Leipoo
By Minnamari on February 28, 2024 12:23 pm
After a few tumultuous weeks, I'm back. I felt bad about missing two weeks but think the best thing to do is be gentle to myself and acknowledge how this process of finally sharing these songs is bringing up all kinds of emotions in me. So if sometimes I need to detach and just be in that flow a bit to return at a later time, so be it.
This is a song based on words I wrote back in 2017. It's kind of a mix between a break-up song and an unrequited-love kind of song, a strange mix of emotions. I wrote it in Finnish (one of my native languages, together with Swedish), and have tested translating it, but then the rhymes and wordplay go lost and it loses authenticity. So this song needs to exist in Finnish, and further on I think I will simply release some songs in English, some Finnish, some Swedish...depending on what the song needs.
I've had this song in the works for a while but today I finally managed to record the singing and edit it into a shape I kind of like.
The title of the song, "Leipoo" means "Baking"...
I decided to include the lyrics and a translation of them below for people interested in reading what the Finnish words mean : )
Lyrics (Finnish):
Katosta voi kattoo mitä
sisältään löytää
painan pääni pöytään
annan ajatusten soutaa
annan ajatusten joutaa
vaikka mä olin se joka jätti
en ollut ainoa joka petti
luottamusta vailla
suhde on kuin hammasrivi hailla
kun uin syville vesille
se iskee jalkoihin kiinni
laineet hehkuu punaisina kuin halpa viini
se sama viini jota juotiin perjantaina
kun vielä uskottiin lupauksiin
joiden luultiin pitävän aina
Mut, ei se toimi niin
elämä on muuttuvaista
eikä me pysyvää halutakaan, oikeastaan
Me halutaan vaan maistaa
Kaikki kakut syödään heti vaikka
sanotaan et säästä
tyttöpieni varo, älä ketä vaan lähelle päästä
se sanoo pitävänsä leipomisesta
mut ei se tarkota et se aikoo leipoa sinulle
se leipoo tyttöystävälle.
Lyrics (direct English translation):
In the ceiling you can see what
you can find inside
pressing my head down on the table
letting all my thoughts row
letting all my thoughts go
even though I was the one to leave
I was not the only one to deceive
without trust
a relationship is like the row of teeth of a shark
when I swim into the deep waters
it bites down on my feet
the waves run red like the cheap wine
that we used to drink on the friday nights
when we still believed in promises
that we thought would last forever
But, that's not how it works
life is changeable
and stability is not what we want, anyway
We just want to have a taste
All the cakes get eaten right away though
we say we're gonna keep it
little girl be careful, don't let just anyone come too close
he says that he really likes baking
but that does not mean he's going to bake for you
he's baking for his girlfriend.
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