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01 - OF COURSE I STILL LOVE YOU

Music by Eero Silvonen | Lyrics by Jaredi Koukonen

 

of course I still love you

this house is on fire, I'm painting the walls

no goodbyes were said but so much was lost

it's in the letter, the words I created

this mess that I orchestrated

brand into shell, that's all I could do?

tear down the flow, can't defuse the truth

forget it, and bury it, can't bare it and I get it

I just lost the best of you

 

just did declare the death of it

just to be clear - the death of me

 

and the universe said no

but I just cannot let go

you know I'll be here

somewhere, somewhen

of course I still love you

 

changing the direction of the train

I need to fix this beating mess of my disgrace

such hurt is shed, the bloom is dead

for the second chance, don't know what's there

 

I touched your scars, played with your hair

I held your hands, all I could do was stare

there was nothing I could say

that could have made you stay

and how's the heart? beating there?

chance we had, guess no more there

there is something I can do

let me fix me back to you

build me back to you

because I still love you

 

and the universe said no

but I just cannot let go

you know I'll be here 

somewhere, somewhen

it's written in the stars

I promised, there we are

and you know I'll be there

always, all of my days

you know I love you

let me fix me back to you

because I still love you

let me build me back to you

of course I still love you

02 - IN LIEU OF FLOWERS

Music by Eero Silvonen | Lyrics by Jaredi Koukonen

 

in lieu of flowers we grow death as a peace of mind

I hold these dreams on my own

 

let it run away, the serpent's on my fucking back

spit the venom into my heart to bring the doom back

at curtain call tonight I search for the exit light

like night after night, oh will we ever survive

the fucked up fire in me 

needs you, the light in me

 

the valentine in me 

wants you to reign with me

that little bite on me 

wants you so dire with..

 

in lieu of flowers I can send myself

with the bloom of the flowers you can send me away

as above, so below

devotion and hope keep me crawling back to you

 

was it triggered right along when we were young?

I refused to see but the light of the sun

might've pulled a card from a pack that's full of broken hearts

might've tried too hard - no

did I ever let you know?

this fucked up mind in me 

needs your sunlight within

 

in lieu of flowers I can send myself

with the bloom of the flowers you can send me away

as above, so below

devotion and hope keep me crawling back to you

in lieu of flowers I can send myself

with the bloom of the flowers you can send me away

as above, so below

never let go 'cuz your world holds the bloom of me

 

love as the death of me

love has the death of me on hold

 

and in lieu of these flowers

if I.. if I just let you.. go

 

I can send myself

with the bloom of the flowers you can send me away

as above, so below

devotion and hope keep me crawling back to you

in lieu of flowers I can send myself

with the bloom of the flowers you can send me away

as above, so below

never let go 'cuz your world holds the bloom of me

 

03 - FRAGILE

Music by Joni Lahdenkauppi | Lyrics by Jaredi Koukonen

dropped down from heaven with broken wings

I tried to patch you back, was named as your king

so happy ever after, or a once about a time?

all I know is you stole this heart of mine

 

and just dropped it

you do you but I want you to

keep in mind how I'd die for you

just drop it

you do you but I want you to

bear in mind that I'm here for you

 

it's undeniable

and non-survivable

how we got so far

to lose it all

the world was in our hands

I left you there to stand

alone with empty hands

when we were made out of glass

 

you do you but I want you to

bear in mind how I'm here for you

and acknowledge

the better in you brought in the better in me

and the best of me shall bring back the best of you

 

it's undeniable

and non-survivable

how we got so far

to lose it all

the world was in our hands

I left you there to stand

alone with empty hands

when we were made out of glass

 

so much was left unsaid, was left unspoken

those questions never asked they tore us open

but I can promise you, know that this is true

hold my hand and see me pull us through

 

so much was left unsaid, was left unspoken

those questions never asked they tore us open

but I can promise you, know that this is true

hold my hand and see me pull us through

 

it's undeniable

and non-survivable

how we got so far

to lose it all

the world was in our hands

I left you there to stand

alone with empty hands

when we were made out of glass

 

with tiny fragile hands

when we were made out of glass

I'm so sorry, so so sorry, I'm so sorry

it shattered, I gave no chance

when wasn't there to hold that hand

I wasn't there to hold that hand

 

04 - ANOMALY

Music by Eero Silvonen | Lyrics by Jaredi Koukonen

 

who the fuck just pulled that trigger of hell

and pushed me into this well?

why the hell did I choose to tell

I never knew those words will ring my knells

waiting for the world to clinch eternal sleep

waiting for the worst I question what is real

 

brace my fucking self - will I ever sleep?

tired to fight with someone else - will I ever breathe?

