Karjala takaisin [English translation]
Karjala takaisin [English translation]
Yo, yo
We got another moment at the top
Who cares if it was down to luck, we earned the gold medal1
The cars honk and the Finnish flags fly
For once everyone's raging with joy
Who cares if there's a depression, as long as we win
We make screaming calls to all our contacts
And we've never turned our coats
We've always been wrestling with the Swedes
Now the sun's finally shining here
I've never seen so many smiling Finns
A mastership for the young and the veterans
That night was epic
We'll reconquer Karelia2
Only for a moment, but anyways
We'll win, we'll reconquer Karelia
Oh yeah!
When a blue-and-white raises a glass on the town square3
He hugs his neighbour
Whom he hasn't greeted in sixteen years
The next day it's Saigon all over Finland
For a moment half of the population are my brothers
We've won conquests on wooden skis without ski wax
Though there may be chocolate inside the medal's gold wrapper
Let's play for the victory, not for ceded territories
Trees are not the only things we've brought down
Worked hard to give big things to a small people
Whatever your dialect may be, the feeling's the same
As if Karelia had been brought back to our Southern shore
We'll reconquer Karelia
Only for a moment, but anyways
We'll win, we'll reconquer Karelia
Oh yeah!
(JVG! JVG! JVG! JVG! JVG! JVG!)
I lost the marks4, despite doing my best
You can lose everything in a game
With grit we'll make that feeling rise for a moment, brother
We'll reconquer Karelia
Only for a moment, but anyways
We win, we'll reconquer Karelia (Oh yeah)
1. In 2019 Finland won the Ice Hockey World Championship2. Karelia is a region which Finland lost in WWII.3. When Finland won the Ice Hockey Championship, there were drunken parties in town squares.4. The "mark" was the Finnish currency before Finland joined the eurozone.
- Artist:JVG
- Album:jvg.fi