Viisitoista Kesää [Living Next Door to Alice] [English translation]

Yesterday when I heard it

I'm still doubting my ears

Alice is gone

Someone said she had boarded a plane

And someone said she had stepped onto a train

But it's all the same to me

Alice is gone

For fifteen years I craved her

And then a black limousine was seen turning

Which took her away and no one saw the driver

Why would she have done this to me

and snuck away without telling her address

Who in the world is that man

that got her to go with him?

Yesterday when I heard it

I'm still doubting my ears

Alice is gone

Someone said she had boarded a plane

And someone said she had stepped onto a train

But it's all the same to me

Alice is gone

For fifteen summers, no less

I wondered how I could get into a closer relationship with her

When I always saw her daily back then

She was the fairest girl in the suburb

And every moment I wanted her more

That loveliest lady enchanted me with flying colors

When I heard those news

I threatened to

get wasted right now

It would only be a moment's comfort

When I guess I could never forget about her

Why did she leave me?

For fifteen years I loved in secret

But she handled my feelings like a freezer

When I almost started building a love nest

But when I was left alone in the neighborhood

There's only a rueful thought on my mind

That there can't ever be a new summer for me

Without her there can't in any way be a new summer