What are you listening to?
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PerfectCircle
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After many years, heard this song in a caffe bar yesterday and here you are:
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A song in Spanish I listened to a lot when younger and which I've always found motivational:
Lyrics:
Honrar La Vida
¡No! Permanecer y transcurrir
no es perdurar, no es existir
¡Ni honrar la vida!
Hay tantas maneras de no ser,
tanta conciencia sin saber
adormecida...
Merecer la vida no es callar y consentir,
tantas injusticias repetidas...
¡Es una virtud, es dignidad!
Y es la actitud de identidad ¡más definida!
Eso de durar y transcurrir
no nos da derecho a presumir.
Porque no es lo mismo que vivir...
¡Honrar la vida!
¡No! Permanecer y transcurrir
no siempre quiere sugerir
¡Honrar la vida!
Hay tanta pequeña vanidad,
en nuestra tonta humanidad
enceguecida.
Merecer la vida es erguirse vertical,
más allá del mal, de las caídas...
Es igual que darle a la verdad,
y a nuestra propia libertad
¡La bienvenida!...
Eso de durar y transcurrir
no nos da derecho a presumir.
Porque no es lo mismo que vivir...
¡Honrar la vida!
English (rough translation)
Honoring Life
No! To remain and to slide through life
is not enduring, is not existing
And it's not honoring life!
There are so many ways not to be,
so much conscience without knowledge
sleeping...
To deserve life is not to be silent and to consent,
to so many repeated injustices...
It is a virtue, it is dignity!
And it is the most defined attitude of identity!
Lasting and passing on
doesn't give us the right to boast.
Because honoring life is not the same as living...
No! To remain and to slide through life
doesn't always suggests
honoring life!
There is so much petty vanity,
in our foolish and blinded humanity
To deserve life is to stand upright,
beyond evil, beyond falls...
It is the same as welcoming truth,
and our own freedom
That business of lasting and sliding through life
doesn't give us the right to brag.
Because it is not the same as living...
Because honoring life is not the same as living...
The author and singer was a real rebel. She struggled during one of the Argentinian dictatorships:
en.wikipedia.org
Lyrics:
Honrar La Vida
¡No! Permanecer y transcurrir
no es perdurar, no es existir
¡Ni honrar la vida!
Hay tantas maneras de no ser,
tanta conciencia sin saber
adormecida...
Merecer la vida no es callar y consentir,
tantas injusticias repetidas...
¡Es una virtud, es dignidad!
Y es la actitud de identidad ¡más definida!
Eso de durar y transcurrir
no nos da derecho a presumir.
Porque no es lo mismo que vivir...
¡Honrar la vida!
¡No! Permanecer y transcurrir
no siempre quiere sugerir
¡Honrar la vida!
Hay tanta pequeña vanidad,
en nuestra tonta humanidad
enceguecida.
Merecer la vida es erguirse vertical,
más allá del mal, de las caídas...
Es igual que darle a la verdad,
y a nuestra propia libertad
¡La bienvenida!...
Eso de durar y transcurrir
no nos da derecho a presumir.
Porque no es lo mismo que vivir...
¡Honrar la vida!
English (rough translation)
Honoring Life
No! To remain and to slide through life
is not enduring, is not existing
And it's not honoring life!
There are so many ways not to be,
so much conscience without knowledge
sleeping...
To deserve life is not to be silent and to consent,
to so many repeated injustices...
It is a virtue, it is dignity!
And it is the most defined attitude of identity!
Lasting and passing on
doesn't give us the right to boast.
Because honoring life is not the same as living...
No! To remain and to slide through life
doesn't always suggests
honoring life!
There is so much petty vanity,
in our foolish and blinded humanity
To deserve life is to stand upright,
beyond evil, beyond falls...
It is the same as welcoming truth,
and our own freedom
That business of lasting and sliding through life
doesn't give us the right to brag.
Because it is not the same as living...
Because honoring life is not the same as living...
The author and singer was a real rebel. She struggled during one of the Argentinian dictatorships:
Mercedes Sosa - Wikipedia
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PerfectCircle
Jedi Master
Another one from the eighties, I hope you enjoy it.
Hurrah for country music and in particular this chap - perhaps the best modern exponent of it -
Dwight Yoakam with What Do You Know About Love
Makes me want to get up and line dance!
Dwight Yoakam with What Do You Know About Love
Makes me want to get up and line dance!
