[ENG]
“The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!”
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[DE]
„Der erste,der ein Stück Land mit einem Zaun umgab und auf den Gedanken kam zusagen „Dies gehört mir“ und der Leute fand, die einfältig genug waren, ihm zu glauben, war der eigentliche Begründer der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. Wieviele Verbrechen, Kriege, Morde, wieviel Elend und Schrecken wäre dem Menschengeschlecht erspart geblieben, wenn jemand die Pfähle ausgerissen und seinen Mitmenschen zugerufen hätte: „Hütet euch, dem Betrüger Glauben zu schenken; ihr seid verloren, wenn ihr vergesst, dass zwar die Früchte allen, aber die Erde niemandem gehört“
- Jean‐Jacques Rousseau
lyrics
Lyrics;
The broken spear that pierced our heart
Shot by the hand we have been feeding
We roamed the lands and chased the sun
Our hands where reaching for the sky
Dark are the hours before the dawn
We stood as one, our heads held high
And with the trust to those close by
Came the angst of the unknown
Isolated, every tribe
Created a myth, not once outgrown
Earless to singing of wild birds,
numb to the wind that blows through our hair
Blind to the sunlight that feeds all that grows
Silenced by those who set out the snare
This plague is ancient, but what will we do?
It can be stopped by me and by you
together we change the course that was set
An entire species are joined for one quest
Even the highest citadel walls
cannot survive, the ravages of time
Seasons of fire, man-made ecocide
Oceans of plastic, where our dignity drowned
Our thoughts strangled, dreams are entangled
There is no layer of varnish, that protect us all
Respect protect, and reconnect
We all live and die, on the same soil
Domesticated by fire,
led to fear of going out
Walls that once where build to protect
Soon started to cave us in
cities formed, the land enclosed
Step by step the pests marched in
No common ground, detached us all
Lone we will face - our worlds downfall
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