Music, lyrics, all instruments and mixing by Ilari Oinonen.
Mastering by Janne Hakanen.

How does it feel
The new normal
Thrilled for change
Or shivers down your spine

Are you here?
The time passing by
Or clinging hard
Of times long gone

What is a year or two
But teardrops
In the ever-flowing river
Of time

Do you greet
The new normal
With excitement
Or with denial?

Living life
Embracing the moment
Or longing back
It never was there

What is a year or two
But a sigh
In the ever-blowing wind
Of change.

The New Normal

Music, lyrics, all instruments and mixing by Ilari Oinonen.
Mastering by Janne Hakanen.

Lonely swan in the black pond
Dark and cold October night
The lone source of light
An illusion, a bright reflection

Grey offspring in the green mass
Bright and warm summer night
The brightest source of light
Fresh flames, a new hope

Beautiful, white symmetric reflections
On the surface of the pond
Traces of turbojets high in the sky
Forming a hashtag water

Beautiful, white symmetric reflections
On the surface of the pond
Traces of turbojets high in the sky
Forming a hashtag waste

Water!
Sewerage!
Waste!
Extinction!

The Pond

Music, lyrics, all instruments and mixing by Ilari Oinonen.
Mastering by Janne Hakanen.

More and more desperate
More and more transparent
So obvious, so evident
Downright neglected

More and more aggravated
More and more execrable
So passive, indifferent
Beyond all wickedness

Maybe it won’t get what it deserves
Not in this world
But we see you, we know what you’re doing
And you know it very well too

Pahuus
Ondskan
(La) Malvagità
Das Übel

Maybe you won’t get what you deserve
Not in this life
My generation sees you
We know, what you’re doing

Maybe you won’t get what you deserve
Not in this life
But my generation sees you
We know, what you’re doing  x2

We know, what you’re doing
We know, what you’re doing
We know, what you’re doing
And you know it too.

Beyond All Wickedness

Music, lyrics, all instruments and mixing by Ilari Oinonen.
Mastering by Janne Hakanen.

Progression

Music, lyrics, all instruments and mixing by Ilari Oinonen.
Mastering by Janne Hakanen.

You know it’s time to fix the roof, Dad
When after a holiday you are greeted
With one meter of pure, whiter snow

A zip as a lock on the door
It’s jammed, can’t close it
Unable to protect the home
From Oscar-guests and the Groke

Save and reload over again
Lose all sleep because of that
Waking up soaking wet
There’s crime all around and I can’t best it

Playing guitar, performing with a band
Unpracticed, hopefully unnoticed
I realise I’m playing with Keith Richards
When someone yells, “it’s the Rolling Stones!”

Trying to make it to the train
Way too late with everything, all the time
If only I’d prepare myself better
This would have happened exactly the same

Save and reload over again
Lose all sleep because of that
Waking up soaking wet
There’s crime all around and I can’t best it

Pause and reload a saved game
Over and over again
Lose all my sleep because of that
There’s crime all around, nothing I can do.

Scummy Space Station

Music, lyrics, all instruments and mixing by Ilari Oinonen.
Mastering by Janne Hakanen.

Sit down
On the street
With a sign

Down, take a knee
Raise your fist

Truth, our demand
Declaration
Time, running out
We must act (out)

None of us would want to be here
I should be at home
But as the lies go on, prevail
Home will be no more

Peaceful
Refusal
Disobedience

Suffer the anger
Hold on to hope

Truth, our demand
Declaration
Time, running out
We must act (now)

None of us would want to be here
I should be at school
But as the lies go on, prevail
(We will be) no more...

Song For XR

Music, lyrics, all instruments and mixing by Ilari Oinonen.
Mastering by Janne Hakanen.

I see someone standing there
Drops banana into a can
After carefully reading the words
“Plastic and bottles”

I’ve had enough of individualism
And “sustainable” customer choices
They won’t solve the problem

Sometimes you just have to calm and sit down
When all you would want is to dance and go around
And sometimes you give in, sometimes let go
I’m only wishing for the slightest self-control

Someone sitting uptight over there
Poking peanuts with a plastic fork
Gathering the like-minded

Wondering if the palaeolithic
Veggie kebab was even as good
As our supermarket one

Sometimes you just have to calm and sit down
When all you would want is to dance and go around
And sometimes you give in, sometimes let go

I’m only wishing for the slightest control
When all you would want is to dance and go around
Well sometimes I give in, sometimes let go

Self-control in a collective
We need education, paradigm shift
For letting us all know just where
The line actually is
Where and what it is

Sometimes you just have to calm and sit down
When all you would want is to dance and go around

And sometimes you give in, sometimes let go
I’m only wishing for the slightest self-control
‘Cos sometimes you just have to calm and sit down
When all you would want is to ramble around

Sometimes you just have to calm and sit down
When all you would want is to dance and go around
And sometimes you give in, sometimes let go
Well you’re only human, and so am I.

Self-Control

Music, lyrics, all instruments and mixing by Ilari Oinonen.
Mastering by Janne Hakanen.

Coffee without caffeine
Soda without sugar
Beer without alcohol

Fat without fat
Meat without meat
Everyday denial of essences

Nothing excites us more

War without war
Art without art
Politics without politics

Life without life
Earth without land
Atmosphere without air

And all for nothingness

Elo ilma elämää
Maa ilman maata
Ilmakehä ilman ilmaa

Elo ilman elämää
Maa ilman maata
Ilmakehä ilman ilmaa

All for emptiness
For invented needs
All for nothingness

All for the void
All for vanity
All for nothingness.

DEQATH

Music, lyrics, all instruments and mixing by Ilari Oinonen.
Mastering by Janne Hakanen.

“Dem Konsul trug man ein Beil voran,
Zu Rom, in alten Tagen.
Auch du hast deinen Liktor, doch wird
Das Beil dir nachgetragen.

Ich bin dein Liktor, und ich geh
Beständig mit dem blanken.
Richtbeile hinter dir - ich bin
Die Tat von deinem Gedanken.”

And behind, and all around you
A mythical hunter stalks
A ghost-like horror, years immobile
Pheromone trail leading to destruction

Though It carries no ax, no clink that follows
Silently strikes with tendrils and claws
An idea once thought, forever be lost
Alongside all of the thinkers.

Liktor

‘We Are Winning’ is an uplifting, ecstatic shoegaze / indie rock song with a message. The song is a brighter and happier twin sister to the previously released, sad and melancholic ‘Song For XR’. Where in ‘Song For XR’ solemn sighs plead for change for the better, in ‘We Are Winning’ the signs of it are already present. The change is noticed in different contexts, developing a determined train of thought: however it all goes, it’s still our life, our time, our world. They can’t take it from us, and no matter what, we are winning.

Music, lyrics and all instruments by Ilari Oinonen.
Mixing by Keith Gomes and Ilari Oinonen.
Mastering by Janne Hakanen.

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