1.Smet intro | 2:15 | Listen to track 1 |
2.Smet gitaar + fluit | 2:31 | Listen to track 2 |
3.Russian lyric 1 | 3:16 | Listen to track 3 |
4.KGB | 2:26 | Listen to track 4 |
5.Log | 4:11 | Listen to track 5 |
6.Smet gitaar solo | 1:15 | Listen to track 6 |
7.Polna jevo stezy’a | 2:19 | Listen to track 7 |
8.Russian lyric 3 | 2:00 | Listen to track 8 |
9.Smert outro Braambos | 1:10 | Listen to track 9 |
Performers
Jan Maqthé: bas en cello
Hilde Coppé: sopraan
Ilse Vromans: fluiten
Johan Vanneste: hoorn
Michel Vangheluwe: piano en bas
The Big Lie slowly draws the mask aside:
the secret guards of power make their threats
and guilty priests all whisper their regrets.
The God of life has nowhere to abide.
Death haunts the Gulag, taking for his prize
the ones whom pain has beaten down and broken.
But he who fights off grief, by Life awoken:
“Where is your victory, O Death?” he cries.
And floating there on power’s watery gloom
We see them shining: islands of pure light,
For suffering men, a refuge in their night.
The God of life has come to make his home.
Refrain
He lives for all his brothers,
he speaks for all the others.
Protests of truth and honor,
a whole life long.
Patrick Lateur