Sunday, August 25, 2024

Music on My Mind

 

Paul van Dyk & Peter Heppner, "Wir Sind Wir". About post-Cold-War Germany, but it captures something that is very widespread; I particularly like the lines,

Jetzt können wir haben was wir wollen,
Aber wollten wir nicht eigentlich viel mehr?

Roughly: 'Now we can have what we want, but didn't we really want more?' And of course, there is the line that captures so much of the First World these days: Superreich und abgebrannt, 'super-rich and destitute (lit. 'burned out or spent')'.