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Ich fürcht mich so…

Ich fürcht mich so vor der Menschen Wort.
Sie sprechen alles so deutlich aus:
Und dieses heißt Hund und jenes heißt Haus,
und hier ist Beginn und das Ende ist dort.

Mich bangt auch ihr Sinn, ihr Spiel mit dem Spott,
sie wissen alles, was wird und war;
kein Berg ist ihnen mehr wunderbar;
ihr Garten und Gut grenzt grade an Gott.

Ich will immer warnen und wehren: Bleibt fern.
Die Dinge singen hör ich so gern.
Ihr rührt sie an: sie sind starr und stumm.
Ihr bringt mir alle Dinge um.

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Sorry, it’s not the same in translation, it has to stay in German.

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I often took more than one photo a day. And when I do not like a setup, I sometimes reject it and do something totally different.

Today, for the first time, I could not decide which one I liked better. So you shall have both (Inside the posting).

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What stroke of luck that just yesterday, I went to a concert, not just any concert, but an amazing and brilliant concert. Could there be a better pickup for this new project than that?

The artist I went to see is Jason Mraz (I love this website, btw). And in case you’re wondering: Yes, I blogged him once already. If you know him from the radio or MTV, you probably know his summer single “I’m Yours”.

Yes, I like his music. I was happy to read that he was touring Germany. I was looking forward to the concert. But I didn’t understand why all the reviews purely went crazy about him performing live. Now I do.

I wasn’t prepared to enjoy one of the best musical performances of my life (and I have seen a LOT). Mr. Mraz has an outstanding voice, and performs with an easiness and self-irony that I have seldom seen on stage. It was one of those hard-to-explain-if-you-haven’t-been-there things, and I am glad I was.

So which song to choose from such an amazing evening? Difficult. I will choose the one that touched me the most, despite it being one where he cannot show much of his voice or mastery thereof. But it seems to be a lot of what Jason Mraz and his music mean to me, personally. A certain pondering melancholy which, still, never stops hoping or believing in life.

And this is what his music meant to me these last months: Not stopping to believe in life.

Jason Mraz – “Life Is Wonderful”

Word: vacuity
Form: La’libertas

What can I do to fill the void?
Have I forgotten how to feel?
How can I even know it’s real?
Is this the life I once enjoyed?

the vacuity
can be a chance
can be filled
with dance
with chant, with glee
with me

What if these wounds will never heal?
What if I really am destroyed?
What if this life had only toyed
With me, and it was never real?

the vacuity
is free space
a blank paper
I can write
with courage, I can face
the night

Und wenn ich’s wage, kann ich meine Dunkelheiten
Wie einen leeren Raum, ganz unverzagt und still, durchschreiten.

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(The required foreign language couplet is, of course, German. The lines mean, more or less:
And if I dare, I can stride through my own darknesses
like through an empty chamber, undismayed and silently.

(It sounds better in German. )

Tomorrow’s word: mayday!

This really is an exception, but I have to put this here. It is a test in German to see how profound your knowledge of the German language is:

Zwiebelfisch-Test

It’s really fun. Oh, and: This is my score:

“Sie haben 57 von 60 Punkten.Bravo, das war ausgezeichnet! Ihre Kenntnisse sind geradezu beängstigend gut! Sie sind nicht zufällig Lehrer oder so was?” )) ))

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