Lyrics

Our journey through the Halls of Kalevala Starts from the northern entrance Please follow me Ladies and gentlemen, this building Is an epitome of architecture The art that gives shelter to and leads All the other arts to the future and beyond We have arrived at a wing housing thirty-six chambers of innovation It's a stronghold of research for the brightest minds Please heed the warning signs As we move on, notice the large empty spaces on the walls During the next few hundred years they will all be filled With tomorrow's master painters' frescoes And now, the very heart of the building, the Pantheon It's time to get down Down to "Tuonela," the Underworld A crypt of the champions The final resting place for the great and the good It is believed they will rise from their tombs When the worst danger threatens the motherland Be careful, the stairs are slippery This way, please Here, on this exact spot where I stand now Eliel Saarinen's visiting colleague Le Corbusier Promptly threw himself on the floor and tantrummed "This monstrous building, like a charnel-house Is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs" Fortunately, the possibly awkward situation was averted When Saarinen quickly produced a little packet from his coat pocket "Charlie, I bet I'm more modern and functional than you are I drew the first plans of this house on a pack of 'worker man' cigarettes" And here we have the original pack You can take photos, but no flash, thank you Replicas are available at the gift shop (The gift shop) Now we have finally come to the last section of our tour A purgatory of stairs Four-hundred-and-four steps to be precise That we need to ascend In order to reach the paradise at the top of the tower A breathtaking panorama embracing in one glance The entire glorious city and its magnificent surroundings