Ilves [English translation]

He was called lonely wolf at school,

when he wore beanie of a hockey team.

He was always alone during breaks,

wasn't carved from the same tree as us.

Captains were picking up their teams,

He stayed alone on the side of the field.

Always last to be the chosen one,

Always last to be even passed at.

Serious boy in class photograph.

I started to feel compassion for this creature,

Sometimes asked it to play Nintendo with me.

Clothes smelled like his parents' cigs,

His Dad hit him when he was drunk.

I borrowed him my comics books,

He recorded me some Gun's N' Roses.

Friend's laughed when they realized it,

They said i had tamed a wild wolf.

Serious boy in class photograph.

Serious boy in class photograph.

When i last time saw lonely wolf,

His glance told me the wind was blowing harder.

when i last time saw lonely wolf,

He said we only leave tracks in the snow.

Some naturally belong to winners,

Presidents of Students' union.

And freaks are the ones to stand out.

They are the ones that never become anything.

Cool kids who got everything for free,

became the sprockets for the machinery.

But lonely wolf who was just like air,

is the one remembered in the end.

Serious boy in the class photograph.

Serious boy in the class photograph.

When i last time saw lonely wolf,

His glance told me the wind was blowing harder.

when i last time saw lonely wolf,

He said we only leave tracks in the snow.

Time passed for a decade,

Newspaper said lonely wolf was best.

He sang whole Finland to it's knees,

to every single lonely heart.

Women howled: "We love you so much!"

When lonely wolf walked from the backstage.

And in the balcony of his hotelroom, spread his arms, entered heaven's gates.

Serious boy in cover photograph.

Serious boy in cover photograph.

When i last time saw lonely wolf,

His glance told me the wind was blowing harder.

when i last time saw lonely wolf,

He said we only leave tracks in the snow.

we only leave tracks in the snow.

• Artist:Anssi Kela