Sirpa [English translation]

Me and Sirpa, we moved to the countryside

We didn't have enough money to stay in the city.

The ranch was half-free,

The village road is absolutely quiet.

We got a new start.

We remodeled the walls in the bathroom,

we cleaned the black dots from the tiles.

Sirpa found a mailorder catalog,

and she wasn't unhappy for a week.

When the autumn came, the leaves withered.

How could we save more money,

can a dachshund survive in the wild?

When it gets colder in the October nights.

Here we have to eat only what we can grow,

We gamble the coins we get from collecting bottles.

We lost everything, but Sirpa keeps loving me.

Me and Sirpa, we tried to look for a job

the clerk behind the employment agency laughed at us.

This village had been without a job opening,

since before Mauno Koivisto was the president.

The last dream went to ruin.

I sobbed on the porch at nights.

I prayed in slav squat.

Sirpa took a shower every week,

she got a rash from there.

The dots in the walls were mold.

How could we save more money,

can a dachshund survive in the wild?

When it gets colder in the October nights.

Here we have to eat only what we can grow,

We gamble the coins we get from collecting bottles.

We lost everything, but Sirpa keeps loving me.

Me and Timo, we broke down together,

together we watched as they teared our house apart.

That Caterpillar beat the house down,

our neighbor sold his Lada to us.

We got a new start.

We drove the car to Helsinki,

the smell of gas stuck to our clothes.

Someone yelled: "fucking homeless!"

I don't care, I'm happy

because Timppa fell in love with me.

Now we don't have to save any more money,

as long as we are messed up enough.

The state does take care of it's own.

We often eat at the homeless shelter,

if we have money we gamble it away.

We lost everything, but still I love you.

Yes, I love you...

Maybe I love you...

I think I love you...

• Artist:Arttu Wiskari