Pelle Miljoona - Väkivalta Ja Päihdeongelma In English lyrics

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Violence and substance abuse problem (translated by Mikko Meronen)

In Finnish: Väkivalta ja Päihdeongelma (by Pelle Miljoona)

Jartsu is home alone again and watching TV

Gangsters shot by cops is all that this kid can see

Mom is working night shifts and his dad is unable

After school the food was some sandwiches on the table

TV programs end and Jartsu has to go to bed

has to turn off lights, even when he is really scared

teacher once again tomorrow asks why he’s so tired

that he did not dare to sleep they cannot comprehend

Do not ask me where all this violence comes from!

Do not ask me why there is so much substance abuse!

Mom comes home real late and she hits her son just because

Once again the bed is wet and it seems without a cause

but she gets her own when daddy finally comes home

beats his wife until he passes out in his sorry throne

the child tries to run, but cannot find the arms to catch him

wraps himself in soaking blankets trying to shield him

All alone against the world he spends his night in fear

Soaking his pillow with uncontrollable tears

Do not ask me where all this violence comes from!

Do not ask me why there is so much substance abuse!

Liisa is just fourteen, school is not a place she fits in

Her home is even less the place she wants to be in

Put her in a group home and for sure she will leave

For the only home she knows is on her city’s streets

On the city streets…Liisa’s never alone

Surrounded by her friends who also have no place to go

Bitterness is common, ‘cause there’ll never be a reprieve

For they know that this is one home they will never leave

Do not ask me where all this violence comes from!

Do not ask me why there is so much substance abuse!

First they said: “Sniff tricoloo, it’s really where it’s at”

Then they said: “Smoke weed it’s even better than that”

Then we ran real fast and knocked some grannies out for cash

Just so we’d have the money for even harder stuff than that

Now she’s in Stockholm, selling sex to passers-by

Liisa’s just a baby already willing to die

Wealthy businessmen and some executives of banks

Whose wife and kids are sitting at home, waiting for their dads

pay real well for Liisa for the honey they got in

And with that money Liisa buys some more heroin

Do not ask me where all this violence comes from!

Do not ask me why there is so much substance abuse!