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mrsronweasley) wrote2003-09-11 12:20 pm
mrsronweasley) wrote2003-09-11 12:20 pm
The other 9/11.
I'm not going to say much, because there are other people much more eloquent than myself. But I wanted to put these lyrics up, again, to let somebody else talk for me.
They Dance Alone
(Sting)
Why are there women here dancing on their own?
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
Why are the soldiers here
Their faces fixed like stone?
I can't see what it is that they dispise
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone
It's the only form of protest they're allowed
I've seen their silent faces scream so loud
If they were to speak these words they'd go missing too
Another woman on a torture table what else can they do
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos
Ellas danzan con los muertos
Ellas danzan con amores invisibles
Ellas danzan con silenciosa angustia
Danzan con sus pardres
Danzan con sus hijos
Danzan con sus esposos
Ellas danzan solas
Danzan solas
Hey Mr. Pinochet
You've sown a bitter crop
It's foreign money that supports you
One day the money's going to stop
No wages for your torturers
No budget for your guns
Can you think of your own mother
Dancin' with her invisible son
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone
~*~*~*~*~
I would love to say that history will teach us something, but as Sting once said, with many other very wise people, history will teach us nothing.
If blood will flow when fresh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
And the most heartbreaking thing is that we don't know what we would do if we were in a place of power. I'm terrified of power, from every angle. And I cannot, in all honesty, say how I would act. I hope I never get that sort of power - fair chance of that, I have to say - and I hope that those who will, think about this more than their predecessors.
They Dance Alone
(Sting)
Why are there women here dancing on their own?
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
Why are the soldiers here
Their faces fixed like stone?
I can't see what it is that they dispise
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone
It's the only form of protest they're allowed
I've seen their silent faces scream so loud
If they were to speak these words they'd go missing too
Another woman on a torture table what else can they do
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos
Ellas danzan con los muertos
Ellas danzan con amores invisibles
Ellas danzan con silenciosa angustia
Danzan con sus pardres
Danzan con sus hijos
Danzan con sus esposos
Ellas danzan solas
Danzan solas
Hey Mr. Pinochet
You've sown a bitter crop
It's foreign money that supports you
One day the money's going to stop
No wages for your torturers
No budget for your guns
Can you think of your own mother
Dancin' with her invisible son
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone
~*~*~*~*~
I would love to say that history will teach us something, but as Sting once said, with many other very wise people, history will teach us nothing.
If blood will flow when fresh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
And the most heartbreaking thing is that we don't know what we would do if we were in a place of power. I'm terrified of power, from every angle. And I cannot, in all honesty, say how I would act. I hope I never get that sort of power - fair chance of that, I have to say - and I hope that those who will, think about this more than their predecessors.
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Right now, I'm just trying to figure out how a country's place in the world can be more important than human lives. A very dark side of me would like to see what happens when everybody but the leaders has died - what would it matter then? What would they do, and in front of whom would they parade?
Stalin and PolPot and Pinochet and many others were nothing more than murderers, more deadly than any serial killer could ever hope to be. And yet, some are still justified. Makes you feel kind of hopeless and powerless, doesn't it?
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While I am more for enjoying life to the fullest, remembering past happiness and living in such a way as to maximize my own pleasure in the here and now (life is meant to be lived in joy, not despair) than reliving past pain, it's important not to forget events like those of both 9/11s, lest we be doomed to repeat them.
Thank you for calling attention to the other 9/11, as it is just as crucial to keep in our memories as the more recent one.
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All too true. Very sad but true.
Thank you for posting this today. I agree 100%.
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Last 9/11 my roommate and I rented "Airplane!" to escape watching all the commemorative stuff on the American channels. Hey, it might have been in bad taste. Ok, it was a little, but it was our attempt at individuality over being maudlin about the whole thing, y'know what I mean?