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Lyrics for Laibach Apologie by Laibach:
| | | Artist: | Laibach |
| | Album: | Rekapitulacija 1980-84 | | Track: | Laibach Apologie | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 238 | | | | Lyrics: | Seit wann, Soehne der Wahrheit, seid ihr Brueder der Nacht?
Was hat eure Haende blutrot
gemacht?
Der Ausbruch in der Nacht ist die Bluete des Leids,
mit ihr kann nichts
entschuldigt sein.
Nicht zerschlagen laesst sich der Luegenaltar, der Altar
der die
Form vervielfacht immerdar.
Unbeflecktes Bildnis, Lichter ohne Pein,
schauriger
Naechte Schutz allein
Des Geistes Kinder sind wir und Brueder der Nacht,
deren
Versprechen nicht zustande gebracht.
Wir sind schwarze Geister von dieser Welt,
besingen des Kummers verrueckte Gestalt
Die Erlaeuterung ist die Peitsche, und du
tropfest Blut:
Zum hundertsten Male zersplittert der Spiegel der Welt,
eure
Mueh' ist vergeblich; wir haben die Nacht ueberwunden.
Unsre Schuld ist beglichen
und unser das Licht
(Laibach Apology
Since when, sons of
Truth, are you brothers of the Night?
What has made your hands blood red?
The
outbreak in the night is the flower of pain [?],
nothing can be excused by that.
The
altar of lies will not be broken, the altar
that multiplies the form
forever.
Immaculate portrait, bringer of light [?] without pain,
only protection for
horrible nights
We are children of the ghost [spirit] and brothers of the Night,
that does not keep its promises. [?]
We are black spirits of this world,
we extol the
mad shape of sorrow
The explanation is the whip, and you drip of blood:
Break the mirror of the world for the hundredth time,
your hardship is in vain; we have
defeated the Night.
Our debt is paid
and ours is the
light)
("Laibach-Apologie" (or "Apologija Laibach" as the Slovenian original
version
is called) was written in 1982 by then frontman of the band, Tomaz
Hostnik, who committed
suicide in December that year. I believe it was his
suicide note. It doesn't appear as a song
on this album, only as a poem
(translated into German) in the CD booklet, but it appears on at
least
three other Laibach albums. A live version is found on "Baptism - Krst
Pod
Triglavom" (their score for a theatre production). A studio version is
found on "Trans
Slovenia Express", a 1994 collection of Slovenian bands
covering Kraftwerk songs, and on the
1987 album "Slovenska Akropola",
released in former Yugoslavia only.)
(There is a
much better English translation in the book "Neue Slowenische
Kunst", but I don't have it | | | |
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