Nightwish - Kuolema tekee taiteilijan (English translation)

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Kerran vain haaveeni nähdä sain // Only once, I got to see my dream
En pienuutta alla tähtien tuntenut // I didn't feel my smallness under the stars
 

Kerran sain kehtooni kalterit // Once I got bars to my cradle
Vankina sieltä kirjettä kirjoitan // As a prisoner, I write a letter from there
 

Luojani, luoksesi anna minun tulla // My God, let me come to you*
siksi miksi lapseni minua luulee // To become what my child thinks I am*
 

Sinussa maailman kauneus // In you, the beauty of the world
Josta kuolema teki minusta taiteilijan // Out of which, death made me an artist*
 

Luojani, luoksesi anna minun tulla // My God, let me come to you
siksi miksi lapseni minua luulee // To become what my child thinks I am

Luojani, luoksesi anna minun tulla // My God, let me come to you
siksi miksi lapseni minua luulee // To become what my child thinks I am

Oman taivaan tänne loin // I created my own heaven here
Anna minun päästä pois // Let me get out
Oman taivaan tänne loin // I created my own heaven here
Anna minun päästä pois // Let me get out

Notes:

• "Luoja" I've translated as "God" here, but it literally translates to "Creator". It's a common way to refer to the Christian God in Finnish.
• The following part: "Luojani, luoksesi anna minun tulla siksi miksi lapseni minua luulee" is wordplay and has two meanings/sentences on top of each other:
  "Luojani, luoksesi anna minun tulla" means "My God, let me come to you", and
  "Anna minun tulla siksi miksi lapseni minua luulee" means "Let me become what my child thinks I am".
  Essencially, these two sentences have been smashed together and it's impossible to draw the line between the two of them.
• The word "taiteilija" literally means "one who makes art", so you know, an artist, but it's usually used for things such as painters, sculptors, etc. A musical artist, on the other hand, would be referred to with the loan word "artisti".