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Rules for Love

We can't want each other so, that we lie

at home to our loved ones, this is the first rule.

We can't  say to each other: "What if we'd take it all off?

We'll open the the last gate." This is rule number two.

We have to invent the rules for love.

And love within their boundaries, slow down for the intersections in time.

We have to invent the rules for love.

And love within their boundaries, and turn for home in time.

We can't look at each other so, so that we'll reveal the truth.

We'll let in and stay side by side forever, this is already rule number three.

We can't need each other so, so that we'd sink.

And we can't live on our own, this is the rule most hopeless.

We have to invent the rules for love.

And love within their boundaries, slow down for the intersections in time.

We have to invent the rules for love.

And love within their boundaries, and turn for home in time.

We can't abandon each other, what if we do fall in love after all?

If we were created as one in the beginning, this is the last rule.

We have to invent the rules for love.

And love within their boundaries, slow down for the intersections in time.

We have to invent the rules for love.

And love within their boundaries, and turn for home in time.

Samuli Putro - Olet Puolisoni Nyt

You Are My Spouse now

No prairies, no fields, no mountaintops

There's a city and in it two senior citizens

The other wakes to a repeating nightmare and gets out of bed

The wolves aren't howling and the water's not ice cold

The spouses body covered by two quilts

The other one was a present, it's edge fraying

The gaze freezes, the time not

The tears begin to flow just downstairs

The silence is so perfectly silent

That a whisper is a shout

I wouldn't trade a second

Not the youth, not the mad growing pains

Not the ice that broke, not the church bells 

You were my spouse then, you are my spouse now

The wall is wallpapered and the floor is wood

Photographs of the dog and the grandchildren

The upstairs is coughing, a step is missed

The film stops

I call this the love of two people

I call this life even though

I haven't performed perfectly either

The tears begin to flow just downstairs

The silence is so perfectly silent

That a whisper is a shout

I wouldn't trade a second

Not the youth, not the mad growing pains

Not the ice that broke, not the church bells 

You were my spouse then, you are my spouse now

The potent spring blossoms

And the morning wears an iron suit

When the shed is made of soapstone

There I am young like the lawns

You sit in the corner table of the room

The music is rhythmic

I ask if I can have a dance, you nod

You nod

The tears begin to flow just downstairs

The silence is so perfectly silent

That a whisper is a shout

I wouldn't trade a second

Not the youth, not the mad growing pains

Not the ice that broke, not the church bells 

You were my spouse then, you are my spouse now

Zen Café - Huonot Päiväsi

Your Bad Days

The light refracts like this in your window

floating across the room toward the wall

Covering you in distant movements

that's what really makes you beautiful

I'll always stay as ugly as always

as ugly as in my class photos

I liked how you stirred

for a second and then swam back to sleep

I looked closely at those expressions

that tells me that you are you

I have exactly two expressions

one of them in use right now

When I'll know all your bad days by heart

you can invite the nights in

When I'll know all your nightmares by heart

you can invent more

I'l remember you inch by inch

but not our anniversaries

For some reasons numbers wont stay in my mind

but images like these

The light grabs the bed cover

I'll make a shield for you with my hands

When I'll know all your bad days by heart

you can invite the nights in

When I'll know all your nightmares by heart

you can invent more

Some day, through and through, I will get to know 

your dreams and history 

When I'll know all your bad days by heart

you can invite the nights in

When I'll know all your bad days by heart…

Note: I translated the part "Muistan sinut sentti sentiltä" to I remember you inch by inch because I thought it fits in better. Direct translation and maybe the correct one would be centimeter by centimeter but that doesn't sound as good.