Hautalinnut [English translation]

Do you remember like I do

Or do you remember some other way:

The park of dead birches

Mirrors in the empty rooms

Did you feel like I did

Or did you feel some other way:

The begging look of a collapsed statue to the sky

Did you see it like I did

Or did you see entirely differently

Migrating birds

That sleep in the sky

Did you believe like I did

In yourself did you believe:

In the curve of a covered body

In the depht of an eye

The fountain has dried

And the branches above it have died

Were you there with me

Or was I alone after all:

The alleys of a cold and damp noon

Calcified grey

Was your fear the same

Or something weird, your own:

The steps of the soldiers

Screams, burning smoke

And a figure in a window

Maybe it was yours:

Turning away

Maybe denying everything

Did you listen to those screams

Or did you close your ears

When the night carried away

All the folks like to its own

The fountain has dried

And the branches above it have died

Did you smell weird flowers

Or were you numbed

Shot old Aleksei

Tied up to his chair

Endless marketplaces, did you roam

With the same shreded shoes

Empty squares, wet

Hanging posters

Was my embrace warm

Or were you shivering from cold

Vanhan plataanin varjo

The shadow of an old platan

The letter from the lost brother

And the dry crust of a bread

Did you feel, was sweet

In the morning of the fourth day

The graves were still empty

The fountain has dried

And the branches above it have died

Did you cry the same sorrow

Or did you have your own

Forbidden laugh and love

Some lonely childhood

And was it the same silence that surrounded

Or did you hear some melody

In the shining of a spring day

Above the dying city

Did you gave the same promise

In the influence of the same vision

From high and heavy

Raining defiance and longing

Did you run away as we agreed

Far here, to this place

The fragile tower of an empty church

Is a train bringing you

The fountain has dried

And the branches above it have died

Is your spirit still in fire

And our fire like one flame, flame

• Artist:CMX
• Album:Aion