Call me when it rains We'll come down dancing in the streets Between these monuments of human greed Of uttermost conformity We'll share a flask And mourn for fields of ever-green Lost in the roaring sawmill century And how the timber went downstream I remember the tall camp fire And sense of unity But all I see is cardboard walls And crowds on shopping spree And they're selling the embers Proudly, fifty percent free I raise the glass for my community Karelia, I mourn for thee! Call me when it rains We'll come down dancing in the streets We'll eat our beans under the railway bridge Straight-from-the-can-hypocrisy We'll celebrate our freedom Shackles ringing deep Until I slip or tear another string And then we call a taxi (spoken) I remember the tall camp fire And sense of unity But all I see is blacktop flows 'Tween mountains of debris And they're selling the embers Proudly, oh, fifty percent free I raise the glass for my community Karelia, I mourn for thee!