Raking the Bones Songtext
von Metaphor

She frets and roams the lands,
And searches out the man,
She nursed and taught to stand.
Always a headstrong one,
She cries out "Oh, my son!"
"Oh, where are you roaming?"
She looks for the millionth time,
The brush that touched his hair,
Full inside,
Of blood.

(Lemminkäinen′s Mother)
"I won't rest until I know what took him."
"Omens don′t just happen you know! This token,"
"Tells me that he's passing over, he's taken,"
"Mine won′t be the only heart that′s breaking."
"Watch out dusty road, I'm coming."
"Ain′t no power nowhere,"
"Can withstand my lovin'!"
"My lovin′!"


(Lemminkäinen's Mother)
"Tell me was it drowning?"
"Tell me was it bears?"
"Tell me was it wolves?"
Tell me how did he fare?"
"Tell me his fate now,"
"Tell me no lies!"
(Louhi)
"I have sent him to capture the horses of fire,"
"I sent him to the stream,"
"Of death and alibis,"
"To shoot the fairest swan,"
"For the hand of his bride,"
"For the hand of his bride,"
"He′d trade his life,"
"For the hand of his-"

(Lemminkäinen's Mother)
"Tell me gentle wood,"
"Have you seen a hair?"
"Or have you even noticed,"
"Or have enough of care,"
"Tell me somehow,"
"Where of the apple of eye,"
"Has made his final end:"
"Where did he die?"

Raking the bones,
Raking the bones,
Raking the bones.
Raking the bones,
Raking the bones,
Raking the bones.


In the rake she finds his teeth,
Half his head and arm.
But he was still deceased,
'Plexion of lifeless forms.
But she put them together,
Shaping her son.
Flesh to flesh, and bone to bone,
Behold, the breathless one!

Brother bee, now fly away,
Gather sweetness from the hills.
Bring your nectar back this way,
To heal his many ails,

Now the mom anoints the son,
Dimples tongue, eyes and ears,
Bruises and cuts, gouges and seams,
Touches with honey and with tears.

Slowly wakes her hero son,
(Lemminkäinen)
"Long time now have I dreamed."
"But my rest was very sweet,"
"A pleasant place, or so it seemed."

So the mother rocked her boy,
Rocked to comfort and to rest.
But his heart was far away,
And giving in to restlessness.