The wire song
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Composer: Rahel Nahely
Performed by: Rahel Nahely (Vocals & Piano), Anat Porat (Vocals & Guitar), Rolf Caflisch (Drums), Rees Coray (Base)
Lyrics by Julian M. Grünthal 2022
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Down down down
into the coalmine of our souls
the wire sings its song of steel
into the narrow dusty hole.
Down down down
into the womb of blackened stones
the forests still alive in our hearts
their roots will tickle our bones.
Down down down
to our friends and our kin
with open arms of sweat and dirt
we’re holding hands, we sing.
And as the lights go dim
the spirits of the canary birds
rise up from deep within
lending their wings to our words.
As we keep singing -
and with fear, and with rage
and with love and with hope
we age.
While far above
some primitive god
is playing the drums
on our homes.
Making brick into rubble
and our souls into stones
and fire.
May the wire
survive
to take us back up.
And the coal becomes a tree
and the dead birds fly free
and we return from below
yet to what - we don’t know.
But if the wire survives
it will take us
back up.
Oh, may the wire
survive
to take us back up.
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