What are you listening to?

thorbiorn said:
DGF said:
Zager & Evans "In The Year 2525"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNM2K8cmU8
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There are a few videos set to the music: fx

https://youtu.be/zKQfxi8V5FAThis one shows scenes from the movie by Fritz Lang; Metropolis
Another video set to the music and lyrics, but sung by an Australian singer, Jane Rossi (from what I understand and produced in Germany in 1983): https://www.youtube.com/embed/3Xb2aYmzVo8 It is a sensual expression of the content, but some crucial points come across like the ratio between truth and lies and the possibility of destruction by comets.
The music in the above video itself is maybe taken from this video version (also Jane Rossi) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uxh6UnkMOs where the video art is abstract, more settled.

The first two videos offer interpretations of the lyrics which tried to investigate possible futures when it was written in 1969.

Zager And Evans – In The Year 2525 Lyrics
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today
[...]
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head then
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing

Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday
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Recently found this song. Sums up human (d)evolution pretty much - when considering the State of Things at present moment, bolded what moved me most:



In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510
If God's a coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down, and start again

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing

Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday
 
"Within Two Worlds depicts an alternate perspective by giving us the illusion of times movement, signifying a beginning and end within a world of constant contradiction"​


"It appears you are traveling in the midst of a dream, half-sleeping, half-waking, and touching the arch connecting heaven and earth."​

Quotes from the creator
 
c.a. said:
"Within Two Worlds depicts an alternate perspective by giving us the illusion of times movement, signifying a beginning and end within a world of constant contradiction"​


"It appears you are traveling in the midst of a dream, half-sleeping, half-waking, and touching the arch connecting heaven and earth."​

Quotes from the creator
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:O amazing video c.a, thanks for sharing!
 

https://youtu.be/1XIC4YB11ug

El morabba3 - Asheek (The square - On the Fence)

English lyrics:

I'm tied to you on a land that gives to me and gives to you
It is drawn on you, on your face, in the agenda that formed in you
It has been discovered who ate two portions and who drowned in debt
It is known from where the funding comes and exactly who benefited

Forget about them... forget about me... why do you cover the sun?

We came to the fence at the exact appointment
We did not come with luck, this is not a mistake in the text, Mahmoud
We came to fish in the middle of the sea, not in the Gulf
We are not saluting you, that's it, that's enough of counting the years, Mahmoud

And the talk spread and we met against you and against the current
And if the current is violent, then it will fade and you will fade
 
I just want to thank all of you for existing ... and thank you to be mind and soul shelter ... thank you for letting me know beauty of life through leaning form your experiences and suggestions and guidance on how to accept all the overwhelming horrors around us, and how to move forward to reach the meaning and beauty of life and love, that goes beyond this Matrix ... in this 2 years with you, I learned about life and earth and love more than ever ... :hug2: :flowers:


https://youtu.be/EEzMeDybBG0

lyrics:

What happens when life breaks down
When there is systemic contradiction?
My name symbolized all that was corrupt to society
His name symbolized all that was pure
And I was being held in the embrace of a man who was pure
And these inviolable sanctities were preserved in those ten words
And it is the de-sacralization of all of these
That has put us in the mess that we find ourselves
Isn't it true, alas it is much worse
A person may end up believing in anything

Think of what it is when God himself puts his arms around you and says "Welcome home"

What happens when life breaks down
When there is systemic contradiction?
My name symbolized all that was corrupt to society
His name symbolized all that was pure
And I was being held in the embrace of a man who was pure

Think of what it is when God himself puts his arms around you and says "Welcome home"

(from Ravi Zacharias - “What love is this”)
 
Marina9 said:
:O amazing video c.a, thanks for sharing!
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Your welcome Marina9.
If there is one aspect of this medium (I've come to appreciate), is the study of Light. Agreed, Mr. Goldpint has an inspiring gift.
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"So, then, let us pursue the things making for peace, and the things that are upbuilding to one another".
Paul the Apostle
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Released as a Single in February 1977​
Don Henley:
"On just about every album we made, there was some kind of commentary on the music business, and on American culture in general. The hotel itself could be taken as a metaphor not only for the myth-making of Southern California, but for the myth-making that is the American Dream, because it is a fine line between the American Dream, and the American nightmare".​

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Henley also said:
That the song was meant to be "more of a symbolic piece about America in general", and added: "Lyrically, the song deals with traditional or classical themes of conflict: darkness and light, good and evil, youth and age, the spiritual versus the secular. I guess you could say it's a song about loss of innocence."​
 
In light of this SoTT article 'Strange Fruit': The bone chilling first recorded song about racism in America with what Billie Holiday brought to peoples ears of that sad reality, check out the article if you get a chance as it features different renditions of the song; Billie Holiday of course:

Lyrics to Strange Fruit

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh
And the sudden smell of burning flesh! Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
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including versions from Nina Simone, Annie Lennox and Jeff Buckly from within the article. Here also is another rendition:


https://youtu.be/3Qf_aytrlpQ
 
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