Basic needs of human conditions are easy fulfilled in western modern societies: breath, drink, eat, sleep, etc. But after these, the brains move to the next level of awareness: what are we? What is our goal in life? What is our legacy once we are gone?
This internal struggle seems at first very unnecessary but at a deeper look is the core of the human existence. For many people this process is unbearable and brings them to extreme choices, on the contrary for others it is barely felt. Sometimes the socio-economical situation we are in define a future with no alternatives, sometimes we need to evolve and move away from it.
Relocating is always felt as a good way out from difficult realities, but often brings guilt to the emigrants: the feeling that you are escaping, that instead of fighting back, you are taking the easy path. But at the end, life fulfillment isn’t it about finding the way to a better future?
This song brings together all those feelings and mixes them up with dark sonority to generate a deep and intimate conversation between two old friends separated by many kilometers.
Cheers Stevo
Lyrics: It’s a long time my friend Since I see this landscape Has been a hard time to defend My pride and do not escape
But now the hills are way down below me And I feel mother earth talking to me Again I trust the world and I know that I have to try
Define myself I’ll do anything to define myself
All around me, bad things are happening It’s so worrying, I understand, and it’s hard but I have to When I’ll meet you again On a spaceship or on a train I will know I have fulfilled my faith
But now the hills are way down below me And I feel mother earth talking to me Again I trust the world and I know that I have to try
Define myself I’ll do anything to define myself Define my head Define my death
How do we normal world dwellers perceive and exercise power and how do we react when we become unwanted subjects of power structures?
In the current times revealing oneself by practicing a transparent authenticity online is a must to be recognised as a peer, as a reliable person.
Revealing yourself from where I come from is letting one be vulnerable, weaken by information, but nowadays information and the active sharing of it, means to exist, it is an auto definition of what you would like to be, a certain aspirational move.
But can you really share everything you think, can you allow yourself to be critical, open and bold about certain topics? The answer relies in context, in the sociopolitical to be more exact.
The globality of ideas contrast with the different reactions and consequences you would have to face depending on where you live: political and societal vindications can mean you will be trolled in internet or you will end up dead.
If everything is about content production and information sharing, power is exercised by controlling the content and monopolizing information channels. Dissident voices are perceived by power structures and its representatives as uncontrolled variables that disturb order, such voices are considered in many cases military targets. The power of nations and their big military parades are a reminder that coercion can always come as an unexpected private intrusion at your home but haven’t you let the door open?
In any case don't say the name! Abelardo, that is the name! Lyrics: Can’t remember the fella That came that day Can’t remember the fella That killed the faith
Don’t wanna say his name
Suddenly the police came in Asking for information of the location of my beloved
