Sananvapaus [English translation]

Words that are splitting nations in half

Verbal lines, delicate like hair or all-powerful

Dividing those fearing their Lord from the pagans

Leaving after them ruins and trails of blood

Words that are abusing, insulting

Wonderfully pronounced, caressing pleasantly

Bringing down borders, changing yesterday's habits

Flattening speeches and causing global changes

From rags to riches, from haters to adorers

With words the losers can become the winners

They change truth into lies and vice versa

Nonsensical stories, dead-serious topics

Words that reveal the most protected secrets of the states

Promising and later breaking holy vows

Accusing and forgiving the guilty

Loudly shouting, terminally voice-silencing

It is so quiet here

Makes me want to scream

Why are the words left unspoken?

(2x)

These times stifling any discord

Behind shut doors the influential people

Put fitting words into the mouths of everyone

Divergent opinions are few and far between

All the same old self-repetitive clichés

The bringers of change are distinctly absent

Only few still have the energy to speak

The tough and the uncomfortable topics are being disregarded

People in their yearn for comfort give

All responsibility to those who allegedly can take care of it

Without questioning they're bowing to the authorities

Critical statements vanish into extinction

Sentences cut midway so that they quickly forget

That elsewhere counterarguments lead to death

The long road to freedom starts from where everyone takes

Into use weapons more effective than anything else: words

It is so quiet here

Makes me want to scream

Why are the words left unspoken?

(2x)

Every time I grab my pen I've something to say to Finland

My words are my liberty, even the ones I'm writing now

So many listen to others without thinking by themselves

There're many wanderers in Finland with no own opinions

I may not make any impact but I'll do my best

I can make a change without being dressed in Armani

Or without driving a Mercedes or living in a big mansion

Or without being viewed in a positive light among us

Freedom of speech and faith in myself are all I need

My art expresses my opinions of this world

Words can change the world for better or for worse

And too many able to change it for better stray for money

Money makes too many lose faith in the common good

If you can have a whole field then why settle for one grain

I'm ready to say my words and stand behind them

Because with words the world can be changed by anyone

It is so quiet here

Makes me want to scream

Why are the words left unspoken?

(4x)

• Artist:Mariska
• Album:Memento Mori