4. Elementer HW Gade - NORDISC Music & Text

7. Ord
Lektion 7: Claustrophobia
1. Sangtekst
Claustrophobia
1. The day has seen you staring,
Narcotised and doped into the air,
And tonight you‟re all alone.
Your face still looks the same,
You sit smiling like a thousand times before,
But the demons are sucking the blood of your heart.
Chorus Where are you now?
When madness sticks its fences around you -
Who are you now?
2. The doctors are flocking around you,
These eyes and cones of smarting light,
And so again you‟re left alone.
And risperdal and cipralex,
And drugs for which there are no names,
Are filling your solitary locked-up room.
3. We‟ve been partners through school,
We‟ve been mugging up the same rules,
And now we‟ve reached the limbo.
On the borders of nothing we stand,
With life‟s doors closed behind us,
But you, only you, crossed that border!
4. When will it be our turn,
To be numbered in the rows of the blind,
When will our life-hands point zero?
You sit there numb, apathetic, paralysed,
Our words can never wake you,
Our heart beats like a drizzle,
A drizzle in the dark.
Original text and music © H.W. Gade 1974
English translation © H.W. Gade 1980
New Corrections © H.W. Gade 2003 / 2010
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To Inger (1954-1980)