An Undoing world, The Klezmatics

By the time we're done with dancing,
Elsewhere darling you'll be glancing
And the night's a river-torrent tearing us apart.
Merely melody entwined us,
Easily the ties that bind us
Break in fibrillations of the heart.
Don't cry out or cling in terror
Darling that's a fatal error
Clinging to a somebody you thought you knew was yours.
Dispossession by attrition is a permanent condition
That the wretched modern world endures.

You drift away, you're carried by a stream.
Refugee a wanderer you roam;
You lose your way, so it will come to seem:
No Place in Particular is home.
You glance away, your house has disappeared,
The sweater you've been knitting has unpurled.
You live adrift, and everything you feared
Comes to you in this undoing world.

Copper-plated, nailed together, buffeted by ocean weather
Stands the Queen of Exiles and our mother she may be.
Hollow-breasted broken-hearted watching for her dear departed
For her children cast upon the sea.
At her back the great idyllic land of justice
For exilic peoples ponders making justice private property.
Darling never dream another woman might
Have been your mother
Someday you may be a refugee.

A refugee, who's running from the wars,
Hiding from the fire-bombs they've hurled;
Eternally a stranger out-of-doors,
Desperate in this undoing world.

Mother for your derelicted
Children from your womb evicted
Grant us shelter harbor solace safety
Let us in!
Let us tell you where we travelled
How our hopes our lives unravelled
How unwelcome everywhere we've been.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Cheerful
• happiness
• despair
• and
• decay

[ARK531]

people, hi. I'm looking for the text of this song - can't find it. Help, please <:)

[JewTubeUsername]

@ARK531

I have put the lyrics in the description box.

Go check em out :P

[lukadron]

I don't think this song is very cheerful in the least. Wistful, yes. But cheerful?

Mother for your derelicted

Children from your womb evicted

Grant us shelter, harbor, solace, safety

Let us in!

Let us tell you where we travelled

How our hopes, our lives unravelled

How unwelcome everywhere we've been.

Love that part ♥

[JewTubeUsername]

@lukadron Indeed. It's sarcasm, really, or should I say cynicism? I originally posted this (and a few other songs I uploaded) in a thread about music from all over the world, and of course everyone and their dog exclusively posed Japanese and Korean pop music, so I tried to mix things up a little. It's, of course, wistful and bittersweet, and that part is one I like a lot as well, but then again, I dig melancholic, drifter stuff muchly ;).

Well, glad you like it.

Cheers!

[lukadron]

@JewTubeUsername

Oh I see, that makes sense. :) Thanks for clearing that one up for me. I was a tad confused about your intentions with the picture as well as the info-text. Hope I did not come across as rude.

[JewTubeUsername]

@lukadron

No worries. The way I presented it (including the lack of 'why') begged for critique like that, after all, hehe.

Cheers!

[KharonHirons]

What's this picture? =ô.Ô=

[fightingflamingo]

@JewTubeUsername

Eternally a person out-of-doors

[meusisto]

You people who like klezmer/ "new/neo klezmer" music, could please recommend me other good groups?

Thank you

[KharonHirons]

Confusing picture =ô.Ô=

This is the only version here?!?!

Thanks JewTubeUsername...also for the other interesting stuff =^___^=

=^.^=") Enjoy!