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Wende Snijders in her mother tongue (Dutch) 🙂 - Troostzoekers (Consolation seekers)

As happiness is dangerous to the reckless, to the entangled in self,

for those who eats, buys, swallows defenselessness away,

for whom hurts himself because someone else doesn't do it anymore,

for whom that hear voices but seldom a kind word,

for those who come home to an empty house,

for those who are afraid to to be abandoned and as a precaution abandone everyone,

for those who know the heart on many ways can break and forget that it too in many ways can heal again,

for whom and for everyone is here a place. Voor wie en iedereen is hier een plek.

 

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She acts without doing anything and teaches without saying a word.
Things come her way and she does not stop them; things leave and she lets them go.
She has without possessing, and acts without any expectations.
When her work is done, she takes no credit. That is why it will last forever.
-Lao Tzu, Chapter 2

 

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This song of Wende Snijders is a duet with singer S10. The duet is sang in Dutch and is about being afraid.

The song lists all kinds of things, big and small that the main character in the song is afraid of.
I always find the ending so moving.
Then it says: But not of you. And when the ladies sing to each other I am moved to tears. Offering each other warmth and safety without feeling safe yourself. So beautiful.

English translation of a fragment of the text:

For too many people in a lift or regional bus, or just a room
For the wreath of galaxies, veils, nebulae and their black holes
For my own brain, some insects, women, their moods and voices
For boiling water, webs, scissors, breathing
For most inanities, large and larger
For my parents' circumambulation
When from pulpits in chasubles they threatened hell and narrow gates
For some sounds and living by them
For mails and text messages, for envelopes on my table

Been afraid of everything, been afraid of everything always
Been afraid of everything
Been afraid of everything always
For dreams and demons

For exclusion and almost all unknowns
For the elements, for people and fatherland
For large crowds, for the doorbell and for punishment
For patent lunatics and some family members
School and all that had to come after
For the sight I offer and will not offer
For the tightness of innate shame

Been afraid of everything, always been afraid of everything
Been afraid of everything
Been afraid of everything always
But not of you
Not of you

 

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Anyone familiar with the song 'Live is life' from Opus?

The Slovenean band Laibach has made a cover of this. And what a cover!

First I must tell you something about this band. They make elaborate use of iconography with ambiguously repugnant parodies and pastiches of elements from totalitarianism, nationalism and militarism, a concept they have preserved throughout their career.

Perhaps needless to add that they do not support totalitarianism but satire it.

I could not share the original video (would be a second nipple gate LOL ) but the live version is just as poignent.

 

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7 hours ago, archangel969 said:

Anyone familiar with the song 'Live is life' from Opus?

The Slovenean band Laibach has made a cover of this. And what a cover!

First I must tell you something about this band. They make elaborate use of iconography with ambiguously repugnant parodies and pastiches of elements from totalitarianism, nationalism and militarism, a concept they have preserved throughout their career.

Perhaps needless to add that they do not support totalitarianism but satire it.

I could not share the original video (would be a second nipple gate LOL ) but the live version is just as poignent.

 

They are the masters of covers.  I especially love their cover of the Sound of Music soundtrack. 

 

 

 

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