Chorus, outro, fade out)

1. This “north-west” nonsense line does not carry any deeper meaning. The original Finnish text apparently only includes it because luoteeseen (“to north-west”) conveniently rhymes with the word vuoteeseen (“to the bed”).