I've become that someone else

fighting for my dream - to become my reality

 

I can't change the way I feel

why can't I escape this picture in me

fucking anomaly stealing my only dream

left a knife to my reality

 

such a total fucking storm it's hysterical

like a psychosis, I'm starving for a miracle

what the fuck just pulled this lever of hell I wish I knew

and I know fucking nothing - will I ever sleep?

don't know bloody nothing - will I ever breathe?

don't know fucking anything

waiting for my dreams to become my reality

 

I can't change the way I feel

why can't I escape this picture in me

fucking anomaly stealing my only dream

left a knife to my fucking back

never bother, why pull that back?

 

it's such a bleat where we drown when we're down

I kinda need my anomaly

such a niche where we drown all our dreams

such keen, my anomaly

 

I can't change the way I feel

why can't I escape this picture in me

if things only fell into place

somehow I could find the change

I can't change the way I feel

I can't escape this prison in me

if things only fell in their place

somehow I could find my place

with a knife in my fucking back

never bother to pull that back

 

such a niche where we drown all our dreams

such keen, my anomaly

 

05 - THE SUN STILL IN ME

Music by Joni Lahdenkauppi | Lyrics by Jaredi Koukonen

back in the mids of my hurricanes

I lost the spirit, I lost the trace

another battle after battle goes on

to find the battle worth fighting for

worked, still working on

to bring the flow back, turn it on

to find the sync from the quiet place

to put our heartbeats back in phase

 

gone is chase, all attract

believe in change when there's no turning back

we don't chase, we attract

to put our heartbeats back on track

feel what is meant to feel, be real

breathe what is left to breathe, you'll heal

from these feelings like butterflies 

that sting like a bee

 

you're a natural salvation

a medication for mind and soul

took a sip to know what that is

taste of kindness, makes fires lit

goddamn this feeling refuses to die

but only wants me to die inside

because in the end all I know

the sun does shine, yet all alone

 

gone is chase, all attract

believe in change when there's no turning back

we don't chase, we attract

to put our heartbeats back on track

feel what is meant to feel, be real

breathe what is left to breathe, you'll heal

from these feelings like butterflies 

that sting like a bee

 

with the sun still in me

sing this!

 

we don't chase, we attract

bring in the change when there's no turning back

we don't chase, we attract

again with all your heart

we don't chase, we attract

bring in the change when there's no turning back

we don't chase, we attract

and give it all your fucking heart

 

gone is chase, all attract

believe in change when there's no turning back

if these feelings are butterflies that sting like a bee

you're the honey and flower, the sun still in me

 

with the sun still in me

if these feelings are butterflies that sting like a bee

you're the honey and flower, the sun still in me

again with all my heart 

the sun still in me, with the sun still in my heart

if these feelings are butterflies that sting like a bee

you're the honey and flower, the sun still in me

06 - SONG OF FORGOTTEN

Music by Jose Moilanen | Lyrics by Jarkko Hyvönen

I wasted years of thinking giving in but hey I'm still here

In sickness, in health and in between I made it to another day 

 

thank you for everyone who wished for my failure 

I salute you for your endless ignorance

well look at me now and the hell I've been through 

in the end you think you knew better?

 

who will sing with me the song of forgotten?

hum the lullaby of lost

shout out loud the song of mistreated

hand in hand with one voice to be heard

 

sing with me

sing and believe

sing with me

sing and believe

 

you will see their true colour when your wounds are cut wide open 

who will throw you the rope and who'll despise you 

from the top of their judgement

 

I'm burning the cathedral

that I built with blood on my hands

I'm spreading like wildfire

walk away with a face of revenge

 

who will sing with me the song of forgotten?

hum the lullaby of lost

shout out loud the song of mistreated

hand in hand with one voice to be heard

 

sing with me

sing and believe

shout out loud for everyone who's lost 

until we are free 

 

sing with me, sing and believe

sing with me, until we're free

sing with me, sing and believe

sing with me, and you will be free

 

 

07 - LEINA

Music by Jose Moilanen | Lyrics by Jarkko Hyvönen

 

"If I get to paradise before you 

I'll save you a seat"

words so final

 

unknown is the will of almighty

there is no air left to breathe

I would give my everything

to rewrite the last verse

"the worst thing in life is not dying"

you said and wiped my tears away

"leaving behind all the ones you love instead" 

were the last words you said

 

but here we stand forever hand in hand

whatever there may come

our halves of hearts form one

when the day comes 

and your time runs out

shadows no longer suppress the light 

wait for me there, where your home is in my arms 

 

the trees are whispering your name

wind is telling me how you flew away

and here I wander in this grove of my disbelief

time has lost its urgency

place no longer has meaning to me

the unforgivable rule of life

all the good ones they always..

