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"Yes, of course it hurts"​!​!

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It's spring in the Northern hemisphere and it reminded me about a poem the Swedish author Karin Boye (26 October 1900 – 24 April 1941) wrote that is named "Yes, of course it hurts"
Outside Sweden, her best-known work is probably the dystopian science fiction novel Kallocain. Inspired by her visit to Germany during the rise of Nazism, it was a portrayal of a dystopian society in the vein of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (though written almost a decade before Orwell's magnum opus). In the novel, an idealistic scientist named Leo Kall invents Kallocain, a kind of truth serum. The novel was filmed in Sweden in 1981 and was the main influence on the movie Equilibrium.

lyrics

Yes, it hurts when buds burst.
Why else would spring hesitate?
Why would all our hot desire
bind in the frozen bitter pale?
The cover was the knob all winter.
What is new, that bursts and bursts?
Yes it hurts when buds burst,
evil for what is growing
                              and what closes.

Yes, it is difficult when drops fall.
Trembling of the anxiety heavy they hang,
clinging to the twig, swelling, slipping -
the weight pulls them down, how they sound.
Hard to be uncertain, scared and divided,
hard to feel the depth and cold,
yet sit still and just tremble -
hard to stop
                              and want to fall.

Then, when it's worst and nothing helps,
Deficiencies in the joy of tree buds.
Then, when no longer fear,
falls into a glitter of twigs' drops
forget that they were frightened by the new
forget that they became anxious about the journey -
feel for a second its greatest security,
resting in that confidence
                              that creates the world.

credits

released May 9, 2020
Iggo Frost - Instruments as shown in the picture !!
Thanks Ken Jamison for the request and the inspiration!
Kimmo Kauko for his big photo in the frame.

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KÄLLAN RECORDS Stockholm County, Sweden

KÄLLAN RECORDS is a new part of
PLENTY!!
that is the project of Iggo Frost
former members and Synth player of the legendary
KITCHEN & PLASTIC SPOONS.

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