The Finnish Song That Makes Me Want to Fall in Love (Again)
I hereby declare that this is one of my all-time favourite Finnish songs.
And as I am writing this, I am actually listening to it in a low volume.
When I listened to this song for the first time, I instantly liked the guitar intro.
It is very euphonic, I thought.
I thought it is very soothing.
And relaxing.
This does not happen always. There are many songs that I really like, but I will not choose to listen to their intros over and over again.
As for this song, I listened to just the first 17 seconds hundreds of times.
Yes, hundreds of times, literally.
When I first listened to it and was impressed by the intro, I really hoped that the remaining part will live up to my expectations.
…that the remaining part will be as soothing as the intro. (This does not happen always.)
…that the remaining part will make me want to listen to the whole song over and over again. (This does not happen always.)
I was engrossed
“Without music, life would be a mistake” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Here is the song I am talking about:
Title: Rakastun uudelleen (I fall in love again)
Band: Yölintu (Night bird)
Album: Maailma on kauneimmillaan (The world does not get any more beautiful)
It is not only the guitar intro of the song that I instantly liked.
I also instantly felt a sentimental attachment to the song’s ending where the word uudelleen (again) is said 3 times.
That starts at 3:24 and ends at 3:36.
Like the intro, I listened to just those last 12 seconds hundreds of times. Like, for real.
So I listened to the Finnish word for ‘again’ again and again.
In fact, I listened to the whole song hundreds of times over the last 2 months or so.
Hundreds of times. Countless times. As many times as I wanted to.
All I can say is that my mind was preoccupied with it.
I felt very emotionally invested in it, so much so that I put it on repeat and kept listening to it on my way to work every day.
So much so that I kept listening to it on my way back home every day.
So much so that I kept listening to it while cooking in kitchen at home.
At night, when I went to bed, I put my earphones on and kept listening to it until I fell asleep.
And I woke up in the middle of the night, removed the earphones and got back to sleep.
And the next morning, I was listening to it again.
It is about love
“I always felt insecure and in the way, but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world” — Marilyn Monroe
Rakastun uudelleen means I fall in love again.
The main theme of the song revolves around love.
There is the man and the woman, and they are in love. He loves her and she loves him.
He, for some reason, has to leave for a while. He cannot be with her. She is going to live alone while he is away.
So before his departure, he tells her to wait for him.
He reassures her that he will come back because he is not leaving permanently.
And he reassures her by saying that he will fall in love again and they will be together again when he returns.
I love you and you love me. Now I have to leave. But I want you to wait for me and I will come back. When I am back, I will fall in love again and we will be together again.
When feeling surpasses meaning
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” — Helen Keller
I do not understand even 1% of the Finnish language.
But still, after discovering the song on YouTube, I kept listening to it because I really liked every part of it — the intro, the chorus, the ending, and the melody. The combination of the elements felt perfect.
However, on top of all, I could not help but fall in love with Simo Silmu’s voice, especially in this song.
I believe his voice did a tremendous job at channelling the true emotion of the song to my brain. I know this is purely subjective and it is impossible for me to explain why I felt (and continue to feel) this way.
When I listen to the song, I feel like I am not only listening to it but am also living in it. The words Simo is uttering make sense and I can FEEL in my heart what they mean without understanding them linguistically in my brain. His voice makes the words alive.
Every time I listen to the song, I feel reassured that I can fall in love again.
The more I listen to it, the more I feel that way.
And as I finish writing this article, I FALL IN LOVE with the song AGAIN.
