Selkäranka [English translation]

Somewhere far away stars were forged

To our beautiful flag

Now a small worker looks from the Earth

How they fall from there

In the masters' pliers, by the lathe,

There's an eternal longing

To see how the leaders'

Backbones bend

You eat everything, you eat what you get from others

Your blue sky and ploughed up lands

There's no use to come to chastise a man

If he doesn't even have a backbone

I'm ready to fall and die, perhaps,

Under the flag which married me in the cradle

But for what and who again got to

Reel the thread of my own life

On forums people say

Whatever comes to their mind1

There the bitter yearning of a man

Takes him to a tree as a monkey

And when a caveman in his fit of anger

Crawls out of his hole,

Then the light of sense

Shines in absence

A lot of sense wasn't given back then

There's a lot of talk, but where is its quality

Perhaps behind everything, there's the most sacred thought:

A welfare state, where people don't feel well

1. Literally "what spit brings to mouth".

• Artist:Kotiteollisuus
• Album:Maailmanloppu