
The last rays of warmth embrace meAnd in that moment, from this soilShe has risenNow to that soil she’s going back againThe bloom of the autumn, my returning friendIt’s not the end, the time we spent togetherWith my Last Rose of SummerThe honey bee is singing goodbyeIn the last ray of autumn lightThe last Summer…

After the darkyou can rise and shine with the sunwhen the night is overyou can breathe in The MorningDark was the night for allIt is coming for you through the hallOpen your eyes and see:you can welcome The MorningAfter the pain and the sorrowon it’s way is The New TomorrowThe LightInhale and leave the mourningon…

I held you onceWhen you had told me onceYou will soon say goodbyeThat you will not be mine“Don’t count on meDon’t wait for me to bethere to take care of youTo make your dreams come true”I won’t catch my next flightIf you change your mindPlease change your mindI’ll drop all and stay the nightIf you…

Our boat swinging and hummingwhen we rolled on the wavesWe had liquids on the rocksWe had fluids in our veinsWe were stonedOn our Love BoatWe’re on the rocks againOn our Love BoatOnce on the land, land ohoyWe went on swayingBut the show had to go onSo we cruised back until the morningHumming, humming in our…

Waves crash on these foreign shores,I push open the metal doorsTheir hall reeks of fear and blood in the air.Outside the petals fall like my yesterday.A thing with no name hungers in the gloom.They call him evil, king’s son, he is their doomHis steps shake the beams, cause the petals fall,and with them, their dreams…

The summer heats the boy upOn the roofs of the city he hidesHe wanders by himself out and inMessages in the wind seem to call himOnly at nights he’s free to flyOnly at nights he’s free to flyAn open window, he gets closer to itWaits for your room to be litCrawling in your bedroomSliding between…

Four brothersdrove away and stole the lightHer knowledge sat in their lapsbegun her glow tonight.”We see it working for themknow it can be alright.We go rest in peace, knowingnothing about the crime”Rise, eagles, from mountainsrise fathers with your childrenmothers, bring your daughtersSee what we’re bringing, we’re singing.Our night is now lightningOur shows go again flamingBring…

The idea for “I Held You Once” came from my time in India. I lived and worked there for a little over a year, on assignment that was meant to last two. The pollution cut it short and sent me back to Finland, but the country itself I loved without reservation. In 2010 Mumbai was…

Never has songwriting been such a journey as with “Poliphilos’s Party For The Poor & Betrayed”. And right away I want to thank my produced Juho to staying with me as I tried to merge the impossible. What I knew from the start that the “Eternal Echoes” album needed a “mentor song” – a track…

The Island Says No Prologue: The Leftovers Once. They. Were. Gods! Now they lived on an abandoned island, because everybody who is somebody migrated to America. Indeed, in the mid-19th century, as the great steamships churned across the Atlantic carrying empires, fortunes, and the promise of a new dawn and gold, the major deities migrated…