Paleface • Helsinki - Shangri-La

Original Finnish lyrics

Kun hyvinvointivaltiota Helsingissä luodaan

Julkisivuduunarit ne Tallinnasta tuodaan

Hurahuhhahhei, mistä halvimmalla saadaan

Sillä niin me tehdään Helsingistä Shangri-La

Hävitetään Lepakot ja muutkin parasiitit

Eduskuntatalon eessä roihuu makasiinit

Halleluijahhei, huutaa nollatoleranssi

Juhlii vartiointiliikkeet ynnä FPS

Yhteiskunnan yllä liehuu taantumuksen viiri

Turvakameroilla luodaan pelon ilmapiiri

Hurahuhhahhei, holhoava esivalta

Putkaan tarranliimajat ja talonvaltaajat

Miksi kaikki tuntee Johanna "maatalous" Tukiaisen

Niin kuin kolmen sepän kodittoman romanialaisen

Halleluijahhei, turhuuksien roviolle

Se on seiskapäivä, idols ynnä MTV

Pissiksillä luottokortit, valtavasti lainaa

Unholaan on vaipunut jo Veikko Hursti vainaa

Hurahuhhahhei, heitä pois ja osta uusi

Visa, pikavippi, karhukirje, maksuhäiriö

Ja keväisin ne kodittomat sulatellaan jäästä

Katkokävelylle mutta katkolle ei päästä

Halleluijahhei, Suomen päihdepolitiikka

Pamit, pervitiini, subutex ja sunnuntai

Kurtze ynnä Puonti sekä Pynnönen ja Piippo

Juolahtaakin mieleen Lahti, hemohes ja hiihto

Hurahuhhahhei, vinkki miehen viskipullo

Se on valeosto, vasikka ja KRP

Maamme maahanmuuttopolitiikka kusee omaan nilkkaan

Jos Timo Soinin traumat takaa äänestyksen vilkkaan

Hurahuhhahhei, oikeistopopulistit

Halme, Halla-Aho, Jörg Haider, Ku Klux Klan

Sekos ADHD-instituutin aivosähköposti

Kun Pekka-Eric Auvinen kakskakkosensa osti

Hurahuhhahhei, Holmlundin haulikoille

Lahtas Kauhajoen Matti toistakymmentä

Kun hyvinvointivaltiota Helsingissä luodaan

Julkisivuduunarit ne Tallinnasta tuodaan

Hurahuhhahhei, mistä halvimmalla saadaan

Sillä niin me tehdään Helsingistä Shangri-La

English translation

When a welfare state is created in Helsinki

The façade workers are brought in from Tallinn

Hurahuhhahhei, where we get them the cheapest *1

Because that's how we make Helsinki into Shangri-La

Lets eradicate Bats and other parasites *2

Warehouses/magazines in flames in front of the Parliament House

Halleluijahhei, zero tolerance screaming

Security companies and FPS celebrate *3

A pennant of regression is waving above society

Creating a fearful atmosphere with security cameras

Hurahuhhahhei, custodial/patronizing authority

Throwing sticker gluers and squatters in jail

Why does everyone know Johanna "agriculture" Tukiainen/support *4

Like the homeless Romanian at The Three Smiths Statue

Halleluijahhei, on the bonfire of futility

It's 7Päivää, Idols and MTV *5

Teenyboppers got credit cards, huge amounts of debt *6

Forgotten is the deceased Veikko Hursti *7

Hurahuhhahhei, throw it out and buy a new one

Visa, quickie loan, collection letter, default of payment

And every spring the homeless are defrosted

Limping when they walk but can't get to rehab / can't catch a break *8

Halleluijahhei, Finland's policy on addictive substances

Benzos, Pervetin, Subutex and Sunday *9

Kurtze and Puonti, Pynnönen and Piippo *10

But then what comes to mind is Lahti, Hemohes and skiing *11

Hurahuhhahhei, hint man's bottle of whiskey

It's fake sale, a snitch and NBI *12

Our country's immigrant policy is backfiring (lit. "peeing on one's own ankle")

If Timo Soini's trauma guarantees a quick voting *13

Hurahuhhahhei, right wing populists

Halme, Halla-Aho, Jörg Haider, Ku Klux Klan *14

The ADHD institution's brain electric mail went crazy *15

When Pekka-Eric Auvinen bought his .22

Hurahuhhahhei, for Holmlund's shotguns

Matti slaughtered nearly a dozen in Kauhajoki *16

When a welfare state is created in Helsinki

The façade workers are brought in from Tallinn

Hurahuhhahhei, where we get them the cheapest

Because that's how we make Helsinki into Shangri-La

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*1 "Hurahuhhahhei" doesn't mean anything, it's gibberish. Does give out a folk-y vibe, though.

*2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepakko

*3 I presume by FPS he means a security company called FPS or Finnish Protection Service Oy, which doesn't exist anymore. Finnish rappers talk about them a lot in their lyrics, because FPS is best known for 1) putting a lot of resources into stopping and cleaning off graffities 2) a few notorious cases of using excessive force.

*4 Johanna Tukiainen is one of those people who's famous for being famous. Agriculture support is financial aid farmers can apply for.

*5 7Päivää ("7Days") is a trash magazine, full of gossip. Idols is obviously the Finnish version of British Idol / American Idol. MTV can mean Music Television or MTV3 (mainostelevisio, "commercial television", the first commercial television channel in Finland, 3rd channel overall, hence the name).

*6 The term "pissis" translates to "teenybopper" but they're slightly different. "Pissis" refers to a teen girl stereotype of the 2000s. Think Paris Hilton, pink, whaletale thongs, lowrise jeans, airhead blonde behavior, tons of makeup and hairspray, consumerism, cigarettes, cider and daddy's credit card.

*7 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikko_Hursti

*8 Katkokävely = intermittent claudication, a medical condition that causes pain in the legs. The Finnish name translates directly to "intermittent walking".

Katko = a rehab/break

*9 Pervetin was a commercial name for methamphetamine when it wasn't an illegal substance yet. Subutex is a commercial name for buprenorphine, an opioid.

*10 They're policemen from a drug police unit that was under investigation on drug related crimes. I don't know much about the case, but I think it's related to the Jari Aarnio case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jari_Aarnio 

*11 Hemohes is a brand name of hydroxyethyl starch, which is used in doping. Lahti is a town, a big organizer of skiing competitions, and there was an infamous doping scandal there in 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIS_Nordic_World_Ski_Championships_2001#Doping_controversy

 

*12 I just made up the term "fake sale", 'cause I couldn't find an English term for it. Valeosto is when an undercover cop buys something illegal from a criminal to bust them. It's the term they use in the law & court room, so the cop isn't in trouble for buying said illegal goods.
NBI = National Bureau of Investigation aka the Finnish police force.

*13 Timo Soini is a right wing politician, very much against immigration. Part of the Finns Party (see below).

*14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Halme#Political_career
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jussi_Halla-aho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Haider

I don't know anything about Jörg Haider, but Tony Halme and Jussi Halla-Aho are Finnish politicians of the Finns Party, a right-wing conservative party so extreme in it's anti-immigration views that I've often wondered how is that kind of racism even legal. And clearly Paleface agrees with me, putting their names next to the KKK.

*15 "Aivosähkö" = "brain electricity", the brain waves, EEG.
"Sähköposti" = "e-mail", electric mail.

*16 One of the most infamous school shooting case in Finland, the Jokela school shooting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokela_school_shooting

Anne Holmlund is a politician, who was criticized of not acting quickly enough to change gun laws, to prevent the next school shooting, the Kauhajoki school shooting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Holmlund
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauhajoki_school_shooting