 

the morning came, you set sail

how am I supposed to..

 

but here we stand forever hand in hand

whatever there may come

our halves of hearts form one

when the day comes 

and your time runs out

shadows no longer suppress the light

wait for me there, where your home is in my arms

home is in my arms

wait for me there where your home is in my arms

 

the morning came, you set sail

how am I supposed to stay

morning came, you set sail

I call your name

 

but here we stand forever hand in hand

whatever there may come

our halves of hearts form one

when the day comes 

and your time runs out

shadows no longer suppress the light

wait for me there, where your home is in my arms

your home is in my arms

your home is in my..

I call your name in the evening

I call your name through the night

in the break of the light, 'till the end of my days

I hold the half of our hearts

 

08 - DEVOTION

Music by Lauri Silvonen | Lyrics by Jaredi Koukonen

at the darkest part you shine the brightest light

for someone you hold the whole world inside

dropped depression in a heartbeat

I thank you endlessly for everything

 

so this is for us 

the cores of fire, the tender hearts

this is for us

what has become my equilibrium

what a mess made..

 

you showed me the light I could follow

when I lost my inner Apollo

I'm holding onto everything you said

I'm reaching for the stars where we wrote it

so somewhen we could have it all

from longing into being one

 

so we die ghosted?

just close our eyes from all that love?

we die ghosted?

so close to doorstep of our love?

 

you showed me the light I could follow

when I lost my inner Apollo

I remember every word that you wrote me

the lips of red and all devotion you showed me

from my closet full of skeletons

Discovery take me, where my dreams they belong

 

where my dreams they belong

where my dreams they belong

now, where my dreams they belong

 

don't go, never give it up

don't leave, let me light it up

we'll fight and we'll fix, we'll succumb to love

and survive the downfalls

survive the downfalls

we heal the scars tomorrow

 

I kept holding onto everything you said

I kept reaching for the stars where we wrote it

so somewhen we could have it all

from longing into being one

grateful for the words that you wrote me

all the compassion you showed me

somehow I just lost it all

all the equilibrium

all the equilibrium

in our devotion

09 - THE END WE START FROM

Music by Eero Silvonen | Lyrics by Jaredi Koukonen

 

as the dimming of our light occurred

it's me against the world with a lesson learned

burned forever underneath the rain

tore myself apart to give you all that I could give

if forgiveness somehow let me off the hook

I feel my forever would still belong to you

engraved for something so much more

I bleed for something I could not hold

 

but maybe all I need is patience and belief

 

if there's something I could do

something I could say

would you still let me know?

could you tell me so

maybe one day we could find the place

where our hearts are not supposed to break

where our hearts are not supposed to break

 

for the end we start from

like a miracle sun, a dedicated one

you kissed me the burden and catastrophe

I lost the trust to the process

with scars in the mindset killing all polarity

this is the end we start from

defy the loss to process

so we can trust the process

to rise back up for the better days

from the end we start from

 

maybe one day we could find our place

where our hearts are not supposed to..

 

if there's something I could do

something I could say

would you still let me know?

could you tell me so

maybe one day we could find the place

where our hearts are not supposed to break

 

it was really truly something so special

I was only dreaming of

I never lost those feelings, my treasure

forever I'm here waiting for

and maybe one day we could find our place

- call this loss the end we start from

 

 

10 - HOW'S THE HEART? 

Music by Joni Lahdenkauppi | Lyrics by Jaredi Koukonen

 

how's the heart?

could you vibe beyond with me?

how's the heart?

would you sing this song with me?

stay there for a moment

stay there for my sake

 

takeaways, the empty streets

I see the bedroom door now slightly peek

and watch the window light up the wall like a tv

thinking - this is all just a dream

 

ginger shots and chocolate sweets

the real do not disturb mode on for me

where all the waterfalls and the mountains seem

so goddamn secondary next to me

 

how's the heart?

could you vibe beyond with me?

how's the heart?

would you sing this song with me?

stay there for a moment

stay there for my sake

 

the tunnels never long enough

for holding hands with a doubtful touch

I left a reservation on your bed

maybe next time was what you said

 

and trains and planes when they leave

leave behind our memory

where holding you so caringly

was supposed to hold the future for me

 

how's the heart?

could you vibe beyond with me?

how's the heart?

would you sing this song with me?

stay there for a moment

stay there for my sake

 

how's the heart?

could you vibe beyond with me?

how's the heart?

would you sing this song with me?

stay there for a moment

- mine once was whole

how's the heart?

- mine once was whole

when I could feel yours beat right next to me

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