Illumination

[Beelzebud]

Run time: 03:29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_IJU-wpb7k   Posted on YouTube: September 25, 2006 By YouTube Member: lessthanj Views on YouTube: 36128   Posted on DU: March 09, 2007 By DU Member: Beelzebud Views on DU: 439

 
What a great song! This is a band from NYC called Gogol Bordello. They have members from America, Ukraine, Belarus, and the U.K.

For some reason this song strikes a chord within me. The lyrics, while in broken english, are universal in their meaning, and I find them more powerful than many American acts these days. The BBC caption lists the wrong name of the song. The song's name is actually Illumination.

Don't believe them for a moment
For a second, do not believe, my friend
When you are down, them are not coming
With a helping hand

Of course this is no us and them
But them they do not think the same
It's them who do not think

They never step on spiritual path
They paint their faces so differently from ours
And if you listen closely
That war it never stops

Be them new Romans
Don't envy them my friend
Be their lives longer
Their longer lives are spent
Without a love or faithful friend
All those things they have to rent

But we who see our destiny
In sound of this same old punk song
Let rest originality for sake of passing it around

Illuminating realization number one:
You are the only light there is
For yourself my friend

There'll be no saviors any soon coming down
And anyway illuminations
Never come from the crowned

Illuminating realization number one:
You are the only light there is
For yourself my friend

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