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Description
The hot air seems to tremble not from the temperature, but from internal tension. Everything is bubbling, contracting, and then exploding again, as if someone is trying to break free from their own skin, from the expectations of others, from the endless struggle for the right to be themselves. The booming bass is like a heart that can't be calmed, and the vocals sound sometimes like a prayer, sometimes like a challenge to the heavens. There's weariness and strength in those sounds, fury and tenderness – a strange combination that only those who have held on for too long possess. When it feels like the world is collapsing, but instead of a scream, a rhythm is born. The kind you don't just dance to, you survive to.
Lyrics and translation
Original
Hit dogs will holler, I'll howl at the moon
I'm not who I want to be at the moment, maybe soon
Fighters keep fighting, I'll fight 'till I'm blue
And fill up with lactic acid, that fighting produced
I'd rather fight for you the only way I know
That ain't sustainable
Who's gonna fight for me? Who will advocate?
Who's gonna be my Jesus? Pull up on a cloud
Play that trumpet loud
Carry me home
Who's gonna be my Jesus? Who will advocate?
Violence is as violence does
Man is but a pile of dust
Why are you a weapon formed up against me?
Is this what you call love?
Someday I will leave your home
I'll be a man, I'll make my own
And I'll set this world on fire, you can't stop me
There I will rest my bones