Outoja aikoja [English translation]

Everyone pulls the same old rope furiously

truly just in his own direction

One rows forward, one backward1 if only there's time for gossip

not knowing how to keep his mouth shut

Apples as well as oranges2 are already burned to the ground

no one navigates the ship to the port

Life is a party, it pets and kisses (you)

another plus it offers from its shopping bag

I rather stay standing back

to watch

Strange times

I feel in my mouth the

bloody taste

Strange times

I'm foreign, time pushes me into becoming more foreign

To agree is compulsory, it takes you along

I take a pill and I'll reach onto the top of another

I get out of here3, to a pleasant being4

And when I walk to the city, I don't feel anybody

nor anything, nor do I even want to feel

I walk like a ghost, to somewhere far away

And I couldn't even look back

1. lit.: 'one rows, one backwaters'2. lit.: 'porridge as well as gruel', the Finnish equivalent to the English idiom3. lit.: 'disembark' or 'rise away'4. or 'feeling'

• Artist:Kotiteollisuus
• Album:Maailmanloppu