The Dirge

by Machiavelli

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THE DIRGE is my 3rd single as a solo artist. I recorded this song featuring US-american artist Linda Rocco.
It is a song about the end of hope, the realization of your own caducity. A song about closing the circle. Youth and enthusiasm, innocence and a slight part of naivety crushed beneath the sheer dominance and brutality of daily experience with and survival in a merciless world. The first face you see and the first love you bear in your heart culminating in a desperate cry: Mother!

lyrics

[Verse I]
I feel the rain
filled with tears of our pain
dripping from ceilings along my way
fearful steps yet too afraid to stay
stepping on the flag we used to wave
bound in unity to keep us brave
I see the first sunrays
breaking through the clouds, burning on my face
step by step I pace
amongst the fallen and gaze
towards the blazing flames
cutting the horizon in twain
do you hear the screams
of those to never see
what they fell for?
Do you feel the grieve
of those who had to leave
their beloved and never knew what for?

[Chorus]
Mother
hear my cries in the darkness on the fields
brother
be my fist and I'll be your shield
hear my final call
for before the dawn
each of us will fall
before the break of dawn
all our fronts will fall

[Verse II]
I see our hatred
we treated it as a beast and caged it
we grew and made it
rose it way above us and adored it
we set the price to pay, too blind to see we're the ones to pay it
we used to plant the seed of hope but burned it
with bigotry to be omniscient
started this war no one is able to end
wave your flag one last time
as we march in long unbreakable lines
to the fields where we're all supposed to die
as we leave all those behind
we are fighting for
we are dying for
we are the ones they're praying for
we are the ones they will be forever waiting for

[Chorus]
Mother
hear my cries in the darkness on the fields
brother
be my fist and I'll be your shield
hear my final call
for before the dawn
each of us will fall
before the break of dawn
all our fronts will fall

[Outro]
And left is a mother without a son
left is a mother to mourn

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released March 5, 2021
Written by Machiavelli
Produced by Unleash the Sound Studios

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Machiavelli Berlin, Germany

Machiavelli is a German artist.

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