Nuoruus [English translation]

Louna and Inna

The middle of winter

Some year long ago

We watched thunderbirds

And ate paper

Somewhere in Helsinki

Do you remember?

Louna and Inna

When the three of us

Got married

Plaster was chipping off from the ceiling

And we didn't have to know

What's happening tomorrow

Or the day after that

When the streets were ours

I was a penniless moneyman

And those black glasses on our eyes¨

In the rain

Was youth

Always when I was invited

I came

And when a ball was thrown

I went to get it

And if some purebred cat

Came to meow there

I always wanted to know

What it was hiding

In its cellar

I wanted to be free

But I didn't want to be alone

The nights were wine

And melancholy in the small hours

And that smell of piss

In the doorways

Was youth

It's not the dizziness

That you felt when you floated

Through the city

On the eve of the first of May, you shouted:

"A new generation is coming"

And it's not the words that

Got caught in your throat

When you hang onto people

And dreams

Like a drunk to their bottle

Since people tend to disappear into the air

Since people tend to disappear into the air

Yesterday you were a wild child

Todays you are an adult

And that foggy night in between

Was youth

Yesterday you were a wild child

Todays you are an adult

And that foggy night in between

Was youth

Was youth

Was youth

Was youth

• Artist:Olavi Uusivirta