"Immer Einfach" - Means 'always simple.' KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is similar but, to me, not very elegant.
Sometimes it sucks not to record a session and sometimes it's the best, not because it was bad but rather because it preserves the purity of it. Maybe think of it like freezing vegetables. The frozen stuff is pretty good but it's not the same.
Update: Yevette asked if I had recorded it and this was without asking so that's a big one. I won't tell you what she said as the best move is to shut up and record it. This is highly crazy as most of it was solo piano.
Playing in very low light with a bit of a buzz at two in the morning is one rare privilege, very rare. In my life this has been the absolute most difficult thing to find.
The first thought was to find a melody for 'nur in Stille sind wir besiegt.' I didn't find that specifically but I got into something else and that wound up being a fairly long piano bit but without using a looper.
These themes are driving it: (Some of the words are in German because they sound better to me that way and they also sound more authentic.)
Nur in Stille sind wir besiegt.
(Only in silence are we defeated)
Die Wahrheit ist immer einfach.
(The Truth is always simple)
Sie wussten die ganze Zeit.
(You have known the whole time)
Frieden ist der einzige Weg.
(Peace is the only way)
People talk of revolution
but we'll descend a thousand years.
The only hope is evolution
but people are buried in their fears.
They can't get breath for screaming,
they feel terror for their lives.
No-one is there to help them
and so they slowly die.
The only problem comes from money;
those who have it want it all.
There's nothing in their souls to stop them
only diamonds hold their thrall.
So many in the world are starving,
and the rich can plainly see,
but they scarcely do a thing to help them,
when it would be so easy to set them free.
Children die by the thousands,
every day and every way,
but now it's a massive human problem
when Facebook starts to say,
God help us, save the children,
before there's more decay.
There are now some kidnapped school kids
and this must be fixed today.
Children die from hunger,
from poverty,
from sickness
and from killing.
Twenty thousand died this day,
tomorrow it will be worse.
So it goes in today's high drama,
by God, let's save those kids,
but spare me the hysterics,
I've seen the ones you missed.
They find unexploded bombs,
they lose their legs to mines.
The armies left behind so much,
and kids find it all the time.
Children die from hunger,
from poverty,
from sickness
and from killing.
Twenty thousand died this day,
tomorrow it will be worse.
Wars, whores, fops, and boors,
in their lives only money grows.
Why they need so much for so little
is only theirs to know.
It's not about you, darlin',
you aren't in this game.
You could give everything you have
and it would still come out the same.
It's those in the far towers
who take it all as their own.
They are the real villains
and so many times it's been shown.
What you'll do to close those towers,
is something I'll never know,
but you have run right out of choices
and you must make it so.
You want it to change through some magic,
as if there's still a chance for Tinkerbell,
so make well that wish by the starlight
else we are surely bound for hell.
Nur in Stille sind wir besiegt.
(Only in silence are we defeated)
Die Wahrheit ist immer einfach.
(The Truth is always simple)
Sie wussten die ganze Zeit.
(You have known the whole time)
Frieden ist der einzige Weg.
(Peace is the only way)
War Child International
Sometimes it sucks not to record a session and sometimes it's the best, not because it was bad but rather because it preserves the purity of it. Maybe think of it like freezing vegetables. The frozen stuff is pretty good but it's not the same.
Update: Yevette asked if I had recorded it and this was without asking so that's a big one. I won't tell you what she said as the best move is to shut up and record it. This is highly crazy as most of it was solo piano.
Playing in very low light with a bit of a buzz at two in the morning is one rare privilege, very rare. In my life this has been the absolute most difficult thing to find.
The first thought was to find a melody for 'nur in Stille sind wir besiegt.' I didn't find that specifically but I got into something else and that wound up being a fairly long piano bit but without using a looper.
These themes are driving it: (Some of the words are in German because they sound better to me that way and they also sound more authentic.)
Nur in Stille sind wir besiegt.
(Only in silence are we defeated)
Die Wahrheit ist immer einfach.
(The Truth is always simple)
Sie wussten die ganze Zeit.
(You have known the whole time)
Frieden ist der einzige Weg.
(Peace is the only way)
People talk of revolution
but we'll descend a thousand years.
The only hope is evolution
but people are buried in their fears.
They can't get breath for screaming,
they feel terror for their lives.
No-one is there to help them
and so they slowly die.
The only problem comes from money;
those who have it want it all.
There's nothing in their souls to stop them
only diamonds hold their thrall.
So many in the world are starving,
and the rich can plainly see,
but they scarcely do a thing to help them,
when it would be so easy to set them free.
Children die by the thousands,
every day and every way,
but now it's a massive human problem
when Facebook starts to say,
God help us, save the children,
before there's more decay.
There are now some kidnapped school kids
and this must be fixed today.
Children die from hunger,
from poverty,
from sickness
and from killing.
Twenty thousand died this day,
tomorrow it will be worse.
So it goes in today's high drama,
by God, let's save those kids,
but spare me the hysterics,
I've seen the ones you missed.
They find unexploded bombs,
they lose their legs to mines.
The armies left behind so much,
and kids find it all the time.
Children die from hunger,
from poverty,
from sickness
and from killing.
Twenty thousand died this day,
tomorrow it will be worse.
Wars, whores, fops, and boors,
in their lives only money grows.
Why they need so much for so little
is only theirs to know.
It's not about you, darlin',
you aren't in this game.
You could give everything you have
and it would still come out the same.
It's those in the far towers
who take it all as their own.
They are the real villains
and so many times it's been shown.
What you'll do to close those towers,
is something I'll never know,
but you have run right out of choices
and you must make it so.
You want it to change through some magic,
as if there's still a chance for Tinkerbell,
so make well that wish by the starlight
else we are surely bound for hell.
Nur in Stille sind wir besiegt.
(Only in silence are we defeated)
Die Wahrheit ist immer einfach.
(The Truth is always simple)
Sie wussten die ganze Zeit.
(You have known the whole time)
Frieden ist der einzige Weg.
(Peace is the only way)
War Child International
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