Music Friday, The Advent Edition. Contrary to what the mall would have you think, its not Christmas yet. It is actually Advent, which is its own beautiful season of preparation. Sharing with you today a favorite from the Swedish group Triakels 2000 release Wintersongs. With music by ABBAs Benny Andersson, its an earnest call for reflection (lyric translation below). Im in love with Emma Härdelins voice, as bracing as breathing in the winter air. The Silence of the Dawn Youre here at last; to me you were a stranger a famous story people like to tell. They tried to paint your picture through the ages: reality is different. Here you are. We thought you were for sale, so highly useful, we wrote your name on banners for the war we raised cathedrals almost into heaven but you were always moving further down. You are a child abandoned in a shelter youll freeze to death unless we get involved You touch our aching bodies, fight for justice and say to lovers: taste my glowing wine. Youre coming out of every empty graveyard you are a wind announcing: spring will come. A refugee returning through the mountains, rebuilding what was broken in the war. You are a song we almost had forgotten, a story of a true life we betrayed. I hid the mirror. Now I look into it and find your scars, your fire in my face. Come closer. Stand by me. Its getting darker and maybe light will grow again, once more. Your life will see me through. I hear a blackbird. Hes singing in the silence of the dawn.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:14:45 +0000
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