Monday, February 25, 2013

Pain and Misery

 
This song is played in a marching band style with marching band actions.(Like this one at Festival Mata Air In Salatiga, Central Java).
I can see the band twirling and turning in formation, performing complex combinations. It's a very upbeat feel with lots of percussion,  breaking into a battering samba band feel and rhythm.
The lively way the song is performed reverses the hopelessness of being in pain; the song becomes a celebratory release as the drums beat the hell out of the misery state.

(sung)
Pain and misery
Take your hands off me
Misery and pain
Here we go again
Pain and misery
Take your hands off me
Misery and pain
Here we go again

(spoken)
Misery misery misery and pain
Misery misery here we go again
Misery misery misery and pain
Misery misery here we go again

 (chanted in unison)
I want a pill that I can take
So misery I can shake
I wanna jamu just for me
To take away my misery
I wanna life I can live
So I don’t have to feel again
I wanna place I can go
That doesn’t play the misery show


Pain and misery
Take your hands off me
Misery and pain
Here we go again
Pain and misery
Take your hands off me
Misery and pain
Here we go again

Misery misery misery and pain
Misery misery here we go again
Misery misery misery and pain
Misery misery here we go again

 (chanted in unison)
Maybe I can  meditate
On my painful misery state
You think that will do the trick?
Help me to get rid of it?
Breath in pain, breath out light
Mm, not bad I feel alright
Let me try it once again
Now once more for everyone
We think our pain is our own
In misery no one’s alone
Your  pain is mine, my pain is yours
Lets breath in and out once more
I’ll  take your pain, you take mine
We breath out light to everyone
I feel the soft heart of me
Beating in a space so free

Pain and misery
Take your hands off me
Misery and pain
Here we go again
Pain and misery
Take your hands off me
Misery and pain
Here we go again

Misery misery misery and pain
Misery misery here we go again
Misery misery misery and pain
Misery misery here we go again
(continue as long as you like
until you fade into the distance)



Photos by Vanessa Hyde
Cardboard costume workshop by Rudi Ardianto
at Festival Mata Air 2008,09



(c)Poemsong Jan Cornall Lampung 2005

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